Nationalism

 

                             PREFACE

America has now swerved so deep to the left and not only Socialism but, back to the once defeated Communism.  The premise of a One World Order has been preempting our political arena for more than 50 years.  Ayn Rand had something, in her “Atlas Shrugged” book more than 55 years ago, predicting all that has happened and is taking place in politics now.  For that matter so did Dwight Eisenhower.  Before you can give advice to a fix, you need to understand totally what we are up against.  Hates are prevalent all around us.  And the last step that will happen is an outright civil war, if we don’t find a remedy.

Nationalism definition:

“Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty over the homeland. The political ideology of nationalism holds that a nation should govern itself, free from outside interference and is linked to the concept of self-determination. Nationalism is further oriented towards developing and maintaining a national identity based on shared, social characteristics, such as culture and language, religion and politics, and a belief in a common ancestry. Nationalism, therefore, seeks to preserve a nation’s culture, by way of pride in national achievements, and is closely linked to patriotism, which, in some cases, includes the belief that the nation should control the country’s government and the means of production. ” Wiki

The following are some really good insights on America today, and what we can do about it, as well as sources.  Conservatives? Christians? We need to delve deep. THAT is you all younger than I am 50’s and younger.  And I beg you to put the cell phones down and READ!! Please else we will lose America!

“America’s Cold Civil War
October 2018 • Volume 47, Number 10 • Charles R. Kesler
                        Charles R. Kesler
Editor, Claremont Review of Books
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Charles R. Kesler is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and editor of the Claremont Review of Books. He earned his bachelor’s degree in social studies and his A.M. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. A senior fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy and a recipient of the 2018 Bradley Prize, he is the editor of several books, including Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (with William F. Buckley Jr.), and the author of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism.

The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on September 27, 2018, during a two-week teaching residency as a Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism.

Six years ago I wrote a book about Barack Obama in which I predicted that modern American liberalism, under pressures both fiscal and philosophical, would either go out of business or be forced to radicalize. If it chose the latter, I predicted, it could radicalize along two lines: towards socialism or towards an increasingly post-modern form of leadership. Today it is doing both. As we saw in Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the youngest generation of liberals is embracing socialism openly—something that would have been unheard of during the Cold War. At the same time, identity politics is on the ascendant, with its quasi-Nietzschean faith in race, sex, and power as the keys to being and meaning. In the #MeToo movement, for example—as we saw recently in Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle—the credo is, “Believe the woman.” In other words, truth will emerge not from an adversarial process weighing evidence and testimony before the bar of reason, but from yielding to the will of the more politically correct. “Her truth” is stronger than any objective or disinterested truth.

In the Claremont Review of Books, we have described our current political scene as a cold civil war. A cold civil war is better than a hot civil war, but it is not a good situation for a country to be in. Underlying our cold civil war is the fact that America is torn increasingly between two rival constitutions, two cultures, two ways of life.

Political scientists sometimes distinguish between normal politics and regime politics. Normal politics takes place within a political and constitutional order and concerns means, not ends. In other words, the ends or principles are agreed upon; debate is simply over means. By contrast, regime politics is about who rules and for what ends or principles. It questions the nature of the political system itself. Who has rights? Who gets to vote? What do we honor or revere together as a people? I fear America may be leaving the world of normal politics and entering the dangerous world of regime politics—a politics in which our political loyalties diverge more and more, as they did in the 1850s, between two contrary visions of the country.

One vision is based on the original Constitution as amended. This is the Constitution grounded in the natural rights of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. It has been transmitted to us with significant Amendments—some improvements and some not—but it is recognizable still as the original Constitution. To simplify matters we may call this “the conservative Constitution”—with the caveat that conservatives have never agreed perfectly on its meaning and that many non-conservatives remain loyal to it.
The other vision is based on what Progressives and liberals, for 100 years now, have called “the living Constitution.” This term implies that the original Constitution is dead—or at least on life support—and that in order to remain relevant to our national life, the original Constitution must be infused with new meaning and new ends and therefore with new duties, rights, and powers. To cite an important example, new administrative agencies must be created to circumvent the structural limitations that the original Constitution imposed on government.
As a doctrine, the living Constitution originated in America’s new departments of political and social science in the late nineteenth century—but it was soon at the very forefront of Progressive politics. One of the doctrine’s prime formulators, Woodrow Wilson, had contemplated as a young scholar a series of constitutional amendments to reform America’s national government into a kind of parliamentary system—a system able to facilitate faster political change. But he quickly realized that his plan to amend the Constitution was going nowhere. Plan B was the living Constitution. While keeping the outward forms of the old Constitution, the idea of a living Constitution would change utterly the spirit in which the Constitution was understood.

The resulting Constitution—let us call it “the liberal Constitution”—is not a constitution of natural rights or individual human rights, but of historical or evolutionary right. Wilson called the spirit of the old Constitution Newtonian, after Isaac Newton, and that of the new Constitution Darwinian, after Charles Darwin. By Darwinian, Wilson meant that instead of being difficult to amend, the liberal Constitution would be easily amenable to experimentation and adjustment. To paraphrase the late Walter Berns, the point of the old Constitution was to keep the times in tune with the Constitution; the purpose of the new is to keep the Constitution in tune with the times.

Until the 1960s, most liberals believed it was inevitable that their living Constitution would replace the conservative Constitution through a kind of slow-motion evolution. But during the sixties, the so-called New Left abandoned evolution for revolution, and partly in reaction to that, defenders of the old Constitution began not merely to fight back, but to call for a return to America’s first principles. By seeking to revolve back to the starting point, conservatives proved to be Newtonians after all—and also, in a way, revolutionaries, since the original meaning of revolution is to return to where you began, as a celestial body revolves in the heavens.
The conservative campaign against the inevitable victory of the living Constitution gained steam as a campaign against the gradual or sudden disappearance of limited government and of republican virtue in our political life. And when it became clear, by the late 1970s and 1980s, that the conservatives weren’t going away, the cold civil war was on.

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Confronted by sharper, deeper, and more compelling accounts of the conservative Constitution, the liberals had to sharpen—that is, radicalize—their own alternative, following the paths paved by the New Left. As a result, the gap between the liberal and conservative Constitutions became a gulf, to the extent that today we are two countries—or we are fast on the road to becoming two countries—each constituted differently.

Consider a few of the contrasts. The prevailing liberal doctrine of rights traces individual rights to membership in various groups—racial, ethnic, gender, class-based, etc.—which are undergoing a continual process of consciousness-raising and empowerment. This was already a prominent feature of Progressivism well over a century ago, though the groups have changed since then. Before Woodrow Wilson became a politician, he wrote a political science textbook, and the book opened by asking which races should be studied. Wilson answered: we’ll study the Aryan race, because the Aryan race is the one that has mastered the world. The countries of Europe and the Anglophone countries are the conquerors and colonizers of the other continents. They are the countries with the most advanced armaments, arts, and sciences.
Wilson was perhaps not a racist in the full sense of the term, because he expected the less advanced races over time to catch up with the Aryan race. But his emphasis was on group identity—an emphasis that liberals today retain, the only difference being that the winning and losing sides have been scrambled. Today the white race and European civilization are the enemy—“dead white males” is a favored pejorative on American campuses—and the races and groups that were oppressed in the past are the ones that today need compensation, privileges, and power.

Conservatives, by contrast, regard the individual as the quintessential endangered minority. They trace individual rights to human nature, which lacks a race. Human nature also lacks ethnicity, gender, and class. Conservatives trace the idea of rights to the essence of an individual as a human being. We have rights because we’re human beings with souls, with reason, distinct from other animals and from God. We’re not beasts, but we’re not God—we’re the in-between being. Conservatives seek to vindicate human equality and liberty—the basis for majority rule in politics—against the liberal Constitution’s alternative, in which everything is increasingly based on group identity.

There is also today a vast divergence between the liberal and conservative understandings of the First Amendment. Liberals are interested in transforming free speech into what they call equal speech, ensuring that no one gets more than his fair share. They favor a redistribution of speech rights via limits on campaign contributions, repealing the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and narrowing the First Amendment for the sake of redistribution of speech rights from the rich to the poor. Not surprisingly, the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform called for amending the First Amendment!

There is, of course, also a big difference between the liberal Constitution’s freedom from religion and the conservative Constitution’s freedom of religion. And needless to say, the liberal Constitution has no Second Amendment.

In terms of government structure, the liberal Constitution is designed to overcome the separation of powers and most other checks and balances. Liberals consistently support the increased ability to coordinate, concentrate, and enhance government power—as opposed to dividing, restricting, or checking it. This is to the detriment of popular control of government. In recent decades, government power has flowed mainly through the hands of unelected administrators and judges—to the point that elected members of Congress find themselves increasingly dispirited and unable to legislate. As the Financial Times put it recently, “Congress is a sausage factory that has forgotten how to make sausages.”

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If one thinks about how America’s cold civil war could be resolved, there seem to be only five possibilities. One would be to change the political subject. Ronald Reagan used to say that when the little green men arrive from outer space, all of our political differences will be transcended and humanity will unite for the first time in human history. Similarly, if some jarring event intervenes—a major war or a huge natural calamity—it might reset our politics.
A second possibility, if we can’t change the subject, is that we could change our minds. Persuasion, or some combination of persuasion and moderation, might allow us to end or endure our great political division. Perhaps one party or side will persuade a significant majority of the electorate to embrace its Constitution, and thus win at the polling booth and in the legislature. For generations, Republicans have longed for a realigning election that would turn the GOP into America’s majority party. This remains possible, but seems unlikely. Only two presidents in the twentieth century were able to effect enduring changes in American public opinion and voting patterns—Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. FDR inspired a political realignment that lasted for a generation or so and lifted the Democratic Party to majority status. Ronald Reagan inspired a realignment of public policy, but wasn’t able to make the GOP the majority party.

Since 1968, the norm in America has been divided government: the people have more often preferred to split control of the national government between the Democrats and the Republicans rather than entrust it to one party. This had not previously been the pattern in American politics. Prior to 1968, Americans would almost always (the exceptions proved the rule) entrust the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Presidency to the same party in each election. They would occasionally change the party, but still they would vote for a party to run the government. Not so for the last 50 years. And neither President Obama nor President Trump, so far, has persuaded the American electorate to embrace his party as their national representative, worthy of long-term patriotic allegiance.

Trump, of course, is new to this, and his party in Congress is basically pre-Trumpian. He did not win the 2016 election by a very large margin, and he was not able to bring many new Republicans into the House or the Senate. Nonetheless, he has the opportunity now to put his mark on the party. In trying to do so, his populism—which is not a word he uses—will not be enough. He will have to reach out to the existing Republican Party as he has done, adopt some of its agenda, adopt its electoral supporters, and gradually bring them around to his “America first” conservatism if he is to have any chance of achieving a political realignment. And the odds remain against him at this point.

As for moderating our disagreements and learning to live with them more or less permanently, that too seems unlikely given their fundamental nature and the embittered trajectory of our politics over the last two decades.

So if we won’t change our minds, and if we can’t change the subject, we are left with only three other ways out of the cold civil war. The happiest of the three would be a vastly reinvigorated federalism. One of the original reasons for constitutional federalism was that the states had a variety of interests and views that clashed with one another and could not be pursued in common. If we had a re-flowering of federalism, some of the differences between blue states and red states could be handled discreetly by the states themselves. The most disruptive issues could be denationalized. The problem is, having abandoned so much of traditional federalism, it is hard to see how federalism could be revived at this late juncture.

That leaves two possibilities. One, alas, is secession, which is a danger to any federal system—something about which James Madison wrote at great length in The Federalist Papers. With any federal system, there is the possibility that some states will try to leave it. The Czech Republic and Slovakia have gone their separate ways peacefully, just within the last generation. But America is much better at expansion than contraction. And George Washington’s admonitions to preserve the Union, I think, still miraculously somehow linger in our ears. So secession would be extremely difficult for many reasons, not the least of which is that it could lead, as we Americans know from experience, to the fifth and worst possibility: hot civil war.
Under present circumstances, the American constitutional future seems to be approaching some kind of crisis—a crisis of the two Constitutions. Let us pray that we and our countrymen will find a way to reason together and to compromise, allowing us to avoid the worst of these dire scenarios—that we will find, that is, the better angels of our nature.”

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https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/immigration-past-now-and-borders/

From a Jewish author from the Herzl Foundation. Nationalism was Israel’s dream too. 1947 when President Harry Truman remembering his mother’s prayers, made Israel a State! The dream of Theodore Herzl. THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM BY YORAM HAZONY:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541645375/?coliid=IHRRWRXNUD5RD&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rands predictions as a child of 10 in Russia when the Bolchevic Revolution broke out and she saw revolutionary gangs in hate, smash up her father’s business.   https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/atlas-shrugged-rands-predictions/

Atlas Shrugged                                                                                                                                                   https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Centennial-Ed-Rand/dp/0525948929/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540507093&sr=1-1&keywords=atlas+shrugged+hardcover

Ayn Rand on Amazon                                                                                                                                      https://www.amazon.com/Ayn-Rand/e/B000APYGIW/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1540507256&sr=1-2-ent

What we as Christian Conservatives need to do!  VOTE!!                             http://www.kcm.org/watch/tv-broadcast/how-christian-voters-and-judges-steer-the-nation

 

 

 

Selling Out America’s Choice

The media, McCain funeral, and elitist Washington, who blatantly sold out our sitting President. It is abhorrent, that the “peoples” choice, should be viewed as intolerant of this man as the “career” politicians, and Communist/Socialist left media, many receiving donation from Soros too.

I find, Meghan McCain’s remarks as cutting, hateful words, when this President’s daughter Ivanka and her husband were right in the audience; with selfish avarice not one thought went to her and how those words would cut at her heart. We reap what we sow, Meghan. But your hates, and others around you such as Obama’s,
in his Godless, selfish false political ideologies will eat you up all the way to hell.

McCain was afforded a week of pomp and celebration of life, that this President
bequeathed upon him along with General Kelly. Such a celebration is usually only
afforded to Presidents, which McCain was not. NOR according to PBS’s Frontline
last week was he a hero, when in fact the Vietnamese vehemently denied that he
was ever tortured and his injuries were from bailing out of his plane. Hates will eat
you up alive! This man though just died, so I ask God to please forgive me of my
comments, yet, the truths shall set you free. You see I don’t hold “any” man up as
an idol to worship, I only hold one up, his name is Jesus Christ! And GOD after all is the final judge.

I loved my father too, but, I don’t know if he was saved, and there is a possibility that he was not. I did not come to the Cross and salvation until after he died. We
had “church” just like the McCain’s when I grew up. We all “believed in God,” but, the salvation message was never preached in my old Congregational church. But John 3:3 says “Unless a man be born again, he will not enter the kingdom of God.”Period. And there are two Judgments, The Great White Throne Judgment Seat of God when all we who are saved, will be judged on our works..WHAT we did for the Kingdom of God (not the kingdom of self, and pompous selfish acts.) The second judgment is the judgment of all those who did not give their hearts to Christ, the unrepentant, the murderers, the liars, and hell servers of false religions,
and haters of God; before they get cast into hell. And they shall burn for eternity.
And many disbelievers, mockers like the Communist Jew, George Soros, will one day see the error of his ways selling America and God his God of Abraham out!! MY word! HE is in charge, not me. So my question, now remains, did McCain ever repent, or stay in his hostile self-righteousness? For I know of only one President too, who did get saved, (other than President Trump) Lyndon Johnson, who got led to the Lord by Billie Graham. Nixon too, in his pomp self-righteousness refused. JFK and Bobbie were Catholic and prolife, but saved? Maybe. We don’t know and won’t until we reach Heaven. And I hate to tell you Schumer, you too will be thou judged! But Meghan instead of lashing out in hate you should have spoken in Gods love (at a funeral?) and forgiveness! We reap what we sow. The way you treat others’ so will God treat you. And trust me, He exists! There is a Heaven, there is a Hell!

So, this gives us all something to ponder. And your own legacies you leave
behind. I backed and voted for John McCain way back mainly because of
Sarah Palin, who I love. But, even she was banned. Proverbs says, “Boast
not thyself, but let another do it.” John McCain, held himself up higher than
any God. So in fact do Barack Obama, as an evangelical, having written to
him once, my letter was ridiculed in the media. Communist ideologies, lying,
vying for control, and a society other than our Founding Father’s and God
Almighty, will not get you to Heaven.

So, I ask you Senator Graham, at what price, is this love for a man that did a
lot to hurt people. Cause, no America, through the last 40 years was not so hot
or great!! But, God will, it will be, for this President is God’s choice, and will
do HIS will and the will of us American’s who voted for him. Not pacs, or
special interests, or the hates of the world. And I ask you the media, how long
are you going play at this charade? What are you going to do when my President
of choice gets elected again in 2020?

THIS country needs to heal. And Meghan, neither you or your father have done
one thing to that goal, and neither have you Schumer or your left followers or the
Socialist pundits on the news. I watched a wonderful message on Daystar with
Joni Lamb, TD Jakes, and Robert Morris on race, which I cried through the whole
hour. And Obama you are wrong too. All your hates. So this is for you, and your
Chicago, for Meghan, and all you haters..no matter what color. You see, Obama,
I didn’t like you, not because of color, but your reading of your own book on
YouTube, your Communist ideologies. I have a Black grandson, 24, and God
I only wish I had input to his life and mistake he’s making.

Robert said, “Hating someone in another race, (or anyone) is feeling superior. And
Prejudice towards another race or otherwise, is judgment (McCain to Trump) and
its PreJUDAS! 1. Racism is pure evil, so is hating another. Romans 12:1 It’s the devil. 2. Pure Self-righteousnesss ..is evil. 3. It violates the Great Commission.
Matthew 28:19 4. It violates the Commandments. John 13:34-35 5. Racism/hates
violates the Blood at the CROSS! Acts 17:26 6. It questions GOD’S plan..
Revelation 5:9 (To REDEEM) 7. Racism/hates questions GOD and DEFIES HIM!
John 3:16

For those hates like my President Donald Trump has endured? God is with him. And God also is the FINAL VINDICATOR, Judge , and jury. Romans being the
book of laws! “If” as I know we evangelicals all through America, believe that
this President was chosen by GOD himself, HE will vindicate him, against all the
hates, the media, and including Mueller. I have no doubt that God will raise him
up and an army who will back him, to clean out this Washington DC swamp! The
swamp ALL of you elitist’s, George W. Bush, H.W Bush, (who I voted for) the
Clintons, and Obama’s, ALL had a hand in making evil, and crooked, including
Our FBI. If God be for you, man cannot be against you. Like the days of Moses
when God opened up the seas…I believe in miracles, and I believe the righteous
will prevail. I also believe in His judgments and the fires in CA are such. And
I also believe the Tribulation is around the corner. I tweeted to you once George
W. that you should call up and make up with this President. You do not know
the gracious generous Trump only headlines that are leaked and crooked. But,
that is pride! And God hates pride. You see only God has the right to hate.

“If my people who call out my name shall humble themselves and repent…then
I will heal thy land”. Romans 8:24 “I shall not keep silent.”

Hell is a Place:  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/hell-is-a-place/

Heaven:  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/heaven/

PS And I just received this via email.  So while Egypt declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and put Morsi in jail, John McCain helped Obama make them legitimate in America. He knew nothing about the Bible or prophesies, or God’s plan, nor did he care.  He sold America out.  And all those 23 Muslim camps Obama let it the US? McCain knew just like the one just busted in New Mexico. God is the final judge.

https://freedomoutpost.com/egyptian-media-john-mccain-was-the-godfather-leader-real-supreme-guide-of-the-muslim-brotherhood/

 

 

The Abrahamic Covenant with Israel

GENESIS CHAPTER 12 (1921 B.C.)

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram (referring to the Revelation which had been given to the Patriarch a short time before; this Chapter is very important, for it records the first steps of this great Believer in the path of Faith), Get thee out of your country (separation), and from your kindred (separation), and from your father’s house (Separation-UR in Iraq up north where the Tigress and Euphrates meet, which is where Abraham was born. ) unto a land that I will show you (refers to the fact that Abraham had no choice in the matter; he was to receive his orders from the Lord, and go where those orders led him).

2 And I will make of you a great Nation (the Nation which God made of Abraham has changed the world, and exists even unto this hour; in fact, this Nation “Israel” still has a great part to play, which will take place in the coming Kingdom Age), and I will bless you, and make your name great (according to Scripture, “to bless” means “to increase;” the builders of the Tower of Babel sought to “make us a name,” whereas God took this man, who forsook all, and “made his name great”); and you shall be a blessing: (Concerns itself with the greatest blessing of all. It is the glory of Abraham’s Faith. God would give this man the meaning of Salvation, which is “Justification by Faith,” which would come about through the Lord.

3 And I will bless them who bless you (to bless Israel, or any Believer, for that matter, guarantees the Blessings of God, (AMERICA!) and curse him who curses you (EU –Palestine!)
to curse Israel, or any Believer, guarantees that one will be cursed by God): and in you shall all families of the Earth be blessed. (It speaks of Israel, which sprang from the loins of Abraham and the womb of Sarah, giving the world the Word of God and, more particularly, bringing the Messiah into the world. Through Christ, every family in the world who desires blessing from God can have that Blessing.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him (this was his first surrender; there were seven in all: 1. He surrenders here his native land; 2. He surrenders his family; 3. He then surrenders the vale of the Jordan; He then surrenders the riches of Sodom;

5. He surrenders self;

6. He then surrenders Ishmael; and lastly,

7. He surrenders Isaac; each painful surrender was followed by increased spiritual wealth); and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran (the Holy Spirit notes Abraham’s age upon his departure, signifying that the revelation may have come several years earlier).

*** The land God gave Abraham, included what is Palestine now, Jordan, and half of Syria. What is Iraq now was MESOPOTAMIA, the very first civilization. Iraq was sacred, and we never should have gone in. (My opinion as others.) What is now Mosul, Iraq was then Nineveh, the Assyrian City. And Jesus also spoke Assyrian. South West Iraq was Babylon, the Tower of Babel, and King Nebuchadnezzar’s hanging gardens. Up north in Iraq was a flat plateau of monks that had been there for 2,000 years with scrolls, many that became lost when GW Bush sent in troops and the fighting with ISIS. Not to mention so many antiquities that were destroyed!

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (From Haran to Canaan was approximately 350 miles. Abraham had 318 trained men with him [14:14], meaning that they were trained to fight as soldiers. In fact, there may have been as many as a thousand people in this entourage.)

6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. (Abraham finds the hateful, impure, and hostile Canaanite in God’s land. That being an example, the young Believer expects after conversion to find nothing in his nature hostile to Christ, but is distressed and perplexed very soon to painfully learn that, alas, the Canaanite is in the land, and that he is now commencing a lifelong battle with what the New Testament calls “the flesh.” — Williams)

7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram (though the hostile Canaanite was in the land, the Lord was there as well), and said, Unto your seed will I give this land (the “seed” through Isaac, and not Ishmael; Satan has contested this Promise from the very beginning, with the struggle continuing even unto this hour, as it regards Israel and the Palestinians): and there built he an Altar unto the LORD, Who appeared unto him. (The “Altar” and its Sacrifice represented the Lord)

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east (“Beth-el” means “House of God,” while “Hai” means “the heap of ruins”): and there he built an Altar unto the LORD, and called upon the Name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south (“south” was toward Egypt, which direction Abraham should not have gone). ABRAM’S SOJOURN IN EGYPT 10 And there was a famine in the land (a famine in God’s land? it was allowed by the Lord as a test of Faith, as everything for the Believer is a test of Faith): and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there (the Lord didn’t call Abram to Egypt, but rather to Canaan; better to starve in Canaan, than to live in luxury in Egypt); for the famine was grievous in the land.

The Expositor’s Study Bible (Kindle Locations 1067-1072). Kindle Edition.

*THIS is the COVENENT! THERE WAS NO PALESTINE!! THIS WAS BEFORE EVEN THE BIRTH OF
ISHMAEL AND ISAAC !!! ISRAEL IS NOT AN OCCUPIER, THEY OWN THIS LAND!!! PERIOD!
*see from Sheikh below:

PALESTINE DOES NOT BELONG TO THE ARABS AND THE JEWS ARE NOT OCCUPIERS OF ISRAEL!

https://www.haaretz.com/jordan-sheikh-claims-israel-belongs-to-jews-1.5324929

A Sheikh from Jordans prominent Adwan tribe said Israel belongs to the Jews and that Palestine claims to the territory is false. Sheikh Ahmed Aladoan of Amman, who made this remark based his assertions on the Koran, saying “those who distort the Koran are liars and questioned the origins of the word of Palestine.
“Allah is the protector of the Children of Israel”, he insisted, saying there was no such place as Palestine in early history.  The Muslim cleric also Palestine of violence saying that they kill children, the elderly, and women that they hide behind human shields and have no mercy for their own children.   Last year Sheikh Aladoan came to Israel and paid a visit Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu . The visit filmed by Orot TV in Israel. Saying “there is no name “Palestine for this land” in the Koran and that Arabs should not therefore fight for that land. “

*Genesis 12 and 13, God gave that land to Abraham and the Jews through Isaac. At that time the land not only included Israel, but what is now called “Palestine, Jordan, and half of Syria.” To the Arabs, through Ishmael, when Sarah banned him and Hagar his Egyptian mother to the desert, God gave oil.

I have this book, the Bible as History, which is fascinating. Much information from finds and
Archeology that bears out scripture and the Bible as truths.

 

Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia refers to an ancient region of south west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq. The region’s location and fertility gave rise to settlements some 10,000 years ago, and it became the cradle of some of the world’s earliest civilizations and the birthplace of writing. It was first settled by the Sumerians, who were succeeded by the Akkadians and later by the Babylonians. During the course of history, it become a part of almost every major empire. Since Mesopotamia was home to so many nations. Perhaps as old as 10,000 years BC as Antarctica.

 

Babylon

The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire. Mesopotamia became a battleground between the Romans and Parthians, with western parts of Mesopotamia coming under ephemeral Roman control. In AD 226, the eastern regions of Mesopotamia fell to the Sassanid Persians. The division of Mesopotamia between Roman (Byzantine from AD 395) and Sassanid Empires lasted until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire and Muslim conquest of the Levant from Byzantines. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.

Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. It has been identified as having “inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy and agriculture. From Wikipedia
In Julius Caesar’s time, Rome was in complete control of Italy, with provinces scattered around the entire Mediterranean and tributary kingdoms further inland. Julius went on to consolidate Gaul, had a look at Britain and hated its weather, and was preparing to do in the Parthian empire when done in by his protegee Brutus and other conspirators. However the Roman Empire was long in place before he was born. Look for a long list of conquerors, with names like Scipio, Paulus, Sulla. *Remember that the Antichrist is coming out of the Old Roman Empire.

Most Important Dates In History (Not including New Testament Events)
The Age of Early Christianity
3 BC-33 AD Birth of Jesus -Crusifiction (**recorded between 30-80 AD)
The main sources of information regarding Jesus’ life and teachings are the canonical Gospels of the New Testament found in the Christian Bible. The Gospels are the written records of Jesus’ oral teachings as recorded by the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Christian historians place the first published record of the Gospel around 50 AD.

AD The Age of Early Christianity
64 The Fire in Rome (Nero)
70 Titus destroys Jerusalem
c150 Justin Martyr’s Apology
c156 Martyrdom of Polycarp
177 Irenaeus becomes bishop of Lyons
196 Tertullian begins writing
c205 Origen begins writing
270 Anthony begins his life as a hermit

The Age of the Christian Empire
312 Conversion of Constantine
325 Council of Nicea
367 Athanasius’s letter recognizes NT canon
385 Bishop Ambrose defies the Empress
387 Augustine’s Conversion
398 Chrysostom becomes bishop of Const.
405 Jerome completes Vulgate
432 Patricks mission to Ireland
451 Council on Chalcedon
529 Benedict founds his monestary
563 Columba goes to lona

Christian Middle Ages
The Birth of Muhammad (570-632 AD)
570 Muhammad was born in Mecca either on July 6th, or August 20th of 570 AD.
590 Gregory I becomes FIRST POPE!
*Note, remember Jesus was a Jew, Rabbi in the Jewish Tabernacle. When he was crucified the Jews were split and half followed the disciples with his teachings
and the other half stayed in the Tabernacle in Jerusalem.
694 Synod of Whitby
716 Boniface sets out as missionary
731 Bede publishes Ecclesiastical history
732 Battle of Tours
800 Charlemagne crowned emperor
863 Cyril & Methodius go to Slavs
909 Monastery at Clurry founded
988 Conversion of Vladimir (Russia)
1054 East-West Split
1093 Anselm becomes Bishop of Canterbury
1096 Crusades launched by Popes speech
1115 Bernard founds monastery at Clairvaux
c1150 Universities of Paris/Oxford founded
1173 Waldensians founded
1206 Francis renounces wealth
1215 Innocent II calls fourth Lateran Council
1273 Aquinas completes Summa Theologia
1321 Dante writes Divine Comedy
1378 Catherine of Siena & the Great Schism
c1380 *Wycliffe supervises English Bible translation
1415 John Hus burned at stake
1456 Gutenberg prints BIBLE ***First!!
1478 Spanish inquisition established -**Queen Isabella & the pogaming of Jews
1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America – Took Jews to flea Spain                                            **These Jews who later became businessmen, also bankers in America,                                               helped build America after the American Revolution. Some said Columbus                                       too, was Jewish.  I found no proof as yet.  God said He would bless those                                           who blessed HIS people, and that was His promise to America!                                                       1496 Savonarola burned
1512 Michelangelo/Sistine Chapel (St. Peter’s)
*** During the 1400’s into the 1500’s also was history with the Borgia’s.
Rodrigo Borgia, who bought his way to become Pope Alexander VI,
including having his own marriage annulled with two sons, and one
daughter Lucrecia. He too filled the Vatican with his mistresses openly.
During this time too, Mary Queen of Scots had been placed as a child
in France by her mother for safety. Prince Francis and she fell in love and
married young, But, Francis died of an illness very young, at which time,
Mary went to her native Scotland. History bore out the struggle with her
half-sister Elizabeth Queen of England. Elizabeth’s hatred of Mary, was
overwhelming and didn’t want her to reign in Scotland fearing she would
take over England. Eventually Mary was captured and kept in the tower of
the palace in England for over 20 years, before Elizabeth had her beheaded.
As in 1534 below, Henry the VIII denounced the Catholic church and had
one of his wives Ann Bolin beheaded on false charges so he could remarry,
making himself England’s head of the church, which ushered in Protestants.
Thus we see the anarchy and vie for power and wars that ensued.

The Age of the Reformation
1517 Martin Luther posts 95 thesis (Challenging the Catholic Church.)
1523 Zwingli leads Swiss Reformation
1525 Anabaptist movement begins
1534 Henry VIII and Act of Supremacy
1536 Calvin’s Institutes
1540 Jesuits approved by Pope
1545 Council of Trent
1549 Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer
1559 John Knox returns to Scotland
1572 St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
1609 John Smyth baptizes self & first Baptists
1611 King James Bible published
1620 Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact
1628 Comenius driven from his homeland
1646 Westminster Confession
1648 Quaker’s founded

The Age of Reason and Revival
1622 Rembrandt paints Prodigal Son
1675 Spencer’s pia Desideria
1678 Paul Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress published
1685 Birth of Bach and Handel in Germany
1707 Watt publishes hymnal
1776 America’s Revolutionary War and freedom from
England.
1727 Morovian Awakening
*** The great hundred year Holy Spirit led prayer that lasted
Into America, spreading to Azuza St Awakening as well
as The Great Awakening during our Founding Fathers
drafting the Constitution and all our laws.
1735 Great Awakening (Holy Spirit Revival, John Whitefield)
1738 John Wesley’s Conversion
1780 Robert Paike’s begins Sunday Schools

The Age of Progress
1793 Carey sails for India
1807 Wilberforce leads abolitionists
1811 Campbell begins Disciples
1812 Judson’s in Asia – * Also America’s
War of 1812 when the Brits burned our
White House when Madison was President.
1816 Richard Allen AME church
1817 Elizabeth Fry begins prison ministry
1830 J.N. Darby and the Plymouth Brethren
1830 Finney begins urban revivals
1833 John keble & start of Oxford movement

*** During this time came the unrest in Germany &
WWI as well as the Communist Bolshevik Revolution,
later the writings of Ayn Rand speaking out against the
viles of Communism, when she saw her fathers business
ravaged by Russian soldiers. The soldiers also murdered
Czar Nicholas, his wife and 5 children. Horrible bloodshed
over a false ideology that has never worked EVER, be it
Russia, China, No. Korea, Vietnam, or Cuba!

The Age of Ideologies
1919 Barth writes Commentary of Romans
1921 First Christian radio broadcast
** Also during America’s Great Depression.
1934 Townsend begins Summer institute of Linguistics
1945 Bonhoeffer executed in Germany in his attempt
to kill Hitler, also the end of WWII.
1948 World Council of Churches formed
1949 Billy Graham’s Los Angeles Crusade
1962 Vatican II
1966 Chinese church grows amidst cultural (Communist)
Revolution.

**Present  – We are and always have been a Christian nation! **

Palestinian/Israel History  

BC

600,000-10,000  Palleolithic and Mesolithlic period.  Earliest human   remains in the area are                                (found south of the Lake of Tabariyyal,   date back to ca 600,000BC.)

10,000 – 5,000 Neolithic period.  Establishment of settled agricultural  communities.

5,000 – 3,000  Chalcolithic period.  Copper and stone tools and artifacts  from this period found                           near Jericho.  Bi’r As-Sabi’ and the Dead  Sea.

3,000-2000  Early Bronze Age. Arrival and settlement of Canaanites    (3,000 –2,500 BC).  Ca.                                1,260 Israelite conquest of Canaan.

965 – 928 King Solomon (Sulayman) construction of the temple in  Jerusalem.  In the very place                  that the wailing wall still stands  where the Jew prays…and on the SAME spot as the                       Dome  of the Rock is too.

721  –   Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel. (Assyria now Mosul)

586 –  Judah defeated by Bablonians under Nebuchadnezzar (modern  day Iraq) deportation of                      its population to Babylon and destruction of Solomon’s Temple.

539  –  Persians (Iran now) conquer Bablonia (Iraq) allowance of deportees to  return and r                        rebuild   new temple.

333 –  Alexander the Great conquers Persia (Iran) and Palestine comes under the Greek rule.                  (Persia also called the Persian Empire {later the Ottomans}  located in west and                               southwest  Asia.  At it’s height it extended from Egypt  and the Aegean to India.  Since                   1935 was renamed IRAN.)

323  – Alexander the Great dies,  alternate rule by Plolemies of Egypt and the  Seleucids of Syria.

165 – Maccabees revolt against the Seleucid ruler (Antiochus Epiphanes-Greece) and establish                 an independent state.

63 –     Incorporation of Palestine into the Roman Empire. Way back then.  Before                                  Jesus.. Arabs still didn’t have Palestine..Rome ruled. They all took from the Jews.

37 –    It remained for Herod the Great to rebuild he wall of the temple. But they were                              Romans, not Jews. And Herod and Pilate  chose the priests for the Temple and                                 continued  after Jesus was Rabbi in the temple.

20-19  Herod’s Temple began (Using the 46 years of John 2:20.)

4-5 –   Unclear as to the Birth of Jesus.  Though he died several years prior to Herod.                              3 BC-33 AD Birth of Jesus -Crusifiction (**recorded between 30-80 AD)  He arose not until                 the 4^th century.   

4    – Beginning of the Jewish Passover.   

AD

70 –  Destruction of the Second Solomon’s Temple by the Roman Emperor Titus.  

132-135 Suppressors of the Bar Kokhba revolt.  The Jews were barred from Jerusalem  and Emperor                 Hadrian builds pagan city on its’ ruins.    

330 – 638 Palestine under Byzantine rule. They won in war from the Romans. Christianity                 Too spreads.  More than 300 years After Christ died.      

638 – Omar ibn al-Khattaab enters Jerusalem and ends the Byzantine rule.   

661- 750  – Palestine administered by the Umayyad chaliphs from Damascus and they                                          contruct  the Dome of the Rock. (Abd al-Malik, ) and Al-Aqsa in its current shape                                       (al- Walid, 705- 725)  Constructed right OVER the same spot as Solomon’s Temple  by the                      now standing wailing wall.  Hence the Arab /Jewish battle for thousands of  years, and                             Islam.    

750- 1258  Palestine administered from Baghdad by the Abbasid caliphs.

 969 –  Palestine administered by the Fatimids from Egypt as rivals to Baghdad.

 1071 –  Saljuqs (originally from Afghanistan) rule Jerusalem and parts of Palestine   (officially still                      under ‘Abbasids).   

1099 -1187  The Crusaders arrive and establish the “Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem”.     

1187 – Salah al-Dun al-Ayyoubi (from Kurdistan) conquers the crusaders in the battle of Hitfin, kicks               them back to Europe and frees Jerusalem. Palestine administered from  Cairo.  

1260 – The Mamluks succeed  the Ayyubis, continue to administer Palestine from Cairo and                              Kick the Mongols in the battle of  “Ayn Jaluut near An-Nasira.   

1291 – The Mamluks (Khali bin Qalawuun) conquer the last crusader stronghold in Akka and                           Qisariya.     

1516-1917 Palestine incorporated into the Ottoman State and administered from Istanbul.                          (IRAN)  ** Note they took over all of Europe and mid east. and it was Winston Churchill                who ended it prior to WWI.   

1832 – 1840  Moh’d AM Pasha (Egypt) ruled Palestine. Ottomans take over after.   

1876-  1877  First Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem attend the first Ottoman parliament.                                  (remember ruled from Persia (Iran.)    

1878 –  First  Zionist settlement (Petach Tiqva) established under agricultural community.  

1882 -1903  First wave of Zionists (25,000 strong.) enters Palestine as illegal immigrants from                  Eastern Europe. (Yet all that land was theirs in the beginning.)   

1882 –  French Baron E de Rothschild starts backing Zionist activities in Palestine financially.   

1887 –  Ottomans divide Palestine into three districts. Jerusalem (follows Istanbul), Akka and                               Nablus (follow the ‘willaya of Beirut).   

1907  – Theodor Hertzl , a journalist from an Austro-Hungarian origin published Der Judenstaat  (The             Jewish State) advocating the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine or  Elsewhere.   

1886     JCA (Jewish Colonization Association) starts  aiding Zionist settlements in Palestine.   

1887    First Zionist congress in Switzerland issues the Basle Program calling for a home for

            the Jewish people in Palestine and establishes the WZO (World Zionist Org. to that end.)

 

1901   JNF (Jewish National Fund) set up by the5th Zionist congress to acquire land (in Palestine) and           to make it Jewish.     

1904-1914  Second wave (around 40,000 strong) of Zionist illegal immigrants arrive in Palestine                           and increase the Jewish percentage  to 6% of the total population.   

1909  – First Zionist Kibbutz (collective farm), establishment of Tel Aviv north of Yaafa.

1914 – WWI starts and later World War II  to 1945. Hitler and Jewish anti-semitism and more                        than 6 million Jews gassed and killed.      

1922-1948  Jerusalem was under the League of Nations and Great Britain. And the British                                  occupied all Israel and Palestine.  Until President Harry Truman remembering his  mother’s                   praying, took the side of  the Jews and made Israel the State God meant it  to be.   

1947  -After much devastation in the Jewish –Arab conflict, following Truman and the partition                       resolution when Jerusalem became internationalized, the old city was left in the hands of the                Jordan Kingdom and the New Israel, as much of the Jewish quarter of the old  half had been                    destroyed and the “Wailing Wall” becoming inaccessible to the jam. The  armistice agreement                of 1949 made a division between the State  of Israel  and the  Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.    

1950  – Jerusalem became the seat of the Israel government, but the city remained divided. The                         Only connection being  the Madelaum Gate, through which passage was restricted by                            both countries.  Jerusalem still despite all keeps the aspect of the Holy City.   

1966 – Jewish population was 164,000 , the Arabic 46,000.  The presence of synagogues,                                  churches, mosques, monasteries, witness to the universal importance of Jerusalem,  where                   various races and creeds mix.  The seat of ecclesiastical authority for many faiths.

        *** Don’t forget too, that 1967 Israel was in the 6 day war with Egypt when Nassar was                                       alive. But God was in charge! 

 

Growing In God

There are two ways a believer can establish or strengthen his heart, either by grace or works.  For a new Christian just recently saved, they have not naturally  had the teachings that many of us have had after being saved for 15-20 years plus.  So, we refer to these new Christians as baby Christians, still on milk. When they have walked in the Lord for some time, and received “with a humble spirit” the teachings of Christ, we say they are now on meat.  Which refers to the special offerings which the priests ate.  Hebrews 13:9.  “For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have  not profited them that have been occupied therein. ”  They had no right to eat that which was served in the tabernacle. The Jewish Christians who were the first recipients of the epistle understood the Hebraism of  “meats” to refer to the ceremonial rituals, etc. of Levitical law.

Then it goes on to say that it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. Hebrews makes it clear that good works does not get you into Heaven; which may be as a “works mentality” , because God still requires good works, Ephesians 2:10 which result from His working THROUGH His people.  Two things to notice about legalistic works or “dead” works in Hebrews 6:1, 9-14 are that works do not profit and  works “occupy”.  So when we are a work-a-holic or always have an excuse, “I don’t have time”, “I don’t feel like it now”. Is it dead  works by self, and self-imposed or is it works by grace and the power of God? Do we let God lead us through His Holy Spirit and HIS work, or are we always still in the world doing our own thing in self?  Are we serving? Or being served?  We all have certain gifts and we all can be used in some way for our church.

Legalism is a futile effort.  They have such misguided regulations which have never proven useful and place so much dependence on doing this “this” way or faultfinding, etc. that they derive no benefit.  A works mentality does not promote true godliness. Martin Luther found that out too, as a Catholic monk scrubbing the abbey floors not receiving salvation.  Being bound in legalism, it produces an unloving Christian, that becomes judgmental and harsh.  It is mans attempts to be like God.   It doesn’t  work.   It stops grace and mercy from manifesting  and brings on a critical spirit.  We can try, through our own law of works, self-efforts, or various exercises to fulfill through human ability the righteousness of God’s word in our lives.  Maybe we start out in earnest, but our means of going about it are all wrong.

We’ve all sooner or later too, been around Christians that are always complaining and have a critical spirit.  There is no balance.  If we all have certain gifts, which I believe we do, then we should know when to absorb the good and spit out the bad.  We should learn discernment and have it in our  lives in all things.  If there are new Christians that are not yet that deep in the Lord, and prayer then they cannot be expected to receive as we do.  Sometimes you really get it!  One day it will click and the message will be understood.  That is like a lightbulb going on..a real breakthrough.

When I was new in Christ, I wanted it all fast!  Doesn’t work that way and is a long process as our emotional development lets God work IN us and through us, And if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwise works is no more works.  Romans 11-16.  If we mix grace and works it is a like comparison to water and oil, then through law, whereby, Christ died at the Cross needlessly and in vain.  If right living comes by SELF, then He lives needlessly inside you and you give credit to your OWN righteousness.  We begin our Christian walk by grace and HIS mercy that loved us, and it should continue on in our walk through God and the Holy Spirit in our lives in LOVE.  Why can’t we learn to be humble and receive HIS love and grace, to then let go of that love and give in return.  That’s what its about.  The love we receive is nothing unless we give it away.

Grace strengthens us. Although the law was holy, coming from God, it was weak through human nature and our sinfulness.  Romans 8:3.  Matthew 11:28 “Come unto me all who are heavy laden , and I will give you rest. ”  Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your soul. All our struggles in the natural.. For what?  Self? For I can do nothing on my own in the natural including saving my own son from suicide in spite of all I did.  God had a divine plan and sometimes it may no be what we want or expect either.

We live now in a violent, sick, vile society.  Not just the media, and all the shootings, but the psychic sick books and video games as well.  Whereby, James 1:14 says, “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.” This is why Jesus in overcoming temptation to avoid the Cross, prayed, “Not my will but THINE will be done” Luke 22:42.  For he told the disciples a short while earlier to “pray, that ye enter not into temptation.  Matthew 26:41.

In other words, just because you are a Christian and accepted Jesus as your Savior don’t think that everything will be perfect and you cannot get enticed into temptation.  I Corinthians 6:13 says, “Now the body is not for lust but for the Lord”.  Our bodies to be the “temple of God”.

SALVATION

Something always spoke to me,                                                                                                                   Something always loved me,                                                                                                                         Something needed me…so                                                                                                                           Much I didn’t know.

Somehow He spoke His love,                                                                                                                         Somehow He drew me in,                                                                                                                             Someone who doubted so.                                                                                                                           How He loved, I didn’t know, I didn’t know.

God, you gave it all to me,                                                                                                                             Your love, your heart for man,                                                                                                                     Your very destiny,                                                                                                                                            God,  I need and love you so.

Something, I had arise in me,                                                                                                                       Something salvations pull on me,                                                                                                                 Something, I’ll always thank you for,                                                                                                           No matter  what,  I’ll love you so.

J. Worthen 1/2000

When we choose to surrender our will completely before God, and give up self and let the Holy Spirit guide us we are giving God humility.  This is what He wants for God loves a  humble  spirit.  If we hang onto self, it won’t work because of our sin nature from Adam  and the imperfection of human will power.  Proverbs 16:18-19 “Pride goes before the fall. God loves a  humble spirit.”

We can’t love with Gods agape love by ourselves.  We can’t be perfectly patient by  ourselves.  But with Jesus Christ within us we can!  He is ready, willing and able.  But, he will only take over the controls to the degree that we let  him.  I’ve done it in he natural, I’ve been around that mountain over and over.  No thank you, as the price is too high and so is the chastisement.  I wanted to grow in God in HIS  timetable, HIS way, as I am ready in my development in HIS word.  If we understand just that?  He will do the rest.  He wants us to have an “I’ll never give up attitude!”   That’s what will glorify those we meet and witness  to.  Humility and a total absence of self.

Sometimes God holds back because our prayers involve another person.  Maybe OUR plans and prayers are different  than God’s.  Maybe our prayers could have irreparable harm for another if we had our way, or they just aren’t ready.  We don’t know Gods reasoning.  He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever He does prospers. Psalm 1:1-3. For only He knows the future.  In this long life, with painful splits, and deaths, I got nothing I ever asked for, but, everything I needed, including healing and love. He and He alone holds all the keys.  Thank  you Lord for all you have  done for me.

Restoration Road 2003

 

 

Salvation And Misconceptions

Salvation I believe comes from a longing, a need, a hunger for something or someone else to be our rock (other than ourselves and the world) our fortress. A supernatural power with the promise of eternal life, we all need. We all want love, acceptance, and someone to care about us. Unfortunately, in our lives we cannot always depend on family, or one another.  It sometimes just doesn’t work out that way.  It took me many years of floundering trying to do things in the natural and self to finally understand.

I remember seeing preachers  on tv after crumbled  marriages, and my father’s death.  I watched one evangelist and didn’t know one iota of what he was preaching about.  I only knew that by that time I felt alone (with a toddler) and I needed desperately.  Whatever this man had, his faith, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, I wanted it all.  When he prayed that salvation message over the tv screen, I went down on my knees and accepted Christ as my savior.  Late when my daughter lay in the hospital after an accident, I say this preacher up in Portland Maine, and received prayer and confirmation.  From then on, I was born again, and my life began anew in Jesus.

Jesus Christ lived for thirty years as a young man who was a carpenter.  At the end of his thirty years, He was then called by God to start his public ministry.  He was baptized in the Holy Spirit and He fasted 40 days.  By the time of the Last Supper when he went up to the Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was about to pay an agonizing prize.

The magnitude of that price was horrific. When he prayed Matthew 26:39 “Father, if it is possible take this cup away from me.”  But I want your will not mine.  He knew that He would have to suffer a tremendous physical price. As many beatings followed by a horrible, agonizing crucifixion.   Even worse, He knew the price that had to be paid in the spiritual realm.  Jesus, who had never sinned, knew that He had to actually become sin in order to pay the price for our sins.  “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us. So that in Him we might become the righteousness of God “.  II Corinthians 5:21.

His agony was so great that He actually sweat blood.  His blood vessels broke and blood was excreted through his sweat glands.  God sent an angel to strengthen Him.  Then an angel from heaven appeared and strengthened him, for he was in such agony of spirit that he broke into a sweat of blood, with great drops falling to the ground as he prayed more and more earnestly. Luke 22:43-44.  No one preaches the blood anymore.  The blood shed at the cross, Jesus life was sacrificed as the last blood offering.

Somehow, the impact of that hit me even harder with my sons suicide.  His life too, in misunderstandings was sacrificed unnecessarily.  I believe with all my heart that his blood cried out for justice and vindication of his bi-polar from the grave.  Those that have been murdered, or those victims in terrorist attacks, those children of sex slaves, dying, those who lost lives  on the battlefield.  Their blood cries out from the grave.  Because as I state later, death is not cheap with God!

We do not have a right to complain over our circumstances and wallow in self after we have become saved.  Jesus paid such a price for our sins. He died that we might live and live IN HIM.  None of us will ever be perfect as He in this lifetime…for we all come short.  But, we have no right to take  our salvation so lightly.  When we are saved, we must lose self.  It becomes, “THINE will be done!”  The Lord’s supper not ours!

If God is love, then WHY does He love us?   Because He IS love He cannot keep from loving us. He will love us no matter what.  None of us, in all our sins and problems are alien to Him, and that includes my 19 year old suicidal son, his baby half sister, just as much as my other children still alive.  He knew my BJ in my  womb, bi-polar and all.  When I consciously unsaved that night when he was conceived, I asked God, “am I doing the right thing?” He knew right then and there, all the problems that we would eventually face with his illness.  And he knew with my oldest as well, and the Greek heritage from my children’s father all the problems and all the estrangements that would ensue.

I believe God wants the best for us because he loves us.   I also believe that it is hard for women especially, who come out of various situations, to accept a loving God as their father, if they haven’t had that in the natural.  If you haven’t known a real earthly father, then you put a block of resistance to the magnitude of our Heavenly  Father.  I think this Is where a lot of churches fall in ministering to these people.  I just pray that one day this revelation gets taught. I thank God I  had a loving  early father.  It was easier for me, and I fought young, even feminism, and unsaved not to have victim thinking.   Poor me, me, me,  me , the world owes me, take , take, take. Wallow in self pity. I’ve seen it over and over.  Self esteem comes not just through a counseling process, but the enveloping compassion and joy of God the Father, as these women, who came out of abuse especially, are unable to trust again.

If you’ve ever been stabbed in the back, you’ll know where I’m coming from.  That friend, perhaps an ex employer, a spouse or ex.  When that little form of manipulation and control gets carried down with this little put down techniques, all the smooth talk, while behind your back they try to destroy you.  You cry yourself to sleep, “how could  he/she do this to me? ” They can’t sit down in the Spirit of Christ and work out their disagreements.  But, it’s impossible to be truly holy without honoring our Lord’s command that we love one another.  If you love God with all your heart, then you MUST love your neighbor as yourself.  Matthew 22:37-40.  If a man say, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not who he has seen, how can he love God for whom he has not seen?

It is difficult therefore, to love others.  if we don’t love ourselves because as one once said on love being true only if it is given away.  Also one step further, if we don’t love ourselves, we can’t give away what we don’t have.  Then we becoming self-centered – always thinking about ourselves.  We need to balance that area of self and giving of self.   I have always been a giver, but, know in my spirit when God wants me alone.  Alone in HIM shutting everything else out.

Loving and obeying demands some “suffering in the flesh.” That is why so many today are growing cold. Matthew 24:12 Cold love is words without action.  Words are easy, but action requires a sacrifice. Remember hearing “talk is cheap?” Well love, is expensive if given away. True love costs something. They have to let go of the past and trust God with faith.  This is true of a lot of Christians and I believe that what we come out of sometimes stops the growth of God. But He will never forsake you and  will always be there to hold you up.  John 4:12 indicates when we love others, the love God has invested in us is finally doing what God intended all along.  Love is not complete until it is flowing back to others.

Some that are Christians are so afraid to witness the Lord to the lost.  But, in love and compassion, for love covers a multitude of sins.  None of us are perfect.  No matter what there is no excuse to lose your life to darkness and hell.  Even many preachers have made plenty of mistakes and have paid a public price. But is that an excuse for us?  job 8:13 says, “The hypocrites hope shall perish.”  Matthew 7:1 “Judge not lest ye be judged. ” BUT it also says to test the spirits!  Therefore, judgment is not blind.  And the book of Romans is all the law. Wherefore Jesus is our advocate.  I trust my Lord. As one day we will  all of us stand before God in judgment.  There are 2 judgement seats.  First, for us Christians, for our Crowns.  That is what did we do in our lives since we were saved, for the Kingdom?  Did we witness, preach the word, love,  and STAND for righteousness?  Our Crowns, will determine where we will be in Heaven.  Then there is the other judgment.  This the Great White Throne Judgment Seat in which every hater, every atheist, ever murderer, every Communist, and evil doer in this world will stand in  front of God Almighty and be judged before being cast into the pit of hell forever and ever.  However, though it is up to God to make ALL final judgments, but we are to constantly test the spirits; are they of YOU Lord and the Holy Spirit or  from Satan and his minions and imps.  That discernment that we all should have could be our life or death.

Salvation should be freedom to love and freedom from the past and sins.  But, just as God grants us that freedom, doesn’t mean we are to forget.  You can’t forget the pain Jesus got you out of, but, you CAN use it for a ministry. I wrote on here, “Hiding the Stain” . How can  you minister and witness to others if you don’t say all God got you out of?  You can’t. So that pain, stain, sin, IS your ministry.  So then I used to hear “you don’t pray for the dead.”  Well, in one sense yes, they no longer can be saved, its too late.  But, we can pray for their souls to be at peace, especially death by horrific circumstances, such as our terrorist attacks. And children under the age of accountability.  So when in doubt, I study.  In Matthew 22:32 Jesus said, “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the dead, but of the living. ” But, it didn’t say not to pray for a soul that died.  Matthew 22:29-30 says, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.  For in resurrection they neither marry, nor are given, in marriage, but are angels of God in Heaven.”  There is  nothing that says we are not to pray for someone when they die.  That final judgment belongs to God alone!

The Bible further states in I Peter 4:4-6 when Peter said this, “Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of not speaking evil of you.  Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.  For this cause was the gospel preached ALSO to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit”.    For He is still a God of Love, Mercy, and Grace!

Is there persecution involved in being saved? Sometimes, especially now we are seeing it more frequently with Muslims killing Christians, now all over the world.  Missionaries have met their demise and have been captured, murdered, raped and held hostages for decades.  Matthew 5:11 says “There is a blessing  connected with it”.  Matthew 5:12 ” It lifts the soul to the plane of the prophets.”  II Timothy 3:12 “All Godly people expect it.”  Revelations 2:10 “it leads to a crown”  II Peter 2:9 says, “The Lord knows how to deliver the Godly out of temptations. Also Peter said, Glory in  our persecutions I Peter 4:14″If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, HAPPY are ye for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.  How many of us can sing praises through our troubles or our persecutions? But, THAT is what we are told to do.  I could finally SAY praises to God  after my son’s death. but sing?  Salvation and coming to the Lord is the easy part.

A warm heart produces a prayer of compassion.  Revelations 4: 15-16 ” I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.  I would rather thou were cold or hot so then because you are lukewarm,  I will spew thee out of my mouth.  In other words, you won’t make the Rapture, which could happen now, anytime.  THAT is a heavy price to pay for walking in the law and  legalism, the world, blasphemy, sin, verses walking in the Holy Spirit and love.

Sinners Prayer:

Dear Lord Jesus,  I now realize am a sinner.  I ask you Lord for forgiveness and truly repent of my past. I accept the fact that you died for me on the rugged Cross of Calvary and went through so much suffering to show your love for  me and bear my sins.  You shed your blood on that Cross because you loved me.  I  now open my hearts door and receive you as  Saviour  and  Lord of my life. Please take  full  control o me and  help me to be the kind  of Christian  you  want me to be.  I ask this all in Jesus name Father God and that you’ll  lead me to a church that you want me to be.  I love you God, thank  you Jesus, Amen.  

 

**From my published book Restoration Road copyright 2003

Restoration Road, by JE Worthen (c)2004

 

 

 

The US Constitution

The Constitution of the United States
Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article. I. – The Legislative Branch
Section 1 – The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2 – The House
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

(Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was modified by the 14th Amendment, section 2.) The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five and Georgia three.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall chose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Section 3 – The Senate
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, (chosen by the Legislature thereof,) (The preceding words in parentheses superseded by 17th Amendment, section 1.) for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; (and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.) (The preceding words in parentheses were superseded by the 17th Amendment, section 2.)
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

Section 4 – Elections, Meetings
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Chosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall (be on the first Monday in December,) (The preceding words in parentheses were superseded by the 20th Amendment, section 2.) unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Section 5 – Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Section 6 – Compensation
(The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.) (The preceding words in parentheses were modified by the 27th Amendment.) They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

Section 7 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Section 8 – Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Section 9 – Limits on Congress
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
(No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.) (Section in parentheses clarified by the 16th Amendment.)
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Section 10 – Powers prohibited of States
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Article. II. – The Executive Branch
Section 1 – The President
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
(The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.) (This clause in parentheses was superseded by the 12th Amendment.)
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
(In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.) (This clause in parentheses has been modified by the 20th and 25th Amendments.)
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Section 2 – Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section 3 – State of the Union, Convening Congress
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Section 4 – Disqualification
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Article III. – The Judicial Branch
Section 1 – Judicial powers
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section 2 – Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials
(The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.) (This section in parentheses is modified by the 11th Amendment.)
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.

