Stranger sharing the Messianic prophecies about Yeshua from the scriptures. The place is the road to Emmaus, in sight of the Mount of Olives, and the two discouraged disciples listen to the stranger's wonderful words of God's truth, their hearts "burning" within them.
THE EMMAUS WALK:
A Messianic School of the Bible
AN OPEN DOOR TO THE BIBLE AND UNDERSTANDING IT
WORLD'S GREATEST BOOK CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IF GIVEN A CHANCE: Beyond question, the greatest book in the world is the Bible, and the greatest Book is about the greatest Person, Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Anointed).
Friend, are you unable to read the Bible, that is, make sense of it? Or do some parts make sense, but others, such as Leviticus or Revelation or Romans seem totally bewildering? Are you desiring to go deeper, or reach a higher ground, spiritually, but your difficulty in comprehending scripture is holding you back? It may well be you need to consider that the Bible is essentially Messianic--that is, it exists to tell you about the Messiah and Savior, and virtually everything in the Bible points to Him. With this understanding, you are on your way to unlocking the scriptures and opening the door to Yeshua--for they are, in truth, a living Person, Jesus (Yeshua), who delights in His Name, the Word (John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
You are most welcome to review the list of the Bible books now. This is vital. In this era, when there is so little knowledge of the Bible, it can no longer be taken for granted that everyone knows what they are.
The Books of the Bible
Contact: Zola Levitt, Box 12268, Dallas, Texas 75225
For a most unusual addition to your own library or as a special gift to someone at Christmas: Zola Levitt Ministries has a scroll available with Messianic Old Testament prophecies set by New Testament scriptures of fulfilment of the same prophecies, and you can get it by ordering one from Zola Levitt Ministries. I have received mine, and it is a beautiful and meaningful thing, with many prophecies and fulfilment scriptures on it. By the way, look for the Zola Levitt program on Daystar Television Network.--Ed.
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.
Vita of Ronald Ginther, Founder of the Emmaus Walk:
Vita
A Certificate of Excellence is now ready for those who complete the required course load of ten articles (10 points total) on the Messianic theme and several lists of questions (5 points total), plus your taking the Easter Egg contest (5 points) for a more thorough knowledge of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Submit to us a list of the articles you have read, what you have studied on your own, what things you have learned, and what you would like to see appear in the future in the Emmaus Walk curriculum (a total of 5 points)--and after we look it all over, you can graduate if it all checks out! We will grade you, according to the quality of your submission, "25 points: Excellent," or "20 points: Superior," or "15 points: Worthy and Acceptable." Any that does not come up to the last category (15 points), will be declined, and you can re-submit at another time. We cannot know you in person, as yet, but we will operate on the Christian honor system, and take your word, dear Emmaus Walker, for the work you have done in studying the Word of God. You can even do bonus or extra credit work: pick a topic, some question you want to explore, and write it up. The best submissions of this kind can be published on-line on these pages! We would love to see what you can do. I will possibly give a list of possible topics or questions to help you out. If a person wants a fraudulent certificate, that is what he or she will get--but God will know if what you claim you did was actually done, and your graduation will not be blessed gotten that way. However, we believe all of you will not be of that mind. Simply print off the certificate designed by Duane L. Smith shortly before his death, send it to us, and we will return it to you signed. Please mail your certificate to: Ronald Ginther, The Emmaus Walk Messianic School of the Bible, P.O. Box 212, Puyallup, WA 98371. We hope to have a copy of Foxe's Book of Martyrs for the first graduate. You can link to a view of the certificate at:
The Emmaus Walk Certificate of Excellence
IS JESUS WALKING BESIDE YOU? HAVE YOU EVER MET GOD?
"Have you ever met God?", a Reply to a Radio Show Host's Question by Ronald Ginther
AMERICA'S RE-EDUCATION CENTER:
"Heroes of America Series--William Penn, an Introduction, with a brief look at John Foxe's life and contribution to America's Founding Fathers.
"Heroes of the America Series--William Penn, with a look at George Penn, Uncle to William Penn
"Heroes of America Series--William Penn, the Conclusion
It is vital to know more about our country's origin and development. We are given so much misinformation by those who wish to put their secular-humanist value system and world-view and agenda for America over on us all. The problem is that we know so little of the true facts that a well-prepared secular humanist can say anything they like, with concocted "evidence," and we lose the contest hands down. This doesn't have to happen. It is time to turn the tables on the secular humanists destroying our country. Have you heard, for instance, that our Founding Fathers were Deists? Or if that isn't said, have you heard that Benjamin Franklin was a Deist, and Thomas Jefferson was a Deist too? The definition for Deism, if you know it, refutes that secular humanist charge for both Founding Fathers. They were not exactly orthodox Christians, but they were the farthest thing from Deists. Imagine a Deist recommending church attendance, as Franklin did, or requesting prayer in the first legislatures in Philadelphia, as Franklin did. And Jefferson? He composed a Bible that could be used for converting the Indians. He removed the miracles from the New Testament and left the theology because he thought the miracles might be confusing to them and what they needed most was theology. Now that is not Deism, in any stretch of the imagination! Yet these two Founding Fathers are still be touted as Deists, or at least skeptics, by secular humanists. And they can't even be called skeptics--as a textbook I have on hand calls Franklin! We can refute these erroneous statements by secular humanists if we know only some of the facts--but we must know some. I have on hand David Barton's article, appearing in Joyce Meyer's magazine, "Enjoying Everyday Life," December 2005, entitled, "The Founding Fathers and Deism." For a reprint of this you can contact Joyce Meyers Ministries or David Barton the source. And for ANYTHING about America's true foundations in Christian faith and beliefs, from the original documents and the lives and acts of Christian Founding Fathers:
David Barton, Wallbuilders
CENTER FOR AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL REBIRTH AND NATIONAL RESTORATION:
CONGRESS DECLARED THE BIBLE THE WORLD OF GOD IN 1983:
Most of us have heard that the first Muslim to be elected to represent Minnesota at the U.S. Congress has announced pubicly that he refuses to swear in on the Bible and has chosen the Koran instead. A Jewish talk show host on the radio, Mr. Graber, criticized this choice, saying that the Bible has always been recognized in the U.S. as THE Book--not just any other religious book. To do violence to this tradition, in his thinking, is to do violence to our sacred American traditions. For this brave and honest stand, he was castigated by the jackasses (there is no other word for them, other than John Hagee's "nitwits") of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, which called him intolerant and a bigot--which is strange, because Mr. Graber is Jewish. Now who is really behaving Jewish--in the best sense? I for one would not hesitate to name Mr. Graber! He is a lone voice in this wilderness of secular humanism in America, crying out, but receiving nothing but the worst hate speech and abuse for saying what is right and true about America and the Bible.
Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Approved October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, proclaims to the nation and the world that "Congress Declares Bible "The Word of God." I have colored this jpg the color yellow, because this could not happen in 2006, and has not happened in 2006. We have become a cowardly nation in all respects, despite certain exceptions such as Mr. Graber and John Hagee and a few others. Our President commends a dictator's "landslide victory" in Venezuela. The same President received the worst abuse ever given any nation's leader by another leader in the United Nations Assembly, heaped on him like a ton of manure by this same tinpot country's dictator, Chavez, without a murmur. He was called a Devil, a Satan, an oppressor, and many other noxious things! For what? Because he dared to fight for freedom and the American way of life and tried to make it available to one of the worst cases in the dictatorship-ridden Middle East! Does this President not know, or has he forgotten, that he represents his nation? He stands in a long line of noble, brave leaders. He ought not to take such things so lightly. As you can read in in I Chronicles 19, King David's envoys, sent in real friendship because of the death of the king who had been friends with David, were abused and ill-treated and humiliated by Hanun the new king of Ammon (which is north of Moab, on the left bank of the Jordan River). Hanun cut off the beards of these dignified men, and also cut their robes off just below the waist (the Bible uses a more descriptive phrase than I want to use) and then sent them walking back to Israel. Can you imagine the shame of that in the culture of that day? These Middle Eastern gentlemen would have preferred death to the shame of the public spectacle Hanun inflicted on them. Crowds of Ammonites must have jeered at them every step of the way out of the country. They were also probably pelted with dung, rotten fruit, and dirt clods. This was an unprovoked outrage. Realizing that he had gotten David mad as a hornet, Hanun hastily spent a lot of his money to hire 32,000 chariots and drivers, and another fighting force as well, and joined them with his own army. All this was not enough to ward off mighty King David who was going to make Hanun pay dearly for his mistake. King David replied with an all-out war that crushed Ammon and the even more dangerous ally of Syria. What is inexplicable is that Hanun dared to provoke this lion, David, after David had previously defeated the mighty Philistines and many other major military powers. The only explanation is that Hanun was so young he was brash and ill-advised--he thought, being young, he was more than equal to the older man. How wrong he was! We see now Iran's leadership dressed in clerical robes boasting that they are no longer in the position to fear anything America can do to them. Iran, they say, can do anything it wants to do. They are even hosting in Tehran an anti-Holocaust symposium--gathering spurious authorities on history who will speak pure nonsense and deny there was a Holocaust, thus removing the one main reason for Israel's existence as a refuge for the Jewish people. I can only think that we have invited this foolish, brash new Hanun, Iran's president, to provoke and outrage us and our ally, Israel, through our defeatest, anti-war in Iraq Congressmen and now the equally defeatist Baker-Hamilton "study group." If I were Iran's president, or Hanun the Second, I would be encouraged to slap and humiliate America, since America is being shown a weak paper tiger, and indecisive and divided at best.
