A great privilege, indeed, I took this picture on my first tour of Israel. It came to mean more to me once I realized that 1947, the year these caves became known to the whole world, was the year of my father's sudden death, a life changing event for me and my whole family and unknown numbers of other people too. 1947 was the year also that Israel came to birth, with independence for the national sovereign state of Israel declared officially in 1948 in Tel Aviv, and President Truman declaring U.S. recognition of Israel only minutes later. 1947 was the year of epic advances in supersonic jet aircraft in the U.S. But the most far reaching event of 1947, equalling that of Israel's rebirth as a nation, was the Qumran Caves finally giving up their secrets held hidden in them for thousands of years, as two Bedouin goatherds discovered in them the Qumran manuscripts called the Dead Sea Scrolls. To recall this great discovery, we plan to include an article here about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Great Isaiah Scroll in particular.
He reads me when we meet;
Today he reads me in my home.
Tomorrow in the street.
He may be relative or friend,
He may be strange to me;
He may not even know my name,
Yet, he is reading ME.
Well, how did this Marxist president, a lying one too like the Communist Party hacks in the old Soviet Union, have his fat, prize plum intended for Planned Parenthood and the Abortion industry (worth no doubt billions of dollars) thrown back in his smiling face?
Who would do such a thing? Well, the braying she-donkey, Speaker of the House Pelosi, was the one that threw it. She did not intend what happened, but God used her arrogance and stupidity against her and ultimately Barak Hussain Obama and the entire Democrat Party and all its devil-groups. She was asked how was it that an abortion funding clause was attached to an economic stimulus bill. Her explanation? She said blithely that it was a valid part of such a bill, because when population is cut down by abortion, there will be less pressure on government services and the expenditures for people, so that has to help the economy!
In other words, the tacked-on clause was justified authorizing the use of U.S. tax money for abortion programs overseas because our ailing economy would benefit by having less demand on government monies for social services. Killing unborn babies was economically beneficial, and stimulating to the U.S. economy, she declared. I heard her at least twice in a sound byte. You can look it up. It is in the Congressional Review, as well as quoted elsewhere. The flap is still active in the TV news.
How can this be politely said? I am forced to tell it like it really is. There is not a shade of difference between Ms. Pelosi's depraved, inhuman mind-set and that of a Nazi genocidalist at a death camp--none whatsoever! She would have done a fine job administering death camps under Adolf Hitler and Eichmann and Herman Himmler. A fine job, indeed! She would have rewarded with impressive ceremony and showy medals the various supervisors of the gas chambers and the ovens who excelled in efficiency in gassing the Jews and then burning the remains, citing what a great service they were doing the Fatherland and insuring the victory and success of National Socialism and the German People.
This behavior can be expected from a shamelessly pagan secularist such as Nancy Pelosi. But the son of a leading evangelical churchman, none other than Joel Osteen, who is now leader to the largest "evangelical" church in this benighted nation and a leading televangelist hobnobbing with the likes of Joyce Meyer, Larry King, Daystar's Lambs, and many others of that celebrity, has come out endorsing a genocidalist president, saying in his televised prayer most recently that Obama is THE man to lead us in this difficult time and affirming that God has raised Obama up for this very task--a TOTAL LIE OF THE DEVIL! God had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with "raising him up!" God does not raise up evil men such as Obama, unless it is like with Pharoah of Egypt, a wicked ruler of that ancient world, whom God raised up in order to show for God's own power of deliverance for the sake of his oppressed people. I listened to his "prayer," which was so emotional and charged with error that it was revolting, to say the least. I do believe that the demons of hell are present on the platform with him, putting tears in his eyes and a quaver in his voice--which he thinks is a confirmation that the Spirit of God is with him--when it is not the case. Anyone like him who can endorse and promote a president who stands for abortion, infanticide, immoral lifestyles such as the homosexual's, anti-Americanism, socialism, demilitarization in response to our declared enemies' intention to bury us, and uncontrolled spending of money the government has to borrow from foreign powers to spend, is a base leader, a wicked leader, a deceiver of Christians. Shame on him!
This proves what I have said before about the Democrats and liberals (and "moderate" Republicans such as Arlen Spector, crossing over to the Democrat side) destroying America. They are neo-Nazis, totalitarians who care nothing for humanity nor for freedom. Human beings are only grist for their ideological mill and to support their absolutist, nightmare-state. They always like to appear the champions of human rights, and espouse the causes of the victims of society, and are forever denouncing the so-called evils of Big Business and corporation heads--but truth is they care nothing for human rights, denying the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity of conscience and the sanctity of individual freedom--all which God gave us as our inalienable rights, but which they aim in any way they can to rob from us, by legislating it, or by judicial fiat, or by executive order of the President.
These hounds of hell hate our wonderful flag but still fly it at many of their wicked gatherings to give some legitimacy to their causes, but really they ought to be flying a far different flag and carrying standards, such as these, while hailing Der Fuehrer, Obama, seated in the reviewing stand:
This, of course, will never happen in this country, it is grown so decadent and diseased. Mr. Obama will either pack it with his own socialist/liberal clones, or will seek to render it powerless with Congressional bills designed to strip it of its powers. He cannot remain neutral to this body of nine black arbiters of America's destiny. Either it goes HIS way, knuckling over to his demands, or he will move against it, JUST AS HITLER MOVED AGAINST ALL THE FREEDOMS OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS IN GERMANY SO THAT HE COULD TAKE ABSOLUTE CONTROL.
1. Christian Education
2. Prayer
3. Holy Spirit
4. Biblical Science
5. Foundational Principles
6. Witnessing (includes Apologetics) and Discipleship
7. Types of Christ (OT)
8. Bible Covenants/Israel/Bible Atlas
9. Christian Hope and Character
10. The Prophetic Calling
1. and 2. Christology (based on Christology book offered on this page)
3. Intro. to Hebrew (Zola Levitt book, information how to order it offered on this page)
3. Intro. to Greek
4. "Messianic Prophecy" Course by Zola Levitt (information on it and how to order it on this page)
5. History of the Cradle of Judaism and Christianity, the Middle East, as well as the history of Islam and some of the other anti-Christ cults and atheistic philosophies and environment, secularist, and animal activist moveents (including Darwinism) affecting Christianity significantly.
Chapter 2
This is the second day here in the village of Matijaipan, on the Rio Cuyari. The place reeks with yalake (fermented yuka juice). I was wondering why they stayed up almost all last night listening to the strumming of a guitar. They weren't very drunk--just too benumbed to do anything but sit. I was glad the two Kuripako men that brought me from the Rio Giania hadn't gone back yet. They tried to get them to stop drinking and go to their hammocks.
I couldn't sleep, so finally I got up and went over to the doorway of the big clay building where some were sitting, and said in Kuripako: "Kuada kurika wemaaka panaya deepi? Maapikeena noa" (Why don't we sleep tonight? I'm tired).
"Ho," they said, and broke it up for a while.
They've got the stuff in a big, hollowed log in the house where we're having the meetings. I decided not to say anything directly, though, this time, but rather let the Holy Spirit convict of sin through the Word of God, and just pray for souls to be really born again.
This is the fourth day here now, and interest in the Gospel meetings at night is wonderful. Everybody comes but the dying woman. They've just dragged the big, hollow liquor log out of the house and turned it upside down...I believe quite a few of them were really saved last night. We had the lesson on John the Baptist's testimony to the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, and also the calling of the disciples and how they left all to follow him.
I showed them a picture of Judas Iscariot hanging his head--hiding, as it were, from the Light of the World. I said, "If you go to Inyaakaim's (the Devil's) village, you'll see Judas Iscariot there; but if you go to Jesus' 'village', you'll see all these others who love Him." They didn't want to see Judas. I said, "If you want to belong to Jesus, tell Him so now." Then we closed our eyes and knelt to pray. Many of the men started talking to the Lord, one right after the other. The women were afraid and only mumbled. I couldn't understand much, as it was in the Karom dialect..."
Well, as for the popular pagan mainstream culture, you can tell from the statistics or by just looking around you or by flicking on the boob tube that the culture is in hell now, and we are pushing with might and main toward the lake of fire, following Obama and calling destruction our "future and hope." In the Study Guide that comes with the book, in Section 13, Alternatives, on p. 61, there is a summary of contents, and it starts with "Paths to Authoritarianism: the Last Five Straws."