Section 3 – Treason
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

Article. IV. – The States
Section 1 – Each State to Honor all others
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section 2 – State citizens, Extradition
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
(No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.) (This clause in parentheses is superseded by the 13th Amendment.)
Section 3 – New States
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Section 4 – Republican government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Article. V. – Amendment
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary

, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

Article. VI. – Debts, Supremacy, Oaths
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Article. VII. – Ratification
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.
Go Washington – President and deputy from Virginia
New Hampshire – John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman
Massachusetts – Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King
Connecticut – Wm Saml Johnson, Roger Sherman
New York – Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey – Wil Livingston, David Brearley, Wm Paterson, Jona. Dayton
Pensylvania – B Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robt Morris, Geo. Clymer, Thos FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouv Morris
Delaware – Geo. Read, Gunning Bedford jun, John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jaco. Broom
Maryland – James McHenry, Dan of St Tho Jenifer, Danl Carroll
Virginia – John Blair, James Madison Jr.
North Carolina – Wm Blount, Richd Dobbs Spaight, Hu Williamson
South Carolina – J. Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler
Georgia – William Few, Abr Baldwin
Attest: William Jackson, Secretary

The Amendments
The following are the Amendments to the Constitution. The first ten Amendments collectively are commonly known as the Bill of Rights.

Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment 2 – Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment 3 – Quartering of Soldiers. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment 4 – Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment 5 – Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment 6 – Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses. Ratified 12/15/1791.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses
against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Amendment 7 – Trial by Jury in Civil Cases. Ratified 12/15/1791.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment 8 – Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment 9 – Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 10 – Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Amendment 11 – Judicial Limits. Ratified 2/7/1795.
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

Amendment 12 – Choosing the President, Vice-President. Ratified 6/15/1804.
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the VicePresident, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Amendment 13 – Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865.
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 14 – Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868.
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Amendment 15 – Race No Bar to Vote. Ratified 2/3/1870.
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 16 – Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Amendment 17 – Senators Elected by Popular Vote. Ratified 4/8/1913.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

Amendment 18 – Liquor Abolished. Ratified 1/16/1919. Repealed by Amendment 21, 12/5/1933.
1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Amendment 19 – Women’s Suffrage. Ratified 8/18/1920.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 20 – Presidential, Congressional Terms. Ratified 1/23/1933.
1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

Amendment 21 – Amendment 18 Repealed. Ratified 12/5/1933.
1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
3. The article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Amendment 22 – Presidential Term Limits. Ratified 2/27/1951.
1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Amendment 23 – Presidential Vote for District of Columbia. Ratified 3/29/1961.
1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 24 – Poll Tax Barred. Ratified 1/23/1964.
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or
Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 25 – Presidential Disability and Succession. Ratified 2/10/1967.
1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Amendment 26 – Voting Age Set to 18 Years. Ratified 7/1/1971.
1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 27 – Limiting Congressional Pay Increases. Ratified 5/7/1992.
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

This file was prepared by USConstitution.net. Find us on the web at http://www.usconstitution.net.

On religion:  The Establishment Clause                                                                                                  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/the-establishment-clause/

 

 

God Save Our America!

Americans are sleeping. Fox News is sleeping. Other than a few, Christians on TV are sleeping! My Christian friends are sleeping. While I am agonizing on my face before God. I’m 79. I’ve sounded the alarm. If this enclosed letter had not been from the late Charles Krauthammer, I may have disregarded. I copied, put on my word, scanned, shrunk & posted ALL over Twitter in tears! I remember WWII as a kid, I remember the Nazi’s in B&W news clips in movie theaters protesting at Madison Square Garden. I remember the Cold War, I remember when my folks voted for Eisenhower. I remember Gene McCarthy and his hearings. Is Soros & Obama above the law, just because he was President? Communism is subversive now as it was in the 40’s. I even sent a letter email to President Trump. What the heck is wrong with Sessions as I tweeted to him too. And all the fake Communist agenda news media. This letter from Charles is everywhere, and I emailed (yes had a few) to Bret, Martha, etc. There is nothing else I can do at my age, except this blog (which could always be my last.) BUT pray and cry for my America I love! And I tweeted to Irvin Baxter on End Times Ministries..cause he is right in his prophesies. I fear for my President and his family. Hate concocts  lunatic’s. ALL this corrupt media…all Communist. How Putin must be laughing. Mueller investigation? On Trump? Pathetic!  He should be conducting investigations on Obama’s OFA and Soro’s OSA, for it’s UNAmerican Communist activities!  Why isn’t the left media hypocracy shut down by our FCC?  AG Jeff Sessions, WHERE are you?  Here is Charles letter, how Putin must be laughing!

“By the late Charles Krauthammer
I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA -Obama!!) (OSA- Soros)
OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!

Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action.
OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.

OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform. “(THIS is why Schumer, Pelosi, and dems won’t budge!)

“OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows: “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.”

OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”

Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.

Think about how this works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.

If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.

If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.
So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy!
Charles Krauthammer”

God Bless you Charles, I pray Gods grace led you to Heaven. This is the most important piece you have left us. Thank you.

These acts by Soros and Obama, are TREASON UNDER THE LOGIN ACT!  They are above the law? Clinton was now this?  President Trump needs our prayers. NEVER EVER could he have imagined such a shadow government swamp.  All of now as Sara Huckabee Sanders and Neilson who are Christians, and conservatives are under Communist attack. Fox? USE the word Communist for that is what it is, and who Obama and Soros are.  Soros Son married to a Senator. His nephew married to Chelsea Clinton.

OFA Why isn’t Mueller investigating this subversive Communist group?                                             https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_for_Action

OSA Why isn’t Mueller investigating this subversive Communist group?                                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

These Communists are running the world never mind America’s Shadow Government!             And our news media, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC. ABC are ALL in on it!  They are destroying our Government.  On the heading of this blog, ” I SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT ”  will you?

 

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Dear God, we cry out your name.  I know that I know that I know we are in the end times. I know we are in Ezekiel 38, 39, Joel 2, Matthew 24, and Revelations 13.  There is no doubt in my mind, and all I watch and listen to with Irvin Baxter, Hal Lindsay, and Perry Stone, others, that the Rapture is on the horizon.  And God help you all who are not saved…as the tribulation begins, and you are left behind.  Blog heading, If my people who call out my name shall humble themselves and pray, then I will save their land.  We need revival so bad. I pray every Pastor, every Christian, every church just wake up and pass this link on…Contact  your Senators, contact your Representatives.  If they are part of this Communist conspiracy, with OFA and OSA, then VOTE THEM OUT!!  THIS is MY America..My Ancestor fought in the Revolutionary War.  And Juan Williams? Take off the blinders!! MY God, you were friends with Krauthammer.   Help us Lord, for our children and grandchildren…Save our America that our Founding Fathers shed so much blood over.   Set your captives FREE!!!  PRAY!!!  (I’m too old for this.)

BUT THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH; THEY SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES; THEY SHALL RUNL AND NOT BE WEARY; AND THEY SHALL WALK AND NOT FAINT.  Isaiah 40:31

Only this woman is tired. You who are younger need to take the reign and fight for this America we love.  We cannot end up a Communist nation. ..A One World order.  God can always prolong the prophesies if we do our part.  Our younger generation on the street with Jesse Waters or Judge Jeannine don’t even know the name of our VIce President.  So I implore you …LEARN YOUR HISTORY, YOUR BIBLE, READ! EVERY LESSON IS ON THIS BLOG THAT I EVER LEARNED FROM CHILDHOOD SUNDAY SCHOOL, TO AFTER I WAS SAVED SINCE 1982 AS WELL AS LINKS AND HISTORY.  COVER PAGE HAS ALL THE LINKS. READ ABOUT AYN RAND AND WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH WHEN HER FATHER’S SHOP IN RUSSIA WAS DESTROYED IN THE BOLCHEVIC REVOLUTION.  COMMUNISM. AND IT DIDN’T WORK IN RUSSIA. DIDN’T WORK IN VIETNAM, CHINA, CUBA, NOW NO KOREA. IT ONLY MAKES FOR DICTATORS AND POVERTY.  FIGHT..BIND SATAN OUT OF OUR POLITICS AND AMERICA.  AND VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT.  CHRISTIANS? RUN FOR OFFICE!!  MISSISSIPPI GOT PRAYER IN SCHOOL CAUSE OF CHRISTIANS.  WE NEED THE WALL, AND WE NEED HONESTY AND INTEGRITY.  AND WE HAVE A LION IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW, WHOM I LOVE!  AND WHO LOVES GOD, AMERICA, AND ISRAEL.   GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS DAYSTAR, TRINITY BROADCAST, GOD BLESS ISRAEL AND THIS PRESIDENT.  HELP US LORD SAVE AMERICA!!  

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HEALING

When I got saved in 1982, God put me in a wonderful church, where I was grounded, not only with Biblical lessons, but, also the healing powers of God. I wrote on here many times, how I miss those glory days,  when the move of God just flowed and the Holy Spirit so thick, sometimes, there would be a cloud hovering on that high ceiling.   We had a spectacular move of God during the 70’s, 80’s and ended in the mid 90’s.  Guest evangelist came from all over, and there would be healing lines sometimes till 1am.  I was down on that church carpet so many times with God working through me, and yes, at my age now nearing 80, I would crawl through mud to touch the hem of his garment.  Yes, I believe in the gift of tongues, and laying of hands.  If I could touch the hem of Jesus garment and be made whole, as electricity flowed through him when the woman did that in the Bible, yes, I believe in the Holy Ghost miracles of my Lord!  I am joining Rev. Franklin Graham, and so many other pastors on TBN and Daystar, who are praying fervently for an Awakening and a mighty move of God in America. It is coming, and I can feel it.

A warning. This week I ministered to a young woman who has a genetic illness, and spends half her life in hospitals.  I want to see this girl healed.  But, she didn’t need God. Said he’d heal her in “His” timetable.  THAT is a lie from the devil.  Even if saved, if you don’t think when you are ill there are spirits in your body that need to be cast out? THEN you don’t know the Bible.  That also comes down to generational curses.  However, this woman would not accept the “word” from me, and even threatened me with court and a restraining order??  A supposed Christian? And THAT dear hearts, is EXACTLY why she is NOT getting healed.  She needs to read the book of Job. We see in the 1st chapter that the devil has access to the throne of God.  So he got God’s permission to put Job through tests and trials.. It took Job the loss of his children, being stripped literally, horrible skin soars, loss of money. It took him 45 chapters to get on his knees and repent.  Pride!  And pride Proverbs says, comes before the fall.  I will still pray for this young woman, but, I’m afraid she has a long road ahead.  Know the scriptures!  Thank you Jesus.

From KCM :

“And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly]. Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].” Mark 11:22-24.
I will continually put my faith and trust in God. His Word is true and He is faithful to His Word. When I pray, I believe I receive, confident in the fact that it has already been taken care of on my behalf. Thank You, Lord!
I am not moved by what I see. I will not let my outward circumstances dictate my final outcome. In Matthew 21:21-22, The Amplified Bible, “And Jesus answered them, Truly I say to you, if you have faith (a firm relying trust) and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, it will be done. And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receive.” According to the Word of God, I am speaking to this mountain and telling it to be removed and cast into the sea. I have prayed in faith, I believe and I will receive!

Mark 9:23: “What do you mean, ‘If I can’?” Jesus asked. “Anything is possible if a person believes.” Not only can Jesus work on my behalf, but He will, if I only believe. I believe!
I believe I am healed because the Word says I am healed. According to Exodus 15:26: “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” I listen for the voice of the Lord, I obey immediately and keep His commandments. He IS the Lord who has healed me!

God wants you well! When you’re standing for your healing, you want to go to the source of healing: Scripture. For decades, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland have relied on God and His Word as their Source of help and healing, strength and health. Read these scriptures, turn them into confessions, print them out, and put them into practice! And if you need a partner in prayer to agree with you for complete healing, please let us know.

• Exodus 15:26: If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

• Exodus 23:25-26: And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfill.

• Deuteronomy 7:14-15: Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

• Deuteronomy 30:19-20: I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

• 1 Kings 8:56: Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

• Psalm 91:9-10, 14-16: Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

• Psalm 103:1-5: Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

• Psalm 107:17, 19-21: Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

• Psalm 118:17: I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

• Proverbs 4:20-24: My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

• Isaiah 41:10: Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

• Isaiah 53:4-5: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

• Jeremiah 1:12: Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

• Jeremiah 17:14: Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

• Jeremiah 30:17: For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.

• Joel 3:10: Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

• Nahum 1:9: What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

• Matthew 8:2-3: And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

• Matthew 8:16-17: When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

• Matthew 15:30-31: And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

• Matthew 18:18-19: Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

• Matthew 21:21-22: Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

• Mark 9:23: Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

• Mark 10:27: And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

• Mark 11:22-24: And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

• Mark 16:14-18: Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
• Luke 6:19: And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

• Luke 9:2: And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

• Luke 13:16: And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

• Acts 5:16: There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

• Acts 10:38: How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

• Romans 4:16-21: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

• Romans 8:2, 11: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

• 2 Corinthians 4:18: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

• 2 Corinthians 10:3-5: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

• Galatians 3:13-14, 29: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

• Ephesians 6:10-17: Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

• Philippians 2:13: [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.

• Philippians 4:6-9: Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them]. Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and model your way of living on it, and the God of peace (of untroubled, undisturbed well-being) will be with you.

• 2 Timothy 1:7: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

• Hebrews 10:23: Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised).

• Hebrews 10:35-36: Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

• Hebrews 11:11: Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

• Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.

• James 4:7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

• James 5:14-16: Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

• 1 Peter 2:24: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

• 1 John 3:21-22: Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• 1 John 5:14-15: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

• 3 John 2: Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
• Thank you, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and the staff of Kenneth Copeland Ministries will pray1 John 5:14-15: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

• 3 John 2: Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Thank you, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and the staff of Kenneth Copeland Ministries who pray for you daily, for your complete health and restoration. Use these healing scriptures and confessions to stand for your health, healing and strength each and every day!
http://www.kcm.org/real-help/healing/believe
Remembering evangelist I loved, at the church I was in in the 80’s 90’s, the woman who crawled through the crowd to touch the hem of Jesus garment. I would crawl thru the miry mud with all my rotten discs, just to touch the hem of HIS garment…For that is when ELECTRICITY FLOWS….BELIEVE…and don’t be like doubting Thomas. In the name of Jesus BE HEALED!

Benny Hinn Healing.  I saw him in the early 90’s 3 times in Worcester, MA Coliseum.

The laying of hands, speaking in tongues, and healing is all in the book of Acts. NOT fake!

Reinhardt Bonke and Benny Hinn Healing svs.

Creflo Dollar healing service.

America God Is Calling You

First, I want to say, I didn’t want to write this. Too much pain, and too many memories. But things have to change. Change only comes from knowledge. But what really needs to happen, politicians do not want to do. The following was printed in a little booklet from RBC Ministries, written by a high school student after Columbine, name unknown. The student had seen so much death, that it is worth remembering, as we take into account the direction of America and the leaders we choose. There are some things such as 911 and this from Columbine to Florida, we should never forget:

“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less.

We have bigger houses, but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We have learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to our life, but not life to our years.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner peace; we’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We have higher incomes, but lower morals; we’ve become long on quantity, but short on quality. These are times of tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               These are times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are days of two incomes, but more divorces; fancier houses, but broken homes. It is a time when there is much in the show window, but nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose to either make a difference…..or just hit delete.” author unknown

Fortunately most do not know the pain of a mentally ill child who goes off the deep end, and never gets the help they need. Believe it or not Cruz was not evil. Neither was my son, who was bi-polar and committed suicide in 1999 by blowing himself up with 6 sticks of stolen dynamite. Teachers, scholars, you of all people should be aware. This young man, like many before him, has a mental illness. He lost his mother. He was in foster homes. But, deep inside, he was coming unglued. My son was up all night till 3am talking to a friend on the phone and came in my room sobbing the night before he did his act. He had suicide ideation since he was 15. Scientist’s, neurologists, psychiatrists? It is Chromosome 18 from the father. Alzheimer’s is Chromosome 19. Why not look to the day when scientists and neurologist’s can make headway and go in the front lobes of the brain and do laser surgery and fix mentally ill, and cure Alzheimer’s!! And by the way, my son attended a Christian school from K-6th grade, and thank God was saved 8/2/91. Then came puberty, and a gradual decline. I know where he is, waiting at the gates.  We are all sinners saved by grace.

Bi-polar’s that I think Cruz is, go off the deep end. All it takes is one act in a matter of minutes without “thinking”…because they can’t. Look at Robin Williams, Ernest Hemmingway, his niece Margo, Carrie Fisher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jim Carry, Jonathan Winters, as well as General George Patten and Winston Churchill. What needs to happen, is school, SAU, any Court, DCYF, psychological, psychiatric and DIAGNOSIS, RECORDS TO BE UNSEALD AT 18, when legally an adult. Then they couldn’t pass background checks. But with Cruz? All bells went off and the FBI failed. Police failed. I gave police my son’s records. And unless they have a parent/relative that had this mental illness, the only way a psychiatrist can diagnose, is by OBSERVATION. And Cruz fit the bipolar bill. God created him too, and my son, and Pastor Rick Warren too, whose bi-polar son ALSO committed suicide. We do not live in the dark ages. My son was saved, knew Jesus, but his brain (chemical imbalance) was screwed up…and this young man’s, who was tormented, missed his mother, and couldn’t handle what other’s no doubt could. Evil? The act was, but, God still loves him. I know that I know my son is in Heaven waiting for me at the gates, as he was saved, 8/2/91.  When you read, ask yourself, what if one of my children ever went off the deep end? So many of our Veterans too,  come home, and they are changed.

https://www.psycom.net/depression.central.bipolar.html

I could have been going through what Cruz did, with my own son. My Bj, William who had knives and a sword, wanted to buy a gun, before his suicide. If you wanted to see a total breakdown in a mentally ill young person, I have seen it all. Incidentally, I am an open book. Change doesn’t happen by hiding “secrets”. What I went through too, with my son’s suicide was more than any mother should endure, and it cost me a mini stroke as well. A diagnosed kid, with suicide ideation since 15, bi polar as can be. Highs on his own juice, manic, rapid speech, ideas flowing like a magpie. Then when he did something stupid, like climbing a telephone pole, (afraid of heights) after the fire dept had to get him down, plummeting to a depression and lows you can’t believe. Mania..The 2 polars of extreme. I saw my son at 16 in a straight jacket, saw him cutting himself, placed in mental health facilities through courts and through my own persistence to get him help. And now they are all closed. NH has NOTHING! Not to mention foster parents in the “system” who are only out for the money.

I’m saying all this to say this. They can take all the guns away. But has it helped in all the terrorist attacks in Socialized Europe? Countries where you haven’t got our 2nd Amendment, are run by dictators, including Venezuela. The left wants a ban on guns, so they can “control the masses” with Communism. Then the organized soldiers come in so they can take down our constitution…ie Soros, and Obama, and the Bill Ayer, Marxist mandates the left wants. I read Ayn Rand. There’s an interesting book on Amazon, Rand vs Obama…a hypothetical argument. Because Ayn saw as a Russian Jew, as a young child the Bolshevik Revolution and the soldiers smashing up her father’s store, then later killing Czar Nicholas and his whole family. Castro did the same, and its happening now in Venezuela, and even worse in Syria. THAT is what Obama and George Soros, Clintons, and dear Nancy Pelosi and Schumer wants in America. Instead what we need is better and more psychiatrists, and mental health facilities, regulated with humane decent treatment! Not like the early 1900’s when they all got closed down in the 50’s.     Incidentally, Christians too can suffer from mental illnesses. There were two other suicides from Christian families I knew since the 80’s. One young man’s father an evangelist heads YWAM in Boston.  It is genetic, but, in my case, no one wanted to hear about my sons father, since he was long gone and we were divorced.   He had a brother and two sisters who were twins, and one was bipolar, and the other in an institution in MI.  (I should have known better, but love is blind.)

So..I am in agreement with the enclosed article by Dan Flynn of the Spectator. I’ve seen more at 79 than you young uns’. I remember WWII and at least 8 of my neighbors lost sons and husbands. When Ike became President, America started to boom again. We had clean living, went to church, and had prayer in school. What we didn’t have was equal rights for Blacks. And there was horrific discrimination in our armed services. My high school class up here in NH though were over achievers. And Black people (we had only about 5 kids in high school then) went to church, dressed decent, and studied, and along with the rest of us, loved America, and our flag. What has changed? In part Billie Graham and others are right, we took God and prayer out of schools; and with that, ethics, character, morals, learning how to act with manners, respect. Building self esteem comes with a respect and love of God, country, and our fellow man. NOT just Black lives matter, ALL lives matter, and God created us ALL equal, with the same blood. Be careful what voice inside you listen to.  It either comes from God or Satan.

However, the only thing that is going to stop young mentally ill shooters, is for their SEALD records to be released at 18 when they are legally an adult. How do I, a 79 year old woman reach Congress. I’ve tweeted my head off to not much avail. But, surprising, most people don’t even realize that all juvi records are seald for the privacy of the child. Wherefore, I gave my son’s records to police. I didn’t know what he could pull.

The local school Superintendent of Schools, (SAU’s), Juvi Courts, School records, counseling, psychological, psychiatric, tests, inherited mental illnesses and behavior and diagnosis, NEED TO BE RELEASED IN ANYONE MENTALLY ILL AT 18. Only then, will these potential shooters not be able to pass background checks, and it should too, send a red flag to police, that this kid tried. THERE NEEDS TO BE A FEDERAL LAW, MANDATATING ALL SCHOOLS, IN ALL STATES INCLUDING JUDGES, DCYF, ETC. THAT AT 18…ITS UNSEALD.

Would this be taken to Federal and higher courts? Yep, and it would have to go all the way to the US Supreme Court as well. But it would work.

I’ve tweeted, sent things…But as I watch with compassion, I have never EVER SEEN ONCE mentioned this on air. WHY?

Sovereign Grace

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7YyojHY_y4AS0FIdm95U29FMUU/view?usp=sharing

FROM DAN FLYNN, SPECTATOR:

“Sunshine State Demagoguery
The sight of traumatized teenagers demanding gun control strikes as demagoguery of the worst sort.

Nobody should or does call the kids demagogues. But nobody dares call the kids anything, and that’s the point. The base adults politicizing a tragedy grasp that children enduring something so horrible as a crazed gunman stand immune from counterarguments and criticism. Responding with any dissenting opinion, no matter how civilly put, makes for bad optics. Understanding this, ideologues use the kids as proxies. This cowardice ensures a monologue, not a dialogue—or at least demonization for anyone who dares start a dialogue by disagreeing. The issue—whether to ignore the Constitution out of a belief that it inhibits good public policy—calls for robust discussion, not a shut-up-everyone sermon.

Many people do not agree that new gun control laws prevent a determined, unstable person from breaking them. The school prohibited the gunman from its grounds. He broke that rule. Numerous laws prohibit bringing firearms onto school grounds. The gunman ignored them. And, of course, laws against murder exist. He refused to follow them, too. The problem seems too complex for a solution as simple as gun control to fix.

Beyond policy objections, process objections exist. The Second Amendment to the Constitutions protects individuals against federal encroachment on their rights to keep and bear arms. How does any political operator operate on the assumption that the Constitution does not exist, or, if it does, exists the way the Queen of England does—as a symbolic nod to a bygone era? One needs to acknowledge, it seems, the 231-year-old elephant in the room.

One can buy into the idea of students enthusiastically organizing a walkout over gun control (or cold Chicken McSchool, abbreviated recess, mean math teachers, or any issue you can imagine). But believing the idea that they organized a mass march on Washington scheduled for next month just days removed from the carnage seems gullible.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel famously said. Someone, an adult, took his words to heart here.”
Spectator.org

Dear Lord, I ask and implore you Lord, to convict the hearts of those who read this, our politicians I send it too, and for the compassion for those who lead my state of NH, FL, and
all the states in America, both locally and Federally. YOU Lord are the only one who can
change hardened hearts, so that this time, with so many young lives taken, we see the truths,
and strive for real change. God, help us, see the real truth here, that is not guns. Guns don’t
kill, people do. But, guns can protect. Ask the women in Europe and Germany now who
are being assaulted by Arab immigrants and raped, if they would like to carry a concealed
weapon. But, they are outlawed over there. There needs to be BALANCE in all things, in
all decisions, in all recourse, and balance that makes logical, Godly sense. Give us discernment
Lord, to see the truth from the fake, and help us to legislate laws Federally that will go down
to the states. Lastly, God, I pray for the families that buried their children and loved ones, and
I implore you Lord to help them deal with the pain, as you did me, when I buried my own son. I ask that you change the “stinken” thinking in our local SAU’s who think they know it all when they don’t. And that the few psychiatrists that work with courts do so ONLY to help, not play political games.  These kids need help in earnest, and do not get it, instead are seen as outcasts.
Awaken us Lord, in America, with a hunger for your presence, and your word, and I plead for
a new revival reaching all across our land as you did with Azuza St. God pour your Holy Spirit
on our President, our Vice President, and all those in Congress, to legislate and make Godly, rational good decisions. Jesus you are and always have been America’s HOPE. In this I pray, with much sorrow, Amen.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9fKrqIPnZy8eWphbi1OcTYtUm8/view?usp=sharing

God, Send Your Fire!

Having German heritage, I’m always looking for those like Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther, who did God’s work. I watched mesmerized last night when Billye talked about this book, “FIRE ON THE ALTAR, Those Who Carried the Flame”. I think of the hunger in our churches amongst us Christians, and prayer is our answer. The author of this book is Frank JJ Di Petro,
and it is on Amazon, among others by him. She spoke of the Moravians, who I never heard of going back to 1727 in Germany. Count Nikola Ludwig Von Zinzendorf gave up all his status, and went on this parcel of land to invite Christian believers to live there. They started this 100 year old prayer vigil, became selfless in 5 years. God came down amongst them in
all His glory. Zinzendorf was 27. Prayer there was the catalyst of Leviticus 6:13 “A fire shall always be burning and never go out. ” These Moravians helped birth the Great Awakening in America, John Wesley and his brother and George Whitfield. All thru the Great Awakening of which America was birthed started in Germany!!! A 100 year prayer vigil!

The evangelism as we know it in the world did not exist before the Moravians. it was no accident that God restored the fire in the altar 1st..A sprit of God fell on them that day in 1732.There is a Moravian Museum in Bethlehem, PA. I just bought this book on my Kindle. I pray all my prayer warriors watch Billye’s video which was on Thursday, on this book. Videos on site are for 5 days of the week.

The following comments are by Charlie Hurt of the Washington Times. Thank you Charlie,
you ARE a journalist. Flaunting Lawlessness:

“Never in the history of this Republic has there been such a jubilant celebration of lawlessness in the heart of our government as we saw at President Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress.

Under the gaze of Moses, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson and all the great champions of law from history, today’s current crop of “lawgivers” in America sneered, mocked and ridiculed the mere notion that we might have laws. (And Jefferson was NOT a deist!)

That these laws might mean anything.

That these laws might be enforced with equality.

That’s because also gazing down on our modern “lawgivers” in the chamber were an untold number of illegal aliens. These illegal aliens were actually invited to illegally come into the House chamber — the sacred nursery of America’s laws — to sit in sneering judgement of a nation built on the promise that no man (or woman or child) is above the law. Across the street, enthroned in the pediment of the Supreme Court above the words “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW,” Justice wept.” Yes, Charlie, Justice wept, and so did our Founding Father’s; for this is the way of dictatorships not America, justice, law, ethics, character, or our Constitution under GOD! A democracy, republic, not Socialism-Communism. Or? We lose our freedoms, our country, our rights.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/30/flaunting-lawlessness-capitol/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkdabU5UbGxZalJtTjJZdyIsInQiOiJPM3N0dXdcL1BkVEpRZE1yd0dGWmEyZEFhVGEyNU5lT2MrUnlVOWtOdVp4Y1RPcGZBbnNCYmg2MzJTZFY0SGxXakhSSUY4NnBmYUhDbDJIK29QaDFsTVwvT01teHNYSnlKeFhoXC81VVZWcCtpSmFFbkJNZHN2dnY3YzBwNHNQdjlzMiJ9

Click and play video. Billye Brim is one intelligent lady and has her own books!
http://www.kcm.org/watch/tv-broadcast/the-firepower-prayer-ignites-revival-fire

FIRST OF ALL AWAKENINGS BY Billye Brim
https://www.billyebrim.org/products/first_all_awakenings_book

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Timothy 2:1-2

At the admonition of the Lord to study the Awakenings in America in 2008, this unique book examines this directive, along with others. You will learn:
* The history of spiritual Awakenings, and the people and events that founded and preserved this special nation.
* How they relate to the next great Awakening; including the Revival and prayer roots of President Trump.
* The role of the Church in government affairs.
* Uniting the Body of Christ in the First of All campaign.
The success of this or any future administration falls primarily upon the shoulders of the Body of Christ. Dr. Billye Brim has ministered this revelation thru the various platforms available to her and has now written about it, believing the body of Christ can unite in this prayer effort and overcome the enemy’s plot to destroy us through division.
PRAYERS WILL IMPLORE GOD TO SEND THE FIRE! ONLY PRAYERS, NOT YOU OR ME ALONE WRITING THIS, BUT UNITY WITH ALL OF US CHRISTIANS, TO GET SERIOUS AND PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT AND OUR COUNTRY!

“America can finish her God-given course. America can, will, and must reach her destiny. And that depends upon the prayers of God’s people. That depends on you and me.” –Billye Brim
40 Prayers that Changed America by Paul Barkley
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979417333/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3ENI8ET2NROEV&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&psc=0

Words that Changed the World Azuza St Sermons by William Seymour
(Seymour was a one eyed Black man, who had a powerful call on him,
in spite of hard segregation, he was taken in by these prayer warriors of
the Fire of Azuza St.) Bones grew, legs grew that had been amputated.
Miracles ensued as the fire of God came down from Heaven, and I pray
it does once more, we are overdue!!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0964628988/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I2N7CF1T5Q8RG4&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&psc=0

Miracles of Azuza Street by Tommy Welchel
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0768403510/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I32H3MS2IRPZTE&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&psc=0

What is Forgiveness?

Forgiveness and Self-Identity:
The two most common issues I encounter in healing damaged emotions are forgiveness and self-identity.

Forgiveness:
Rarely do people go through healing damaged emotions without having to forgive someone. It is critical that we have a right definition and understanding of what forgiveness is and isn’t. Forgiveness does not mean that an offense was okay. Please don’t let children who fight say, “I’m sorry.” And then respond, “That’s okay.” It’s not okay. Kids carry that idea of forgiveness into adulthood and end up refusing to forgive.

Teach kids to say, “I forgive you.” And when they’re adults they’ll be more ready to forgive an offense that no one recognizes as being okay.

Forgiveness means to face up to a wrong that was unjustly perpetrated and 1) release anger and resentment, 2) release any desire for revenge. Forgiveness does NOT (never did, never will) mean that an offense was okay. It means letting go. When we let go, we leave it in God’s hands. He promises to judge, either in this life or in the life to come (2 Thessalonians 1:6–9). When we forgive, we place judgment where it belongs: in God’s hands.

Unforgiveness actually puts us in a dangerous position: the judgment seat. That’s God’s seat, which is a bad place for any human to sit. The Bible tells us, “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord” (Romans 12:19). Anyone forgiving another must ask, “Do I truly believe that God will deal with the wrong on my behalf so that I don’t have to, so that I can be free?”

Forgiveness is ironic because we do it more for ourselves than for the other person. That person is still guilty before God and subject to judgment, unless he or she repents. We forgive primarily because God forgave us and expects that we, in turn, forgive others. Forgiveness is one of the few things in the Christian life that we can do from a rather selfish motive! When we forgive someone, we set a prisoner free. Then we discover that we ourselves were that prisoner.

Unforgiveness is an emotional cancer that leads to bitterness and transmutes itself into all kinds of illnesses and disabilities, depending case-by-case on the vulnerabilities of the person. These illnesses are both psychological and physical. Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. We only hurt ourselves when we harbor unforgiveness.

Forgiveness also does not mean restoration. People often confuse the two. Restoration means to reinstate to a previous position or relation. People who have sinned are to be forgiven but not necessarily restored. In the context of healing damaged emotions this is important, because sometimes the perpetrator is related in some way, and the person wronged should in most cases not have to endure restored or normal interaction with that person.  Doing so can generate unnecessary pain, and for ABUSE VICTIMS, EVEN DANGER!!

Two other areas related to forgiveness are those involving God and ourselves. We don’t really “forgive” God as much as we release our anger against him—and a lot of people are mad at God. A lot of people are mad at themselves too. For them, release of self-condemnation brings freedom.

Self-Identity
When a person is emotionally traumatized, damaged, or neglected, it will affect their self-identity. This is particularly true when the problem has occurred repeatedly or over a long time. That person must receive—and feel—God’s cleansing, love, and restoring grace. That person also needs to go through the discipline of changing the way they perceive themselves. This is particularly done by personalizing Scripture—what God thinks of us.
In most cases, it is important to renounce and affirm. To renounce means to reject or repudiate something, especially by making a declaration of refusing to follow it. To affirm means to do the opposite by making a positive declaration of agreement. This is an effective practice to help a person who has had negative elements ground into their self-identity. Thus one would say, with conviction, “I renounce . . .” and in place of that which is renounced would refer to Scripture or a positive replacement, “I affirm . . .” This can, and usually should be done over and over. Why? Because a negative identity was pressed into the person’s mind over a long period.

Transforming that identity from negative to positive naturally takes time as well.
The process goes beyond cognitive understanding. It addresses deep-level identity, how a person perceives and feels about him or herself.

Another very helpful exercise is to go through Scripture verses that address how God sees us or relates to us—as opposed to how we may have been seeing ourselves or how others thoughtlessly or cruelly saw us. I encourage people to meditate on verses and ask themselves if they really believe them and identify with them or not. If they can’t identify with what a passage of Scripture says about them, they internalize and meditate on those verses until they can.

Here are a few verses:
Who I Am
John 1:12– I am a child of God
1 Corinthians 6:20 – I was bought at a price
2 Corinthians 5:17 – I am a new creation in Christ
Ephesians 1:4–5 – I am chosen and adopted as God’s child
Ephesians 1:13–14 – I have been sealed with the Holy Spirit
I Am Secure and Able
John 10:28 – No one can snatch me out of God’s hand
Romans 8:35 – Nothing can separate me from God’s love
Philippians 3:20 – I have citizenship in heaven
Philippians 4:13, 19 – I can do what needs doing, and God will meet my needs
Hebrews 13:5 – God will never leave me
I Have Value
John 10:11 – Jesus laid his life down for me
1 Corinthians 3:16 – I am God’s living temple
Ephesians 2:6 – I am seated in the heavenly realm
Ephesians 2:10 – I am God’s workmanship
Ephesians 3:12 – I may approach God with freedom and confidence
Copyright © 2017 Peter Lundell, used by permission.                                                                              http://www1.cbn.com/healing-damaged-emotions-part-2 

When women come out of abusive situations in a marriage, or even childhood, the children of that marriage often suffer profoundly.  Hate runs rampant  with the way these children are brought up, in a dysfunctional, very controlling home life.  Often the children of the abuser too, continues in the verbal or even physical abuse of the mother who was abused, and finds reason to, to hate each other.  Unless that child as an adult can forgive the perpetrator in most cases the father, and the mother, that perhaps had no other recourse but divorce, those hates will continue and fester for a lifetime.   These people are in danger of eternal damnation.  Forgiveness comes with a  price.  It coms with humility.  For a parent who has come out of abuse, and some 50 years later, still receives the verbal abuse of the children of that marriage, it is not safe for her or him, to be in those relationships.  Churches need to be careful what they impose on women especially who came out of abuse.  Sometimes, forgiveness needs to be done from a distance.   And if those children as grownups, can never say, “I’m sorry”, it is not meant to be.  And if those children as grownups, can never say, “I’m sorry”, it is not meant to be. And they will find themselves in danger of God’s final judgment. Rev. 3  Forgiveness without demanding a change of conduct John Hagee preached attached, is denying God. Period!

You, who think you are saved without righting a wrong and forgiving your own brother, or mother?  Doesn’t work that way. Righteousness the People God Can’t Save:                                      https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/righteousness-people-god-cant-save/

He That Hates:                                                                                                                                                  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/he-that-hates-2/

Forgiveness And the Lord’s Prayer:                                                                                                              https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/forgiveness-thelordsprayer/

 

 

Slander, Libel, The Tongue No Man Can Tame

THEREFORE you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are who judges, for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself for you who judge do the same things. Romans 2:1 “In effect, says God judges one who judges another in the same manner in which he himself has judged, hence, “condemning himself.” Matt 7:1-2

BUT after your hardness and impenitent heart (speaks of a hardness toward God, with a refusal to repent) treasured up unto yourself, wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God.

We are in an age of Apostasy. We are in an age of uncouth, unmannered, uncivil, unschooled,
undisciplined, hypocrisy, unethical, lack of character, loud, boisterous, doers of self, disobedient, haters of God, unmannered, disrespectful, unteachable, me-ism generation of illiterate do-nothings! And THAT also includes much of our media, as well as those who hold office in our Government, as well as each and every “race baiter” whose time has past!

We, who voted for Trump, are really not the deplorables, for our existing culture is really what
is deplorable. Gossip, slander, and libel, is all that comes out of our everyday media. If we had
had this generation during WWII, we would have lost the war! There is no responsibility for
negative, hurtful, actions, yet those are the people who are bringing up a younger generation?
So, I ask, to what end? If you are unscrupulous, and cannot look yourself in the mirror and
see the error of your ways? I don’t care if you mouthed the sinner’s prayer 10 times, and say
I’m a Christian, your not going to Heaven. Of course most of the left wing Socialist media doesn’t even believe in God anyways. “Oh, Jesus loves me”, yes He does, but, He will not
excuse you.

I heard tv preacher Jack Graham preach on this, and took notes way back in 2016. James 2:14-19 “If a brother or sister be naked, destitute and you don’t help them, are you saved and going to Christ? No, he said, hell! Works does not get you to Heaven but our DEEDS. Vs 1:18 James.
He did it all! By grace you are saved, not works. Titus 3:5 Also not by works. THIS has split
Churches, ie Paul vs James. BUT, they are not debating. Paul fights legalism; its his battle cry,
as the great reformer. James says your saved by grace, but, anything AFTER does not go. He
is looking at the sanctifying side of I Corinthians 3:5. Examine your faith. Saving faith is laboring. Can faith without showing faith get you to Heaven after your saved? No! There is
no fruit. No evidence. Everything we do, has to be to the Glory of Christ himself, and the
BLOOD Jesus shed at the Cross. Else, it makes him a lunatic, and all for nothing! Do you
witness? What is He doing in your life? Do you help the poor? Do you go where you can
minister? Then it is dead works. It is our DEEDS which get us to Heaven.

I know someone as a nurse in a public school. THAT she says is her ministry? No, it is dead works. For she is not allowed to witness Jesus, nor does she know how to pray with someone the Sinner’s Prayer. Thus, it is dead works, for there is NO FRUIT. Instead this woman’s mouth sounds like a backstabber of those around her.  Where is the sanctification? Where is the Cross? When You clothe the naked, welcome a stranger you’ve done it unto me…a loving Father, a living Faith! James 2:19, 20,26 You can’t be saved on Sunday and in the world Monday.

Evangelist Ron Carpenter preached on slander, and he had really got hit and had no choice but to go to court.  It happens to us Christians too.  For the devil walks to and fro seeking whom he can devour.  Ron’s book has some excellent instruction.  And by the way, you don’t befriend a person who slanders or is verbally abusive.  For like Jezebel, they will pull you in and you won’t even see it coming.

The Necessity of An Enemy:                                                                                                                           https://www.amazon.com/Necessity-Enemy-Battle-Face-Opportunity-ebook/dp/B004Y89PJQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&coliid=IWEQAEL7OUS85&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&qid=&sr=

 

 

 

 

LEGAL TERMINOLOGY:
**Written defamation is called “libel,” and spoken defamation is called “slander.”. Defamation is not a crime, but it is a “tort” (a civil wrong, rather than a criminal wrong). A person who has been defamed can sue the person who did the defaming.

Defamation law tries to balance competing interests: On the one hand, people should not ruin others’ lives by telling lies about them; but on the other hand, people should be able to speak freely without fear of litigation over every insult, disagreement, or mistake. Political and social disagreement is important in a free society, and we obviously don’t all share the same opinions or beliefs. For instance, political opponents often reach opposite conclusions from the same facts, and editorial cartoonists often exaggerate facts to make their point. Defamation law aims to strike a balance between allowing the distribution of information, ideas, and opinions, and protecting people from having lies told about them. It’s a complicated area of law. Many in the media now as well as late night tv, are in serious danger of defamation, legally!

“A BIBLICAL EXPOSITION OF WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN AND GOSSIP, SLANDER AND THE USE OF THE TONGUE
The greatest truth a believer can ever grasp is this: when he got saved, he died to his sinful past, and the rest of his life is to be spent pursuing Christlikeness. Paul put it this way: “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me” (Ga.2:20). At the believer’s salvation experience he was awakened to the fact that he is a grievous sinner against God that deserves eternal damnation, but that because Christ loved him and died for him, he has escaped God’s wrath and now possesses eternal life. A proper understanding of Christ’s love for the believer will transform and control his life (2 Co. 5:14-15). It is a motivating truth that drives the believer to put off the old lifestyle with its sin, and to be remade into the image of Christ.

One of the sins that God wants us to put off is the sin of slander. Slander is serious sin. It is very hard for 21st century Americans to accept this. We live in the midst of so much slander that we have trouble even recognizing it as sin. Our conscience is seared. We have so quenched the Spirit in this area that we have trouble feeling His conviction when we slander. Our political campaigns are filled with slander. Our most popular magazines are slanderous rags. We frequently listen to it on television, on the radio, or on the internet. It is commonplace on the job. It is a way of life in America. But Paul lists it as one of the sins that obviously calls for the eternal wrath of God (Ro. 1:30). David prayed that a slanderer would not be in the millennial reign of Christ (Ps. 140:11). David vows to God that as a righteous judge he would destroy all slanderers (Ps. 101:5). One reason God brought judgment against Israel in Jeremiah’s day was “every neighbor will walk with slanderers” (Je. 9:4). Slander proceeds out of an evil heart and defiles a man (Mt. 15:19-20). Slander breaks our fellowship with God so that He will not hear our prayers (Ps. 15:3). It grieves the Holy Spirit and blocks spiritual growth (Ep. 4:31; 1 Pe. 2:1). Slander is one of the characteristics of the church people who in perilous times “have a form of godliness, but have denied its power” (2 Ti. 3:1-5). Again, Paul tells us that we must avoid such men as these (2 Ti. 3:5). He feared he would find such behavior in Corinth (2 Co. 12:20) and warned them to examine themselves to see if they were even saved (2 Co. 13:5). If American Christians could really see the truth of what slander is, we would cry out with Isaiah, “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips!” (Is. 6:5).

The Greek word for slander is blasphemeo. It means ‘to speak evil of.’ Sometimes is it used of speaking evil of God, and is translated ‘to blaspheme.’ When it is used of speaking evil of men, it refers to slander. Slander is the speaking of defamatory statements injurious to the reputation or well-being of another (American Heritage Dictionary). Contrary to what most might think, just because a statement contains the truth does not mean it is not slanderous. The truth can be slander when it is uttered out of evil motives. Love is to be the guiding principle behind all of our speech, both with believers (Ep. 4:15) and unbelievers (2 Ti. 2:13) The test, then, for slander is three-fold: is it true? Is it necessary for this person to know? Is it kind? If it fails any one of these tests, it is sin.

Slander takes many forms. It is the giving of an evil report about your fellow employee to the boss (Pr. 30:10). It is taking about others behind their backs (Ps. 50:20). It is the relaying of defamatory information about someone to others (Pr. 10:18). It is the making fun of others, either behind their backs (Ps. 35:15) or to their faces (Mt. 27:39). It is the prideful remark that demeans those who are “below” us in social standing (Ja. 2:7). Sometimes believers slander other believers whose practice in Christian liberty or convictions are different from their own (1 Co. 10:30). Tattling—the telling of a tale in order to get others in trouble—is slander (Jude 9).

WHY PEOPLE SLANDER
Slander comes from an evil heart (Mt. 15:19-20). It is motivated ultimately by pride (Pr. 30; 1 Ti. 6:3). Secondary motivations include false doctrine(s) which actually intensify it (1 Ti. 6:4). That’s why ‘churches’ that do not preach Bible truth are not loving assemblies; instead they are filled with slander (2 Ti. 3:1-5). People are sometimes motivated to slander for money (2 Sa. 16:3-4; 19:27-30) or in jealousy to destroy another’s career (Is. 32:7). Sometimes an individual is motivated by pure meanness to destroy another’s friendship (Pr. 16:28). That type of individual cannot be trusted with a secret (Pr. 20:19), and believers should not associate with them. Sometimes people slander just because they have too much leisure (1 Ti. 5:13). A good job and a busy schedule helps one keep his nose in his own business. No Christian should ever meddle in other people’s affairs (2 Th. 3:6-14;1 Pe. 4:15). Unsaved people slander believers because they will not participate in their sins (1Pe. 4:4). They will make up slanderous stories as an excuse for not seeking the Lord (2 Pe. 2:2; Ro. 3:8), or regrettably, use the failures of believers to excuse their wickedness (1 Ti. 6:1; Ti. 2:5).

HOW TO AVOID UTTERING SLANDER
Believers must not slander (Co. 3:8). Preachers need to teach God’s people to “speak evil of no man” (Ti. 3:2). Instead, we need to honor “all men” (1 Pe. 2:17). That would include our leaders in government (Ro. 13:7; 1 Pe. 2:17) our employer (1 Ti. 6:1) our wives (1 Pe. 3:7) our parents (Ep. 6:2) the pastor (1 Ti. 5:17) as well as all of our brothers and sisters in Christ (Ro. 12:10). When others fail, do not promote their failure; the loving response is to cover their sin (1 Pe. 4:8; Pr. 17:9). Go alone to your sinning brother and seek to correct him (Mt. 18:15-18). If he repents, forget about it. If he refuses, then others must become involved (Mt. 18:16-17). Take one or two spiritual leaders with you to seek his restoration (Ga. 6:1; Mt. 18:17). If that does not produce repentance, only then must it become a church wide issue (Mt. 18:17). Keep secrets in love (Pr. 11:13). “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mt. 22:39).

WHAT IS NOT SLANDER
It is not slander to report criminal activity to the authorities. It is a loving thing to stop the thief, the murderer, the extortioner, the pervert. Neither is it slander to point out doctrinal error (e.g. the entire book of Galatians) or false teachers (Mt. 16:6; 1 Ti. 1:20). Love desires to protect potential victims and seeks the sinner’s salvation and repentance. Love deals with sin.

RESPONDING TO SLANDER IN A CHRISTLIKE MANNER
Perhaps a few words should be said about how the believer should respond when he is slandered. Paul says that he tried to conciliate others (1 Co. 4:13). That means he sought to overcome the distrust and animosity. He didn’t take it personally. Believers should know that slander from the unsaved is evidence of their Christlikeness and is a source of great blessing (1 Pe. 4:14). Furthermore, they need to understand that Christ allowed the slander to come into their life for a righteous reason (1 Pe. 4:19). In these situations, keeping a good testimony is essential (1 Pe. 3:14-18; 4:14-19). Whether it be in the home (Ti. 2:3-5), or at work (1 Ti. 6:1), or even in some righteous deed (Ro. 14:16), the believer must be careful of his testimony. And when we suffer for doing what is right, the believer should not be ashamed, but rather glorify God in it (1 Pe. 4:16). If the slander threatens to wreck our lives, we must not fear because we know that Christ is Lord, and has allowed these circumstances to develop for His glory (1 Pe. 3:14-15). We should use the occasion to gently and respectfully witness for Him (1 Pe. 3:15). It is just this gentle forbearance that God will use to bring others to Himself in salvation (1 Pe. 3:18).
For the believer, slander is part of the old life. He must put it off completely so that he can put on the new man, which is like Christ. Let us mourn in repentance with Paul that we ever slandered (1 Ti. 1:13). Let us confess our sins that Christ may faithfully wash us clean with His blood (1 Jn. 1:7,9). And if our brother holds it against us for what we have said, we need to make it right with him before the next church service so that our God will receive our worship (Mt. 5:23-24). Let us rejoice that God could ever use sinners like us, whose mouths’ were venomous like a snake’s (Ro. 3:13-14). And let us call upon Him whose grace is sufficient to give us grace to help us have slander-free mouths that speak from a heart of love (2 Co. 12:9; Heb. 4:16).” Quoted Text From: https://libertybaptistmonroewi.wordpress.com/slander/slander/

Remember, we especially, as Christians, are in a War! The devil is seeking whom to devour. You need to understand what power the Cross gives you, and the authority to bind the devil out
of your life. We need to understand scriptures, educate ourselves, and ACT as an image of God
Almighty!

“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says: “Woe to those who call evil good”, but that is exactly what we have done.
* We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. * We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism.
* We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism.
* We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle.
* We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
* We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
* We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
* We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
* We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
* We have abused power and called it politics. * We have embezzled public funds and called it essential expenses.
* We have institutionalized bribery and called it sweets of office. * We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.
*We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. Even elected officials!
* We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Now pulling statues of our history down!
Search us, Oh GOD, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!” With the LORD’S help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and WHOLEHEARTEDLY become our desire so that we again can be called “ONE NATION UNDER GOD.”

Synopsis of Arab Wars

How Western Civilization could be changed in a heartbeat.  The errors of Germany, Switzerland, UK,  Netherlands, and their misguided Socialist views, that could put and end to ALL of Western Civilization as we know it.  Europe’s Stupid Wars!  A warning, it better not happen in America!

The War started in the 7th Century
and lasted through the 17th Century.

Many will contend it never stopped;
the Facts below are Historically correct.

That is why many of us Choke
when we hear someone say we will defeat
or contain these Islamic Terrorists in a few Years,
or even “30 Years” as has been stated by Leon Panetta.

If the latest batch of Murders,
Beheadings,
and Killing of Innocent Christians has at all shocked you,
it is time for you to read this Compilation
of Historical Facts about the Intense Hatred
that Muslims have for ANY and ALL who are “NOT” Muslims!

WE ARE THE STUPID

In 732 A.D.,
the Muslim Army,
which was moving on Paris,
was Defeated and turned back at Tours, France,
by Charles Martell.

In 1571 A.D.,
the Muslim Army/Navy was defeated by the Italians
and Austrians as they tried to cross the
Mediterranean to Attack Southern Europe
in the Battle of Lepanto.

In 1683 A.D.,
the Turkish Muslim Army,
Attacking Eastern Europe,
was finally Defeated in the Battle of Vienna
by German and Polish Christian Armies.

This Nonsense has been going on for 1,400 years!
The SAD thing is that more than half of all Politicians
do not even know any of this.

Early 1900’s it was Winston Churchill that finally put an end to the Ottoman Empire invading UK and Europe!

If these Battles had not been Won,
we would most likely be speaking Arabic.
And Christianity could be Non-existent.
Judaism certainly would NOT exist!

Reality check:
A lot of Americans have become so Insulated
from Reality that they Imagine America
can Suffer defeat without any Inconvenience to themselves.

Think back:
The following events are true historical facts.
It has been many years since 1968,
but History keeps repeating itself.

1. In 1968,
Robert Kennedy was Shot
and Killed by a Muslim Male.

2. In 1972,
at the Munich Olympics,
Israeli Athletes were Kidnapped
and Massacred by Muslim Males.

3. In 1972,
a Pan Am 747 was Hijacked
and eventually Diverted to Cairo
where a Fuse was lit on Final Approach.
Shortly after Landing,
it was Blown up by Muslim Males.

4. In 1973,
a Pan Am 707 was Destroyed in Rome
With 33 People Killed,
when it was Attacked with Grenades by Muslim Males.

5. In 1979,
the United States Embassy in Iran
was taken over by Muslim Males.

6. During the 1980’s,
a number of Americans were Kidnapped
in Lebanon by Muslim Males.

7. In 1983,
the United States Marine Barracks
in Beirut was Blown up by Muslim Males.

8. In 1985,
the Cruise Ship Achille-Lauro was Hijacked,
and a 70-year-old American Passenger
was Murdered
and thrown Overboard in his Wheelchair by Muslim Males.

9. In 1985,
TWA Flight 847 was Hijacked at Athens,
and a United States Navy Diver,
who was trying to Rescue Passengers –
was murdered by Muslim Males.

10. In 1988,
Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim Males.

11. In 1993,
the World Trade Center was Bombed
for the First Time by Muslim Males.

12. In 1998,
the United States Embassies
in Kenya and Tanzania were Bombed by Muslim Males.

13. On 09/11/01,
FOUR Airliners were Hijacked.
Two of the Planes were used as Missiles
to take down the World Trade Centers.
One Plane Crashed into the United States Pentagon,
and the other Plane was Diverted
and Crashed by the Passengers.
Thousands of People were Killed by Muslim Males.

14. In 2002,
the United States fought a War
in Afghanistan against Muslim Males.

15. In 2002,
reporter Daniel Pearl was Kidnapped and Beheaded by
you guessed it – a Muslim Male.
(Plus two other American Journalists
who had just recently been Beheaded.)

16. In 2013,
the Boston Marathon Bombing
resulted in Four Innocent People,
including a Child,
being Killed
and 264 other People injured by Muslim Males.

NO,
I really do not see a pattern here to Justify Profiling.
Do YOU?
So, to ensure we Americans never Offend Anyone
– particularly Fanatics intent on Killing US
– Airport Security Screeners will NO longer
be allowed to Profile certain People.

So,
ask yourself:
“Just how Stupid are we?!?!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire

Have Americans completely lost their Minds
or just their
“Power of Reason?”

As the writer of the Award Winning story
“Forrest Gump”
so aptly put it,
“Stupid is as Stupid does.”  AND History ALWAYS repeats itself!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_wars_in_Europe
1
Rise (1299–1453)
1.1
Byzantine Empire
1.2
Bulgarian Empire
1.3
Serbian Empire
2
Growth (1453–1683)
2.1
Wars in Albania
2.2
Conquest of Bosnia
2.3
Croatia
2.4
Conquest of central parts of Hungarian Kingdom
2.5
Conquest of Serbia and the Vojvodina rebellion
2.6
1463–1503: Wars with Venice
2.7
1462–1483: Wallachian and Moldavian campaigns
2.8
1526–1566: Conquest of the Kingdom of Hungary
2.9
1522–1573: Rhodes, Malta and the Holy League
2.10
1570–1571: Conquest of Cyprus
2.11
1593–1669: Austria, Venice and Wallachia
2.12
1620–1621: Poland-Lithuania
2.13
1657–1683 Conclusion of Wars with Habsburgs
2.14
1672–1676: Poland-Lithuania
2.15
1683–1699: Great Turkish War – Loss of Hungary and the Morea
3
Stagnation (1699–1828)
3.1
18th century
3.2
19th century
4
Ottoman decline (1828–1908)
5
Dissolution (1908–22)
5.1
Italo-Turkish War
5.2
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
5.3
1912–13: Balkan Wars
5.4
World War I

Gold Or Sounding Brass?

Satan comes to steal, and destroy. If He IS the son of God, then the Holy Spirit, (the Comforter He left us before He ascended) will be there. He roars like a lion. He was real with Job, and transforms himself as an angel of light. If you are not filled with the Holy Spirit, speak in tongues, know the gifts of the spirit in Acts, you have no power! Satan doesn’t care if you have a Bible, as long as you don’t read it! If you are in a church, with false doctrines, and there are no healings, miracles, lives changed from sin and redemption, and you have all the answers, yet, know nothing! You are in dead works! If you are in a rock concert church, maybe have salvations, because of Sounding
Brass, be careful in these end days, that God doesn’t spew you out of His mouth. Revelation 3:15-16 “I know thy works, I would rather ye be cold or hot, for if you are lukewarm, I will spew thee out of my mouth!” What does that mean? It is devine retribution. Your salvation, is for nothing, and you will be cast into hell.

Look at Saul, on that road to Tarsus in Acts 9:1-9, a slave trader and a murderer, and he heard the voice of Jesus, “Why do you persecute me?” As he fell to the ground, in the power of the Holy Ghost, asking “who are you Lord?” The Holy Ghost power is overwhelming when it Is received, AND wonderful! He cleanses, He works through us, He convicts us of all we can
do with his power. When Saul got up he was blinded and fasted for 3 days, and 3 nights. But, Saul became Apostle Paul, the greatest evangelist that ever was. Paul who served time in jail, whose bones ached, worse than mine as he aged with arthritis. But, the Holy Ghost power he received that day, was for us all!

Jesus said, in Acts 1:8 “But you shall receive POWER (miracle-working power), after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you and you shall be witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the Earth.” (This “power” is inherent in the Holy Spirit, and solely in His Domain. It doesn’t mean witnessing to souls, but, rather to one giving one’s all in every capacity for Christ, even to the laying down of one’s life. Without the
Baptism with the Holy Spirit, one cannot really know Jesus as one should.)
Expositor’s Study Bible  –    Play:

The Lack of the Holy Spirit Leaves a Vacuum in the Churches

“Something is missing! Something has been lost. Our Bibles tell us of a vibrant, thrilling, sensational salvation. There is a discrepancy somewhere…
This article will be a challenge to the honest seeker. It is not intended to promote a doctrine so much as an experience. Let the reader dismiss the testimonies of others, the claims of modern religions and find the staggering truth that so-called salvation today has little or nothing in common with the true Bible meaning of this all-important word.
It is the purpose of this article to illustrate the inevitable association of the “manifestation of the Spirit” with salvation, and to point out the human error of claiming to be “saved” while remaining outside the definition this word carries in the Bible.
Here is an illustration. To be a good apple is not to be an orange; to be a football fan is not necessarily to be a footballer. Similarly, to be a believer in the Bible, the story of the Cross or of Jesus Christ is not necessarily to be “saved”. This fact is amply illustrated in the Bible.
God is Omnipotent!