Now Iran's charge against us--and I heard Iran's president say this in an interview with an idiotic American newsman from 60 Minutes--is that America is the oppressor. Yes, that is what this little dictator said! Yet what oppressor acts as America acts? If Iran were devastated by a killer earthquake, what country would be first to send real aid? America! If Venezuela (another enemy of America) were destroyed by a hurricane or earthquake--guess who would be first on the scene with massive aid by the U.S. government and American Christian ministries and organizations? Would it be Saudi Arabia, Russia, France, the Netherlands (which is about the tightest nation in philantrophic giving, though better than Italy!)! How is it any different today in this world of nations that circle us like sharks who scent blood? We are being encircled, and the more blood we let go without any response--the more the sharks are encouraged to attack, since they see we are not going to defend ourselves! The president of Iran has led the pack against us. Now this petty dictator of Venezuela is leading a movement of socialist resurgence through all of Latin America. Communist Cuba's bloody dictator (the darling of America's liberals and secular humanists), Castro, is now being vindicated for his lifelong hatred and resistance against America and its freedoms.
Thank God for the example, however, of Congress in 1982, when it declared the Bible to be the Word of God and vitally connected with America in every meaningful way! When the ACLU continues its rampages against the public mention of the Bible or the use of it in swearing in ceremonies or the "right" of anyone to insist on the use of the Koran or any other "holy" book, we still have Statute 1211. This joint resolution and statute, authorized unaminously by both houses of the Congress, must be wiped from the books and Marx and Engel's Communist Manifesto put in its place if we are to allow the representative from Minnesota to claim a specious right not one of our Founding Fathers would let him claim as a free American proud of his country. They would have run him right out of the country as the montebank and ingrate and intolerant shyster he really is! He should be run out now--deported to a Islamic dictatorship, where he would have to be sworn in on the Koran, in an office that would mean nothing since it would not be won in a free election by free people who can exercise a choice. If he wants to be sworn in on a Koran, let him go to Pakistan, or Indonesia, or Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, or Libya, or Sudan (where they are presently slaughtering tens of thousands of Christians in Dafur). Any U.S. Congressman who slaps the whole nation in the face before taking office in the way he has done, ought to be given a one-way ticket to the Islamic concentration camp of a country of his choice. No one was going to force him to swear in on the Bible--in fact, it is not that commonly done anymore in the U.S. Congress. He deliberately made it an issue, seeking to insult and humiliate this Christian-founded nation as a triumphantist Muslim taking office in the U.S. Congress. Let his issue, which he raised by choice, take him all the way out: to a nation where no one is free, where no one has the right to freedom of conscience in religion, where no one can raise his or her head if she is a Christian, or a Jew, or a Buddhist, or anything else--where if you do, it will be severed from your shoulders, as is currently done in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states where Islamic Sheriah law is the law of the land. It is against the law in Saudi Arabia even to carry a Bible! This is the most outrageous travesty of a nation--yet we support it, year after year, with our alliance and our oil money by the untold billions, money the corrupt, corpulent king and his gang of sex-crazed, over-fed relatives squander on themselves with luxurious limoisines, palaces, gold-inlaid swimming pools, marble dog houses, diamond-encrusted tooth brushes...!
Secular Humanism has brought us to this point, and the outrages will continue, as a free, Christian, Bible-based America (I am speaking about our true foundations) is publicly defied, humiliated, and discredited by its jealous, anti-democracy, socialist, Islamic foes, who have been given center stage in the name of "Tolerance," "Multi-Culturalism," "Diversity," and the other abominations specifically engineered by secular humanists to destroy a free nation founded under God and Christ.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French political and social commentator, touring America in the early 19th century in order to discover the causes of America's greatness, concluded that it was the preaching of righteouness from the pulpits in thousands of America's churches. It is high time to return to the cause of our greatness as a nation--the Bible-pased preaching of righteousness! Our greatness is not Wal-mart, or Wall Street, or Wall Drug--it is the Word of God, and the Righteousness of God, preached in the pulpits of Bible-based churches! Nothing else will preserve this nation or continue its greatness. It will fall, and is currently falling, when that God, the Bible, and righteousness are forgotten. Americans, Christians, and Jews, it is our choice! At the same time we repent and return to God, our national policy must become one that leads all nations to adopt Emperor Constantine's landmark Edict of Milan, which gave religious freedom in the Roman Empire to Christians. This Edict can be used as the base for similar laws, that will overturn the worst features of Sheriah that anathematize and prohibit religious freedom or freedom of conscience for 1.3 billion human beings on earth (and a growing number each year, largely due to their extremely high birth rate). This cannot be tolerated any longer--for it breeds vast turmoil, hatred, wars, attacks on Christians and Jews other people of faith, and even threatens the entire world with a new nuclear arms race and nuclear warfare. This Edict needs to be adopted by the United Nations, or it will continue to be a travesty of an assembly for freedom-loving, independent nations. There is no reason why Sheriah's exclusion of freedom of conscience should be allowed to grow and dominate in a free society, overturning its freedoms in order to eradicate religious liberty and substitute Islamic theology.
Now the Islamic apologists will claim that everyone is free under Sheriah to practice their own religion, even if the state religion is Islam. (This is what the atheistic Soviets and Communists claimed too, citing religious freedom in their constitutions, while millions languished in jails, prisons, and concentration camps for the "crime" of practicing Christianity!) This is not so. We see how people fare in Islamic states today--persecution, murder, beheadings, torture, enslavement, stiff taxation, no freedom to share their faith with their neighbors or even those who come requesting information, death for baptizing any former Muslim, and on an on!--it is intolerable for Christians in most all Islamic states. Coptic Christians are thought to be the original Egyptians (the Arabs and Muslims came much, much later), yet they persecuted and even murdered in their own country by Muslims! This goes on year after year--and they are also made second class citizens, all because they are Christians! I have been there, and I have seen it. Only a tiny fraction of the Christians are well-to-do--and have escaped the worst features of Islamic oppression of Christians. Even this well-to-do fraction have to be careful, as they can be kidnapped, or murdered simply because they follow Christ.
Another thing permitted by Sheriah law is honor killing. Nothing is being said in the Islamic communities about honor killings. Amnesty International and other human rights watch groups also maintain a solid front of silence, a deafening silence about honor killings in Islamic societies. This is so hypocritical of them! How many thousands of Islamic women are being brutally murdered by their brothers, husbands, or other kin, because this is sanctioned by Sheriah law? Girls and women, unmarried or married or even aged women, can be murdered for very slight offenses too--it doesn't require adultery, and even if adultery was committed, that is not a capital offense in Western society. But it is in most Islamic socieities, and possibly occurs even in the more moderate Muslim societies (wherever they may be, none come to mind). And, let's be realistic. Even if Muslim women live in many Western societies, they are not safe or immune from honor killing. They can be killed here, or, if that is not convenient, then they can be flown to an Islamic country and killed there. It is all very convenient--and the Islamic authorities will say nothing of course, and if there is police involved, they will report something that will not be the truth. The honor killing is routinely covered up. We know this is a universal practice in Muslim countries and societies--and it is probably going on in America now--but have not recognized it, because of our ignorance. The longer the Muslims operate here and increase in numbers, there will be more and more honor killings. Someday we will wake up to the fact--but how many women will perish under this cruel Sheriah law system before we put a stop to it, both nationally and internationally. Islam will NOT EVER reform--we have seen this is the case already. It must be reformed--FROM OUTSIDE. From outside, there is the danger of war and bloodshed, though war and bloodshed have come already and will continue, however many concessions the fearful, cowering, secular-humanist-dominated West makes with hostile Islamic societies. The best way for change is, gradually, from within, by the conversion of its members to Christ. Right now, conversion to Christian belief is the only way the reformation of Islam is happening. Once a former Muslim hates the violence and brutality of his religion enough, he tuns to Christ and will never commit such crimes as honor killings. He will never persecute people of other faiths. He will love his enemies--including the Muslims who are now persecuting him and threatening his life because he has become a Christian. How radically different are Islam and Christianity! They are as different as night is from day. And Allah and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are as different as night is from day.