This summary details the collapse of our civilization and the stampede into authoritarianism (Big Government and absolutist control over all society).
World War I, an unbelievably stupid and savage bloodbath in which millions of young men, an entire generation in Europe, were slaughtered on the killing fields of the front trenches in France on the border with Germany, halted for a couple days, right at Christmas. A coincidence? Did a general command it? Did a president? No, not one man did it. Christmas did it, the Spirit of God wooing and drawing men's hearts in Christmas stopped the mighty Big Berthas of the Krupp artillery, and the artillery and machine guns and tanks and planes of the British and French. The front lines dissolved as men lay aside their weapons and poured across No-Man's Land and through the barbed wire barriers and hugged, shook hands, and celebrating the Reason for the Season, Jesus the Savior, Born in Bethehem!
Your children or you won't read about this, or be taught about it, by irreligious, scoffing professors in college and teachers in secondary schools, of course. But it is a fact of history, and this book chronicles this truly miraculous World War I Christmas truce and the events of it.
If they did say anything about it, the ACLU would be quick to pounce, and slap a suit on the principal and the school for "violating the doctrine of the separation of church and state." The ACLU, as a Grinch or Scrooge concerning anything Christmas-y, would never permit the free exercise of religion in any shape or form in any public place in America, except that it be a non-Christian religion, such as Islam, which has been given free rein in California schools under Governor Schwarzenegger, with children having to learn Moslem prayers!
But even the anti-Christian, atheistic, Marxist-trained lawyers of the ACLU have no power, when Christmas bursts forth in all its glory in the hearts of hopeless people. It happened once, and it can happen again. For a few hours anyway, all the national agendas and the madness of their foolish, vainglorious leaders were rendered powerless and irrelevant--and the shining light of Christ shone forth, drawing all men freely and trustingly together, making them forget they were deadly enemies. It was the the Prince of Peace, the Christ of Christmas, that brought warring Frenchmen, Germans, British, Americans, Belgians, and Austrians together into the love and wonderful embrace of Jesus, the One who created our very First Christmas in Bethlehem. Christmas was the first miracle of His ministry on earth, in fact, a miracle produced by a mere infant in the incomprehensible but glorious mystery of His own birth.
Can you name other things the Bible is? The Gideon Pocket Bible lists a number: The Traveller's Map, the Pilgrim's Staff, the Soldier's Sword, the Christian's Charter. I thought of the
Navigator's North Star. How about Water for the thirsty? Or a Lifejacket for the drowning sinner? Or... Surely, there are more.BIBLE PICTURES OF ITSELF is a wonderful thing, is it not? The Bible describes itself as LIGHT, FIRE, SEED, BREAD, MILK, HONEY, MEAT, GOLD, SWORD and HAMMER. You can order this tract from: Faith, Prayer, and Tract League, Grand Rapids, MI 49504, Bible Book Mark
No. 162 ($1.80 per doz., $11 per 100).
And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
"Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy."--Habakkuk 3:2.--from Billy Graham Association.
TRANSFORMING
OUR NATION
ONE PRAYER
AT A TIME
Only Muhammed Ali (aka Cassius Clay) had it right. Born before the 1960's civil rights demonstrations and the birth of the Democrat's victimization programs for minorities, he still had the self-honesty and candor to reply to newsmen in New York, as soon as he flew back there from a hero's tour of South Africa, that what he thought about Africa was simply this: "Thank God, Grandpa got off the boat!"
Well, what can we do to find true and worthy role models? We can turn first to the Bible--there they are--one after the other. Some have blemishes and short-comings, true, but they are clearly identified as negative object lessions we can still learn by. But there are also saints in the Bible accounts that nothing can be said against.
In our own history of America, we had a saint of a man early on: George Washington. Even his enemies the British bowed to this man as a peerless and great man, whose character was beyond reproach and who was unequalled among all the other men known in the world for his purity and integrity.
Now this splendid American and Founder of our Nation is being reproached by pygmy-brained, liberal Democrats as a slave-owning plantationeer, but the laws of Virginia, voted in, had legalized slavery, and he could not overturn the state's laws, but he set the example for his fellow Virginians when he set his own slaves free upon his death, rather than set them free to starve while he was yet living and still able to give them food and board in exchange for their labor. There is no report whatsoever the slaves on Washington's Mt. Vernon estate were neglected and were complaining about their treatment. Rather, he was thought most highly of by them. Yet he is an evil man, according to the textbooks the children study in the U.S. schools. His name has even been expunged from the schools that took his name.
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There is nothing intrinsically wrong with conservation. The God of the Bible makes us stewards of the whole earth, and we are to be responsible stewards, responsible to God for how we treat the earth and its resources and species. But politicized conservation has an ax to grind, and it will grind that ax on the neck of humanity in order to "save" the earth from mankind and the animals too from mankind. A chicken's life will be preferred above a child's. It already is preferred. You cannot torture a chicken, or any kind of animal, without a stiff prison sentence, but you can molest, torture, even kill a child and get away with it. Many do! The uncountable flights out of San Francisco and Los Angeles, bearing thousands of American pedophiles and sadists to Bangkok and other Asian cities that cater to pedophiles engaging in international sex slavery and child prostitution, that reveals the true low value we place on the lives and well-being of children, the most helpless and vulnerable people in our society other than the elderly and the disabled. This is the hellish kind of man-hating world that Paul Newton, Joanne Woodward, Robert Redford, and the other leftist celebs like them have created.
This is the 400th anniversary of his birth and homage is being paid to his outstanding talents and contributions throughout the Free World.
This worthless, secularist prince with no moral or patriotic bone in his entire body is not worth the millions of pounds it costs to keep him and the adulteress he finally married just to put a little respectability on their cohabitation! He ought to be turned out of the palace to go seek an honest job! But where is there an Alfred, of true integrity and Christian faith, when England needs him?
Where is the Sir Galahad who will defend his country against the barbarians?
You need not believe the accounts of King Arthur based on Sir Thomas Mallory of the Arthurian legends to sense the nobility that existed in early British history soon after the nation was invaded by the Germanic tribes and there was a terrific struggle for the Britons as they vainly fought and tried to push them back out of the country. But there is a kernel of truth in such accounts, as the events of British insurgency in response to the invasion of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes are unquestioned--they really did happen. Defending your own country from invaders is a very noble thing, particularly when you are defending a Christian nation, such as Britain was before the heathen Germanic tribes
poured in from across the Channel. Do you see my point now? The Knights of the Round Table that gathered round a mythical King Arthur were originally, most probably, Christians gathered round a noble Christian lord or commander--and so that explains why there arose such a long-standing aura of nobility attached to these figures in the so-called Arthurian legends. Increasingly, in modern times, the aura has been diminished, as more and more Hollywood glamor and intrigue and sleezy soap opera has been attached to
the chief characters. But that is all a concoction. I really believe the original
men and women were quite courageous, brave, and moral Christian people, patriots
allied together in a struggle to defend and save their country from
attacking pagan hordes. We see such a desperate need for such men and women today, as Britain is being reduced, systematically, to paganism and barbarism under the onslaughts of rampant secularism in the government. The government has just issued a policy leaflet for parents, advising them not to speak of right and wrong in connection with sex when they are talking to their children! That shows you how wicked, how base and depraved, the British government, which is secularist and aggresively secularist and Darwinian, has become. We are growing a similar government here. It is just now taking shape on Capitol hill as I write this. God have mercy on us!
When William Bradford the governor of the colony wrote the history, he said the program wasn't working at all, they were starving, and he had to stop it, and turn the colony over to
self-interested labor getting its own reward, rather than sharing everything in a general store no matter what your contribution was. The Pilgrims turned back to being capitalistic, in other words, each colonist producing as much as he and she could according to the Christian Puritan work ethic instead of taking what he or she wanted from the
communal store regardless of what he put in or how little he or she worked for it, the colony survived and took off and
there was plenty to thank God for! With human nature unchanged, communism and socialism cannot work, they are doomed to fail. Mr. Obama thinks otherwise, and wants America to be a socialist "paradise," but all history is against him. He is a theorist, bred on Marx in the university, but, as reported in the VOICE OF THE MARTYRS SPECIAL ISSUE 2008, does he know that Marx wrote verses praising Satan? Any philosopher who praises Satan must be Satan-worshipping, and that is witchcraft. Which is to say, Socialism/Marxism is a product of a satanist called Karl Marx and his cohort, Engels. The satanism that inspired Marx is definitely a catchy thing, as Mr. Obama is now seeking to install it upon the whole society, starting with his government. Voice of the Martyrs Special Issue of 2008 refers to Karl Marx and his love for Satan, citing the book, MARX AND SATAN, that contains this information along with the Gospel that will truly reform, transform, and save souls and also human society if there is a true revival.
