THE EMMAUS WALK:
A Messianic School of the Bible
The Emmaus Walk offers courses on Genesis to Revelation highlighting Messianic texts and Types of Christ. Aimed at ordinary people (such as ourselves!), to help reveal the core Messianic meaning of the Bible, which is the very reason for the existence of the authoritative Word of God, eternal and everlasting.
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). If anyone misses the message of this book, he or she has missed the very Reason for human life and living on this planet. That being the absolute truth, billions of people, however, don't have a clew what this Book signifies. They probably all agree it is a religious book, that it tells about the world from a Jewish perspective, tells about people like Moses and David and finally Jesus, but still it couldn't have much of anything meaningful to say to them.
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 quintessentially Messianic--that is, it exists to tell you about the Messiah and Savior, and virtually everything in the Bible points to Him. Imagine a skyscraper without its structural steel beams--it would immediately collapse, right? It won't matter what the building looks like or how much money was spent on it or what its history is or who designed it or anything else that defines the building--it is going down! The same with the Bible and the Messianic theme that supports the whole edifice of the scriptures. The scriptures mean nothing, ultimately, aside from the Messianic theme--for the Bible is really about religion or Jewish history or various famous Hebrews and Jews or festivals and religious laws or the temple or the tabernacle--all that together can't hold the edifice of the Bible up or make it stand. The Bible is also like a lantern. Jesus the Messiah is the light in the lantern--and the lantern goes completely dead and dark without Jesus lighting it from within. And then there is the tree--try making a tree with just branches and deleting the trunk--all you will get is a pile of branches on the ground! With this understanding, you are on your way to unlocking the scriptures and opening the door to Yeshua--for the Bible is, at the living core, 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."
The Books of the Bible
JUST USE ME
I am the Bible.
I am God's wonderful library.
I make known to all, Him who is Truth.
To the weary pilgrim, I am a good, strong staff.
To the one who sits in black gloom, [like the Dalit or Untouchable in India, or the drug or porn addict or the victim of abuse or neglect, or the tortured Christian in Laos or China or Burma or Nepal, or the Sudanese Christian slave abducted from Darfur, or the well-off American enslaved by materialism and self-indulgment and self-centeredness and ease] I am glorious light.
To those who stoop beneath many burdens, I am sweet rest.
To him who has lost his way, I am a safe guide.
To those who have been hurt by sin, I am healing balm.
To the discouraged, I whisper a glad message of hope.
To those who are distressed by the storms of life,
I am an anchor, sure and steadfast.
To those who suffer in lonely solitude,
I am as a cool, soft hand resting on a fevered brow.
Oh, child of man, to best defend me, JUST USE ME.
The Bible is God's road map as you travel through life.--from Faith Magazine, Author Unknown
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 beautiful and unique Scriptorium building with wonderful exhibits on how we got the Bible, on view and for touring at the Holy Land Experience "theme park," now the property and co-ministry partner of Trinity Broadcasting Network in Orlando, Florida. Go to view it for yourself:
The Holy Land Experience, Orlando, Florida
THE MESSIANIC SCROLL IS AVAILABLE! Zola Levitt Ministries has available a most wonderful Messianic Scroll,
giving Messianic prophecies from the Old Testament (the Torah) along with the
Fulfilments in the New Testament.
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.
This may be shocking news to you if you are a Gentile, but without the Jews as God's Chosen People we would have next to nothing as Christians! However or wherever you translate and publish it, the Bible is still a Jewish book, and now here is the "Jewish New Testament," translated by David H. Stern, Jewish New Testament Publications, Clarksville, Maryland. You'll be amazed at all the Jewish names in the Bible! Many don't look at all like we learned them--for good reason--they were Jewish names, not Gentile names! We learned them all wrong, for our own convenience, that's all. Benny Hinn, who was born in Haifa, Israel, says that he was taught by Catholic nuns in their school and grew up not being told once that Jesus was a Jew! Imagine, being born in Israel, and not being taught that Jesus, the Messiah of the Jews, the Christ of the Church, was Jewish--that is pretty much the case in current Christianity, which has been so "Gentilized" you would never be able to guess that it has Jewish roots, a central root in fact that is nothing but Jewish. Get a real glimpse of your Jewish roots as a Christian in this beautiful translation! You can order your copy of this authenic Jewish Bible by going to Jews to Jesus and using the Purple Pomegranate Gift List.
Some Bible Aids:
This Blessing Dial is a Scriptural Dial, divided into categories like a clock face is divided into minutes, so for every minute you can easily select a verse in any particular category you choose, such as "Healing," "Holy Spirit," "Character," "Assurance, "Comfort," "Deliverance," "Faith," "Courage," "Guidance," "Friends," "God's Will," "Salvation," "Peace," "Victory," "Joy," "Purpose," "Power"--whatever is your need or interest. You may request one from Oral Roberts Ministries, Tulsa, Oklahoma, which may induce them to reprint the Blessings Dial, as this Bible aid is a wonderful resource, and has two sides containing dozens of scriptures arranged in 16 subjects on each side of the dial with 6 scriptures for each section. Just move the little arrow on the Dial and you are given the verses for any one of 32 subjects you choose.
Israel--still the most important piece of real estate on Earth, as far as God is concerned! The pernicious, false heresy of Replacement Theology disagrees, but the Bible has the last word on the State and Land of Israel, the Covenanted, Holy Land given to the Jews by God everlastingly. Just read Revelation, and how the 12 Tribes of Israel are all known and accounted for! God has preserved the tribes, they were never really lost (though they were displaced and scattered for hundreds and thousands of years, to be sure--and when God re-gathers them in the glorious land, they will be given their allotments of Israel, according to the Abrahamic Covenant (and as portrayed by Ezekiel), during the Millennial Age when Christ will rule the Earth from his capital city, Jerusalem! Maranatha!
"Bible Atlas & Map Center"
Unable to carry a Bible or would you like an ideal size Bible for
a child you send to school or a gift to one you know? This is it! A "Bite Size
Bible," about 1 1/2 inches tall and wide! It has verses from the Old and
New Testaments, and Passages for the Hour, and the Ten Commandments, 23rd Psalm, Beatitudes, and the Lord's Prayer. Also included are Woodcut pictures of Moses with the Law, the Good Shepherd, the Crucifixion, Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Boy Jesus, and Christ is Risen. A powerful witnessing tool for anyone, adult or child, and
so portable that you could hide it in a cookie you send to a prisoner in a Communist prison in China!
Vita of Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk Messianic School of the Bible:
Vita
"Autobiographical Sketch of a Sparrow," by Ronald Ginther
CANDIDACY/GRADUATION CENTER:
"Requirements for Certificate"
The last time our Congress acknowledged publicly in law the truth that the Bible, the only Word of God, is the cornerstone of our nation and people and the Source of America's greatness.
The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence
"CONGRESS DECLARES BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD," Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, Approved October 4, 1982
GRATITUDE TO GOD CENTER:
1. The Ten Comandments Day Commission supporters have introduced Resolution HR 686 which will bring back the Ten Commandments into public schools and society at large, after being outlawed by the runaway, liberal Supreme Court in 1960s. It has taken over forty years to
bring this resolution forward to Congress to pass (and pass, it will, if it will hearken to the will of the American People, which according to numerous polls and surveys is overwhelmingly in favor of the Ten Commandments).
2. Continued low prices at the pump! [they have gone up some lately, but still remain well below the record highs we had a while back] This continues despite all the cries of doom by the know-it-all pundits and puppets in the media. You heard them! These are empty-headed puppets, all spouting what is scripted by news managers for them, not what they actually know to be the truth and the facts. Have they been eating humble pie after their doom and gloom
prognostications have fallen flat? Hardly! They obviously learn nothing, just like the weather men who get their forecasts wrong hundreds of times but continue to claim
they know what the weather is going to do to us today, tomorrow, and even a week ahead!
What a racket for such ordinarily nice people to get mixed up in!
"Bible Atlas & Map Center"
Unable to carry a Bible or would you like an ideal size Bible for a child you send to school or a gift to one you know? This is it! A "Bite Size Bible," about 1 1/2 inches tall and wide! It has verses from the Old and New Testaments, and Passages for the Hour, and the Ten Commandments, 23rd Psalm, Beatitudes, and the Lord's Prayer. Also included are Woodcut pictures of Moses with the Law, the Good Shepherd, the Crucifixion, Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Boy Jesus, and Christ is Risen. A powerful witnessing tool for anyone, adult or child, and so portable that you could hide it in a cookie you send to a prisoner in a Communist prison in China!
Vita of Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk Messianic School of the Bible:
Vita
"Autobiographical Sketch of a Sparrow," by Ronald Ginther
CANDIDACY/GRADUATION CENTER:
"Requirements for Certificate"
The last time our Congress acknowledged publicly in law the truth that the Bible, the only Word of God, is the cornerstone of our nation and people and the Source of America's greatness.
The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence
"CONGRESS DECLARES BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD," Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, Approved October 4, 1982
GRATITUDE TO GOD CENTER:
1. The Ten Comandments Day Commission supporters have introduced Resolution HR 686 which will bring back the Ten Commandments into public schools and society at large, after being outlawed by the runaway, liberal Supreme Court in 1960s. It has taken over forty years to bring this resolution forward to Congress to pass (and pass, it will, if it will hearken to the will of the American People, which according to numerous polls and surveys is overwhelmingly in favor of the Ten Commandments).
2. Continued low prices at the pump! [they have gone up some lately, but still remain well below the record highs we had a while back] This continues despite all the cries of doom by the know-it-all pundits and puppets in the media. You heard them! These are empty-headed puppets, all spouting what is scripted by news managers for them, not what they actually know to be the truth and the facts. Have they been eating humble pie after their doom and gloom prognostications have fallen flat? Hardly! They obviously learn nothing, just like the weather men who get their forecasts wrong hundreds of times but continue to claim they know what the weather is going to do to us today, tomorrow, and even a week ahead! What a racket for such ordinarily nice people to get mixed up in!