Most American women (and almost all secular-humanist women in Western societies!) have no idea what is the relative position of women in other countries, particularly non-Christian countries and societies. Universally, it is much, much lower! Just what do the major religions say about women? This tells how they will be treated. Moody Press offered this view of the treatment of women back in 1945, but it is just as true today as it was then. See how women are regarded by Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam--all compared to how Christ in His infinite love and grace treats women:
"What Do Religions Offer Women," Compared with Christ
"CONGRESS DECLARES BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD," Public Law 97-280, October 4, 1982, Statute 1211, Approved October 4, 1982 will soon be on-line
"Is America an Evil Empire?", An Answer to America's Liberal Critics, by Ronald Ginther
"Christless Pentecost," Review by Ronald Ginther and Reprint of David Willkerson article in CharisLife "Tough Love", 1984
Part II, "Christianity in America" series, by Ronald Ginther
There may be a Part III, a review of American textbooks which show clearly the anti-American bias, anti-Western Civilization bent in teacher's training today in America, which in turn leads to a shameless indoctrination of students against their own country and civilization in favor of the ways and ideologies of nations that hate America and want to see America destroyed. Is it any wonder that the mass media and Hollywood are so virulently anti-American, and Hollywood stars are always so obnoxious and critical of this country and its effort to bring freedom or defend freedom? They have been taught to see America as the world's problem! As the Bible says, they "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!"
America, I am proud to say, has blessed me beyond all those other countries out there that are supposed to be so much better than this country of my birth. I read an American history textbook, and it has nothing good to say about Western Civilization and America. My grandmother wouldn't accept that! She left Norway in 1903, seeing that it was in steep spiritual decline, and never wanted to go back. America, her new home, was everything she had dreamed of--even if it meant hard work all her life, and going through the Dust Storms and Depression, and the World Wars. People she knew in America still loved God above everything else--that made it all worth it. So I am richly blessed by God to have great spiritual resources in the form of wonderful, godly forebears as well as relatives who are Gospel ministers such as my uncle Joseph Rangen, whom I asked some "burning questions" to which he gave some "candid answers" (and the last question and answer have much to do with America's maybe last chance to repent and not perish):
"Burning Questions and Candid Answers," by Pastor Joseph Rangen (Retired) and Nephew Ronald Ginther
Part I, "America's Urgent Decision: Spiritual Revival or Disaster," by John Kittleson, Lay Evangelist, published September 1988, but right on time for NOW!!
Part II, "America's Urgent Decision: Spiritual Revival or Disaster," by John Kittleson, Lay Evangelist, published September 1988, but right on time for NOW!!
What was the First Great Awakening in America all about? We have one part for you, but we hope to present the entire article soon about these two revivals which transformed America. And what sobering lesson for America is to be drawn from the example of France?
Part I, "The Great Awakenings of America," a View by Ronald Ginther
"Feeding the Dragon," A View of China and U.S. Relations Since 1949, Parts I and II, by Ronald Ginther, with Excerpts from Gordon Lindsay's book, "Red China in Prophecy, 1973, and Conclusion and Summing up by Ronald Ginther
Dreams about the Nuclear Destruction of America, and the Rise of the Anti-Israel, Anti-Jewish Spirit in American society:
"Prophetic Dreams," by Ronald Ginther:
"Prophetic Dreams," Warnings about America's Nuclear Destruction and the Rise of Anti-Jewish Persecution, from 1960s to 1980s, by Ronald Ginther
What sort of government do we have evolving these days in America? Is it truly representative, a "representative form of government" as it is claimed by so many? Or is it a deceptive screen for something grown very sinister and destructive of our cherished liberties? Television, for instance, is really a life-devouring dragon for millions, a most terrible optical drug--an addiction to which is evidenced in the behavior and lives of most Americans. Its educational value is negligible (it has virtually destroyed the education of most American students who sit in school classrooms but their minds are filled with TV images, and who will go home to watch hours of TV before going to bed). There is no comparison between TV and good books and instruction by qualified teachers and individual learning and discovery. Yet it dominates American life, so that an America without it can no longer be imagined. Television, then, is really an addicting drug--not what it seems. It is no mere electronic means of mass, prepackaged "entertainment," "educational TV," "amusement," or "diversion." It is a mind-numbing, behavior modifying, time-consuming, degenerating drug that is just as deadly as meth is on the human body. The highly profitable, cosmetic smokescreen covering the grotesque, cunning, evil dragon, however, is effective--we complain about the effects of television dominance in the culture, the radical decline in U.S. education, and the violence it promotes in the young, but we continue to watch it--feed the dragon. The only real cure for most Americans would be to ban it completely from their lives--that is, exercise total abstinence. They are TV-holics! That, of course, is "unthinkable." The following article will explain what has happened to the grand American experiment in freedom and representative government as defined by the Constitution and other founding documents.
"America Is A Non-Representative Oligarchy," A View of American Society and Government," by Ronald Ginther
"What Is So Special About Mohammed?", With a Comparison to Jesus Christ, a View by Ronald Ginther
WHAT FAITH CONQUERED THE MIGHTY ROMAN EMPIRE? IS THERE A LESSON HERE FOR MOSLEMS IN ISLAM? It was Christianity, of course, that conquered ancient Rome. The Roman Empire had many popular, flourishing religions and cults--Mithras, Isis, the Roman Pantheon of Jupiter down to Mercury, and many others, including the deified Emperors themselves--yet the Christian faith took over the Roman empire, which was a world state. How? By force? With the sword? Not at all, it was by peace, by the preaching of the Bible and the Gospel, by the conviction of sin, by the move of the Holy Spirit upon the sin-darkened, unregenerate hearts of men and women, that enabled them to turn from darkness to light and become true, born-again children of God. Islam knows nothing of these means (there is no being born again by the Spirit of God, no miracles of healing, no Holy Spirit, no regeneration of man's dead spirit into the Spirit of Christ)--being a religion of legalism and religious rituals and works righteousness propagated by force, oil money, and sheer numbers of an exploding population growth rate. Force, oil money, and population growth work--Islam is conquering the world. But they too, like Rome, like the Soviet Union, will stumble and fall over Christianity and be destroyed. Secular Humanism will also fall--for its world-view is untenable, despite its army of supporters based in the major centers of the national scene.
Secular Humanist apologists for Islam in the West deny the need for any real resistance by the West against Islam. Are they correct or just politically correct? Please read how a nation, even such as America, can be divided and conquered by the "enemy within" and a "peace-loving sheep" that is really a ravening wolf.
"Divided America," A View of the Tactics and Techniques of Islam to Defeat the West, by Ronald Ginther
MISSIONS CENTER:
From the library of Pearl A. Ginther, a friend of Evangelists to Japan, Eddie Karnes and his wife, for many years.
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods were Silent," Chapter 1, "I Wore My Gods"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 2, "Life From A Coffin"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 3, "The Tortured Missionary
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 4, "God's Voice Is Swedish!"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 5, "Healed Without Money"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 6, "The Crazy Woman,"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 7, "A Pastor Obeys God"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 8, "Every Newspaper a Gospel Tract"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 9, "God is No Beggar"
Paul Ariga's Testimony, "The Gods Were Silent," Chapter 10, Conclusion, "I Need Your Help"
Japan, along with America, has led the world in state-of-the-art, hitech electronics--she can lead spiritually too if the Gospel sweeps the nation, prayed for by such sacrificial Christian missionaries as you will read about in Paul Ariga's book.
Please check out the "Back to Jerusalem" faith mission that led Brother Yun, the persecuted Chinese Christian, to faith in Christ.