Though liberals who champion the Palestinians and hate Israel would rather die than admit,
they would much prefer Israel, living there, than living under the oppressive Islamic
laws and lower living standards overall of Islamic countries. Even the oil rich Islamic states are oppressive in their laws. Oil did not improve the Islamic states--it ruined their chances to reform and become productive, life-enhancing, life-choosing societies.
Now they champion death and the culture of death, most of them unabashedly so.
Not so Israel!
As this article shows, Israelis love life!
That is their chief weakness the terrorists, knowing this about Israel, seek to exploit, as they say they love death.
But the terrorists have left out the winning part of the equation:
God loves life too!
And
God loves Israel!
Can you guess who will win this conflict?
This magazine is getting better and better! Please go to an excerpt of Billy Graham's message, "Proclaiming Christ's Return." Appended to it is the article of Robin Lovin, a theologian, who defines "liberal monism," and identifies it as the liberal rationale and thinking of "social progressive" liberals in America which are used to determine in public life and public forums what they judge is is "Politically Correct" speech--a not very tolerant means they use to marginalize and then to silence and gag their opposition, namely, Bible-believing Christians.
The Marco Polo connection with David Hathaway is this, as he tells in the 50th Edition the story himself:
One day the Chinese Emperor and Marco Polo came to a village and found a small group of Christians. The Emperor was very cruel and commanded his soldiers to kill them. But, he said, "Before I kill you, I will prove that your God is dead and your Bible is a lie. Your Bible says, if you've got faith like a mustard seed, you will see a mountain and command it to move, and it will go. Outside your village is a mountain--I'm going to give you three days to move it!"
The believers had three days to move the mountain! So Marco Polo said that they cried out on the first day, "Oh God, we're going to die, move the mountain!" But the mountain did not move. The second day, they found one man 'more spiritual' than the rest and they made him do the praying and he prayed all day. "Oh God, we're going to die, move the mountain!" And still the mountain did not move. The third day, the Emperor came back, commanded the soldiers to line the believers up outside the village and cut off their heads! But first, he said, "I gave you three days to move the mountain and it's still there! You have no God, your Bible is a lie, and I want you to die knowing that there is no God--you must pray one more time whilst I watch you! Then I'll kill you!"
In that communist prison, with no Bible, this is what I read: Marco Polo said that this time those believers began to pray differently, with faith! They looked at that mountain, and they began to command it to move in the
Name of Jesus! As the Emperor watched, the mountain MOVED! He became a believer [in the true God of the Bible] and sent Marco Polo back to Italy to bring missionaries to evangelise China. Because of that one miracle, the whole of China was opened to the Gospel and today there are more than 100 million believers in China! Why? Because God moved the mountain!
Through that true story God began to speak to me, "David, your mountain is the prison. If you have the faith to believe, I will open the prison and release you, BY A MIRACLE! I began to call on God, to claim a miracle--and God sent the miracle! After I had been there only one year, not ten years, exactly on the day God had showed me six months earlier, God sent the British Prime Minister from London to Prague [capital of communist Czechoslovakia) by a miracle, just to release me! And I flew home with him! It was on the television and in the newspapers worldwide--the miracle God had done!
Faith...the Key to a revolution! Jesus said to His disciples, you only have to have the smallest faith in the world! This is how we begin, with the smallest faith. Coming out of the prison was not the end, it was the beginning. It was a REVOLUTION in my life. I UNDERSTOOD from that moment that with God, NOTHING is impossible for the rest of my life! God had put in my hands a KEY...what would it open in my life? What will this key still open in my life today? And in yours?"--David Hathaway
"Let's 'C' About Joseph All Answers Begin with C.
1. What garment did Joseph's father give him?
2. What made it so pretty?
3. His brothers received twenty _ _ _ _ _ when they sold him.
4. How did these traders travel?
5. What officer did Potiphar hold over the soldiers of Pharaoh?
6. What seven animals did Pharaoh see in a dream?
7. When Joseph explained the dream, what did Pharaoh put around his neck?
8. What did he give him to ride in?
9. What did Joseph store in the great storehouses he built?
10. Where did Joseph's brothers live?
11. What did they come to Egypt to buy?
12. What did Joseph tell his servants to hide in Benjamin's sack?
This Bible Study has come to us from my mother's collected Bible studies in her 90+ years walk with God while faithfully studying His Word (she is still studying His Word in various lessons from her church), and it speaks for itself as
an excellent means to gain the spiritual benefit from Joseph's life and the
way God turned him into a great instrument for God's plan and purposes for Israel, present and future, not only Joseph. Through Joseph the line of Jacob was preserved, and Jacob's other son was Judah, through whom the Lord Jesus Christ was brought forth some 1200 to 1400 years after Joseph.
Take the number of pieces of silver for which Joseph's brother sold him. (Gen. 37:28).
Multiply by the number of cows in each of Pharaoh's dreams. Divide by the length in years of the famine. Multiply by the number of brothers Joseph had. Add Joseph's age when he stood before Pharaoh. (Gen. 41:46) Substract the number of beasts laden with gifts which Joseph sent to his father. (Gen. 45:23). Add the number of changes of rainment he gave to Benjamin. (Gen. 45:22). The result will be Joseph's age when he died. (Gen. 50:26). For the answers, go to the Bible Quiz Center page and
look for "Answers to A Puzzle About Joseph.":
He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself. When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart [there are seven abominations in Mr. Obama's heart!]. Though his hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness will be revealed before the assembly. Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin." These scriptures, Proverbs 26: 23-28, describe the Man of Deceit (who has seven abominations in his heart), which President Barak Hussain Obama and all his entourage have joined to make in order to seat a veritable anti-christ beast in the Oval Office of the White House. Mr. Obama did not act alone, he had many wicked people making him and putting him where he is, so he can do the terrible things they wish to have done in America with the presidential powers. God have mercy on them, and have mercy on us!
"Honest Abe Said It"--from The Lutheran Digest, Summer, 1964
Though Uttered Over 150 years Ago, It's Still Pertinent [especially in regard to Barak H. Obama's Big Government, social welfare policies and radical socialist agenda for America, for each of these sayings describes exactly the opposite of what Obama believes and has promised to carry out as president!]:
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence." "You cannot establish security on borrowed money."
"You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income."
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift."
"You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred." You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves." "You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men." You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." "You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich."
Linus, along with many Christians, might point to the famous passage in Luke's Gospel, which speaks of the two greatest commandments: "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind." And, "Love your neighbor as yourself."--Luke 10:27. Love is understandable--warm and fuzzy. Doctrine and teaching sound cold, difficult, demanding. But note that the commandment says we are to love God with all our mind as well. So sound beliefs are more important than just spiritual sincerity. The Bible, the New Testament especially, says a lot about teaching. It promises good to those who follow right belief in addition to loving God and their neighbor, of course. It promises judgment for people who willingly lead others into wrong beliefs. "If you break the smallest commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God's laws and teaches them will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven."--Matt. 5:19.--Stephen Lang.
We will give the entire article about the event as it appeared in
Northwest Christian Journal, June 1996. One statement from his message: "We are a society perched ont he brink of self-destruction." How much clearer can that be? Use the link above in the magazine center section to access the message.
It is the same message, rehashed countlessly. He has never preached a different
message. It is always the same thing, only with different examples. It wins him
a huge audience, for it tickles the ears of a vast audience of untaught,
unBiblical followers who want to be motivated and made to feel good and
told how to be successful by being positive in their thinking. It works for Joel Osteen, for Americans are set-ups for his flimflam he churns out. P.T. Barnum would have given Osteen the highest plaudits and accolades for how he is hoodwinking the masses! It is
a phenomenon how he has achieved such success and such a huge following with
nothing more than cotton candy sermonizing stuffed with platitudes and a Pollyana-type
philosophy.