3. Rex Humbard's decades-long radio and TV ministry has touched us all for good, whether we are aware of it or not, and we need to be grateful for his pioneering work that has benefitted millions, with millions saved and also discipled across this country and the world. He and his wife as his partner in ministry were the favorite Gospel preachers for Elvis, as Elvis himself testified. Mrs. Humbard in turn called Elvis the Lord's "bell sheep." He asked her what she meant, and she explained that a bell sheep is the particular sheep that lead the others--and truly he was a leader for his generation and millions after too, for he was not just a rock star, but a true witness of Jesus in his many albums of Gospel music and his stand for this kind of music in the worldly market, long before it had become popular with mass audiences. He opposed the record company marketing his music and even his own manager to do the Gospel albums and songs. Appearing on America's premier talent show through the Fifties and Sixities, the Ed Sullivan Show, he insisted against Ed Sullivan's misgivings against religious songs that he do "Peace in the Valley" as his tribute to his own mother, and it proved to be one of his most best received songs of his performance before a record TV audience. Who but Elvis could sing this beautiful hymn as well as Elvis and so feelingly? It remains a top favorite and classic in Gospel music due to his rendition.
Elvis was greatly comforted by Rex Humbard when Rex found Elvis weeping uncontrollably after his mother's sudden death.
Rex is now lying very ill in the hospital, and needs your prayers, which his son has requested of Christians everywhere. After decades of faithful, true service to the Body of Christ, Brother Humbard will receive a rich, rich reward in heaven from the Lord, no doubt. But now he needs our prayers in perhaps his last illness. Will you pray for this beloved saint and minister of the Lord, that the Lord surround him with angels and comfort him in every way? Remember, some day we all pass through that same valley of the shadow of death, and so prayers we say for others in that time will no doubt come back to us when we too will need them.
Observance of the Ten Commandments in our documents, government, courts, schools, businesses, sports, entertainment, churches, and in lives, made America the greatest nation on earth. That is why the Ten Commandments are so important, in case you wondered what all the fuss is about.
History tells us too that the Ten Commandments made us a great people, right from the start. Foreign cultural experts came to find out the secret of America's greatness as far back as the 1800s and found that it was the observance of God, and the proclamation of righteousness (the Ten Commandments) from the pulpits of America's churches, that made America the ascendant star among the nations. We cast down the Ten Commandments, and we have fallen in every category of human life since that fatal decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid 1960s. Congress has what is called a record of this decline, called "The Congressional Review," which categorizes and compiles statistics for every year, and so there is a record available to everyone how we declined catastrophically in every category from the year the Ten Commandments were ruled out of the public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court. After about 47 years of compounded disaster, it is high time to reverse that ruling and reaffirm the Ten Commandments in public life and public institutions in America.
"The Ten Commandments," How We Have Broken Them All in America, by Ronald Ginther
All of us can go to the website of the Ten Commandments Day Commission and sign the proclamation. My mother and I have signed it, and we will offer it to others in the family and also our friends to sign. This is your chance to bring back the Ten Commandments in America--for any nation that throws out the law of God will vanish from the earth. There can be no law and order and truth and decency in a society that outlaws God's laws of how we are to treat God and fellow man. With these absolutes, we have perimeters set for the behavior of people in human society (and a truly humane society is a direct result, which can be defined as decorum, manners, good taste, sobriety, civility, tact, respect for elders and authority, etc.), and unfluctuating standards of right and wrong that do not vary from generation to generation according to people's whims. With these absolutes, we have a foundation for our individual life and our families and our society and goverment and nation that will endure and also insure us the greatest possible happiness, peace, and justice on this fallen earth.
Course Articles are now listed in the new "Course Articles Center" page:
Ten Required Subject Courses (plus six elective courses to be added soon) are now on-line. Questions are being appended to those subjects and courses, so please return for them.
Required Subjects:
1. Christian Education
2. Prayer
3. Holy Spirit
4. Biblical Science
5. Foundational Principles
6. Witnessing and Discipleship
7. Types of Christ (OT)
8. Bible Covenants/Israel/Bible Atlas
9. Christian Hope and Character
10. The Prophetic Calling
"Course Articles Center"
At long last, questions are being appended to each article, which is the most practical way to provide quizzes and tests, I have discovered. 10 T/F questions are now on-line for "Part III, Christ's Prayers, and Ours," by Mrs. Bernice Schaefer (the late Mrs. Schaefer is Ronald Ginther's beloved aunt, who was the wife of a Bible scholar and was very active as a leader in church and prayer meetings for her whole adult life, so she knew her subject, effectual or "direct line to God" prayer.
Zola Levitt Ministries offers 12 courses in the Institute of Jewish-Christian Studies. These courses are all excellent, since Zola Levitt was no small authority on the Bible and Jewish studies, so you may want to do most of them, or all, but the course, "Messianic Prophecy," is one in particular that you might want to do in order to satisfy a major elective requirement in the Emmaus Walk. ZLM will charge you $49 for this one course, or something close to that amount. You can find out about this Institute by going to ZLM:
Zola Levitt Ministries, and The Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies
"BIBLE READING/MEDITATION CENTER"
"Bible Verses for May"
Reading Through the Bible--May
This is given as an example, for you can go to Christian Broadcast Network and ask for the free daily Bible-Reading Guide:
Daily Bible-Reading Guide for a Year
A Reading Through the Bible guide is also available at the back of "Light For My Path," Illuminating Selections from the Bible, by Humble Creek Press. See the details below on this page.
A Tribute Song in Memoriam to Duane L. Smith, our late instructor and writer who received no reward in this life for his wonderful Bible scholarship but is (no doubt in my mind) heaped head to foot with the riches of Christ in the next:
"Tribute Song to Duane L. Smith
Some Bible Resources:
"The Bible, The Whole Story," is now on DVD. "Seven major doctrines of Scripture are explained in Zola's clear and informative style. The Bible is covered from Genesis to Revelation. A useful teaching tool for beginner and expert alike."--from the "New and Updated from ZLM" catalog list. In this book Zola Levitt teaches about the Abrahamic Covenant, The Law, Prophecy, The Messiah--Why Jesus of Nazareth?, Grace--the Gift of Absolute Forgiveness, The Church, and the Kingdom (the future thousand-year reign of Christ on Earth). Please contact Zola Levitt Ministries for this DVD. It is #DBWS, $39, for 2 DVDs.
"Bible Resources Center"
We highly recommend this on-line bookstore for Christians, the Faith and Freedom Bookstore. Categories of its offerings are: Bibles, Books, Children's Music, David Barton (American heritage) books, Audio Books, DVDs, Christian Bestsellers, Christian Parenting, Christian Business and Leadership, Magazine Subscriptions:
"Faith and Freedom Site/Bookstore"
Another Bible resource:
Crosswalk Bible Website
Benny Hinn Ministries offers a most amazing offer for Bible students and all those who want to learn God's Word: for $100 you receive "Illumina," which is an interactive Bible software with animation scenes and a tour to Israel and all sorts of Bible aids that amounts to a revolution in Bible studies. Children are fascinated by the animation, of course, for it brings the Bible characters alive to them in a medium they can enjoy and understand, even before they learn to read! This is a bargain offer, as the true value is something like $1400, but since the numbers ordered for Benny Hinn are so large the price has no doubt been reduced to put it within reach of most everyone. If $100 is too much, try saving it--by going without some luxuries for a while. Small amounts soon add up, if you don't dip into the piggy bank! That's the trick, staying out of the piggy bank! But God can help us if we ask him--for "Illumina" is an incredible Bible resource that is not obtainable anywhere else. Please go to:
To order or see offer of "Illumina," Benny Hinn Ministries
Recommended Books List:
Epicenter, by Joel C. Rosenberg. You can order this book, marked down to $16 from $20, from Jews for Jesus. The Jews for Jesus flier states: "In this, his first nonfiction book, Joel Rosenberg, an evangelical Christian from an Orthodox Jewish heritage, takes readers on an unforgettable journey through prophecy and current events into the future of Iraq after Saddam, Russia after Communism, Israel after Arafat, and Christianity after radical Islam. It includes exclusive interviews with Israeli, Palestinian and Russian leaders, and previously classified CIA and White House documents."
Jews for Jesus Store
As included in the September-October Lamplighter Magazine by Dr. David Reagan, "The Day of Islam" is Paul William's new book that will raise the hair on the back of your neck, if you are still living and breathing, that is. Williams i a "seasoned investigative reporter and former FBI consultant." He reveals that Al-Qaida's plan is to detonate real nuclear devices simultaneously in seven U.S. cities--which are Washington, D.C., New York, Las Vegas, Miami, Boston, Houston, and Los Angeles. Are you praying, that this is delayed at least? Destruction of these major cities, all at once, will bring America down to the dust--there will be no working society, we will starve, and have no heat or electricity, for the entire infrastructure, which is interdependent, will collapse immediately along with our financial system and all our electronics and communication. We truly need to seek God's mercy and forgiveness, lest our enemies have their way with us while we are yet deep "in our sins." For those who truly seek God, there is the comfort and strength and protection promised them in Psalm 91. All others may have to take their chances and fend for themselves.
The story of the phenomenal house church movement in Red China (which claims 58 million believers in Christ today, a number that far surpasses the total number of true, Bible-believing Christians in all of Europe) and Brother Yun and his marvelous, miraculous deliverance from prison that equals the spectacular experience of the imprisoned Apostle Peter. This is a life changing book, which will invite you and me to count the cost and then commit all we are and have to Christ and the propagation of His kingdom. The book also explains the Back to Jerusalem movement that began in the 1920s in China, and which has become the motivating vision of the new movement of spreading the Gospel with Chinese missionaries through all the houses of Buddha, Mohammed, Hinduism, all the way to Jerusalem!