BACK TO JERUSALEM.COM MINISTRY, FEATURING BROTHER YUN AND BOOK, THE HEAVENLY MAN
Chapters of "God's Man," the Epic Account of early Alaskan Missions by Mrs. C. K. Malmin are now on-line!
Chapters of "God's Man," the Epic Account of early Alaskan Missions by Mrs. C. K. Malmin are now on-line!
"God's Man," Alaska Missions, Chapter 1, by Mrs. C. K. Malmin
"God's Man," Alaska Missions, Chapter 2, by Mrs. C. K. Malmin>
"God's Man," Alaska Missions, Chapter 3, by Mrs. C. K. Malmin
"God's Man," Alaska Missions, Conclusion/ Chapter 4, by Mrs. C. K. Malmin
"Lilias Trotter Book Review," A Missionary Impossible, by Ronald Ginther
LILIAS TROTTER DID NOT MOVE WITH THE FLOW OR THE TIDE OF HER TIMES--SHE STEPPED OUT OF IT, DID THE THING MOST PEOPLE DREADED--SAID GOODBYE TO ALL HER PRIVILEGES AND PERKS AS A RICH BRITON. AS A RICH, BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG ENGLISHWOMAN TURNED MISSIONARY TO MUSLIM ALGERIA, CONTRASTED WITH JOAN BAEZ, AMERICA'S FOREMOST FEMALE FOLK SINGER, HEDONIST, FEMINIST, AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST OF THE 1960'S AND 1970'S: Missionary to Algeria, London society born-and-bred Lilias Trotter was a missionary for the Lord Jesus and the Gospel, and there is another gospel, the gospel of peace and nonviolence and Zen meditation and interfaith-ecumenism and hedonism (called "self-fulfilment") and whatever else people like Joan Baez champion just as fervently as Lilias Trotter the former London socialite championed Christ. What led to a Joan Baez? And what led to a Lilias Trotter? That is the question whose answer we are seeking in the following article.
"Joan Baez, a Silhouette," Review of her 1987 autobiography, by Ronald Ginther
THE EMMAUS WALK COURSE ARTICLES, WITH BIBLE RESOURCES:
A Standard Messianic Texts List (amended and revised somewhat) from the Jewish New Testament
The Names of Yeshua (Jesus) in the Bible
"Introduction to Biblical Science," by Duane L. Smith
"The Work and Person of the Holy Spirit: Essay I, "An Opinion About the Holy Spirit Gifts as Seen Today," by Duane L. Smith
Mrs. Pearl Ginther's Tribute to Christian Education
Crosswalk Bible Website
Part I, "Love: God's Priceless Gift," by Duane L. Smith
Part II, "Love: God's Priceless Free Gift," A Study with Questions, by Duane L. Smith
Supplemental Study Questions on Love article, by Duane L. Smith
Part I, "Genesis's The Seed of Woman, God's Redeemer to Come," by Ronald D. Ginther
"Exodus: Types of Christ," by Ronald Ginther
Duane L. Smith's "Prophetic Dream," a dream-vision of the Lord Jesus
Bible Study Tools Online, with Goshen Online Study Bible--Verse Lookup
The Blue Letter Bible
The American Bible Society library Bibles and other resources
"Leviticus: Atonement4us," by Ronald Ginther
Another fine article by Duane L. Smith:
"The Hope of the Christian, and Worldly Despair," by D. L. Smith
"What is Truth?"--Part I, by Duane L. Smith (A Philosophical Approach to Apologetics)
Part II, "What is Truth?", from Foundational Principles for Living, by Duane L. Smith
"Ruth the Vine," A Poetic Tribute to Christ's Moabite, Christlike Ancestress, by Ronald Ginther
Here is a study on the book of Esther with the setting of ancient Persia (Persia is now called Iran, the name given to it by the British overlords after World War I). It is especially meaningful and timely, now that another Haman the Jew-hater in the person of the president of Iran has risen up in the same land, Iran (once called Persia), and is threatening the Jews of Israel with nuclear annihilation:
"Esther: the Book of Godly Intrigue," by Ronald Ginther
For a brand-new film based on the Book of Esther that will entertain and challenge everyone, without wondering and worrying about a low rating (it is PG)--go to the place to get the names of theaters nearest you, and type in your zip code for your area's listing (you are also asked to call local theaters and ask if they will be showing the film called "A Night With the King":
Center for Local Theater Listings
WALK IN THE LIGHT, A Supernatural Escape from the Communist Hell of Romania, An illustrated True Account of a Romanian Bible Smuggler-Evangelist's Classic Deliverance from Tyranny and Imminent Death, by Ronald Ginther
"Deuteronomy: Israel's Chance to Obey Christ Completely," by Ronald Ginther
Here is a great resource for everyone, to find out what has gone wrong with America, and how the great wrong we have perpetrated can be made right in the eyes of God--before it is too late! Founder of one of America's greatest churches, Cornerstone church of San Antonio, Pastor Hagee is brave because he dares to stand on the Word of God and say a sin is a sin and demand the sinner take responsibility in order to find grace and forgiveness in God--the only One who can deal with our sin. All the forces of hell in America are arrayed against him--including at times the IRS, which is the attack dog of the secular-humanist-dominated U.S. Federal Government. They tried to shut Pastor Hagee up, and even dictate to him what he could and could not put in his own newletter that he sends through the mail--but they have failed, because God is on this man of God's side, and God is still Almighty, and the U.S. Government is still not Almighty as so many of its leaders like to think it is. Our government will be humbled before God--as James Robison says--along with American society, sea to shining sea--either in chosen humility or in terrible humiliation and shame amidst the embers and ruins of desolation.
John Hagee Ministries
"Joshua: A Many-Faceted Type of Christ," by Ronald Ginther
Questions for "Joshua: A Many-Faceted Type of Christ"
An Additional Autobiographical Account by Ronald Ginther
"Judges: Othniel, A Little Christ," First of Thirteen Delivering Christ-Types from Ehud to Samson, by Ronald Ginther
"A Glimpse of Heaven and a Taste of Hell," by Instructor Duane L. Smith, with illustrations by Butterfly Productions
"God's Fatherhood, Forgiveness, and the Walk of Faith," A Trilogy in Prophecy, Poem, and Song, Part I, by Duane L. Smith
"Bible Names for God's Son"
Study Questions for Bible Names of God's Son, by Ronald Ginther
"God's Fatherhood, Forgiveness, and the Walk of Faith," A Trilogy, Part II, by Duane L. Smith, is temporarily not on-line.
"Come Let Us Reason Together," "An Account of Messianic Witnessing," by Duane L. Smith
Here is the last article written by Duane L. Smith:
"Einstein, Quantum Mechanics, and the Reconciliation with Theology," Parts I-III, by Duane L. Smith
"Foundational Principles for Abundant Living, Meditations on God's Grace, Section A," by Duane L. Smith
Test Questions for Foundational Principles, by Duane L. Smith
PRAYER CENTER: PRAYER IS ESSENTIAL TO A CHRISTIAN'S FAITH AND LIFE AND FRUITFULNESS. Prayer is the keystone of a successful, fruitful Christian faith, it must be said. Without prayer, faith in the Lord will remain sterile and eventually fail. Witkhout prayer, our nation founded under God will even cease to exist.
"Praying for You," Ronald Ginther's grandmother in a characteristic praying moment at the kitchen table, a watercolor by a renowned portrait artist, Bart Lindstrom:
A FREE CHILDREN'S PRAYER MAP! An excellent resource for praying effectively and focused for the world: a free World Prayer Map! Parents, there is also a Children's World Prayer Map! This is your big opportunity to get your kids active spiritually in a way that will bring big spiritual dividends--how can God not hear a child's prayer? Write to: Every Home for Christ, P.O. Box 64000, Colorado Springs, CO 80962, or Tel: 1-800-423-5054.
Testimonies to a Few of God's Recent Answers to Prayer: 1. the much lower prices at the pump.
2. Saddam Hussain captured alive so he could be brought to justice (and also prayed for, that he might be saved by turning to Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord!).
3. The release of 70 of the captives in Baghdad from the government office building (keep praying for the safe return of the other thirty or more captives).
4. The continued failure of terrorist plots on American soil after 9/11.
5. The recent arrests in London foiling a terrorist plot to bring down about a dozen American commercial jets flying from Heathrow, London, exploding them over American cities (not over the Atlantic Ocean in mid-flight as was originally reported!).