Judging from his hosting the two presidential contenders, he is a consensus-builder, not one who holds to the standards of truth set forth in the Bible, which are absolute. His are "user-friendly." He can adapt the Bible to the changing cultural scene, in a way that makes it palatable to the worldly Christians of today who do not like real commitment or real
absolute truth in their lives, or real, uncompromised integrity. They want their cake and to eat it too--they want Dr. Phil and Oprah and Charles Stanley, mixed together in their hobo stew or spread as toppings on their TV pizza. Warren has shown his adaptibility and crossing-over propensities before this, as he has consorted with terrorists in Syria, as easily as with someone from the Kiwanis Club, apparently.
Continuing in this track, it was payback time for him, and Obama's team chose him as the the "purpose driven" clergyman to do the Invocation at the inauguration of Barak Hussain Obama! It is quite one thing to pray for this illegitimately voted in president (put in by massive Democrat (via ACORN) voter registration fraud funded by our tax money), and another to give him legitimacy by praying publicly for him and his "administration" before the watching nation. Pray for him, I will and do, but endorse him with my presence, never! Would Moses or John the Baptist or Jesus Christ have done such a thing? It is unthinkable! But yet people claim we must do what they could and would not do! Why listen to them? I will follow the examples in scripture. They are uncompromisers, not like the evangelicals we have today who are that in name only. Look, Christian, for more such accommodation, as it is well-described in the Bible as spiritual "harlotry." Israel was
guilty of that sin, tremendously, all through its history until the Babylonian Captivity. Chained and dragged to Babylon, the Jews got their fill of an idol-worshipping culture, as the Babylonians had the most hideous and obscene idols installed on every street, and worshipped in hundreds of temples stuffed with thousands of gods that the Babylonians celebrated and did everything to please, even with human sacrifice and temple prostitution. Cured by Babylonian paganism and idolatry,
the chastened Jews returned to their land in the time of Ezra (read the books of Ezra and Nehemiah for this event), purged of idolatrous tendencies at long last. They now served Yahweh, the Lord God of Israel alone, and no heathen gods along with him. It was a severe purging, indeed, which cost them their country and their freedom for seventy long years, not to mention thousands of Jewish lives. Judah remained a tiny province in the Persian Empire, and so it did not regain national sovereignty and freedom even with Persian patronage of the restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple. But they were cured of their terrible sickness, their spiritual harlotry. This monotheistic, Yahweh-centered Jewish faith, however, lapsed soon into legalism and empty, showy ritual, so that by the time Jesus was born, there were few faithful believers
in God left in Judaea. Then John the Baptist rose as a prophet sent by God to call the people to repentance and back to righteousness and faith in the Lord God of Israel.
Have we learned anything by the Jewish experience? Apparently, we have not! We in the Evangelical churches are lapsing into spiritual harlotry, into ungodly alliances with the devlish world system, which is clearly shown in the alliances of eminent evangelical leaders such as Rick Warren joining forces with the likes of Barak Hussain Obama, who stands against every evangelical belief and principle you can name. His anti-Christ, anti-morality, anti-marriage, anti-sanctity of human life views were expressed by him in the presidential campaign, and even at Rick Warren's debate or symposium at his Saddleback church at the televised meeting--so we need not repeat them again here. Go to Obama's website, if you want to hear them again. Rick Warren well knows the deviltry Obama believes, and yet he lends his name and reputation as an evangelical leader to Obama and his spinmasters to make the most they can of it for Obama's sake. This is a most devilish and disgusting act on his part, to be sure. It shows his true colors--not black, not white, not any primary color, but always shades in between the primary colors, or blends of various colors. He is a chameleon-type fish who can change any color the environment on the sea bottom turns! He is just the same as the Evangelical Lutheran Church pastors who flocked together to support the candidacy of Adolf Hitler, whom they touted as the German "Messiah." They actually called him that! Obama is touted as the messiah or primary agent for America's "Change." What kind of change to the good can come from one so depraved and anti-Christ as this Chicago bred shyster, Democrat party hack, friend of crooks, and Marxist ideologue? You tell me! But I don't have to guess. I know that whatever superficial good he seems to produce in a crisis, we will pay blood and tears for later, just as the German people (many of them evangelical Christians in the Lutheran Churches) paid after their "German Messiah" restored the prostrate, inflation-ruined German economy by
military manufacturing orders for his war machine only to seize absolute power and turn into a raging, bloody monster devouring most of Europe while killing 6 million Jews in his gas chambers. Obama does not seem that sort of super monster now, true, but given the opportunity and the power, this little monster from Chicago has all the capability within himself of becoming another full-blown Hitler, as he wields world power from his office of president in the White House and really begins to strut his stuff on the world stage that office has given him.
Put your ear to the ground? What do you hear? I hear the drumming hoofbeats of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse! War, Famine, Disease, Death! They are unleashed upon the feckless world that chooses to believe anything they want, including the Great Pumkpkin, and thinks that sincerity is enough, they no longer need any absolute truth! The Four Horseman of doom to over a billion people are now galloping toward us all, bringing unimaginable horrors and disasters. We know that the beguiling, seductive and "hip" spirits of anti-Christ, operative in the world since the time of the Apostle John (see his letters), are combining in a spirit of anti-christ that will
direct the Anti-Christ himself. Hitler was clearly a forerunner of this Anti-Christ to come. Satan made a very strong attempt to raise him up as such--but his prospective Anti-Christ flopped, he self-destructed. That is very clear. But Obama? He too is a forerunner, that is also clear, though many with the spirit of delusion blinding them cannot see it (for their own lusts, greed,
compromising, and guile have led them away into grievous error and outright evil-doing, such as this abominable Invocation by Pastor Rick Warren).
The spirit of delusion has put the catchwords into the big, flapping mouths of
these compromisers with the world and its devilish, anti-christ spirits. What are they? Listen! I hear them increasingly. These people are calling out the glitzy catchwords and buzzwords of the new apostasy, the Apostate churches' gospel, which is: "JOIN together, Christians, let us UNITE and COME TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF AMERICA, and put our differences aside, FOR THE COMMON GOOD!" This is the DEVIL'S call, and it comes from the pit of hell. When I just this last Sunday watched a guest speaker, an impressively garbed black bishop introduced by Dr. Schuller, rise and then describe Mr. Obama as a "champion" to be admired by the young people as well as the congregation of the vast Crystal Cathedral and millions watching the televised service, then my words of warning were echoing those of the Bible! The BIBLE says: BE YE SEPARATE FROM THE WORLD AND ITS SATANIC SYSTEM! The Bible doesn't say join, and unite, and combine with the rulers of this world!
But a man dying of thirst needs real water--not high quality photographs of water that will only torture a man in the desert. He has to have the real thing to survive.
No substitute for water can possibly satisfy and save him. In the same way, if you are honest and truly needy see yourself as a sinner, you need something more: and then ONLY JESUS WILL DO! ONLY JESUS! YES, JOEL OSTEEN AND LARRY KING, ONLY JESUS!!!
No other Person (no Good Teacher) can save and transform a sinner into a saint--there is no real competition with Jesus the Savior, friend. Dr. Cooper studied all major religions and says: There is only one Savior, one man who made that claim, that he was our Savior, and could save us from our sins. Nobody else could--not Buddha or Mohammed or
Lao Tze, or Confucius, or Zoroaster, or any other great religious teacher. They taught various things to better humanity, but they couldn't deal with sin and transform a sinner into a saint. Jesus's
Name means SAVIOR. JESUS IS THE SAVIOR! HE IS THE ONLY SAVIOR! HE CAN BE YOUR SAVIOR, IF HE IS NOT! HE IS MY SAVIOR! Dr. Cooper's Gospel preaching was electrifying. It cleared the smoke, mirrors, balloons, lollipops, and the Wizard of Oz's gimickry control board of the prosperity gospel right out of the studio--at least temporarily. The economic
downturn is really no problem for a Christian. Economies go up, and then they go down, and then they go up, and then they go down--they always will. We should not be concerned about the economic so much. One thing is certain: heaven, or hell. The worst thing that can happen, Dr. Cooper said, for a Christian, is that he dies and goes to heaven. All the things we worry about and that concern us so much now do not really matter, compared to Him whom the Gospel reveals and proclaims.
"The Preaching Power of John Wesley," by Frederick E. Maser, which is partly now on-line, "In Convict Cells," the story and ministry of Mathilda Wrede of Finland (Eagle Books, No. 1, Friendship Press of New York, 1937), "The Resume of Jesus Christ," "What is a Christian?" from the Herald of Hope Paper, 1975, with "Who I am in Christ," from God's Word, Scripture by Scripture, 1-69. We have many more items of equal interest and help to all Christians, and will add them here, God enabling.