What was the God of the Old Testament like? What did He do? Well, we are certainly wealthy in Old Testament descriptions. God was kind, loving, and God was fierce, jealous and punishing. God was in the garden with Adam and in the flood with Noah. God created and planned; God spoke to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; He appeared in various supernatural ways for varying reasons. He was a pillar of fire to the Israelites and a burning bush to Moses, and in a hundred ways God revealed Himself to mankind. God was active and challenging, ever ready to demonstrate His omnipotence. God honoured Elijah’s prayer with fire from heaven. God refused to deviate from His own prophetic plan. He inhabited the tabernacle and the temple – miraculously. God promised to inhabit you and many others. Did He? Will He? Does He? God offers scriptural, prophesied proof of the receiving of His Spirit. This is Bible salvation.
The kingdom is the realm, Jesus Christ is Head of the kingdom, and He is King of the Church, and the Head of the Body. Jesus told His disciples: Pray, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth…” (MATTHEW 6:10). He gave Peter (and his associates) the keys of the kingdom of heaven. This is the Gospel.

Paul wrote: “For the kingdom of God is… righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost” (ROMANS 14:17). To Nicodemus, Jesus gave the warning: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (JOHN 3:5). Indeed, our Lord emphasised that one could not even see the kingdom.

The Common Salvation
The Kingdom, the Body, and the Church are synonymous terms, just as with “salvation”, or to be “born-again”, “born of the Spirit”, “born from above”, “regenerated”, “quickened”, or “sealed”. The Bible Christians were “indwelt” or inhabited by the Spirit of God. It was an obvious teaching that the salvation offered would be “common” to all as with Israel; all were to drink the “same spiritual drink” (1 CORINTHIANS 10:4).
Imagine now as millions recite the prayer for the Kingdom of God to come on earth, while at the same time they reject the very way and only way God’s Kingdom (Realm) can come. To Nicodemus it meant entry by baptism and the Spirit, and this despite his knowledge in Israel.
Again, after the warning that one must discern (see) the Lord’s Body lest one should “eat and drink unworthily”. Paul reminds the Corinthians that it is by “one Spirit are we all baptized into one body… and have been all made to drink into one Spirit” (1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-13).
Note too, the means of entry, the gifts and manifestation of God’s power. Note the discrepancy in the modern Churches.

In short, the Gospel (Good News) of the Kingdom was an invitation to a personal experience of God’s Spirit that would usher the repentant into a saved relationship with God.
The fundamental difference made between the “believer” and the “receiver” should be obvious. This vital difference is illustrated, but let us note that the Spirit of God is also offered in various terminology. The New Testament tells of the Holy Ghost. Paul writes also of the Spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of God. Jesus declared that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him. John the Baptist saw “the Spirit of God” descending like a dove upon Jesus. Paul writes of “the eternal Spirit”, and assures the Ephesians that there is but “one Spirit”.
These and other terms are used at random throughout the Old and New Testaments. The point we make here is that there is one Spirit, and this despite the teaching of some that the Spirit of Christ is received at conversion, and the Holy Spirit is received as the “Pentecostal additive”. This teaching is unsound and might well leave the seeker unsaved!

The Promise of the Spirit
Jesus said: “If any man thirst (i.e. seek salvation), let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me (a believer, but not yet a receiver), as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should (Greek: ‘mello’ = would) receive, for the Holy Ghost (Spirit) was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” (JOHN 7:37-39).
This Scripture alone is a direct challenge to anyone who believes in Jesus Christ to ensure that they receive the Holy Spirit. But you might say: “I am sure the Lord has been with me in times of trial and stress.” Yes, this may well be true, but Jesus said: “…he (the Spirit) dwelleth with you, and shall be in you” (JOHN 14:17).
Let us now note the interchangeable terms used for the salvation experience.
John the Baptist said: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:… he (Jesus) shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire” (MATTHEW 3:11).
Jesus said to His disciples: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you…” (ACTS 1:8). This event is described in Chapter 2 of the Acts of the Apostles, where they were filled with the Holy Ghost. These terms are obviously synonymous.
Another enlightening scripture is found in EPHESIANS 1, where Paul declares: “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted after ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed (saved) with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest (assurance) of our inheritance(salvation) until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory” (EPHESIANS 1:12-14).

Be Not Beguiled!
Paul said: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit… or another gospel…” (2 CORINTHIANS 11:3-4).
Some have argued that the Ethiopian (ACTS 8) gives no record of receiving the Holy Ghost. We venture to say that this Philip of the Samaria revival would have left the eunuch in no doubt about the Holy Spirit if he explained (as he did) the Scripture first. Indeed Paul recognised only one Gospel, declaring: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed” (GALATIANS 1:8).
One thing is sure, that is that there is only one Gospel. An honest approach to the Bible definition of the Gospel will solve this anomaly once and for all.

What Did Joel Mean?
“But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh…” (ACTS 2:16-17).
What was Joel speaking of? He spoke of the pouring out of God’s Spirit in the “latter days”. Joel declared of God: “And ye shall know (by this) that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God… and whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered (saved)”(JOEL 2:27-32).
The crowd at this first Pentecostal outpouring was amazed. Peter explained what was happening. This, he declared, was that which was promised: “…the promise of the Holy Ghost… which ye now see and hear” (ACTS 2:33).
What Does the Bible Mean when it states Tongues Shall Cease?
Often we endeavour to bring a prophecy to fulfilment before time. We criticise the Jehovah’s Witnesses for claiming that Christ has already returned simply because a number of Scriptures promise His return. It is true, as the Word declares: “…whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away” (1 CORINTHIANS 13:8).
The apostle Paul had just reminded the Church of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The professing church strenuously denies that the word of knowledge has vanished, but meanwhile stoutly affirms that tongues have ceased.

“That Which is Perfect”
To read on in this chapter is to keep the verse within the context: “But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away” (1 CORINTHIANS 13:10).
Critics of speaking in tongues have offered every conceivable identification of the coming of “that which is perfect” but to read on further is to find a ready-made solution: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face…” (Verse 12). If our appreciation, experience and representation of Christ is a “face-to-face” one now, why need He return? A truly Spirit-filled Christian will admit that our faith is as yet insignificant compared with the revelation that will come with the second advent of Jesus Christ. This is confirmed in the second half of this same verse: “…now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known”.

God’s Gift Immutable
We cannot wrest these Scriptures from their context. God has left the Church with the gifts of His Spirit, and so shall it be until Christ returns.
Paul’s reference to “putting away childish things” (Verse 11) could hardly refer to tongues. In fact, this was not so. His reference here was to their lack of understanding of spiritual gifts within the Church. Their zeal for the exercise of God’s Spirit had allowed disorder within their meetings. Paul’s exhortation was to bring order back. He continues then to identify tongues within the Church.

“Be Not Children”
The concluding remarks made by Paul should have some meaning for those who attack tongues. He says: “But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues” (1 CORINTHIANS 14:38-39). This comes as rather conclusive when the whole matter is introduced by the same writer with the injunction: “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant” (1 CORINTHIANS 12:1).
Right in the middle of this message to the Corinthians concerning the gifts operating within the Church, Paul adds: “Brethren, be not children in understanding … but in understanding be men” (1 CORINTHIANS 14:20).
To oppose tongues is to oppose the positive manifestation of God’s Spirit within the Church. The Church is the Body of Christ – what, then, is our attitude towards His Body?
What is It?  SPEAKING IN TONGUES is not just the God-given sign which confirms our believing as we receive the Holy Spirit (MARK 16:17); and it is not only a sign to the unbelievers who hear the gift of tongues in the church and recognise the presence of God in the manifestation. These signs (Greek: ‘semelon’; ‘semaphore’ = signs) authenticate the Gospel being preached where the signs occur (MARK 16:20). More importantly, after the initial confirmation of our Holy Spirit baptism, our continuing ability to speak in tongues provides us with a valuable prayer-language. In fact, as we pray in tongues (“praying in the Spirit”, as Paul calls it) it is the Holy Spirit Himself who is speaking through us. “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities (our weaknesses): for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (ROMANS 8:26).
No wonder Paul could say: “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all” (1 CORINTHIANS 14:18).”

Yes, and I do too. Thank you Jesus, for planting me in a Holy Ghost tongue speaking charismatic church in 1984. Saved by Jimmy Swaggart, in August 1982 on tv, in FL
after my Dad died, a 2 year old toddler, and a 3rd and last divorce. I didn’t know what
this man had on tv, I only knew I was at the end of my rope, and I wanted all that he
had. I wanted not only salvation, but this power, Holy Ghost tongue speaking power of God
almighty! Without which , your church is dead works. Helping out in neighborhoods, may
be nice, but, it is dead works. Jesus wants lives changed, He wants healings, He wants
wheelchairs thrown out, He wants signs and wonders and miracles. Below, are some
videos, some teachings. Play them. For I pray for Holy Ghost FIRE to sweep America
as it has in Africa. I pray for an awakening like Azuza St, in the early 1900’s. I pray
for America and tent revivals, like the old days, and laying of hands, and drugs gone
forever, Gay lives changed, without blasphemy of letting people drink a beer in a church,
or dancing to rock music in church. POWER…GOD SEND POWER AND GIVE US THE
HOLY GHOST ACROSS THIS LAND…..HE IS THE ONLY DELIVERER. NOT TAX
PAYER MONEY FOR OPIOD CRISIS, BUT HOLY GHOST POWER, AND POWER TO
KNOCK THE DRUG DEALERS OUT OF OUR STATES. God I cry before you, and before
the Rapture, and before you take this woman home. AWAKEN OUR CHURCHES AND
AMERICA!

From:
https://www.cai.org/bible-studies/lack-holy-spirit

Denying the Holy Spirit –Jimmy Swaggart
https://youtu.be/nCnQ6uDB1SY

The Power of the Holy Spirit – Gabrielle Swaggart
https://youtu.be/JsaH370mffo

Healings, Salvations, Millions saved and healed – Bonke & Kalenda
https://youtu.be/MVd97AP_m6A

Why We Need the Holy Spirit – Benny Hinn
https://youtu.be/Dls3OBuMx60

The Power and Annointing of the Holy Spirit – Benny Hinn
https://youtu.be/vz7o21hyo2Y

America’s Sin Nature

When I was growing up in the late 40’s and 50’s, we did not have this explosion of sexual escapades and “anything goes”. Our mothers were like neighborhood watchdogs, and it gave us a healthy, safe upbringing. We went to church on Sundays, and believe it or not,
a young Billie Graham was on our “mainstream” now “fake” news stations. We had prayer in school! We were overachievers. It was relevant we got good marks in school, and most in my class of ’57, went on to make a difference, one went to Annapolis, another worked in NYC for the Port Authority, one worked for the Defense Dept., another served his country, career Special Forces. So I ask television producers now, and Hollywood, what on earth kind of Satanic garbage do you think your promoting?  For God turned Lot’s wife in Genesis to a pillar of salt, when they were leaving Sodom and Gomorrah, and she looked back in lust. I’ll leave it to other pastors whether or not all your fires in CA is God’s judgment.

Movies and tv sitcoms are all sex, lewd language (even for small children), loud, boisterous,
without manners, ethics, character, and for the most part occult. There is nothing else you
need to do, for it seems the FCC does nothing to clean up. No one reads a book anymore,
no one sits at a dinner table, and actually talks TO a person, instead yelling AT them. There’s
absolutely no morals whatsoever. Whatever happened to “CONSCIENCE?” (I’ll get back
to that.)  Add to that turn off your cell phones, for family.

From Billy Graham’s site:

“ARE ALL SINS THE SAME IN GOD’S EYES?”
“It is always difficult and dangerous to attempt to list sins according to their degree of seriousness. In one sense, all sins are equal in that they all separate us from God. The Bible’s statement, “For the wages of sin is death …” (Romans 6:23), applies to all sin, whether in thought, word, or deed.

At the same time, it seems obvious that some sins are worse than others in both motivation and effects, and should be judged accordingly. Stealing a loaf of bread is vastly different than exterminating a million people. Sins may also differ at their root.
Theologians have sought for centuries to determine what the essence of sin is. Some have chosen sensuality, others selfishness, and still others pride or unbelief. In the Old Testament, God applied different penalties to different sins, suggesting variations in the seriousness of some sins. A thief paid restitution; an occult practitioner was cut off from Israel; one who committed adultery or a homosexual act or cursed his parents was put to death (see Exodus, chapter 22 and Leviticus, chapter 20).

In the New Testament Jesus said it would be more bearable on the day of judgment for Sodom than for Capernaum because of Capernaum’s unbelief and refusal to repent after witnessing His miracles (Matthew 11:23-24). The sins of Sodom were identified in Ezekiel 16:21 as arrogance, gluttony, indifference to the poor and needy, haughtiness, and “detestable things.”
When Jesus spoke of his second coming and judgment, he warned that among those deserving punishment some would “be beaten with many blows” and others “with few blows” (Luke 12:47-48). He also reserved His most fierce denunciations for the pride and unbelief of the religious leaders, not the sexually immoral (Matthew 23:13-36).

However, remember that whether our sins are relatively small or great, they will place us in hell apart from God’s grace. The good news is that Jesus paid the penalty for our sins and the sins of the whole world at the Cross. If we will repent and turn to Jesus, in faith, our sins will be forgiven, and we will receive the gift of eternal life.”

https://billygraham.org/answer/are-all-sins-the-same-in-gods-eyes/
Franklin Graham too, spoke at Trump rally: “America’s Sins Have Paralyzed It” THIS was
Before all the uproar and resignations both in Hollywood and Washington, DC.
Bill Clinton’s disgraceful Presidency with all his rapes and sexual escapades
have outweighed any legacy he could have left. And Hillary for her “enabling”
and never taking responsibility for her own actions. Staying with a man who was
a disgrace to the office of White House, and President. I divorced my philanderer
in 1969. And I worked as a single mom with 3 children, only to go in the workplace
and be hit on just like today’s little minions all crying. Yet THEY stayed in their
jobs for fame, or recognition, while I took the predators on. And no laws back then.
A married man harasses you at work? QUIT! Simple..Or turn him in.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-prays-at-trump-rally-americas-sins-have-paralyzed-it-196568/

“Our heavenly Father, You have blessed our country more than any nation on Earth and we acknowledge that apart from you we have no hope. We come tonight as a troubled nation. We are broken spiritually. We are divided politically. We are divided racially,” Graham asserted. “And we are adrift morally, following the whatever direction the wind of popular culture blows with no regard for Your Word or the consequences of our disobedience. We ask tonight for your help.”
Graham continued by stating that “There are some people in the United States that are looking to “divide” and “preach hate. And Father, it is my prayer that you will just shut their mouths like you shut the mouths of the lions years ago,” Graham said. Our sins have paralyzed us. As a country, we seem to have forgotten right from wrong. You warned us in Your holy word, the Bible, that a day would come when the truth would become a lie and lies would become truth. And we see this happening before our eyes today. Our sins have paralyzed us. As a country, we seem to have forgotten right from wrong,” Graham stated. “You warned us in Your holy word, the Bible, that a day would come when the truth would become a lie and lies would become truth. And we see this happening before our eyes today. “The psalmist, David, the great king of Israel, said that You were his shepherd. Father, we need a shepherd. I pray that You would be the shepherd of our nation, the shepherd that leads us to green pastures and still waters for Your namesake,” he prayed. “You are the God who restores our souls. Even though we walk through the ‘valley of the shadow of death,’ we fear no evil for You are with us and Your rod and your staff, they comfort us, the Bible tells us.”

Sin is still SIN. America’s sins, and all the left, with their ‘politically correct jargon, it only has
one outcome, being cast into Hell for eternity. Your sinful Presidential legacies are certainly going to get you to Heaven, neither in your politically correct stance, nor is your Socialist-Communist view, (that in itself will lead you to hell). We are now like Babylon (in Southern
Iraq) a land filled with sin. Jeremiah 51:5. II Chronicles 25:4 Was put to death for his own sins.
Job 10:14 If I sin, you “mark” me. Job couldn’t repent. A man of God, who had pride. God
allowed Satan to test him and put him through all these trials and problems. He lost all his
money, 7 children to death, had a plague and sores all over him, friends who were backstabbers,
and he just didn’t get it. Once he did, and repented, God restored all to him again. Ps. 32:11
“Blessed is he whose sins are covered.” Covered by the blood shed at Calvary. I Peter 2;24 “He bore our Sins. Ezekiel 18:4 “Sins shall die”. Sins NEED to die. They need to be acknowledged
that they ARE sins, and repented of, for THAT and ONLY that is redemption. Else God lets you
go, with your own sinful choices, but, unless you repent, you will go to hell. The wages of sin
is death! While Christ offers eternal life. Without repentance, there is no redemption.

Scriptures: Adultery: Proverbs 6:32, Romans 6:15, I John 3:9, Matt 5:28, II Peter 2:4

Conscience: by John Hagee
https://youtu.be/aAYw8gi6cSM

Article:  America VS Sodom & Gomorrah                                                                                                      https://freedomoutpost.com/america-vs-sodom-gomorrah-whats-difference/  

Postscript:  The article above touches on the feminist movement and Betty Friedan, as well as Hugh Heffner.  Yes, he especially, during the height of his “Playboy” career during the 60’s was every man’s dream.  All these “bunnies” serving drinks at Playboy Clubs all over America, where anything went.  Al Franken, and Harvey Weinstein would have been in “bunny heaven”..where young gorgeous gals, were “playthings”.  Morality went out the window! So did God!

So, let me go one step further, back into early movies from Hollywood. Most, when Metro Golden Mayer, and other studios were big, we had some phenomenal Biblical movies made, and a lot with Charlton Heston.  But, for the most part even the old black and white movies, with James Cagney, Humphry Bogart, were not only violent, but some of the most abusive towards women I can remember.  I can remember, now clear as can be, Doris Day getting belted around by James Cagney in “Love Me Or Leave Me”, the story of 30’s singer Ruth Etting. Women were always getting slapped or punched.  It was this macho atmosphere that it was ok, that I was married in 1961, to the man who would abuse me and cheat on me. Because society said it was OK.  His ego said I was “property”.  When he smashed my head against the car one night in front of cop, he yelled, ” She’s my wife, I can do what I want!”! And I never forgot.

While the jokes of comedians like Sid Caesar, Milton Berl, Red Skelton, and Danny Thomas, were clean, no swearing, and actually REALLY funny. Some of the slapstick such as the “3 Stooges” were  really violent and not appropriate.  And I for one never thought they were funny, only abusive.  Then there was the “master” comedian, Jackie Gleason.  And I liked him, except one line, “Alice, one of these days, POW right in the kisser!”  Totally UNACCEPTABLE!!                                                                                                                                                                                                         So, slowly, through the last 40-50 years, women’s skirts have got shorter, necklines down to the waist. Hollywood shows just about everything, nothing left to the imagination, with everything exposed, hanging out.  Gay pride has taken “hold”, as “normal” and we have women who have taken over the macho role of a man, both in the home and workplace.  While men, now do not even know how they are supposed to act, as most have been cut down so much and emasculated, they have no idea who they are.  So before Washington and the news media go abuzz on fixing this.  Let me say this, Bill Clinton with all his women didn’t do anything my ex didn’t do, except “his” got in the front pages of newspapers. When my ex died in 2011, unsaved, (he was too macho for Jesus, until fear in the last minute), and my daughter couldn’t lead him in the Salvation prayer. He never saw anything wrong in what he did.  He bore no responsibility whatsoever.  When my oldest son was a little boy, my mother bought him a “Ken” doll for Christmas.  Well, he screamed at my mother, “What are you trying to do, make the kid a sissy?”  THAT is how he was brought up.  THAT was our culture.  And I’ll tell you this, “ladies and gentlemen”, neither Freidan or Heffner did a thing, except breakdown the values of home. No wonder there are so many gangs, drugs, and murders.  No fathers, head of house!

What is the answer? Jesus Christ!  For the Bible is clear how men are to respect and love their wives, and visa versa.  There are some good ministries on Daystar and TBN on Christian marriage counseling,  Jimmy and Karen Evans are one.  And VP Pence is absolutely correct with respect to his wife and traveling with her!!  I have been single for 35 years, after a 3rd divorce, (last was bi-polar), so I do not qualify for marriage counseling.   But, I’ll say this, as a society, Washington, Hollywood, down through the states, you better be careful how you all handle this open epidemic that is rampant over the media.  Ladies on all these news stations? Start “acting” like ladies, and lower your skirts, and that includes Fox News now, and I don’t care WHAT the Murdock’s tell you.  Look professional, with suits not cocktail dresses at 10AM. Act like professional journalists and stand your ground, cause, fame and money isn’t worth it.  And stop writing all these “victim” books out there!  Sounds like “the devil made me do it!” Hogwash! If some macho gropes you, slap him, report him to Human Resources, as I did back in the early 70’s, BEFORE there were any laws.  Writing a book for all the world like Hillary did, only demeans you.  “I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me!.” Philippians 4:10  Not half, not none, but ALL!  And one female journalist I think of, not naming, take off those 2″ false eyelashes. Your a supposed journalist not a show girl. ACT like it!  If you look like a whore, you get treated like a whore.  A Godly image demands respect, not testing the testosterone all around you in the workplace.  Set a standard. It isn’t all the men’s fault.  I wore all suits in an office working in my professional years.  Makeup? Yes, but, never like gals today.  My idols way back were Channel suits, Jacquie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn.  I liked style and admired the couture that covered you up in class.   Hollywood’s actresses (if you call them that) look like street walkers half nude on an award stage.  Is THAT how you see yourselves?  If so you have no self esteem dears, whatsoever!   As for men? If a woman says, NO? It is no, walk away! But I’m sick of all these “feminists” and their demands, when they can’t look in the mirror. And how I despise all these women $$$$ looking for a fast deal on innocent men. One young Black man I posted on Facebook, served 6 years in jail for a rape that was later proven trumped up!  NOT ALL these women, like from Allred are telling the truth.  You ruin lives of the innocent? GOD will allow it to backfire on you.  “We reap what we sow.”

Lord, I pray for our Pastors, and mega Pastors, on TV, in our local pulpits, to also repent and see the error of their ways in denominational, and and Southern Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, anything goes churches.  Sin is SIN!  Yesterday, in Jesus time, today and whatever is to come.  I pray for an AWAKENING, I pray for REVIVAL and for your Holy Spirit Lord to reach all of our land. And spread like the wildfires in CA…but YOU Lord.  CONVICT this nation back to YOU Lord, back to morals, back to character, ethics, and the CROSS, in Jesus name, I pray.  Cleanse this nation Lord, and I pray  for those who pray this sinner’s prayer of redemption. Amen.

Let there be no doubt our President Donald Trump is saved. GOD chose him!                                   https://youtu.be/Uk4c2uoOF3o

 

Martin Luther

The Reformation 500 year Anniversary

One cannot call himself a Christian, let alone born again, without knowing the miraculous work of Martin Luther. A Catholic. A monk, who could not find salvation. The Catholic church back in Luther’s time in the 1500’s kept all the gospels and Bible from the masses. Printing presses hadn’t fully begun, nor been invented. There was no  translations from the Hebew  and Greek, so that the Catholic Churches’ interpretations, with services in Latin, left something, to be still deeply desired.

During the times of the 1500’s, it also included Queen Elizabeth of England and her half sister
Mary Queen of Scots. Mary had been sent to France as a child, for her own safety to be brought
up. The other child at the time was young Francis, his mother Katherine, a Medici. By the time
both children had become teens, they fell in love and married. Francis was to become a young king. The intertwining period between Luther, and all the bloodshed throughout Europe, into Rome, was mind boggling. Elizabeth eventually, many, many years later, long after Francis’ early illness and death, had Mary captured and put in England’s tower for 20 years, upon which
she had her head chopped off. Those were the times that Luther, a German, was living in, under the cloud of the Roman Catholic Church and Vatican.

With the Catholic Church, then it was about money and control. Peasants would have to “buy”
themselves out of sin, to reach a “purgatory” that is nowhere even mentioned in the Bible. They
could get away with this, as all services were in Latin, and there were no Bibles. Of course then,
you also had the Borgia’s. Rodrigo Borgia B1431-D1503 with all his mistresses, and 4 children,
by one, became Pope Alexander VI. The mistresses then, continued in the Vatican. As Pope,
he legitimized his children, one through the ages whose name was known, was Lucrezia, the other Cesare. Thus was the world that Luther became a monk.

For 20 years young Martin Luther would be on his knees scrubbing the Abby floors, trying to
earn his salvation. In pain, and frustration, he would then finally comb through scriptures and
so painstakingly, would transcribe from the Greek and Latin. Finally one day, he found the
scriptures, and the Holy Spirit fell on him, as he got saved FREE, by grace. Then he left the
Church. The following is his story, from Beyond Today magazine. Thank you Jesus for this
man. Thank you Jesus, for his courage, for his perseverance, for his pain, for his brilliant mind,
insight, and most of all thank you for not letting his head get chopped off before YOUR work
was done God.  It was due to Luther, publishing the Bible, and breaking away from the Catholic Church to start the Lutheran Protestant Church.  He later married a woman who had been a nun, and they had 6 children. And what a legacy, he left this world.  Salvation free with grace!      (I might note here, that William Tyndale’s translation came after Luther, and in English, while Luther’s was German. As he was greatly influenced by Luther and also a Greek Erasmus. )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale

The Unfinished Reformation Posted on Sep 12, 2017 by Gary Petty
From: Beyond Today
https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/beyond-today-magazine/martin-luther-the-unfinished-reformation

“According to popular tradition, it was on Oct. 31, 1517, that a relatively unknown Catholic monk named Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the front door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany.

Luther intended his work, written in Latin, to be read by priests and monks. The Ninety-five Theses concerned changes he felt were needed in the Catholic Church. Within a short time Luther’s Theses were translated into German, and a number of clergy and lay people began to agree with him.

Little did he know that this simple act would spark a revolution that would break the Catholic Church’s power over the spiritual life of Europe. Within a few years Western Christianity would split into competing branches. The world would never be the same. Medieval fear of hell and purgatory.  At the core of theological thought in the Middle Ages was the absolute terror of going to hell. Salvation was introduced to humanity through Jesus Christ, but pious people were plagued by the question of what would happen to them if in this life they weren’t totally cleansed from sin?

To die while still in “mortal sin” was terrifying. If a priest wasn’t present to perform the last rites a person could end up being eternally tormented by demons.  And then there was the problem of venial sin—sins not warranting eternal damnation but requiring punishment. To deal with this problem the medieval church became obsessed with the concept of purgatory.
Purgatory, the church taught, was where Christians would go after death. It wasn’t hell, where the eternally damned had no hope of escape, but it was a place of unthinkable anguish where the souls of Christians faced punishment and purification. You can imagine the anxiety experienced by pious medieval Catholics obsessed with thoughts of loved ones bound in a torturous existence waiting to be freed to join Jesus and the saints in heaven.
The Catholic Church taught there was something the living could do. In Luther’s day the Wittenberg church had numerous side altars where priests performed private mass. People paid for these sacraments as a means to lessen the time their loved ones had to spend in purgatory.  Other practices included the selling of “indulgences.” An indulgence was a promise by the church that when a person paid a sum of money to the church, he could reduce the amount of time a loved one spent in purgatory. A person could even buy an indulgence for himself—a kind of spiritual debit card.  Paying for masses and selling of indulgences had made the Roman Catholic Church extremely wealthy. One of the issues Luther attacked in his Theses was the sale of indulgences. The result was that the entire economy of the Catholic Church, the way the Vatican financed building projects and maintained military power, was under attack.

An unknown monk on a collision course with the pope.  In his earlier years Luther had no intention of joining the clergy, but a dramatic event changed the course of his life. As a young man he was almost struck by lightning. At the time, most people believed that lightning was caused by the devil or demons. The idea that he could suddenly die without receiving the sacrament of last rites was terrifying. In Luther’s mind his soul could be lost forever.
Luther joined a monastery where he took a vow of chastity and poverty, received a doctorate in theology and was ordained a priest. His days were filled with prayer, ceremonies, self-denial and religious studies. But he struggled with the concept of sin and how a person could be accepted by God. He was wracked with guilt, depression and a sense of self-loathing. He concluded that God would forgive only a sinner who was consumed with self-hatred.
In 1511 Luther traveled to Rome. It wasn’t long before the idealistic monk began to experience grave disappointment. He was shocked by how priests hurried through one mass so they could get paid for the next one. He grew disillusioned with the opulence and immorality he witnessed among the priesthood.

There was a staircase in Rome reported to be the very steps Jesus climbed to appear before Pontius Pilate. Luther wanted to help his grandfather spend less time in purgatory, so he paid an indulgence and climbed the steps on his knees, stopping on each step to kiss it and say a prayer. Later he would say that when he reached the top of the steps he wondered if anything in this ritual was true.  The monk, who thought the way to God was through self- hatred and rituals, was now plagued with doubts about the teachings of his church. And this led to his changed beliefs.  After his Theses, Luther, a prodigious writer, produced books that became popular, and Rome began to take notice. One that especially drew notice was titled The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, published in 1520. In this work Luther claimed that the papacy was antichrist.  The pope condemned Luther’s writings and commanded that his books be burned. Luther responded by publicly burning the pope’s decree. The next year Luther was called before the German emperor and at the Diet of Worms was condemned as a heretic. The unknown monk was now famous.

More revolutionary acts.  The outlaw monk fled to the Wartburg castle. It was here, between 1521 and 1522, that Luther translated the New Testament from Greek into German.
In our world of books and instant Internet access to information, it’s difficult to understand just how monumental it was for Luther to complete this translation. For more than a thousand years the Catholic Church had maintained ecclesiastical power by making sure the Bible was not translated into common languages. The study of the Bible was mainly reserved for monks and priests either in Latin or the original languages of Hebrew and Greek. Even the regular mass, the everyday worship service centered on the Eucharist or communion rite, was said in Latin. This meant that most people throughout Christendom didn’t even understand the words of the mass.  Through the relatively new technology of printing, Luther’s supporters published many copies of the New Testament. It was now possible for literate people throughout Germany to obtain a copy of the Scriptures in their own language.  The next year Luther did something else that shocked the Catholic world. In spite of his priestly vow of celibacy, Luther married. And he didn’t just marry a common local girl—he married a former nun!

Luther’s disagreement with the book of James.  Luther’s most lasting legacy is his teaching that justification, being made right before a righteous God, is through faith alone.
One passage that was foundational to his teaching is Romans 3:23-26 Romans 3:23-2623 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.

American King James Version×, where the apostle Paul writes: “… For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”  Here Paul presents the good news that our sins are forgiven because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who died for our sins as our substitute. Since no human works can earn God’s forgiveness, then we are justified when we have faith in God’s promise and embrace Christ’s sacrifice for us.  Luther concluded that to be justified, all one has to do is believe in Christ without any corresponding works. He pointed to Paul’s writings in Romans where God promised Abraham descendants in number like the stars in heaven even though Abraham and his wife Sarah were childless and beyond childbearing years. Luther noted that Paul quoted from a passage in Genesis stating, “And he [Abraham] believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:6 Genesis 15:6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.  American King James Version×; quoted in Romans 4:3 Romans 4:3For what said the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.  American King James Version×).
For Luther this was an open-and-shut case: Believe and you are justified. Once justified you are saved. Once you are saved, you remain saved without any influence of works—good or bad.
But Luther had a problem. The New Testament book of James teaches that more is needed for justification than mere belief. James, the half brother of Jesus Christ, wrote: “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, ‘You have faith, and I have works.’ Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?” (James 2:17-20 James 2:17-2017 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yes, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

American King James Version. In his Preface to the Epistles of St. James and St. Jude, Luther claimed that the writer of James’ letter is “in direct opposition to St. Paul, and all the rest of the Bible, it ascribes justification to works …” ( Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings, John Dillenberger, ed., 1962, p. 35).  And that’s not all James penned that bothered Luther. James wrote: “Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only” (James 2:21-24 James 2:21-2421 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 See you how faith worked with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which said, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

American King James Version×).  Luther saw Paul and James as incompatible. “Scripture alone” was one of Luther’s guiding principles, but now he struggled with Scripture when it didn’t meet his understanding. He ultimately branded the epistle of James “an epistle of straw” that he felt like “throwing … into the stove” and wrote that he doubted that it truly belonged in the Bible at all ( Luther’s Works, E.T. Bachmann, ed., 1960, vol. 35, p. 362, and vol. 34, p. 317).
Are Paul and James incompatible?  Luther believed that Paul and James were promoting two different and incompatible ways to be justified. But are they really?  The answer lies in the way both writers used the example of Abraham. Paul was writing to the church in Rome to explain how both Jews and gentiles can come into a relationship with God. Both are justified by God’s grace and faith in the work of Christ. Paul clearly teaches that no one can earn God’s favor because of their good works. Abraham was justified because he believed in God’s promises.
James, however, was dealing with a somewhat different problem. James was addressing the wrong idea that mere belief constitutes living faith. Remember, he wrote that Satan and the demons believe in God and fear His awesome power and glory. James made it clear that our faith must be much more than Satan’s belief! Faith involves completely trusting God, and trusting God is a motivation for obedience.

Think about James’ argument. Abraham believed God’s promise that his son Isaac would give him descendants. Then God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son. God’s promise and command for obedience seemed inconsistent to say the least.  What if Abraham would have said to God: “I believe your promise to give me descendants through Isaac, and since that can’t happen if I sacrifice him, I have decided to disobey you. But I still believe in your promise!”
James argued that if Abraham had refused to obey God, his belief would not have been real faith. If a person truly trusts God, then his actions will be rooted in that trust.  We can’t erase our own sins or impress God enough to earn salvation. We must also not fall into the trap of thinking that belief is all God requires. Faith must submit to God’s working in us. In this submission, real living faith produces works. Paul is correct in teaching that human beings can’t earn justification but must have faith in Christ. James is also correct in teaching that faith without works is dead—useless and empty because it doesn’t really change the person.
Moreover, Paul himself said that “the doers of the law will be justified” (Romans 2:13 Romans 2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

American King James Version×)—that is, made right before God. We must understand that we receive initial justification from God whenever we repent, apart from any deeds of obedience (Romans 3:28 Romans 3:28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  American King James Version×). But remaining justified before God is conditioned upon continuing to actively obey Him. There is no contradiction.
The revolution’s unforeseen results  It seems that after marrying, Luther thought he could finally settle down to pastoring and enjoying family life. But his break with Rome had other serious consequences.  More Protestants began to stand up to the Catholic Church. While most shared many of Luther’s biblical interpretations, they also disagreed on a number of important subjects. Issues like infant baptism, predestination, the state of the dead and free will would bring heated debate among the reformers as the movement spread across Europe and fractured into different groups.  The leading reformer would spend his last years not only defending himself against Rome, but attacking other Protestants with the same vigor he used against the Catholics.

The movement he started led to more than a century of unrest and conflict between Catholics and Protestants—and the deaths of millions from warfare, massacres, genocide, famine and disease, all perpetrated in the name of God.  The unfinished revolution
Martin Luther exposed the avarice, ritualistic enslavement of the common person, and some of the unbiblical dogmas of Catholicism. He stood up to a religious system that had misinterpreted and misused Scripture. It was an awakening that unleashed the Protestant Reformation.
But is the movement he inadvertently spawned that much better? Five centuries after Luther presented the Ninety-five Theses, it’s time for Protestants to examine if their teachings have degenerated into a watered-down and corrupted version of what the Bible actually teaches. Has the idea that belief is all that’s needed for salvation led many to use God’s grace as a license to sin?

How many times do Christians excuse living with a boyfriend or girlfriend out of wedlock, disregarding one of the Ten Commandments, or living a lifestyle like unbelievers with the simple argument, “I’m justified without works; I’m saved by grace; God loves me just the way I am”?  This way of thinking is nothing more than using God’s grace as a license to sin. It has serious consequences. Jesus gives this warning in the Sermon on the Mount:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” (Matthew 7:21-23 Matthew 7:21-2321 Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
American King James Version×).  Paul and James aren’t contradicting each other in their statements about faith and works. When combining the teachings of these inspired writers, we see that living faith is much more than simple belief. It is the complete and total surrender of the will and body, heart and mind, thoughts and works to the sovereignty of God and His power in us.

When a person surrenders his will to God, and in faith accepts Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and Master, then God will empower Him to do good works. And the person must do so, “striving against sin” (Hebrews 12:4 Hebrews 12:4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.  American King James Version×), to continue in justification with God. If he sins, he must repent anew in trusting faith and genuine commitment.  Salvation is more than God’s forgiveness. Salvation is God’s work in human beings to create eternal children. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Corinthians 6:18And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, said the Lord Almighty.  American King James Version×, “I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” We participate in His work as we faithfully submit to His working in us.  The world desperately needs a spiritual awakening. We need to return to the Bible as the guiding Word of God. Pick up the book and prayerfully ask for God’s guidance. Let the spiritual revolution begin with you! “

Is The Protestant Reformation Being Undone?

*Posted by BEYOND TODAY MAGAZINE. This is a very important piece! jw

Posted on Aug 31, 2017 by Peter Eddington
https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/beyond-today-magazine/is-the-protestant-reformation-being-undone#.WgTHA_oYXcx.mailto

Has a major split ever occurred in your congregation or church denomination? It’s a sad fact of life that church splits have been common throughout the 2,000 years since Jesus founded His Church.

Five centuries ago the dominant branch of the traditional Christian religion, the Roman Catholic Church, faced a serious schism as one of its priests and theologians, the now-famous Martin Luther, came to reject several teachings and practices of the church. Among the disputes, Luther strongly took issue with the Catholic view on indulgences and that freedom from God’s punishment for sin could be purchased with money.

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, which tradition claims was affixed to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg on Oct. 31, 1517 (though the story is a matter of dispute). The Theses launched what would become known as the Protestant Reformation. Luther was later excommunicated, his Theses rejected by Pope Leo X in 1520. This split in Christianity was the second major breakup after the Orthodox split of the 11th century.

Could unity actually end up being something quite dangerous? Is it possible that at some point in the future, only one official religion will be allowed and others banned?
Now, 500 years on, serious questions remain about the effectiveness of Martin Luther’s reforms and whether or not they will hold.  Is the Protestant Reformation being undone? Could the 500-year split be reversed, reuniting Catholics and Protestants. As this huge anniversary is being commemorated, an underlying current is quietly sweeping through the Lutheran Church as the Catholic Church in Rome gathers increasing support that could eventually see Luther’s dreams undone.

Lutherans and Catholics receiving communion
As we study the modern relationship between Catholics and Lutherans, we can’t help but notice a softening of the barrier that drove these two faiths apart starting in 1517. The wedge that initially divided them is gradually being pulled out. Is the Reformation losing its identity?
On July 5, 2017, in Wittenburg, Germany—the same town where Martin Luther openly attacked church practice and teaching 500 years ago, setting in motion the Protestant Reformation—the World Communion of Reformed Churches (representing 80 million believers) agreed to the Joint Declara-tion on the Doctrine of Justification, previously agreed to in 1999 by Catholics and Lutherans, and by Methodists in 2006.

“Together with great joy, today’s formal act brings new challenges and responsibilities in our pursuit of fidelity to the Gospel and unity in truth,” said Pope Francis in a written statement read out for him. “May it mark a new stage of fellowship and cooperation in the service of justice and peace in our human family” (Anli Serfontein, “Pope Francis Hails Declaration Signed at Reformed Churches Gathering in Germany,” Ecumenical News, July 5, 2017).
The message was read aloud to some 800 dignitaries, representing some of the largest Christian churches, who had gathered in Wittenberg for the event. Cardinal Brian Farrell, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, told the assembled delegates that the agreement has opened “a new era of trust between the churches—a time for healing and reconciliation and rediscovering how much we share” (ibid.).
This is the latest in several such moves. On Jan. 15, 2016, a group of Finnish Lutherans were offered Holy Communion by Catholic priests at a mass held in St. Peter’s Basilica following a meeting with Pope Francis. Lutheran bishop Samuel Salm said of the Communion, “I myself accepted it.” He added that “this was not a coincidence” (“Lutherans Receive Communion at Vatican After Meeting With Pope: Report,” LifeSiteNews.com, Jan. 21, 2016).
In a Dec. 12, 2015, interview with the National Catholic Register, Pastor Jens Kruse of Rome’s Evangelical Lutheran Church said, “I think it’s typical for Pope Francis to open doors, and now we, as churches, have the duty to find ways to fill this open door with more of a life of ecumenism of unity” —the term ecumenism used for efforts to unify the world’s churches (“Revolution: Rome Lutheran Pastor Says Pope Francis ‘Opened Door’ to Intercommunion,” LifeSiteNews.com, Dec. 16, 2015, emphasis added throughout).
It seems that the Roman Catholic Church is quietly working to bring back its estranged children with an aggressive push towards ecumenism—seeking to negate 500 years of separation. Where are such developments heading? Calling on Catholics and Lutherans worldwide
In October 2016, Pope Francis and Bishop Munib Yunan, president of the Lutheran World Federation, signed a joint declaration for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at
the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund, in Sweden.

It said in part: “With this Joint Statement, we express joyful gratitude to God for this moment of common prayer in the Cathedral of Lund, as we begin the year commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. Fifty years of sustained and fruitful ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans have helped us to overcome many differences, and have deepened our mutual understanding and trust …
“We commit ourselves to further growth in communion rooted in Baptism, as we seek to remove the remaining obstacles that hinder us from attaining full unity … We long for this wound in the Body of Christ to be healed. This is the goal of our ecumenical endeavours …”
This joint statement concluded with: “We call upon all Lutheran and Catholic parishes and communities to be bold and creative, joyful and hopeful in their commitment to continue the great journey ahead of us. Rather than conflicts of the past, God’s gift of unity among us shall guide cooperation and deepen our solidarity. By drawing close in faith to Christ, by praying together, by listening to one another, by living Christ’s love in our relationships, we, Catholics and Lutherans, open ourselves to the power of the Triune God.”

So what is going on? What is transpiring before our very eyes? Is the Reformation about to be undone? Most importantly, is the Roman Catholic Church perhaps even on the verge of fulfilling a scenario warned about in the Bible almost 2,000 years ago? The World Lutheran Foundation reported the following words about the historic meeting that resulted in this joint statement:
“The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Roman Catholic Church jointly held an ecumenical commemoration of the Reformation on 31 October 2016 in Lund, Sweden. Locally co-hosted by the Church of Sweden and the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm, the event highlighted the solid ecumenical developments between Catholics and Lutherans and the joint gifts received through dialogue, particularly in anticipation of the 500th Reformation anniversary in 2017.”  As we can see, the Oct. 31, 2017, commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is going to reverberate around the world with major religious implications! Ecumenism is alive and well, and the Roman Church has a plan in mind—with an end goal.

Roman history leads to major prophetic implications. What are the prophetic implications surrounding the ecumenism we see between Catholics and Protestants? While unity and ecumenism look good on the surface, could this actually end up being something quite dangerous with unforeseen consequences? Is it possible that at some point in the future, only one official religion will be allowed and others banned?  In the prophecy Jesus gave on the Mount of Olives in the days before He was crucified (Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21), the first major trend He warned about when foretelling the signs that would precede His return was a counterfeit Christianity (Matthew 24:4-5 Matthew 24:4-54 And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.   American King James Version×). Almost from the start, deceivers began trying to influence and infiltrate the New Testament Church.  Before long, still in the first century, several variant forms of Christianity took root—one staying faithful to the pure truth of the Bible and Christ’s teachings, and others blending the Bible with other beliefs and philosophies. This blending is called syncretism, and many of the popular pagan Roman beliefs that were added to Christianity actually originated with ancient Babylonian religions.
Very soon, within a few decades of Jesus founding His Church, the trends He had warned about began to come to pass. By the 50s A.D. the apostle Paul warned that false teachers were already proclaiming “another Jesus” and “a different gospel” (2 Corinthians 11:4 2 Corinthians 11:4For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

American King James Version×; Galatians 1:6 Galatians 1:6I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ to another gospel:
American King James Version×). Late in the first century some had gone so far as to reject the apostle John and were putting true Christians out of the Church (3 John 9).
A new church arises and gains power.Early on, then, Christianity underwent drastic changes. The visible church became quite different from what was originally established by Jesus and His apostles. Historian Jesse Hurlbut calls this period “the age of shadows.” As he describes it, “For fifty years after St. Paul’s life a curtain hangs over the church, through which we strive vainly to look; and when at last it rises, about 120 A.D. with the writings of the earliest church fathers, we find a church in many aspects very different from that in the days of St. Peter and St. Paul” ( The Story of the Christian Church, 1970, p. 33).

In the fourth century, the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to make Christianity the official state religion to further unify and strengthen his empire. But to do this, he used his power to bring different factions together that taught a variety of concepts—many of them foreign to Jesus’ teachings. The end result was official recognition of various beliefs that were similar in many ways to the popular pagan Roman sun worship.
For example, by this time the visible majority church had adopted as its weekly day of worship the first day of the week, Sunday, honored as the day of the unconquered sun, in place of the biblical Sabbath, the seventh day of the week (from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday). Similarly, the Roman celebration of the birthday of the sun, Dec. 25, was relabeled as the supposed birthday of the Son of God and became one of the world’s most popular holidays—Christmas!
Constantine’s state-sponsored church further evolved and grew in power and became known as the Roman Catholic Church—“catholic” from the Latin word catholicus, meaning universal or general . It was to be the universal religion of the Roman Empire.
At times the bishop of Rome, or pope, has had such great political as well as religious authority that he could enthrone and depose emperors. The church controlled the state! Because of this intimate relationship between church and state, for several centuries the empire was called the Holy Roman Empire.

And so, what we see happening as the church gained power and allied itself with the state is the combined church-state persecution of other Christians— especially those who held most closely to Jesus’ original teachings. Those not part of the Roman Church became intensely tyrannized during that time.  The Roman Catholic Church also adopted a governmental structure that was strikingly similar to that of the old Roman Empire. That is why historians have remarked on the Roman Catholic Church being a mirror image of the Roman Empire (we will examine this “mirror image” more in a moment).  But, as we noted at the beginning, 500 years ago a major disruption occurred in the Roman Catholic Church when Martin Luther gave his Ninety-five Theses in 1517.  Will this division, this wound, be healed, as called for in the 2016 joint declaration?

Let’s go to the source. What does Bible prophecy tell us?  To understand the future we must understand the past  Is a mandated, one-world religion on the horizon? Does Scripture give us the answer? Will all peoples one day have to show allegiance to a future church-state empire patterned after Constantine’s?  Since the fall of the Roman Empire more than 15 centuries ago, European leaders have made a number of attempts to resurrect it. Justinian, Charlemagne, Otto the Great, Charles V, Napoleon, and Hitler along with Mussolini all tried to unite Europe as a revived Roman Empire. All succeeded to varying degrees for a time. But there will be yet another attempt.  History shows us that out of the Roman Empire came the ruling power of the Roman Catholic Church. The empire itself is described in the book of Revelation as a “beast.” And side by side with the Beast in chapter 13, the church allied with the Beast is described as “the image of the beast”—a mirror image or something that strongly resembles the original.
History also shows that this church took over the former administrative governance structure and regions of the empire. “By the fourth century, the church followed the example of the Roman Empire. Emperor Constantine organized the church into dioceses along the pattern of the Roman regional districts. (The word diocese was a secular term that referred to the larger administrative units of the Roman Empire.) Later, Pope Gregory shaped the ministry of the entire church after Roman law” (Frank Viola and George Barna, Pagan Christianity? Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices, 2008, p. 119).

Thus the church became a mirror image of the original—the Roman church copied the Roman Empire. As noted historian Will Durant observed in his monumental work The Story of Civilization: “Christianity … grew by the absorption of pagan faith and ritual; it became a triumphant Church by inheriting the organizing patterns and genius of Rome …
“The Roman gift was above all a vast framework of government, which, as secular authority failed, became the structure of ecclesiastical rule. Soon the bishops, rather than the Roman prefects, would be the source of order and the seat of power in the cities; the metropolitans, or archbishops, would support, if not supplant, the provincial governors; and the synod of bishops would succeed the provincial assembly.   “The Roman Church followed in the footsteps of the Roman state; it conquered the provinces, beautified the capital, and established discipline and unity from frontier to frontier. Rome died in giving birth to the Church; the Church matured by inheriting and accepting the responsibilities of Rome” (1944, Vol. 5, Caesar and Christ, pp. 575, 618-619).

A coming church-state combined power. Bible prophecy shows we will see yet another end-time attempt at a great church-state solution to humankind’s problems—but one which will be relatively short-lived.  The apostle John in a divinely revealed vision described what he saw, the imagery symbolizing an end-time church-state power: “And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast [a final end-time global superpower] which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon [the devil] gave him his power, his throne, and great authority” (Revelation 13:1-2 Revelation 13:1-21 And I stood on the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
American King James Version×).
What do we see right away from these two verses?
• This Beast is blasphemous—not of God.
• This Beast acts like a wild animal, not with human kindness— like a wild leopard, bear or lion.
• This Beast receives its power from the devil (and the devil is even worshipped—Revelation 13:4 Revelation 13:4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like to the beast? who is able to make war with him?
American King James Version×).
Who is like the Beast?
We know that this future empire is a governmental system of major proportions because it’s supported by a powerful military: “So they worshiped the dragon [the devil] who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’” (Revelation 13:4 Revelation 13:4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power to the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like to the beast? who is able to make war with him?
American King James Version×).
How long will this blasphemous Beast rule in its full power? “And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months” (Revelation 13:5 Revelation 13:5And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to continue forty and two months.
American King James Version×). So, for 3½ years this Beast will be the dominant power over much of our planet. (This also appears to be a dual prophecy, with lengthy dominance by this power during the Middle Ages as a precursor to the end-time fulfillment.)
And then some very disturbing prophetic words are written for us to contemplate: “It was granted to him [the Beast] to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation” (Revelation 13:7 Revelation 13:7And it was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

American King James Version×). What we see here are the true people of God, those who believe differently from the established religion, being persecuted for their biblical beliefs!
It will become the “law” to obey this dragon-appointed Beast. In fact, Revelation points out that everyone will worship the Beast except those who have been written into the Book of Life of Jesus Christ: “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8 Revelation 13:8And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
American King James Version×).
What do we see in summary from these six verses?
• This Beast will have the world’s most powerful military forces.
• This Beast is given power and authority to rule for 3½ years.
• This Beast savagely persecutes the true saints of God.
• This Beast forces everyone to submit and obey.
The religious partner with the Beast
And now the apostle John gives us a window into the religious power, the great church, behind the governmental Beast: “Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed” (Revelation 13:11-12 Revelation 13:11-1211 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. 12 And he excercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
American King James Version×).
The message proclaimed by this second beast (which is a mirror image of the first Beast, Revelation 13:15 Revelation 13:15And he had power to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
American King James Version×), is once again from the dragon—the devil himself—and all of humanity is required to worship likewise. This is a great revival of the Roman Church, partnering with the first Beast into a global church-state empire! Revelation 19 also calls the leader of this second beast—this Roman church—the False Prophet.
Note that this is a very convincing religious system. Humanity will be deceived. Will you also be led astray?

This second beast performs amazing, compelling miracles that are sure to bring multitudes on board! “He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived” (Revelation 13:13-14 Revelation 13:13-1413 And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
American King James Version×).
The first Beast uses its military power and governmental authority to enforce a global religion on humanity: “He [the first beast] was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast [the second beast, the Roman church], that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:15 Revelation 13:15And he had power to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
American King James Version×). See, this is a matter of life or death!
And then the apostle John talks about the infamous “mark of the Beast”: “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name … Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is six hundred and sixty-six” (Revelation 13:16-18 Revelation 13:16-1816 And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred three score and six.
American King James Version×).
What do we see in summary from these eight verses? It’s quite sobering:
• The first Beast is joined by a second, religious beast, also called the False Prophet.
• This second beast also speaks like the devil.
• This second beast is a mirror image of the first and forces everyone to worship the first beast.
• This second beast performs convincing miracles that will deceive all of humanity—except the true saints of God.
• The first and second Beasts unite in a church-state power that will enforce a global religion in areas under its control.
• The penalty for those who do not submit to this religion will be death.
Yes, this religion will be enforced. Other faiths and beliefs will be outlawed—including the true Church of God and its biblically held beliefs. Remember, those holding true biblical beliefs were systematically persecuted and exterminated by emperors such as Constantine in the early centuries after Jesus’ resurrection, as well as later when church and state were again combined.
Definitely an end-time scenario
Some students of Bible prophecy will claim that these events have already been completely fulfilled or that they are just allegories. But no, Revelation 17 shows these events happening just prior to the return of Jesus Christ as King of Kings. Jesus will return to save humanity from imminent, total destruction (Matthew 24:21-22 Matthew 24:21-2221 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
American King James Version×).

“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb [Jesus Christ], and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him [the true saints] are called, chosen, and faithful” (Revelation 17:12-14 Revelation 17:12-1412 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast. 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
American King James Version×).
The words clearly show that this joining together of 10 “kings” (leaders of nations or groups of nations) who give their sovereignty to a single individual (who is also called “the Beast”) is yet future, part of the world-changing geopolitical events to take place just before Jesus Christ’s return.
Prophecy shows us that for a short time a single global religion will be enforced on humanity in the time of the end by the Beast. This Beast will be a combined church-state system that has its roots in the old Holy Roman Empire.
It’s not a coincidence that the Roman Catholic Church is working on bringing back its departed children with an aggressive push towards ecumenism designed to negate 500 years of estrangement that began with Martin Luther. Yes, the Protestant Reformation that split the world’s Christianity will eventually end in some kind of reunification. Bible prophecy says so!
What about you? Love the truth!
There is a great warning for you and me in these prophecies. The Bible warns in many other places of this great apostasy of the end time. There is coming a huge end-time appeal to deceive the vast majority of humanity.
The apostle Paul wrote to the Christians of Thessalonika, speaking about the return of Jesus Christ to the earth, “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first” (2 Thessalonians 2:3 2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
American King James Version×). He then proceeds to explain this “falling away” in greater detail, Paul talking here about “the man of sin.”
This end-time “man of sin” is going to style himself as greater than God, pretending or even claiming to be God— and people will believe him. Why? “Because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 2 Thessalonians 2:9-119 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all delusion of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
American King James Version×).
Revelation 19:20 Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

American King James Version×describes this powerful religious leader as the False Prophet, working with the political leader called the Beast. Daniel 7 even says that the pompous religious figure in union with state power “persecutes the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law” (Daniel 7:25 Daniel 7:25And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
American King James Version×). That’s exactly what Roman Emperor Constantine did, and what church leaders have done ever since!
The end-time deception will be both powerful and great! Knowing that his rule over earth is nearing its end, Satan the devil will mount an end-time appeal to deceive people—even the people of God, who will fall prey if they do not love the truth. So you and I are warned! Keep the commandments. Love the truth.
You and I must stay pure in a society that mixes truth and error—that encourages religious syncretism. How easy it is to be sucked in at different levels by persuasive arguments and soon even persuasive miracles that appeal to our human nature. Don’t believe the lie. Love the truth!
Don’t believe the lie. Love the truth!    -end-

No, don’t believe the lies.  Remember too, Jesus was a Jew, Rabbi.  Jerusalem then at his crucifixion was under Roman rule and Caesar as well. When Rome fell, the Catholic church began. The very ones who killed our Lord.  Jesus never intended a new religion.  But, under the Jewish Tabernacle.  Then after Paul’s travels, the original Jewish Church with the disciples and those calling themselves Christians, following Jesus, split.  The Catholic Church always blamed the Jews for Jesus death, too, which totally turned them away from us Christians.  It has only been through all our Evangelicals and now Christian Tv , and CUFI, that the Jews finally realize that we Christians love them, and love Israel.  So, yes, don’t believe the lies, Love the truth!  Amen

 

Unanswered, Does Not God Hear Me?

 

Unanswered

Unanswered, does your prayer remain,                                                                                                   Though oft with tears you plead?                                                                                                                 And watch and wait and wonder if                                                                                                           God does not care or heed?                                                                                                           Unanswered? Well, perhaps, dear heart,                                                                                                   You may have asked amiss;                                                                                                                            Is it God’s glory that you seek,                                                                                                                     Or selfish avarice?

___Annie Woodworth___

 

And He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

Why is it that God does not give to us the very first time we ask Him, the things that we ask of Him?  The answer is plain: God would do more for us, and better for us than to merely give us that thing.  He would do us the far greater good of training us into persistent faith.  The things that we get by our other forms of effort than payer to God, do not always become  ours the first time we make an effort to get them; for our own good, God compels us to be persistent in our effort, and just so God does not always give us what we ask in prayer the first time we pray.  Just as He would train us to be strong men and women along the other lines of effort, so also He would train to be and make us to be strong men and women of prayer by compelling us to pray hard for the best things.  He compels us to “Pray through,”

___R.A. Torrey___

 

It is good, I find, to persevere in attempts to pray,  If I cannot pray with perseverance or continue long in my addresses to the Divine Being, I have found that the more I do in secret prayer the more I have delight to do, and have enjoyed more of the spirit of prayer; and frequently I have found the contrary, when by journeying or otherwise, I have been deprived of retirement,.