To order this book:
Back to Jerusalem Vision and Movement, with Contact Information about Brother Yun
Don Piper, pastor, has writtten "Ninety Minutes in Heaven," the true account of his death and visit in heaven and the aftermath when he was prayed for by a pastor and he was restored to life miraculously. He had no arm, his head was crushed, he had been impaled on the steering wheel of his car, part of his femor bone was torn out and lost forever--this and more happened to him after a semi ran over his car when they were both crossing a bridge. He was on his way to do a Bible study at church when the oncoming semi suddenly swerved and ran right over the top of him! He was instantly in heaven, and was greeted by loved ones, all recognizable, and speaking to him, welcoming him home. We are sending for this book, and perhaps you will want to check out this amazing story too, by going to his website. If you order it on-line now you will save $2 off the modest $12 cost:
Don Piper Ministries and Book, "Ninety Minutes in Heaven"
We recommended this book under another title, "From the Prison to the Pulpit," the story of Commander Mitsuo Fuchida and Jake De Shazer, but here is the revised book, available from Rex Humbard ministries:
General Patton's exploits and the Normandy Invasion notwithstanding, this is beyond question one of the world's greatest war stories--virtually unknown to this day, thanks to the almost total black-out of truth by the continued secular humanist domination of Western society. Secularist humanist Hollywood (the Mecca of all the distorted world-view of secular humanism, mixedc with hedonism and paganism and anti-Americanism) has completely missed a great movie here! But here it is anyway for Christians' enjoyment! Commander Mitsuo Fuchida led the squadrons of Imperial Japan's fighter/torpedo planes and bombers that attacked the U.S. naval base and Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. For this daring, logistically superb exploit, carried off with great success, Fuchido became an instant hero for Japan's people--with the resounding military glory we in America accorded commanders such as General Patton, General MacArthur, and General Eisenhower. This man, thus, was no small figure in Japanese military history and there must have been tens of thousands of baby boys named after him in Japan. But with Japan's humiliating defeat and unconditional surrender his great triumph at Pearl Harbor turned to dust and ashes in his mouth. Searching for meaning in his hopeless situation, he later converted to be a believer in Jesus Christ as his Savior after reading Jake De Shazer's written testimony, given him in a Tokyo train station by Jake who had come to Japan to preach the Gospel.
Mitsuo Fuchida (left) and Jake DeShazer, Evangelists in Japan, standing together in early 1970s, picture taken from book, "Footnote to History"
"Recommended Book List Center"
CHRISTIAN CRUSADER CENTER:
Just as Christians were confused and duped in Nazi Germany, Christians in America are understandably confused and divided on who the enemy is, and whether to fight back, as well as how to fight back. This is tragic, because in this state we Christians are a helpless prey to all who want to attack and destroy and enslave us--and we are attacked, destroyed, and enslaved!
But fortunately the Bible gives us clear direction, if only we will heed it. St. Paul took on the seemingly unconquerable Empire of Rome, the mightiest power on earth, and went right for the jugular, Caesar's own palace and household, with the soul-saving Gospel of Christ, and won! Mighty pagan Rome, which no other power on earth could challenge and then survive Roman retaliation, came tumbling down from that day, even though the Roman despot, Nero, had Paul beheaded and thousands of Christians slain by making them human torches to light his rose gardens in Rome. Does this speak of a Christian pacifist? St. Paul was a revolutionary, a terrorist for Christ, only he sought to win souls for Christ and rob Satan's kingdom. Paul fully understood that Christians must take the kingdom of heaven by violence--pacifism and compromise with the world and its powers will not get us anywhere.
FIGHTING EVIL WITH EVIL? FIGHTING EVIL WITH GODLY DISCERNMENT? OR NOT FIGHTING AT ALL AND ABSORBING THE EVIL AS IF IT WERE GOOD?
SOMETIMES EVEN CHRISTIANS, WHO ARE COMMANDED BY GOD TO LOVE THEIR ENEMIES, HAVE TO SHOW SOME OLD-FASHIONED BACKBONE AND FIGHT IF THE GOOD IS TO PREVAIL AND NOT THE EVIL:
The only problem is--the enemy is not always clearly perceived, and sometimes the enemy is not perceived to be an enemy at all because he comes like a wolf in lamb's fleece! In terribly mixed up, confusing times like these--when we have along with a dozen other threats to our existence, two dire, very aggressive enemies of Christianity--secular humanism and Islam--arrayed and even in league together against us, we can look like intolerant, bigoted, backward people who are irrelevant and even retrogressive socially, without any redeeming value, or we can step out into the arena of public opinion with hostile crowds watching and eager to see us torn apart by wild beasts and take what comes to a steadfast, unwavering saint and witness of God and His truth. What is our choice going to be, fellow Christians?
We may find ourselves in the dilemma faced by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the early 1930s, just at the onset of the rise of Hitler to power. He had the choice set before him of going against the Church he served and opposing a seeming savior of Germany or opposing him as a false Christ and incurring all the wrath of state and the appearance of being a traitor to the Fatherland and most of the churches. Imagine his situation. He had to confront a church-going Hitler--whom he knew to be a wolf in sheep's clothing! Churchmen and Christians everywhere in Germany were acclaiming this wolf in terms that only Christ deserved!
Despite the horrible consequences of opposing the majority of fellow Christians and their new Germanic Christ, Hitler, we know his decision, and he died by being hung for it in a prison camp. His last words were that it was the end--yet for him it was the beginning. Being a Christian, one who truly followed Christ, took Bonhoeffer "outside the camp," and for that privilege he paid with his life. He counted the cost, but thought it well worth sacrificing his life, even though he had everything to live for, and had just become engaged to a lovely young woman.
Make no mistake about it--we who want to follow Jesus Christ are in a struggle for our very existence (secular humanism, with its atheistic and socialist allies, is a triumphantist, highly aggressive atheistic religion that is determined to eradicate Christianity in America, not just push it to the sidelines of the culture). If we are aware of the peril we are in as Christians and traditionalist Americans, we see that our only rock of refuge is Christ alone--there is none other left in this society since radical leftist/social humanist and activist courts and judges began snatching away our heritage and the Constitutional basis of our society and substituted its dictatorship of relativism for what the Forefathers of this nation founded.
We as conservatives, evangelicals, Bible-believers, traditionalists--both Christians and Jews, Protestants and Catholics, face a most bewildering political scene. How can we vote our consciences when the candidates are so mixed in with the world and its anti-Christian secular humanist values. I hear Christians call in to conservative Talk Radio shows and express this bewilderment. How about you? As yet no candidate that stands a chance to win has expressed clear views that I can willingly endorse--they are sending mixed messages, are they not? We may face some hard choices this coming '08 election, or stay away from the polls altogether, avoiding the whole issue. I am afraid this will happen: that Christians will not vote, since everything is such a muddle. It will be interesting to see what God does, as we call to him in prayer--for prayer is our only genuine option that promises to bring good.
It isn't a rosy future we face. We may not see good in the coming election results, as Hillary Clinton is almost guaranteed to win and become our next President. No matter that she has no real record and no real achievements, she has been picked, and she is the chief runner in the race because she expresses the secular humanist values that are championed by the most powerful voting blocs and monied special interest groups in this country. By all means vote for her, if what she stands for agrees with your conscience and Christian beliefs--but try to square her beliefs with the Bible's teachings--you might have trouble doing that! I note that many candidates presently feign faith in God, while previously they did not bother. But we know them by their records and what they have voted for in the past--and that defines them, not their statements about their "faith". We as Christians should not be misled by leaders who do not "walk the talk." Unfortunately, evangelical Christians can make major mistakes if we are not careful and exercise discernment. Evangelicals voted for Hitler--though Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a courageous leader of evangelicals in Germany, was not one! Evangelicals sat in churches, singing hymns, while cattle cars rattled by on train tracks, blending the sounds of the screams of Jews with their singing! May this not happen to us--either to sit in the pews as the people of God are transported to death camps or to be the people in the cattle cars being taken to our deaths!
There is a lesson here we need to heed! How did it happen that Christians, evangelicals who loved the Lord Jesus, became Nazified in their thinking, so much so that they voted for Hitler and supported him in his rise to power as a dictator, war-monger and mass murderer of the Jews? Answer: GRADUALLY! We can all be led away, by slow degrees, into the wrong path of deception and destruction if we are not careful to examine ourselves each step of the way to the heavenly city. That is what happened to the German Christians, they were led off gradually, until they could not tell the difference between Hitler and Christ, and leading churchmen even called Hitler the Christ! Imagine that! He was not the Christ--he was truly an anti-Christ! But they were completely duped, and completely in the power of the devil--though they had started out Christians who loved God and served the Lord.
Are we any smarter or better educated or more cultured than the Germans were? I doubt that very much. The Germans were a highly cultivated, scientifically advanced society in the 1930s--Germany being the homeland of Bach, Goethe, Kant, and Einstein. Since that highpoint, there have been significant declines ever since in Western Civilization that clearly show that the West, despite 21st century hitech, is not really going forward and is even retrogressing. How then can we escape what happened to a sophisticated Germany, once the fountainhead of the Reformation and a bubbling, creative center for science and technology and the arts, but which somehow took a wrong turn and became a secularized, war-mongering, racist, anti-Semite totalitarian state? In America Relativism is creating a dictatorship, evolution is creating a totalitarism, and socialism and secular humanism are creating an all pervasive, controlling Big Brother government. If that weren't enough to destroy us, Islam, following hard on the heels of these absolutisms, has an absolutist theocracy and sharia law-system it seeks to enforce upon the whole West once it is too weak to fight for its values. Is there any hope for the West and America?