Jesus Christ first, and all the rest will fall into line.
I BELIEVE IN GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD, WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DEAD, AND BURIED. HE DESCENDED INTO HELL, THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD, HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, AND IS SEATED ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, WHENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE HOLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, AND THE LIFE EVERLASTING. AMEN.
No human teacher or religious leader, however wise and admirable, will ever, can never, come up to the level of Almighty Godhead, unless he is Jesus Christ, fully Man, and fully God! Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, and a thousand others like them, were all sinful, mortal, weak men. They died in their sins, and could help no one reach heaven's sinless state. Jesus remains the only true Bridge to Heaven and acceptance of God. Praise to His Name, which is above all Names, and in whom is vested all authority by His Father in heaven. Every cult, to exist, must necessarily depreciate Christ, drag him down to the level of human mortality and sinfulness, which makes him less than Savior and Lord and God and only another religious teacher. We know Mormonism and Jehovah's Witness-ism do this. Every religion does this--in order to exalt its own teachers and put them in Christ's place. Any church that depreciates Christ is also
cultic, on its way into error and apostasy. Any church or group that exalts anything other than Christ as First and Foremost is on the road to hell, not heaven. After hearing about Jesus, reading about Him in holy Scripture, hearing Him proclaimed in
genuine Gospel messages, who on earth would want anyone else but Him for Savior and Lord! He is unspeakably, indescribably magnificent! HE IS THE ONE AND ONLY LORD AND SAVIOR, PRAISE HIS NAME FOREVER!
I can personally vouch for Shakespeare's writing within the context of the Christian world-view. In the early 80's, I was privileged to visit Stratford and tour the Shakespearean Theatre grounds and viewed the cottage of
Anne Hathaway and saw how they lived in Anne's and Shakespeare's time. I also saw a Shakespearean play in London. The chief effect on me came through his writing's however, particularly his classic play, Hamlet. It was while reading Hamlet that I forsook my
liberal and atheistic world-view at college and saw that man has dignity as created by God, he is not the result of blind and godless evolution or a random universe. This view is essential if you are to know the truth about yourself and the world, as it is Biblical, and I was well on the way back to God after backsliding and throwing God out of my young Christian life. I owe a great debt to Shakespeare, consequently, for helping me to return to God, for helping through his magnificent drama to restore my belief in the dignity of man as I viewed the
the tremendous, agonized struggles of soul and spirit in Hamlet as he wrestled night and day with the raging demon of revenge in his own unforgiving heart as he tried to deal with the immoral love affair of his mother with his uncle the king of Denmark. No animal you can name on this earth could or would agonize over moral issues like that! Only a creature created uniquely in God's image made the issue even possible! Lest we be made utter fools by our godless culture, do you see that too? Man is definitely a purpose-embued creature, created in God's image by the hand's of God, not the product of a blind evolutionary force of atoms and molecules knocking randomly together and somehow making a man after billions of years! Could any view be more ridiculous and impossible than Darwin's? That is clearly the case, and I could not deny it after reading Hamlet. Read Hamlet, if you have not. Or check out a library video and see it played, at Ashford, Oregon, or any other place it is done in an excellent way. You will not have such a problem with Darwin's unworkable theory after that, when you compare a man like Hamlet with a chimp or a fish or a bird or a cat or dog or whale. There is really no comparison! The difference is so great, though we share many physical traits with animals, it is true, that we might as well be considered gods over the animal kingdom, not really part of it. As said on Dr. Baugh's Creation in the 21st Century program on TBN, it is time to let go of 19th century thinking and move into the 21st century science. This science is making known for the first time the anthropic nature of the Universe, which was not known or scientifically accessible to Darwin and other 19th century naturalists with the limited scientific techniques of their time. The Bible and science are not enemies--it is science that is at last catching up with what the Bible teaches and made known thousands of years ago about the nature of man and the universe. Shakespeare, genius that he truly was, saw man's full-orbed uniqueness in the realm of creation--and knew enough science to see that his view agreed with not only the facts but also with the truths of the Bible--there was no contradiction or hostility between the two. That is why I can say Shakespeare's works will be immortal, so to speak, as long as the earth endures, for he spoke truly about man, he did not lie or distort the truth or man's condition to suit his own philosophy, as so many evolutionist, Darwinian writers do today in order to be politically correct and sell their films, books, plays, and poetry. They will be forgotten, thrown in the trashbin, all of them, someday, but Shakespeare's dramas and poetry and sayings will live on and on and on.
John Hagee Ministries to Order "Pilgrim's Progress"
Go see the trailers at least, and you will have to
bite, as this is tremendous photography, with meaning that can change
our lives!
Reading in the almanac of the Guiness Book of Records, I discovered that the largest poem in the English language not Milton's Paradise Lost or any other famous English epic poem. It consists of almost 130,000 lines, composed by
someone you and I would not recognize, but the poem is about Alfred the Great,
the King of Wessex who united England against the invading Danes who were
wiping England off the map forever when this valiant Saxon stepped into the
gap and God was with him in saving England from a heathen take-over. That achievement
rates the greatest poem ever, though I haven't read any of it and cannot testify how
great the poem really is. The subject, however, is worth study. Alfred the Great was my childhood hero, and he is still my hero. If you want a great role model for your
children, he is definitely one of the finest. As a young man he was tempted as any young nobleman would be in that time and culture, but he was, unlike the others, disturbed by the
loose morals and bad manners of the royal court of Wessex, and he early in life decided he did not
want to sink to its level and "flow with the tide." He spent time reading the Bible, and he wanted
a better life than the one chosen by his loose-living contemporaries. God met that young
man of conscience, raised him up to greatness that his self-indulgent, worldly contemporaries would never reach, by using him to save his nation and people from extinction. But this was not the whole achievement. He restored literacy, and rebuilt the schools and churches destroyed by the barbarian
invaders. He also translated parts of the Bible, and spread the word of God along with
the teaching of letters. Education revived under his reign, but the spiritual
knowledge also revived, and England rose to become a great Christian nation. England today desperately needs another Alfred! England is perishing, suffering the invasion
of materialism, evolution, atheism, and paganism, along with imperialistic Islam.
Not even the Prince of Wales, Charles, will defend England against these
hateful foes. He has joined them, according to his own statements! He has said he would not, like his mother the Queen, be "Defender of the Faith," a royal title for the monarch of England since Henry the VIII, but a defender "of faith." That statement says it all. It is plain enough. He doesn't care at all about faith when it is Christian, but
he will defend anyone's faith as long as it doesn't concern the Bible and Jesus Christ.
"English Literature Heritage Center"
RECOMMENDED MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS:
Not so good news, but understandable in this time of the economic
woes of Wall Street and the whole nation's mortgage and lending markets, the Lamplighter published by Lamb and Lion Ministries of Dr. Reagan and his people is
going to have to charge $25 for a year's subscription, rather than be given free of charge as formerly done. You can still receive it free of charge by email. So you don't have to go without. But I prefer the published version, which I can take with me anywhere to read without lugging a laptop around. You will search far and wide to find better Bible scholarship than Dr. Reagan's. I challenge you to find someone better. You will probably give up! "Will the AntiChrist be a Muslim?" is one question he deals with. He takes on the books and theologies of some major speakers on the subject, as well as reviews their books on the subject. I for one can see that the AntiChrist, by the end of Dr. Reagan's Bible-based analysis, CANNOT be a Muslim. But see for yourself. Get the Lamplighter, one of the two ways offered. You won't be disappointed in the least, I can promise you.
The cover story tells how the Pilgrim's experiment with communism flopped
dismally. This article is very timely, when you consider that the Obama regime is right at this moment engaged in bringing in a socialistic makeover of the U.S. economy (which
cannot work, but which will produce poverty and a declining GNP).