6. The increased world attention being given by human rights activists, following up the whistleblowing on it by brave Christian evangelists such as Pastor Rod Parsley and Franklin Graham, so that the UN and world community is embarrassed and forced to deal with the genocide and liquidation of black Christians by Sudan's Muslim government, which denies any complicity, of course, but has for the last decade or more sponsored and given helicopters, bombs, planes and weapons to Muslim militias raiding Dafur, south Sudan. By the way, this is the same regime under whose umbrella Osama bin Laden formerly operated a safe haven for his terrorist training camps. He must have been too hot for even them to handle, and they offered him to President Clinton, who had "better things to do" and let him get away (this is just the straight public record).
7. All the thousands, or millions, of answers by a faithful God, which we are not aware of (sometimes it is merciful we don't know just what all is going on against us!).
Recommended The Emmaus Walk Book List:
"A Man Called Peter," The Story of Peter Marshall, by Catherine Marshall. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.
"We Have a Choice, Humility or Humiliation," perhaps a last and most significant call to America to repent or be destroyed by our enemies (Islamic terrorist organizations and supporting Islamic nations, with friends in the West aiding them, such as the secular-humanists entrenched in the U.S. Congress). This call is Robison's prophetic warning, available in his 16-page booklet printed and distributed by LIFE Outreach International, Fort Worth, TX, 2006.
"Culture Warrior," by Bill O'Reilly (go to www.amazon.com, or any bookstore), which details the unconditional, all-out war being waged against America's Judaeo-Christian foundations by secular progressives (also called secular humanists, or better: "secular retrogressives").
Why I believe Bill O'Reilly and others like him may be "Shamgars" or deliverers that God raises up to defend Israel when Israel has none of her own with the backbone to do the job:
"Who Are the Shamgars of Today?" by Ronald Ginther
Pointing to God and Heaven, "The Hand and Finger" of David's Tower, Old City, Jerusalem
Brigitte Gabriel, a Christian from Lebanon, may be an exception to my statement that I see no one with the backbone to stand up for a Christian American and a Christian civilization. Brigitte Gabriel may well be the Latter Day "Shamgar" from out of the mainstream of American evangelicalism, when she valiantly tells of the persecution of Christians in Lebanon by Muslim terrorists of Yassir Arafat's organization who took over her formerly peaceful, progressive, multi-cultural, religiously tolerant nation (the only one like it in the Middle East--a model for all the oppressive Muslim societies around it!). They turned it into a hell, and her family had to flee for their lives. Her book, "Because They Hate," depicts the reason why Muslims hate Jews and Christians so passionately, and shows how that hatred is grounded in the later Muslim scriptures (surahs) of the Koran that supercede the earlier tolerant scriptures written by Mohammed when he was in Medina eagerly seeking the favor of Jews and Christians to help him gain the upper hand against his enemies in Mecca. Truth and prayer, with the love of Jesus, is the only way to defeat this darkness from hell itself that calls itself Islam.
This book speaks to the greatest need of America--which is to wake up and seek God in repentance and then carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Muslims in love and humility--and can be obtained by calling 1-800-854-9899, or contact her via Pastor John Hagee's website.
Brigitte Gabriel's book, "Because They Hate," at John Hagee Ministries
MEDIA ALERT CENTER NEWSFLASH: OUR SECULAR HUMANIST MEDIA BLACKENS THE CHRISTIANS OF LEBANON, LINKING THE CHRISTIAN PARTY THERE TO THE NAZIS!
RECOMMENDED BOOK READING LIST CONTINUED
"Smith Wigglesworth," Apostle of Faith, biography by Stanley Howard Frodsham, Radiant Books, Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, Missouri
"George Muller, Man of Faith and Miracles," biography hy Basil Miller, Bethany Fellowship, Dimension Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Tortured for Christ," autobiography of Richard Wurmbrand, Diane Books, Glendale, California
"Hope for Man in a Hopeless World," by Basilea Schlink, Bethany Fellowship, Dimension Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Glory in the Church, the Coming Revival," by Edward E. Hindson, Thomas Nelson Publishers, New York/Nashville
"Czechmate," autobiographical account of imprisonment of author in a communist country for Bible smuggling
"The Everyday Guide to "God," A to Z Listing of God's Attributes, with Scriptures, by Amy Ng Wong, Humble Creek Publisher, Uhricksville, Ohio
"The Complete Book of Bible Lists," by H.L. Willmingon, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois
"God Sent a Man," the story of Joseph, by Carylye B. Haynes, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D.C.
"Israel Act III," The Bible and the Mideast in prophecy, by Richard Wolff, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Illinois
"Eric Liddell, Pure Gold," biography of the Chariots of Fire Olympic runner turned missionary to China, by David McCasland, Discovery House Publishers, Grand Rapids, Michigan
"Messianic Christology," by Arnold J. Fruchtenbaum, Ph.D., Th.M., Ariel Ministries, Tustin, California
"C.S. Lewis," Heroes of the Faith series biography, by Sam Wellman, Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio
Here is the way one single woman, with incredible handicaps of continual frail health and gender, invaded the Muslim-walled fortress-land of Algeria and took much of it back for Christ with missions that served as strategic staging posts to reach out to the whole nation with the saving, delivering, demon-power-destroying, liberating Gospel. She accomplished this with prayer, perserverance, and the faithfulness of God's Promises in His unconquerable Word! Here is the story of her epic achievement in Algeria--a land you would have thought could not have been penetrated with the Gospel since it was taken by Muslim armies way back in the 7th century.
"A Passion for the Impossible," The Life of Lilias Trotter, by Miriam Huffman Rockness, Discovery House Publishers, Grand Rapids, Michigan
"Jerusalem Countdown," A Warning to the world, containing a prophetic view of Iran's role in coming world events affecting or centered on Israel, with parallels between Joseph and Jesus tieing in with these events and others of the End-Times, by John Hagee, Frontline (A Strang Company), Lake Mary, Florida
C. T. Studd, any biography will do.
Alexis de Tocqueville. His travels in America.
TESTIMONIES:
Dr. Mark Gabriel's testimony, about how he left Islam as a university professor, and was arrested by Cairo secret police and almost killed for his decision; then he gave his life to Christ, and the persecution really began! Mark Gabriel's Testimony
Mark Gabriel's Testimony
For viewing Brother Mark Gabriel's website (formerly a Muslim imam and instructor at Cairo's top university who was tortured and imprisoned for leaving Islam, but later came to a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus):
Mark Gabriel's website
Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, Texas, interviewed Walter Shoebat, who was a terrorist and is now a Christian. You can access his wonderful testimony, "I Was a Terrorist," and the entire fascinating interview by using the John Hagee website. The video on militant Islam called "Obsession" is also available in a package with the interview. If you use the toll free number listed, use the item number: KT-127.
For Walter Shoebat-John Hagee Television interview, "I Was a Terrorist," Kt-137, with "Obsession"--video on Islamic terrorism
To Abraham (not to any other man on earth) God said: "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing."--Genesis 12:2. This blessing holds for descendants of both his sons Isaac and Ishmael, as they both hearken and bow to the God of Abraham and accept what is said about his greatest descendant, Jesus Christ, born not of human seed but of the Spirit of God:
A Rose of CHRIST YESHUA'S Love for the Beloved Moslem People
Perry Stone Ministries
tariq@fardigroup.com
EXCITING NEW STORY FROM MUSLIM TURKEY! "An Exciting Story from Turkey," by Gloria Patterson, The Mooring Lines Magazine, Port of Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington State
"An Exciting Story from Turkey," by Gloria Patterson, The Mooring Lines Magazine, Port of Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington State
Feeling rejected, cast-off, unwanted, worthless to everyone, including yourself? Here is a way out, which Christ gave a rejected wife and mother over in Israel:
"Wedding in the Dead Sea of Rejection," by Ronald Ginther
A quiz about the Resurrection:
EASTER EGG HUNT QUIZ
EBEN'S PROPHETIC WARNINGS TO WESTERN SECULAR HUMANIST NATIONS, HOW EXACTLY THEY HAVE SWALLOWED A FOREIGN CREATURE SEEMINGLY SMALL AND HARMLESS THAT IN TIME WILL DEVOUR THEM COMPLETELY FROM WITHIN:
France, the birthplace of socialism and the so-called Enlightenment that threw God and the Ten Commandments out of human government and society, placing man in the center, as a worshiper of the Goddess of Reason:
"The Burden of France," by Eben
Holland, a formerly devoutly Christian, now a secular-humanist nation that worships the false deity of Tolerance above the true God:
"The Burden of the Netherlands (Holland)," by Eben
Please use the Life Today website to order and read James Robison's "We Have a Choice, Humility or Humiliation," his 16-page booklet giving a prophetic warning and call to fellow Americans to turn back to God before destruction falls on us from a nuclear strike, from inside and possibly outside our borders as well!