Perhaps not. Yet for individuals, there is--given the examples in the Bible of people who stood against the tide of their day--and triumphed. Dr. Michael Youssef offers a weekly devotional called, "My Journal." In Week 5, he explains how Daniel the prophet escaped becoming pagan Babylonian in his thinking and lifestyle while being a captive in Babylon nearly all his life. Here is an excerpt that will explain how we can filter out what is not of God and escape the contamination of the evil, Satan-permeated society around us just as Daniel did:
Excerpt from Week 5, "My Journal," by Dr. Michael Youssef
God in His Word commands us to be separate from this world and its thinking and pagan lifestyle:
"Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?...What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple fo the living God. As God has said: 'I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their Goid, and they will be my people. Therefore come out from them, and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and i will receive you'"--2 Corinthians 6: 14-17
Public testimony and even protest has its time and value. But mostly as Daniel himself showed in his long tenure in Babylon serving God at a heathen court for heathen kings while remaining righteous and uncompromised, it is wise at all times to pray, and to pray constantly. He risked his life too to pray--for prayer was more important to him than life itself. The Bible says: "The eyes of the Lord aree over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers."--I Peter 3:12. Truly, God's ears were open to Daniel, the man of prayer! He interceeded for his people and Jerusalem, and God intervened in their behalf and forgave them. More things are brought about by prayer than anything else we can do. Jesus prayed constantly, and if the Son of God thought it necessary and vital to pray to His Father, how much more should we His followers seek God in prayer! Prayer can change the world, not just our own lives for the better. Prayer makes us powerful. No time spent in prayer is wasted, if we are sincere and are not doing it to make a show before God or man, or doing it selfishly to gain something we know is not God's will for us. Let us be like Daniel, the man of prayer. We can make a great difference, just as He did, from his youth onward to extreme old age. Even as a very old man, this man of prayer remained in the center of the great events of the world stage in the world's mightiest empire of the time. Prayer put him there, and kept him there, and he was useful to God to the very last.
AN ANCIENT INTERSTATE ON THE SITE OF A VANISHED AMERICA? America's proud interstate highways will someday look like this forested one, the Word of God warns us in effect, if we do not repent and turn from our evil ways. Our nation's spiritual highways ALREADY look this way! The highways to God and the Kingdom of God were clear and full of traffic in years past, but now they are blocked--full of rubbish of traditionalism and human customs, heretical doctrines, false gospels, distractions, entertainment, unsurrendered egos and lives, exaltation of man, quenching of the Holy Spirit, all sorts of undergrowth that makes the highway useless to human beings, unfit for any kind of transportation and work in the Kingdom of God. What has done this? We have backslidden as Christians, the churches are not preaching the Gospel, and the people are not committed and surrendered Christians; they are going primarily to make a show and to enjoy entertainment, or indulge their guilty consciences with large does of social gospel and good works. Betty Renner, Garden of Prayer Ministry, Puyallup, Washington, distributed this prayer for America, which is well suited for this section (printed 1984, all rights reserved to Bettie N. Renner):
AMERICA, AMERICA
America, America
I hold you up in prayer.
While your red, white, and blue is waving,
I stand with you in prayer.
America, America
you're weighed in the balance.
Repent and forsake evil ways,
building upon God's grace.
America, America,
God wants to change your ways.
America--Pray!
God wants revival today.
Pastor Ron Phillips of Abba's House is not a pessimist concerning America--unlike so many Bible teachers of prophecy. He believes in a miracle-working, Almighty God who can turn this nation around, even when it seems we are going over the cliff to our doom. We need a Third Great Awakening desperately, and he is one who is calling upon God for it. Please go to his website and check out his offer, "Healing the Wounds of America." He gives an on-line message about revival in America that you should not miss either. God can do it again--bring revival across the land just as he did in the First and Second Awakenings. But whether you check out this book and also his on-line message on revival or not, pray, dear Christian. It matters not whether you are Christian or still seeking the truth, Christ is calling us to himself to be his children. He still has hands open, full of mercy. He isn't the God of Conservatism or Liberalism, or the God of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party; He is the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Bible is His eternal Word to us. He has a revival too for us, a complete cleansing for this nation from all its sin and guilt--if we will only pray through until we see it happening. Now is the time to pray and seek God--now is the time.
Pastor Ron Phillips, Abba's House, Message and Book
Book Reviews Center:
Alan Sear's book, ACLU VS. AMERICA, exposes the enemy within our borders: a home-grown communist and anti-American organization fronted as a fighter for civil liberties has become a veritable octopus in size and power and is assaulting all our freedoms, one after the other, using our own legal system to destroy our nation and our heritage and Constitution:
To obtain the book, ACLU VS. AMERICA, by Alan Sears
Or go to James Robison's LIFE TODAY website.
Ever imagine that the classic old torch song, "Cry Me a River," has a ring of truth to it in presidential history? Yet I have heard self-important Conservative Talk Radio hosts, one after the other, pooh-pooh the idea that President Bush (who has stated that he has cried a lot in his two terms) is causing the bad weather and about every other disaster you can name--even Global Warming! They ridicule it particularly because the liberals are blaming everything on Bush--including the bad weather. That is stupid, of course--a political shenanigan that is easy to see through. Nevertheless, what a president or leader of a nation does can and does affect his nation, even the climate and weather! We saw this happen in the Old Testament a number of times to know it does happen. Elijah, in response to King Ahab of Israel's idoltatrous reign called a drought and a famine down upon the land, and everyone suffered until Elijah called it off by praying for rain. Is this a story? No, it really happened! God has not changed since Elijah's time. God still can punish a nation by using the weather, which is always in his control. Our leaders and presidents have been foolishly causing God's warning and judgments in the worst storms of the last century and now this 21st century. Read the case for this yourself:
"Mini-Review by Ronald Ginther of McTernan's book, "As America Has Done to Israel"--showing the direct connection between disastrous weather and misguided Presidential and State Department foreign policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.
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Do you think God intends to take you to heaven so you can strum a harp and lie around on a cloud and eat grapes? Think again! Christianity's best kept secret: the MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST! Why is it such a hush-hush, "classified" church secret? Why are we Christians generally so ignorant of it? The 1,000 Reign of Christ could actually being in a mere eight years from this date, yet most Christians would give you a blank stare if you said that. Their entire attention is fixed on the Rapture, being jetted up out of this terrible mess we made of earth, not reigning with Christ on the Earth from Jerusalem for 1,000 years!
Ask your pastor or theology professor to speak on it without notes--he won't be able to say more than a few lines, which will show the attention and study he has given the subject. Maybe then he will go to the Bible and learn what it is all about.
Christian churches are sitting on their blessed assurances, counting on the Rapture to be the fix-all for all the present crises, while we should be Wise Virgins preparing for the Bridegroom and the Coming Reign over the Earth for a full thousand years with Him in Jerusalem (not just preparing for the wedding, which will be only brief interlude). Are we going to be brides of Christ who sit and do nothing? No! Christ the Husband of the Church has plenty for us all to do! Well, if you can see this, then start preparing yourself! We may not have much time left.
Part I, "God's Sabbath," The Coming Age of Miracles, by Bill Britton
Part II, "God's Sabbath," The Coming Age of Miracles, by Bill Britton
Part III, "God's Sabbath," The Coming Age of Miracles, by Bill Britton
Part IV, "God's Sabbath," The Coming Age of Miracles, by Bill Britton
Part V, "God's Sabbath," The Coming Age of Miracles, by Bill Britton
Gordon Lindsay wrote on the Millennium shortly before his unexpected and sudden death, and here is an excerpt from his book about an Event that will soon change most everything on earth--the Millennial Reign of Christ.
"A Thousand Years of Peace," Excerpt of the Book by Gordon Lindsay
Benny Hinn also has a very short but good study on the Millennial Age given us in a letter to partners that will be shared here soon.
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TRACT CENTER
The last Romanov Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, brutally murdered with his wife and children by the Bolshevists (Communists), is esteemed by the Greek Orthodox Church in Russia to be a saint. There is good reason for his official sainthood, which, I think, has little or nothing to do with his assassination. Rather, he is a saint because of his Christlike character and act of forgiveness of someone who did not deserve it. This tract tells the story of how Czar Nicholas forgave a young man in his own imperial army who had embezzled and stolen army funds--a huge fortune in fact--and who was on the point of committing suicide when the emperor happened to pass by and read the man's despairing last words left on the desk of the sleeping man who feel asleep penning them just before he planned to take his life. What did the emperor do? He behaved like a true saint and...(order and read the tract for yourself and pass it on!). You may argue the point, however, that the emperor was fabulously rich and could easily afford to pay this man's gambling debts--but look, you aren't being reasonable. That isn't the point at all, the ability of the emperor to pay any amount of gambling debts. Why? Simply because that could not have motivated the emperor to pay the man's gambling debts and forgive his embezzlement of Army money! No, there had to be another reason. Then, Christ was also fabulously rich, richer in fact than any earthly king ever was, and yet he made himself poor for our sakes, and granted his riches in eternity to all who would call on his Name to be saved, taking their "gambling debts" all upon himself. Yes, He was rich, but he gave his very life--which is the ultimate self-sacrifice. The emperor did not give his life, true, but that was not called for in the situation given in the story. He did, like Christ, overrule his own strict laws of justice governing the military and his own righteous anger against embezzlement of precious Army funds for a man's gambling vice, did he not? But please obtain the tract by going to the Tract Center for the address when I update it, for I am giving the story away of a truly Christlike man and Christlike act of compassion and forgiveness that is attached to the memory of Nicholas, the last Czar of Russia. And recall, if you will, that Jesus has a Father--just as the young man in the emperor's army had a father too, who was remembered at a critical point by the emperor who had known him as a friend. Because the father was remembered, the young man was granted the money--forgiveness and a second chance in life that the money represented. Doesn't that also strike a wonderful parallel between Nicholas's story and the Bible? If you can't see it by this time, then perhaps you need to rethink what Christ did for you and me and everyone in this world. Excellent biographies are also available, and we will refer you to them soon. Many recent immigrant Americans have a Russian background, and here is one good reason for them to be very proud of their last Czar. Not all were luxury-loving, cruel tyrants), and it is just too bad that Mr. Putin does not take the Christian example of Czar Nicholas to heart, for if he did, he could avoid much heart-ache for himself and his people in the coming days as he pursues an aggressive, expansionist policy that is growing increasingly hostile to the U.S. and even Europe as he seeks to align himself with Iran and other terroristic Muslim states.