This exciting issue (each issue is exciting, you will find, which you will read nonstop) carries the stories, "Christmas in a WWII German Labor Camp," with a Holocaust survivor telling about Jewish Christians celebrating Christmas in a Nazi
camp near Ostlinde, and "I Reject Islam and Love Israel," told by an Arab who says "Palestine" never existed in all of history (not as an Arab or Muslim state, that is), and Israel and the Jews have full claim to the whole land and also the temple of Solomon area on the Temple Mount, not the Arabs and Muslims! President Bush and Secretary Rice ought to listen to this brave and truthful Arab and former Muslim! Of course, they won't, as they are set in concrete in a failed and unBiblical, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Covenant policy called, absurdly, "The RoadMap to Peace." It brings, and has already brought, not peace for land but war after war (Hezbollah's rampage in the north of Israel, and after that Gaza and Hamas's rampage of rockets that finally forced Israel to respond to stop the rocket attacks day and night on their cities, towns, farms. The writer says: "Israel is the front line in the world's war against the tyranny of Islam." Can it be said better and more realistically than that? Enough of the lies and cover-ups and politically correct evasions of Washington, the State Department, and even our U.S. Presidency! They are leading us all down a path that will produce only compromise and concession after concession with our sworn terrorist enemies and their overpowering us eventually with destruction and death and war, not peace.
This issue (sorry we are so late posting it!) contains several articles on the Mumbai massacre and the Jewish update to it (the little boy of the rabbi and his wife tortured and killed by the terrorists was rescued by the nurse, a Christian lady, and she is in Israel now caring for the child).
The beginning article, "Looking Into Israel's Soul," got me thinking this way.
Where would you rather live, in Saudi
Arabia or Israel? Or how about Sudan or Israel? Morocco or Israel?
Syria or Israel? Iran or Israel?
Egypt or Israel?
Gaza or Israel? Jordan or Israel. You get the point!
Even PBS's
Rick Steves, the smiley, hedonistic travel guy, would probably choose Israel over Iran--despite his
foolish liberal leanings and incipient anti-Americanism (we are on a level playing field, he and his type believes, it is America who has angered Islamic countries by insisting on being the superpower). It goes without saying that 99.9% of sane people would choose Israel over any Islamic country.
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS, December 2008 Issue, has this article, which you
should make every effort to read, by accessing the website's archives--"Jesus is Better than Mohammed."
The
November 2008 issue of VOM is excellent still, and has much information that is
absolutely critical for Christians to know about the persecuted saints in various countries in Asia and the Middle East primarily. Fatima, a Saudi Arabian woman who gave her heart and life to Jesus, was killed by her own brother because she became a Christian and bravely told her family. Her last words are recorded in this issue, in the form of a most beautiful and touch poem appealing to her relatives, all Muslims, to turn to Jesus, the Only TRUE LORD AND SAVIOR, who is Love, and not to follow
Allah and Mohammed, the way that leads to hatred and darkness. Don't miss her
last words on this earth! The Christian Revolution in Iran (yes, Iran!) is also featured in this website, with names and details about the savage persecution waged against Christian Iranians by the Sharia law authorities and the Radical Islamic government of Iran which has legislated death for all Muslims who convert to Christianity (in a land that was a haven for Christians centuries ago!). Go to the website of VOM where these great accounts and many others of present day heroes and heroines of the Christian faith are posted.
Voice of the Martyrs Magazine
This issue is a blockbuster! It carries the banner article of Billy Graham's you MUST NOT MISS!!! "Signs of Christ's Return," features Billy Graham, Chuck Smith, and Skip Heitzig, starting page 2. It squares with the absolute truth about what is going on in contemporary America at this moment. Want to know where you stand in regard to
the collapse of America and the caving in of the churches--not to mention the overall collapse of Western civilization? Read this article--don't let it pass for trivialities, however nicely they are dished up for you. This is real meat, for Christians. George Beverly Sea, the Billy Graham crusade singer for many decades, is on the cover, and turned 100 years of age! He's still smiling too! How many can do that at his age, or anywhere approaching his age? That is Christ's power and spirit in him--there is no doubt about it.
"Proclaiming Christ's Return," Excerpt of the Message of Billy Graham, with Article by Theologian Robin Lovin regarding Liberal Gagging of Christians through Defining Acceptable/Nonacceptable Speech in Public Forums
The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded Billy and Ruth Graham, June 1996, so please go to the newspaper article about it:
"Billy and Ruth Graham Receive Congressional Gold Medal"
A most important follow-up to Billy Graham's warning to the Nation is Dr. Twilah Fox's message, "And the Light Shineth in Darkness," June 1992:
"And the Light Shineth in Darkness," Message to Americans, by Dr. Twilah Fox, Part I
Part II, Twilah Fox Message
David Wilkerson, Pastor of Times Square Church, issued this message and warning to the
Nation and the Churches in 1991, a year before Twilah's. It went virtually unheeded, which is not surprising, as the trend continued, did it not? But we must heed it, or we will not survive as a nation and a people. It is that simple. God makes it simple, so we cannot say we did not know what was going on, and what He expected of us. That is why He gave us the Bible, and prophetic messengers such as Wilderson, Fox, and Billy Graham. We will have no excuse when we all stand before the Lord to account for America's apostasy and abandonment of Him.
"When God Departs--Is God Leaving America?" by David Wilkerson, 11-18-1991
Prophetic Vision, the magazine of David Hathaway's evangelistic and healing ministry to Siberia, Russia, and Europe, is an exciting magazine. This is the 50th anniversary issue:
Know who Marco Polo was? I just watched two Americans retrace his
itinerary, and it was the most dangerous thing they had ever done in their lives, taking them through Iraq and Afhanistan. After Herodotus the famous ancient Greek traveller who
toured Egypt and the wonders of the world in other lands around the Eastern Mediterranean,
there is Marco Polo, who journeyed all the way from Venice, Italy, to China and back, writing about his epic experiences, a book of which is in a library in his hometown, Venice, in his own handwriting. This is remarkable, since he flourished mid-13th century to the mid-14th century, a time when there were no easy means of travel available--no highways, planes, trains, subways, cars, trucks, etc. He had to travel by foot, donkey, camel, and boat, a journey that would take him the distance of half way around the world, or more, when you consider his back-tracking and sidetrips in China.
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We heartily recommend the cartoons of the Levitt Letter, which are
clearly the best in the Christian and even the secular magazine world. You cannot possibly find their equal--just try! And I won't hold my breath!--Ed.
"Cartoon Center"
BIBLE QUESTIONS/QUIZ CENTER:
From Bible Quizzes by Mildred Olive Honors:
Answers to "Let's 'C' About Joseph
A wonderful Bible study is also available for you and church groups to use called "Joseph--Who was Humiliated and Afterwards Exalted (Read Gen., Ch. 37-50). Questions are also
given with the Study for you to answer. Joseph was, arguably, the most Christlike person in the Bible after Jesus Himself. Chapters 37-50 deal with him (including Ch. 37, which shows the moral depravity of the culture surrounding him in Canaan and even in the patriarch's family), and it says something significant that so large a portion of the Bible should be devoted to portraying the life of one person, for it would not be done unless God intends for us to know that this is a very important example for us to learn from and emulate. Joseph is probably the greatest Christ-type, and Ruth is Runner-Up,
in my estimation, if not on the exact same level as he since she did not suffer as much or as long as he did before he was vindicated and exalted.
Nevertheless, the greater honor has to be hers, for directly through her lineage and son's descendants the Christ and Messiah, Yeshua, was born!
Lesson-
Notes of "Joseph, Who was Humiliated and Afterwards Exalted
Soon to be on-line:
Questions for "Joseph, Who was Humiliated and Afterwards Exalted"
A Mathematical Puzzle about Joseph, by Mildred Olive Honors (1931):
"Bible Quiz Center"
HOW ABOUT THIS FOR A VEHICLE LICENCE?
Jawbone of Judgment Center:
There is scarcely a fluid ounce of truth left in this nation of America, it has become such a nation of liars (even proud of it!). Liars are the first to be cast into the lake of fire, according to the book of Revelation! Doesn't that
give us pause? It should! GOD ALMIGHTY, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, IS CALLING AMERICA TO ACC0UNT, AND THAT INCLUDES THE ARROGANT, LYING, CORRUPTED GOVERNING ELITES AND GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON! THEY FALL FIRST UNDER JUDGMENT, AS THEY HOLD RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COURSE OF THIS NATION AND SOCIETY IN THE POLITICAL AND MORAL ARENAS. THEY EVEN SEEK TO POLLUTE AND CORRUPT THE ENTIRE WORLD WITH THEIR GODLESS, LIBERAL AGENDAS.