___David Brainerd___

 

If we are to be in the “Holy Spirit” when we pray, and praise Him ALWAYS, when we pray, and ALWAYS give HIM all the glory.  In doing so, then why are our prayers not granted?  Prayers must be activated by faith.  And remember you cannot say the Lord’s Prayer and ever once say “I”. It is not MY will but THINE. The Bible contains so many specific and explicit directions regarding prayer, as well as promises.

 

Do we have a critical spirit?  Do we sometimes feel the Holy Spirit is not with us or in church, when others’ feel His presence?  Ephesians 8:11 tells how He gifts His church.  And He gave some, Apostles, some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some Pastors. One of the purpose of the “gifts” of the spirit is for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the Ministry, for edifying of the Body of Christ. Eph 4:12   vs. 14 That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.  Which is why a prophet has to be ordained by God, and through your church, elders and Pastors.  You cannot just blatantly yell something out disrupting a service, if it does not flow with the spirit of God.  Else false prophets can be allowed to blare out that which is not only a distraction to the service, not the real word of God and HIS will.   For what you tolerate you cannot change.  Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his OWN eyes, but, the Lord weighs by the “spirit”!  Proverbs 27:2 Let another man praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.  Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  Some are Satan’s greatest weapon’s.  Which is why a church has to have discipline during a service.

Vs 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits.  Wherefore if they harbor hates, are discontent, always finding fault, always, I, my , me… They are not of God but, self.

 

God is never unreasonable or irrational.  He is also never illogical.  And if God gave every individual every answer to every prayer that might pop into his head, the world would be filled almost immediately with anarchy, chaos, and confusion.  He also will never grant a prayer if it would hurt another person, or stir up more strife. It is HIS timetable not ours.  That is why too, as I have written on this blog, on enemies, we are always to pray for them, and pray blessings on them and forgive them.  Those things get us out of our hates, doldrums, and self.  Then it is lifted from us and the burden lies with the enemy.  Sounds simple, but, it’s hard, but it works.  And you’ll feel your spirit lighten.  In other words let go and let God.  How I’ve learned through the years…and sometimes, through a lot of reprimand. For I took correction.

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER

You cannot say the Lord’s Prayer and ever one say “I”;

You cannot pray the Lord’s Prayer and ever once say “my”;

Nor can you pray the Lord’s Pray and not pray for one another,

For when you ask for daily bread you must include your brother;

For “others” are included in each and every plea,

From beginning to the end of it, it does not every once say”me.”

___Author Unknown__

 

CAN I SAY THE LORD’S PRAYER?

I cannot say, “our,” if I live in a watertight spiritual compartment; if I think a special place in         heaven is reserved for my denomination.

I cannot say, “Father,” if I do not demonstrate the relationship in my daily life.

I cannot say, “Which art in Heaven, “If I am so occupied with earth that I am not laying up treasure over there.

I cannot say, “Hallowed be thy name”, if I, who am called by His name, am not holy.

I cannot say, “Thy will be done,” if I am questioning, resentful, or disobedient to His will for me.

I cannot say, “Give us this day our daily bread,” if I am living on past experiences.

I cannot say, “forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” if I harbor a grudge against anyone.

I cannot say, “lead us not into temptation,” if I deliberately place myself or remain in a position where I am likely to be tempted.

I cannot say, “Deliver us from evil,” if I am not prepared to fight it in the spiritual realm with the weapon of prayer.

I cannot say, “Thine is the Kingdom,” if I don’t give the King the disciplined obedience of a loyal subject.

I cannot say, Thine is the…glory,,” If I am seeking glory for myself.

I cannot say, “Forever,” if my horizons are bond of things of time.

I cannot say, “Amen, “ if I do not also add, “Cost what it may,” for to say this prayer honestly…will cost everything,

___Brother W.M. Gass__   (Acts29)

 

I HAD NO TIME

The day slipped by and time was spent.                                                                                                     And all the good things that I meant                                                                                                         To do were let undone because                                                                                                                    I had no time to stop and pause,                                                                                                                  But rushed about, went here and there,                                                                                                  Did this and that, was everywhere. I had no time to kneel and pray.                                                    I had no time to meditate.                                                                                                                              On worthwhile things, no time to wait                                                                                                Upon the Lord and hear Him say;                                                                                                               “Well done, my child,” at close of day.                                                                                                       And so I wonder, after all,                                                                                                                     When life is o’er and I hear the call                                                                                                               To meet my Savior in the sky,                                                                                                                       Where saints live and never die,                                                                                                                  If I will find one soul I’ve won                                                                                                                       To Christ by some small deed I’ve done,                                                                                                 Or will I hang my had and whine,                                                                                                              “Forgive me, Lord, I had no time”?

—Mrs. Herbert Bell—

 

HIS FACE

Oh, Father God, as I pray and seek your face,                                                                                    How wonderful thou art and how I yearn for you everlasting grace,                                                    We have so much to be thankful for in this great land of ours,                                                              And yet, we’re never satisfied, for our hunger is not yours,                                                              For you desire us to be longing  for your word,                                                                                    When the things of the world take our time and lure,                                                                            The false piety we need to rid, to come back to the Cross,                                                                    And seek your face in humility too, lest we stay forever lost.

—J E Worthen 2002—

 

***”Waiting” implies a time of conquering, controlling, disciplining the restless spirit, quieting ourselves, being silent with a holy, spiritual silence, and just being in His presence. “Be still and know that I am God,” is a quote from God to David found in Psalms 46:10  Stop, be quiet, wait in His presence and upon God, not mere daydreaming, but total concentration and quietness.” Ps 119:148

**Excerpts from JSM old prayer manual

 

Race, Hate, Then And Now

 

First I cannot believe what has happened to my America..I am heartsick. I saw the video on Fox, and David Duke’s bunch was threatening too. He is as evil as any Commie on the left. So is the KKK. And I’ll tell you one thing,..all those Duke nationalists, wearing Crosses, on their backs? You think Hate gets you to Heaven? They are all going to hell.

I’m sick of all this race in America. Now David Duke is Tweeting Trump to defend him? Evil is evil Hate is hate whether its ISIS, David Duke and the KKK, or Maxine Waters, sharpton, and the Black left caucus, or the Black Panthers packing; PERIOD! I have a Black Grandson, and I love my him at 24. I have Black friends, on here; and at church. I’m sick of this in my America.

God help America with all that is going on.  All this hate, Lord, help us all in America HEAL.  60 years I’ve seen hate. At 18 right on the steps of West High School before I graduated.  One of our graduate Black students came back to school on leave in his Air Force uniform, to visit the football coaches.  I was going down the stairs, and I said , “Hi, how are you..” And some little short twit of a freshman called me a “N—–” lover. I was 18..shy, not outspoken as now.  I don’t think I ever told anyone, even my mother. But, I’ll tell you one thing, at 78 years old, I will NEVER forget the look that came over his face and I hope he made it to Heaven.  Such discrimination in the Services then too. Now? It is WORSE than back then.  We have as Trump says, groups on BOTH SIDES.   The Soros side and Obama side is becoming violent.

It is NOT THE ANSWER.  In the 60’s married with 3 babies, I watched JFK, the debates with Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr…(All on YouTube)…I voted for Kennedy then. He was pro life , a catholic, and other than his womanizing, was a good man. I would have marched with Dr. king.  Yes, I was political back then too, learning..Now, the democratic party doesn’t stand for anything, except tearing this country apart.  GOD HEAR OUR PRAYERS AND HELP THIS PRESIDENT HEAL THIS COUNTRY.  “IF MY PEOPLE”…WELL, YOUR PEOPLE ARE CRYING OUT. SAW ON FB my unsaved Black grandson, now is playing around with Black Lives Matter.  God, I come against this, in Jesus name.  He needs salvation, not Soros’ Commie group.  THINE Will be done, with John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, and the rest of the Black caucus in Washington.  Help them see the TRUTH. And let me tell the media something too, all your screaming to be heard, interrupting others is NOT having a debate. A proper real intellectual debate was like Vidal and Buckly, Jr. They had intellect and could put someone down with words the other person didn’t even know the definition of.

60 years and all you hear from the Black Caucus is race race race. Then I shared the piece on White slaves from Britain, Ireland, and Scotland brought here way before Black slaves. Yes we are ALL children of God. My God is a God of love. This is not my America. Lord heal this nation in Jesus name. Let us show love, mercy, and grace. GOD BLESS AMERICA. MELT OUR HEARTS LORD. As the President said, “We all bleed the same color blood.”

I think back to my younger years, in my early teens when I discovered Ella.  Lord, God, I pray my Ella Fitzgerald is singing away in Heaven, and made it.  How I loved that lady, and had the privilege of seeing her perform 7 times.  The last time at the Americana in NYC. In 1973, I saw Duke Ellington, at a small dinner place, now closed in NH.  He died some 4 years later.  He came over at intermission and kissed my right hand as a gentleman. The chords he played, his arrangements.  He was a genius in jazz. I fell in love with all these jazz singers and musicians at only 13, and ended 8 years of classical piano.  I never saw color.  I only heard “sound!”  I don’t to this day understand all this hate. I listened as a young girl to Billie Holliday singing “Strange Fruit”, “Black men hanging on a poplar tree, strange fruit”..and all the pain resonating from her voice.  In my early teens I knew.

Al Sharpton, Obama, Jesse Jackson, John Conyers, and all the Black caucus in Washington. Are you happy?  For 8 years, I saw all your hatred of us White people.  Even Obama, in your own words from your own book, talking about your grandmother. You mocked us, belittled us, made your sarcastic remarks, threw everything, in our faces including your loathing of Christianity.  You jammed Communism down our throats, God, you even sent the Statue of Winston Churchill back to Britain.  But little did you know, (or ignored) that in all your bowing to Arab leaders who never respected you, all your taking of Soros money for your left organizations, that there was in fact White slavery here in America way before any Black slavery.  You never wanted known?  To what end? Obliterate history, all the wrongs, pull down the statutes and change history. You want Black rule instead of being equal.  To what end?   White Supremacy, or Black Supremacy, what is the difference in race hate?  Someone ALWAYS will get hurt.

White Cargo, White Slaves in America, before Black:

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/the-forgotten-history-of-britains-white-slaves-in-america/

You never preached love, not once, until this week after Charlotte, VA. Do you not bear any responsibility?  In your 8 years of Presidency, Chicago got worse, more murders thanks to your friend Rahm Emanuel, Mayor do nothing. All the hate, all the blame game.  Well, guess what? We the people who voted for this President you hate, are fighting back.  We see and know the truths of all your community organizing.  God once young, that sounded good. But, we are not nor ever will be a Communist nation. We get it.  And if our Republicans don’t step up to the plate and back President Trump, we will make darn sure they are voted out for someone who will get something done.

And your friend and Hillary’s George Soros, is to me the most evil man in all of history.  A Jew who is Godless, a Communist, who helped Hitler and Nazi party kill other Jews? Tell me Obama how low does one have to stoop?  (Real name Schwartz).  I know one thing. One day, he will stand on that Great White Judgment Seat of God Almighty, as you all.  And be judged, and cast into the pit of hell for ever and ever.  THAT is a consolation.  God loves us all who are sinners, but this man long crossed over the line, and like Esau in the Bible, who was the only one God said, HIM do I hate in the whole Bible, I know that I know that I know, God hates this man Soros.  So you see, one day soon, he will meet his match.  God help all of you. And THAT is your legacy!

Unforgiveness:  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/unforgiveness/

US HATE GROUPS

Ku Klux Klan. Neo Nazi’s, White Nationalists, Racist Skinheads, New Confederate, Black Separatist, Anti-LGBT, Anti-Muslim, General hates..

Then you have all the all the left groups mostly paid by Soros. Center for American Progress, Media-access for 527’s, Media Fund, Media matters, (all our cable fake news), CREW digging up dirt, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington &Ethics…(You have to be kidding). Hollywood Organizations, American Votes…ie concerts, media.  Vast Funding, along with Soros’ Open Society and Democracy Alliance.  Social Tech. Movement, Move on.org. All Communist –Socialists.  Want a One World Order, want UN control, and no more Constitution. In other words out to destroy America and every darned thing we stood for including FREEDOM!

And if “that” wasn’t bad enough, look at who these top exec’s are married to on our “fake” left wing news stations.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one says it all!

A professor Benjamin Ginsberg, from John Hopkins, said this: “Civil Service rules have to be changed (to Progressives) they used and weakened parties to control elections, as civil service can destroy by not being able to fire.”

This is when the name calling and tagging take place.  Do you realize that Iceland now has eradicated Down Syndrom, through abortion?  I mean my God, that’s like Hitler did killing Jews. That’s what Margaret Sanger did, trying to eradicate the Black race, which is why all her planned Parenthood offices where in or near poor Black neighborhoods.  Blackgenocide.com  From a  Black preacher in New Jersey,  I had a friend Arlene I’d known for years.  How I admired her, She and her husband had 2 Down Syndrome girls.  Watched her like a general when she had A back sprain in bed. Bible , phone book…all next to her if she needed.  She loved her girls. And I thank God for Sarah Palin too.  It is murder.  I don’t care what you call it. God calls it murder. Are we God? Well, Hitler thought he was too, until he like a coward took a gun to his head before our troops moved in. Now…another group. And before I start, I’m a follower of Geert Wilders from the Netherlands.  And Germany never learned their lesson.  I’m German. part English.  How ashamed I was a child in the 40’s of being German. All because of a madman named Adolf Hitler. I got over it. And my maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Schneider, so Praise God, I might have Jewish royalty in my blood.  Jesus was a Jew!

Regarding Charlotte Va, here is an excerpt from Ben Stein from the American Spectator: Whose Side is He On?

BY: BEN STEIN
Good for him for taking the hard way out and defending the constitution.

Now for a few words about the Confederate statues contretemps in various states.

1. I wonder how many of the counter-protesters at the Charlottesville event even had any idea who Robert E. Lee was. He was a major hero of the Mexican-American War. He fought for the Confederacy against the Union, but at the time he did it, it was not illegal. Slavery was — while 100 percent evil — completely protected by law as of 1861. When Lee went to work to defend his native Virginia, he was not violating any law.

In fact, at no time did the Supreme Court rule that secession was unconstitutional. To the contrary, when the Supreme Court moved towards declaring secession lawful, President Lincoln, in violation of every lawful principle, threatened to have Roger Taney, the Chief Justice, arrested and jailed. He had already used federal troops to arrest much of the Maryland state legislature to keep Maryland from seceding. Again, this was an unequivocal violation of the Constitution. And when a court ordered the legislators released under habeas corpus, Lincoln simply ignored the order.

When the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appomattox Court House in the spring of 1865, some officers of Lee’s Army suggested an ongoing guerrilla campaign against the Union. Lee absolutely vetoed the idea, saying that enough blood had been shed and that it was time to bind up the wounds of war.

This photo of Trump, when he was a Democrat..he’d won an award..he’s racist?

Now comes Islam…and I have so much on this blog on Islam, from the loins of Abraham and his handmaiden (slave) Hagar…Ishmael.  And from Ishmael up to Esau, and Mohamad.

Rise of Islam and Groups: http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/america-muslim-brotherhood.html

Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood in America Muslim Brotherhood UK Muslim Brotherhood Europe Hitler Islam Muslims in Germany   Muslim Brotherhood In America Muslim Brotherhood in America has reached penetration phase 3 (see Spread of Islam). Like the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and UK, the Muslim Brotherhood in America operates front groups among which its leaders, most of them US-educated, rotate to avoid detection, litigation and/or prosecution. The first Muslim Brotherhood organization in America was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), founded in the early 1960s at the University of Illinois. MSA spread quickly across American college campus and spawned Muslim professional groups when their leaders graduated and entered professional life. The founders of most Muslim Brotherhood groups in America can be traced back to the MSA. Other prominent Muslim Brotherhood groups in America include the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose chapters across America conduct the ground game, including by threatening or bringing lawsuits to towns, companies and individuals; the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), which is an umbrella political group through which the Muslim Brotherhood lobbies and influences American lawmakers and government agencies (see Islamization of America); the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which is the funnel through which Saudi oil money is used to build mosques and Islamic schools across America; and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The most notorious Muslim Brotherhood front group in the United States was the Texas-based and deceptively-named Holy Land Foundation (HLF), formerly the largest Muslim charity in America. In late 2008, HLF and its officers were convicted of financing Hamasand sentenced for up to 65 years in prison. The alphabet soup below is a partial list of the Muslim Brotherhood front organizations and affiliates in America. The major ones are in bold-face. Those on the prosecutor’s list ofunindicted co-conspirators of HLF to be prosecuted next are highlighted: •  American Muslim Council (AMC) •  American Trust Publications (ATP) •  Americans for Constructive Engagement (AMCE) •  Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers (AMSE) •  Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) •  Audio-Visual Center (AVC) •  Baitul Mal, Inc. (BMI) •  Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) •  Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) •  Foundation for International Development (FID) •  Holy Land Foundation (HLF)  •  Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) •  Islamic Book Service (IBS) •  Islamic Centers Division (ICD) •  Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) •  Islamic Education Department (IED) •  Islamic Free Market Institute (IFMI) •  Islamic Housing Cooperative (IHC) •  Islamic Information Center (IIC). •  Islamic Medical Association (IMA) •  Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) •  Islamic Teaching Center (ITC) •  International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) •  Malaysian Islamic Study Group (MISG) •  Mercy International Association (MIA) •  Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) •  Muslim American Society (MAS) •  Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA) •  Muslim Businessmen Association (MBA) •  Muslim Communities Association (MCA) •  Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) •  Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) •  Muslim Student Association (MSA) •  Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA) •  Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA) •  North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) •  Occupied Land Fund (OLF) •  United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) •  U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) Related:  How to Stop Islam and refute “Islamophobia” A good question.  How do we stop All the hate groups in America?  God help us. Here is an article by Billie Graham Association.  What do we as conservative Christians do?  PRAY…BUT STAY INVOLVED!   He said;  “If we ever needed guidance, if we ever needed stability, if we ever needed strength, if we ever needed faith, if we ever needed integrity, if we ever needed righteousness, if we ever needed a Heaven-sent revival, it is at the present hour. We need a revival of Christian faith, of Christian experience, of God-consciousness. God has said, “If My people … seek My face” (2 Chronicles 7:14). If we will rediscover that He is holy, righteous, real, absolute and personal, and that He is a God of love and mercy, then this reality will be transferred to the world and revival can come. The church holds the key. It is within our grasp. Will we rise to the challenge? Will we dare pay the price? The supply of Heaven is adequate for the demands of our spiritually starved world. Will we fail to offer that supply?”   God your people are crying out to you against all this hate.  Differences we can handle…but, hates?  I hope and pray everyone who reads this, learns, and understands we have to keep our history. THAT is how we learn never to repeat the same mistakes.  I pray for my President and that you Lord give him wisdom and strength, for what lies ahead.  He did not CAUSE this in office for only 6 mos.  He inherited this mess.  YOU Lord chose this man to serve you and lead us.  I bind you Satan out of our White House, with all your imps, minions, and evil doers be bound in the name of Jesus by the blood on the CROSS.  Be gone out of our American policies, and out of our House, Senate, and White House.  Lord God RAISE your President up to do things YOUR way giving YOU the glory Lord, in every deed.   Wake those in the House and Senate up, whether Democrat or Republican.  I glory in your presence Lord, for I am nothing only your vessel and I give you all the glory.  Thank you Jesus, and  I pray you convict all the unsaved to come to the Cross.  I love my Lord, and I love America, where my Revolutionary ancestor served as Major with his 4 sons.  Thank you Jesus.  Please all who read be blessed and use restraint and wisdom. : https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/my-tribute-to-artistry/ In other words, I WANT AMERICA BACK IN UNITY…LOVE…PATRIOTISM, as we are all equal, under the blood of our Creator who made us in HIS image. God help us, do not desert us, answer our prayers. End the hate!   George Soros as a young Nazi (Real name Scwartz)   Postscript:  Add another group. The American Communist Party as those arrested in Charlotsville VA were a part of. Who also is involved with Black lives Matter.  Soros you did your job well.  Such evil.     http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/08/949832-people-arrested-vandalizing-confederate-statue-one-shocking-thing-common/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America

I came across this article that appeared in Freedom Outpost by Janet Levy.  I wonder how many of you knew about this?  There is so much racism out there by the left wing media and politicians, that I thought it important to repost, because in fact they were NOT the first slaves, Whites were!

JANET LEVY — JULY 31, 2017

“Slavery in America, typically associated with blacks from Africa, was an enterprise that began with the shipping of more than 300,000 white Britons to the colonies. This little-known history is fascinatingly recounted in White Cargo (New York University Press, 2007). Drawing on letters, diaries, ship manifests, court documents, and government archives, authors Don Jordan and Michael Walsh detail how thousands of whites endured the hardships of tobacco farming and lived and died in bondage in the New World.

Following the cultivation in 1613 of an acceptable tobacco crop in Virginia, the need for labor accelerated. Slavery was viewed as the cheapest and most expedient way of providing the necessary work force. Due to harsh working conditions, beatings, starvation, and disease, survival rates for slaves rarely exceeded two years. Thus, the high level of demand was sustained by a continuous flow of white slaves from England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1618 to 1775, who were imported to serve America’s colonial masters.

These white slaves in the New World consisted of street children plucked from London’s back alleys, prostitutes, and impoverished migrants searching for a brighter future and willing to sign up for indentured servitude. Convicts were also persuaded to avoid long sentences and executions on their home soil by enslavement in the British colonies. The much maligned Irish, viewed as savages worthy of ethnic cleansing and despised for their rejection of Protestantism, also made up a portion of America’s first slave population, as did Quakers, Cavaliers, Puritans, Jesuits, and others.

Around 1618 at the start of their colonial slave trade, the English began by seizing and shipping to Virginia impoverished children, even toddlers, from London slums. Some impoverished parents sought a better life for their offspring and agreed to send them, but most often, the children were sent despite their own protests and those of their families. At the time, the London authorities represented their actions as an act of charity, a chance for a poor youth to apprentice in America, learn a trade, and avoid starvation at home. Tragically, once these unfortunate youngsters arrived, 50% of them were dead within a year after being sold to farmers to work the fields.

A few months after the first shipment of children, the first African slaves were shipped to Virginia. Interestingly, no American market existed for African slaves until late in the 17th century. Until then, black slave traders typically took their cargo to Bermuda. England’s poor were the colonies’ preferred source of slave labor, even though Europeans were more likely than Africans to die an early death in the fields. Slave owners had a greater interest in keeping African slaves alive because they represented a more significant investment. Black slaves received better treatment than Europeans on plantations, as they were viewed as valuable, lifelong property rather than indentured servants with a specific term of service.

These indentured servants represented the next wave of laborers. They were promised land after a period of servitude, but most worked unpaid for up to15 years with few ever owning any land. Mortality rates were high. Of the 1,200 who arrived in 1619, more than two thirds perished in the first year from disease, working to death, or Indian raid killings. In Maryland, out of 5,000 indentured servants who entered the colony between 1670 and 1680, 1,250 died in bondage, 1,300 gained their right to freedom, and only 241 ever became landowners.

Early in the 17th century, the headright system, a land allocation program to attract new colonists, began in Jamestown, Virginia as an attempt to solve labor shortages. The program provided acreage to heads of households that funded travel to the colony for destitute individuals to work the land. It led to the sharp growth of indentured servitude and slavery because the more slaves imported by a colonist, the larger the tracts of land received. Promises of prosperity and land were used to lure the poor, who were typically enslaved for three to 15 years. All the while, agents profited handsomely by augmenting their land holdings. Corruption was rampant in the headright system and included double-counting of individual slaves, land allocations for servants who were dead upon arrival, and per head fees given for those kidnapped off English streets.

Purveyors of slaves often worked in teams of spirits, captains, and office-keepers to kidnap people from English ports for sale in the American labor market. Spirits lured or kidnapped potential servants and arranged for their transport with ship captains. Office-keepers maintained a base to run the operation. They would entertain their prey and get them to sign papers until an awaiting ship became available. Spirits and their accomplices were occasionally put on trial, but court records show that they got off easily and that the practice was tolerated because it was so profitable.

The indentured servant system of people who voluntarily mortgaged their freedom evolved into slavery. England essentially dumped its unwanted in the American colonies, where they were treated no better than livestock. Servants were regularly battered, whipped, and humiliated. Disease was rampant, food was in short supply, and working and living conditions were grim. War with local native Indian tribes was common. Severe punishment made escape unrealistic. Initially, running away was considered a capital crime, with clemency granted in exchange for an agreement to increase the period of servitude.

In the 1640s, the transportation of the Irish began. Britain’s goal was to obliterate Ireland’s Catholics to make room for English planters. Catholics who refused to attend a Protestant church could be fined. If they were unable to pay, they could be sold as slaves. Following the end of the English Civil Wars in 1651, English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell focused his attention on Ireland, where the people had allied with the defeated royalists during the conflict. Famine was created by the intentional destruction of food stocks. Those implicated in the rebellion had their land confiscated and were sold into slavery. Anyone refusing to relocate was threatened with death, including children.

Scots were also subjected to transportation to the British colonies for religious differences, as England imposed Anglican disciplines on the Church of Scotland as well. The English army was deployed to break up illegal church assemblies and imprison or deport religious protesters.

Cruelty to servants was rampant. Beatings were common, and the perpetrators, buttressed by juries made up of fellow landowners, were rarely punished for abuse or even murder. In time, efforts were made to improve the lot of servants. Legislation in 1662 provided for a “competent diet, clothing and lodging” and disciplinary measures not to “exceed the bounds of moderation.” Servants were granted the right to complain, but the cruelty continued.

Infanticide by unmarried women was common, as they could be severely punished for “fornication.” The mother faced a whipping, fines, and extra years added to her servitude. Her offspring faced time in bondage as well. If the mother was the victim of a rape by the master, he faced a fine and the loss of a servant but wasn’t subjected to whipping.

Several uprisings in the American colonies awakened slave owners to problems, exposing their vulnerability within the caste-like master-servant social system they had created. In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, an aristocrat from England who became a Virginia colonist, instigated an insurrection, referred to as Bacon’s Rebellion, that changed the course of white slavery.

Prior to Bacon’s Rebellion, much discontentment existed among servants over seemingly empty promises of land following their periods of indenture. When they were finally freed of their obligations, many found that they couldn’t afford the required land surveying fees and the exorbitant poll taxes.

In 1675, when war broke out with some of the native tribes, Bacon joined the side of the warring settlers and offered freedom to every slave and servant who deserted his master and joined Bacon in battle. Hundreds enthusiastically joined him in the insurgency. When Bacon died suddenly, his supporters fled or surrendered; some were recaptured, put in chains, and beaten or hanged. However, because of the revolt, whites gained rights. Whippings were forbidden without a formal judicial order.

By the early 1770s, the convict trade was big business, more profitable than the black slave trade because criminals were cheap. They could be sold for one third the price of indentured servants. England’s jails were being emptied into America on a significant scale. Additionally, merchants who traded in convicts from England and Ireland received a subsidy for every miscreant transported to America. Up to a third of incoming convicts died from dysentery, smallpox, typhoid, and freezing temperatures. Upon arrival, they were advertised for sale, inspected, and taken away in chains by new masters.

Following the Revolutionary War, the British continued to ship convict labor as “indentured servants” to America. During that time, seven ships filled with prisoners made the journey, and two successfully landed. In 1789, convict importation was legally banned across the U.S. America would no longer be the dumping ground for British criminals. It took another 30 years before the indentured servant trade ended completely.

A well written and well researched historical narrative, White Cargo, does an excellent job of elucidating a forgotten part of our colonial past by telling the story of thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage before African slaves were transported to the New World. ” end

Books:

White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America                                              https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=white+cargo+the+forgotten+history+of+britains+white+slaves+in+america&sprefix=White+Cargo%2Cstripbooks%2C166&crid=D0SUY7K67OV9

Christian Slaves Muslim Masters                                                                                                     https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Slaves-Muslim-Masters-Mediterranean/dp/1403945519/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FT34W9FM2R343VJE6G0F

 

America the Ungovernable Swamp

 

 

Along with many of my fellow Americans, those I touch base with on social media, Twitter, Facebook, news, we the people who voted for this President are absolutely without a doubt,  fed up.  If the shoe fits, WEAR IT Republican Senators!  That includes you Rand Paul, you Susan Collins, you Mitch McConnell.  SHAME on you!  We get a Republican President who not only knows HOW to work, but, at 70 years old,  has put you all to shame.  What is the matter with you?  You’ve had 8 years.  You sat there doing nothing except complaining, and lining up in your worthless establishment demeanor, whereby, you sound most of the time like the Socialist Establishment left.  You’ve been joined at the hip so long, you don’t  know the difference, and WHO THE HECK IS PAYING YOUR SALARY!  We the people have made you rich, getting NOTHING in return.

Being a “SERVANT” of the people who elected you means you give your constituents what they voted you in office for. Here we have a workaholic President that has an agenda, that is filled with vision, jobs, building America and our defense, infrastructure, and you all grandstand on tv with your mumbo jumbo worthless promises, and you let our President down. You let the people who voted for you down!  You had all these years to get it together, and you still can’t step up to the plate.  Then we have to listen to all Schumer’s threats and see Pelosi panting at the gate hardly able to control herself, waiting for this next election.  Well got news for all you salivating lefties out there, YOU WILL NOT get in…BUT hopefully our GOP obstructionists will be replaced, and that includes  John McCain, even if through health, but for the grace of God.  You, who cozy up to Soros?  We don’t need you.

I feel so sorry for my President.  First he has to listen to all the left wing fake media and all this Russia business.  Does anyone on CNN understand with YOUR ideology we’d be ending up like Venezuela?  Which is just what Soros and the Shadow government and all these groups want.  Reason you all hate President Donald J Trump is he is a self made billionaire.  He  didn’t  marry into it like John McCain.  Nor did he take Saudi money like Hillary’s foundation. He isn’t establishment, like all of you, and the Bush’s either, going back to the Roosevelts. big Inherited money, depending on PACS.  No, he earned it, by knowing how to make a deal, and, now to talk to the average workers like those in construction and hard hats.  So while the left media, and the left Senate and House all cut him down, and his family, we the people have to sit back and see all his vision and promises he wants for us, and our country, be ursurped by a bunch of lazy Republicans, who are just as much obstructionists, as our Socialist, Commies.  What a way to run a country!!

God, I’ve been so upset, today, as most of America, as I stayed glued to Fox.  At 78, its now 3am and I’ve been unable to sleep.  I used to love politics…been an avid political astute gal since my 20’s. My parents were Republicans, and as a child of WWII, I remember vaguely one of my hero’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and then General Dwight D. Eisenhower.  A tough man, who got elected President to get us through the Cold War.  Now? All you liberal media fools want to put us back in it.  All this Russia garbage.  So what if the President met and even had lunch with Putin.  Didn’t Reagan have Gorbachev at the White House?  Not only that Stalin helped the US and Brits in WWII against Hitler, and JFK met with Khrushchev.  Why don’t you young liberal fools read history.  Oh, you want to be “famous”.  Worthless is a better word. I see my America going down the proverbial tubes.  Speaking of Reagan, didn’t he deal with not only Gorbachev and Russia, but WORK WITH not AGAINST the dems and Tip O’Neil then Speaker.  Two Irishmen, on different sides of the isle, who became Friends and respected each other.  Get this Republicans in Washington, President Trump didn’t need this.  A billionaire?  God chose him and put this in his heart, because of his vision, and because he loves this country….more than you all!!!

This is no way to govern a Republic. And Senator Schumer, you may think your cute with all your remarks, playing up to your crooked base, with your crooked Obama/Soros shadow socialist/commie government, just wanting to detract, obstruct, and waylay this Presidents agenda. But,  guess what you just may go down defeated to.  We the people  are fed up.  We were fed up with Obama and his Communist/Muslim agenda…we are fed up with all of you. (Not the color of his skin!  We got it.  No one is going to blindside we the people anymore. The gravy train has ended!!!

All this, and now I come on my knees and cry out.  “IF MY PEOPLE SHALL CALL OUT MY NAME AND HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE, AND REPENT, TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR  SINS, AND HEAL THEIR LAND.”  II Chronicles 7:14

Lord I cry out to you to convict these obstructionist Republicans serving this nation in Washingon, DC. OPEN their eyes Lord, Open their ears, that they may hear the anguish, of the American people, that I’m afraid will revolt, if they do not  come to their senses soon. We have YOUR CHOSEN MAN, in this WHITE HOUSE, Donald J. Trump, whose heart you Lord, hear and know, whose being prayed on continually with the leading evangelists,  from every mega church in America, and on Christian tv.  Raise these men and women up to LEAD, walk and not faint…to carry on the jobs they were elected to do for this, YOUR  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LORD.  GIVE THEM BOLDNESS TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.  FOR ONE DAY, WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT, EVERY KNEE SHALL  BOW BEFORE YOU.  EVERYONE WILL BE JUDGED AFTER THAT LAST BREATH, ON THAT JUDGMENT SEAT OF GOD ALMIGHTY, JESUS CHRIST! THE MESSIAH. NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES. IF God be FOR PRESIDENT DONALD  J TRUMP, NO MAN CAN PUT UNDER!

THIS God has been the one chance we were given to make America not only great but proud again. She needs to be fixed, and you all need to be a willing vessel not only to this President but to God Almighty.  We control this Presidency, the House and Senate,  and you have MADE A MOCKERY OF ALL THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.  REPENT….MAKE AMENDS AND WORK …IS THIS WHAT THE FOUNDING  FATHERS DIED FOR?   IT SURE WAS NOT WHAT MY REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTOR, MAJOR EZEKIEL WORTHEN DIED FOR.  YOU HAVE BROUGHT SHAME, INSTEAD OF GLORY TO THIS CONGRESS.  BRASS INSTEAD OF GOLD!

IF YOU TURN AWAY FROM WHAT GOD WANTS THROUGH THIS PRESIDENT? IT WILL BE TOO LATE, AND THE WAR OF ARMAGEDDON AND END TIME PROPHESIES, WILL START.  EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE.  EVERYTHING..FROM MID EAST, NO KOREA, RUSSIA, GERMANY AND EU…OUT OF THE EU, WILL RISE THE 10 HORNS…AND ANTICHRIST.  AND WHEN THE RAPTURE COMES BEFORE THE TRIBULATION, 7 YEARS,  ALL YOU LEFTIE COMMIES, SOCIALISTS  WILL BE HAPPY.  CAUSE MY PRESIDENT LOVES GOD AND IS SAVED AND ALONG WITH EVERY CHRISTIAN, HE WILL GO IN THE RAPTURE.  AND YOU WILL ALL BE LEFT TO RAVAGE YOURSELVES, AND YOUR SOULS, TO HELL .. MY WORD!

POSTSCRIPT:

To Rand Paul and Tea Party holdouts; who argue about “true conservatism”.  So what are you going to do with all us elderly and disabled.  Those with “existing” Conditions?   Same question to you young gung ho conservatives and Christians.  Ie “Repeal”?  So let me tell you a story.

My paternal grandmother lost my grandfather Worthen in the 1918 flu epidemic.  She had 3 children, my dad and his two sisters.  There was NO Medicaid, Medicare, or even Social Security back then.  They were poorer than poor. So my grandmother put my father in an orphanage.  They don’t even have orphanages in America anymore.  My Dad was only 13, and it hurt him until he died in 1982.  Back then you got help from family and maybe if you were lucky a church.  1918 was not a very rich  society back then.  My grandmother eventually worked in the textile factory in Manchester, NH.  You know, even in the 50’s we had manufacturing.  We have none now in NH.  My maternal grandfather worked in a shoe factory, after coming here in 1903 from Germany.  My mother would walk 15 miles a day at lunch time taking him his hot lunch pail over to the millyard, and back to school.  Life was hard then. Children had chores to do, not like todays spoiled rotten selfie youth.

So we all put into Social Security, as I too, started working at 15 ½ years old, after school. My dad too, beat all odds, worked his way through the University of NH to become an Electronic’s Engineer. Had a booth on electronic sound in 1939 the year I was born.  By 1948 it was my father, Worthen Labs that brought in the 1^st Television, beamed in from  WBZ tv in Boston in New Hampshire.  My photo at 8 years old was in the Manchester Union Leader.  He was a visionary.  He saw somehow what “could be”  JUST LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP.  HOWEVER, you in Congress cannot take away Medicare  and Medicaid, when we all pay into it out of Social Security, and like it or not, you would REGRESS AMERICA BACKWARD, LIKE A 3^RD WORLD COUNTRY, AND AS IT WAS IN MY GRANDMOTHER’S DAY. IN THE EARLY 1900’S.  You can cut back.. But most on Medicaid now are the Muslim influx, especially in Dearborn MI.  Dearborn is like  Beirut right in America.  Men with 4 wives, 20 kids…all on Welfare.  Not to mention Sharia law, little girls getting mutilated.  Women abused. Why don’t you outlaw Sharia, and mutilation?

Then, here’s another of my battles.  GOVERNMENT KILLING SENIORS.  Allowing smoking in Government Funded Senior apartments.  I’m in one subsidized by Rural and  Housing Development, even though last Dec. 2016, a new FEDERAL LAW from HUD (Dr. Ben Carson) was signed and published. (Dept. of Housing & Urban Dev, 24 CFR  Parts 965 and 966,  {Docket No FR 5597-F-03} RIN 2577-AC97 Whereby, Public Housing in ALL states from Dec. 27, 2016, had 16 months to be smoke free in every  Subsidized senior and other apartment complex across America.  I would hope that It covered Rural & Housing which is USDA who does nothing!   NH  also has a state  Law Title XII Public safety and Welfare, Indoor Smoking Act, Section 155: 64. No Smoking in public Government Housing. I have had cancer twice from 2^nd hand  Smoke. My late friend and I across my porch had breast cancer surgery within 3 weeks Of each other.  Another woman had a double mastectomy and the landlord put Another smoker across her porch.  She is dying and since had open heart surgery.  I see death all around me from 2^nd hand smoke.  DO SOMETHING WASHINGTON!  GET RURAL TO STEP UP  TO THE PLATE. I HAVE FOUGHT THIS BATTLE FOR nearly 11 years!  I’m 78.  AND WHILE YOUR AT IT GET RURAL AND HOUSING TO TAKE ADDED SALT AND SUGAR OUT OF PROCESSED FOODS.  Europe has. What is wrong with America?

Aren’t we seniors Dr. Senator Rand Paul going to be allowed to live our elder years in dignity?  You take a portion of our income out of Social Security, rob the fund it goes into, now you want to take away those with low incomes Food Stamps, and Medicaid that pays Medicare Part B for low income elderly who don’t even live on $1,000 a month.  You want to regress us back to 1918 when my grandfather died in the flu epidemic.  And don’t tell me about insurance companies.  I worked for 3 along the way,  and I’ll tell you they are a racket.   STRAIGHTEN INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT!

Another gripe?  A call for better mental health,  for more psychiatrists, as my youngest son died in 1999, who was bi-polar and a suicide.  We need BETTER MENTAL HEALTH AS GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU has been agonizing over with all the opioid Crisis in NH.   We need shrinks that don’t play footsies in the family court system, but that actually try to help these families. As FINALLY after all these years, the State of NH DCYF and all their crooked graft came to light and they had to fire and clean house. Thank  you Chris.  For when my son blew himself up with 6 sticks of stolen dynamite, and I wrote my first  book trying to shed light all that was wrong, it was then, Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who wrote me a formed letter and my book and my  Complaints went in file 13.  She has never impressed me.  She did nothing then  and she  does nothing now as a us Senator! It’s all about money…money…money.

I hope I brought to light other reasons, concerning Medicaid, Medicare. But Unless a miracle happens, I will no doubt be long home with my Lord, before it all goes anywhere.  Whereas, none of you care one iota!     My word.

Lord, I leave these issues all in your hands.  Amen.  Thank you Lord I’m 78, and wish you take me. This is not my country I grew up in, when we had jobs, manufacturing, vision, character, ethics, and prayer in schools.  My generation were over-achievers, not selfie narcisstic takers.  We were taught respect, ethics, to build CHARACTER, MANNERS, young women to act like “ladies” not whores, and men to step up to the plate and work, not live off their girlfriends Medicaid. I can say or do no more. Please pray, and maybe pass this around…Blessings to all who will listen and  really “gets ” this.  God Bless this President, and God Bless America and SAVE her Lord!

My dad and aunts around 1918

My grandmother Worthen in textile mill, Manchester NH

My Dad E. F. Worthen 1939 NY World’s Fair

1948 First Tv in State of New Hampshire..Worthen Lab

            

Unforgiveness

 

I listened this past month in my church on May 21^st to a guest speaker, a Pastor, whose testimony just riveted me.  This young man had been stabbed 37 times by an attacker who broke into his home.  I cannot even fathom that kind of pain, and what he endured then, and later recuperating.  Thank you Pastor Kevin Ramsby for such a powerful testimony.

We see nowadays, violence all around us, in ISIS attacks.  I don’t understand that kind of hate.  I never will.  I’ve seen hates in families, including my own and what I came out of in 1969 from an abusive marriage.  Hate kills, hate destroys, hate robs you of peace, hate will eat you up in illnesses, in stress, and all the while the devil keeps lying to you over and over.  You can reference C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” on Amazon. Scewtape being the devil, telling his friend Wormword, how to lie to us Christians.

“Hate,” Kevin said, “is learned behavior.”  When I see what is going on even today,  once again in Paris, all the London attacks, Christians too being persecuted and beheaded all over the world and another attack in the Philippians, the attacks in Cairo on Coptic Christians, and those beautiful churches being destroyed, I know that God isn’t happy.  I know we are near the end time prophesies. For as I heard on Perry Stone the other night on TBN, his guest a doctor and a man who with a severe heart surgery, was transported to Heaven lying on the operating table.  He saw his sister he never knew existed, died as a child, he saw the Throne of God in bright sapphire blue stone…and most of all he saw the horses…all the horses being trained. You say trained? Yes, trained for the next and last war, Armageddon.  The riders though were not there yet…for they are you and I who will be caught up in the Rapture.  Glory.  Thank you Jesus for I know the time is near.  For all the evil in this world, there is so much to look forward to. For all the Muslims that hate, there are thousands upon thousands getting saved.  And there are also many Jews too finally accepting Jesus as their Messiah, and getting saved in Israel, according to Rabbi Schneider on Daystar.  So much is happening it is mindboggling.

I see friends, acquaintances, with grown children, who won’t bother with them.  Have Facebook friends, that are aging as I am now at 78, very despondent that they cannot get through to their children.  One, friend, has her husband in a nursing home, and she is at times just so despondent and besides herself.  I’m not alone.

The Bible is full of stories.  Joseph in Genesis whose brothers tried to kill him, then settled on selling him in Egypt.  He was his father’s favorite…Joseph and his coats.  Then follows the story while he was in Egypt.  Working for Pharaoh, Pharaoh’s wife came on to Joseph, and lied, putting him in prison.  He had everything against him.  But when the famine hit, his brothers came to Egypt to ask for help, and they didn’t even recognize him as by then, Pharaoh found out the truth, and raised Joseph up.  Then he requested that his brothers bring his father down to Egypt, before he made a decision.  Everyone knows how it ended, forgiving them and reuniting with his father.

We can remember David…Ah…King David, the apple of God’s eye.  But David was a sinner, and committed adultery with Bathsheba, having her husband Uriah killed in war.  The result was God took that first child she bore.  2 Samuel 16:23. Then look at Cain and Able.  Could Cain run from God when he killed his brother Able?  He hid in all the fields…the brush…but God followed him…”Cain..where are you?”  What we see is generational curses at times, which include power and control, and dictate, our behavior.  Which is why Jesus said in Luke:27-28,

“But I say unto you which hear” (refers to the fact that many refuse to hear), “Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you” (begins the most revolutionary lifestyle in the history of man; no religion in the world can remotely compare with this; for instance, compare this with the religion of Islam).

28 “Bless them who curse you” (speak well of), “and pray for them which despitefully use you 29. And unto him who smites you on the one cheek offer also the other “(meant to serve as a principle and not to be taken literally; for example; the Lord, Himself, did not offer Himself to be stricken again John 18:22-23, rebuked the one who struck Him; the principle is that one should not seek retaliation) “and him who takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also” )if one demands his rights too loudly, the loss could even be greater.)

30. “Give to every man who asks of you; and of him who takes away your goods ask them
31. not again.” (Portrays unselfishness, which ought to characterize every Believer.) Parenthesis, Expositors Study Bible.

To follow God, as Kevin said in his book, is “Forgetting what is behind.” Instead you choose a position that puts our opponent ….the past….behind us.  Instead of being led by THEM, he says, it is choosing to LEAD memories instead of being led BY them. Didn’t Apostle Paul keep telling us to press towards the mark?  That mark, is Jesus, the kingdom, perfection in HIM. The writings of Paul Bunyan, uneducated, with so much insight to the Kingdom, when he wrote Pilgrims Progress.  Moses, too, forgave and served, never wanting any glory….always telling the Lord he was not worthy.. Hosea too, forgave his spouse when she betrayed him.

Mark 11:25-26  “And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any that your Father also which is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses.  (Implying that the above promises will not be honored, if we harbor unforgiveness, as forgiveness is from the Lord. On our part is predicated on us forgiving others. Unforgiveness breaks down relationships, which destroys the whole program of God; which means your sins will NOT be forgiven by God.)  Parenthesis, Expositors Study Bible.

Consensus?  if you do not forgive those who offended you,  God the Father will not forgive you.  We will all stand on that judgment seat one day!    

Colossians says in 1:14-15 “In Whom we have redemption through HIS BLOOD Even the forgiveness of sins.”   

Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.”  

 I tell younger women now to be careful who you fall in love with.  Make sure that man you fell head over heels with  is ordained by God to be your life’s partner.  Men, the same… I saw my ex before I married him, and his violence when it erupted.  I should have known better, but I didn’t.

As for forgiving those who persecute us, as ISIS? Now that’s a hard one I’m working on.  It is very hard.  I can’t imagine these young men being brought up with all this hate since a young child.  No education, learning how to shoot, use a knife to kill.  What an awful existence.  But we here in America who have schools, laws, churches, diversity, and freedoms, should not have homegrown terrorists, either.   However, I don’t really think God expects us to not hold Muslims accountable. Enoch in the Bible was an Arab too, descended from Ishmael, mean, warring, hateful, called the  “hairy one”, and the only one in the Bible God said, “Him do I hate.”  I’m not going to fear the Lord chastising me for rebuking and chastising all these terrorists, who are killing Christians, maiming young little 3 and 5 year old girls, brutally right here in the US,  cutting them with genital abuse.  Nor the honor killings either.  It is brutal..and these people have infiltrated our public schools proselytizing Christians. So I know God does not approve. In other words forgiving terrorists who kill is up to God to judge. (I feel).  They are the extreme, but when we have hates and odds against our family members, neighbors, friends, we are to forgive…period.

Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive men” (it must be the God kind of forgiveness) “their trespasses “(large sins), “your Heavenly Father will also forgive you“(forgiveness rests totally on the Atoning Work of Christ; it is an act of sheer Grace): “But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (We must forgive others if we expect it in return.) WHEREBY Pastor John Hagee said, To forgive without expecting a change in conduct is expecting Jesus to CONDONE your behavior! When your pray after abusing your wife/mother, when you pray it hits the net (like a tennis court) and falls to the ground…UNANSWERED! Oh, Lord if only people got this! Amen…

Churches, need to preach the  Bible, gold, not brass.  The Holy Spirit, not artificial smoke on a stage with Praise and worship of the world, flesh.  Go back to Tozer, Spurgeon, C. S. Lewis.  I pray now too for all those who have unforgiveness in their hearts, and ask you Lord Jesus to set your captives free.  Thank you Lord, for all you do in In our lives.   Blessings.

A FIGHT TO FORGIVE, by Pastor Kevin Ramsby

 

 

Love Thy Enemy?:

Love Thy Enemy?

 

My Beloved Enemy:

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/my-beloved-enemy/

 

Forgiveness-The Lords Prayer:

Forgiveness – The Lord’s Prayer

What’s Happening?

Books are sacred and history. The illiterate and ignorant do not respect. That’s what is going  on with the Shiites in Iraq.  Destroying history, artifacts. As an artist, this makes me so  upset.  Do you all know anything about Iraq? Had in my Ancient Civ course in college. Open up to Genesis.  Iraq was the first civilization on earth. Mesopotamia (8,000 BC). In Genesis, it shows Abraham was born in UR. Ur is up where the Tigress and Euphrates Rivers meet. Where he buried his father.  There was a monastery of monks (Christians )way up  north in caves on a high plateau, and after 2,000 years of being there, they had to flee. All these original scrolls and history.  All destroyed by ignorant fools. So SAD! Now Mosul? Mosul was Nineveh in the Bible.  My Bible dictionary says it was the capital of the Ancient kingdom and empire of Assyria. Nineveh is first mentioned in the Old Testament. It was the primitive dispersion and migration of the human race. They were Assyrians constructed by people of Babylonian origin.  Babylon, south of Iraq…The hanging gardens of King Nebuchadnezzar, down near Kuwait. Saddam Hussein in a UPI article in 1989 by the late Peter Jennings said how Saddam was rebuilding.  Archaeologists on PBS have dug up in the desert the intricate canals, which for the first humans on earth was amazing.  Then the Arabs destroyed.

Christians, are you going in the Rapture? Are you truly saved?  If you don’t go in the Rapture, you are going to be here for 7 years of hell on earth. One third of the earth will be destroyed in Armageddon.  When Iran starts going into Israel, God will have earthquakes, sink holes, chaos, all over; and swallow all Israel’s enemies up The Locust John saw in Revelations? Drones! I used to think helicopters, but with new technology? Drones.  We are the whore. And we sure are. Abortion, nudity…all that is happening now around the world. All these Muslims. Now the UK, terrorist attack.  While our liberal judges stop our President’s call to stop immigration?! When the goal of Muslims is to take over all of Western Civilization as they did during the Ottoman Period.  Our fake stupid news media doesn’t know a thing. I’ve emailed and tweeted and they are all buffoons.  They don’t get it.  The only good news what I get…is CBN. Yes, CHRISTIAN news and Jewish news.  And Eric Stakelbeck who now is not with CBN, but CUFI (Christians United For Israel).

North Korea soon will be able to send a missile and wipe out our antiquated electrical grids that are 60 years old, as they had a flop this very week.  Where do parts come from? China.. If our infrastructure and grids aren’t updated? And we’re hit?  Anarchy…The tribulation.  No lights, no food, no gas, no oil, no INTERNET; cars won’t run. Russia, the Bear, Gog and Magog, Moscow. The Leopard China.  The Lion is the UK. The lion is on the British flag.  Since Richard the Lionhearted.  The beast..10 horns…out of which the Anti-Christ will come.  Too complicated? It is the EU.  Talking about the woman, in purples and reds…probably the Vatican. They are still as evil as they were in the 13^th-15^th  centuries.  They have their own army. They (Rome ) was great and Caesar ruled when they crucified Jesus.  They ran monarchies and made a lot of money. The Church, that rose up after Rome fell was evil. From the Borgia’s to the Medici’s up to 15th century. Borgia was a married man with children to push and connive to make himself a Pope, with all his mistresses.  HOLY? Really?  Then, Mary Queen of Scots, and her half sister Elizabeth from the loins of Henry the 8^th.  History is knowledge, for it ALWAYS repeats itself.  It was Henry puffed up in himself, who got sick of the Catholic church, and made himself as King England’s head.   You can then go up to Queen Isabella of Spain, and  how she murdered, and pogamed Jews; which Christopher Columbus, knowing Jesus in his heart, brought to America.  It was Jews who contributed to America and WHY God’s hand was always on her. Because of the Jews and us backing Israel, and us being a once Godly nation. And don’t kid yourself, Bibi Netanyahu has all the best top most sophisticated arsenal and army in all the world.  And Jesus.  They have already got plans drawn up to rebuild the Temple. right next to the Muslim Dome of the Rock, where the wailing wall is. And Trump is going to move our US Ambassador office from Tel a Viv to Jerusalem!  Amen!  That ought to stir up a fight. There was no Palestine.  When God gave that land to Abraham in Genesis 12 and 13, it included what is now called Palestine, as well as Jordan, and half of Syria.  That little land of Israel 10 miles wide  is the greatest controversy from the beginning of time, now, and future, in all the world.  When Jesus comes after the final war, and sets his Kingdom, Heaven will be right over Jerusalem.   Glory…What glory.

Brexit dropped out of EU, and Greece may be next, followed by maybe the Netherlands,(Holland) or Switzerland, who are overrun by Arabs.  These Muslims come from the lineage of Ishmael, Abraham’s servant, his mother, Hagar was an Arab.  Then down the lineage also to Esau. Name Esau meant the hairy one, the one who is unruly and wars.  The only one in the Bible who God said, “HIM “ do I hate!   I can only imagine how God hates George Soros too.  The Hungarian Jew who is Godless, sold God out. Young during WWII, his father changed their name from Schwartz to Soros to escape the Nazi’s.  He lied and said he was a Christian, and helped Nazi’s kill His own people, Jews. That’s how lowlife he is.  All his billions, and he is going to hell. His nephew married to Chelsea Clinton.  Lowlife! How God must hate him. God’s Chosen sold out.  Now, too Iran’s head, is in Russia meeting with Putin.  After this deal Kerry made, and all the money Obama gave to Iran, playing right in the devil’s hands. THAT is why God chose another billionaire, in Donald Trump…and thank God, he is saved.  This is prophecies happening.

http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-3-24-2017/

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266191/jihadi-attack-london-uk-vows-defend-tolerance-robert-spencer

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266221/muslims-boo-london-police-commander-calling-london-daniel-greenfield

Now, THAT was a preface.  From a small paperback book “Israel’s Glorious Future” by Chosen Ministries, I want to share some in depth prophesies of what is coming…Actually what times we are living in.  If it wasn’t for all the technology we have now, it wouldn’t be evident.  I’m not quoting the whole book, but synopsizing.  However, this is what has been prophesied, what age we are living, and the ramifications of all our moves from hereon, will bear out God’s move on this, our planet earth.  And make no mistakes, HIS hand is on my President Donald Trump!  In essence, it is a WARNING.

https://www.amazon.com/Israels-Glorious-Sevener-President-Ministries-ebook/dp/B008HN0818/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490464461&sr=1-1&keywords=Israel%27s+Glorious+Future

“In Ezekiel, (the prophet) prophesied the Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37:10, one of the best Known of all the prophecies in the Bible.  It was prophesied not only the return of the Jewish people and those in unbelief, but the reclamation of the Land, and building of other cities. The prophet watched as God caused skin, tendons and flesh to come upon the bones. The prophet was commanded to “Prophesy to them” , and when he did the “four winds from heaven” breathed life into them and they became a vast army of people!  I will bring you Back to the land of Israel” Ezekiel37:12 “

That little land of Israel, from the beginning of time, when God first gave the land to Abraham while he was still in UR  (Northern Iraq), and then called Abram. Then came all the invasions. Turkey invaded, Persia (Iran), but then too Rome, under Caesar.  Poor little Israel. “ But, the prophet Ezekiel gave an additional prophecy concerning Israel and the events that lead to the Tribulation And to the completion of Daniel’s vision of the final seven years.  He states:   After many days you will be summoned; in he latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations, to the   mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but it’s people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them (Ezekiel 38:8)”

By 1948, it was the Brits that had occupied Israel.  But through the dream of Theodore Herzel, Harry Truman then our President, remembered his mother’s Bible teachings, and signed a bill forcing the UN and UK giving Israel back to the Jews.  It must be said that it was not the Israelis intent to provoke their Arab neighbors to war.  In  1947, the Jewish settlers were willing to accept the UN’s plan to “partition Palestine.” However, the Arab world was not willing to accept such a partition. In 1948, when Israel was declared a state and the nation of Israel was proclaimed a state Israel was immediately attacked.  The Arab world sought to destroy Israel through armed economic boycott.  The media from then on, put all the Arab propaganda in war, portraying Israel as a mighty Goliath of the Middle East, bullying a tiny David, the Palestinian people?!  The Jewish population has increased to over 6,000,000.  This means nearly 50% of the 13,000,000 Jews living in the world are now living in Israel. Let’s not forget the 6 day war either.

Once again it should be noted there has never before been such a large re-gathering of the Jewish People in all of Israel’s history.  When the Assyrians took the northern tribes of Israel captive in 721BC, a small number returned to the land but the majority remained in captivity.  When the Babylonians took the southern tribes of Israel into captivity (606 BC to 586 BC) only a small remnant returned.  The greater numbers of Jewish people remained in the expansive Babylonian, Persian (Iran), Grecian, Egyptian and Roman empires.  From the time of the Roman conquest of Israel to the time of the signing of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, only small remnants returned. “  Who are the Arabs and where did they come from? “The seed of Ishmael and Esau, which Ezekiel included as the descendants (Arabs and Palestinians) in his prophesy concerning Israeli return to the land.  God’s promises and covenants with Abraham and Hagar extended the right of occupancy in the land to the descendants of Ishmael and of Esau, as well as to the descendants of Isaac.  However, the right to occupy the land was contingent upon obedience to the God of Abraham.   (See too Isaiah 21:1-17) “

The Rise of Islam:  As desolation engulfed the land, poverty fell upon the inhabitants of the land.  The spiritual bankruptcy within Judaism and organized Christianity created a spiritual vacuum that swept over the Middle East. In 611 AD ,recognizing this void, a decedent of Ishmael and Esau named Mohammad had gained a large following to his new religion [Aislam-Moslem], and he and his disciples waged a holy war [hejira] against the city of Medina.  Two years later, in 624 AD, they waged a holy war on Mecca and captured the city.  Within a few years, Mohammed and his followers were able to capture and convert to Islam the entire Arabian peninsula. By the end of the 11^th century AD, Mohammad and his band of followers had captured all of the Middle East, northern Africa, and parts of Europe, including Spain, making Islam the religion of those areas.  As the religion of Islam spread, so did the Arabic language and culture.  (Remember 611 AD was after Jesus crucified, and rose again. As the first Pope Gregory was some 500 years after as well.)