On another subject, but still very important since it relates to the Bible and Noah's ark in particular, Nicholas II sent an army expedition to find and photograph the Ark on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey. They found it and photographed it, and one of the Czar's daughters was shown the photographs, but they disappeared in the Revolution, and are hidden today in KGB or other government files or were destroyed, but we know there was an expedition, and that it most certainly found a large wooden boat perched high near the crest of Mt. Ararat.
For further reference, Anchor Books has available "The Last Tsar," by Edvard Radzinksky, "Romanovs," by W. Bridge Lincoln, and "Empire of the Czar," by Daniel J. Boorstin. All these deal with Nicolas II, the last Tsar (or Czar) of Russia of the Romanov royal line.
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Testimonies of Martyrs Center:
Ever wondered what brought the mighty, blustering, vodka-guzzling, nuclear-armed Soviet Union crashing down like the Eggman Humpty Dumpty falling from his wall? It really wasn't President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher acting in tandem--they had some effect, to be sure, acting from the top, but the greatest undercutting of the Soviet foundations and supporting pillars was achieved by the martyrdoms of Christians who are virtually unknown today but who are forever revered in eternity's Hall of Fame, the Hall of Martyrs. One of the most notable Russian martyrs was young Army soldier Ivan Moiseyev:
"Testimonies of Martyrs Center"
Music Center with original and also added lyrics to famous Christian anthems and songs:
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Dr. Matthew Thomas, native born Indian from India, once a businessman in America, was called by God to return to India with the Gospel. He tried to bargain with God, and offered to pay for a missionary, but God wanted him. He surrendered, sacrified his carrer, and went back to India. Through his obedience, over 2,000 churches have been founded in India. This man of God has a vision for India and also America. India with 1.3 billion people is going to surpass China in population soon, and his economy is also poised to become the second largest in the world, for the Indian economy is exploding, and international businesses are all going to India to do business from there. So, as Dr. Thomas said on TBN'S Seattle-area station just today, now is the time for the Gospel to connect with India's emergence as an economic superpower in the global economy. India also sets records for persecution of Christians. He knows of many churches burned to the ground and the pastors beaten. But he thanks God for persecution, for it separates the "normal" Chritians from committed/surrendered Christians. America's churches need to preach the Gospel again, and demand surrender by Christians, so that God can use them. He knows what he is talking about--he has seen Christianity explode in India with committed and surrendered believers in Christ, who lay down their lives if necessary, and are not afraid of bitter persecution. Persecution is spreading the faith, Dr. Thomas says! It is not a bad thing, in that sense. The Chinese Christians say the same thing to outsiders. Are we missing something vital in America? We are least persecuted, whereas the Christians in India are the most persecuted in the world, with China not far behind India. But do we have power? Do we see miracles commonly in our services such as they see in Indian churches? No, we do not. Well, Dr. Thomas, an apostle and church-planter and evangelist, has the explanation--we need first to surrender to the will of God and to be mentored by pastors to be what God wants us to be as believers before God can use us effectively to spread the Gospel and extend God's kingdom.
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CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM CENTER:
Ever heard of Queen Elizabeth I of England? She is part of our American history too--in a hot button topic too--that of the "separation of church and state" controversy that is raging from coast to coast, due to the assault on our religious liberties by the ACLU and its affiliates, aided by activist judges who support secular humanist views.
CHRISTIANITY IS WRITTEN INTO THE FABRIC OF OUR NATION, AND OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS AND HISTORY WOULD BE MEANINGLESS WITHOUT CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, BELIEFS, AND PRECEPTS, SO HOW COULD WE BE NOW CALLED BY SOME A SECULAR STATE, WITH NO SPECIAL TIE TO CHRISTIANITY? Most everyone (except the present generation of school children, fifty per cent of whom cannot place America on a map when tested) knew that America is the child of Britain and its common law and inheritor of its civil liberties based on the historic Magna Charta forged by the nobles of Britain with King John. Our religious and civil liberties are based inextricably in British roots and history. Now was there ever the "doctrine" of the separation of church and state promoted in our nation's mother nation, Britain? Did this so-called "doctrine" come down to us from Great Britain, or did it arise across the British Channel in the bloody revolution of atheistic France? Heads of State of many European countries were once proud to be Christians and leaders of Christian nations, and British rulers were, until the present generation of Windsors, no exception. One such Christian monarch was Queen Elizabeth the First of England, who is one of the most famous rulers of Great Britain, and even today she is known for her stand against the seemingly invincible Armada of King Philip of Spain, a trannous Catholic autocrat who sought to invade Britain with a thousand ships and tens of thousands of soldiers to snuff out Britain's independence and add an enslaved Britain to his world empire--but this tyrant was defeated miraculously by bad weather off the coasts of France and then by a great storm that destroyed his rest of his fleet off the coasts of Ireland. For good reason, she carried the Title, Defender of the Faith. Today, her secular humanist son and possible successor to the Throne, Prince Charles, has amended the title for himself by calling himself "a defender of faith." That is not what his royal mother's namesake, the first Elizabeth, held as one of her titles. She did not defend just any faith, or other faiths, but she defended Christianity and the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Prince Charles, who has installed a Moslem mosque in Buckingham Palace, and who financed a film extolling Mohammed, cannot be a spiritual heir of Queen Elizabeth I, nor can he be a spiritual heir of his own mother Queen Elizabeth II.
David Barton's founded Wallbuilders, a research institution that promotes understanding of our nation's Christian heritage and the Personages and Founding Documents that created this nation. He has a new book, "Original Intent," which ought to go in the office of every Supreme Court Justice and also into every classroom in America, for it disproves the so-called doctrine of the separation of church of state, showing that it is a myth (Most Americans do not know that the late great Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rehnquist, wrote that this so-called "doctrine" had no basis in our law and he urged that it be retired indefinitely, but his view on this was virtually ignored by the Left and the ACLU and its confederates in America). Anything David Barton cares to write will be excellent and exhaustively researched and documented. This is a book that should be in every classroom in America! It would completely revolutionize and transform and save American educational systems, from Kindergarten to graduate schools at the universities and colleges.
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FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE:
TBN recently featured the entire full-length film, Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger--a masterpiece of suspense and historical accuracy, as it showed the travails of the surviving Death Camp Jews of Europe who were trying to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine but were being prevented by the British who were treacherously favoring the Arabs over the Jews (despite Lord Balfour's Government promising a homeland to the Jews for the critical help of a Jewish scientist in Britain who synthesized a vital element for the manufacture of explosives in World War I). This film is a stunning recreation of the times and the burning, philosophic conflicts of Haganah and Irgun, two Jewish resistance groups who fought the British and also each other as they tried to deal with the dilemma imposed by Britain's anti-Jewish policies and brutal treatment of Jewish refugee ships while trying to remain morally above expediency (or the end justifies the means). Newton, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo (a shining, meteoric Hollywood star from New York's Italian neighborhoods (gang-ridden slums at that time, like the scenes portrayed in West Side Story, the great Broadway musical and also film) who was later stabbed to death in NYC, possibly because he played a Jewish Holocaust survivor) are some main actors who gave great performances in this film. Try to get the video, and learn what your books and your teachers refused to tell you about the rise of Israel after the Holocaust and Britain's perfidy (despite the bravery of some British who sacrificed even their careers to help Jews get to Palestine (as Israel was called under the British Mandate). There are two love stories in the film, of course, but the main story is not affected, which is the liberation of the Jews from their British oppressors and their fight for a homeland "against all odds".
"Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem:
"Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem"
Dr. Billy Graham urges Christians to tour Israel:
"Why Christians Should Visit Israel," by Dr. Billy Graham
"Against All Odds," DVD, by Bill McKay, Order #S-0708, c/o John Hagee Ministries
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Preface to "Fire Over the Holy Land," the 1967 war of Israel and Arab nations, by Gordon Lindsay
Ever wondered how to make sense of the various branches of Judaism? Well, Jews for Jesus has a two-page explanation on a chart that makes it clear how Jews today believe, according to whether they are Orthdox, or Conservative, or Reform, in the article: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Three Branches of Judaism," by Rich Robinson, August 2007 issuer of Jews for Jesus Newsletter. To order this free newsletter, contact Jews for Jesus:
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AMERICA'S RE-EDUCATION CENTER:
As David Barton points out in his new book, "Original Intent," the doctrine of separation of church and state IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION. REPEAT: THE DOCTRINE OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS NOT IN THE CONSTITUTION! Most Americans have been led by their teachers to think it is, but this notion and so-called "doctrine" is really a concocted myth spun by atheists and secularists, not Constitutional in the least way. Go to the David Barton's site, Wallbuilders, to obtain this great book of his, which proves conclusively that the so-called "doctrine" of the separation of church and state was never intended by our Founding Fathers.
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America is a nation that has completely lost its head (just like poor Icabod Crane in Washington Irving's classic, and America doesn't know it!). We are galloping through the night, just like Ichabod, clueless and headless! Witness the extensive proceedings, with hundreds of impressive-looking dignitaries, officials, legislators, and news puppets and pundits listening to the dry-as-dust analyses of the testifying generals--what is being learned? What wisdom is being shared?