The White House (a name that derives from the Ancient Egyptian word, Per-aa, meaning "White House," the palace of Pharaoh) is a misnomer for that institution and branch of government situated there on Pennsylvania Avenue. It is truly a Black House, a sin-filthy den of iniquity,
bewitched and infested from basement and Washington's empty, never used crypt to the chimneys and flags on the roof due to all manner of demons brought in through the years by
First Ladies. These pathetic, spirtually wayward First Ladies are documented as to their identities and need not be named again here. They brought in mediums such as Jean Dixon and consulted the spirits of the dead. Some of the latest First Ladies to do so had Billy and Ruth Graham as guests in the White House--so it is not that these First Ladies have any excuse for what they did. Then their husbands fell into immorality as well. The immoralities and adulteries committed there by Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and William Clinton, are also public record (though it was kept from the American people by a White House press that went along with these sins of the Presidents by saying nothing and looking the other way). Because of these and other
sins, running rampant, administration after administration, in the White House, the
whole joint is infested with the Devil.
Now there is a wolf howling outside the windows, after they ignored the Word of God and also the advice and example and messages of Billy Graham. Can the wicked people inside, plotting and scheming
evil-doing of all sorts, hear the wolf? Can America's new pharaoh, Obama, hear it? His ears are certainly big enough, you would think! It is the voice of the
holy Word of God in Proverbs, howling its eternal truths and warnings:
"Fervent words with a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver dross.
Obama likes to drag Lincoln into his speeches while disregarding everything Lincoln stood for, hoping that the illustrious name will somehow rub off on him and give him credibility and legitimacy he does not deserve in the least. Lincoln would have had nothing to do with Obama and would have never allowed him into his government, as he was experienced in this world and knew what was
gold and what was fool's gold, though both look about the same to the untrained eye. Obama is clearly fool's gold, and millions of America were blinded by media blitz and think he is
20 karat gold, while he is nothing but fool's gold--some pretty glitz and shine in a rock that is worth nothing and totally useless except maybe to serve as a door stopper.
Former President Bush--did he ever consider that he would have to face
a Jew in a talith someday who is King of Kings, Lord of the Universe, who might question his
policy of "Jewish land for "peace" with Israel's sworn Islamic enemies? Who would like to
stand in his boots when that happens--and it is going to happen. God has an eternal covenant with Israel and the Jews. Anyone who tramples on that everlasting covenant (recorded several times or more in the Bible) is in for big trouble. The Bible says there is going to be big trouble for that one--I am just repeating what it says--lest we do the same here in America. Wouldn't it then be a whole lot saner and better for
us to be friends to Israel and Israel's Covenant God? The Arabs have not and will not
be sane about Israel--they will insist on Israel's eradication, though it will never happen, since they are fighting Israel's God before they are fighting Israel--and Israel's God is the Lord Almighty (unlike Allah, their fictional god which is a nothing). The Arabs in the Middle East, and the Iranians with them, are putting themselves in great jeopardy. Israel will survive and will never cease to exist--but will they? Anyone who blesses Israel, will be blessed by God. Anyone who curses Israels, God will curse. The Arabs will be preserved as a race, perhaps, but their nations (22 in the Middle East)--most will be smashed to nothing--or less than nothing. You can bet on it. Anyone who dares attack Israel is attacking Israel's
protecting Father God, and there is coming a day of divine reckoning for that one. It is just tragic beyond words that the Arab peoples are being led by their insane leaders down a road to certain destruction. Israel does not want that to happen to them, nor does God.
But they are choosing to go that route, and who can stop a suicide once he has really
decided to end his life?
Word of Faith? It is hardly that! It is a heresy, as much a heresy as Self-Deification a la Oprah Winfrey (making yourself God, or taking his place in your exercise of faith). Study Duane L. Smith's Article, from his "Foundational Principles of Life" series, Concerning
Word of Faith and Self-Deification Heresies" in the Churches.
These are widespread heresies, and are so popular and attract so many Christians that they are firmly entrenched in many churches and dominate even some denominations. They still know the Gospel in these churches, true, but the heresies are going to cause distraction and confusion and even induce some to lose faith altogether when the "Formula" for spiritual and financial blessings doesn't work for them like it is supposed to work. Duane's own mother, whom he described as a sincere and faithful saint and woman of God, suffered greatly when she was practicing this Word of Faith heresy and began doubting her own salvation when the formula failed in her life. Isn't that a very sad thing to happen to her? Yet thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Christians, have suffered in the same way.
From "Foundational Principles of Life," Concerning Word of Faith and Self-Deification Heresies, by Duane L. Smith
"The Complete Book of Bible Promises," by J. Stephen Lang, which we have recommended before in the Book center above, has a section, "False Teachings." I will excerpt from it, since it captures the essence of Oprah Winfrey's New Age philosphy and that of a whole generation of such false teachers and their followers: "It doesn't matter what you believe, so long as you're sincere"--so said Linus in the comic strip 'Peanuts'. Linus was defending his belief in the Great Pumpkin, but his sentiment is shared by many people, including many who consider themselves Christians.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM OF LIBERAL-PERVERTED AMERICA IS BEING ACCEPTED AS NORMAL LIFE WHEN IT IS THE LAST THING FROM IT: "You are what you eat," they say. "Clothes make the man,"
is another adage. The Bible says you become what you associate with and take in--so there is truth to those adages. Friends can lead you away from Jesus, or help and encourage you toward him--there is no neutral ground with influences. So the Bible
is strict, it is black and white--ALWAYS. Not shades of gray! Earth, and human society, is full of shades of gray, but not the Word of God. We also hear about the poor little frog that some nincompoop puts in a tub, adds heated water slowly to the water in the tub around the frog, and the happy frog eventually, by degrees, grows accustomed to being cooked to death. If it had felt a sharp increase of heat, it would have jumped out and saved its frog life, of course. Are we like that poor frog? Yes, we are! We are being so accustomed to liberal ways of thinking and behaving, we are being slowly cooked to death as evangelical Christians--that is, we are compromising our Christian, Biblical
beliefs and standards to the point where we will be just like the liberal society around us. It is just a matter of time before the true Christian faith inside us
is scalded to death. It all happens gradually. But we must take warning from the Word of God about this process--and insulate ourselves with the truth of the Bible. Otherwise, we will certainly succumb to this slow death. Liberalism is lunacy, when carried to an extreme, and we are now in an extreme phase of liberalism and humanism. Humanism in its last phase is suicidal, self-destructive, anti-human. It is also anti-Christ in spirit.
It is infested with demons, with witchcraft, drugs, and lust and violence. It is the same
phase the world was in at the time of Noah, if you understand this rightly. So what can we do? Take warning! Get back into the Word of God, get back into the Spirit of God, get back into the truth of God! Immerse ourselves, baptize ourselves in the Word daily,
or we will surely be cooked to death, spiritually, by the stark, raving mad liberal-humanist culture and people around us.
SAINT-BUILDING AND PREACHING/TEACHING CENTER
WHAT IS A TRUE CHRISTIAN? THERE ARE SO MANY COUNTERFEITS ABOUNDING IN OUR EVANGELICAL CIRCLES THESE DAYS. THEY ARE THE TIM HAGGARDS, WHO KNOW ALL THE RIGHT WORDS AND CAN PREACH AND ALSO QUOTE SCRIPTURE AFTER SCRIPTURE, YET THEY ARE NOT OF CHRIST, OR CHRIST IS LIKE FORMER LEADER OF THE EVANGELICALS IN AMERICA, THE NOW DISGRACED TIM HAGGARD, AND THAT CAN NEVER BE! HE IS NOT A SINNER SAVED BY GRACE, AS HE CLAIMED LATELY ON OPRAH. YES, GOD IS ALL FOR SAVING PRODIGALS, BUT AS A TRUE PRODIGAL HE WOULDN'T BE ON THAT PROGRAM WITH HER, HIS PROUD SPIRIT SPARRING WITH HER AND EVEN SILENCING HER, IF HE WERE, AS SHE IS A GENUINE WITCH AND NEW AGE MISSIONARY, AND HE IS GIVING CREDENCE TO HER, AND SHE IS MERELY USING HIM AS A WILLING ACCOMPLICE TO DISCREDIT CHRISTIANITY. THE BIBLE COMMANDS US NOT TO MIX HOLY WITH UNHOLY--AND HE HAS NO PROBLEM DOING THAT, OBVIOUSLY. BUT ENOUGH OF HIM. ALL WE CAN DO IS PRAY FOR THAT POOR MAN, THAT HE BE TRULY SAVED AND BORN AGAIN AND REGENERATED. THE BIBLE TELLS US CLEARLY WHAT A TRUE CHRISTIAN IS. COME SOON TO THIS SECTION FOR THE ARTICLE ON WHAT EXACTLY DEFINES A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
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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
Deshazer's stunning story is available from Discovery House.