"The Burden of America," by Eben
Canada, a formerly Christian now a devout secular-humanist society and nation:
"The Burden of Canada," by Eben
Once mighty, "Great Britain," formerly the birthplace of the Wesley and Welsh revivals that shook England and revitalized her (sparing oppressed Britain a French-style revolution and bloodbath), now a secular-humanist society where Christmas is a politically incorrect term to use at the time of the traditional celebration of Christ's birth ("Winter Festival," or the pagan "Winter Solstice," ineptly and dishonestly substituted). This is the "thanks" Britons gave God for sparing them from being conquered and crushed by Nazi Germany, and we know that Hitler fully intended to invade Britain and liquidate all its leading citizens, while reducing millions to slavery and concentration camps. His "liquidation lists" have been made public. Yet the churches emptied after the victory at the end of the war--and the people turned their backs on God their deliverer. Yet He has not forgotten Britain despite this, and still calls to her to return to him. She turned against Israel, and incurred a curse, but all this can be turned around. Prosperity can be swept away in a moment today, as most of the money that exists is electronic, not actual cash or gold or jewels or property. Whatever Britons trust in now can be gone, in a twinkling of an eye as the whole commercial and banking sector loses all its assets in an economic melt-down. This does not have to happen, for a revival to take place once again, perhaps for the last time, in Britain. Let us pray for Britain, that her people be spared this severe a mercy.
The above painting hangs in St. Paul's cathedral, where I toured and took this picture in the dim light of the edifice. It portrays the spiritual state of Britain today, a nation that closed its heart to Jesus Christ. Yet Christ is still knocking on the door of its heart.
"The Burden of Britain," by Eben
Though this traditional refuge for many persecuted people (also revolutionaries and criminals, we might add) has gained credit for accepting everybody, friend or foe, its record in keeping huge amounts of stolen German Jewish assets without feeling at all obliged to reimburse the survivors of the Holocaust cannot be admired. Recently, it has become a haven for terrorists, and the terrorists are wealthy, if you don't know. Authorities are looking for the six billion or so that Yassir Arafat hid somewhere, quite possibly in Swiss banks, where so much money stolen by dictators and mafiaso crime bosses goes. His widow is presently living a life of luxury in Paris, and perhaps she knows but is not telling, lest she be reduced to poverty. All this money was given by America and the West to aid the impoverished Palestinian people, to help build their society's infrastructure and start schools and hospitals and businesses, but Yassir Arafat diverted practically all of the aid into his own secret accounts. The Bible prophecies that someday the treasures of wickedness will be brought into the open, and the money that the wicked world has hidden in secret hoards like the greedy dwarves of German legend will be turned over to Christians! The righteous will inherit what the wicked have heaped up for themselves! I do believe this is coming about, as news of these fortunes stolen from the rightful owners such as the Jews is hitting the newspapers. These fortunes, and with accrued interest, if justice be served on this sick, old planet, must be turned over to them, a number of whom have since the Holocaust become Christians, as you can learn by ordering the "Survivors' Stories" video from Jews for Jesus.
"The Burden of Helvetia (Switzerland)," by Eben
"Two Prophecies," by Duane L. Smith
INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT CENTER:
A FAMOUS NAME FOR DECADES ON BROADWAY AND IN THE MOVIES, SHE GAVE IT ALL TO THE SERVICE TO JESUS HER NEWFOUND SAVIOR!--ETHEL WATERS
"Ethel Waters' "To Me It's Wonderful," Harper and Row Publishers, 1972, Book Review by Ronald Ginther
Mrs. Pearl Ginther's Scripture Garden
"Angel Stories," by Pearl A. Ginther
"My Two Angel Stories," by Ronald Ginther
"My Two Angel Stories"
"The Voice of the Lord and the Heart of a Prophet," A Dream of the Lord Jesus, Parts 1 & 2, by Duane L. Smith
"We Tried to Prove It Wrong," article in the book, "Can I Really Trust the Bible?"
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST CENTER: The most contested real estate on earth is Canaan, or Israel! Here are two articles dealing specifically with the land God promised only to Israel:
ARTICLE ABOUT JERUSALEM, REPUBLISHED: "Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem," the CharisLife article, is now on-line:
"Speak Tenderly to Jerusalem," CharisLife Article by Gerald Rowlands, 1986, "Tough Love" Magazine
WHAT IS PALESTINE? IS IT ISRAEL? IS IT ARAB, OR IS IT JEWISH?
THE WHAT AND WHEREFORE ON THE ISLAMIC DICTATORSHIP OF IRAN AND ITS CONTROVERSIAL, NUCLEAR-ARMING EXPONENT AND LEADER: "Ram and Bear: the Land of Persia, Ancient and Modern," by Ronald Ginther:
"Ram and Bear: the Land of Persia, Ancient and Modern," by Ronald Ginther
GOD GAVE ISRAEL (YES, ISRAEL!) THE TERRITORIES COMPRISED BY SOUTHERN LEBANON AND ALSO WESTERN SYRIA! Please go and see what the Bible says, which resulted in Israel being given these lands now exploited for terroristic purposes by the Iran-backed terrorist organization of Hezbollah. Use the article to view the maps: "The Area Attacked in Israel by Hezbollah, and the Lands Occupied in Lebanon God gave to Israel," by Ronald Ginther
Maps of Hezbollah-Attacked Israel, and the Northern Lands now known as Southern Lebanon that Almighty God Gave to His People Israel, by Ronald Ginther
Flowers of Christ's Love for the Enslaved People of Iran
"What is Palestine?"--A Commentary on the David Hathaway Article, "Palestine?", by Ronald Ginther
RECENT SYMPOSIUM OF BBC'S SHOWS THE IRRECONCILIABLE DIFFERENCES OF ISRAELIS AND SO-CALLED PALESTINIANS:
"BBC's Symposium of Left Bank Arab and Israeli Youth," a Review by Ronald Ginther
CARTOON CENTER: Our Emmaus Walk cartoon about the sinning, sybaritic playboy, or "rake", the typical American boy without Christ in his life:
"Skanky Boy--The Progress of a Post-Modern Rake," Part I
"Judges: Samson, Backslidden Nazarite and Judge of Israel," Or, "Hope for the Washed-up Christian," by Ronald Ginther
Asia Minor Atlas
"The Ballad of Paul and Silas," by Ronald Ginther
CREATION/INTELLIGENT DESIGN CENTER:
Dr. Carl Baugh, Creation Evidence
For a magnificent series refuting Evolution as taught today all over the nation in most all the schools (not to mention promoted in films, documentaries, National Geographic specials, ad nauseum):
"Life's Story" Series, Exploration Films, to order a copy or copies
This visually stunning series can be shown in private home gatherings, for homeschools, in churches, in student groups meeting legally at school during allotted times--and will refute Evolution, point by point, the true facts presented by scientists and educators. This the the truth that Evolutionist do not have America to see, because their shabby, unscientific case for Evolution is utterly destroyed.
FALSE CULTS AND HERESIES and COUNTERFEITS CENTER:
Is the so-called Prosperity Gospel a heresy? Is it really based on scripture, as is claimed by those who preach it? What possible harmful effects could it have on Christian faith? Why is it so popular, and draw so many people to churches where it is regularly preached? Is it an American phenomenon--reflective of America's crazed, ultra-materialistic culture(consider Tom Cruise's vulgar, 2.5 million dollar "wedding" extravagaza-circus in an Italian castle as just one example of our lunatic extravagance and self-deification as American super-materialists)--or is it more universal? These are some questions we will try to ask and answer (or at least shed some light upon) in a proposed article.