We have a President, White House, Supreme Court, Congress's Senate and House of Representatives, not to mention the Pentagon, the State Department, and tens of thousands of high-paid advisors and think tank experts, yet we are essentially a nation that has lost its head. The blind are leading the blind! No one has the slightest good idea what to do with Iraq--whether to cut and run or stay the course or take some other tack. They all have ideas, to be sure, but there is not one good one. What is the answer? Let me tell you what the Bible says, that "the fervent prayer of a righteous man is effectual!" That means one humble, unknown, praying saint who is deep in the Word of God and listens and hears from God outweighs all the volumes of testimony and the stacks of thousand-page reviews and studies and analyses that the administrators of this nation can muster. Sadly, this nation's leaders and so-called experts and advisors will not turn to one praying saint for a prayer to God for direction! They are just too proud and self-reliant to turn humbly to the all-knowing God for wisdom to solve our crisis! So, these decorated, high-credentialed fools are going it without God, relying exclusively on their own fine human reason and limited human knowledge!
No wonder that we are staggering toward disaster, without any light whatsoever to show us a nation-saving way.
I do believe witchcraft and satanism have such a hold on this society and now its government, from President to the least functionary in the government apparatus and government community in Washington, that we are mired inextricably in Satan's deceptions. We cannot find our way out, we are so entangled. Only Christ can cut through this morass and pull us out! But who is crying to God for help and deliverance, among our leaders, or seeking Christ's wisdom? Who wants Christ's wisdom? Our President gives lip service to God and prayer, but is he truly seeking what he says he admires? Why then are we stumbling along in the dark, with thousands upon thousands of experts and advisers carrying briefcases stuffed to overflowing with statistics, facts and analyses, while our government leaders continue to commit blunder after blunder based on human reason and human judgment? Such things have always failed us in the past, and they are failing us now. God is the Source of Wisdom, and we must listen to Him, seek Him alone. Let us turn from human agencies, human ability, and human understanding--for the arm of the flesh is vain to help us--and turn to the Almighty, All-Knowing God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. A pox on our leadership and all their foolish "wise men," and foolish counsellors. O God, render their speeches impotent as sawdust in their babbling mouths until we cry out for mercy and turn to You alone for true wisdom, the only kind that can guide and save us out of the pit that is yawning to receive America!
The late Gordon Lindsay, who founded Christ for the Nations (CFN in Dallas, Texas), found the subject of sorcery in America unpleasant, but he wrote on it because he said it was so big a problem, even years ago, and Christians needed to know the facts about the spiritual enemy that was attacking America. We will feature his whole booklet, "Sorcery in America," Volume I, here, as it is not copyrighted and is, apparently, Public Domain. I have repeated tried to contact CFI and have never received a response, so I will accept this book as Public Remain, until I hear differently from them or anyone else.
Sorcery, or witchcraft, is one of the major threats to America and the Christian faith. Sorcery pervades radio, advertizing, entertainment, the media, education, government, the military, and even the churches! We need to know this enemy in all its forms and ways, and stand up against it, or we will lose everything we hold dear. Many evangelists (you see a number of them on TBN and Daystar and other Christian networks) are practicing manipulation of people that really has more to do with witchcraft and sorcery than the Holy Spirit and the Christian faith. It is not necessary to warn you about these false shepherds--beyond saying this much. Just test them yourself, whether they are preaching the historic Gospel of the Cross and Christ Crucified (which includes denial of self, by the way, and losing oneself!) or not. Clearly, many are not! Well, then, you know what types are not worth your time and attention and support--and stay clear of them! You cannot stop them from operating, but you can flee from them, as the Scriptures tell us to do. Also pray that they repent and be saved--lest they suffer the judgment reserved for false shepherds and false teachers. Would you want that kind of judgement that Jesus describes to happen to anyone? Of course not! But have nothing to do with them, except for prayer for them. There are plenty of good teachers and pastors who are still sticking to the true Gospel that Paul and other other Apostles preached. Let us not follow the mass that is being led astray by the false shepherds and false teachers, the wolves in our midst. The Holy Spirit and the Word of God will protect us, if we allow them to guide and inform us. As dear Frieda Lindsay (widow of Gordon Lindsay who now heads CFN) advises everyone studying at CFN, let us read three chapters of scripture a day--and five on Sunday! Let us be protected, by the Holy Spirit and Bible firewall! We will make it to heaven, to a great reward, if we stay centered in the Word each day.
"Sorcery in America," Preface, Vol. I, by Gordon Lindsay
America was not always under the spell of the "Dark Force" of witchcraft and sorcery. We were once a Christian nation governed and living in reverence of God where true values were cultivated, not witchcraft and astrology and satanism which create a hell on earth, such as Haiti became after it gained independence from France in the 1800s and was dedicated to voodoo (a satanic and spiritist religion) by its founders! Just compare Haiti with what America became, as these nations were founded at the same time, yet took completely divergent paths--one into darkness and Satanic bondange, the other into liberty and prosperity and greatness never before seen. For programs dealing with the Founding Fathers and the values of our heritage, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) has many resources:
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"Negroes for Sale!"
"All Moslem Slave Holders and Moslem Nations and even polygamous Mormon groups in Utah who reduce young girls to sex slaves of old men, Let My People Go!" says their God, the God of the Oppressed.
What would Jesus do? Would Jesus hold slaves? Mohammed no doubt did! If you want to see what Jesus did, go to the new book by Dr. Mark Gabriel, which gives the lives and acts and words of Mohammed and Jesus. Two men who changed history, but only one was a God-Man (God incarnate). How did these men treat people? We have the accounts, and so we can make up our own minds, whether we are Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, or Hindus, or pagans and animists! When we are standing one day before God as our Judge or Savior, we shall have no excuse, and we will not be able to claim that we did not know the truth--for the truth is abundantly available, in books, in the Bible, in the lives of saints, and particularly in the life of Jesus Christ!
"Slavery Center"
For buying the freedom of slaves and giving them enough food to go back to their homes in southern Sudan:
Rod Parsley, World Harvest Church and Breakthrough Ministries"
Creation Science Center:
For a love gift of any amount, TBN will send you "The Privileged Planet," a DVD that will show you the true, proven, scientific case for creationism, for if given an equal hearing, there is no question that evolutionary theory will be rejected by the scientific community. Many discoveries about how the universe is "fine-tuned" and "anthropic" in so many ways to make life possible on this one inhabitable planet are making creationism an inescapable issue for scientists who still hold blindly and uncritically to evolutionary theory.
Gordon Lindsay, in his book, "The 1970's, in Light of Prophecy," has this to say about evolutionary theory being taught in the U.S. public schools:
"EVOLUTION'S DENIAL OF BIBLE AUTHORITY TO SPEARHEAD THE SPIRIT OF ATHEISM IN THE SEVENTIES.
On June 17, 1963, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it would be unconstitutional for any school to authorize Bible reading and recitation of the Lord's prayer. But nothing was said against the teaching of evolution in the schools, a teaching which implies the Genesis record of creation to be a myth, while claiming that man sprang gfrom the brute beast. This rank hoax, the religion of atheists and infidels is being taught in the schools. Many young people naturally come to the conclusion that if evolution is indeed true then the Genesis account is a fable. If Genesis is false, then the Bible is not an authority and cannot be depended upon as a true source of faith. Its call to sobriety and holy living therefore, becomes merely the tradition of men. Evolution denies that a reckoning will be coming or that mankind must stand before God some day in judgment and declares that the Bible's promise of an afterlife, of a heaven and a hell, is all fiction.
During the Seventies this insidious God-dishonoring theory is going to become almost universal in the schools. Already it is being taught in many religious institutions that once stood for the inspiration of the Scriptures. Even Full Gospel colleges in order to obtain state funds and accreditation must conform to certain educational requirements. The temptation to obtain these funds will be very strong. Parents who believe the Bible should find out if the Christian college to which they send their children uses these textbooks. Such teaching can rob their children's faith in God." (page 27)
New Creation Museum in Kentucky
Answers in Genesis
Dr. Baugh showing a footprint fossilized in a rock strata specimen that contains the dinosaurs' footprints. This rock was found among dinosaur tracks in the Cretaceous limestone of the Paluxy River in Texas! This is not what the Evolutionist teachers in the public schools want students to know or see! See it yourself. Go to TBN's broadcast of "Creation in the 21st century" program and see this for yourself. In this picture ;you see Praise host Richard Hogue (left) viewing this astounding artifact that disproves Evolution once and for all--if you have an honest mind and can admit what the evidence tells you.
Would you believe that there is a powerful organization in America that has as its reason for existence the killing and then the selling of the body parts of this innocent child? But who in America would want to kill this precious and beautiful baby? Is there really an organization in America that is dedicated to doing just that? Yes, there certainly is! This organization is primarily responsible for the butchery and deaths of over forty million such babies--which they call "abortion," "privacy," "reproductive rights," not the unconscionable murder of helpless human lives, which it actually is.
Who is this monster that is murdering millions of American children with impunity? Answer: Planned Parenthood, which is tax supported with our tax money to the tune of over 200 hundred million dollars in one year alone! PLANNED PARENTHOOD was founded by an eugenicist, Margaret Sanger, for the express purpose of eliminating all children she judged unfit to live--the children of poor people of any race, of mentally impaired parents, but primarily poor, uneducated black people being especially targeted. Adolf Hitler (a racist who wanted to breed the pure Aryan White Race, Nordic or German, and then use it to rule the world's peoples who were then reduced to being subhuman slaves) studied programs of American eugenics such as Margaret Sanger's and used the knowledge for his own eugenics experiments in Germany, by the way. Thanks to Margaret Sanger's eugenics organization, which is the largest abortion provider in the world, 4,000 American children are destroyed in the womb, or nearly born in partial-birth abortion, each and every day in the United States! This is one 9/ll every twenty four hours!