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"When Hope is Dead--Hope On!" by W.E. Sangster
REALITY CHECK CENTER:
George
Beverly
Shea singing at the gathering for the
Congressional
Medal award to
Ruth and
Billy
Graham (seated on far right, next to
Speaker of the House Gingrich
REBELLIOUS, IMMORAL, HELL-BENT AMERICA WAS WARNED, TURN BACK TO GOD NOW, OR FACE CATASTROPHE: We had our warning in the U.S. at the highest levels. Howso? It came in the presentation of the 114th Congressional Medal of Honor to Ruth and Billy Graham, 1996!
That was a watershed event, though many there did not recognize it for what it was, a last call from God to turn back to Him or bear the terrible consequences of our abandonment of Him, His commandments, and His truth. God uses all means possible to Him, and this was surely one means He used to warn us and our leaders a final time. As we know, Sept. 11
followed in just a few short years. We could have been spared that catastrophic
attack! But we brought it on by not heeding the message God spoke through Billy Graham the night of the award to his wife and himself by Congress. What was that message? I have described it several times previously, having watching it on TV being presented, and I was then terribly impressed and moved by Billy Graham's message, and even more
impressed and a little frightened by the soberness and graveness that was in his whole manner as he spoke those awesome words of warning to America to turn back to God, or else!
The recent collapse of America's financial stocks and markets and banks, and the vast and catastrophic
corruption and runaway spending of a godless and atheistic, homosexual-led Congress--that only prepares the platform for the coming Anti-Christ--according to John Hagee. We agree! It is time to identify the signs of his appearance, but first let us start with the genuine Christ, Jesus, before
going on to the counterfeit, the Anti-Christ. In two paired articles, we will
take a close look at both:
"Hanukkah and Anti-Christ", which is coming on-line, a section now appearing at this time
Hitler coming out of church after a service:
Germany of the 30's had a main problem, and it wasn't economic (though Germany's economy was inflation-ruined and millions were out of work and people's savings wiped out. It wasn't political, though communists were agitating for a violent revolution in many German states and socialism (Nazi and other types) were competing with the democratic government for control through the election system. Chaos seems to be the greatest fear of the Germans--and they had plenty anarchists throwing bombs and
trying to assassinate leaders--that wasn't the main problem either. Germany's main problem was SPIRITUAL. Cold, doctrinaire religion had taken over in the evangelical churches, STRANGLING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AND QUENCHING THE SPIRIT OF GOD. They needed a living message, to bring the people hope again, but it was not the Gospel they chose based on the living Bible, no, it was Hitler's false, messianic allure and
promises to bring German prestige and glory back, along with its economy, that they chose. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany, the main church, went out in support of Adolf Hitler, before he was perceived by them to be a monster and not the messiah and savior of Germany he was thought by foolish, deceived Christians to be. Few Christian leaders and pastors stood against this dark tide sweeping Germany into a worse destruction than it had ever known in the aftermath of a lost war, World War I. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one such brave man who spoke out against Hitler and his secret agenda, which was not really secret, since he had published it in his book, Mein Kampf (My Will), while
in prison. In that odious book Hitler revealed his terrible hatred for Jews and
God's people and promoted the idea of the victimization of Germany by the Allies of the Western Powers. He promised to turn the humiliation of Germany into a victory. Germany bought Hitler's promise of hope and change, just as Americans by the millions bought Mr. Obama's promise of hope and change in the last election. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
was a man of God, who knew the Bible and believed it, and preached it as a pastor and as a director of an underground Bible school in northern Germany by the coast. He eventually was executed, martyred, in the closing days of World War II, after all he had warned Germans and Christians about came to pass. Germany was destroyed, because Germany refused to listen to the truth Bonhoeffer preached, and so too America will be destroyed if
Americans do not turn from this false messiah, Mr. Obama, back to God and the Bible as their Source of hope and change.
WHAT IS AMERICA'S MAIN PROBLEM? America's main problem is not economic. America's main problem is not even political. America's main problem is spiritual. We must quit abandoning God, and return to Him, and when Jesus Christ is again exalted in this land, and righteousness becomes the standard again of the people, then America will be restored to greatness. But the good God will do for us and our families will not happen, if we do not repent of our wickeness, rebellion, and sin, turn back to God.
We have reported on the trendy apostasy of such evangelical leaders as the televangelist and mega-cultist and curls-on-the-neck Joel Osteen and others. He has lately apologized for flip-flopping on whether Jesus is the only Way to salvation, but that is so fundamental, that his apology
can not cover his basic problem: he is not founded on the truth of the Gospel concerning Christ. NO, HE IS NOT FOUNDED ON THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL! He touts another gospel of his own, as just a minute of listening to his
preaching can show you. His jokes are always good, but his gospel is not even his, it is borrowed, dusty, rotten stuff that lay around in
Norman Vincent Peale's garage cupboards for years and years and which he has painted and polished to look good to the masses while hoping they won't scratch beneath the glossy surface.
The Spirit of Delusion, which must be the leading spirit in the "Hour of Temptation" that the Bible says in Rev. 3: 10 and 11 shall come upon the world's people, has a muscled wrestler's iron grip on Christians in America today! Evangelicals are fast coming under its influence, as in the case of evangelical leaders, one after the other. Pastor and Bestselling Author sRick Warren, who authored the blockbusters, "The Purpose Driven Christian," and the "Purpose Driven Church," with other books no doubt selling millions of copies too, are two of those delusion-propagating ministers. He behaves in a way Christ did not behave: he compromises with the world and its rulers. You never saw Jesus buddying up to Herod and Pilate or the equally corrupt and cruel Jewish high priests Annas and Caiaphas and getting a consensus brokered before he said or did anything. He did not consult them at all! He even called Herod a "fox," which was
a term of contempt, as foxes were unclean scavengers, in Jewish opinion, and
could not even be touched without contaminating a person! The immensely popular author and Pastor Rick Warren is of an entirely different stripe, however.
Dr. David Cooper, pastor of Mount Paran Church, proclaimed the simple, unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ (how refreshing that pure Gospel truly is, after all the adulterated gospels we are constantly being exposed to in the major outlets and venues of evangelicalism these days!), while telling the TV audience of TBN also what the Gospel is not by telling us first and foremost what it is. What is the Gospel? It is Jesus Christ born, suffered and died on the Cross, raised from the dead, ascended to glory and all authority and power on the throne of the Father! That is the Gospel, for in his death on the Cross he took our penalty for sin and
He won forgiveness of sins for us, the free gift of salvation, and this free gift is available for all who repent of their sins and cry to return to God as his sons and daughters. Our focus must only be Christ, Christ, Christ! The Christian faith is not about religion. IT IS NOT ABOUT RELIGION! It is about Jesus, a relationship with him. It is not foundational, or one thing among other things in a Christian's life. It is the ONLY story, the only thing that really matters. Love to tell the old, old story? Do you need a good teacher of ethics or high principles? Well, you don't need Jesus then, though he did teach the highest principles known to men in the Sermon on the Mount. There are good teachers galore, dead or living, available. The world flocks to them, and pay them big bucks too, just to hear the words of wisdom drop from their lips (actually, it is not wisdom, just
worldly knowledge dressed up as wisdom).
Some upcoming articles and booklets: "Billy Graham and Ruth Graham Received Congressional Gold Medal," June 1996
Newspaper Article from the
Northwest Christian Journal
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Nicaean Creed in its entirety! Read it. Believe it. It expresses the pure, BIBLE-BASED, APOSTLE-TAUGHT Gospel of Jesus Christ, and was recognized and approved by the early church council at Nicaea, as the everlasting testimony and proclamation of the Church that the Lord Jesus, the Head of the Church, founded. Who is Jesus? In the
Nicaean Creed the early Church proclaimed him to be: "Jesus Christ, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, born and not created, one substance with the Father through whom are all things created." We also hold to the Apostles Creed. This too expresses
the historic Christian faith, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Since the attractive graphic does not render the words legibly, here is the Apostles Creed:
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