There is a counterfeit in Satan's kingdom for everything, or almost everything, God has created for blessing His children in His kingdom. Marriage is no exception. Now Satan has substituted, in order to pervert and destroy God's creation of holy matrimony, his unholy marriage of man with man, or woman with woman--homosexual liaisons and lesbian liaisons masquerading as monogamous unions. In the mainline churches, and you can read which ones as reported in the news, same-sex marriages (a euphemism for homosexual or lesbian liaisons) are being sanctioned by deluded New Age religionists who accept everything religious, regardless of what the Word of God says about such sexual sins. God, however, created holy matrimony as the first institution to bless mankind and every couple joined together lawfully in His eyes. What a beautiful creation! It is so life-enhancing, so fruitful, so lasting, so happy--only God could create so wonderful a thing. Please link to an excerpt from the official programme of the splendid, even majestic wedding ceremony of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 29 July 1981. It speaks of the pure essence of holy matrimony, as drawn from the peerless, immortal Word of God. It is truly an awesome union, the joining in marriage of one man with one woman, sealed by the holy Spirit of God, and witnessed by the assembly of saints and the leaders of the Church and the world, and must never be lightly be entered into. Just because the two who took vows lightly in this particular marriage of Charles and Diana's, it does not mean that the institution is flawed in its conception. God only does things perfectly. We know they both failed in their vows--but that was of their choosing, and it cost them both dearly in happiness. If only their vows had been honored, it is likely their lives would have gone very differently--and much better. It is a very tragic story how Princess Diana ended up killed in an automobile accident in a Paris tunnel, but the sadder thing was the failure of the marriage, long before it was made public. The object lesson of this is inescapable: God's ways are best. If we do not follow them, we will suffer grave loss. As with individuals, so with nations and societies! A marriage is a divinely-instituted covenant, and America too was founded in a most beautiful, divinely-instituted covenant, as is clear from reading the Pilgrim and Puritan covenants. To turn from any covenant from God to do what we selfishly want is to invite unhappiness, sorrow, and even death and destruction. Fortunately, there is still opportunity for America to turn back to God and His covenant with us! We do not have to end up as the lovely Princess Diana did. Prince Charles, though a survivor, has to live with his own regrets and remorse, no doubt.
A royal wedding infinitely more splendid and majestic than Charles and Diana's is coming, when Christ is wed to His Bride. His bride will be ready, and she will be without spot or wrinkle. Are we preparing ourselves as the Bride of Christ? It is time to purify ourselves and get ready for the grand royal wedding with the King!
On a trip to England, my hosts took me to St. Paul's Cathedral, and we saw the silver chandeliers had been taken down, for cleaning, in preparation for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. The cathedral itself had to be cleaned and purified for the wedding and the honorable guests and the Bride and Groom and the Groom's royal mother the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury and The Dean of the Cathedral. This was probably the wedding of the century, watched world-wide by television by hundreds of millions. How much more, we, the Church and Body of Christ, must be made ready for the wedding, cleaned and purified for our much more glorious Bridegroom, Jesus Christ!
Excerpt of "Solemnization of Matrimony," from wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
There are two false, alluring doors that lead to death but promise life and lots of money and pleasure. A third, not so inviting to the eye perhaps--because it is Cross-marked, and spotted with blood--is the door that truly leads to Life, and Life eternal:
"Doors of Life," by Bryan Schroeder
America's disastrous descent into darkness, through psychics and voo doo and the Satanic religion of Wicca:
Part I, "Witchcraft in America--How bad is it?", Part I, by Ronald Ginther
Part II, "The Poverty/Witchcraft Connection," by Ronald Ginther
GOSPEL BROADSIDE CENTER, WITH CONTACT INFORMATION:
"From Pearl Harbor to Calvary," by Japanese air commander at Pearl Harbor, Mitsuo Fuchida, with Jacob DeShazer (American POW in WWII)
"What Christmas Means to Me!" by Trygg Heintz, formerly university roommate of Ronald Ginther's. Trygg was a young Christian with a big smile that lit his whole face and who had newly given his life to the Lord Jesus after visiting a Christian group on campus of Eastern Washington University, and it made a profound, life-changing difference in him, as his Christmas letter to my mother and my family reveals. He was an effective soul-winner, speaking to young men like himself who were still wandering aimlessly through life, and then leading them to Christ after sharing with them his story how Jesus had given his life meaning and love after years of searching and feeling empty and meaningless.
"What Christmas Means to Me!" by Trygg Heintz, Eastern Washington University student
Soon to be on-line, "My Personal Discovery," by Ronald Ginther:
Princess Diana's death contains a message for the world:
To order "In Loving Memory" of Princess Diana
Or call: 1-800-54-TRACT, Tract # 20453. Or write: American Tract Society, P.O. Box 462008, Garland, TX 75046
THE EMMAUS WALK MUSIC CENTER:
"The Long, Lonely Road," A Song's Lyrics by the late Duane L. Smith
"Hell-Bound," by Duane L. Smith
A Song dedicated to the late Duane L. Smith:
"I'm About to Fly to Heaven," A Yellowstone Park Campfire Song, with Demonstrations, by Ronald Ginther
"God has a Plan for My Life," composer unknown, a Song of Encouragement Amidst Bleak Circumstances
CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM:
GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEACE-BRINGING, LOVING "TERRORISTS OF THE GOSPEL" TO SEND OUT INTO THE WORLD!
Link for Christian activists (LOVE AND PEACE "terrorists" FOR CHRIST), via David Wildmon's American Family Association On-line:
American Family Association On-Line
Link to obtain Vital Information about Current Issues Confronting the Family, Traditional Moral Values, and our Fast-Eroding Religious Liberty in America, as well as take advantage of the opportunity to order DVDs of the extremely well-done "Critical Mass" and the Boston colonial church's "Liberty Sunday" service and broadcast transcript, with Tony Perkins, Head of Family Resarch Council officiating. Also check out AFA's Pass Along Sheet telling about how Wal-Mart rolls out the red carpet for homosexual marriage:
Liberty Counsel, an advocate for Christmas, took on Wal-Mart, and it has "seen the writing on the wall" and restored "Christmas" to its stores, and now employees can wish customers "Merry Christmas," instead of the generic, idiotic, meaningless, insipid "Happy Holidays."
You too, as a customer, U.S. citizen, and Christian, can make a difference. Simply sign on (without having to make a donation) to a petition to help save Christmas at our nation's retail stores, where it is being driven into extinction by the ACLU and its supporters through strong-arm tactics and intimidation. Click on "Naughty and Nice Retail Stores" on the left of the web page and you can read the list of those who delete Christmas and those who support Christmas. It is illuminating, to say the least. After reading the names of stores that have trashed Christmas, I am hardly inclined any more to shop there.
At this site, which is Liberty Counsel, you can also send an email with your complaint about any store or business (where you may be an employee) that is discriminating against this legal holiday of Christmas. I sent one right away about our local Fred Meyers store, for Freddies ignored my respectful letter sent last year reminding them that Christmas is still a legal U.S. holiday and I really did not like their anti-Christmas change in the store banners and salespeople's greetings. My brother who works at SEATAC International Airport has also a complaint he needs to send in. All of this major U.S. airport's Christmas trees were removed at midnight. Imagine that! No Christmas trees at Christmas! The news of this has gone national, and you can read about it without it being reported here. This last event just proves that none of us can avoid the secular humanist's culture war against Christianity--the all-out battle against cherished Christian values and traditions and beliefs, that is being waged coast to coast in America by the secular humanists who claim to be so tolerant and compassionate but are the very opposite.
We must stand, dear fellow Americans and Christians!
Stand up now--not when it is too late and you and I wake up in a secular-humanist, politically correct paradise that is really a hell worse than anything you could imagine.
Stand, be counted, and the darkness of secular humanism can be stopped in its tracks. Do nothing, and everything vile will triumph. Yes, it may seem like a small thing now to you, this saving Christmas in the stores, but it is actually very important.
Someday I want to take a tour of the great Dutch dykes, and see the more traditional type (if it still exists) that was used effectively for centuries to hold back the North Atlantic from drowning the low-lying Dutch farms and cities. Just as one tiny hole in a dyke can bring it all down, and thousands are drowned, when all it takes (as the wonderful Dutch story goes) to save the country of Holland is for a single, quick-witted Dutch boy with some practical common sense and love of others to stick his finger into the hole before it gets any bigger and the stormy ocean is stopped in its tracks!
Remember, biblically, this is exactly what David did! He was the original dyke-saver and national hero! All it took to save Israel from being conquered and wiped out by the Philistine invaders was for one plucky shepherd boy who believe in Almighty God's faithfulness to stand up against the giant Philistine Schwarzenegger with his slingshot and a stone he picked out of a nearby creek!