Islam was filling the spiritual void created by the failed attempts of Judaism and organized Christianity.  The Koran was written with Ishmael’s name replacing the names of Isaac and Jacob where Scripture records God’s promises to Isaac and Jacob.  Had Mohammad and his followers known the Scriptures better, they would have known of  God’s promise that the Decendants of Ishmael and of Esau would become a great and powerful nation (see Genesis 16:7-16, 17:20, 21:12-21.  Moslem control of the city of Jerusalem enraged both the Christian world and Jewish world. Neither could believe that God would allow such a thing to happen. From 1099 through 1184AD, the leaders of Europe and Britain organized crusades to liberate he Holy land from the infidels.  But in their quest to conquer the land of Israel for Christianity, (then Catholic Church) the Crusaders only further ravished it.  Although they were successful in their capture of Jerusalem, they could not continue their conquests.  In 1187 AD, Saladin recaptured Jerusalem, putting an end to the Crusader control of the city and land of Israel.   From 1187 AD to the beginning of this century  (c1900), except for the year 1537AD, when Sultan Suleiman he magnificent embellished the Dome of the Rock and built huge walls around the city of Jerusalem, the city and he land continued to become more desolate.  Concurrently, the power and prestige of the Arab world declined.  (Ottoman Empire, from mid 1300’s)

In 1917 the British & Winston Churchill, (why Obama returned that bust to UK) conquered Jerusalem and the Arab world was divided into lands and kingdoms as determined by Britain and the Western powers. Israel’s rebirth and the momentum of its rapid growth as a recognized nation and world power created opportunities for the Arab world to also gain in strength and power.  The world’s need for oil transformed the Arab countries from poverty-stricken backward areas into a league of nations now among the wealthiest and best equipped military powers in the world. Whereby, we are now in Ezekiel 38 & 39.  Ezekiel lists the countries who will invade Israel, and thus usher in the Tribulation.  He states: “Persia, (Iran) Ethiopia, and put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north…Ezekiel 38:5-6.  He also prophesied of a larger involvement of nations called Gog of the land of Magog, led by the prince of Rosh..(Russia, Syria, now!)  In Isaiah 54:17 Gog and Magog, invading Israel from the north (Russia, the bear in Revelations) , and the surrounding Arab nations, invading from the south and east as well.

Nearly 2,000 years have passed since the disciples watched Jesus ascend into heaven and since they heard the voice of he angel telling them He would return to stand upon the Mount of Olives (see Acts 1:11-12) compare with Zechariah 14:4.  The Good news message that salvation is a free gift to all (Jews who have the Covenant and Gentiles, us born again Christians) because of Jesus death, burial and resurrection has spread throughout he world.  The times of the Gentiles is being fulfilled.  (Luke 21:24)  Jerusalem was trampled underfoot by the Romans and by other nations, and Christianity hi-jacked actually, by the Catholic Church after they lost their hold on Israel, and Rome fell. And the Israeli army was able to capture and liberate the city in June 1967.  The nation is now Celebrating Jerusalem’s 3000^th year anniversary!  Scripture from Revelations, is very specific about the final desecration of Jerusalem, during the last 3 ½ years of the Tribulation (See Revelations 11:1-2, Daniel 9:26-27, Zechariah 12:2i-13.)”

So when you watch the news, and see all the slaughter and rapes by Muslims throughout the world, Europe, Africa, mid-east, and now Canada, ask yourself, do we want here in the US?  If you’re a Christian, are you bought by the blood at the CROSS?  Do you know that you know your saved and going to Heaven.  Are you harboring secret hates, or unforgiveness?  The Rapture is coming soon, as everything in the news, points to prophesy, and what is coming.   Whereby, I am asking you to really look within your heart, as Jesus said, to see if there be any wicked ways in me.  Then ask the only one who counts for forgiveness. If you have odds against anyone? Go to them, pick up your phone, and tell them your sorry.  That is repentance.  God will not forgive you if you don’t forgive others.   Are you ready for the Rapture?  I hope so.I pray for the salvation of every reader. Amen.

The HOPE of Israel:   http://www.cbn.com/special/thehope/?cpid=DIR_NN-TH-FACE-01

Mesopotamia:  http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/time/explore/main_mes.html

 

The Coming Fourth Reich, From Here To Eternity by Pastor John Hagee:                                                      https://youtu.be/UDZa4iipEyM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living With Pain

I am going to touch on the subject of suffering  and living in pain, that is not mentioned much, if at all in churches today.  I was brought up as a young child, in a Congregational church, and the salvation message was never preached.  Then after my Dad died in FL in 1982, another divorce (the last) and a 3 year old, I went down on my knees and asked Jesus in my heart.  By the time I got back home to NH in 1982, and probate in 2 states, God put me in a Charismatic church in 1984, where I had been blessed beyond compare for 15 years or more, with miracles, teachings, signs and wonders, and the most awesome move of God, I could ever imagine.  I was so hungry, and couldn’t get enough of Gods Holy word.

Someone said to me once not too long ago how I wrecked my life having gone through divorces, deaths, pain.  But, I have this to say to this person. When I got saved in 1982, I FOUND MY LIFE.  MY LIFE BEGAN AGAIN ALL NEW!  Those in my past? GOD removed.  Even to some related by marriages, or phony friends I had then.  The Christian friends God put in my life, from 1984 when God put me at my old Faith Christian Center, with the huge letters over the door, “Enter His Courts With Praise”, were a miraculous gift from God.  The same people STILL in my life, now 35 years later.  Without them in my life, my prayer warriors, my friends, my brothers and sisters, who I have prayed with, laughed, cried with, have ALWAYS been there all these years.  Unlike those of the “world” who are your “fair weather” friends, who only love you when it benefits, them, or backstab you, or always bring up the past, which is under the blood.  No, I FOUND MY LIFE…I died in Christ Jesus, and he made me anew, so that I can share with you, the reader, as a witness, how much HE loves you. As Saul on the road to Tarsus, a murderer, a slave trader, when he went down on the road, from the awesome blinding light of Jesus, he died.  When he came up again, he was a changed man, to be Apostle Paul, the greatest evangelist who ever lived. Acts. As C.S. Lewis said, too, we have to die before we “die”. For, I am nothing, He and HE ALONE gives me life, so that I can have what comes out of me, rivers of flowing waters.  Thank you Jesus, for all you have done for me.

My childhood life, my first 18 years, were too, joyous, and my mother and father, gave me such a blessed childhood.  My church, then had never taught the salvation message. My childhood was a joyous happy one.  Then came young womanhood, and marriages that never should have happened, as I picked the wrong men in my life young.  I suffered the death of my first baby at 3 mos., and my last son in 1999, who was bi-polar and a suicide.  Those were the years of deceits, beatings, threats, and hates, because I went away from my upbringing, and was a backslider, not following my Lord.  They were my hardship years of divorces.  But, my Jesus never forsook me.  He was always there, just waiting for me to come down on my knees, and ask Him to forgive me.  I gave up my worldly life, back in 1982, to give my life over to my Jesus, for I knew that only HE could lead me.  My life BEGAN that day, when I died before I died, on my knees, after my Dad just died, in FL  Thank you Lord Jesus, for your love for me, for your hand on my life, for all you have done.  Amen.

Yes, I have known pain. Do I believe in healing? Yes, emphatically…YES!  However, I do not believe God heals everyone.   As Apostle Paul who asked  Jesus, “why don’t you heal me Lord,” and Jesus said, “My grace is sufficient.”

When my 19 year old son died, so horrifically, suffering with bi-polar as his father, he blew himself up with 6 sticks of stolen dynamite.  How I grieved for him.  I ended up crying for weeks so convulsively that I brought on a mini stroke. I did not call 911, and I do not advise doing what I did, but I was so heartbroken, I didn’t care.  I couldn’t help him, couldn’t get other agencies, doctors to help him, I was so devastated.  When I ever heard the police steps coming up my stairs to tell me they found his body, I let out a curdling scream.  But, one thing? I was then grounded in Christ, and knowing my BJ was saved at 11 on 8/2/91, I never once asked, why? I knew why.  He was sick and needed help he didn’t get. There is nothing worse than a parents pain in losing a child. Nothing!

I am always learning, studying, seeking, in the word.  The Wierrsbe’s book, “Comforting the Bereaved”, and a chapter on Suicide, helped me tremendously. So did reading the word, and also C. S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”. In it he wrote a chapter I have blogged here, “How does God Judge Us”.  The link is on here below, and it is a very interesting analysis on our psyche, and how God created us in all of our infirmities too.  Some like my son, through Chromosome 18, Bi-polar, others born with deafness, blind, or carry a gene that will lead to an illness later on in life. Parents have had to deal with this since eternity.  I had a friend for years, a woman, Arlene, who had 3 children, but two girls of the 3 were born with down syndrome.  Periodically, through the years, I would run into Arlene, and when the oldest was in her 40’s she was by then bad off and in a wheel chair.  Arlene? She had more faith than any woman I ever saw.  Once way back I visited her, and she had a sprained back, bedridden, like a top Lieutenant , had agencies there to take care of her girls, cook, (and for her husband), a Bible on her bed next to her and the phone book and a couple of Christian books.  Arlene NEVER wavered.  All these years I have thought of her repeatedly, and God would have me pray for her.  We never know young, what we will have one day to endure.  And I heard today on Faith, Hebrews 11.  By Faith…Moses..by Faith..Noah built that ark…on and on….FAITH!

How Does God Judge Us?

When I was at the charismatic church God put me in 1984, it was the time of an unbelievable move of God carried over from the 70’s into the 90’s.  We had so many guest evangelists, and a church of over 4,000 at times.  I was thrown down by the move of the Holy Spirit on that church carpet so many times…shaking in Holy Ghost power of the Lord dealing with me, sometimes healing. I was so hungry for Jesus.  After one camp meeting, I was so drunk in the spirit of Christ, that I was shaking all the way home, (sometimes with the spirit of laughter-joy) and we were at church in lines until 1 AM.   I remember having God translate me out of body in my sleep that night.  I looked down to see the bed and room. I heard the whirring of the rushing Holy Spirit, like the wind Elijah experienced after his battle with Jezebel.  I saw Benny Hinn, back then in Massachusetts 3 nights in a row.  When he prayed with a coliseum of 25,000 born again Christians in the place, and when he said hush, you could hear a pin drop and there was a cloud over the ceiling in that place the Holy Spirit was so thick. All these tongue speaking praying Christians.  What glory!  Heaven is going to be filled with music and the Holy Ghost; if you can’t take the supernatural here? You won’t make it there.

But, my back in all those prayer lines and all my degenerative discs, and 40 years of sprains, and osteoporosis, pain, even being paralyzed and hospitalized, God never healed my back.  He healed me home alone of my mini stroke, of asthma, with the most horrific allergies, and hay fever as a child.  He healed me too of cancer not once but twice; an ovarian tumor 22 ctm. and stage 1 breast cancer from 2nd hand smoke.  Healed!  Eye surgeries, including a detached retina, healed.  My back? Spine? As Jesus told Paul, “My grace is sufficient.”  And that is what I have settled on.

I’ve even had a pastor way back, tell me I didn’t have enough faith. Oh yes I do!  But I know God wants me humble.  He is using me, in my old age, but, he does’t want me “puffed up” with pride, but, giving HIM ALL THE GLORY! (Proverbs, boast not thyself, but let another do it.) And that I do continually.  I am nothing but a vessel.  I only give you the reader, what God gives me.  So recently I have watched John Ankerburg, Joni Erickson Tada, and Michael Easley.  I cried.  Who am I to complain, when this beautiful young woman, a quadraplegic totally crippled, dependent, yet a light of Jesus.  So I thank you Lord, for keeping me going. Please play these videos..read the Biblical verses.  If you are suffering, you are not alone.  God loves you..You are earning many crowns, our mansions lie ahead.

Joni on Ankerburg: 
https://youtu.be/C-jR-GcsBAc

https://youtu.be/0iqXkIkXXLg

https://youtu.be/OzK6SKl4rMw

https://youtu.be/4D0-flbhhOo

James 1:2-4 Grace, Mercy, and Peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by GRACE are you saved through FAITH, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

Romans 3:23, 6:23, 5:8  For we have ALL sinned and come short of the Glory of God, etc.

Romans 8:18-28 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us…….Because the creature (Creation) itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Children of God.

So be blessed and do not give up your faith,  One day down…one day closer to Heaven…..Thank you Jesus.  We don’t understand Gods ways, and whys..but, that is what FAITH is..the unseen.  God Bless you all in need.  I do hope this helps.  Who am I to ever complain, when there are so many in far worse situations.  If God can use them?  He can use you and I, for we have no excuse….We are to glorify Jesus no matter what state we find ourselves..One day closer to Heaven.  Blessings…

http://www.joniandfriends.org/jonis-corner/photos/jonis-personal-photos/

“If your not suffering, your not witnessing JESUS!” With this, that God poured out in me, has been such joy…unspeakable joy”.  

(Artistis interpretation of Heaven as it will appear over Jerusalem, one day soon….from an “old” Evangelist magazine from the 80’s.)

Facing Truths

It is too bad Geert Wilders did not win Netherlands election.  However, he has made a huge impact throughout Europe, (and spoke to our Congress too) on stopping the Muslim immigration.  A lot is going on throughout Europe, and it all will hinge on our end time prophesies. 

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/16/won-dutch-election-does-mean-geert-wilders-far-right-netherlands/

I came across a video ..It is a very VERY dire warning to us in America.  Trudeau is

lying through his teeth up in Canada.  Perhaps our border wall should be between US

and Canada, never mind Mx.  (Wasn’t it Cruz that wanted the North American Union

in his false Baptist Dominionist teachings a year ago? ) Trudeau another Socialist like

his father was, is welcoming all these Muslims in Canada..Well PLEASE listen to this

young woman in fear.  She is not a Christian..so please excuse her words.  But listen

to her heart.  We here in America have a lot at stake, and Trudeau has bought and

owned the media up there just like our left “fake” media here in the US that  Obama

-Clintons bought…ie Soros funded groups like Center for American Progress, Media Matters, Media Fund, CREW..(digging up dirt), Hollywood fools /concerts, American Votes, Social Tech Movement, and of course, Move on.All Communist. Add to that Obama’s protest group right on his own website, OFA.us. 

 

 Remember too how evil a man George Soros, really is.  A Hungarian GODLESS

 Jew. His parents were Anti-Semitic, and during WWII his father changed their

Jewish name of Schwartz to Soros, and lied as a young man to the Nazi’s saying

he was a Christian, and helped Nazi’s kill other Jews.  Remember Esau in the

Bible? Esau an Arab, from the lineage of Ishmael.  Esau meant the hairy one,

the one who hated and could not be tamed. The only one in all the Bible, that

God said, “Him do I hate”..Well, can you imagine how God feels about George

Soros? Schwartz…God’s chosen, to end up such a sell out to his own people

and heritage, to wreck such carnage in all the world with all his billions. The man

who broke the bank of England, Croatia, probably behind the fall of Venezuela,

with his Communist views, funding all these organizations.  Remember too, in

all that lies ahead, his nephew is married to Chelsea Clinton, and she too, has

been groomed.  So when you play this young woman’s video, think of all

that has happened since Trump got in office..ALL the obstacles, and what is

at stake.  I tweeted him her video too. And pastor Ed?  You need to boycott

Hawaii, and no more trips to Hawaii, by our conservative right…after this judges

decision.. And I tweeted that Governor Ige too. These Muslims are an evil EVIL

lot.. They have no control, no regard for life, for laws, respect for the countries,

they push their way in..and they are raping young children..and in Canada too:

Truth about Canada:

https://youtu.be/76anMizBpTg

 

https://youtu.be/MeM_l5mkyYc

And I hope and pray THIS is true..Cruz going after Soros:

http://thetruthdivision.com/2017/03/breaking-ted-cruz-picks-fight-george-soros-obama/

 

We need to keep Vigil and do not be afraid of speaking out.  STAND in Jesus Christ.  I just turned 78, and I SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT, until

my Jesus takes me home.  Above all my brothers and sisters PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT.  I LOVE THIS MAN SO MUCH AND WHAT GOD HAS PUT IN HIS HEART FOR AMERICA.  HE WAS GODS CHOSEN TO LEAD US AND PERHAPS PROLONG THE END TIMES.  CHILDREN ARE BEING RAPED HERE, TOO, IN EUROPE, IN CANADA BY MUSLIMS.  THESE JUDGES ARE GOING TO PAY, AND IF WE GOT HIT AGAIN? THE BLOOD OF EACH AND EVERY AMERICAN KILLED WILL BE ON THEIR HANDS.  PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT UNCEASINGLY! GOD isn’t done with none of us yet.  OUR PRESIDENT HAS SUCH VISION.  LISTEN  TO GODS VOICE IN ALL US. PRAY PRAY PRAY….Oh Jesus, lead us…hold us up as Christian Americans, let your truth prevail God.. pray for our President and America..Gina’s video is riviting. 

 

I was given this prophesy, please play it. God help us, lead us. Send your revival..Wake up sleeping churches.. SHOW the WORLD Lord that

YOU reign in America!  Lead and Help our President. SHOW YOUR TRUTH LORD. Let every American take off the blinders, Lord, the scales from eyes that will not see, …Pour out your spirit Jesus across the United States. RAISE YOUR CHRISTIAN ARMY UP LORD..

 

PROPHESY…PLEASE PRAY…STAND..I agree with Gina..I would rather loose my life and have some hateful Muslim chop my head off…than put up with garbage that goes against us as Christians, and our Constitution.RISE UP! 

For I shall not keep silent! Listen to me, many Christians, will NOT make the Rapture, because they are silent.   And God help those that have to go through the Tribulation.  Listen to this prophesy.. God listen to us..listen to Gina’s pleas above..Bless her for her video, excuse her language, but see her heart and fear. We do not want this here in America. Let your truth be exposed Lord.  Harken the words on this prophesy. God bless you all who read all and pray.  I am only a watchdog, I put together, pass on, and it’s in  God’s hands thereafter. 

https://youtu.be/kYkxodi1V2E

POSTSCRIPT:  NOW  WE HAVE SEEN THE RAVAGES TOO OF THE LONDON TERRORIST ATTACK.  I SAY THIS TOO TO THE JUDGES, ESPECIALLY IN HAWAII;  IF THIS HAPPENS HERE IN AMERICA, THE BLOOD OF EVERY AMERICAN WILL BE ON YOUR HANDS.  STOP THE IMMIGRATION.  THIS IS NECESSARY, AND OUR PRESIDENT KNOWS BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU! YOUR MESSING WITH AMERICA’S SECURITY!  END IT! OR PAY THE PRICE! 

Saving America

First, I applaud President Trump’s speech in his first Presidential address, his vision for America and goals.  But, we haven’t got there yet, and it would seem we have a long way to go.  First as you hear the left out there, our obstructionists, protesting, demanding, investigation after investigation on Russia and our Presidents campaign, now zeroing in on our Atty. General Sessions, a former Senator who had to recuse himself!  And when the left can’t find fault with Trumps speech, who do they zero in on in pettiness? Well, Melania, our first lady, so elegant for wearing a black suit with sequins?  She shouldn’t sparkle now?  I mean enough is enough!

Last night I watched a Christian talk show, with it’s guest Philip Haney, former Homeland Security officer talk about his new book, “See Something Say Nothing” and our government literally giving in to Jihad.  Book on Amazon, link allows you to open up:

https://www.amazon.com/See-Something-Say-Nothing-Governments-ebook/dp/B01DX62X1G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488467804&sr=1-1&keywords=see+something+say+nothing+by+philip+haney

He went on to tell the story of a black market operation by 2 Pakistani brothers that shipped cars overseas, from the US.  And how he went to congress 55 times trying to call attention to the danger we have from within.  Keith Ellison, is a Muslim in Congress, then there is a man named Andre Carson, in the Defense Dept. who has access to all pertinent information.  Carson and Ellison who now co-chairs the DNS started out with Louis Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam,  CAIR.  The problem he went on to say, is most immigrants that come in here now DO NOT WANT TO ASSIMILATE into American culture.  NOR do they want to obey and respect our OUR US Constitution, our laws, our way of life; insisting rather that they will adhere to ONLY SHARIA law.  THAT is a problem.  I don’t care what the left says, they are opening our country to obliteration.  And one thing he said floored me, since Obama’s 8 years in  office, is that Muslims, have training camps, all over the United States; one in GA, one in TN, a total of 27  with armed guards, fences like our own Army and Marine camps.  No wonder they are teaching in GA, TN, other states; our little children in grade school, and allowed by school dept. heads to enforce head scarfs, indoctrination, etc.? In AMERICA!??  Think that would happen during WWII? Where is our media? 

Why aren’t we making our Senators and Congressmen and women accountable? Attend your town hall meetings and make yourself known.   I’ve been writing on here for years now, and listened to Geert Wilder of Holland, when Europe now, especially Germany is a mess.  THIS is a letter from a German doctor, a friend posted on Facebook.  I have news for you..THIS is already in America.. Now that Sessions recused himself lets deman a special investgation and prosecute Hillary, never mind George Soros. Question is what are we going to do about it? I mean legally through laws, our elected officials, ramming the media, and educating CHRISTIANS..all PEACEFULLY,  I STRESS.   And by the way, Geert Wilder has spoken in front of our US Congress. Guess theyslept through it.  Letter from Germany:

“A MUST READ!!!

By Karroll Hauseknecht

Subject: Germany Sends a message to the World

You don’t see this on CNN or the other networks.

A Female physician in Munich, Germany sent a message to German Government
Authorities and out to the World………..

Yesterday, at my hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle the Number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the main Hospitals.

Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and we women are now refusing to go among those migrants! Relations between the staff and Migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units.

Many Migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we in Europe do not know how to treat. If they receive a prescription to the pharmacy, they suddenly learn they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children with pharmacy staff with the words: So, cure them here yourselves!

The police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also the large pharmacies.

We ask openly where are all those who welcomed the migrants in front of TV cameras with signs at train stations? Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are
already here and we will definitely not be able to send them elsewhere.

Until now, the number of Unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. Only a small minimum of them have an education and even less a trade or profession. What is more, the women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten women is pregnant.

Hundreds have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and very needy. If this continues and Germany re-opens its borders, I am going home to the Czech Republic. Nobody Can keep me here in this situation, not even for double the salary. I came to Germany to work, not to Africa or the Middle East!

Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see the cleaning woman, who has cleaned every day for years for 800 euros and then meets crowds of young men in the hallways who just wait with their hands outstretched, wanting everything for free, and when they don’t get it they throw a fit.

I really don’t need this! But I am afraid that if I return home, at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their systems, cannot handle this, then, guaranteed, back home will be total chaos…..

You – who have not come in contact with these people have absolutely no idea what kind of badly behaved people they are. Those who are Muslim act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.

For now, the local hospital staff have not come down with the diseases these people brought here, but with so many hundreds of patients every day this is just a question of time.

In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, who they’d dragged across half of Europe for
three months. The child died two days later, despite having received top care. The pediatric physician had to undergo surgery and the two nurses are recovering. Nobody has been punished – what ??? The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we can only inform you through email.

What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed the doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurses face and threatened her with infection? At a minimum he would have gone straight to jail and  later to court. With these people so far, nothing has happened – WHY?

If it were up to me I would round up all those greeters and bring them here first to our hospitals emergency ward as attendants! Then to one of the buildings housing the migrants, so they can really look after them there themselves, without armed police and police dogs, who, sadly today, are in every hospital here in Bavaria. Is this “situation” coming to your country ??? YOU BET IT IS!!!! “    end

Geert Wilder:

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/who-lost-europe-is-us-next/

Facts:  Egypt outlawed the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, and put Morsi in jail.  America has not, and now CAIR is protesting WITH the left on George Soros money in all these American towns and cities.  WE HAVE TO RISE UP AS CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS AND HELP OUR PRESIDENT MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!  

OUR VOICES NEED TO BE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR..  CHRISTIANS?  ARE YOU STANDING FOR CHRIST?  DOESN’T THE BIBLE SAY “FEAR NOT” 365 TIMES?  DOESN’T EPHESIANS TELL US TO PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS?  DO YOU EVEN KNOW (HANEY’S BOOK) THAT THE KORAN TEACHES THAT THE “COMFORTER” HOLY SPIRIT IS MUHAMMED?  THAT IS BLASPHEMY!

Churches who like the Southern Baptists, are siding with Muslims, helping to even build Mosques, are being snookered!  Oil and water do not mix.  Jesus saves, Jesus heals, Jesus is the rock, and the Holy Spirit the Comforter, He is the I AM..Name above all names..Wonderful.

OUR PRESIDENT NEEDS TO SIGN ANOTHER EXECUTIVE ORDER, BASED ON OUR CONSTITUTION,  LIKE TEDDY ROOSEVELT SAID AS WELL:  YOU COME TO AMERICA, YOU ASSIMILATE INTO AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, LEARN OUR US HISTORY, COME IN LEGALLY, OBEY OUR LAWS, AND IN TURN YOU WILL HAVE FREEDOM OF RELIGION,  BUT ALSO WE ARE OUTLAWING SHARIA LAW PERMANENTLY IN AMERICA, AND CALLING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (AS EGYPT DID) A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND OUTLAWING IT.   ALL OF  THESE ISLAMIC TRAINING CAMPS ARE TO BE CLOSED IMMEDIATELY.  FOR THEY ARE A THREAT TO AMERICA, OUR ARMED FORCES,  POLICE, ICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.  (AND name whatever clause in Constitution to back.) THEY COME HERE THEY GIVE ALLEGIANCE TO OUR AMERICAN FLAG, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THEY NOT CLUSTER IN TOWNS OF THEIR MAKING BUT INTO AMERICAN POPULATION AND WAY OF LIFE.

ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION, BUT A POLITICAL VEHICAL. AN ENTITY FOR SHARIA LAW.  THEY CALL IT A RELIGION SO THEY MAY REAP THE RELIGIOUS BENEFITS IN OUR ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE…AS CHURCHES.

WITHOUT OUTLAWING SHARIA LAW, AND ADDING CLAUSE TO ASSIMILATE WE HAVE NOTHING TO BIND THEM TO AMERICA’S LAWS.  SEE BELOW THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US VS SHARIA LAW.

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/god-our-constitution-vs-sharia-law-2/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/immigration-past-now-and-borders/ 

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/he-that-hates-2/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/islam-by-lehmann-3/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/america-and-islam-what-does-god-say/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/every-muslim-will-bow-before-jesus/

http://www.dailywire.com/news/13535/islamophobic-saudi-arabia-deports-40000-muslim-michael-qazvini#

On Feb. 21, 1848, “Old Man Eloquent” John Quincy Adams suffered a stroke at his desk in the House chamber. He had just given an impassioned speech against the Democrat plan to expand slavery into the Western territories acquired after the Mexican-American War. He died 2 days later without regaining consciousness. A bronze marker on the U.S. House floor indicates where the desk of John Quincy Adams once stood.

John Quincy Adams was the only U.S president to serve in Congress after having been president, being elected a U.S Representative from Massachusetts, 1830-48. Nicknamed “The Hell-Hound of Slavery” for relentlessly speaking out against slavery, John Quincy Adams single-handedly led the fight to lift the gag rule which prohibited discussion of slavery on the House floor.

In 1841, John Qunicy Adams defended 53 Africans accused of mutiny aboard the slave ship Amistad. He won their case before the Supreme Court, giving them back their freedom.

John Quincy Adams stated: “The moment you come to the Declaration of Independence, that every man has a right to life and liberty, an inalienable right, this case is decided. I ask nothing more in behalf of these unfortunate men than this Declaration.”

John Quincy Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, as a freshman Congressman from Illinois, was a pallbearer at John Quincy Adams’ funeral.

African slaves brought to America were purchased at Muslim slave markets. Over the 1,400 years of Islamic conquest, Muslims enslaved an estimated 180 million Africans.  (Ok Democrats? Your new Muslims friends were BIG SLAVE TRADERS!! )  And you call us racist?

“The Annotated John Quincy Adams – A Bibliography,” compiled by Lynn H. Parsons (Westport, CT, 1993, p. 41, entry#194), contains “Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War and on Greece,” (The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29, NY: 1830): “The natural hatred of the Mussulmen towards the infidels is in just accordance with the precepts of the Koran. … The fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion is the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. It forbids the exercise of it, even towards enemies. …”

He continued: “In the 7th century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab … spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. … He declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as a part of his religion. … The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust, to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature.”
Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/02/how-john-quincy-adams-felt-about-muslims/#QMCFu6tuqMFY0uEh.99

 

PRAY FOR AMERICA…RISE UP AS YOU DID DURING THIS ELECTION AND KEEP THE FLAME BURNING.  WE CANNOT LOSE AMERICA!  SPEAK OUT TO YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATIONS,  TOWN HALLS, YOUR GOVERNOR.  DO NOT BACK DOWN BUT PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, AND STAND.  LIKE REV. FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAID, NO COMPROMISE!!  GOD BLESS YOU WHO READ, GOD BLESS OUR PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP, HIS FAMILY, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA, AS WE MUST MAKE HER GREAT AND WHOLE AGAIN.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/07/03/warning-following-graphic-photos-works-islamic-state-final-days-islams-holiest-month-ramadan/

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/islamic-terrorists-post-graphic-photos-showing-mass-execution-of-dozens-of-captured-iraqi-soldiers

Immigration Past, Now, And Borders

I think the left media needs to read this.  I agree and applaud Lt Col Allen West.  And He served in Iraq, Afghanistan. He KNOWS the Koran..and he knows how dangerous they are.  Actually, so does Russia.  Obama was going to get his big mouth involved when Egypt had their uprising.  He was all for Morsi.  It backfired.  (And I have a Coptic Christian friend that loves God, on my FB, I’ve known now for 13 years. ) I got all that news first hand straight from Cairo. So Egypt threw Morsi in jail and outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood.  WHY isn’t America outlawing it (CAIR)..We are NOT going to give this Constitution away for SHARIA. NO MORE ISLAMIC REFUGEES, UNLESS THEY ARE VETTED!  TRUMP IS RIGHT!

http://allenwestrepublic.com/trumps-unmentionable-and-an-international-meltdown/

Sometimes with all you “fake” accusations, I wonder if the left media get it.  Trump’s move to stop immigrants is right. Allen is RIGHT…So WHO do you  serve?  Allen knows the Koran..  I’ll listen to him and believe him over the left apologists.   Obama bowing to the King in Saudi Arabia…DISGUSTING!  This is America!  I wish I knew all the Koran history that Allen does.

https://youtu.be/m7tx-BE7NFc

https://youtu.be/9MZx38i6iYs

https://youtu.be/miKOVEBpNCQ

SO, WHOM DO YOU SERVE?  EVIL, DESTRUCTION, SHARIA, COMMUNISM, SOROS, OR DO YOU STAND WITH FREEDOM AND ONE NATION UNDER GOD…AMERICA AND OUR CONSTITUTION?  YOU CAN’T SIT ON THE FENCE AND HODGE PODGE BOTH. WE SEE THROUGH YOU.  I AM AN OPEN BOOK ON MY BLOG ABOVE.  I STAND FOR THIS COUNTRY, MY AMERICA THAT WAS NOT PERFECT. BUT IF WE DIDN’T HAVE OUR CONSTITUTION, THESE FOOLS GETTING PAID FOR BY A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION CAIR AND SOROS A COMMUNIST WOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO PROTEST.   I’LL BE 78 NEXT MONTH, AND UNTIL MY GOD TAKES ME HOME, I WILL BE OUTSPOKEN, AND I WILL STAND IN CHRIST JESUS, AND  BACK ISRAEL AND LOVE MY AMERICA.   DON’T BE SO  QUICK TO JUDGE MY PRESIDENT.  HE GET’S IT!  I TRUST HIM, AND I TRUST PENCE.   I HOPE HE DRAINS THE SWAMP.  Trump Right!  America was not perfect.

Oliver Stone’s documentary shows truths.

THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80128037?trackId=14170032&tctx=3%2C46%2C2db9489d-0d4b-4971-a797-a0233d16cfc0-396137

http://www.untoldhistory.com

I tweeted these links to Trump, asking him to have balance in all things and pray.  This documentary would open the media’s eyes.  Starts back with Wilson, up to Obama.  America has a lot of blood on her hands.  While Truman did the right thing in 1948 signing to make Israel a State, he refused to listen to Dwight D. Eisenhower and not use the bomb in Hiroshima.  Docu shows 3 million bodies…Yes, they bombed us in Pearl Harbor, but we could have won the war without the bomb..  (And what destruction did we do also to our earths core ?)  Hitler killed 6 million Jews, we bombed and killed 3 million Japanese.  Please tell me how the United States gets a pass? THAT is what Trump meant .  If he watched this docu after my tweet I’m glad. Because he won’t do anything foolish, as you all insinuate.  He is NOT impulsive.  But a compassionate man.  But we need this immigration halt!  

On the other hand, JFK turned his military advisors away, and agonized over the Bay of Pigs and DID listen to Eisenhower, and refused to bomb Cuba.  He was a Christian Catholic, and pro life…NOT like the bunch of Godless Commies in the democratic party now.  Then there is Vietnam…Our soldiers over there were deranged…stoned I’d guess..decapitating piles of bodies of women, men, children, babies…SICK…Those photos are on this documentary.  Marlon Brando’s Apocalypse Now was nothing, compared to the truth.

AND then Iraq…Do any of you in news know how sacred that country is to us Christians? We NEVER should have gone in there.  We wouldn’t have a refugee crisis now.  We opened a Pandora’s box.  Yes 9/11 was awful…same awful as Pearl Harbor,  Iraq was Mesopotamia the first civilization.  Abraham was born in UR where the Euphrates and Tigress meet.  Do you know also, that Mosel was one Ninevah in the Bible?  And in a 1989 UPI the late Peter Jennings reported on Saddam trying to rebuild Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar’s hanging gardens…While all you left media, back all these Islamic refugees coming in…You do not see the big picture.  The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist org.  IT IS OUTLAWED IN EGYPT AND THEY PUT MORSI IN JAIL.  Now CAIR here is with Soros paying for all these violent protests, destroying businesses…THAT is American?

What about all the blood shed too in the Civil War..240,000 killed ? …think you all need to have a history lesson.  And the rate we are going with this left wing media agenda, backing Clinton, Soros, Dems and all the Communists now in Washington, we will either outright lose America, or we will have another civil war on our shores.  Or Jesus will come in the Rapture and end it all….and the tribulation will begin.  But, America was NOT perfect…with Blacks and race either.  AND IT WAS THE DEMS that took away freedoms republicans gave.  Look at original documents on:  www.wallbuilders.org

THIS IS NOT RESISTANCE, IT IS ANARCHY!

http://allenwestrepublic.com/absolutely-scary-anti-trump-resistance-reveals-what-their-end-game-is/

THEN there are more lies from the left wing media, (ie Media Matters, etc) and our local  Cable stations.   How many times was the Jezebel, Feminist Senator Elisabeth Warrens lies, showed OVER AND OVER AND OVER… Just remember Warren and dear Hillary, Jezebel was eaten by dogs and thrown out of a 3^rd floor window after her battle with Elijah.    

http://truepundit.com/shattered-video-of-coretta-scott-king-thanking-jeff-sessions-for-rosa-parks-library-crushes-elizabeth-warren-racial-stunt/ 

 http://www.sarahpalin.com/mlks-niece-just-scolded-elizabeth-warren-big-way/Plus here is what Dr. King’s niece had to say! 

 http://www.sarahpalin.com/mlks-niece-just-scolded-elizabeth-warren-big-way/ 

 AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.  

Now…Immigration, as it was, when my grandparents came over from Germany  in 1903 LEGALLY, through Ellis Island, to what it has become.  Here is the ship my maternal grandfather Wolfgang Schertel and his wife to be, Margaret Schneider came here on. They got married in the good ole USA, in Boston, and my mother and her brother were born here on US soil years later, then they moved to New Hampshire.  The Kroonland:

 

 

The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, while some, such as the Pilgrims in the early 1600s, arrived in search of religious freedom.

U.S. Immigration Before 1965 – Facts & Summary – HISTORY.com

www.history.com/topics/u-s-immigration-before-1965

The first German immigrants came to America to avoid the Thirty Years’ war in Germany, which started in 1618 A.D. due to religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics. It is estimated that somewhere between 65,000 to 100,000 German-speakers emigrated into the United States during the colonial era.   My mother and my grandmother were Lutheran’s, after Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church. So, my question is, immigration has always been to escape religious tyranny, for the most part, even against England and our own Revolutionary War.  HOWEVER, IN NO WAY EVER WERE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS USED FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES, NOR FOR COMING HERE TO CHANGE OUR AMERICAN LAWS AS CAIR AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ARE TRYING TO DO, IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.   WE MUST STAND ON OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.   WE NEED TO OUTLAW SHARIA LAW IN THE US  AND MAKE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ILLEGAL, JUST AS EGYPT DID AFTER THROWING MORSI IN JAIL.  EUROPE FAILED…AND WE CANNOT.

 

More than half of the increase in the Muslim population between 2010 and 2015 has been due to immigration. Muslim immigrants currently make up about 10 percent of all legal immigration to the United States. But Muslims also tend to have more children than other Americans, which also accounts for part of the community’s growth. Conversion, however, has not been responsible for the increase. About 20 percent of American Muslim adults converted from another faith, but that figure has not changed over time.  There were 3.3 million Muslims of all ages living in the United States in 2015, or about 1 percent of the total U.S. population, the Pew Research Center reports. The figure is an update to Pew’s 2011 estimate of 2.75 million Muslims living in the United States. By 2050, Pew expects the share of Muslims in the U.S. to double to 2 percent.  HOWEVER NOT ALL ARE COMING LEGALLY, NOR DO MOST GET PROPERLY VETTED.  Now Instead of coming in peacefully, working, being vetted, we are faced with this…And the “progressive” Muslim immigrants, want Sharia, and progressivism means Communism.  They are out to wreck havoc with America and destroy our governing process, including liberal political judges, and Muslims in our Government JUST as has happened in Europe.

Significance: As the fundamental law of the United States, the U.S. Constitution empowers the U.S. Congress to pass federalimmigration and citizenship laws providing such laws do not violate the provisions of the Constitution itself, particularly those included in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment.

US Constitution – Immigration to the United States

immigrationtounitedstates.org/447-us–constitution.html

President Trump cites powers granted to him by Congress under the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 as allowing the President to place temporary restrictions on immigration based on country of origin. Opponents of the policy object to the executive order on various constitutional grounds, including claims the President’s executive order violates the separation of powers provisions in the Constitution and poses a religious test for entry into the country.  In the past, tests and criteria have been frequent factors in considering admission to this country. And adherents to some political and moral philosophies have consistently been barred from entry to America.  Today, the federal government has the authority to decide who becomes a citizen or resides in the United States. Congress set the first basic immigration requirement in 1790, which required a two-year residency in the United States for those who sought citizenship.

York Times, the Cato Institute’s David J. Bier claims the temporary suspension is illegal because, in his view, it flouts the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This contention is meritless, both constitutionally and as a matter of statutory law. Let’s start with the Constitution, which vests all executive power in the president. Under the Constitution, as Thomas Jefferson wrote shortly after its adoption, “the transaction of business with foreign nations is Executive altogether. It belongs then to the head of that department, except as to such portions of it as are specifically submitted to the Senate. Exceptions are to be construed strictly.” The rare exceptions Jefferson had in mind, obviously, were such matters as the approval of treaties, which Article II expressly vests in the Senate. There are also other textual bases for a congressional role in foreign affairs, such as Congress’s power over international commerce, to declare war, and to establish the qualifications for the naturalization of citizens. That said, when Congress legislates in this realm, it must do so mindful of what the Supreme Court, in United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936), famously described as “the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations – a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444371/donald-trump-executive-order-ban-entry-seven-muslim-majority-countries-legal

Some American Christians have interpreted that passage as a mandate for the United States to excuse and accommodate illegal immigrants.  But award-winning journalist Cheryl Chumley notes a “sojourner” is a temporary visitor; illegal aliens seek to remain in the country, so that passage does not apply to them.   Moreover, she pointed out, God Himself was the one who separated the peoples of the Earth and confused their languages in Genesis 11, thus creating nations. So national sovereignty is perfectly biblical.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/bible-is-on-side-of-secure-borders-says-author-of-new-book/#uXhOmVPB03JXs38v.99
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/bible-is-on-side-of-secure-borders-says-author-of-new-book/#uXhOmVPB03JXs38v.99

NOW. AS FAR AS THESE COURT DECISIONS, HOLDING UP OUR PRESIDENT’S ORDERS TO HOLD IMMIGRATION FROM  THESE COUNTRIES.  THEY ARE WRONG AND ARE THREATENING NATIONAL SECURITY OF OUR REPUBLIC.   EVERY PRESIDENT HAS HELD UP IMMIGATION, BUSH DID 5 TIMES, OBAMA, CLINTON, AND REAGAN ALL PUT A HOLD.  IT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITIY OF THE UNITED STATES.  THESE POLITICAL FOOL JUDGES DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY, NOR DO THEY RECEIVE INTELLIGENCE…AND IF …I SAY IF WE ARE ATTACKED, THE BLOOD  OF ANY US CITIZEN KILLED WILL BE ON THEIR HANDS.  SHAME ON THIS 9TH CIRCUIT!  MAY YOU LOSE ANY AUTHORITY AND BE REPLACED.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5318047949001/?#sp=show-clips

In other words, we must guard our borders, for the safety of all Americans,  under the laws of the United States Constitution, and the sovereignty of our country, and to protect our citizens and our laws, ONE NATION UNDER GOD.  PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN WASHINGTON D.C., AND PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP, VP MIKE PENCE, THOSE IN OFFICE,  WITH WISDOM, COMPASSION, AND AN ASTUTE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT EVIL HAS BEEN AT WORK. IN  JESUS NAME, WE COME TO YOU LORD, AND REBUKE THE DEVOURER, FOR WE KNOW LORD, THAT THIS PRESIDENT WAS YOUR CHOSEN.   CONTINUE TO COME TO HIS AID AND ANNOINT HIM LORD, AND THOSE AROUND, TO OUT MANEUVRE THE ENEMY.  THANK YOU LORD, FOR WE WANT AMERICA TO SHINE AGAIN IN THIS CHAOTIC WORLD UNTIL YOU CALL US HOME.  AMEN. 

Issues At Hand, Race, Cold War

 

Dear President Trump,

I’m 78, White, in NH, and voted for you. Your attack on Rep. John Lewis,  however, was uncalled for. Then again, his comments too, were uncalled for. RACE has to be healed in America.  You came across as a racist, which you are not.  I saw John Lewis’s heart and all the pain he went through on Finding Your Roots, with Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. He went through segregation. He saw lynchings…Listen to this old woman President Trump.  This has to stop. I was a jazz lover since I was a young girl of 13 and discovered Ella, leaving my classical roots and 8 years of piano lessons.  Every singer and musician I gravitated to was Black.  It wasn’t color I listened to, it was the depth, the chords, the harmony, with all that music from Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Charlie Bird, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Billie Holliday, Nancy Wilson, so many others.  I mean I was a young impressionable girl not even in high school. But, when I heard Billie singing “Strange Fruit”, I was in tears and riveted. “Black man hangin on a poplar tree, strange fruit.”  And I felt her sorrow.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/profiles/john-lewis/

By the time I got to high school, as we were in NH.  We were White, mostly Catholic and back in 50’s many from Quebec and French Canadian.  So when I went in my freshman year, we had only 5 Black students.  Two brothers, one I’ll call “M” 2 years ahead of me, and his brother one year behind me.  Then another family my friend and classmate who was in fact brilliant, and lives in Manhattan today, worked for the Port Authority, and her two sisters.  I didn’t see the racism of the south, or any hint,  as “M” played football, and basketball and was an amazing athlete.  But, Jumping ahead to my senior year, I felt the racist insults.  I was coming down the steps of my high school, before graduation, and “M” was coming up the stairs to see his coaches and visit in his Air Force uniform. I greeted “M” and said “Hi, how are you?” And this little short big mouth Freshman looked me right in the eye, and called me a “N—–“ lover. I was floored.  I mean to look at the pain and hurt of “M”’s face, who now I know was so demeaned and discriminated in the Air Force by those who were southerners.  And it was awful back then.

I am German.  My maternal grandparents came over from Hoff and Ahaweis, Germany on the Kroonland ship in 1903.  My mother and her brother were born here in the USA in Boston.  I say that for this, I was ashamed of being a German.  Guess Glenn Beck was too.  History buff that I am watching all the documentaries on PBS and Netflix, and I just cannot understand how the German people could have been so  gullible.  They were lied to and taken in. How could  a whole country, turn against the Jews as they did.  I was taught my Bible very young brought up in a Congregational church, and I knew God’s chosen were the Jews (was not taught the salvation message though).  No one in high school (other than other German kids my mother knew),  knew I was German, including one of my best friends who just died last summer, who I had known since we were 5 years old, (72 years).  My mother used to get all these letters from relatives in Germany  on what was going on…and I’d hear my mother and father talk. I remember the American Nazi party in Madison Square Garden on black and white newsreels at the movie theaters.  Around our house, there were 7 neighbors who lost sons, brothers, husbands in WWII, including my younger friend who lost his father.

My Dad knowing the Bible reached out in his business, as an electronic engineer to Jewish business owners throughout the State.  He was good to them, and they in turn when I worked for many, young, were good to me as a young woman, learning.   Some of the  best employers I ever worked for were Jews.  Three million Jews slaughtered?  How many Blacks were Hung unjustly in the South.  Remember “To Kill A Mockingbird”?  I have the book here in my bookcase.  I cannot stand for ANY human being, being treated with injustice, or discriminated against.  I HAVE A BLACK GRANDSON I LOVE.  I have visions of this young man who was brought up by my daughter and her then husband in a white home, of being pulled over and shot by some gun happy police officer, YES, even here in NH!   So before my conservatives attack me…forget it!    I would have walked that walk with Martin Luther King and Rep. John Lewis.  Good God, hasn’t America gone through enough?  How many were killed in the Civil War?

www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/

“Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War. This number comes from an 1889 study of the war performed by William F. Fox and Thomas Leonard Livermore. Both men fought for the Union.”  Not to mention Lincolns assassination, nor Martin Luther King, nor President John F. Kennedy, or Bobby Kennedy. Nor, looking at all the shootings, now, especially Chicago..  DISCRIMINATION is not my America.  “Make America Great Again?”  Reagan used that slogan too.  Someone has to reach out President Trump and Representative John Lewis, and offer their hand.  Someone has to bend and make a gesture.

I am GOP, I am a 78 White Born again Christian woman up here in NH.   I AM PRO LIFE.  I WILL FIGHT FOR THE UNDERDOG, UNTIL GOD TAKES ME HOME. I want to see Chicago and relations with police SOLVED…and in ALL inner cities.  It goes 2 ways.  All this Soros funded acts from Black Lives Matter and all these left wing groups, vs, the Heritage Foundation, and all the right wing AND Christian groups, including T.D. Jakes who I’ve had a problem with, COME TOGETHER AND REACH OUT…DO SOMETHING!  THE RACIAL DIVIDE IN AMERICA HAS TO END!!!

http://www.untoldhistory.com/#gallery

ALSO, Israel.  Israel belongs to the Jews, Genesis 12, 13, and Palestine never existed when GOD gave that land to the Jews, 5,000 years ago, and at the time, not only included what is Palestine now, but also Jordan and half of Syria!  I STAND WITH ISRAEL AND NETANYAHU, AND THIS IRANIAN DEAL WAS WRONG!  With that Obama got us in another cold war with Russia.  Reagan also failed to close the deal with Gorbachev…He blew it.  WARNING…EVERY PRESIDENT WHO CONTINUED AND KEPT OR STARTED THE US IN WAR HAS BEEN DEFEATED.  The Documentary I watched on Netflix, by Oliver Stone, was riveting.  “The Untold History of the United States”.  I saw the piles of bodies in Germany after WWII when the allies went in and Hitler was defeated.  I saw the videos of ignorant stupid German citizens forced to bury all the dead, by hand….by HAND! It took Germany 40 years to rebuild after WWII.  And I don’t think Merkle has learned anything!   Millions…And I saw all the dead piled up including women and babies, in Vietnam, when Johnson left disgraced, and our soldiers were decapitating them? What kind of depraved injustices has America been guilty of including waterboarding.  I saw that in action on this documentary too.  MANS INHUMANITY TO MAN.  Putin is STILL KGB, and always was, and needs to be stopped in Syria, and Ukraine.   With Gorbachev Reagan lost a chance.  He wasn’t right in all his decisions either.

You  know who was? President Dwight D. Eisenhower.  He was on the front working with FDR and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and he saw death all around him.  Truman, was right remembering his mother’s Bible lessons, in fulfilling Herzels dreams of an Israeli state and signed it.  BUT he was wrong and refused to listen to Eisenhower who warned him against using the bomb in Hiroshima.  3 million killed?  Even after Pearl Harbor, that bombing never should have been an option.  And  I’ve been watching the PBS documentary on the trials that followed.  But to his credit, John F. Kennedy, wracking his head, and worrying so much DID listen to Eisenhower, with the Bay of Pigs, and turned his military advisors away, and refused to bomb Cuba.  Vietnam was wrong to go into.  Now we face problems with China, and their building islands, and expanding.  We have a fruitcake in No Korea, who may down our electrical grids in which case, it would be a total disaster and anarchy…including no internet, food, gas, etc. Decisions lie  ahead that have to be made with a level head and BALANCE.  Yes, my favorite word, BALANCE! I often wonder about how all the bomb tests have effected the earth’s inner core. Did it have any implication on earthquakes?  Water now drying up under the earth’s core?

 

I STAND AGAINST ABORTION AS THESE BABIES HAVE RIGHTS TOO..THEY ARE NOT A BLOB, A FETUS, BUT A BABY, AND THEY CAN FEEL THE PAIN, WHEN THEIR HEADS ARE SLICED IN AN ABORTION.  According to WHO, every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions. This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day.

I am against the wars in the Mid east and we never should have gone into Iraq in the First place.  We opened up a Pandora’s Box.  So now we have an influx of aliens all over Germany, Austria, the UK, Greece, etc.  They are raping young girls, and old women, have no education, no civility, do not obey ANY laws except Sharia, nor do those here in the United States who do not respect our US Constitution.  A little Bible history: Do you know that Nineveh in the Old Testament is now Mosul?  Do you know that Abraham was born in UR way up at the top of Iraq where the Tigress and Euphrates  meet?  Do you know that Babylon is in the south of Iraq, and in a 1989 UPI article, all you media can dig up, the late Peter Jennings did a piece on Saddam Hussein attempting to rebuild Nebuchadnezzars hanging gardens.  Iraq was once the FIRST nation on earth, then called Mesopotamia.   Most of all the history, relics, and antiquity has been bombed away now and destroyed.  AND when God moved Abraham to Canaan in Genesis 12 and 13, to the land of milk and honey, (ISRAEL)  some 5,000 years ago, it was for the JEWISH people and there was no Palestine.  The land GOD gave Abraham, was not just Israel, but Jordan and half of Syria.  THAT land is sacred…And Heaven will one day reign right over Jerusalem.   As for the Arabs? That is from the seed of Ishmael.  God gave them oil…and so it goes.

Do we need jobs? Yes!  More businesses? Yes, but first and foremost we NEED BALANCE.  WE NEED AN END TO ABORTION, AND AN END TO GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR ABORTION, BUT WE NEED AN END TO WARS, TO STOP ILLEGALS,  WHO ARE RAPING AND KILLING, BUT RACE HAS TO BE HEALED AND SOLVED..AND I URGE BOTH YOU AS OUR PRESIDENT, TO DO WHAT OBAMA, FAILED TO DO, AND MAKE THIS RIGHT IN AMERICA…WITH YOU TOO REP. LEWIS.   BALANCE…WE CANNOT GO BACK IN HISTORY. TOO MUCH WAS WRONG!  WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD, WITH A NEW SAYING, ‘MAKE AMERICA WHOLE AS NEVER BEFORE!’.   NOT THE SAME OLE, SAME OLE…BUT A NEW RACIALLY EQUAL, ACCEPTED, AMERICA, TO LOVE OTHERS AS WE WOULD WANT UNDER CHRIST.   We were never great before as long as we murdered, had wars, and failed to respect each other as human beings.  God loves the sinner but hates the sin.  Decisions have to be morally correct in the eyes of God, when one day He will judge each and every one of us, when we stand naked before him.  The saved and unsaved.  Will we get many crowns, and live in eternal peace in Heaven, forever, or will he spit us out, as Revelations 3. “I’d rather ye be cold or hot, for if you be lukewarm I will spew thee out of my mouth.”  And that includes many who “think” they ARE saved.  He sees our hearts.  Discrimination, murders of innocent babies, and wars are not of God.   Dear Lord I pray for Rep John Lewis and ALL the suffering he has  gone through, to be healed and meet with our President.  John, attend this inauguration.  REACH OUT.  Never judge a book by it’s cover.  Mr President, reach out.  You have not been in this mans shoes.  Listen..He has stories.  He has seen horrors that you have not and felt pain you have not.  Come together.  THAT IS MY VISION.     

MAKE AMERICA WHOLE AS NEVER BEFORE!  

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/racism-in-america/

My Tribute to Artistry

The Left And Nationalism 2017

Our Shadow Government

I get really sick of the left media, and those who do not understand, using the word “Nationalism” in relation to Donald J. Trump AS they did Reagan. Have been watching on Netflix, a documentary, by Oliver Stone, which is VERY good, incidentally, and in fact eye opening, on “The Untold History of the United States.” Reagan too, did some things wrong…And there could have been better relations way back with Russia, as Gorbachev was open and Reagan backed down. I read on that above site some of the horrific name calling comments towards Trump. He is not a fascist, he is not a racist. But we have been led down the Communist -Islamic slope with Obama. And the worst deal ever made with Iran, that we just may be stuck with.

So, it seems we have a “SHADOW GOVERNMENT” in America.  And we need to be vigil and  understand the ramifications this is having on our media, how we receive our news, especially now with the major left wing news stations, who ALWAYS refer to us as conservatives, as “extremists”.  Even us who are evangelical Christians, and the Heritage Foundation, not to mention Focus on the Family.  We are deemed radical for having values, and belief in God, against abortion and the murdering of babies, adhering to the Bible, the 10 Commandments, as America and our US Constitution and Federalist Papers, were written by our Founding Fathers.  So here we are, dealing with the left who is Communist, and who have an answer for everything.  Who are they, this Shadow Government?  Well, when you see a Hollywood concert for these causes, or see all these out of control protests, who organized? Ever wonder?