America is a nation committing mass suicide, through the destruction of over 1/3 of its younger generation through abortion on demand. Mass immigration of illegals is not the answer either! They will destroy our entire social fabric by imposing burdens on our social services and government and educational system that they cannot possibly afford or absorb. As a free and democratic society that hasn't the qualified and trained younger people (English speakers too!) to man the work force, we cannot compete, demographially and economically and eventually militarily, with the rising juggernaut of Communist China as long as we kill our children in the womb. Few American leaders will tell the nation this fact: we are doomed as long as we kill our children! We are covered, coast to coast, with the blood of these innocent babes. God's judgment for this mass murder is hanging over our heads, ready to descend at any moment. All our evangelistic efforts to spread the Gospel cannot hold off judgment indefinitely. God will answer the cries of the unborn souls who were slain in our country, for their cries are going up to his ears continually, just as the blood of Abel, slain by his brother Cain, rose up from the ground in protest to God.
CAN A LEOPARD CHANGE ITS SPOTS? Well, Planned Parenthood has tried, and got mud in the face for the effort! It almost was able to carry off a very shady deal in Aurora, a quiet, leafy community outside Chicago, Illinois, except that someone caught wind of the fact that the new "Gemini" building going in to a neighborhood shopping complex building was actually the abortion provider, Planned Parenthood! Aurora people do not want this hideous abortion mill in their family-oriented community! By the dozens and dozens, they are demonstrating, 24 seven, with signs and their own presence, marching up and down on sidewalks next to the site. The city council, issueing the permit, claims it did not know it was really Planned Parenthood behind the Gemini name. Now it does! What is it going to do with this knowledge--bow to the people or bow to the biggest abortion provider in the world? We shall see! Interviewed, Planned Parenthood's spokespeople, speaking just like Nazis in the past, criticised the harassment they had been receiving down at a Planned Parenthood site in Texas as their excuse for using "Gemini" instead of their true name. Liars are liars, however, and covered by a lie, Planned Parenthood has been exposed, and looks all the worse for lying its way into Aurora, Illinois. A pox on Planned Parenthood! Destroy this evil organization of death-providers, root and branch, Lord God! Do it quickly too, we pray!
"Infanticide in America Center
Strongholds of death have taken up residence in America, and the expression of these is the continued death culture which has brought about the cold blooded murder of forty million human beings through abortion. We must seek out and destroy these strongholds! We can do it--as the Church has been given the power and authority in Jesus's All-Powerful Name. In our individual lives, sin also creates fortresses or strongholds of the Devil that continue to influence and hold us in bondage long after we have repented of those sins and even stopping doing them. They may be invisible and unknown to us, but they still exist! They can be discovered and brought to light and exposed and thrown out, however. That is the good news! A book that tells how this can be done is "Strongholds," Understanding and Destroying Satan's Schemes, by Mike Riches. I have taken the three month course based on this book, and my life and faith has been tremendously benefitted. I now use these methods to drive out evil spirits that seek to come into my family to take over--and I have done this many times. I also have destroyed the strongholds in my own soul--put there by Satan when I was living in sin. I did not know how to handle these strongholds until I took the course offered at Pastor Mike RicheS's church in the Tacoma area. Mike Rich and his team are called to minister this knowledge to churches and pastors all over the world, even before the world-wide confocation of YWAM in Kona, Hawaii. You can order this wonderful book by contacting:
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HERESY AND CORRECTION CENTER:
Please treat yourself to a banquet, by ordering your own copy of the Lamplighter Magazine, which will give you the best reviews and comments about the current crop of heresies that are ruining the evangelical churches of America. Anti-Semitism and Replacement Theology are featured in the September-October issue. Go to Lamb and Lion Ministries on the Web and order it today. We read our copy cover to cover, in just two brief sessions, it was all so riveting.
Is this highly popular preacher a man of God or a New Age guru dressed up like an evangelical? My own conclusion is based on my own knowledge of the Bible, the witness of the Spirit, and this evidence from the Larry King interview. Review the evidence: Joel Osteen's own words in an interview by Larry King:
"Joel Osteen, True or False?"
Bible Greats, as Portrayed by Eben:
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PROPHECY CENTER:
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Big Bad Wolf Business Center:
We have given you alerts about Wal-Mart's endorsement of homosexuals, and their retraction of their advocacy since then. It had nothing to do with us, of course, except for our prayers. We also alerted you concerning the media giants, such as Belo Corporation of Dallas, Texas, which runs the networks which have major news channels in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Belo is anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, and its anti-Semitism has, I truly believe, sparked attacks on Jews such as the attack of a Muslim fanatic on the Jewish Federation Headquarters in Seattle in which a woman was killed and others injured. Belo is responsible before God--its directors may not be known to us, but God knows each and every one. They will not escape responsibility for the Jewish woman's death by the gunshot of the Muslim madman. Since that time Belo has toned down its attacks on Jews and Israel--but for how long?
Cisco and Yahoo are coming under increasing fire by human rights organizations--we are glad to report. We have previously featured Cisco and Yahoo here, two internet giants which are selling hitech tracking systems to China so that the Communist rulers can go after dissenters who advocate basic human freedoms. Chinese are going to jail and suffering long prison terms thanks to these companies' conscienceless sale of their expertise to Communist Big Brothers in China. This is very wrong--that companies should seek profits off the arrests and torture and even executions of dissidents in China, not to mention Christians in the banned house churches.
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This prayer is all the more pertinent--see the Dunce section concerning Atheist Ernie Chambers, Nebrask State Senator (so-called Independent), who has just filed a lawsuit against God, chiefly because he resents prayer at the Nebraska state legislature so much.
From the Union Gospel Mission, Sioux Falls, Newsletter, July 2002:
[The following prayer needs to be engraved on granite stellae and set up in front of every major government institution and educational establishment and judicial body in America.--Ed.] "When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. we know your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We habve coveted our neighbors possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornograpnhy and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent: to direct us to the center of Your will and openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen! "The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church [in Wichita, Kansas] where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea. Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'one nation under God.'"--Fran Stenberg, Executive Director, Union Gospel Mission, Sioux Falls, SD 57103.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE HERITAGE CENTER:
Most English literature teachers today have done their best to kill English literature. Ask the students themselves what they are getting out of English and American literature. For most students in college it is a crashing bore, a jumbo spaghetti plate of Diversity, Multiculturalism, Genderism, Environmental Concerns, and all the rest of the Secular Humanist trashing of America agenda. They are rewriting English Lit, in other words--destroying it, root and branch. It was once a mighty oak, with its topmost branches in the clouds where the eagles soar and its roots dug down to the caverns of the gnomes. English literature is, beyond question, the most splendid body of literature and literary genius on earth--but you would never know it, listening to present "teachers" of English Lit. But let's look at the root, as it really was, not as it is now made to look today to be politically correct.
There would be no English literature today worth mentioning unless Christians (yes, Christians!) started writing early on, as they did thousands of years ago, and also right at the beginning of British history. The greatest writers in English literature have been, by and large, Christians.
"The Emmaus Walk Excerpt" from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"
"English Literature Heritage Center"
The Truth that the secular humanists who preach Tolerance most hate: Jesus said: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by Me."
DUNCES OF THE WORLD CENTER:
Ernie Chambers, State Senator of Nebraska, tops the list because he has just filed a suit against God charging God with causing the world's problems and also fear. An atheist, he resents the prayers said before the legislative sessions. Perhaps this is his way of getting back at the Christians who predominate in Nebraska--but what a cheap shot it is. Instead of attacking his fellow legislators in an honest way, face to face, he attacks God who has done nothing to earn this lawsuit except to send and sacrifice his Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ to save Ernie Chambers from his sins. This man is deceitful to the nth degree. He claims to be doing this to bring attention to frivolous lawsuits. Yeah, sure, you betcha! But who is filing them? He gives his animus for Christians away when he names "right-wingers," which is his code word for Christians and evangelicals in particular. He obviously hates (but is too cowardly and dishonest to say so openly) the evangelical Christian groups such as the American Center for Law and Justice that seeks to stop the secular humanist and communist ACLU from stripping us of our religious freedoms in America, while also removing the cross and the nativity scene and every public display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings. This imposter for a red-blooded American does not deserve American citizenship, to be frank. Hatred and defiance of God and contempt for the Christian faith, not to mention your anti-Americanism, is not covered by the First Amendment, in my book! Please move to some other country soon, Senator, where you will feel more among your own kind. You obviously hate the Christian-founded country that gave you the advantages that placed you in your high position. Why then are you so ungrateful and irresponsible? You are a deceitful, cowardly, and dishonest fool--for the Bible identifies the man who says there is no God (but somehow thinks he can file a lawsuit against a God he does not believe exists--how logical is that?) as a fool. Case closed! Ernie Chambers is a peerless fool.
Dear Nebraska voters--get this donkey out of your legislature (and to Saudi Arabia or Syria or Iran, if possible), or at least back to selling used Edsels or delivering last year's telephone books--whatever he can do without causing society more harm than he is currently worth.
This next extreme secular humanist dunce ought to be tarred and feathered and run out of town! Mayor Blomberg of NYC richly deserves the conical dunce's cap, and though Mayor of America's largest city, he ought to take a course in Reality 101 before he makes another decision affecting millions of people. He has flunked the basic intro course to leadership, which is common sense, in his role as mayor. He is now supporting a "Kahil Gibran" jehadist school in its bid to use tax money in order to train up anti-America jehadists, all under the guise of understanding Islamic culture and learning Arabic. Wonderful! We trained the September 11 terrorists to fly the jetliners that destroyed the WTC, and now we are training suicide bombers, home-grown in the Big Apple under secular humanist Mayor Blomberg's approving eye!
Mayor Blomberg ought to read Martin Mawyer's book and learn something about the saber-tooth tiger he is petting as if it were a domesticated cat!