The rest is history: three thousand years later, the Jews and now again Israel still exist, thanks to the boy David! Remember too, it wasn't the tall, armored Saul the king, his pompous, Henry Kissinger-like stuff-shirt counsellors and cabinet, or his war department of generals and army that saved Israel--they were a pack of cowards, cowering in fear of the Philistines. No, it was that lone, fleece-shirted shepherd boy from some hick town named Bethlehem who did the job they were supposed to do but were afraid to do--all because he loved and believed in the power of the God of Israel to turn the tide against Israel's mortal enemies. Israel badly needs, by the way, such a shepherd boy today--as it is stumbling under its present, Neville Chamberlain-like leadership toward even more compromise and humiliation by the pagan, uncircumcised Philistines of today--the fanatical leaders of Iran and the PLO and Hamas and Hezbollah.
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One paragraph from the AFA Pass Along Sheet regarding Wal-Mart: "When Wal-Mart announced their support for the homosexual agenda a few weeks ago, they meant what they said. You will remember that the Wal-Mart asked for, and received, permission to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). The company announcd they were giving two large grants to NGLCC. The world's largest retailer was rewarded with a position on the board of NGLCC. Wal-Mart also announced they would give preference to homosexual-owned businesses in purchasing products."
Remember Ellen on TV "coming out of the closet," with her announced lover, Ann Heche? It was, in 1997, TV's most widely publicized event. I recall it, chiefly because I wrote a letter to a local McDonalds, saying I was not going there again to eat, after they came out endorsing Ellen--asking how could they do that and still support the family. Well, Ann's mother, Nancy Heche, interviewed by Joni Lamb on Daystar, has written a book, "The Truth Comes Out," in which she tells her very painful but necessary journey back to God, after losing her faith and her husband and her "ideal marriage" in 1980 when he died of HIV after living a double life as a homosexual. Then her daughter joined with Ellen publicly on TV in a lesbian relationship. It took some real sorting out in her heart and life before Nancy Heche found ways of loving and accepting her daughter as Christ would, yet without saying that homosexuality is right to do. Now Nancy is able to challenge churches not to reject homosexuals but to love them--the only way to win them back to the sexuality God chose for them and, even more important, the relationship with Jesus that will make their lives worth living. To find this book, you can go to www.amazon.com.
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Item: Wesley's Cow Sermon: "One day John Wesley [the great British evangelist of the 18th century) was walking with a man who expressed his doubt as to the goodness of God. He said, 'I do not know what I shall do with all this worry and trouble.' At that moment Wesley saw a cow looking over a stone wall. 'Do you know,' asked Wesley, 'why that cow is looking over the wall?' 'No,' said the man. Wesley said, 'The cow is looking over the wall because she cannot see through it. That is what you must do with your wall of trouble--look over it and above it.' Faith enables us to get above circumstances and look to Christ who is over all, blessed forever."
Nineveh.com, with article, "Lost Jewish Tribe Soon to Move to israel," by Julie Stahl, Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Crosswalk.com
Postscript to Item on Assyrians: The Nineveh.com webpage also announces the event of Christians for Assyrians of Iraq, which will demonstrate peacefully in front of the White House, Monday, December 4, 2006.
Item: The Bible says you can know a tree by its fruit. What kind of fruit has Evolution produced? Dr. James Kennedy, of Coral Ridge Ministries, has diagramed the family tree of Evolution, and it has produced some deadly, evil fruit, as you can see:
THE SOURCE OF DARWINIAN THEORY ADMITTED HIS FOLLY, HIS OPENING PANDORA'S BOX OF DEMONS CALLED EVOLUTION, WHILE LYING ON HIS DEATHBED: In a wonderful Greek story, Pandora, a naive young thing who obviously wasn't having her best day, opened a chest she should not have opened and out flew all the demons, diseases, and disasters that forever after inflicted the earth. Charles Darwin did much the same thing, only it is not a story but fact.
I have read his "Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle" (the epic, fact-gathering scientific expedition and voyage in a wooden, sailed ship that took him along the west coast of South America and as far as the Galapagos Islands)and also viewed the account of Darwin's last days, recorded by people who were friends of his and went to visit him in his last sickness. As the white-haired, dying man lay on his bed, looking somewhat like an Old Testament patriarch painted by Rembrandt, he called for Christian songs to be sung, and the Gospel to be preached, in a chapel on his estate! Not only that, he wanted the windows opened, so that he could hear wisps of the service and the singing.
Poor Charles Darwin, the brilliant but emotionally-impaired British naturalist who started all this flood of evil in these End-Times with certain ideas he later in life recanted and bitterly regretted, was a Christian. Yes, Darwin believed in Jesus Christ! They will never tell the students in the school this fact, or they will be asked a lot of questions they don't want to answer.
An educated man, a scientist, he of all people should have known better than to publish things he could not then (nor has anyone since been able to) prove, but which has been used by wicked people to justify their rebellion and flight from God and morality and even common sense. His unproven, "unformed theory" of Evolution, despite no scientific verification, has been granted the status of a hard science like mathematics, flying in the face of the Scientific Method. It is, when you view the dogmatic fanaticism of its adherents in the schools and universities, a religious view, not a scientific view. Darwinian evolution is their alternative to a Christian world-view, which is scientifically verifiable (as archeology, astronomy, geology, and even nutrition is constantly showing to the world community of science and education). They must hold to it like bulldogs, though it is not proven, and never will be proven, because with it they can defy God, morality, and personal accountability for their wicked deeds. One of their own Darwinians even acknowledged this fact--Huxley, by name. Evolutionists since his time has since lived up to Huxley's trenchant observation that Darwinian evolution is a mere excuse for hedonism and lust. We must not forget: those who forsake God will be open to committing every atrocious act, given time and opportunity. Without God, there is ultimately no absolute Authority to answer to, and so man inevitably descends below the level of a beast in his lawless deeds (for even animals obey natural laws).
Item: Tourism in Israel Is Safe and Richly Rewarding: We cannot agree with all the current Israeli secular humanist government's decisions, of course--particularly those discriminating against Christians (when I was visiting in Jerusalem, I found out that the mayor's office had been acting anti-Christian; it had repeatedly denied re-building permits to the biggest evangelical church in Jerusalem, after it had been firebombed!) or establishing same sex marriage or legitimizing the homosexual agenda and mandating it into the Israeli schools, or condoning the lack of decency in the shameful way people dress in the streets and on its beaches (the nudity in Scandinavia, however, is a worse case!). We can never endorse abominations such as those. But we do heartily, without reservation, endorse travel in Israel. God has blessed this wonderful land of the Chosen People, and travel there is safe and will provide a great blessing, by God Himself. I was always tremendously blessed in my trips, and God shows no partiality. Just go needing a real personal touch of God, and it will happen! God is faithful! Faithful! He sees our effort in reaching toward Him, and He is touched in His heart and will reward us every time we do that! God is that loving a God toward His children. Believe in God--He will make a way where there is no way, seemingly, to go. I started out with a single penny I picked up off the floor at church in front of the offering basket, and gave it to God, along with my desire to go to Israel, and an anonymous person donated a trip to me with Art Katz's Ben Israel tour! Whatever that person's reason was, God used it to bless me beyond measure!
Terrorism? Bombs? Why fear anything? Almighty God will be flying with you and going right along side of you! Travel in Israel, and on its planes particularly, is much, much safer than in the West. Israelis have lived with aggressive, hostile neighbors so long, they know what to do to make travel in Israel extra safe. Dear Emmaus Walker, do not miss the opportunity to go to Israel now before Christ's soon coming (ask and trust God for the money!), and go (you will never, never regret it):
HELP IN CREATING FAMILY TRADITIONS: Many of us lack meaningful traditions in our family background, or they have been allowed to lapse, or are imperfectly remembered. Valuable things fail to be passed on--and then what? Can you click on RESTORE? Yes! Mrs. Dobson and Mrs. Gloria Gaither have written a book that can help you create richly meaningful activities and traditions for your family--so that you do not just eat together but share things that will be passed on by your children to their children. Our forefathers, the Pilgrims and Puritans (not a secular humanist in those groups!), passed on the wonderful celebrations that enrich our lives--and we can add to these--so check out this book, "Creating Family Traditions," by calling 1-800-AFAMILY. I have since seen a program in which a Christian father tells about how he and his wife invited his own mother-in-law to come and make breakfast for them in the morning on Christmas Day. She accepted, and it became a tradition, which now includes a lot of friends who love to join them! For each family, something different might work, but this worked for them, to bring much meaning into their lives--sharing a breakfast and felowship together on Christmas morning!
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