America’s SHADOW GOVERNMENT, of Different left wing groups, including media as Shadow Government, needs to be directed to these following organizations, in photo. Info on photo came from a book one of my friends at church was reading, God’s Chaos Candidate, by Lance Wallnau. This page comes from that book..on Amazon. HOWEVER as I looked through the pages on Amazon, he is also in the false Dominionist movement that Ted Cruz and his father is in. It is not Biblical. However, you can at least read the groups who are behind this SHADOW GOVERNMENT, including Media Matters which is why we do not get accurate reporting, and also all Soro’s money. We are sick and tired of the left ramming your liberal, ungodly, Marxist, Socialist agenda’s down our throats, enslaving America. Communism has never worked, from Russia, Stalin, (which ushered in Ayn Rand as a young girl, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism) as she saw what the Bolshevik Revolution did in Russia murdering Czar Nickolas. It didn’t work in Cuba, it hasn’t worked in China, with such an underground church for Jesus.  Go back in history and look at Ho Chi Men, Chili, Nicaragua, Vietnam; and none worked.  It always leaves a dictator, while the people suffer, so we will not stand by anymore and see the America we love, not just a democracy, bu a REPUBLIC,  be destroyed anymore.  We did not push back over President Obama, because of color, but because of his Godless ideologies, and his kindred to Muslims, who since the Ottoman Period and before, after 500 AD when Muhammad came on the scene.  Descendant’s of Ismael, and Esau, who was the only one in the whole Bible that God said, “Him do I hate”..(name meaning the hairy one…fighters, wild men which is Islam).   Leaving link to book. But while in Amazon, do a search on books, “Shadow Government” and you’d be surprised at what pops up.  Below: Center for American Progress, Media Access for 527’s, Media Fund, Media Matters, CREW- (Digging up dirt, citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington ) Are they kidding? Also, Hollywood organizations, American votes, (Concerts, speaking out), Vast Funding with George Soros money under this guise:  Open Society and Democracy Alliance, then Social Technology movement with Move on.  org.  ALL SOCIALISTS!  There is no democracy here, no God, no values, no ethics, not helping poor neighborhoods, nor providing jobs, just attacking everything America stood for. THIS IS our Shadow Government.  So we all thought now that our new President Donald Trump is about to be our new President we can sit back and everything is going to be great again?  That’s what I thought.  I’m getting old, now at 77,  I’m a child of WWII, and I was born in 1939, during the end of Wilson’s term and the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt, and WWII.  I remember old black and white newsreels.  No, I implore you, to first watch Oliver Stones documentary, then look up this Shadow Government list and then ? Pray.  What can we do to stop them.  Go back to the late 40’s and the Cold War.  Do your research cause history repeats itself.  President Donald Trump will need all of us who have the slightest amount of intelligence to do our part to get the message of both Jesus and salvation but also WHAT we do stand for, which is not the bigotry, hates, and Communist Marxist views of the left.   George Soros is a Hungarian Communist nonpracticing Godless Jew, and billionaire who funds all these protests.  He hates his own Jews and Israel.

https://www.amazon.com/Gods…/dp/B01LY37O02/ref=sr_1_4

America’s SHADOW GOVERNMENT,  on photo came from a book one of my friends at church was reading, God’s Chaos Candidate, by Lance Wallnau. This page comes from that book..on Amazon. HOWEVER as I looked through the pages on Amazon, he is also in the false Dominionist movement that Ted Cruz and his father is in. It is not Biblical. However, you can at least read the groups who are behind this SHADOW GOVERNMENT, including Media Matters which is why we do not get accurate reporting, and also all Soro’s money. We are sick and tired of the left ramming your liberal, ungodly, Marxist, Socialist agenda’s down our throats, enslaving America. Communism has never worked, from Russia, Stalin, (which ushered in Ayn Rand as a young girl, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism) as she saw what the Bolshevik Revolution did in Russia murdering Czar Nickolas. It didn’t work in Cuba, it hasn’t worked in China, with such an underground church for Jesus.  Go back in history and look at Ho Chi Men, Chili, Nicaragua, Vietnam; and none worked.  It always leaves a dictator, while the people suffer, so we will not stand by anymore and see the America we love, not just a democracy, bu a REPUBLIC,  be destroyed anymore.  We did not push back over President Obama, because of color, but because of his Godless ideologies, and his kindred to Muslims, who since the Ottoman Period and before, after 500 AD when Muhammad came on the scene.  Descendant’s of Ismael, and Esau, who was the only one in the whole Bible that God said, “Him do I hate”..(name meaning the hairy one…fighters, wild men which is Islam).   Leaving link to book. But while in Amazon, do a search on books, “Shadow Government” and you’d be surprised at what pops up.

https://www.amazon.com/Gods…/dp/B01LY37O02/ref=sr_1_4

HOWEVER, the United States of America, is NOT a Communist European country. I’ve read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and Capitalism. Ayn lived through it during the Russian Revolution and saw the revolutionary soldiers come in and ravage and destroy her father’s small business, and steal right out from under, and saw all the fear, and she too was a Jew. An objectivist. She came here to America to write, and predicted 55 years ago that America would be in this position. Our Founding Father’s did not set up this Republic to be a Communist nation. No way. And since the Clinton’s and Obama with George Soros billionaire money, we have drifted and gone back to some of the European countries, after the Cold War. I detest Communism. And the left Hollywood elite, has always since the McCarthy era, just glorified it…”Oh give to the poor…everything free…while the hypocrites, make millions, with their filth. I posted to Streisand’s Marxist website, “Put your money where your mouth is Babs, and give 3/4’s of your millions, away to the poor.”

IT DOESN’T WORK. And look at Cuba now after 60 years of Communism? Nothing modern, no technology, and what junk cars they have, go back to the 50’s. And go back to China even, remember Beijing? Remember Chili? How about Ho Chi Men? Stalin? All Communist dictators, who lived rich, while the people cannot have or own one thing including a house. All they get is in distribution. No innovation, no work ethics, inventions, creativity, businesses, just do as the “state” tells us. Are they crazy here in America now? Do they not know history? NO. Emphatically NO. What kind of asinine propaganda are coming out of the mouths of college professors?  Gone is anyone like me, now writing this, or even thinking of publishing a book, for Communism IS censorship.  Putin is doing this now, so is North Korea.   Does not the media in this blinded America realize that China still is hurting in spite of all the jobs much of America has provided, (I shop Amazon), they cannot speak out, and have no freedom of speech whatsoever.  They cannot worship and there is a huge underground church for Jesus Christ hidden.  Jesus ministered to the poor, and those with misfortunes, including the woman with the issue of blood, the woman with 5 husbands, the leper, the blind, and not to mention he rose Lazareth up from his deathbed, while Peter attempted to follow Christ and walk on water til he looked up, and lost faith.  But, was Jesus a Socialist or a Communist in his thinking when he did all this as this Pope has insinuated.  Of course not. He wanted us to have FAITH, believe in HIM, and have eternal life, but, did he want us to have Heaven on earth with everything given to us? NO!   We are to work, study, and give the Lord, and our families, and our country our best.

 

And while Oliver Stone’s documentary was /is very good, you need a certain amount of discernment to watch as he narrates into the present. There is one word that no one knows. BALANCE. BALANCE IN ALL THINGS. Eisenhower a former General warned Truman, and later JFK, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We cannot go back to the carnage of all the wars we have been involved in, including Vietnam, with bodies piled upon each other, as well as women and babies, JUST as Russian has now done in Syria. Balance…we need to learn history; and put all things in perspective. We cannot be the bully nation, but we cannot be the patsy either. We cannot just be Capitalist, and let the truly poor suffer, that is against Christ Jesus too. BALANCE…I guess that’s my New Years, eye opener.

I get so sick of the lefts poor me whiners, always harping about race, with Obama, and why Hillary lost. Once and for all, we the people voted for Donald J Trump, because we wanted a winner, a doer, a man that knew Jesus Christ, and a man who loved America and all we once stood for and hopefully will again. It isn’t about race, color, whether Obama lied and the birther movement was right or wrong. BUT his ideologies from his own lips, and his own book right on YouTube for all to hear and see. His mother was a Communist, so is he, going back to his friend Marshall, when he was a teenager in Hawaii. Obama does not stand for America and hates everything she represents. While Egypt outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, and put Morsi in jail, Obama has been surrounded by ideologues, and Muslim advisors from Valerie Jarrett to CAIR, and changed our Pentagon, military, to be weak. He was giving America away to the UN, as the internet, and letting the world take us over, not to mention his goal of the One World Order. Time for the left to shut up. You lost…So did we for the past 8 years, and it nearly destroyed America. For once we have another chance. Get over yourselves…Communism died in the cold war. It doesn’t work, and never did. My word….I want a new glorious hope for the America I love, before God takes me home!  The left needs to put things in perspective and stop throwing words around like fascist, nationalism, “right wing fanatics”, which I guess in their eyes, I am.  But, I have news for the left wing news media, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NECN, and ABC, if we had the “state” Communist –Socialist nation (we fought so hard to eradicate after WWII both in the UK, and US,) you would have NO FREEDOMS to even report your lies and now what you term “fake news”. Will everyone in this country wake up?  The very thing you want, would put you out of work..  It’s a no brainer.   You see some of us, are really not that stupid as you see us and that includes many of us evangelical Christians across America, who love Israel.

My advice for the oncoming year, let Trump be Trump and do what he does, who has an ingenious creativity and insight, and intelligence to see much deeper than you all give him credit for.  My advice to him?  Hang in there Mr. President, you can’t please everyone.  But, beware of too much military, heed the advice from Eisenhower many, many years back to former Presidents, let us not get pulled into what would destroy all you stand for, as Nixon, Johnson, etc.  End race -bigotry somehow all the way around.  Also rebuild our infrastructure and electrical grids, with American parts, provide jobs, but also while your drilling for oil, or bringing in a pipeline, do not destroy our environment or any danger to water.  Water our most valuable need and asset, with an earth going dry 1,000 miles beneath the ground. Do not discount all of the Global Warming, as some is cyclical, but a lot could be man made.  And have compassion for our native Americans as we have done enough to them in the past.  In other words, Mr President; again, balance in all things with the  discernment of  our Lord Jesus Christ.  Thank you Lord for this man of God, who will be our warrior as King David.   God bless his amazing talents, and insights, his family, his compassion and emotions he wears on his sleeve.  He will need all our prayers as of January 20^th 2017, as perhaps no other President before him.  But he is God’s chosen, for such a time, as who knows, could be used in these  end times to lead us forward to not only an “Awakening” as never before, and Revival across America, but to the Rapture.  The Anti-Christ is alive and well. And Obama made him proud indeed.  But, this time? GOD was in charge.  And media? Touch not God’s anointed!   And media think of this,  (and I’m thinking of Curt Cameron’s “Left Behind”); if the Bible is true, which I know it is, and Jesus comes in the Rapture soon,  taking first all His saved, believers, and the dead in  Christ will rise from their graves joining their spirit in the air, just think of what will happen before that tribulation.  You’ll have your wish, Donald J Trump will be gone, as all of who are believers and truly saved. In the twinkling of an eye, I Thessalonians.   Planes unmanned with pilots just disappearing, cars, etc.. Then my dears, you will have your America and the world as you want it.  But it is us who pay taxes, it is us who had ministries, as Samaritan’s Purse and gave to the poor, it is us that did good works, it is us, that cared deeply for our Republic, not any of you.  And you will reap what you sowed, and be stuck with a tribulation and Armageddon that will be in the mid-east, and kill 1/3 of this world, in wars, earthquakes, such a ravage, you will never imagine.  A state of rebellion and hates, more than anything seen in history, and total anarchy and Marshall law.  THAT is what will be left after the Rapture.  Then  comes the Great White Throne Judgment and all of you who hate us who are evangelical, will stand before the God you mocked.  And this, dear media, I believe.  T

From: Francis Frangipane (Ministry)                              · 

“One issue keeping America from experiencing a national awakening is this: as church folk we are angry that our nation has not become Christian while, at the same time, we are untroubled that we are not Christlike. —IN CHRIST’S IMAGE TRAINING.”

For once as Christmas approaches, and the New Year approaches, along with the inauguration on the 20^th, can we all take a breath of air, and stop all the complaining or bragging, (whichever side you are on) and just get down on your knees and be THANKFUL, for all we have, and that you even had a right to vote and live in a free democracy and Republic.  I thank you Jesus for this my United States of America, and for your hands Lord, on this incoming President.  May he always consult you in all his decisions.  Merry Christmas and Happy New year 2017, to all who read.  (I hope I made sense.) Thank you.

Capitalism vs Socialism

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/…/capitalism-vs-socialism/

The Untold History of the United States

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80128044

Hamilton, Trump and Pence

As for me?  I will stay on the side of righteousness.   There are many “teachable” moments that we can all learn from, and this speech by the cast of Hamilton, is one of them.  I beg Vice President Elect Pence and President Elect Trump to learn from this moment.  For in this election campaign, you, Donald J Trump appealed to the Black and minority voter, who was already let down by our first Black President, “What have you got to lose?”  Well? It seems like the cast of Hamilton, is in fear thinking they have much to lose.   It would serve you to listen to that small voice of God inside, and what this cast was trying to bring to your attention.  THIS isn’t about ego, or an insult, it is about the future of AMERICA!

MY Message to President Donald J. Trump.  I fear for my country. You must make America proud. Undo the racism in America. For even if you think you and Pence were RIGHT at Hamilton? APOLOGIZE TO THEM! That is humility. God’s way. I went through it..most of us have. They are in fear. Need to know you care as Obama tore America apart. YOU with Jesus help have to give her HOPE! Thats what I write..HOPE! That’s why I voted and fought for you. I want you to appoint conservatives of color, as well.  So much pain and controversy. I saw John Lewis in tears in such pain on PBS Ancestry with Dr. Lewis Gates. Reach out..NOT only us who are White. I want to see an end to this hate, and racism, before God takes me home or the Rapture comes..which ever comes first. Please…I have visions of my 23 year old Black grandson,  being pulled over by a cop and shot…he has a baby girl now. It pains me..to see America so split. Your in God’s hands now Mr President. Will pray for you and love you and your family.  HOWEVER, I also say to this superb talented cast…Don’t be so fast to judge.  Lest YOU be judged.  He isn’t even sworn in at this writing as President yet.  

I have three platforms, that are personal and i write about. 1.) Domestic Violence, Abuse  2.) Mental Health, and lack of and suicide prevention, 3.) Racism, an end of in America.  I didn’t ask God for these issues, but, rather I lived them.  And we cannot be used, by God, if we can’t use the pain, and the obstacle, the addiction, or the problem, as a TESTIMONY to the LIVING GOD!   So, you the reader are just stuck with me.   I lost my first baby at only 19 at 3 mos old, while in CA.  I know the pain and loss of an infant.  I was in my 2nd marriage and went through horrific abuse while married to a Greek man I loved with all my heart.  But, he couldn’t control his anger, and coffee tables went through a window, I was pushed out of a car 5 mos. pregnant, for my youngest daughter, laying in an alley in a cold rainy Nov. 1962 night, with a broken leg.  I darned well KNOW what I’m talking about and my abuse booklet PDF is on here.  Now I have a 23 year old Black grandson I love. He keeps making decisions that at times are not wise, unlike 7 other very pragmatic grandchildren.  So I fear for him.  He already has a baby girl, another one of my great grandchildren, who I’ve never met.  I love this young man.  Oh, and he smokes.  And I’ve had cancer twice, and his mom once, and his grandfather, yes, my Greek ex, died of horrific cancer from smoking in 2012.  WHY with cancer all around him, would he have got addicted? Who knows, he’s young.   So I do what I do, worry.   Point?  I did not go through all that I have in my life, to just bury,  and play the victim.   Because I’m not.  I’ m a strong woman, who knows love, and has felt hate.   But I’m not even a survivor, but an overcomer in Jesus Christ.   In other words listen to me.  Listen and read what is posted here, it just could possibly change you, and your heart.

My message to the cast of Hamilton?  Talented and young, have patience.  I see good in Donald J Trump, and extraordinary compassion for those that have known pain, or loss.  Perhaps it should have all been said, backstage in a PRIVATE audience.   After all, someone could have relayed a message to go backstage where they were sitting.  Two wrongs do not make a right.  We need to end this divide.  This hate, this racism, this violence, and disregard for human life in our cities such as Chicago, down to little New Hampshire, and all the drug related deaths, murders, arrests, and overdoses.   All the crime, the racial tension that Obama never bothered as a Black man, to cure.  We want America Great Again….BUT ALL AMERICA….NOT JUST WHITE PEOPLE!   With Christ, all of us are equal, when we come to the CROSS for salvation.   And for the left media and liberal America?  All of the NON-Denominational churches, and pastors  who are on Christian TV, ARE MULTI-CULTURAL.  There is not ONE church that is ALL White.  Not one!  And Joel Olsteen’s out of a football stadium that holds 25,000 people.  Most on Daystar tv, Trinity Broadcasting, GETV, CBN, and Sonlifetv.   We are Black, White, Hispanic, Chinese, all cultures, and races.  ONE under the CROSS!   And there are millions of us across America.  My small church here in NH has all races.  Thank you Jesus.

But it isn’t easy  for these low income Black people.  I was blessed (hate the word lucky) for when I was a child, I grew up in  beautiful 7 room colonial house my Dad built, who had his own business as an  electronics engineer, and It was after WWII, and the 40’s and 50’s.  We thought we had the best of the best.  However, while I did, another segment of America’s population in Southern and rural America, were going through horrendous times, with violent discrimination.  I learned and I gravitated, as a young girl, brought up with the arts, classical piano, until I found Ella.  And oh, my world changed.  I loved her!  I loved then and still Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington, I loved jazz!  And they were all Black.  I never thought anything about color only sound.  Until later and I found Billie Holiday.  Oh,  the wrenching pain and sorrow in that woman’s voice of all she had known and seen with hate and discrimination….”Strange Fruit”, Black man hanging from a Poplar tree, strange fruit… Then reality set in.  (By the way it’s on YouTube.) Then, I was 18 about to graduate high school, and I still remember to this day,  one of the few Black students we ever had up here, coming up the steps to the high school to visit his history -football coach, in his Air force Uniform.   And I said..”Hi…how are you.” And some little small freshman opened his mouth, to me…”n—– lover”.  And I looked at this Air Force man, Black and handsome and saw the pain in his face envelope him as he continued up the steps.  I wasn’t mouthy and opinionated back at only 18.  But, boy would I have liked to give that little punk stupid kid a good right hook to this DAY!  Later on in my 20’s with small babies, I remember Frank Sinatra sticking up for Sammy Davis.  Imagine, he was in a gig with Sinatra, and because he was Black wasn’t supposed to stay in the same hotel? Boy did Frank fly!  And I remember Martin Luther King’s, march and later assassination along with the Kennedy’s.  So I say, to you Mr. President Trump and VP Pence, hasn’t this gone on enough?  Sixty plus YEARS!   America needs to heal.  Before they can heal, they need to be INCLUDED WITH WHITE AMERICA, NOT ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN.

You know slavery has been around as wars, killings, kingdoms, that came and went since the beginning in Genesis, to the first civilization, Mesopotamia.  Which is modern day Iraq.  Part of my old Ancient Civ days, which I loved.   Love tying Ancient Civ, and the Bible together, as well as now, with end times.  Ir is fascinating.  So Abraham was born in UR up in Iraq where the Tigress and Euphrates meet.  There were tribes then, and STILL in Arab countries.   Tribes had kingdoms, all through the ages, and tribes and kingdoms fought and slaughtered each  other all through the ages, taking more land, enlarging what they had, and so on.  And with it all came slavery.  Slaves built the pyramids in Egypt.  That had to have been a lot worse than cotton fields in the south.  But I’m not making light of this. Nor am I approving, it is just a fact of history, as OUR US history going back to our Founding Fathers.   They were bad people owning  slaves, but did what was a way of life.  My question is, how long Mr. President does this have to continue?   Hasn’t America suffered enough?

From my old Smith’s Bible Dictionary: “The institution of slavery was recognized, though not established by the Mosaic law, with a view to mitigate its hardships and to secure to every man his ordinary rights.  Under Hebrew law one who had mortgaged his property might submit to servitude until he had accumulated enough to redeem it.  The commission of  a theft made one subject to servitude until he had repaid the theft under the provisions of the Law. (Ex 22:2-3.  The exercise of parental authority was limited to the sale of a daughter of tender age to be a maid-servant, with the ulterior view of her becoming the concubine of the purchaser (Ex 21:2-7).  All through the Bible it talks about slavery 5,000 years ago.  Also Lev. 25:40, Ex. 21:2, 21:6, Deut. 15:17, Lev, 25:39.   The conditions of the Hebrew servant was not bad.  Masters were ordered to treat them as hired servants or as sojourners.  At his liberation the master was to give to the servant liberally of his flocks, his flour, and his winepress.  (Deut. 15:13-14). In Genesis 2, you can read the story of Joseph (and his other coats) when his brothers tried to kill him for their inheritance, then sold Joseph…after Reuben cast him into a pit. So Joseph’s brothers sold him instead in 37:27 to the Ishme-elites,  (Tribe in Egypt from the line of Ishmael.) then lied to their father.  Then was all the deception, with Pharaohs wife, who tried to bed him down, and even innocent went to prison.  But then, see how God works…for he could tell Pharaohs what his dreams meant.  Eventually he was trusted, and throughout the story to chapter 42, Joseph was promoted from a slave to a huge promotion and land.  When the famines came in 41, Joseph’s brothers had to appear before him in Egypt and did not even recognize him.  Imagine?  GOD raised him up…and they who tried to kill him, had to kneel at his feet.  Finally he saw his father and was reunited in forgiveness.  So I say……

REACH OUT...Invite the cast of Hamilton who you were so offended by to Trump Towers.  For that matter invite Congressman John Lewis to Trump Tower and Dr. Henry Louis Gates as well. LEARN from them… LISTEN TO THEM….and then that still small voice of God.   For your not a Christian, unless you love your fellow man.  We are all equal.   AND they have FEAR…which is a legitimate concern.  You want businesses to stay here?  Corporate America?  Ford? Well, how many Blacks and minorities to they employ?  How many businesses are up in war torn Chicago, with all these druggies, in low income Black neighborhoods….Better yet?  Make the Secret Service even more crazed, and  go and visit and see for yourself.  They need education. They need a lot that is not affirmative action, and more than I am qualified to see or detail, and YOU HAVE TO BE THE PRESIDENT THAT AS YOU DRAIN THE SWAMP IN WASHINGTON, DRAIN THE GHETTOS IN AMERICA, AND PUT BLACKS TO SCHOOL AND WORK!  YOU PROMISED THEM!  

http://americanlookout.com/jpb-media-slandering-jeff-sessions-as-racist/

I also ask that they tune into PBS Black America since MLK, and Still I Rise part 1.  http://www.pbs.org/video/2365889620/

I heard nothing wrong in the speech from this cast, except fear, that you as President, will disregard all that has been accomplished with Race, yet all that Obama, as the first Black President, did to split us apart.  (ie Chicago and all the murders.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/11/19/trump-demands-apology-from-hamilton-after-casts-message-to-pence/

America Has Spoken

Thank you God, for your promises.  Thank you for hearing the cries of Christian America!  Thank you Christians, for listening to some of us, who you did not agree with, who backed Donald J. Trump.  Thank you all for hearing that small voice inside, to restore America, under God Almighty.

I kept emailing, Tweeting, on posting on Facebook, all you in the media, all year.  You did not take a lot in consideration. such as those of us, who are born again Christians.  The evangelical vote went out loud and clear.  We are not a Muslim, Socialist, Communist nation, as Obama, Lynch, Soros, etc.  We did NOT want a One World Order, which is part  of end time prophesies, in  Revelations 6.  NO Republic can stand without borders.  We are  against the MURDER of  un born babies.  Europe, Germany, have trains, infrastructure that makes America look like a 3rd  world nation.  We do NOT want a North American Union.  We do not want Chaplains, facing Court Marshall, for doing  their job, and preaching the gospel of Christ!  We want our Constitution, not the UN dictating our 2nd Amendment, and American LAWS.  Furthermore, we were against this Iranian deal, and WE BACK ISRAEL, and I am presuming Trump also got the Jewish vote. ie. Pastor John Hagee, and Christians United for Israel.  I kept telling you in the  media your polls were wrong.  Well?  I was right.  Prayer…Faith.

This is how a Republic works. Democracy just spoke out against all of Obama-Clinton’s progressive move to not only Socialism but just plain Communism and also Muslim’s replacing America, from our Founders as a Christian nation!  Trump is saved by grace. The media totally eliminated without any thought the huge move of God, throughout all our evangelicals, through a call of prayer in churches NON-denominational, through Social media, as well as Trinity Broadcasting, Daystar Television, SonlilfeTv, GETV, and all our leading evangelists touring America, and some with Donald J. Trump. The media totally missed the point when Trump went to Baton Rouge floods, he was there meeting with Rev. Franklin Graham, and Samaritan’s Purse.  They left Graham out of photos.  And Trump interacted and gave in secret to many who had lost everything. Now, the people spoke! I pray now a return to the America we all knew with prosperity, our debt paid, our electrical grids repaired, our infrastructure upgraded against terrorism, and new foreign policy, to include relations with Israel again; and an end to corruption in Washington. I pray to that we find an end to racial injustices, drugs, and America gets cleaned up.  Thank you Jesus, for listening to us, We the People. I see Trump as King Cyrus, in the Bible…He will restore all that has been destroyed. But we now need to still keep this man in Prayer! Never stop praying for our President, or America! Amen. THANK YOU LORD…There is only one God, too, not Allah, but the I AM, NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES!

I am encouraged, enlightened, with hope, with expectation, of all the great and wonderful things, this man of God, who bungles, with his foot in his mouth at time, just like Peter did. I feel hope now for the first time since Ronald Reagan.   THIS IS WHAT MAKES AMERICA ….THIS IS DEMOCRACY IN ACTION.  THIS IS WHAT PULLED AT MY HEART, AND TORE AT ME, the direction that we were wrongly headed in.   But, the American people have to be educated.   On this blog, I tried to do that for the past 13 years.  The Establishment Clause is on here, so is Ayn Rand, vs. Capitalism  and Socialism (Communism).   I have researched, agonized, and left you the reader, all my lessons, both scriptural and the laws of our Founding Father’s, including the Forgotten War of 1812, with my favorite hero,  James Madison, (and his wife Dolley.)  I thank you all who have followed me.   If I have had any influence on your walk with God, or history, then I give all the glory to God Almighty.   For I am only HIS vessel, and and old one now, at that.  Thank you  Lord for this election, thank you Lord, for using me,  I give you ALL the glory.  It is not by might, but, by  his Glory Lord.    I know in my spirit the compassion that Trump has and how he helps those in secret.  There is a kind, gracious, generous side to this man, that God is using. Thank you Donald J. Trump for listening to that small voice of  God.  THANK YOU AMERICA!   GOD LOVES YOU!

Trump being prayed on by Pastors Copeland, Jeremiah, Paula White. Rabbie Schneider, Robt Jeffress:

https://youtu.be/oujaRBIDuoA

Trump being prayed on by Pastors in Cleveland

https://youtu.be/GV3jUHOHN-0

I tweeted this…posted, everywhere…also check out

www.blackgenocide.com   Margaret Sanger was a

racist.  Population control through abortion  like Hitler.

Worthen Lineage and Ancestry

Worthen’s of Manchester -Goffstown, New Hampshire, USA

http://connect.ancestry.com/Profile/018a08b0-0001-0000-0000-000000000000

The Worthen’s of Manchester, NH & Rev. War Major Ezekiel Worthen dates back to 1641 and England on my father’s side; and we are all registered in DAR in Washington, D.C. The first immigrant ancestor, George Worthen, was born at or near Bristol, England, who died in 1716 at 64. Major Ezekiel Worthen (DAR# A130615), Revolutionary War, (3rd Ezekiel in line after George) The French Indian War, King George’s War and the Siege of Louisburg, was born March 18, 1710, and died in Kensington, NH in 1783. He also served under General John Stark and helped start Roger’s Rangers in 1757. His company of Roger’s Rangers was a part of the Garrison of Ft. William Henry at Lake George, NY. He was 65 when the Revolution broke out, and made Major. He was a member of the Provencial Congress of NH. He was also an engineer. He was married to Abigail Carter who died, then to Hannah Currier, who bore him 4 sons, Samuel,Jacob,Ezekiel,and Enoch. They all fought in the Rev. War, & 3 were Major’s. Through Harold F.Blake’s Kensington records, Enoch was also in the Rev. War, as was his brother, Major Jacob Worthen. It is through this very accomplished man that I am proud to be a DAR member, and past regent of the New Boston, NH (Goffstown) Chapter. The gun he used escaping the Indians in the French Indian War is with Bunker Hill Assoc. and may be seen in that building at the foot of the monument. Records, on file in DAR Washington, DC, copies of births, deaths, divorce, etc. from records at Pine Grove Cemetery,Piscatesqua Cemetery, Manchester, NH and Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Reverand Roland Sawyer’s “History of Kensington” (NH) covering the years from 1663-1944, 282 years; Farmington ME, D.H. Knowlton, UNH Library. Records also from Canada, and from Stackpole’s History of NH, French Indian War 1754-1763, then Captain Worthen, Also on here is German lineage of the Schertels, Schneider’s and Pvt. Thomas Shirley,(DAR# 837104) of NH who also served in the Revolutionary War.

Major Ezekiel Worthen booklet:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7YyojHY_y4AS2NiTFVNOTA0blE/view?usp=sharing

I decided to share some of the old family photos history that I love.. Links on here also of my ancestor who I gave his own site.  One day when God takes me home, besides seeing my son BJ again, I hope to see my Major Ezekiel Worthen.  He did us proud!   On Ancestry, if anyone is a member, are over 305 photos, documents, with Lineage.

With National DAR Writeup of Donation, 2 frames were donated to the Manchester, NH and Goffstown, NH Historical Societies.

All the pins of one of our members..AMAZING!

Revolutionary War Cemetery in Kensington, NH where my ancestor Major Ezekiel Worthen is buried.

Vietnam Wall in Goffstown, NH

Speaking at State Meeting..Also Chairman of Women’s Issues.

Giving a DAR report at State Meeting at Radisson Hotel.

With friend Lili and statue of FDR in Washington DC.

Receiving Proclamation.

Selectmen photo op on Constitution Week.

Guest speakers, one from UNH on conservation.

In Revolutionary costume, speaking at local elementary school.

Librarian, on Veterans day.

Meeting held in my apt when Regent.

Oil Painting I did donated to President George W. Bush after 9/11 through DAR.

Trip to Washington DC, 2004, with then NH (R) Senator John Sununu, Jr.

John & Molly Stark, in costume of course.

Proclamation National DAR to New Boston, NH Chapter 3-22-1911

Photo op, donating a childrens history book to town library.

Witih Goffstown selectmen on Constitution Week.

My Aunt Ima Worthen who left me all the lineage before she died in 82, so I might join the Daughters of the American Revolution. I thank her..It opened an amazing journey to the past.

My Installation as Regent in Goffstown, NH 2007

Worthen Ancestry, donated to both Manchester, NH Historical Society.

Revolutionary War Re-enactment.

My beautiful mother and I ..my 1st marriage.

My wonderful Dad, Elgin Fremont Worthen.

The house I loved so much and grew up in.

 

My Dad I was so proud of, Worthen Lab at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, an electronic engineer.. Still miss you.

Photo in Manchester Union Leader 1948 ..First TV in the State of New Hampshire. My Dad zoomed up from WBZ Boston.

My Gandmother Elizabeth Worthen, my Aunt Ima and my Dad.

My beautiful mother, Elsie Elizabeth Schertel Worthen 1934 before they married.

My mother, me, and Dad Christmas 1939.

My grandfather Elgin Norman Worthen, who died in the 1918 flu epidemic, leaving my grandmother with 3 young children, my Dad, his sisters Ima and Florence. No Social Security or Medicaid back then. My dad was 13 only.

My maternal grandpa Wolfgang Schertel who came to America from Ahouweis Germany and my grandmother from Hoff Germany in 1903 on the Kroonland out of Belgium. My grandmothers maiden name was Marguerite Elizabeth Schneider/nee Schertel.

Edward and Annie S. Schneider Brendle. Annie was my maternal Grandmother’s sister. Two of the Schneider sisters married Brendle brothers.

Children of Annie and Edward. Edward, Madelaine, and Dorothy.

One of my maternal grandmother’s other sister, Lizzie (Elizabeth) married to another Brendle brother.

Dorothy (Dottie) Brendle Cooper, myself, and Madelaine Brendle sisters, Easter 2010. They both died in 2015, exactly 3 mos of each other. I still miss Dot so much.

My mother, Elsie Schertel and Anna Dryer, her brother Wilheim’s wife to be around 1932.

My aunts Florence ,Ima, and my dad as children after their father died. Now I know where I got the love of cats.

The Worthen clan, in 1940’s. Joe Edwish, married Florence’s daughter Eleanor, Virginia, Florence, Eleanor, my grandmother, and Ima..little Donna if front.

A Little Wine?

The Bible says drunkenness is a sin (Galatians 5:21). But is occasional social drinking OK for Christians?

1. Lawrence Burkholder

“Although alcohol is by no means a central scriptural issue, the Bible alludes to its use. The problem emerged in Jewish experience after the conquest of Canaan. The land of Canaan flowed not only with milk and honey but with wine as well. The hills of Judea were ideal for vineyards, and so the Hebrews, whose nomadic past had shielded them, had to come to terms with alcohol as a part of ordinary life. In general, they regarded wine as a gift, and they praised God for it (Psalm 104:14-15), but saw excessive drinking as foolish (Proverbs 20:1).

 

It is fair to say that both total abstinence and moderate use were acceptable to Jesus. Following the parable of the children at play (Matthew 11:16-19, NRSV), Jesus added these words: “For John [the Baptist] came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ ” Clearly, Jesus intended the parable to show what he thought of debates about eating and drinking. They were petty and distracting. They drew attention from the real issues facing the nation.

 

The apostle Paul warns repeatedly against drunkenness. A candidate for the office of deacon must not be addicted to much wine (1 Timothy 3:8). He admonished members of the church at Corinth not to keep fellowship with a member who is a drunkard (1 Corinthians 5:11). But Paul was prepared to accept as brothers and sisters those who drink and those who do not drink. He also spoke favorably of using wine for medicinal purposes (1 Timothy 5:23).

 

The principle governing his attitude appears at the conclusion of a section in 1 Corinthians where Paul addresses himself to varying attitudes toward eating, drinking, and marriage: “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God” (10:31).

But what about current attitudes and practices? Shall we simply extend the biblical advocacy of moderation to our present times? To the contrary, certain scientific, historical, and cultural conditions make personal and corporate decisions regarding drinking more complicated than in antiquity. Attitudes today must be informed by both contextual and theological considerations.

For one thing, a significant difference between alcoholic drinks of the first century and of today has come with the advent of distilled liquors. In New Testament times the main alcoholic substance was wine (sometimes watered as a substitute for plain drinking water). Today, alcoholic drinks can be much more potent. Very often, such substances are not drunk as a beverage for the sake of taste and refreshment but as a highly concentrated drug taken for “the effect.”

 

Alcohol consumption in North America clearly has reached disastrous proportions. Millions of Americans use alcohol as a drug. It is used by many not to “gladden the heart” (Psalm 104), but to escape reality.

 

Alcohol is the depressant of choice for millions who find it difficult to cope with life. Increasingly, youth use alcohol as an alternative to illicit drugs. Yet its total effect is possibly more disastrous than that of hard drugs.

 

Our society has failed to institutionalize drinking in a way that would place it within a healthful setting and define its limits. Many who drink at bars, parties, and even in the home are separated from the positive elements of life. Alcohol has become both a symbol of tragic loneliness and a factor contributing to it.

 

One’s attitudes toward alcohol are seldom objective, even if one tries to be tolerant. One can be sure that a refined, cultured, gentleman from Burgundy is not likely to be an abstainer. And a wife of an alcoholic is not likely to be convinced that any policy of moderation is wise.

Christians who do not commit to a principle of total abstinence should follow a guideline that would represent both discernment and Christian freedom by allowing limited use, now and then, within the context of family, friendship, religious celebration, and diplomatic protocol.

These limits need not imply the strictness of an absolute principle. Still, they should be taken seriously. Such a policy offers the practical advantages of sobriety, the personal advantages of responsible maturity, and the theological advantages of biblical wisdom.”

1. Lawrence Burkholder is president emeritus of Goshen College in Indiana.

 

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/april3/little-wine-for-soul-is-social-drinking-ok.html

Note: Hard liquor, is out. You drink scotch, distilled liquor, bourbon, you are not saved, period! You are in the flesh and still in the world.  When the Rapture comes, which looks like soon, you will not make it to Heaven.  You cannot have the Holy Spirit dwell in you if you have these spirits in you.  Doesn’t work that way. Jesus’ wine was not the wine now with 15% alcohol.  No way. 

Proverbs 20:1 “Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.”

Remember that we are not talking about getting drunk.  We are talking about having a glass (or 2) of wine or beer. If, by drinking a glass of wine, a Christian selfishly causes a weaker Christian (a former addict or one who may have an over proclivity to become one) then the answer is yes.  Don’t guess and don’t go there would be my strong recommendation. Can sometimes have dire consequences.

Romans 14:22-23 “So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.”  http://www.crosswalk.com/church/pastors-or-leadership/is-it-wrong-for-christian-have-drink-alcohol.html

And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household” (Deuteronomy 14:26). The phrase “strong drink” is translated from the word shekar. A Shekar is condemned by Solomon as a “brawler” (Proverbs 20:1). And Isaiah pronounces a woe upon those who “run after strong drink(shekar)” (Isaiah 5:11). Strong drink was also prohibited from the priests (Leviticus 10:9–11) and Nazarites (Numbers 6:2–4; Judges 13:3–5). So how could God so clearly condemn the use of “strong drink” in one place in the Bible, and yet approve of it in another place? Like the word yayin (“wine”), shekar is a generic term that could refer to either an alcoholic beverage, as noted above, or to a sweet, unfermented drink as is indicated in Isaiah 24:9. Shekar is also defined by the The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia as: “Sweet Wine or Syrup. Shechar, luscious, saccharin drink or sweet syrup, especially sugar or honey of dates or of the palm-tree” or “Date or Palm Wine in its fresh and unfermented state.” In fact, “sugar” and “cider” are derivatives from shekar. Therefore, since shekar could mean either a sweet unfermented drink or an intoxicating drink, we must interpret the word according to the context of the verse. Would God encourage the use of tithe money to purchase a beverage that causes intoxication, health problems and diminishing of moral capacities? The only reasonable conclusion is that this verse is referring to the sweet palm-wine beverage in its fresh and unfermented state.

 

Some argue that if Jesus partook of wine at the Last Supper, and even employed it as a symbol of His purifying blood, then how can drinking a little wine—even just casually—be wrong? Indeed, the very seeds of the New Testament were watered with wine from the Last Supper. There is no arguing that Jesus used wine at the Last Supper, but it is a mistake to assume that the wine was of the fermented variety.

“For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom” (Matthew 26:28–29, emphasis mine). Indeed, here Jesus uses the new wine as a symbol of His new covenant with His people. Jesus also calls wine the “fruit of the vine.” However, after wine goes through the process of fermentation, it is no more the fruit of the vine than yogurt is the fruit of a cow.

 

Alcohol: The Bible Hall of Shame
The first reference to wine is found in Genesis when Noah, after the flood, created the original fermented grape juice. “Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent” (Genesis 9:21). The sad record is that Noah drank and stumbled around naked and shamefully exposed himself to his sons. This first experiment with a new drug ended with a scathing curse falling on Noah’s posterity.

Lot also drank, and he was therefore easily seduced into having incestuous relations with his daughters. “So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose” (Genesis 19:33). The offspring of this relationship became the nations of Moab and Ammon, the mortal enemies of God’s people. And there is no shortage of evidence today that alcohol often leads to sexual immorality—such as adultery, rape, and incest.

Then there is the infamous experience when the children of Israel drank alcohol, stripped themselves naked and worshiped a golden calf (Exodus 32:6, 25). This fermented “church social” ended in a horrible massacre.

Amnon, another drinker and the son of David, raped his half-sister Tamar. Because of this incestuous act, he lost his life at the hands of his enraged brother while intoxicated (2 Samuel 13:28).  http://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/book/e/63/t/the-christian-and-alcohol

 

Wherefore it is this writers consensus, that wine, or any liquor has no place

in a Christian’s life.  YOU CANNOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVING INSIDE YOU, IF YOU HAVE FERMENTED SPIRITS THAT CAN CAUSE EVIL.  IT IS FLESH…NOT JESUS.

 

Christians and Addictions:

Christians and Addictions

Donald Trump and the Pharisees

 

INTRODUCTION

I have refrained from writing anything on here during this election campaign, of 2016, purposely, until now.  This had been one of the most dirty elections by the left that I have ever seen in all my 79 years!  Christians, too, or those that call themselves Christians, are afraid to take a stand, not recognizing when God’s hand has been on Donald J Trump.   This article below  by James Patrick Riley, absolutely right on.  I knew I had a problem by author and pastor Max Lucado for some time now, but, couldn’t put my finger on it.  However Riley did just that.  And I thank him.  

The 2015 election was the most important election in America that we ever faced.  Five Supreme Court nominees are at stake here.  Our US Constitution is at stake.  Immigration is at stake, manufacturing is at stake, and our whole freedoms, and way of life, since Obama too, gave away our internet to the UN’s ICANN.  Next the Progressive left (Communists) want the North American Union, and One World Order, which would make our US Constitution and everything our (Christian mostly) Founding Fathers implemented to uphold our freedoms, obsolete.   Christians, I beg you to take a good look within, and not be a Pharisee just because Donald J Trump may be rough around the edges.  Because he is God’s choice.  He didn’t need all this muckraking.  But he IS SAVED.  Saved by grace, as we are ALL SINNERS, saved by grace.   Please read this below…and put your  trust in God, not man.  If God called him, got him saved? THAT IS A MIRACLE. 

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to 

come to the CROSS”….Jesus…and the blood HE shed for all our sins.  But Trump did

just that, and is saved. John 3:3

Immigrants come here from Arab countries, and Hispanics from south of the border. No one assimilates, and no one flies the American flag! Dearborn Michigan, now looks like Beirut, no English across all their store fronts, but all in Asyrian.  They want to push their way into our Congress and abolish borders and our Constitution.  The Hispanics? The same from south of the border.  They come here from dictator countries that are literal hell holes, and are they grateful for their new freedoms? Heck no, they want to instead tear America down, and make us a 3rd world hole like they came out of. And THAT makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  My grandparents came here through Ellis Island in 1903 from Germany. THEY assimilated, worked, bought a house, and flew the American flag. You come here? We want you to appreciate our America and in doing so, you don’t change America, you let America change YOU!  

 

Now for the past year we have been stuck in the Mueller probe which has turned up NOTHING!!  There was no Russian collusion except with the Hillary gang! But, GOD is still in charge.  This President has kept his word, been transparent, yes, on Twitter, which we Trumpers love.  And look what he has accomplished only in 1 year, a meeting with N. Korea, the Tax cut, a conservative Supreme Court Justice, with a 2nd on its way.  And through it all he has taken the unnerving insults from Hollywood and the left media that has been unprecedented, while Obama with his OFA and Soros with his OSA, keep the protests going!   Thank you Jesus.  And may I say this too? We, Christians evangelicals who are part of this Presidents base, on Daystar tv, on Trinity Broadcasting tv, the huge Mega churches throughout America, are not all WHITE evangelicals, we are diversified.  White, Black, Hispanic, and oriental too…All Evangelicals that will elect Donald J. Trump again in 2020.  We stand for God’s values, not a country of Communist’s and Satan’s One World Order, nor open borders. But a nation under God, not a nation as Sodom and Gomorrah.  

“If my people who call out my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, then I will heal their land.” Amen

DOMINION, POLITICS 

BY JAMES PATRICK RILEY http://media.jamespatrickriley.com/index.php/religious-spirit/

AUGUST 11, 2016 JAMES RILEY LEAVE A COMMENT

When you finally come to the conclusion there is a God, you’re likely to try to attempt to please Him.

Max Lucado, Pharisee

And this is where it can get dangerous.  You might be on your way to the sanctuary for worship, and you see a man curled up by the side of the road, bloody and beaten by robbers.  Something tells you the man needs your help (that’s God talking to you), but you are wearing your Sunday best, and you’re not trained as a first responder, and you’ve been given the honor of opening today’s meeting in prayer, and, besides, this guy is probably a drug addict and you have little children you’re responsible for — so you hurry on to church and you prove that you have the spirit of the Pharisee — that weird inclination to ignore what Jesus called “the weightier matters of the law.”

The #NeverTrump movement is defined by this Pharisee spirit.  It is chock full of it.  Texas pastor Max Lucado is a great example.  Max leads what he calls a “red state” church, but Max has a maxim:  ”I don’t want anybody to know how I vote.”  Max does this to make sure the Democratic voters in his church, the ones who support abortion on demand, Islamo-pandering, and class warfare are not made to feel uncomfortable.   However, Max recently broke his neutrality pledge when Donald Trump called a bimbo a bimbo. According to Max:

I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never — I would never have said anything if he didn’t call himself a Christian. It’d be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled … that here’s a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady “bimbo” the next.

Think on that for a moment. Max closes his eyes to another “Christian,” Barack Obama, who stands foursquare for the slaughter of millions of unborn babies, at your expense, but Donald Trump called a lady a “bimbo?”  Intolerable!  Unthinkable!  Impolite! Time to engage the Pharisee warp engines.

Donald is a blunt customer, but it looks like he does have a heart. When asked about abortion, Trump related a story close to home. He said that he knew of a pregnancy that was going to be terminated.  ”That child today,” Donald continued,  ”is a total superstar. It is a  great great child.”

When Donald Trump picked the most pro-life running mate in history to be his partner in the quest for the presidency, Governor Mike Pence, he backed up that claim.  He made good on his conversion to the life issue, and, in so doing, he proved to be the opposite of the Pharisee spirit — a man who cares about the “weightier matters of the law.”  Max Lucado may value political fence-sitting in church, a pleasant smile, and a polite manners, but Donald Trump risked the wrath of a baby-killing culture, and even repudiated his own past, by embracing the politics of life.

Who is the real Christian here?  The one who acts like it, or the one who puts on a polite show of neutrality?

Another of my Pharisee correspondents on Facebook wrote this about Donald Trump:

“If you are unconvinced that a foul mouthed, arrogant, strip club and casino owning, philanderer who boasts about being able to shoot people in the streets without losing voters, is immoral then I’m not really sure where to go with this conversation.”

Yet another invoked scripture in his rejection of Trump:

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”

I’ve been around church people all of my life.  Even at Stanford, where humanism was the prevailing denomination, I can tell you the religious spirit — whether it is lamenting “gambling” or shaming someone who didn’t recycle his bottle of Pepsi — brings out the worst side of human nature, and it brings ignorance into high relief.

Let’s take a few of these, one by one, starting with wagering.  The Bible, folks, doesn’t say much about gambling.  Our pious ancestors in New England used lotteries to build churches.  If your only objection to Donald Trump rests in casino ownership, you really would feel right at home with the Christ-killing band because you have imbibed legalism as doctrine.

Foul mouthed?  I’m guessing you haven’t read scripture with any real scrutiny, because when God gets angry, He doesn’t hold back.  His prophets call harlots harlots.  His Son called religious hypocrites, “white washed tombs full of dead men’s bones.” “Vipers.”  ”Sons of the Devil.” But even if you value a polite tongue, and that’s your virtue, don’t begin comparing that virtue to being courageous in the face of Islamic jihad.  I will take a foul mouth defender of life over a church-sitting coward any day.

Arrogant?  I always get a kick out of people who spend all day in some corner of the bureaucracy, who never need to make a sale, who never need to appear confident, because they get paid every day, whether they do anything useful or not.  Donald has to convince people a skyscraper is worth building, folks.  You are mistaking confidence, faith even, for arrogance, because you’ve never had to really make a sale.  Try it sometime, and see if you can do it without boosting your confidence and risking looking a little “arrogant.”

Strip clubs and philandering. I won’t make any defense for that, but I would ask you to look to yourselves.  Do you buy television cable services from a company that also offers pornography?  Do you stay in hotels with adult content on their television screens?  Is your stock portfolio scrubbed clean of anyone who profits from soft porn? What’s in your wallet and where are you spending it?  The press has been watching Donald pretty closely now for 18 months.  Have you seen any philandering stories?  I haven’t.

And I would ask you to look to your Bibles again. God uses some pretty gritty characters to work His glorious and sovereign will. Jacob was a trickster who lied to his father. Abraham had wives and concubines.  Samson kept a harlot.  Solomon had hundreds of concubines.  Peter betrayed Christ.  Saul of Tarsus, was a murderous wretch.

You actually know all about that, but when you see a flawed man, in the flesh, you act just like a stoning torch mob, and you won’t even admit it.

Jesus knew all about this dismissive, self-righteous character of ours.  He knew our nature.  He knew there’s a Pharisee spirit in us that takes pride in being faithful to our wives, even as our horn-dog spirit wrestles with Donald Trump’s beauty pageants.  Are we righteous, or just jealous?  When the harlot adorns Jesus’ feet with precious ointment, are we accusing or praising God for forgiveness?

Donald Trump is more righteous than you think.  He wants to protect you from Islamic zealots.  He wants to protect your right to defend your families with firearms.  He even wants to exempt your pulpits from IRS tyranny.   He wants to end the death tax, so you can pass on your farms and your family business to your children.  He wants to lower your taxes.  He wants to protect the lives of unborn children and appoint Constitutional judges.

But you all don’t like his style.

Your priorities are all mixed up, just like the people who killed Christ.

END

America’s Shame

The liberal news media is off the wall. For these dire times…now churches leaving the Cross, the blood, joining with Islam in sheer blasphemy. Like so many before who lied about Christ, so through this Muslim Communist President do we need to STAND as Rev. Franklin Graham refuted and adamantly spoke out against this week. There is only ONE God who will through grace usher you into eternal life. Jesus is the I AM! Name above all names.

I re-published posts this  week, not that it does that much good, for no one reads anymore. I’ve been disheartened. We are in dire horrific times. I can think back and remember as a child after WWII, and all the black and white newsreels, remember as a German the shame, with the Nazi Party in Madison Square Garden, remember the cold war, remember Manson, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Watergate, Vietnam, to 9/11. But never before in this Globalism mentality did I ever see America being destroyed until this President in the White House now. Even Nixon wasn’t like this. And we still had respect in the world.

Once. we still were a country to be looked up to. We have enemies all around us. And this week, I went back to where it began when I first got saved in 82. The Cross. God bless all of you. We all need to pray unending. The world is a mess…the end times are upon us. All you who are “globalist” only are siding with Satan himself. You in the media have joined with Satan, and are contributing to making all the old time prophesies God gave to the Jews in Ezekiel 38, 39, Joel 2 and Matthew 24 come alive. This Pope too, is doing Satan’s work, a Socialist Globalist. But, we as Evangelicals who fight, won’t join the enemy, and neither should practicing Jews, for the Messiah is coming soon…the world stage is set, so we shall STAND! If the Government shall come upon us, as the enemy, so they did with the Romans in Jesus time, and so they did with blatant lies during Hitler and the Holocaust.

YOU in the media, are blinded by Political Correctness, and possibly threats, or you have been outright bought by the enemy. But you have all had a hand in this giving Muslims, this White House, and George Soros,  the power in America. THIS was and is a Judeo CHRISTIAN nation. You don’t even know the history of the Ottoman Period, and Islams quest to take over all of Western Civilization. Instead, you just follow this misguided ideological President. We do not operate by sharia law. But as a Republic with our US Constitution.

Israel too, has been hit with terrorists, our supposed ally, except you’d hardly know it from the alienation from this White House who favors Muslims and terrorist countries, pouring money in  enemy territories.  Here is Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest video and his site.  However, he said this on Facebook  (translation):

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered today that the amount of money transferred by” the Palestinian Authority to terrorists and their families be deducted immediately; this is in addition to action on the ground by the IDF and the security forces.

The Palestinian Authority transfers funds to terrorists by various laundering methods; the more severe the acts of terrorism, the greater the amount of funds. Prime Minister Netanyahu has ordered that the entire amount of support for terrorists and their families be deducted from the tax revenues that Israel transfers monthly to the Palestinian Authority.

Israel believes that the encouragement of terrorism by the Palestinian leadership – in the form  of both incitement and payments to terrorists and their families – constitutes incentive for murder. In addition to the actions of the army and security forces ” to parent field, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel ţqzz immediately the full amount of the Palestinian transferring terrorists and their families.

 https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNetanyahu%2Fvideos%2Fvb.268108602075%2F10153748343837076%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=0&width=560

 

Meanwhile George Soros, who I guess lost a few billion speculating over the UK exiting the EU, now is predicting other countries will follow.  The EU is the 10 horns in Revelations.  So would other countries leaving the EU prolong God’s plan in Revelations?  Right now it is 13 countries,  and with the UK dropping out, brings it to 12.  But, when there are only 10 that would usher in the Anti-Christ.  Now, in this article Soros is predicting the whole collapse of the European Union.  http://freedomoutpost.com/soros-plots-european-order-coup-eu-will-disintegrate-rise-again-under-new-marshall-plan/

On the other hand, with all the evil, I am thankful to say, that through James Dobson, Focus on the Family, Donald J. Trump received Jesus as his Lord and Savior, led by evangelist Beth Moore, and is saved!  Alleluia!  And he has promised to fight for persecuted Christians.  There is also a Revival that is going beyond 8 weeks in North Carolina, while at the same time, blasphemous churches are joining Islam.  Good vs evil.  All around us!

http://shoebat.com/2015/05/25/donald-trump-just-gave-this-message-to-all-christians-the-christians-are-being-treated-horribly-because-we-have-nobody-to-represent-the-christians-believe-me-if-i-run-and-i-win-i-will-be-the-gre/

We have only one thing we can do to rebuild America, and eliminate all that this Administration has done to destroy us, along with his friend Soros.  That is RISE UP IN HONOR FOR JESUS, AND VOTE IN THIS ELECTION, WHEREBY, WE STAND A CHANCE OF TAKING BACK AMERICA THE WAY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DESIGNED IT.   We are looked at right now around the world with such disdain.  Obama has caused us shame.  There are books out this week, one by one of the survivors of Benghazi, and another by a now retired Secret Serviceman, on the Obama’s in the White House.  This has been such an evil time in America’s history.  There is only one place to go to get our hearts right, and clarify the truths, the Cross.

All you churches now siding with Islam? All you who think you can do everything in the “world” and still be saved? NO SUCH THING! I’ve said for years, once saved is not always saved. Revelations too says “I’d rather ye be cold or hot, but if your lukewarm, I will spew thee out of my mouth! ” Spit up…throw out.. YOU LOSE YOUR SALVATION!  ONCE SAVED IS NOT ALWAYS SAVED.    https://youtu.be/3FE6ty6angA

http://www.churchleaders.com/daily-buzz/281852-franklin-graham-evangelicals-trump.html

THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS, and all these liberal churches. HOLINESS begins at the CROSS! And the blood JESUS shed at that CROSS. From A. W. Tozer…AND THAT IS WHAT IS WRONG TODAY…THAT IS WHY NO REVIVAL, THAT IS WHY EVERYONE IS STILL IN SELF.  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/the-old-cross-and-the-new-2/

WITH ALL THE ENEMIES ALL AROUND US AT HOME AND ABROAD, THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE WHERE WE SHOULD BE…THE CROSS.   For I am tugged at in my heart, when no one reads, wanting to stop writing and weary.  But, the article below says of enemies:  ” My friends have been many and loyal, and faithful to stand with me in many hours of trial and need.  They have been strength in my weaknesses, added joy to my heart in time of sorrow, and have girded up my faith amidst raging doubts.  They have brought me before the throne of GRACE innumerable times in their seasons of prayer.  I could not have continued long in this spiritual conflict without these wonderful friends.”   So thank all of you who do read what God gives me. For I am only HIS vessel.  Each one of us, no matter how insignificant we think we are, are a vehicle for God to use, to get America back to God Almighty!  Be blessed.                      https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/my-beloved-enemy/

THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL PROPHECY CONCERNING DONALD J. TRUMP AND I PRAY YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TOO, IS A  CALL FOR REPENTANCE FOR US AS A NATION!

The Catholic Church vs the Jewish Church of Jesus

First, Jesus said in Matthew 24:5 “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many.  6. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars; see that ye be not troubled:  for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  7. For nation shall rise against nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom (NOW); and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.  8. All these things are the beginning of sorrows.  9. Then shall they deliver you up  to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name sake.  (Now with our politically correct Socialist Government, bending over for Muslims not to offend, while we as Evangelical Christians, are losing all our rights.)  THIS is sorrows with the One World Order looming over us, and this One World religion melding ALL religions into one, which will lead to the taking the mark of the beast, the 666.  It is here folks.

First, Jesus was not a Catholic, neither was Apostle Paul, Peter, Timothy, James, or John. They were all Jews.  Jesus was Rabbi in the Jewish Tabernacle.  In my previous post, Timeline of the Church shows that the Catholic church didn’t start for a long time after Jesus crucifixion.  Israel then, had been taken over by the Turks, and others, before Roman rule.  The Roman soldiers were brutal, and brutal later during the bloody Crusades in 1095 to 1295.  It was a bloodbath, to “make” everyone join the Catholic denomination under Roman, strong arm rule, money, and Roman soldiers.  Jesus, a Jew, never EVER intended to start a Catholic church, or Protestant for that matter.  He was a Jew.  It wasn’t until Apostle Paul starting traveling to Turkey, and Greece, etc., that the gentiles were witnessed to.  During the time of the two queens, of England, Elizabeth, and her half sister Mary Queen of Scots, it was another continued bloodbath. Scotland wanted freedom from the Catholic Church.  The Catholic church ran kingdoms then behind the scenes and stole more money and were so crooked.  This was during the 1500’s.

I started watching Reign on tv, and the early years of Mary Queen of Scots, while she was married to young King Frances of France, and lived under their protection. The Catholic church was conniving, and controlling everything, including who married who, although it was perfectly alright that Kings have mistresses.  How would you ladies like to have a roomful of Catholics standing around watching on your first night of married life, to make sure the marriage was properly consummated?  I’d read Mary Queen of Scots in my 30’s, but I was too young for it to make much of an impression on me.  That poor woman spent 20 years as a prisoner in the English tower, framed, before her half sister had her head chopped off, due to the trumped up charges of the Catholic Bishops who were skimming the Kingdom.  They were as brutal as any Muslim we have seen today.  And THAT is not JESUS, God the Father, or God the Holy Ghost!

God is love…as Martin Luther found out in 1537, as a monk in an abbey unable by works to find salvation, agonizing for over 25 or more years…when by grace and love of God he received it freely, without cost..,without condemnation  (ie Romans 8:1).  For all he had to do was ask. And the reformation was begun with the onset of the Lutheran Church.  A church who obviously doesn’t remember all Martin went through in suffering.  For the Lutheran and Methodist churches have signed on in 1948 the formation of the World Council of Churches.  And THAT was the beginning of what is now going to be the New World Order!!  Which was all signed sealed and delivered in 1999 of the Joint Justification by Lutheran and Roman Catholic Churches. This was when George W. Bush, a Methodist was President, who attends as his father and Kissinger, the Bilderberg secret summits, this year in Germany.