"Jihad in America!" by Martin Mawyer
AFRICA'S BEST HOPE NOW IS CHRIST'S RETURN, BUT IT ONCE WAS COLONIALISM. COLONIALISM, LONG DEMONIZED BY SECULAR HUMANIST EDUCATORS AND THE FAVORITE WHIPPING BOY OF THE HISTORIANS, WAS REALLY THE BEST THING FOR AFRICA IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES. Most of the current regimes of Africa qualify as collective dunces (they cannot even deal with the worst of African dictators and mass murderers, much less the cruel despots who only rob and steal millions from their state coffers in order to live like Croesus in Paris and on the Riviera (while sending their sons and daughters to private schools in Switzerland and Belgium and America), enjoying swimming pools, mansions, maid services, banquets, fancy cars, diamond jewelry, stretch Mercedes Benzes, all paid for by their half-starved people who are lucky if they can scrape up one meal a day.
African leaders have thrown away all their opportunities and the wise use of their rich resources and the development they gained under colonial control--for what? Most of them were colonies of various European powers who were centuries beyond them in education and industrial development. With the possible exception of the Congo, which was King Leopold of Belgium's private domain to exploit with a fiendish kind of greed and disregard for human life, the others need to return as soon as possible to colonial control to prevent further decline and governmental chaos and economic disaster (Read Joseph Conrad's classic book, "Heart of Darkness, to catch a glimpse of life in the Congo under the wicked King Leopold's heartless exploitation of the people of the Congo and its resources).
The continent of Africa is a basket case, generally, after independence was declared from the colonial powers, France, Britain, and Spain, and even Belgium (arguably, life was better under Belgium's King Leopold than it has been under native Congolese dictators and the various generals and rebel militias). The rest of the world is constantly being called upon to bail out the continually failing African states. These states are ruled by Western educated government elites that are completely out of touch with their peoples and have turned corrupt and incompetent and self-serving. They fill the United Nations with rafts of these Cambridge-accent speaking rascals, who live the lifestyles of the rich and famous, while their countrymen back home are suffering the most scandalous poverty and filthy conditions and hopelessness without food, shelter, and education. All these African people ask is a chance to work for an honest living--and they don't get it under their own governments.
No one in the world community dares to tell the African nations this basic fact: humble yourselves, seek out your former colonial overlords, and get the help you need or continue to plummet down hill and perish. Turn over your governments and economies to the former hated "imperialists" or colonialists (though not the infamous, Royal Dutch Shell Oil and Gas Company, or any of the other globalist, multinational companies that act just like Shell!), if they will take them back. You Nations of Africa have shown us for the past century that you cannot govern yourselves, as the record has proven beyond question since each of you gained independence. All the tribalism, colorfully costumed dancing and patriotism and singing of your national anthems and mass cultural observances in the big areans and parade grounds, will not save you in the least!
Africa is doomed, and will continue to suffer famine, sectarian and tribal genocide, economic decline, the AIDS epidemic and other pandemic diseases, until Africa humbles itself and turns to Christ and the Gospel and submits to the wrongfully despised colonial status that it rejected far too soon (even though Africa benefitted immeasurably from that status, though the European nations administered and built up African states at an economic loss to themselves). Many of these former colonial nations were up and coming, with vibrant economies, exporting food to the world--such as Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe, made an armpit of East Africa)--but incompetent, corrupt, power-mad, brutal, anti-democracy, tinpot despots like Zimbabwe's Mugabe are the rule in African states today--and the whole continent is being dragged down into the abyss.
Colonialism, despite the BBC and other secular humanists' tarring of the period as "imperialist" and "exploitive," was a very good thing for Africa, helping a terribly backward continent to climb from the Stone Age to the 7th to the 12th centuries and then into the 19th and 20th. Yes, there was exploitation and misgovernment to an extent--but nothing to the degree that is going on now under native governments dominated by autocratic elites and authoritarian-style "democracy".
Africa is fast sinking backwards and behind the rest of the world, despite the glitter and gloss of the Westernized capital cities where the rich, Western educated people with money congregate and live (when they are not vacationing abroad in France). The pit of barbarism yawns to engulf Africa. It is high time for colonialism to be reinstalled, and the Gospel message spread far and wide as the only real counter to Islam's subjection and ruination and enslavement and impoverishment of Africans. Only then can the peoples of Africa be lifted up out of their misery and poverty and disease and filth, and peace and prosperity and opportunity for all reign.
This is not state welfarism--it is just a sure way that Africans can be given a fair playing field to better themselves, and be taught the basic lessons of life and economy that they have unlearned since independence--how to work productively and produce goods the world wants and do it econonomically and efficiently to be competitive.
African Government leaders, despite impressive Cambridge accents, cannot save a people who are not educated enough to provide for themselves the basics of life. No matter whether they have the vote or not, they cannot expect their corrupt, out-of-touch governments to come up with economic opportunities and a free market economy! It isn't in the interest of these elites to let that happen! Certain predatory multinational firms will always exploit them, too, without protection of their governments, because the government officials will be bribed to issue the permits to do all kinds of shady multinational business there.
This is an unpopular message you will never hear from any other quarter, perhaps, but it is nonetheless true. Colonialism, for all its warts and defects, is still Africa's best hope, as long as Christianity is allowed full liberty along with other faiths. Christianity can compete, and win--if given egual chance with other faiths--for it is vastly superior, being not a religion but a true relationship with the Living God.
I really do not believe there is any hope for the main part of Africa until Christ returns--as government corruption is endemic and there is so much brutality against the common people, who are kept under by poverty, bad government, lack of infrastructure, disease epidemics, and ignorance. With Christ reigning, there will be justice for the African peoples, not just a privileged few educated in Western schools abroad.
The entire city of Seattle qualifies as a collective dunce. Its behavior is some of the worst you could ever expect from a secular humanist-run and mainly secular-humanist populated city that has become the last word in hedonism, paganism, godlessness, crime, violence, thefts, arson, lesbianism, bad taste, sodomy and other perversions, DSHS administered child abuse, and all the rest of a secular humanist agenda for America. It squats with its old 1960s signature Space Needle in hand like a gorilla with its hairy haunches smothering the Pacific Northwest, dominating the rest of the state with its "blue" craziness and outvoting the wishes of 95 percent of the state in every critical election. It even gave us our current "governor," Christian Gregoire, who is a shameless imposter, put in office by the corrupt King County election office, which is so arrogant in its rabid support of corrupt liberal Democrat politicians that it routinely finds bushels of votes for liberal candidates in order to put them ahead of conservative candidates! Christine Gregoire (Democrat) is just the latest of these power-mad rulers put in high office over us by Seattle and King County of which Seattle is its proud armpit (Rush Limbaugh would readily name another, lower body part as befitting this cesspool of a city and county, but that would be too indelicate for this Bible school).
"DUNCES OF THE WORLD CENTER"
BEST MAGAZINES CENTER:
The excellent "Levitt Letter," the newsletter of the Zola Levitt Ministries, has a recent article in the May 2007 issue that every Christian in America should read, entitled, "How do Christians Live With Muslims?", authored by Frank Pastore, www.townhall.com. Another timely article, "Muslims Accept Israel's Messiah," is offered in the February 2007 issue of Levitt Letter, and it details the turning to Jesus by millions of Muslims, country by country. This is information you probably won't see anywhere else, and it will no doubt astound and encourage you. You can try the web address of Mr. Pastore. Otherwise, the excellent Levitt Letter magazine can be ordered or the article by Mr. Pastore can be accessed, perhaps, by going to the Zola Levitt website.
Zola Levitt Ministries
A magazine that will inform you as a Christian!
Get set for a double whammy of a reality check Lamb and Lion Ministries! Dr. Reagan's articles in the September-October issue of his Lamplighter Magazine are about the most powerful you can find on Anti-Semitism and Replacement Theology. As Dr. Reagan shows, anti-Semitism and Replacement Theology are alive and well (like snakes are alive and well) in American evangelicalism today. We do not have to look askance at the world or the liberal churches or even the atheist constitutiency for these two evils. Replacement Theology (which is an incubator for anti-Semitism, by the way, and now anti-Zionism, which is the big, bad, old wolf of anti-Semitism dressed up in a sheep's clothing) is given a death blow by Dr. Reagan's masterful marshalling of the holy scriptures, which are above any man's vain and faulty reasoning powers. Do yourself a big favor, order this issue of the magazine! Take the entire year's subscription too! You will thank us you did--for from 12 years to 99 years, readers write in to Dr. Reagan to thank him for this wonderfully informative, insightful, Biblical magazine. It is just the thing to wake us up to what is going on--in this post-modern, secular-humanist age and world (not to mention the churches) dominated by the anti-christ spirit.
Care to be informed? Here is the magazine that will do what most other magazines (including TIME and other liberal rags) will not do--tell you the truth without the usual liberal spin. We have ordered this magazine after reading one sample sent in th mail.
David Hathaway's Ministry Magazine telling of his healing/evangelistic campaigns in the states of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe--this is a visionary magazine founded on the prophetic Holy Spirit fire to fall on Jerusalem and the churches for revival world-wide, starting in Jerusalem. Look for a reprint of his article, "Do You Love Israel and the Jews?" by David Hathaway to be listed on this page in the links--it is an answer to Replacement Theology and Anti-Semitism--one more nail in its coffin, praise God!
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These valuable messages of Stuart Maxwell Hawkins' will furnish one or more of the six elective subjects as they come on-line with study questions or quizzes.
Stuart Maxwell Hawkins's message, "Forgive Me," is now on-line, and will also carry Study Questions soon.
"Forgive Me," Message by Stuart Maxwell Hawkins
REALITY CHECK CENTER:
Jesus Christ to the Church of Laodicea, which is Christianity in America:
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eye with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke, and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."--Revelation 3:14-19
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Site scriptures: "Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent, a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous all around him.
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