The Catholic church stole what was a Jewish religion, and its been for slaughter, war, and money ever since.  Our Protestant, Evangelicals do not teach the fake, but on the whole, we teach the Jewish Jesus.  Peter was never in Rome, so how could this Jewish man be claimed as Rome’s first Bishop?  Christ did call him the “rock” upon which Christ Church would be built, but, they were all Jews. And the Catholic Church for centuries blamed the Jews for Jesus death, when they were in fact under Roman rule, and about 200 Roman soldiers nailed him to that Cross.  Such blasphemy.   Jesus apostles gained converts later in JEWISH COMMUNITIES around the Mediterranean Sea, and other Gentile Christian communities were established by 100 AD.  Although most of theses were in the Roman Empire, notable Christian communities were established in Armenia, Iran, and along the Indian Malabar Coast.

At first Christians continued to worship ALONGSIDE JEWISH BELIEVERS, which historians refer to as JEWISH CHRISTIANITY, but within twenty years of Jesus’s death, Sunday was being regarded as the primary day of worship.  As preachers such as Paul of Tarsus (Apostle Paul) began converting Gentiles, Christianity began growing away from Judaism.  Around the year 50 AD the apostles convened the First Church council, the Council of JERUSALEM!  (Not a Catholic Church). This council affirmed that Gentiles could become Christians (Jews) without adopting all of the Mosaic law!  Growing tensions soon led to a starker separation that was complete by the time Christians refused to join in the Bara Kokhba Jewish revolt of 132 AD, although some retained elements of Jewish practice.

The Catholic teaching from proto-orthodox teachers like Ignatius of Antioch and Irenaeus defined Catholic teaching in stark opposition to other things, such as Gnosticism.  In the first few centuries of its existence, “the Church” was forming its teachings and traditions into a systematic whole under the influence of theological apologists such as Pope Clement I, and St Augustine of Hippo.  Remember too, that Paganism was flourishing back then even after the 1600’s and now even, with the New Age Movement.

By the time Constantine became emperor of the Western Roman Empire in 312, he attributed his victory to the Christian God.  His army being his base of power, no different than the Roman rule during Jesus death.  It was through Constantine, that soldiers chopped off heads, and warred with the poor masses, to force them into this mainstream version, eliminating sects. Remember too, it was still about money, and taxing the poor, while the church got rich as the Vatican still is today.  More councils, more divides, more warring continued for centuries, until the fall finally of the Western Roman Empire in 476, and the Catholic faith came into being, competed with Arianism (Muslims then even) for the conversion of the barbarian tribes. The 496 Conversion of Clovis I, pagan king of the Franks, saw the beginning of a steady rise of the faith in the West.  The first Pope was Gregory not Peter, and not until 560 AD.

In 530 St Benedict wrote his Rule of St Benedict as a practical guide for manastic community life. More took place and followed.   http://www.bible.ca/cath-peter=pope.htm

“Among the above titles is the bold assertion that the Pope is the “Vicar of Christ.” A “vicar” is “One serving as a substitute or agent; one authorized to perform the functions of another in higher office.” (Webster). When one searches the Bible from cover to cover, he finds only one passage which gives an indication of a vicar of Christ or God. It is 2 Thes. 2:3-4; it is worded as follows:”

“Let no one deceive you in any way, for the day of the Lord will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and is exalted above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits in the temple of God and gives himself out as if he were God.”

“One of the greatest arguments against the primacy of Peter is the fact that the apostles had an argument among themselves as to which of them should be the greatest. Notice the following:

“Now there arose a dispute among them, which of them was reputed to be the greatest. But he said to them, ‘The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and they who exercise authority over them are called Benefactors. But not so with you. On the contrary, let him who is greatest among you become as the youngest, and him who is chief as the servant.'” (Luke 22:24-26).

The very fact that the apostles had an argument among themselves shows they did not understand that Peter was to be prince. Also, the occasion of the argument was the night of the betrayal–the last night of the Lord’s earthly ministry–and yet the apostles still did not understand that Christ had given Peter a position of primacy. The Lord settled the argument, not by stating that He had already made Peter head, but by declaring that the Gentiles have their heads, “But not so with you.” Thus, Jesus very plainly taught that no one would occupy any such place as a Benefactor (or Pope) to exercise authority over the others. “

“THE CHURCH” Catholic, had been in contention from the time they stole Christianity from the Jewish Christians, and why they lied about Jesus death, blaming Jews, why they are now standing up for Muslims, Palestine, backed Obama with this Iranian deal, and are Anti-Semitic, and allowing it to catch fire all throughout Europe.  THIS folks, is the New Socialist One World Order and One World Religious Order.  Gays are ok, Trangender bathrooms are ok, Muslims are ok, and should be taken in,  abortion is ok, sin is even ok, if you don’t get caught.  Everything is ok with Obama and Pope Francis, except Israel and the Jews, and us that are Evangelical Christians, and worship and acknowledge the Jewish Jesus!  Those of us who STAND for Israel, and want American values back.  Those of us who want the sale of  American land, businesses and even water to the Saudis and China, who we owe 20 trillion dollars to.  So Obama you don’t speak for me.  I’m not nor never have been a Catholic. My ancestors did not butcher other Christians in Crusades.  My German mother was a Lutheran as her mother when she came from Hoff Germany in 1903.

Get ready for American churches have been sleeping.  Happy Clappy churches that have become so mega big, you must wake up too, and teach what is coming!  The sheep are not ready…they will be driven off the cliff.  They don’t know how to Stand..They don’t know their Bible.  They will take the 666, which could be computer chip. The technology is already here!  Dear Lord, I ask that you awaken your people both the Jewish people in Israel and our American Christians, that do love you and serve you, but just lack the knowledge.  Thank you God for what you agonize me with and put on my heart and birth inside me, for I am your humble servant and give you all the glory and honor.  Give your people wisdom in these last days, and teach them.  We MUST be ready.  So much is happening so fast.  I glory in your presence oh Lord, and ask you too, to protect Donald J Trump, his wife, and family and Trump Towers, during this election.  He too is just your servant, as I’m sure he knows by now what he’s up against.  We have much to do, Lord, and we cannot be slack.  Lead us..show us, enlighten us and glorify us Lord God…I plead with you to touch your people and send your Holy Spirit on America and Israel.  Thank you Lord Jesus. The Messiah is coming! Amen.

http://www.bible.ca/cath-peter=pope.htm

https://en.wikiipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Catholic_Church

Church in Italy has to pray in silence so as not to offend                                                                  http://allenwestrepublic.com/2016/06/08/allen-west-what-christians-are-now-being-forced-to-do-in-churches-makes-my-blood-boil/  

https://www.elca.org/Faith/ELCA-Teaching/Luther-and-Lutheranism

 

 

 

Timeline of Church

 

From Christianity in View –  http://Christianityinview.com/timeline.html 

 

TIMELINE OF CHURCH
From Christianity in View –  http://Christianityinview.com/timeline.html 

c.2100 BC	Calling of Abraham – the Father of the Jewish nation, calling him from Canaan, by the Euphrates and Tigress rivers in UR, Iraq. Genesis 12, 13.
c.2000 BC	Birth of Jacob, later to be called Israel. The twelve tribes of Israel are named after Jacob’s sons.
c.1900 BC	Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt. Israelites eventually become captives in the land.
c.1446 or 1290 BC	The Exodus begins. Led by Moses, the Israelites leave Egypt and eventually settle in Canaan.
c.1010 BC	David becomes king of Israel, making Jerusalem his capital.
c.970 BC	David’s son Solomon becomes king. He later builds a temple in Jerusalem to honour God.
c.930 BC	Following Solomon’s death, the Kingdom is divided into two sections: Northern (Israel) and Southern (Judah).
753 BC	Traditional date for the founding of Rome.
722 BC	Fall of the kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians.
612 BC	Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, falls to the Babylonians.
586 BC	Babylonians take Jerusalem and destroy Solomon’s temple. Jewish nation is taken into captivity in Babylon (the exile).
c.538 BC	Return of some of the exiles. Start of reconstruction of the temple.
c.512 BC	Completion of the temple.
c.330 BC	Conquest by Alexander the Great. Rise of Hellenism (Greek culture).
c.250 BC	Work begins to translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek. This is known as the Septuagint or LXX.
63 BC	Roman rule of Israel begins.
c.4 BC	Birth of Jesus Christ, in Bethlehem.
c.30 AD	Death of Jesus Christ.
c.33	Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2). Sometimes known as the Birthday of the Church.
c.33	Stephen – First Christian martyr (Acts 7).
c.48	Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15). Gentile Christians accepted alongside those in the Jewish tradition.
c.60	First Gospel published (often thought to be that written by Mark).
62	Martyrdom of James, “The Lord’s Brother”.
c.67-68	Apostles Peter and Paul* martyred in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero.
70	Jewish rebellion against the Roman empire ends. Destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.
From 70	Centre of Christianity moves to Antioch, Alexandria and Rome.
c.90	Book of Revelation and Gospel of Saint John written.
161-80	Widespread persecution of Christians under Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. (Severe persecutions also occurred under the emperors Decius (249-251) and Diocletian (284-305)).
301	Armenia becomes the world’s first country to officially adopt Christianity as the state religion.
312	Roman emperor Constantine receives a vision of a flaming cross with the words ‘In hoc signo vinces’ : ‘By this sign conquer’. Defeats rival Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge.
313	Edict of Milan issued by Constantine – Christianity becomes a legal religion within the Roman empire.
325	Constantine calls the first ecumenical council at Nicea. Arian heresy which declared Christ was a created being is refuted. Nicene Creed is drawn up, declaring Christ to be “…Begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father…”
367	Saint Athanasius is the first to list all 27 New Testament books in his festal letter.
381	Ecumenical Council at Constantinople revises the Nicene creed to its current form.
c.382	Saint Jerome begins a translation of the Bible into Latin.
397	Synod at Carthage ratifies the 27 books of the New Testament as sacred scripture.
431	Ecumenical council held at Ephesus refutes Nestorianism. (The doctrine that Christ was two persons (one human, the other divine) in one body). Mary is declared Theotokos   i.e. ‘God-bearer’ or more commonly, ‘Mother of God’.
449	At Ephesus, Pope Leo I delivers his ‘Tome’, defending orthodox Christian belief. Leo also asserts Papal supremacy.
451	Ecumenical council at Chalcedon affirms Christ as having two distinct natures united in one person (known as the ‘Hypostatic Union’).
553	Ecumenical council at Constantinople affirms teaching of previous councils.
563	Columba establishes a monastery at Iona.
589	Insertion of the filioque  (Latin: ‘and the son’) into the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed at a council in Toledo.
597	Following a mission authorised by Pope Gregory I, St. Augustine becomes the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
664	Synod of Whitby ratifies the authority of the Pope in England.
680-81	Ecumenical council at Constantinople rejects Monothelite heresy of one will in Christ.
731	Bede writes his Ecclesiastical History.
787	Ecumenical council at Nicea ends the controversy over the use of icons in worship.
800	Charlemagne is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III.
988	Conversion of Prince Vladimir in Kiev. Growth of Christianity in Russia.
1054	Great Schism – Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic churches separate.
1095	Pope Urban II authorises the first Crusade to recover the Holy Land from Moslems.
1099	Crusaders conquer Jerusalem.
1182	Massacre of Latin inhabitants of Constantinople.
1187	Jerusalem recaptured by a Moslem army led by Saladin.
1189	Third Crusade led by Richard the Lionheart of England.
1204	Sack of Constantinople during the fourth crusade.
1216/23	Papal approval of the Dominican and Franciscan mendicant (‘begging’) orders.
1266-73	Thomas Aquinas writes his great work of systematic Theology: Summa Theologiae.
1305	Papacy moved to Avignon following a dispute with Philip IV of France.
c.1341	Defence of Orthodox spirituality by Gregory Palamas. Rise of Hesychasm.
c.1376	John Wycliffe writes ‘Civil Dominion’, arguing for reform of the church.
1378	Following the return of the Papacy to Rome, rival claimants (Antipopes) emerge. Dispute ends in 1417 with election of Martin V.
c.1380	John Wycliffe translates the Bible into Middle English.
1453	Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks.
1517	Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in Wittenburg, Germany; beginning the Protestant reformation.
1521	Diet of Worms – Luther’s final breach with the Catholic church.
1525	William Tyndale completes his translation of the Bible into English.
1534	Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuits.
1534	Act of Supremacy passed – Henry VIII becomes supreme head of the English church.
1536	John Calvin publishes his Institutes of the Christian Religion.
1545-63	Council of Trent – Roman Catholic counter reformation.
1549	Thomas Cranmer publishes the Book of Common Prayer  in England (later revised in 1662).
1555	Peace of Augsburg ends religious wars in Germany.
1611	Publication of the King James Version of the Bible.
1618-48	Protestant/Catholic conflict in Germany (Thirty Years War).
1730-60	The ‘Great Awakening’ – A revival movement among Protestants in the USA.
1738	John and Charles Wesley converted. They lead an Evangelical revival in England and form the Methodist church.
1854	Dogma of the Immaculate conception of Mary proclaimed by the Roman Catholic church.
1870-1	First Vatican council. Dogma of Papal infallibility proclaimed.
1906	Azusa street revival in Los Angeles. Beginnings of the Pentecostal movement.
1910	World mission conference held in Edinburgh.
1918	Billy Graham born. Later becomes one of the most prominent evangelists in Christian history.
1948	Formation of the World Council of Churches.
1950	Dogma of the Assumption of Mary proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church.
1962-5	Second Vatican council. Major reforms in the Roman Catholic church are initiated. Mutual anathemas of 1054 between Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches lifted.
1997	Death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta – founder of the ‘Missionaries of Charity’.
1999	Signing of the Joint Declaration on Justification by the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Churches.
2005	Death of Pope John Paul II, who is succeeded by Pope Benedict XVI.
2006	World Methodist Council adopts the Lutheran/Catholic Joint Declaration on Justification.
2011	Beatification of Pope John Paul II.
2013	Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, who is succeeded by Pope Francis.

 

 

 

One World Order and Mystery Babylon

Who is Mystery Babylon?

Revelations 13 talks about the Antichrist coming out of the beast with 7 heads and 10 horns.  “And upon his horns, 10 crowns.” Represents the seven empires that have greatly persecuted Israel in the past.  One being the Roman empire who ruled Israel when Herod and Caiaphas the High Priest, crucified Jesus. Matthew 26:62-63  Remember that Jesus was a Rabbi and a Jew.  And he mocked Jesus at his trial, asking, “tell us whether you be the Living God, that you tell us whether You be the Christ, the Son of God.” In verse 64 Jesus affirms he is, with “I am” also in Mark 14:62.  Then the High Priest Caiaphas, ripped his clothes and spoke blasphemy.  Jesus was then sent to Pilate.  Remember too, that all of Israel and Jerusalem was under Roman rule.  While Jesus attended the Temple, then, it was Herod that appointed the priests.  Matthew 27:27

It was the Roman soldiers of the governor (about 200) who stripped him, crowned him with thorns on his head, bowed mockingly, laughing.  (At the Great White Throne Judgment these same soldiers, will once again stand before Christ, and once again bow, but this time it will not be in mocking.) Expositors Study Bible

In Revelations 16 the 7 Angels begin opening the vials.  By the 4^th vial it reveals Global warming PLUS!  The vial gets poured upon the sun.  (To that which is totally beyond the scope of man.) “And power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.”  (Adds to the “boils” and as well, exacerbates the problem of the water shortages now throughout the world, Africa, Iran, Iraq, even Arabia, then here California are all drying up, so that there is no water under the earth to even drill for water. )

There will be the Chinese Army and Russian Army the Bear…as well as the UK, the Lion, all going to be embroiled in WWIII, Armageddon.  Revelation 16:16 refers to the Chinese Army.  (This refers to a literal place where a literal battle will be fought.  It is the Mount of Megiddo overlooking the plain of Megiddo west of the Mount, and apparently including the Plain of Esdraelon, i.e. Valley of Megiddo.)  Expositors Study Bible.  Revelation 17:3-5 speaks of another angel fallen.  There will be hail…which is the last thing God will do, and it will be worse than Sodom and Gomorrah.  Says, Babylon came; reveals all Gods wrath.

Remember there are two Babylon’s.  The original was destroyed in Jeremiah, with King Nebuchadnezzar.  This was totally destroyed in Jeremiah chapter 50.  God punished the King of Babylon, and it would never be inhabited again.  There was an article by the late Peter Jennings UPI, about Saddam Hussein in 1989, who imagined he was reincarnated from King Nebuchadnezzar, and actually started rebuilding Babylon, (the first) as it is located in Southern Iraq near Kuwait.  The ruins still exist, which once consisted of fountains, and beautiful hanging gardens, now all dessert and dust.  THAT Babylon is not what is referred to in Revelations.

John saw a woman on a beast in purple and reds with jewels, which is the mystery Babylon the Great to occur in our lifetime.  It will consist of a One World Religion: Union of politics and religion, which is where the Antichrist will come from 3 ½ years prior to Armageddon.  The prophesies in Revelations 13, also, 17 & 18.  The Great Whore. Who is it? Some have said it is America.  But the woman is referred to in purple and reds.  The world government has already been established through the UN.  Fascists from WWII who want sovereignty against us.  The false prophet arises with a World Religion.  ONE RELIGION…and we who are born again, cannot partake, for the 666 (chip?) of bartering and no cash is almost upon us.  The goal of the One World Religion is to support the One World Order.  America?  THAT is the end of the US dollar, and Constitution! Nor any state authority; i.e. even guns which Obama is already trying to have the UN rule on to take away from Americans, as one Federal Judge even ruled yesterday, that a man could not carry a concealed weapon.  It is all practically here!

Who is Mystery Babylon?  He, the Harlot is this World Wide Church;  it’s Religious System, dressed in scarlet and red are the Cardinals of the Catholic church, symbolic of the church, who slaughtered Jesus along with the rule of the whole Roman Empire.  Prior to the Rapture, God will PLEA TO BOTH PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS to pull out of this entity and One World System.  God is PLEADING, while at the same time we will have REVIVAL, greater than any other time in history!  Revelations 17 and 18 is a prophesy of Gods judgment!  Rome is Mystery Babylon.  Yet some would say there is no seaport, i.e. like NY.  States that shipmasters will stand and watch.  Rome though is right by the Tiber River and also 15 miles from the  Tyrrhenian Sea.  Yet the Antichrist could still be a Muslim, since the Pope is making all these peace gestures towards Muslims, excluding the Jews.  ( The “great whore” refers to ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD that ever have been, which are devised by men as a substitute for Jesus Christ and HIM Crucified; God’s way is Christ IN HIM CRUCIFIED ALONE; as well the “many waters” are a symbol for multitudes of people. Rev 17:15 The great whore i.e. all types of religions ..devised by men..Islam, Catholics who added,and took away from the Bible,  and worship statues, Mary, false Gods and added to the Bible, ignoring the Old Testament…all religions from the beginning, including cults of today from Mormanism, Scientolgy etc.)  Exp Study Bible.

The timeline to watch for?  Remember with the 7 trumpets?  5 already happened since 1914 so this has been ongoing for the past 100 years.  Watch for the remaining two. Watch for the preemptive peace agreement with Israel and Palestine, in Mid East prior to WWIII, or Armageddon.  Watch for the temple to be rebuilt during all this in Jerusalem, and the animal sacrifices to resume, as the Old Testament.  For in the middle of all this, the Antichrist claims to BE GOD and stops the sacrifices.  That is when he is revealed with the One World Government and we cannot join!  We will be OUTSIDE looking on.  As God says, come out my people! Then the 2^nd coming before the war begins.

Remember too, there are cockeyed moves in Christian churches all across the United States.  A move called Chrislam has started, supposedly involving evangelist Rick Warren, which he has denied in various articles.  Also there is a move to help Muslims build Mosques by the Southern Baptist Convention.  The Pope also wants to integrate Muslims and Christians, is against Israel, the Jewish people and in favor of a two state with Palestine.  Again, against the word of God, for God gave that land in Genesis 12 and 13 to the Jews, by Abraham.  The Jewish people, when God moved Abram out of Ur which is in Northern Iraq where the Tigress and Euphrates meet, and moved him to Canaan, changing his name to Abraham, which is modern day Israel.  THEN, that land also included what is now Palestine, Israel, Jordan, and half of Syria.  And this one world order, like the Muslims, and the Anti-Semitics in Europe who all hate the Jews. But God’s hand will ALWAYS be on his Chosen!  When the war erupts, many will flea to Petra in Turkey and hide out.

Israel’s cry should be from II Chronicles 6:42, “O LORD GOD, TURN NOT AWAY THE FACE OF YOUR ANOINTED REMEMBER THE MERCIES OF DAVID YOUR SERVANT.”  (God’s Anointed is the Messiah’s blessing that we receive and comes through the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did for us on the Cross.)  II Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will heal their land. “

The Pope:  http://www.endtime.com/tag/pope-francis/

Mystery Babylon: http://www.endtime.com/podcast/the-identity-of-mystery-babylon/

Standing with Israel: https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/standing-with-israel-or-radical-islam/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/every-muslim-will-bow-before-jesus/

Southern Baptist Mosque Effort:

http://theendtimes.news/2016/05/28/southern-baptist-convention-launches-mosque-building-program-to-promote-religious-liberty-and-a-general-sense-of-niceness/

http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/05/27/worshipping-religious-liberty-sbc-joins-mosque-building-effort/

http://bjconline.org/bjc-joins-brief-supporting-n-j-muslims-proposed-mosque/

1000 Mosques shut down in France (US next?)http://americannews.com/1000-mosques-shut-down-after-war-grade-weapons-discovered-stashed/

Raising up an Army of God:  1,000 people praying at Trump rally!

http://raisingupastandard.ning.com/video/10-000-people-praying-at-donald-trump-rally-in-indiana

Secret Bilderberg Meetings attended by Bushes, Kissinger, Condi Rice, Obama, Clintons:

https://youtu.be/FHBX4eQ0RJo

http://freedomoutpost.com/bilderberg-2016-what-are-the-global-elite-plotting-this-time-around/

Photo of Donald J Trump with my last hero President Ronald Reagan..I love this!

Finally Prophecy of Donald Trump..”The Donald” means ruler in Scottish, Trump which is Trumpet or triumph: https://youtu.be/FsQG6WzmuE8

Still in denial that we are in the end times?  Read Ezekiel 38 and 39..Exactly where we’re at!  Look up and watch the signs!

Bringing Us To Our Knees

“Self-righteousness is wretchedness inside out! ”

“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling STOP, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or have much patience with those who urge it.”  William F. Buckley, Jr.

“We are imperfect material.” Romans 12:3-11  He only takes the “imperfect” material and makes into the “perfect” house.  Our own personal struggles are not the focus. ”  Paul warns us to build with care, on Jesus Christ, for the devil comes to steal, destroy, kill and rob your joy, your family, and all you have.  He can’t do it unless we are wise and recognize and have discernment. The enemy is a counter-fitter that would eventually destroy us.  He can trip us up in relationships, that were not Godly.

Conditionality takes from others what we need for our own selfishness and narcissism.  Bless those who persecute you, emotionally, verbally, mentally everyday.  But Paul said, don’t fight back…don’t slander them, instead get them back!   Relational frustration says, “look at all I do, all I’ve done! ”  (A narcissistic need.)  “Where’s all the appreciation for all I’ve gone through and sacrifices?”   It doesn’t work that way.  Never be wise in your own sight, never avenge, yourselves even when sometimes it’s appropriate, others it isn’t, so don’t….nor be a scorekeeper.  Forgive them!  For God said in Matthew , “Unless you forgive them, our Father which art in Heaven will not forgive you.”  ..Whereby, you are under HIS judgment.

Today, all hell seemed to be breaking loose on the America I love.  I purposely posted our Eagle at the top of the page of this post.  For now this President has made another executive order to have these eagles slaughtered for the next 30 years!  How my heart breaks to see what is happening to these beautiful creatures, who God created to be an American icon.   The eagle with our flag, IS America.

http://www.worldpoliticus.com/obama-gives-okay-bald-eagles-slaughtered-next-30-years/#sthash.0wCS0C5E.dpbs

 

 

 

 

 

Add to this the order in schools now for transgender bathrooms, which will forever change and hurt psychologically for decades to come, our children and those who do have values.  We need help.  Also add  a total onslaught now is at hand to find dirt on Donald Trump, by the Washingon Posts, Woodward.   A fake tape..anything to rig dirt on Trump now that he’s the GOP candidate.  They are all Socialists.  They are all in bed with the radical left of George Soros, Move on . org, Black Lives Matter.  It is going to get worse.  Will America stand?  Can we stand with Donald J. Trump to save America?  How low does this Administration go?  Now top generals talking about arresting him.  He is deranged.. Deranged, just as cagey as Hitler was, Mussolini was, Po Pot was, North Korea, Iran, going back to Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great.    THEY WANT AMERICA DESTROYED and taken over.    They want us in anarchy; helpless.  And this President has done his best to do so, with only 7 months to go.  God help us.

Remember that Acorn is a puppet organization too, of George Soros, born George Schwartz Gyorgy in Hungary  in 1930, who has destroyed many countries..  He has collapsed regiems internationally, organized revolutions in Ukraine, Croatia, Yugoslavia, now America.  He has with his billions and speculations, collapsed many banks including the UK, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was involved in what is collapsing in Venezuela now. He wants the decline of America, as does Obama, and a global society, and out the window with our US Constitution. He is behind the Huffington Post and ALL the left wing media, which is now creeping into Foxnews too.  It is HE and his organizers he pays with ads in Craigs list, to cause mayhem on our streets.  It wouldn’t surprise me if he was behind Chicago either.  Obama’s cronie Ram Emanuel has done nothing in Chicago since he left the White House to become mayor.  What is happening in America now, is that:

1. “THEY” have formed a shadow government using humanitarian aid…(Muslim Refugees) as a front for subversive Communist activities.  (Obama and his Saul Alinsky).                                            2. Control all the media!   (Fairness doctrine out…)                                                                                  3. Weaken the Government…(done).  They on the right have all been threatened & bought off.    4. Provoke Election  Crisis….(Fraud).                                                                                                            5. Take Power! He (Soros) has done this 5 times before in other countries.

OSI open Social Institute, gives tons of money and unions, and who heads them up?  The Weather Underground (remember the 60’s?)  Under cover of humanitarian aid.  SHADOW GOV., includes Center for American Progress, Institute for Political SEIU, (control our pulpits).  It included and still does the Black Panthers, which is why they were never prosecuted.  They want to collapse America, and now Donald J. Trump, the peoples choice is in their way.  This week every lefty with money in Hollywood has come out, including Clooney.   They all have the VanJones Communist philosophy.

Controls all airwaves.  And our CHRISTIAN channels like GETV,  DAYSTAR, AND TRINITY, must be blowing their mind!!  Amen!    We need faith, hope, and charity and our integrity back as a nation under God, not a dictator.  THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION WE HAVE EVER HAD TO FACE IN AMERICA!    SHARE THIS…PASS IT AROUND…Don’t let Clinton win this election.  The tears I have shed this week.  PRAY FOR DONALD TRUMP AND GOD’S HAND ON HIM.  PLEASE.. HE JUST MET WITH PASTORS RICK JOYNER AND OTHERS, ALONG WITH HIS SON ERIC.  HE HAS BEEN PRAYED ON AND ANNOINTED BY  DR. DAVID JEREMIAH, JEFFRESS, AND RABBI SCHNEIDER AND OTHERS.

WE ARE IN THE END TIMES.  THIS IS WAR!

OUR CALL WHEN WE ARE SAVED IS TO BE ALLIGNED WITH HIM NOT YOUR CHURCH EVEN…JUST JESUS, GOD THE FATHER, AND GOD THE HOLY GHOST.  IF YOUR CHURCH DOESN’T PROVIDE YOU WITH A SUPERNATURAL MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND EVIL SEEDS ARE NOT DELIVERED OUT OF THE BODY OF BELIEVERS, AND OUT OF YOU, YOUR LIVING WITH A SPIRIT OF  SURRENDER.   UNBELIEF HINDERS GOD, A SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF SHUTS GOD OUT!  UNFORGIVENESS IS THE BIGGEST WEAPON SATAN PUTS IN A CHRISTIAN’S LIVES.  BITTERNES ARISES OUT OF OFFENSES, OR A CRITICAL SPIRIT.  SATAN USES TO LOSE YOUR PEACE OF MIND, BECOMING PERHAPS ONE WHO CONSTANTLY CRITICIZES.    NEVER BEFORE IN OUR AMERICAN HISTORY HAVE WE SO MUCH AT STAKE.  PLEASE LEARN DISCERNMENT. THE MEDIA IS NOT TRUTH OR FRIENDS OF US CHRISTIANS.   (All except Sean Hannity I might add.)   PRAY PRAY PRAY FOR TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY.  THINE WILL BE DONE LORD!  USHER IN YOUR HOLY SPIRIT LORD…SEND YOUR FIRE…CLEANSE US..WE NEED REPENTANCE.   GOD BLESS YOU ALL WHO READ THIS.

PS I hadn’t realized until I went on Daystar last night and watched Irwin Baxter’s EndTimes, that it was after Reagan that this One World Order was birthed.  When he yelled tear down this wall.. Then the wall eventually came down, the New World Order came into being…all these open borders.  Well it hasn’t done Germany much good now with all their Muslim infux tearing down cities.  They learned nothing! NOTHING! After WWII.  God help Donald Trump, cause every demon in hell on the left globally, is going to try to destroy him and prevent him from being President?  Hillary? She is only Soros’s puppet, as the media, all on the left, Hollywood….a “shadow government”.  And in comes the Anti-Christ ready to roar…..Can we stop this?  Can we as American’s who love our country and God Almighty,  stop what is happening?  PRAYER…PRAYER, PRAYER…………

May your protection, be upon this man of your choice Lord, Donald J Trump.

 

Illiteracy in America

 

I’ve been saying for years on here what an illiterate society we have become. We text, write short little quips, but when is the last time you read a BOOK? When I got saved in ’82, in the church I was in, we were taught the Bible and READ. I had a friend who is with the Lord now, my mentor, who read her Bible cover to cover 5 times!! I managed to get through it once, and it is no easy task. But how are you going to learn God’s word if you don’t? I am saddened and angry with this POP culture, I am angry with schools who let kids pass grades without earning it, and graduating without knowing a darned thing. Our Founding Fathers were amazing. Jefferson, Madison, Washington, all were well read, some in schools from England as a child,  read Plato, Wordsworth, and the masters at 12 years old. I was a voracious reader all my life, until the past few years after 3 eye surgeries. I vow to get back to my books and Bible I love. Our Federalist Papers Madison co-wrote, and our Constitution would never EVER have been written today by our illiterate Society. I helped my girl friend a year older do her homework in high school, while I was still in the 8th grade, reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet….I understood it..she did not. Do you all know the world that opens up with the written word? And it begins with the HOLY Word of GOD….not cheering and just singing on a Sunday morning. KNOW our Lord, READ what Joseph went through, Daniel, our Prophets like Ezekiel with Jezebel, and all the healings in the New Testament with Jesus. Not to mention Revelations, for we are in the End Times now! READ, youth and those under 50, READ! Thank you Jesus, we need to turn America around scholastically as well.  32 Million people who can’t read is unacceptable!  Not to mention, what is the matter with SAU’s across the states, and public schools not teaching cursive handwriting anymore.  I learned in the 3rd grade.  Printing is for babies.  You need cursive handwriting to sign legal documents.. These kids won’t even be able to read old letters, or the Declaration of Independence ( in which the handwriting was absolutely beautiful!)  What a shame!

 

 

The Epidemic of Bible Illiteracy in Our Churches

How small groups can change the statistics

SMALLGROUPS.COM

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/illiteracy-rate_n…

 

Christian Against Christian?

What was Jesus’ attitude toward politics?

“Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, stated to the UK’s Daily Mail on Tuesday that Israel should keep building in Judea-Samaria. This is a dramatic change from the stance of the Obama administration that has persistently pressured Israel to stop all building in the settlements.

Trump added that, in spite of his support for the settlements, he would “love to negotiate peace” between Israel and the Palestinians, calling it “the all-time negotiation”.

The Bible prophesies an Israeli-Palestinian agreement within the next short time. It appears highly likely that the agreement will come yet in the Obama presidency or during the term of the next president that will be elected on November 8, 2016.”  Irwin Baxter

I beg everyone to take a step back, and get back in your prayer closet!  Trump too, is taking a totally different stance than the present administration, in favor of Israel to continue building.  Praise God…..Remember Donald Trump has a Jewish son in law, and is friends with Mike Huckabee.  He would set Hamas back for hundreds of years!  Do you  not see God’s hand in this?    Pray please….love one another and as Franklin Graham said, get out and vote!   We need to come together this November.  THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION THAT AMERICA  HAS IN ALL OF HISTORY.   WE ARE IN THE END TIMES…..ALL THE COUNTRIES ARE IN LINE.  Remember Obama is going ahead with international law against Israel.  Please pray…

 

Is America Already Lost?

Many Christians argue against why we need Donald Trump as President.  I pray that WHEN President Trump gets in office, he makes two Executive orders FAST, right off the bat. 1. Ends any means for other countries to buy up American businesses, land. and water. 2. Makes a law opposing the Supreme Court ruling and ends this shameless telemarketing by our House and Senate, raising money!  HE MUST GET IN OFFICE, WE NEED A CAPITALIST!  (If no one gets it after these two links?  You don’t deserve to be called either a Christian or an American.  I have endeavored to put everything on this blog on Communism, Socialism, Capitalism and the difference between them, history, and ramifications.   I pray with all my heart that those who actually take the time to view both of these videos “get it”.  Can we save America even, or is it too late?  If it is too late, then look up, the Messiah is coming.  I can’t believe those in office and our own GOP in Washington, let us get this far.  GOD is our only hope, and with HIS hands on Donald Trump, perhaps just perhaps, “If we repent and get on our knees and call out HIS name, then will HE save our land.”  and prolong the prophesies.  We need prayer.

 

John Hagee  -We owe $19 trillion to China and they are buying up America’s farmland, all our hotels, business, ie Smithfield.  State after State has sold out!  They want to OWN America…and control America’s economy from China. Add to that Arabs from Arabia also buying up? No other country allows other countries to buy up their companies and land and water!.  Look at the the States. WATCH:

 

https://youtu.be/hdFXP8z6X0w  

 

Meanwhile CBS 60 Minutes last night our congressmen/women/senators….Do not govern anymore since the Supreme court ruling they can take as much PAC money as they want.  NOW? They are TELEMARKETING BY ORDERS OF THE GOP AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY…IN LITTLE CUBBIES..ACROSS FROM THE House and Senate…30 HOURS A WEEK!  So nothing gets done..  That is why even Senator Ayotte in NH, Paul Ryan, sold out…no one makes LAW anymore. We elect them, and they telemarket?   WATCH:

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/dialing-for-dollars

 

ANNOINTING AND PRAYERS OVER DONALD J TRUMP WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH, OTHER EVANGELISTS:

https://youtu.be/t973azt5trU

 

Socialisms Impact

Preface:

SOCIALISM  (Communism) HAS COME!!! IT is here with Bernie Sanders, Obama, and now this Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a young illiterate woman who knows nothing about history or our America!  Whereas, she is like Soros and Obama’s organizers in OSA and OFA.  But, it is more than Socialism, it is now Communism they are peddling! And it doesn’t work. As a child of WWII I remember the old newsreels of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Saul Alinsky was an outright liar. It doesn’t work, didn’t in Russia, China, N. Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and now look what it did to Venezuela.  Corrupt dictators while people live like animals. And it is here in San Francisco and LA.  (Photo at end.)  The only way we can stop it is at the polls!  Capitalism isn’t for the rich. I’d rather be working for a rich, smart, innovative businessman than starve under a dictator!  Think about that one!  I know the young snowflakes haven’t realized they have a brain yet, and God knows their illiterate counterparts, even those attending colleges with Marxist professors. Who haven’t grasp the idea that work, HARD work, with in a desire and the guts to WANT to succeed, and make something of their lives. Work teaches ethics, builds character, strengthens a person, even if once and awhile you fail. And failure is refusing to get up one more time.  So this is a commentary of what Socialism is and does:

 

From Dr. James Kennedy’s Website:  https://www.djameskennedy.org/article-detail/april-impact-2016

by Frank Wright, Ph.D.

“Socialism is coming to America. At least that appears to be the case if you look over the political landscape and listen to people from the millennial generation.

For many years, socialism was so self-evidently bad that it did not even need to be refuted. Simply noting that a particular plan or proposal reeked of “socialism” was enough to kill it for the generations old enough to see the failures of socialism—and its harder-edged sibling communism.

But decades of government handouts and income redistribution schemes, combined with historical ignorance and a pervasive—and ever-growing—entitlement mentality, have led to growing popular support for explicit socialism right here in the United States.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist” has mounted a serious challenge for the presidential nomination of one of our two major parties. What’s more, he won 60 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary! It would have once been unthinkable that an avowed socialist could be a serious national candidate. And now, one is within striking distance of a major-party presidential nomination.

The problem here is not one political party, or even Bernie Sanders himself. The problem is that an entire generation of Americans now thinks that socialism is acceptable—evendesirable. Even if a socialist is not nominated or elected this year, it is only a matter of a few years before one eventually is. What was once unthinkable is now plausible—and will eventually become likely, unless we act now.

A recent survey showed that Americans under 30 preferred socialism to capitalism. Forty-three percent of them said they had a favorable view of socialism. And only 26 percent said they had an unfavorable view of socialism—with 31 percent “not sure.”

America: we are in trouble.

We can no longer assume that people reflexively understand the dangers of socialism. Biblical truth undercuts—and ultimately destroys—socialism. But we can no longer assume that people know that truth. We must sound the alarm and counter the falsehoods with God’s Word.

In this month’s Impact Newsletter and Devotional, we take a clear-eyed, rational, biblical look at the dangers of socialism—its causes and cure. In addition, we include, as always, a month’s worth of inspiring, soul-nurturing daily devotionals from Dr. D. James Kennedy and Dr. Jerry Newcombe.

In addition, we also offer a powerful antidote to the dangerous confusion surrounding socialism today. We are preparing to air a special television program, The Problem of Socialism, which will expose this bankrupt political and economic approach. We will send you a DVD copy of this vital program, The Problem of Socialism, plus the compelling book,Ten Truths about Socialism, as our thanks for your generous donation to the ongoing work of this ministry.

We, our children, and our grandchildren need to know the truth about socialism. While socialism depends on a heavy-handed government taking from some to give to others (often in the name of “compassion”), the Bible tells us that envy and theft are wrong, that charity should be voluntary, and that “if any will not work, neither shall he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). [You can find a powerful rebuttal of socialism by Dr. Kennedy on page 1556 of the new D. James Kennedy Topical Study Bible.]

The DVD, The Problem of Socialism, shows the dangers of socialism at a time when it is on the march in America. Find out how the ideas of socialism’s founders and followers violate God’s Word and how it has brought slavery and death to tens and even hundreds of millions wherever it has been tried.

The book, Ten Truths about Socialism, examines key aspects of this dangerous doctrine, including how:

• Socialism and tyranny go hand in hand
• Socialism violates God’s law
• Socialism is at war with the Church
• Socialism’s founding fathers rejected God
• and more.

We will send you the book, Ten Truths about Socialism, as well as the DVD, The Problem of Socialism, as our thanks for your generous donation. Your donation will help us widely broadcast this special, at a time when our nation urgently needs to see it. Thank you for you generous support, through prayer and through donations.

God bless you, and God bless America,

Frank Wright, Ph.D.

President and CEO

D. James Kennedy Ministries”

http://www.djameskennedy.com/full-view-sermon/djk20321a-the-christian-view-of-economics

THIS is San Francisco. But Gov. Brown has thousands of miles of Solar…and taxes so high? They don’t even have toilet paper here. A hand and bowl of water..SICK ! Unsanitary and SICK!

 

Trump is crushing a corrupt system and teaching Christian leaders a lesson

I agree with this writer. Trouble is, no one reads anymore, knows history or cares, as it repeats itself. I believe that God’s hands are on Trump, and that he is going to be saved. Remember the Bible verse that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to come to God? Well, he DOES believe, is a Presbyterian, and THAT to me is for now enough. We are not to judge people but we are to judge their fruits. He helps people, has a heart, helped a marine who was jailed in Mexico sent his plane and gave him $25,000. Sent his plane to CA to pick up a 3 yr old who needed life surgery, as the airlines wouldn’t take him and all the hospital equipment. Look at his children. Those are the fruits of the man, Donald J. Trump. I respect him. He doesn’t drink, never smoked, has his health, is brilliant, has a phenomenal memory, has a degree in economics, and I think they are running afraid now because he will clean up Washington. While the Cruz’s are out to give us away..with this North American Union, so our Constitution will go out the window. I love Trump and respect this man who the media on the left hates. Thank you Jesus, I pray He comes to you Lord and receives salvation.

Mario Murillo Ministries

By Mario Murillo

No he is not a fascist.  No he is not racist.  No, he does not think most Mexicans are rapists.  No, he does not want to herd Muslims into camps.  No I am not campaigning for him for president. If you believe any of that—save us both time and skip this blog. This blog is about how he is crushing a corrupt system and teaching Christian leaders a lesson.

Trump got the same say-this-and-die memo that the leftist media issues to all candidates. He refused to comply.   They hate him because he did not have the decency to die.   They have thrown everything at him and not only does he live—his poll numbers rise.

The state-sponsored media and the professional politicians are so desperate that they have been forced to take extreme measures.  Hollywood stars…

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Capitalism Vs Socialism

I am by far not an economics major as is Donald Trump.  I believe he has a vision for America, and most people in this pop culture American society, hearing the words “capitalism” or “socialism” being tossed around have no idea of the difference; other than socialists give away freebies.  So what does it all mean?  One side touts more government spending, and free college tuition, medical for everyone (at what cost?), then adds race into the picture, making the other side into the villain, by slandering and smearing.  The other side purports more jobs, this wall I think we need, a richer economy, yet, a plan for getting out of the 19 trillion debt we are in; as well as keeping our American business in America, and lowering the tax loopholes, which caused them to go to other countries.  So what IS the difference underneath the rhetoric?

I know one thing as I’ve written on here before, Communism and Socialism don’t work.  It’s been tried, from Russia, overtaking the Czar and the Russian Revolution to Castro, and their Revolution in the 50’s, to Venezuela.  They take from the rich, or from small businesses, that barely exist, close down, in a ruse to distribute wealth.  It doesn’t work, for it demands a dictator.

And a dictator like Assad now in Syria, rules surrounded by wealth he never earned, but stole, and the people suffer.  Russia did this, all dictator countries do this, including Libya, China, and especially North Korea, and Venezuela.  So when young people, now college age, get stirred up with Bernie Sanders, do they actually know what it all entails? No. For there is a price to pay.  Once when we were still in the cold war, after WWII, we understood consequences of our decisions.  Reagan argued with Gorbachev.  Socialism in the extreme of Bernie Sanders, is Communism; and we have at least 20 members of Congress who are members of the American Communist Party. We desperately need balance.  With such a form of government it is the people who suffer to the extreme of brutality, joblessness, poverty, and hopelessness.  Castro did it.  They don’t even have new cars in Cuba, stores as we, and internet is censored as well.  Now they want a relationship back with the US, so why? Why? Because it didn’t work after 50 years!  They set themselves up like kings, and the people are trapped by any innovation, dreams, entrepreneurs for the government of Socialism won’t allow.  How blind can young Americans be?  So, what IS Capitalism?

Since I do not hold a graduate degree on the subject, I am taking from an author who knew and predicted 55 years ago, all that has happened to our left leaning America.  Ayn Rand.  I am a conservative Christian.  Ayn as I wrote before was a Russian Jew, an objectivist.  While she never denied God, she never included him in her philosophy.  That aside, she saw what happened as I wrote here prior when the Russian soldiers came in her father’s shop and ransacked, stole, and destroyed his business.  Yet, even though I am a Christian, Ayn’s prolific writings in her Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and this one I will quote from Capitalism, best explains what I’m trying to project.  This was a writer from my age growing up in the 50’s, that was so intelligent.  And right!  So I quote this prolific writer, whose predictions, unfortunately, going back to Wilson, all came true.

“Capitalism is a term used to denote the economic system that has been dominant in the Western World since the breakup of feudalism.  Fundamental to any system called capitalist are the relations between private owners of non-personal means of production (land, mines industrial plants, etc., collectively known as capital.  The resulting wage bargains determine the proportion in which the total product of society will be shared between the class of laborers and the class of capitalist entrepreneurs.  There is no such thing as a “Social Surplus”. All wealth is produced by somebody and belongs to somebody!”   Try telling Bernie Sanders that Donald Trumps wealth is his own, as he had the vision, he worked, and he earned it himself, as with Apple, the late Steve Jobs, etc.  You don’t strip the wealthy who provide jobs, and industry, manufacturing, cause it just won’t work!   “Man is the only living species that can transmit and expand his store of knowledge from generation to generation; but such transmission requires a process of thought on the part of the individual recipients. As witness, the breakdowns of civilization, the dark ages, in the history of mankind’s progress, when the accumulated knowledge of centuries vanished from the lives of men who were unable, unwilling, or forbidden to think!” (As in North Korea now!)

“This is the first question to answer.  The basic issue is only:  Is man free?” We can see in all these dictator Communist or Islamic countries, the answer is clearly, NO!  So when we push for all these freebies here as the European Union has…(and look at Greece while your at it.) There carries with it a consequence.  FREEDOM!  Being unable to utilize your FREE POTENTIAL.

“The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force.  In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against each other.  THE ONLY FUNCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT, in such a society, IS THE TASK OF PROTECTING MAN’S RIGHTS!  The Government can only act as the agent of man’s right of self-defense!  In a capitalist society, all human relationships are VOLUNTARY!  Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions, and interests dictate.  The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society, it is the right to disagree that is crucial.  It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree – thus keeps the road open to man’s most valuable attribute; THE CREATIVE MIND!”

Now, does any of this ring a bell?  Now Apple has the FBI wanting them to undo the encrypted mechanism’s on Apple’s cell phones and our privacy so they can go into terrorist links, while also letting the Government go into all our private emails?  No …and I hope that goes all the way to the Supreme Court.  It is an infringement against our 1^st Amendment rights …our Freedoms.

That is the difference between Capitalism and Socialism in a nutshell.  Ok, what does God say?

Isaiah 58:6 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burden, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?”  I suppose it is easier for this Pope too, to make large accolades, and call out Trump on his beliefs, while at the same time, attacking America’s capitalism.  But, I know another side of Mr. Trump, that he keeps secret, he gives and helps a lot of people who are in need.  While the Pope in his hypocrisy, criticizes America, our Capitalism, but, then so did the Roman Pharisee’s when they crucified Jesus, and then the Catholic church lied for centuries, blaming Jesus death on the Jews, when it was Caiaphas, Herod and the Roman Soldiers that did this act on our Savior.  The Catholic church is still lying, as it covers up it pedophilia, its’ obscene riches and debauchery in the Vatican, and hides.  Yet HE who casts the first stone…Jesus said.  Pope Francis, take the bolder out of your own eye, before you cast stones to Mr. Trump.  The Vatican has enough hidden money.  Donate it to Mexico, and all those you love, for I have never seen the Vatican giving away even a loaf of bread.  Put your money Pope Francis where your accusing mouth is! .  Love is ACTION.  Love isn’t heresy.  And the TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!  John 8:32  Roman’s 3:24 For we are justified by HIS grace!  Amen!  I only have ONE God, ONE priest, ONE King, ONE Ruler, HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST, THE I AM!  One nation under God, in spite of even a Pope who wants to interfere in our Christian Constitution and leaders?  Thank you Lord, Jesus for Rev. Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, Jr. this week standing for Trump.   Voters? You have a lot to think about.  Young people, college kids, wake up..the gravy train doesn’t stop at your door unless you work!   And trust me, no one works unless there are Capitalist businesses for you to apply to!! And if you have the vision, the intelligence, the initiative, and creativity, you too shall rise up and be counted!  Thank you Lord, I pray you have your way Lord and lead us Lord in this election.

“The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s rational nature …” Ayn Rand

The Bible says, that the LOVE of money is the root of all evil, not money itself.  For with money many can and should be helped.  American Evangelical Christians are the most giving in all the world, going to all countries.  And it is all because of capitalistic free giving!

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/economics-2/brilliant-how-capitalism-works-differently-in-other-countries-perfectly-explained-using-cows

The Lie: ” Many people wonder what heaven is like — so many, in fact, that philosophers and scholars over the years have hypothesized about how heaven on Earth can be achieved. The term “utopia” was coined in 1515 by British writer Thomas More. Utopia describes a perfect place or society, where everyone is equal socially and economically.

The political and economic theory of socialism was created with the vision of a utopian society in mind. Contrary to other economic systems, there is no real consensus on how the ideal socialist society should function. Dozens of forms of socialism exist, all with differing ideas about economic planning, community size and many other factors. Despite the variations in socialist thought, every version advocates the benefits of cooperation among the people, steering clear of the “evils” of competition associated with capitalism.”  Doesn’t work! The only uptopia is under God when we reach Glory one day.

http://www.emergingusa.org/socialists-marginalize-the-wealthy-unfairly/

http://money.howstuffworks.com/socialism.htm

http://money.howstuffworks.com/capitalism.htm

http://fee.org/articles/why-socialism-failed/

http://guardianlv.com/2012/08/capitalism-works-socialism-and-communism-doesnt/

https://www.djameskennedy.org/article-detail/socialisms-attack-on-the-family

http://www.djameskennedy.com/full-view-sermon/djk20321a-the-christian-view-of-economics

2016 – What Road Will America Choose?

Ayn Rand said, “Identify the philosophy of a society and you can predict it’s future.” Compare this President Obama a graduate of Columbia, a Marxist Socialist (like Bernie Sanders), an organizer, who never had a real job in his life, pushing “freebies”. Then compare Donald Trump. Mr. Trump a self made Capitalist. And so was my father; both my parents also decedents from Germany, as Trump’s father Frederick. My dad (born 1904) was a genius in his field in the early days of electronic sound, with a booth at the NY World’s Fair in 1939, the year I was born. In 1948  Worthen Lab had the 1st tv in the state of NH. My photo at 8 years old was in the Manchester Union Leader. I was PROUD of my father, as Trumps children are proud of him.

Now look at what Socialism does, with Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, a Russian Jew, in Czarist Russia in 1905. Alisa was a top student and knew by the age of 9 that writing would be her life’s work. She was writing novels at 10 years old. She was 12 years old when the Russian Revolution began. Her father’s business was taken away, Russian soldiers closed the shop and her father never worked again. (THAT is happening now, with farmers in America, and other business, and tax laws and government laws, that need to be eliminated. Farmers who have been in business for 300 years, are now out of business, one because of a EPA law and minnows being harmed.) She saw at 12, that people who worked the hardest were punished and stripped. They were broken. Trump is our ONLY hope to get America back, lest we end up like Cuba, Russia, or Venezuela.  (As far as I’m concerned, Bernie Sanders should pick one of these countries to retire to.)

Biography of Donald Trump – A remarkable man!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rands Predictions – What will Americans choose?

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/atlas-shrugged-rands-predictions-2/

Check out “Reds” on Netflix.  Communism doesn’t work!  The story of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World. Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O’Neill.  (Yes, most of our early authors and play-writers were all Communist.)  It was a tumultuous film…Actually showed the truth, and Reed was so sick too, dying of kidney failure, while immersed as a speaker in Russia for the Revolution.  This was the era when they killed Czar Nicolas, and his whole family.  Remember the movie Anastasia, who was supposed to perhaps be the daughter as a child who escaped? Also Dr. Zhivago.  (No one reads anymore…such a shame. Nor in this politically correct era, does Hollywood produce any films that are of consequence.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)

On February 21–22, 1919, Bryant was fiercely grilled before a Senate committee exploring Bolshevik propaganda activities in the US, but emerged resilient; Reed followed on the 22nd, delivering quick, subtle testimony which was, however, savagely distorted by the press.^[46] Later that day he went to Philadelphia to stand trial for his May speech; despite a hostile judge, press, and patriotic speech by the prosecutor, Reed’s lawyer convinced the jury the case was about free speech, and he was acquitted.^[46] Returning to New York, Reed continued speaking widely and participating in the various twists of socialist politics that year. He served as editor of The New York Communist, the weekly newspaper issued by the Left Wing Section of Greater New York.

Affiliated with the Left Wing of the Socialist Party, Reed with the other radicals was expelled from the National Socialist Convention in Chicago on August 30, 1919. The radicals then split into two bitterly hostile groups, forming the Communist Labor Party of America (Reed’s, in the creation of which he had been indispensable) and, the next day, the Communist Party of America. Reed was the international delegate of the former, wrote its manifesto and platform, edited its paper, The Voice of Labor, and was denounced as “Jack the Liar” in the Communist Party organ, The Communist. Reed’s writings of 1919 displayed doubts about Western-style democracy and defended the dictatorship of the proletariat, which he saw as a necessary step that would prefigure the true democracy “based upon equality and the liberty of the individual.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

My question is, what kind of liberty do you have for an individual when you have a dictator society?  There is none.  There is no liberty unless one has the freedom to choose, to work, to believe in God, to start a business, and to be able to excel financially to his fullest potential.  So, my question to Americans is, whom do you choose?   Most young people now in colleges are led by Socialist professors, and really have no knowledge of history.   What is the definition of liberty?  One answer is, “The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.”

Romans 8:21 “Because the creature  (Creation) itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Children of God. ”  (Presents this “hope” as affecting that DELIVERANCE, which HE did by the CROSS, of mortality, ie “death”. ) Expositors Study Bible.

Mart De Haan of RBC Ministries in a pamphlet said once, “As our own culture changes, I believe part of the answer requires followers of Christ to know “how” and “when” to speak a second language.  We have a Biblical responsibility to speak the language of our mission to anyone who is looking to for spiritual answers.”  While arguing in the political arena, I have found just on Social websites the passions, one has and the hates too, people have in candidates running for office.  Have I been attacked?  Most assuredly.   Mart went on to say, “While trying to lead others to Christ, we still need to be able to say to a Hindu, Buddhist, or a Muslim, OR a Communist for that matter, “I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight for your right to say it. In addition, I will use my social influence to seek just and fair treatment not only for my family but for yours as well.   Jesus Himself taught us to BALANCE the duties of our dual citizenship.  Rather than discounting either civil or spiritual responsibilities, He told His followers to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God (Matthew 22:21).”

On my last post I wrote on the dangers of this false “dominionist” thinking amongst these big Christian denominations, and ushering in or pushing Ted Cruz.  Our kingdom isn’t here on earth, it is in Heaven with Jesus.  “The tension between the kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of man runs like an unbroken thread through the history of the past 2,000 years.  It began not long after Christ’s birth.  Herod, the Roman-appointed King over the Jews and as a vicious a tyrant as ever lived, was gripped with fear when the Magi arrived from the East seeking the “King of the Jews.”  Though not a believer, Herod knew the ancient Jewish prophesies that a child would be born to reign over them, ushering in a Kingdom of peace and might. ” Chuck Coleson

Coleson went on to say, ” The dynamic in the church-state tension is separation of institutional authority.  Religion and politics can’t be separated – they INEVITABLY OVERLAP – but the institutions of church and state must preserve their separate and distinct roles.  In this regard, the American experiment merits closer examination. ”  In the same way we need a closer examination of Socialism in our Government as well as the onslaught of Muslims that clearly do not respect our laws on religion and politics.  To them there is no overlap, but total control.  Today’s widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to the founders of the republic…even those who personally repudiated orthodox Christian faith.  Though Americans have drifted far from its founders, this system continues to offer one of the world’s most hopeful models in an otherwise contentious history of conflict. ”

C.S. Lewis likened the love of country to our love for the home and community in which we were raised.  It is a natural love of the place where we grew up, he said, “love of old acquaintances, of familiar sights, sounds, smells.”  He also pointed out, however, that in love of country, as in love of family, we don’t love our spouses only when they are good,  Similarly, a patriot sees the flaws of his country, acknowledges them, weeps for them, but remains faithful in love.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of love for his country even as he attempted to change its laws. “Whom you would change, you must first love,”  he said.

“Deliberate lies, the corruption of power, compromise with ideological opponents, temptations on all sides – these appear to be the mechanisms of modern government.  Should the Christian circumvent the messy business of politics altogether?  The answer is emphatically no! ” Dabney once said, “Every Christian …whether lawmaker or law executor or voter, should carry his Christian conscience, enlightened by God’s Word, into his political duty. ”  THIS is exactly what I try to do on here.  I  may put down links and  comments that you don’t want to see.  But the fact of the matter is, we have so much at stake right now with this election, I don’t have a choice!

I’m standing for God Almighty! And I really believe God can use Donald Trump for victory.  Young people do not understand the ramifications of Socialism and all these freebies.  They do not understand economics, they do not know, never mind understand, the Bible OR our US Constitution.   We are truly the most illiterate America in all of history.  We need to pray and act and take blinders off.  We need to have discernment in our spirit when something just isn’t right as these new moves of God in churches, as well as these radical ideas of the left, especially Sanders.  We are told not to judge, BUT we MUST judge the fruits,  not the idea!   Prov. 18  What you tolerate, you will never change.

We need drastic change America…..This is the most important decision coming up in all of our history!  What will it be?  How far left do you want us to go?  What is God telling you in your spirit?  Pray…God,  pray on your knees and cry out for America.

Beware Of False Prophets

This election has become so contested.   I am grateful and give thanks that I found these links before our New Hampshire primary.  For many Christians are being fooled by the devil.  God warns us to beware of false prophets, and wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Cruz misleading American Christians, under a false “Christian dominionist agenda? ” Be sober, be vigilant, for your enemy the devil walks to and fro upon this earth seeking whom he can devour.   Then, “Put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to STAND against the wiles of the Devil.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES , AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES!”   Ephesians 6:10

http://aattp.org/flashback-rafael-cruz-calls-son-ted-cruz-an-anointed-king-responsible-for-the-end-time-transfer-of-wealth/

Cruz is not even a mainstream born again believer but a dominionist!  No, Cruz is  NOT BIBLICAL WHICH IS WHY I WON’T VOTE FOR HIM!! This “Christian” philosophy, is not mainstream,  Christianity.  Many are being taken in by this including Larry Huch on Daystar. Which is WHY I will not back Cruz.  Quote from article: “In a sermon last year, Rafael Cruz said that his son is among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as “kings” to take control of all sectors of society. This is a Christian dominionist agenda that’s commonly called the “Seven Mountains” mandate: (1) Business; (2) Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5) Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion. If “Seven Mountains” is too abstract, “Creeping Christofascism” puts a much finer point to it. In fulfilling the “Seven Mountains” Mandate, Rafael Cruz said that his son and other “anointed kings” would help bring about a “prophesied great transfer of wealth” from the “wicked” to the “righteous gentile believer.” THIS is NOT Biblical…one iota.

Now, with all that, look at Cruz’s wife.  PLEASE READ AND GO INTO THIS BLOG LINK.  SHE too has an agenda as a smart lawyer who has been already in high places.  To usher in the One World order?  So Tedd can narcistically become “King” heir of his own making under he dominionist agenda with his wife by his side, assuaging all the countries in the world.  HOW narcissistic is this thinking?   We have one narcissist in the White House now who  opened up the whole mid east turmoil.  Do we need another with a misinformed Christian view?

TASK FORCE MEMBERS: HEIDI S. CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City. – (This information is prior to the economic crash, during the Bush administration.)

http://www.cfr.org/…/building-north-american…/p8102

Well…meet his wife, Heidi Cruz:

 

https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/its-time-to-meet-the-cruzs/

” Yes they are actively working to create a new nation of North America, called the North American Union, (NAU) just like the EU, with a controlling politburo, where members are NOT elected by the people. ”  PLEASE READ THE LINK ABOVE IN IT’S ENTIRETY! 

Tedd Cruz is a wolf in Sheeps clothing!  Christians BEWARE…do your homework before you vote.  Furthermore, he is hated in the Senate and would not be able to accomplish one thing, anymore than Obama. 

NOW:  I still STAND behind Donald Trump.  Why? Because at least you know what you are getting.  Isn’t it sad enough that America was taken in by Barack Obama?   The Muslim with the Marxist Agenda?  Who opened up all the doors of evil in the mid east, now with immigration the hot topic, which Ted Cruz also on earlier videos with Foxnews, wanted Amnesty!  Do we have to have this new agenda driven dominionist elected?  We are already losing America!  And to you Glenn Beck, you are in a cult, Mormanism and you do not speak for me.   We do not know when

Jesus will return, it will be “in the twinkling of an eye.”  Could be 50 years more, or 100 years more…or even more than that.  Yes the stage is set..YES, I believe we are in Ezekiel 38 and 39, and Joel 2.  HOWEVER,  this CRUZ thinking of his father,  and Christian dominionism, is not of

God!   Especially with the agenda of his wife Heidi.

Lastly, this is not the intent of our Founding Fathers or our US Constitution.  I’m afraid that many big ministries have gotten on this bandwagon, just as many big ministries that were Black such as TD Jakes, voted for Obama.  Thus, voting the opposite of the Bible letting a Muslim with Marxist ideologies in the White House.  So now we have another who is way out of what true Biblical teachings are, setting himself up as a “little god”, just like Obama, only his name is Ted Cruz.

“Advocates of Dominion Theology go beyond the democracy eroding theocracy of Dominionism into a totalitarian form of religious power called a “theonomy,” in which pluralistic democracy and religious tolerance are seen as a problem to be solved by godly men carrying out God’s will. Karen Armstrong calls Christian Reconstructionism “totalitarian” because it leaves “no room for any other view or policy, no democratic tolerance for rival parties, no individual freedom.” Matthew N. Lyons and I call Christian Reconstructionism a “new form of clerical fascist politics,” in our book Right-Wing Populism in America, because we see it echoing the religiously based clerical fascist movements that existed during World War II in countries including Romania and Hungary.”  While I am a history buff, and know that we were founded as a Christian nation, not all of our Founders were in fact Christian, nor do I espouse on giving up America’s freedom of religion, but, instead struggle to keep a balance for ALL cultures, yes, even Muslims.  We have gone through all this once before in the world, his name was HITLER!  And for those on Daystar and Trinity Broadcasting, that are on this “dominion bandwagon,” it is not of God, it is not of America, nor is it of our U.S. CONSTITUTION!  NEITHER IS HEIDI CRUZ AND THIS ONE NORTH AMERICAN UNION…ANYMORE THAN OBAMA WITH THE European Union seeking to impose World law into American law overriding our US Constitution.  BALANCE  …does not God seek discernment and balance in all things? Two wrongs do not make a right!  We cannot go back to imperialism as was the case in slavery.  America does not stand for this either.

http://www.alternet.org/story/152271/inside_the_christian_right_dominionist_movement_that’s_undermining_democracy

Here is a CHRISTIAN teaching against this Dominionist movement. Which is FALSE…started by Cruz’s father.  We are in this world but not of it.  We are not called to take over the world and Ted Cruz is not a little god.  Jesus is not of spirit only but in the FLESH…GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL.  THIS DOMINIONIST TEACHING IS A DEMONIC PLOY!  

https://youtu.be/bCqGQKh6y4g

TEDD CRUZ’S FATHER…A FALSE PROPHET FROM HELL…TWISTING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLMNkzvae4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8O1xOSaoac

From a pastor friend of mine in TN, Jerry D. Woods:

 “The part of Rafael B. Cruz arguments that I disagree with is that Ted Cruz is anointed to be a King. I do not believe in property redistribution by anyone. There are parts of what he is saying that I cannot disagree with. My God is Sovereign without limits ! If Christ is in our hearts, Christ changes our character and everything we do will be impacted. God gives each of us different gifts and to do different jobs. I believe Christianity is not to be inside a church but to permeate every area of life from our house to the White House. Our Government is based on “WE THE PEOPLE”. We have no king save King Jesus. Jesus is Lord of everything. Out of the First Great Awakening preachers, Charles G. Finney said in the final paragraph of his message “The Decay of the Conscience” “Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren; but let us lay it to heart, and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation.”

“This critique of 7 Mountains of Theology says they are saying invade areas of life. How about a New Testament approach, The church is the only organization which Jesus shed his blood to redeem. The church was given the command to evangelize, baptize, disciple people in how to live holy lives. If they go from the church house to all areas of the world around us, that will accomplish what God Wants done. The Emphasis should always be on the church lifting up Christ ! Individual Christians will take Christ where ever they are gifted to work and impact a dark world of sin. Impacting and changing all areas of life one heart at a time.”

 

Whereby, I stand with Trump, and pray American does too.  It also has come to my attention for all you Christians, that Mike Huckabee may just endorse (I hope and pray) Donald Trump.  THAT would be wonderful.   Some have wondered if he might ask Mike Huckabee to be his running mate. He speaks so highly of Mike. If Mike had a close working relationship with Trump, it could possibly lead to him being led to a saving acceptance of Jesus. It would be like a conversion of Saul becoming Paul.  We need DISCERNMENT AND MODERATION IN ALL THINGS!

Wouldn’t THAT be something?!! I know that I know God is in this and backs Trump.  And if Huckabee was his VP?  Now THAT could not be a doubt it was God!    Huck has been praising Trump, and his children.  Not to mention did anyone see the video with Sean Hannity on Foxnews, interviewing Donald Trump, AFTER he had talked to his children?  Not a humble person?  All first impression conjectures stemming from a liberal press is WRONG.  This is a

man that sent his private plane to take a 3 year old very ill little boy in CA to surgery because the airlines wouldn’t let him fly with all the medical machinery and equipment.  Never judge a book by it’s cover!  Thank you Lord for discernment!

As for Cruz?  I pray that as he destroyed Ben Carson so evilly, that he too will be destroyed in this running for the charlatan that he is and be EXPOSED!  Thank you Lord…for all I am is YOUR messenger and servant to expose the TRUTH.  And the TRUTH shall set you FREE!  PRAY!

 

Christian Persecution

The following was written by Dave Jolly from Instigator News on Freedom Outpost, with link at end.  A lesson in history.  For now with the Arab invasion throughout Europe and targeting America, Christians are once again being persecuted, just as the Jews were during the Holocaust and Hitler.  Europe has not stood up to them, particularly Angela Merkel in Germany, nor Cameron in the UK.  Forgetting the Ottoman Period from the early 1300’s til 1920’s when then Winston Churchill ended the Islamic revolt against Western Civilization once and for all, as well as Thomas Jefferson who also contended with the Barbary Arab pirates.  History ALWAYS repeats itself.  And GOD is ALWAYS the Judge, advocate, in justice that will have the FINAL say.  Perhaps it is after all, retribution in Germany, for what Hitler did to the Jews?

What we here in America have done also, since our Founding, has been to promote the Socialist Progressive agenda, in place of Jesus Christ, abortion, taking down our 10 Commandments, taking out prayer in schools, etc. And all this politically correct, negativity, without God, morals, ethics, love that only comes from above, and morality, has only broken down homes, children’s safety, increased violence, murders, occult, despicable tv programing and movies from Hollywood, where anything goes.  We are a country now, like Europe on the brink of destruction.  While the Progressive liberal Socialist Marxist left, in their politically correct push, thinks they are right, God is letting them come to the end  of themselves, because HE is ALWAYS right, and He now has put HIS judgment on America!  Make no mistake, this is the most important election coming up, that we have ever had in the history of America’s inception!  Wake up America…  The following is a good article!

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

“A number of European countries began persecuting various Christian denominations as early as 1500s to 1700s, forcing thousands of Christians to migrate to the new wilderness known as the American colonies. The rulers of various nations decided that everyone in their countries should worship the same way they did and those that didn’t faced severe persecution.

Mennonites were persecuted Ghent by Catholics in Ghent as early as 1554.

John Rogers was a Catholic priest who converted to Protestantism in the 1530s. On February 4, 1555, Rogers was burned alive for his conversion by Queen Mary, a Catholic.

French Protestants known as Huguenots were persecuted by Catholics for over 30 years. On August 24, 1572, Catholics went on a killing spree, slaughtering thousands of Huguenots in Paris.

Jesuits were persecuted and even put to death in England and Scotland as early as 1615 with the death of John Ogilvie.

The 1641 Irish Rebellion began with Catholics murdering 100 Protestants from Loughgall Parish, county Armagh.

On 1731, Catholic Archbishop Leopold von Firmian expelled up to 20,000 Lutherans from Salzburg.

These are just a few of the examples of religious persecution that took place across Europe and led to thousands of different Christians fleeing to the American colonies where they were free to worship in their own way. That religious freedom was foundational to the growth and way of life in the American colonies. It was also influential to the Framers who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which incorporated many biblical principles. The term ‘inalienable rights’ they used refers to the rights given to men by God, not government.

THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION. In the 1892 Supreme Court case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, Justice Josiah Brewer declared that America was a Christian nation in his written ruling:

“No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people.  This is historically true.  From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation. (465)

There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation.  These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people. (470)

If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every where a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, “In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing every where under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. (471)”

This statement is included as part of the dicta—that is, it is a gratuitous statement that is not essential to the Court’s holding.  The Court had already decided the issue before venturing its opinion as to the religious character of the country. Included was a remarkable list of 87 examples taken from pre-Constitutional documents, historical practice, colonial charters, and the like, which reveal our undisputed religious roots.  They range from the commissions of Christopher Columbus to the first charter of Virginia to the Declaration of Independence.

However, only 55 years later, in 1947, the US Supreme Court had a different view of the Christian nature of America. In the US Supreme Court case of Everson v. Board of Education, Associate Justice Hugo Black wrote:

“The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.”

Everson v Board of Education was the first time in U.S. History that the Supreme Court ruled to forbid religious practice among states and also the first time that the 14th Amendment had been combined with the 1st Amendment in so doing.

Justice Black was not done in his effort to strip America of its Christian foundation. In the 1962 Supreme Court case of Engel v. Vitale, Black banned student prayers in public schools, writing:

“The petitioners contend among other things that the state laws requiring or permitting use of the Regents’ prayer must be struck down as a violation of the Establishment Clause because that prayer was composed by governmental officials as a part of a governmental program to further religious beliefs. For this reason, petitioners argue, the State’s use of the Regents’ prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State. We agree with that contention since we think that the constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried on by government.”

(What Judge Black did was “INCORPORATE A LETTER” that Jefferson wrote to the Baptist church in CT, AND BY ORDER AT THE BENCH ADDED TO THE US CONSTITUTION.  SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE WAS NEVER EVER IN OUR ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION! ) See attached, The Wall:     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzY4Lf0WrShkU2p4QTdjS1JQQXc/view?usp=sharing

One year later, in 1963, the Supreme Court added Bible reading to the banned religious practices that long prevailed in our public schools. In the case of Abington v. Schempp, Associate Justice Thomas C. Campbell wrote:

“Because of the prohibition of the First Amendment against the enactment by Congress of any law “respecting an establishment of religion,” which is made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment, no state law or school board may require that passages from the Bible be read or that the Lord’s Prayer be recited in the public schools of a State at the beginning of each school day — even if individual students may be excused from attending or participating in such exercises upon written request of their parents.”

So now the nonexistent separation of church and state was officially the law of the land and prayer, the Bible and God were banned from public schools. It wasn’t long afterwards that they were also banned from government and many aspects of public life and display. Once the precedent was set by the liberal progressives on the Supreme Court, other liberal progressive groups declared war on Christianity and chip by chip the Christian foundation of America was weakened. Today that foundation is crumbling and on the verge of total collapse.

When America was still a Christian nation, we enjoyed the blessings that God bestowed upon us. Once our highest court rejected God, He pulled his hand of blessing away and turned us over to our sins and lusts. America today has become the nation described in Romans 1:18-31 – a nation accepting and embracing homosexuality and a number of other perverted sins.

America was founded by Christians and is being destroyed and buried by liberal progressives.”

*Article by Dave Jolly
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/01/america-founded-by-christians-destroyed-by-liberal-progressives/#3C6Eb8UMizQ58UxP.99

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/jefferson-and-th…-islamic-pirates/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/how-far-we-have-fallen/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/islam-christianity-and-the-antichrist/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/islam-by-lehmann-3/

Obama Courting UN?

Are we sure Obama is not the Anti-Christ?  Now he wants to lead the UN?

http://sidroth.org/articles/netanyahu-oppose-obama-un-bid                                                        From Sid Roth Ministries.  Where is the left media on this?

January 11, 2016

“NETANYAHU TO LEAD EFFORT IN THWARTING OBAMA BID FOR UN CHIEF: PM Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, will make common cause with moderate Arab governments in order to sabotage US President Obama’s presently brewing plans to succeed Ban Ki-moon when the South Korean diplomat ends his term as United Nations secretary-general on December 31, 2016. Obama has reportedly already discussed the issue of running for secretary-general with Democrats, Republicans, and Jewish officials in the US. The sources said that once Netanyahu got wind of Obama’s plans, the prime minister began to make efforts to submarine what he has referred to as “the Obama project.” “Wasn’t eight years of having Obama in office enough?” Netanyahu is quoted as saying in the Kuwaiti daily. “Eight years during which he ignored Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us hardships in the international arena.”

The newspaper cited the well-known fact that personal ties between Netanyahu and Obama are frayed. “Obama is the worst president Israel has had to deal with and the worst president for the Middle East and its allies, the moderate Arab states,” a Netanyahu aide is quoted as saying. A source close to Netanyahu did not deny that the premier is aiming to “torpedo the Obama project,” noting that “his presidency was characterized by Washington’s moving closer to the Muslim Brotherhood, toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak, and attempts to ally itself with political Islam. Obama’s term is ending with him forging an alliance with Iran, coming to an agreement with it on its nuclear program which in the end will result in a similar scenario that took place with North Korea,” the aide said. “Israel will not allow this to happen,” said the source. “It will take all of the necessary steps to prevent Iran from manufacturing a nuclear weapon either covertly or overtly.” (J. Post) News of Obama’s future UN ambitions is posted as a prayer alert for our intercessors.”

OBAMA ADMITS HE IS A MUSLIM:      https://youtu.be/tCAffMSWSzY 

“TEL AVIV GUNMAN KILLED IN EXCHANGE OF FIRE: Shin Bet domestic intelligence agents together with Counter-Terrorism officers shot and killed terrorist Nashat Milhem in his hometown of Arara in northern Israel on Friday, thus ending a days-long pursuit of the terrorist behind three murders in Tel Aviv. Milhem was found in a hideout, following an intensive investigation that included many undercover and overt operations to track him down. The Arab-Israeli terrorist had been on the run since he opened fire at Israelis sitting at the Simta bar in Tel Aviv, murdering Alon Bakal and Shimon Roimi, and later, shooting dead cab driver Amin Sha’aban during his getaway. Milhem identified the Shin Bet agents and Counter-Terrorism officers as they approached a structure he used as a hideout. He tried to escape, and then opened fire at security forces using the sub-machine gun in his possession, which he also used to murder his victims in Tel Aviv the previous week. Special forces “returned fire and killed” the suspect, the Shin Bet said. “There were no injuries among our forces.” Israelis breathed a collective sigh of relief on Friday evening. (Jerusalem Post)

HAMAS MOURNS THE DEATH OF ‘MARTYR’ MILHEM: Hamas on Friday issued a statement mourning the death of Nashat Milhem, the terrorist from Tel Aviv who was eliminated by Israeli security forces in Arara. “Hamas mourns the martyr hero Nashat Milhem, who confused Israel for more than a week after he shattered the myth that Israel brags about and carried out an attack in the heart of the enemy,” said a Hamas spokesman. The Islamic Jihad terrorist group, meanwhile, condemned Israel for killing Milhem and threatened that “Israel will pay for its crimes.” Just a week ago, Hamas welcomed the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, saying, “The shooting attack in Tel Aviv at the start of the new year is a clear sign that the entire Zionist entity will be exposed to acts of resistance.” (Arutz-7) “They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.” Prov 4:17

HAMAS CELL PLANNED TO KILL ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER: Hazem Sandouqa, 22, from Jerusalem’s Old City, Fahdi Abu Qaian, 19, a Bedouin Israeli from the Negev, and Hamas activist Ahmad Azzam, 24, from Judea & Samaria, planned to plant explosives in the Jerusalem Payis Arena at a time when Israel’s PM Netanyahu was to speak at the site, according to the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office. The indictment said the three planned to place the device beneath the stage at the multi-purpose sports arena in Malha where the Prime Minister was set to appear. The indictment added that the Hamas activist rented an apartment in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis and purchased explosive materials both personally as well as through the help of Sandouqa. (Times of Israel) Pray for the protection of Israel’s PM Netanyahu and his family. Continue to intercede for Netanyahu’s strength, wisdom and integrity on many difficult fronts as he leads the country.

ISIS CLAIMS ATTACK ON ISRAELI TOURISTS IN CAIRO: ISIS has claimed responsibility for an armed assault on Israeli tourists in Cairo. The attack last week which security sources said targeted a bus meant to transport Israeli Arabs, caused no casualties. Egypt’s Interior Ministry said it was directed at security forces. ISIS claimed its members carried out the shooting in response to a call by the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to target Jews “everywhere.” The group said in a statement released on the internet that light arms were used in the attack. The shooting took place at the Three Pyramids Hotel, on a road leading to the Giza pyramids southwest of Egypt’s capital. (Jerusalem Post)

ISIS FIGHTER EXECUTES HIS OWN MOTHER IN PUBLIC: A fighter from terror group ISIS publicly executed his own mother because she asked him to defect from its ranks, an NGO monitoring human rights abuses in Syria and eyewitnesses said. Ali Saqr, 21, executed his 35-year-old mother Lena al-Qasem outside the post office in Raqqa, in front of “hundreds of people,” in which al-Qasem worked. The NGO said the mother and son argued over the son’s commitment to the terrorist group. Following the dispute, the fighter reported her to his leaders, who then arrested her. (Times of Israel) Pray for the overwhelming military defeat of ISIS.

RECORDINGS REVEAL QADDAFI FORETOLD RISE OF RADICAL ISLAM, EURO INVASION:Doomed Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi delivered a prophetic warning in 2011, saying Islamic terror would spread across North Africa and hit Europe if he was removed from power, newly released phone transcripts revealed Thur. 7 Jan. 2016. Speaking to former British PM Tony Blair, Qaddafi said “Jihadists want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe.” A British foreign affairs committee investigating Qaddafi’s ouster released the transcripts of two phone calls to Blair, both of which reportedly took place on Feb. 25, 2011. Qaddafi fled the Libyan capital city of Tripoli that summer, and rebels killed him several months later.

During the first call in the morning, Qaddafi told Blair, “The story is simply this: an organization has laid down sleeping cells in North Africa, called the Al Qaeda Organization in North Africa. The sleeping cells in Libya are similar to dormant cells in America before 9/11.” In the second call, a few hours later, he added: “I will have to arm the people and get ready for a fight. Libyan people will die, damage will be on the Mediterranean, Europe and the whole world. These armed groups are using the crumbling Libyan regime as a justification – and we shall fight them.” Analysts say Al Qaeda splinter groups did seize territory in Libya after rebels ousted and killed Qaddafi. Islamic jihadis in Iraq and Syria merged to form what would be known as the ISIS terror group by 2013, and eventually moved to capture land in North Africa as well. (Fox)”

Note: If the Anti-Christ is alive and on th scene now, and we know he’s Muslim, after what we have seen with Obama, are we sure HE isn’t the Anti-Christ?  He’s setting himself up with the Devil’s help, and all against Israel.

GLENN BECK AND AUTHOR JOEL RICHARDSON DISCUSS THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST:            https://youtu.be/q1GfKuuxIHY

http://christinprophecy.org/articles/the-muslim-antichrist-theory/

http://www.joels-trumpet.com

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2015/March/Will-the-Biblical-Antichrist-Be-a-Muslim/

http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch05_comparing_the_biblical_antichrist.htm

 

 

Every Muslim Will Bow Before Jesus

**Introduction:

First, I am not sure whether this interpretation is right or not. As I know the Antichrist is going to come out of the Old Roman Empire.  If as Irvin Baxter interprets, on the 4 horses of the Apocalypse this; the Red Horse is Communism, (China, Russia, and N. Korea ). The Black Horse, is Capitalism (America).  The Pale Horse, comes from the Greek word Chloros (Pale green) Islam, and the White Horse is the Old Roman Empire, (what is left, the Vatican). Whereas, if the Antichrist is coming out of the Vatican, as they want this One World Order so much…they will though have help from Islam and Russia and China.  And 1/3 or the world as we know it will be destroyed.  Keep in mind also that recently a Sheikh in Jordan came out and said that Palestine, was never in the Koran and belongs to the Jews.  And here is link.

https://www.haaretz.com/jordan-sheikh-claims-israel-belongs-to-jews-1.5324929

REPOST FROM:

Matt Barber January 11, 2016

Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/01/every-muslim-will-bow-before-jesus/#EkPsdWpLaXdeYOXm.99

“My goal here is not to offend. Neither is it to persuade. In matters of the spirit, there is but One capable of opening the eyes of the heart. Rather, my objective is to sow seeds of Truth so that the Holy Spirit might, according to His perfect pleasure, purpose and will, cultivate the soul as He deems just.

We Christ followers are admonished to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us (see Matthew 5:44). This obliges us to at once love and pray for, among other antichrist subsets, the 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, including the hundreds-of-millions who faithfully embrace Muhammad’s myriad commands to violence against the Christian, the Jew and all other non-Muslims.

GLENN BECK AND JOEL RICHARDSON DISCUSS THE ISLAMIC ANTI-CHRIST                  https://youtu.be/q1GfKuuxIHY

It is impossible to do this in our flesh and can only be accomplished through the supernatural grace and power of the Holy Spirit. It is, indeed, our great hope and prayer that every Muslim – every human being – might surrender self and come to the saving knowledge and grace of Christ Jesus, who, alone, is “the way and the truth and the life.” For, “No one comes to the Father except through [Him]” (see John 14:6).

To be sure, it is the express desire of both God the Father and Christ His Son that each and every Muslim on earth should abandon Muhammad’s broad path to perdition, turnabout and move toward Christ’s narrow path to eternal life. “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

God both created and loves, in a way incomprehensible to the finite human mind, every human being ever born, or otherwise. He wove us together in our mother’s wombs and numbered our every hair. Yet God the Father has but one begotten Son. The rest of us, in order to become God’s children, must be adopted and grafted into the vine by, in and through the One who is the Son – He who is the Vine: Christ Jesus (see John 15:5).

Those who are not adopted by God are not children of God.  And so the Muslim is not a child of God.

Indeed, to become a child of God, we must ask God, through Christ, to adopt us. We mustn’t just believe upon Him – for “Even the demons believe that” (see James 2:19) – but, rather, we must also receive Him as Lord and Savior. We must follow Jesus, the one true God, as our only God. “But to all who believed him (Jesus) and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12).

The pluralist notion that, “There are many paths to God,” is an insidious lie spread by the father of lies himself. Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it” (Matthew 7:13).

Jesus is the “narrow gate.”

Merriam Webster defines “pluralism” as “a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality.”

To embrace pluralism is to embrace certain death.

The aim of pluralist philosophy is to muddy the waters and divert mankind from the “narrow gate” that leads to eternal salvation (Jesus), while, at one go, herding us along the “broad road” to eternal damnation (anything and everything that denies the singular and exclusive deity of Christ, or that rejects the certainty that He alone can save us from hell).

Pluralism is a non-starter. It is inherently self-contradictory and, therefore, self-defeating. Each of the world’s major religions fundamentally contradicts the other. They cannot all be true. Either one is true or none is true. Pick your “ism,” be it Muhammadism, Hinduism, Buddhism, humanism, atheism, et al., and, serving to undo each, you will find the leavening lie of pluralism.

Christ is both tolerant and intolerant, utterly exclusive and wholly inclusive. Romans 10:13 promises, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord (Jesus) will be saved.” And John 3:36 warns, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.”

Not only do Muslims reject Christ, the Son of God, but those who are faithful to the teachings of their “prophet” Muhammad persecute, under flame and sword, His very body: the Christian faithful.”   (Note:  Remember too, when Jesus was crucified as the sacrifice for the sins of mankind,  Israel was in the hands of the Romans, Caesar, Herod.  There was NO Catholic Church then, for the first Pope was not until 560AD and Muhammad, the descendant of Ishmael, Abraham’s son by his Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, [as Sarah refused to believe God’s prophesy of Isaac].  Whereby neither did Muhammad come on the scene until 560AD.  There was only ONE CHURCH IN THE BEGINNING…THAT GOD ORDAINED, THAT OF THE JEW AND THE JEWISH TABERNACLE.  Through Jesus, God’s son, Christianity was born.  The FIRST Christians were NOT the Catholic church but were ALL JEWS!  Matthew, Marc, Luke, John, the disciples of Jesus Christ.  When Apostle Paul started to preach and traveled to Greece, and all the lands, the gospel was opened up then, to the gentiles, and Christianity was born long before either the Catholic Church or Islam.  Also remember that Herod, and all the Roman soldiers then, especially Caiaphas and his coherts, who were part of the ROMAN ARMY, killed Jesus!  They even had the audacity to appoint the priests back then, for Jewish Tabernacle.  And how the Catholic Church LIED too, that Jews killed Jesus, when in fact he drew throngs of crowds of his own Jewish citizens.   It was a lie…that carried through all the way to Hitler and the Holocaust!)

As I’ve said before, Islam is Christianity’s photo-negative. While Christianity brings eternal life to those choosing to surrender to Jesus, who, as He declared in no uncertain terms, is, alone, “the way and the truth and the life,” Islam brings eternal death to those who surrender to Allah, who, as declared Muhammad, is “the best of deceivers” (“[A]nd Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers.” [see Surah 3:54])

It’s worth again mentioning here that the Bible similarly calls Satan a deceiver. Revelation 12:9, for instance, explains that he “deceives the whole world.” Even though it is often claimed that Muslims, Christians and Jews “worship the same God,” this is so very much not so. Allah is not God. Allah is the deceiver, and, insofar as Christianity, true Christianity, spreads peace, love and truth – Islam, true Islam, spreads violence, hate and deception. Allah definitely exists. He’s just not God. Though he wanted to “ascend above the tops of the clouds” and “make [himself] like the Most High” (see Isaiah 14:14), Allah, most assuredly, is not God.

Indeed, the “best of deceivers” cares not whether we worship the idol of self, as do the secular-“progressives,” the deceiver himself, as do the Muslims, or some other false god. The deceptive one cares only that we deny God the Father, Christ His Son and the Holy Spirit, three in one.

To the Muslim, to everyone, know this: You may deny Christ until the day you die. But soon after, you will deny Him no more. Hate Him you may still, but deny Him you will not. Philippians 2:10-11 assures us, “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

The die was cast before time began. Every Christian, Jew, atheist and pagan, to include each and every Muslim on earth – or, like Muhammad, who once walked the earth – will, in the end, bow a knee in worship to Jesus.

Because “in the end” is just the beginning. Yet, whether you bow first in this life, or first in the next, you will bow.  And the when and how will mean much.  For it will decide the where and how of your eternity.”

Now I will add to this article.  Lets set the record straight.  ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEW!   1921BC  Genesis 12: 1 to Abraham.  “And I will make you a great nation!”  2. “I will bless you and make your name GREAT!” 3. ” And I WILL BLESS THEM WHO BLESS YOU AND CURSE HIM WHO CURSES YOU, AND IN YOU (ISRAEL WHICH AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON, OBAMA), SHALL ALL FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED.

Genesis 15:18  “In the same day  the LORD made a COVENANT with Abram, saying unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. ” (the actual area promised by God to Abraham goes all the way to the Nile River in Egypt, which includes the Sinai, the Arab Peninsula, much of modern day Iraq [as Abram was born in UR in northern Iraq where the Tigress and Euphrates meet], most of Syria , and all of Lebanon.) *Expositor’s Study Bible

Ishmael: Genesis 16:12  “And he will be a WILD man, (Arabs) his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his heathen.  (ISLAM!).   (These predictions describe the Arab people perfectly.  They cannot get along with anyone in this world, and cannot get along even with themselves.  The descendants of Ismael dwell in the presence of all his brethren (Israel) but, do not subdue them, and in fact never subdue them.) Expositor’s Study Bible .  They will never subdue them, because God’s hand is on Israel and the Jewish people.   During the Ottoman Period, like what is happening  in the world now, their goal is to take over all of Western Civilization.  The Ottoman period was from the 1300’s  until 1920…blog after blog on this site.  Thomas Jefferson too, dealt with the Babary pirates, Arabs.  They are not a peaceful religion, never have been since Ishmael, down to Esau, (meaning the hairy one)  who was the only one in the Bible who God said, “Him do I hate!” Esau and his twin Jacob struggled in the womb.  Jacob thereafter always had a limp.

Wherefore, what we are seeing is all leading up to the  end days, for until the Anti-Christ who I and others wiser, believe is alive and on the scene today, pushing for a Palestinian State, the New World Order, and in peace with allow the Jews to construct the Temple once again next to  the Dome at the Rock.  Look up!  JESUS IS COMING!   DO NOT BE MISLED BY CHARLATANS OR FALSE PROPHETS.  HAVE WISDOM AND ASK GOD TO OPEN YOU EYES TO SEE AND YOUR EARS TO HEAR GOD’S TRUTHS.   May God help us in America with a mighty Army of Christians and Jews at the polls, and may God’s hand continue to bless and protect Israel.  In God We Trust!

**End notes:  Since this writing, I have pondered whether this be true. Leaving it open for God to correct.  For we now know that the Antichrist is  coming out of the Old Roman Empire. The 4 horses, now through new interpretations are to mean the following.  The RED HORSE: Communism, China, No. Korea, and Russia. The BLACK HORSE: Capitalism,        America.  THE PALE HORSE:  Actually from the Greek word “Chloros” pale green, Islam. THE WHITE HORSE:  The Vatican, which includes all the countries too, from the Old Roman Empire, including Greece, stretching to most of Europe. Don’t forget too, that when Jesus was crucified, Caesar ruled in the Roman Empire.  And too the audacity of the Romans. In the Jewish tabernacle ordained by God, it was Pilote who appointed the Priests.  No wonder Jesus threw the tables over and lost it with the money changers, calling them hypocrits.  This Pope Francis now is a Socialist, and wants the One World Order and open borders.  Something I don’t understand, with all the carnage he saw in Brazil and south America and people suffering in dictatorships.  But, that is his mindset. Look up Jesus is on the horizon, soon! (The “Horses” came from Irvin Baxter End Times Ministry).

Obama Admits He Is A Muslim youtube.com This man is not only an antagonist, but agnostic, and Obama is not a Christian for CUFI and most evangelicals in the US love and back Israel. Check out this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=share

Articles:

http://www.joelstrumpet.com/?page_id=5755

Media  (Facinating with Glenn, Iran & Saudi’s in war coming?!):

http://www.joelstrumpet.com/?page_id=2899

THIS article from Freedom Outpost bears out..

http://freedomoutpost.com/2016/01/the-coming-war-between-iran-and-saudi-arabia-was-prophesied/

 

 

Biblical Forgiveness

From Peacemakers.net   WORTH reblogging!  (Photo IITimothy 3

Eight Steps To Biblical Forgiveness
by Bill Fields

for definitions of the Biblical principles see
BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES IN RECONCILING BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS

NOTE: What has hindered true forgiveness as I’ve known in estrangement is lack of acknowledgment of sin, AND repentance!  I hope this helps those who need.  For if the other person does not repent there is no relationship, even though you have tried with all your heart, for God sees all things.  And HE will forgive you, while the unforgiving person will put himself in judgment, tests and trials.  

“While trying to bring reconciliation and healing between many bitter, hostile, and hurting people, I recognized that simply to ask “will you forgive me?” wasn’t bringing the kind of emotional and spiritual healing that Jesus Christ came to give to a broken world. Using Matthew 18:15-20 as a basis, I searched the Scriptures for biblical insights into confession, repentance, asking for forgiveness, restitution, reconciliation, and brotherhood. I discovered that the process of asking Christ into our hearts, and asking Him to be Lord of our lives as we became Christians, was the model for which I was looking.

In that light, I have used these Eight Steps To Complete Forgiveness in many cases. Therefore, I offer them to you with the hope that your experience and biblical insights will improve upon them. In pratical terms, true repentance will flow quite easily–but immature, false/worldly non-repentance, those having a form of Godliness always seeking truth but never practicing it (2 Timothy 3), will lack some of these elements and/or spiritual depth. Therefore these steps are presented in greater detail to aid in bringing true repentance and forgiveness or uncovering/exposing empty words (Ephesians 5:6-11) and the “form of godliness.”

A quick note about forgiveness which is often wrongly taught–Christians are to have a heart of forgiveness, such as Christ displayed upon the cross (Luke 23:24) and God has toward us sinners (Colossians 3:13). But often Christians are told to GIVE forgiveness for their own health or so that their sins can be forgiven, even if the sinner is unrepentant–this is unbiblical and destructive to the individual believer, the sinner who is unrepentant, and to the body of Christ, HIS Church, as well as to the non-believer. A heart of forgiveness patiently/eagerly waits to give forgiveness, as displayed in Matthew 18:21-35 knowing that their sin against God is far greater than another human’s sin against them, and by God’s grace, the heart of forgiveness shows Christ’s love, mercy, compassion, patience, grace, etc. thereby inviting the sinner to repent and enjoy God’s wonderfulness and Christian community through repentance and believing in Christ’s forgiveness of their sins and adding their forgiveness, their covenant to not hold their sins against them. God does NOT forgive where there is no repentance but God does show common grace and mercy as HE invites sinners to HIM through Godly repentance. see John Calvin’s exposition of Luke 23:34 and Dr. Jay Adams’ article A Basis For Forgiveness

NOTE: These steps should be used when you commit a sin (James 5:16, Matthew 5:23-26; Matthew 18:15-20), or when you see another sin (Matthew 7: 1-6; Galatains 6:1-5; James 5:19-20), when a leader sins (1 Timothy 5:17-22). We must be sensitive to honor Matthew 5:23-24, as these matters must be addressed quickly. To God, reconciling a relationship is important before the next worship experience.

Eight Steps To Biblical Forgiveness

Step 1: Have the OFFENDER confess specifically to the OFFENDED what was done or said wrong that caused offense.

It appears that the specific act of confessing the OFFENDER’s sins (Leviticus 5.5, Numbers 5:7, James 5:16, 1 John 1:9), demonstrates to the OFFENDED party the OFFENDER’s godly sorrow, the OFFENDER’s knowledge of the sin committed, and the OFFENDER’s willingness to accept responsibility and consequences for their actions.

WARNING: If the OFFENDER cannot state specifically what he did or said that was wrong, his confession is incomplete. If the OFFENDER finds he cannot remember enough of the facts of his offense, he should ask the OFFENDED (be sure the OFFENDER has the correct spiritual attitude to hear) to help the OFFENDER recall from the OFFENDED’s perspective, what was done or said wrongly.

WARNING: Failure by the OFFENDER on this step MAY BE a sign of rejecting the Word of God and the Work of the HOLY SPIRIT. It MAY BE the OFFENDER needs to study the Bible and compare GOD’S WORD with the OFFENDER’s life.

WARNING: Do NOT proceed beyond any step until successfully completed! To do so adds to a “form of Godliness.” 2 Tim. 3:5

If the OFFENDER comes to an OFFENDED to ask for forgiveness, and cannot recall what the OFFENDER did or said that was wrong, or the OFFENDER is unwilling to listen as to how the OFFENDED was hurt, then the process must be stopped! Next, ask the OFFENDER to come back when he has understood for what he is asking forgiveness. Failure to complete this step correctly will result in increased hurt and division.

NOTE: If at any time an OFFENDER is unwilling to listen to how the OFFENDED brother was sinned against, or if the OFFENDER is not willing to ask for forgiveness and be reconciled, the OFFENDER must be confronted with his unwillingness to change. If the OFFENDER persists in a wrong attitude, then you must proceed according to the biblical principles in Matthew 18:15-20 if the OFFENDED is unwilling to listen or begin the forgiveness process and be reconciled. In that case, the OFFENDED must be confronted with his unwillingness to forgive. If the OFFENDED does not repent of an unforgiving heart, he must be taken through the next step in the Matthew 18:15-2O process.

Step 2: Have the OFFENDING party identify the biblical principle(s) he violated.

In this step, the process of identifying the actual biblical values and principles that were violated helps both the OFFENDER and the OFFENDED to learn from God’s Word, and learn from their experiences. As a result, their witness encourages the whole Body of Christ to grow more holy.

If the OFFENDER is unable to identify a biblical value, then either the OFFENDED, or a third brother (a peacemaker or a witness) should take the necessary time to search the Bible together until the biblical values and principles are found. Then the OFFENDER and the OFFENDED should come to an agreement upon the biblical values that were violated.

If the OFFENDER does not agree with the identified biblical values and cannot identify any himself, then an appropriate amount of time should be given for additional discovery, (the witnesses or peacemakers help in this process). If no biblical values are discovered or agreed upon, then the Matthew 18:15-2O should be taken to the next appropriate step; that is, tell it to the Church.

NOTE: The reason for proceeding to the next step in the Matthew 18:15-20 process is to bring other godly men and women into the process to help identify what is wrong, what is necessary to correct the broken relationship, and to oversee that all parties fulfill God’s directions in their lives.

Therefore, when you come to an impasse, either alone or as a peacemaker, tell each party that you need the help of others. Ask for suggestions as to whom each party would be willing to listen to for spiritual direction. Then call another meeting and proceed to the next step. Some Scriptural helps to identify biblical values and principles are: Matthew 5:1-12; Romans 12–15; 1 Corinthians 13; Galatians 5–6; Ephesians 4-6; James 1–5; 2 Peter 1:5-9.

Step 3: Have the OFFENDER ask the OFFENDED “How were you wronged when I did (or said)………..?”

This step allows the OFFENDER to experience in part and hopefully bear the OFFENDED’s burdens, (Hebrews 13:2) in a large way, by how the OFFENDED was impacted by the offense. We know that Christ suffered and died on the cross for our sins, when we offended Him–it appears important for the human side of the model for the OFFENDER to fully understand the consequences and impact of his sin against the OFFENDED. In addition, this can enable the OFFENDED to be released from some of the pain and hurt caused by the offense. Matthew 18:23-35.

WARNING: If the OFFENDED is not willing to share how he was sinned against by the offense, he may be acting as a Pharisee (not really wronged, but only interested in being judgmental in a unbiblical way–Matthew 7:1-5). Or, if the OFFENDED is not willing to seek reconciliation and is hanging on to his bitterness and resentment, the OFFENDED should be confronted with his “unspiritualness” and if unwilling to change, should be taken to the next step in the Matthew 18:15-20 process.

CAUTION: If this step is successfully completed, Do Not Stop Here, the tendency is for both parties is to “feel” in closer communion and, therefore, believe that the restoration process has been completed. It hasn’t, proceed to Step 4.

Step 4: Have the OFFENDER recall, as best he can, a time when they were wronged/offended by another, in the same way they caused offense.

Examples are not always easy to recall in a short amount of time, but stick with it, the rewards will be more than worth it. Remember the biblical values and principles in Step 2, and this should help the OFFENDER to remember a time when someone sinned against them, violating those same biblical values principles, and how Christ has changed them, 2 Corinthians 1:1-7.

The OFFENDER’S sharing of how he was impacted when he was offended in a similar way, will help the OFFENDED believe that there has been full communication between them, and that the OFFENDER does understand what they did or said wrong, and how they hurt the OFFENDED.

WARNING: If the OFFENDER can not share a time when they were hurt by the violation of the same biblical values/principles, there is good reason to believe the OFFENDER still does not fully understand what he has done wrong, and will not be able to grow fully from this experience. Therefore, the OFFENDER should repeat Steps 1 through 4 until he does understand. All sin has it’s origin in pride, power and control. Therefore, everyone is subject to similar experiences, though not in specific details.

If after an appropriate amount of time, there seems to be little understanding, then proceed to the next appropriate step in Matthew 18:15-2O.

If the OFFENDED seems to be less than satisfied with the OFFENDER’S understanding and sharing, check with the OFFENDED to be sure you understand what it is the OFFENDED feels was less than satisfactory, and in your discernment, if you think the OFFENDER has misunderstood, then have the OFFENDER repeat Steps 1,2, and 3.

WARNING: However, if you think the OFFENDER has shared appropriately and does understand, and the OFFENDED party continues to hang on to their bitterness and hurt, by asking for more and more understanding from the OFFENDER, then the OFFENDED must be confronted with their unforgiving attitude and proceed to the next appropriate step in Matthew 18:15-20.

In either case, give appropriate time for recall and sharing. If this step cannot be fully completed to the satisfaction of all, then the one who cannot recall, share, or accept, should be confronted with his lack of insight, wisdom, and spiritual imaturity. If he remains unchanged, then proceed to the next appropriate step of Matthew 18:15-20.

Step 5: Have the OFFENDER restate their sin(s) expressing Godly Sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10-14) AND wait for the OFFENDED’s response.

I used to say for step 5: Ask for forgiveness. But the more I studied, the more I realized the asking put an unbiblical pressure/expectation on the OFFENDED. A simple confession before God and others, with Godly Sorrow is enough. The response from the OFFENDED is fully the OFFENDED’s responsibility.

By now, a majority of the reconciliation process is completed and this step is a check point to be sure that all previous steps have been completed successfully. For example, if the OFFENDER still hesitates or does not demonstrate Godly Sorrow after an appropriate amount of time, then you must proceed to the next appropriate step in Matthew 18:15-2O.

WARNING: If the OFFENDED does not give unconditional forgiveness upon biblical repentance, at this step, then he must be confronted with an unforgiving spirit, then proceed to the next appropriate step in Matthew 18:15-2O.

Step 6: Have the OFFENDER repeat in his own words, the answer given by the OFFENDED, when expressing Godly Sorrow.

This steps gives the OFFENDER a chance to restate clearly the answer he heard. This will usually bring a better understanding and become a foundational step toward rebuilding trust in a Godly relationship.

If the OFFENDER cannot repeat in his own words (assuming the OFFENDED responded Biblically) what the OFFENDED said, then there is good reason to believe the OFFENDER still does not understand how the OFFENDED was wronged. Great care should be given here to proceed slowly in repeating the steps to be sure it’s not more than a communication block.

If the OFFENDED gives a conditional forgiveness, or does not forgive, or gives an “I’ll forgive, but I can’t forget attitude, he is to be confronted with his unforgiving attitude, and if unwilling to repent, he should proceed to the next step of the Matthew 18:15-2O process.

NOTE: If the OFFENDED fails to give complete forgiveness, the OFFENDER is still released from the bondage of his sin, if he biblically asked for forgiveness. 1 John 1:9 – 2:5)

Step 7: Have the OFFENDER ask, “What can I do differently, so I won’t hurt you again?”

Here the biblical act of repentance and the turning away from his sin is brought into the forgiveness act. Each now bears the trust and responsibility to bear one another’s burdens, and together work out a way in which they can show love and develop trust, based on biblical values and principles.

It’s acceptable to include follow-up meetings, as necessary, to gain feedback, establish accountability so that reconciliation, restitution, and restoration have been completed.

Step 8: Restitution: What can we do to make you whole?

Far from the normal charge of punishment or revenge, restitution involves the whole Christian Community including the OFFENDER and OFFENDED, pursuing justice, mercy and faithfulness.

Here the OFFENDER recognizes what impact and consequences his sin has caused the OFFENDED, and is more than willing to do all he can to give back more than his sin cost the OFFENDED, and the OFFENDED shares equally the responsibility to bear the burden of restitution.

WARNING: If the OFFENDER stubbornly balks or refuses to participate righteously in the restitution process, then the Matthew 18 process of treating them as a non-believer opens the possibility the OFFENDED could/should take the OFFENDER to secular court, seeking justice from one not in the Christian Community.

WARNING: Here, it’s possible for the OFFENDED to wrongly try to extract every penny (Matthew 5:26) from his OFFENDER, this demonstrates an unbiblical forgiveness (Matthew 18:21-35). The same is true of “I can forgive you, but I won’t forget it.” The OFFENDED must be reminded of two cogent passages, 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 (not shaming God by going to the secular court against another believer), and Matthew 18: 21-35, (God’s definition of forgiveness).

WARNING: If the OFFENDED continues unsatisfied in his claim, then he is to be confronted with his unforgiving spirit, if he refuses to give complete forgiveness, then proceed to the next appropriate Matthew 18:15-2O step.

WARNING: If given enough time and the OFFENDER and/or the OFFENDED is unwilling to commit to a follow-through plan of restoration, then there is serious question of rejecting the work of God’s Word and Holy Spirit and there is not a complete Biblical repentance or forgiveness, Therefore, he must be confronted and if unwilling to change, proceed to the next appropriate step in the Matthew 18:15-20 process.

This process when done correctly by all parties, will bring a Holy Spirit directed reconciliation and a spiritual reunion that builds and does not tear down (1 Corinthians 13:10). May God bless you as a peacemaker!

Confronting Sin And Repentance: https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/confronting-sin-and-repentance/

Jeremiah: The call to genuine repentance (4:1-4)
Expositors Bible Commentary: FrankE. Gaebelein

1-2 The people’s cry of anguish (3:24-25) is now answered by the Lord with an assurance of blessing when they do return to him. There is a vast difference between perfunctory repentance and heartfelt restoration to God. If Judah would truly repent, it must be to God alone (v.1). Furthermore, they must really rid themselves of their detestable things, their idols. Evidently they had not yet done this. Moreover, if the people will remain steadfast (on their oath in the name of the Lord) in the essential qualities of truth, justice, and righteousness, then their example will profoundly affect the nations (v.2). Judah’s conversion will herald blessing for the nations. To swear by God’s name involves recognition of him as Lord. Oaths in the name of other gods were not to be sworn by them. When the nations are being blessed, the Abrahamic blessing is being realized (cf. Gen 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; see also Isa 2:3; Zech 8:20-23). The very name of Israel will become a formula of blessing. 

3-4 Jeremiah now uses two figures to show the nation’s need of spiritual renewal: one from agriculture and the other from physiology. He exhorts the people of Judah to break up their neglected and untilled hearts, which had become as hard as an uncultivated field (v.3). No farmer will sow seed on unplowed ground. So the plow of repentance and obedience was needed to remove the outer layer of weeds and thorns that had resulted from idolatry. Otherwise, thorns would choke the newly sown seed (Hos 10:12). The very foundations of the nation’s spiritual life needed tending, even restructuring. 

Again, Jeremiah calls for repentance—this time under the figure of circumcision (v.4). The hard encrustation on their hearts must be cut away. Nothing less than removal of all natural obstacles to the will of God would suffice. Outward ritual must be replaced by inward reality (cf. Deut 10:16; Rom 2:28-29). The heart was involved because outward worship was valueless unless the inner life was given over to God. Their hearts must be spiritually receptive. The only other alternative to obedience was to experience the fitting wrath of God. Jeremiah everywhere underscores the necessity for the new heart as in the prophecy of the new covenant (ch. 31).

page 408 Amazingly enough, even at that late hour there was still opportunity for repentance. Prophecies of judgment are conditional; obedience to God reverses the threat of judgment. But there must be inner cleansing, even of the thought life, if disaster is to be averted

Page 411 “Judah’s total corruption (5:1-31)

This chapter reveals Jerusalem under moral investigation. It may be viewed as a theodicy. A superficial reading of the earlier chapters of the prophecy might lead one to conclude that the nation has been charged with all it has been guilty of. But the depths of her sin against the Lord must be reviewed at length. The nation must come to a much fuller realization of her ingrained sin. The desperately low spiritual state of the nation must be brought under the searchlight of God’s scrutiny. Moreover, her sin must be judged in view of her continued refusal to heed the Lord’s gracious calls to repent and so avert disaster. What a telling portrayal of unrelieved apostasy the chapter gives us! ”

You may also benefit from reading these following helps…

• When Should I Confront Another?
• When to Meet
• Focusing Your Dispute
• Biblical Principles In Reconciling Broken Relationships
• Checking Your Heart

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Estranged Adult Children

I am a senior.  I see pain all around me with seniors, being in my complex, at the doctors, or in stores.  I see parents in need who have no one,  and alone, without a visit, a word of praise, or a helping hand.   The video below was posted on Facebook, and it struck a nerve, whereby,  its’ contents are needed.   On here  I have covered abuse on the above bar, “Shattered for Christ”, and the bi-polar outcome of suicide of my youngest son.  I have done posts on seniors and loneliness and abuse.  However, I hadn’t touched on the “Estranged Adult Children”, and after viewing the video below, copied the very touching words and pain caused in this type of estrangement.  To the younger generation in their 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, I say take heed at your contribution to this terrible epidemic in this pop culture society.  For God is watching and “we reap what we sow.”  As you will see, estrangement, too is all about control.  For what end? When the parent you love way down deep and yet hate, may be dead soon.  The battle belongs to the Lord!   From video:

“They are adults, who when children, must have recorded and journaled every unintentional mistake/error their parent/parents had ever made.  They are adult children born into the “me” generation who  are likely not perfect parents themselves.  Someone has them believing that they endured poor parenting.  Rather than move forward these adult children retain the power position of accusing, blaming and guilt.  Generation ME  has never known a world that put DUTY before SELF, and believes  that the needs of the individual should come first.   Of course parents wish they had done things differently!  Parents failed to give a sense of duty and belonging.  Unmet needs.  There are no perfect parents–there are no perfect children.

Unlike the first generation, many of them have their own homes, cars, and all can afford lovely holiday’s.  In my day growing up, their was no Social Security for my Grandparents, and my own parents did the  duty that SOCIETY then expected of them, brought them to live with them, and /or paid for hospitalization, or nursing homes.  My father did for his mother, and my maternal grandfather who lived with us when I was about 10.  So, todays freebies and yes, neglect were not always true of working parents. (I also feel that our Government is partially to blame, media, and taking God and prayer out of schools.)  My mother took care of her father, as there were no Medicare/Medicaid and parents and churches always helped the elderly.

Estrangement doesn’t happen because someone did something.  Sometimes too, it is guilts.  If it’s that easy for either a child or a parent to throw the other away, then they were lying in wait for the opportunity to make the separation.”  (And my I interjection here is,  that is not in God’s Holy Word.)  “There’s no real fault, just as there shouldn’t be blame.”  author unknown (video)

“Blaming a mother is just another negative way of clinging to her still.”   author unknown

“We’re all guilty…we’re all innocent” author unknown

It’s interpretation and none of us know how our words or actions were interpreted.”  author unknown

On honoring, whether we, parents made errors or not!   https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/honoring-your-parents/

Generational Curses handed down:  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/generational-curses/

“The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.”  Mahatma Gandhi

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky we felt them and turned them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”  Kahil Gibran

“The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression” (If proper repentance is engaged), “and by no means clearing the guilty” (if  repentance is not forthcoming) , “visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation “(that is, being accountable to HIM if there is no repentance.)  KJ Expositors study Bible

“People are unrealistic, illogical and self-centered” in this pop culture we live in, so far away from God Almighty. ” Love them anyways.”  Mother Teresa

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?  I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that YOU ARE my life.” Kahil Gibran

” A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.  It knows no law, no pity.  It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”  Agatha Christie

“It is better to die on your face rather to live on your knees.” (Begging constantly, preaching to the one ignoring..a form of control.)

“According to estranged adult children all past and current suffering is the fault of parents.  How can a parent be held responsible for an adults lack of joy?  This makes one curious about their current environment and /or heart if they call themselves a Christian.   Generally, parents have good intent .  A willful and sudden stop of all communication shows very poor intent on the part of the adult child.”

“Sadness, is a wall between two gardens.”  Kahil Gibran

“We’re all guilty — We’re all innocent.  It’s the interpretation and none of us know how our words or actions were interpreted.”  author unknown

“If your brother (adult child) trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.” Luke 17:3

“There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION (guilt) to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, (world) but after the spirit.”  Romans 8:1

I have grieved, cried and sobbed in my pillow at not only divorces, but the death of my three month old baby in 1958,  the suicide of my bi-polar 19 year old in 1999, and the total estrangement of  my 53 year old son, who hated his father as I; the finger pointing accusations of two daughters, one I haven’t seen out of state for 9 years. Yet, am saved by Grace, God is and always has been my advocate, in spite of any indignant accusing, I therefore stand on the word of God.  NO Condemnation; if God be for me, man or child cannot be against me, in Jesus name.    I rebuke this silent epidemic as it is called, out of my life and my three remaining children’s lives…in Jesus name by the blood HE shed at the Cross.

This “Silent Epidemic” is too about control; and (possibly unspoken ) threat you will lose your family.  We tend to go around in circles between drama and chaos – – back and forth always the drama.  Is it about me?  NO!  It is about my relationship with Jesus, not feeding the complexities of your emptiness.   As an artist, a writer, I find I have wanted to push, teach, instill, and sometimes,  ram my knowledge to the ones who are not interested one iota.  Since Jesus inside me IS the me that I am now,  I think I have seen it as a rejection of HIM as well as me.  Now perhaps in my own fears as I am getting older, and more and more disabled in all my arthritic pain, and shortcomings, I have come to the conclusion after playing these videos and listening, that I have to leave it all at the Cross.   Whereby, I am praying that God give me the discernment I need, when I always feel I am walking on eggshells.  Isaiah 43:10-12 Which says, too, “You are to be my witnesses”, whereby in Jesus name, I will stop blaming myself, and trust my instincts based on scriptures that God gives me and begin to implement rules and boundaries towards my adult children.   With this, I leave it once more all to you Lord.  You are my advocate, my judge, my Father, my instructor, my redeemer, my greatest love, denying self…my all…Thank you Lord.  Please I pray help others go through this walk and heal these estrangements.  We cannot change another only ourselves.  In only you Lord, who never EVER failed me, do I trust.

 

Perspective And C. S. Lewis

Christ, Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?  What was he? What is he to the world now, especially the secular media?

C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”…the Christian intellectual, from Oxford, as was William F. Buckley and his old debates with the agnostic Gore Vidal, still all on YouTube.  Quote C. S. Lewis from “The Great Divorce”. “I have nothing to do with any generality.  Nor with any man but you and me.  Oh, as you love your own soul remember.  You know that you and I were playing with loaded dice.  We didn’t want the other to be true.  We were afraid of crude salvationism, afraid of breach with the spirit of the age, afraid of redicule, afraid (above all) of real spiritual fears and hopes.  You think that, because hitherto you have experienced truth only with the abstract intellect. But when we are comparing Christians in general with non-Christians in general, we are usually not thinking about real people whom we know at all, but only about two vague ideas which we have got from novels and newspapers.  If you want to compare the bad Christian and the good Atheist, you must think about two real specimens whom you have actually met.  Unless we come down to brass tacks in that way, we shall only be wasting time.”

Lord, Liar, or Lunatic? “Lewis would conclude that atheism was too simple because it doesn’t adequately explain the complex design of the universe.  Later Lewis discussed his spiritual findings with J. R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, two fellow scholars.  Lewis kept looking at the myths and wondering if all those stories were really echoes of the one true story.  Lewis’ great concern was a fear of the divine interference.  He would later acknowledge: “Christianity placed at the center what then seemed to me a transcendental Interferer. He later understood this desire to maintain control of his own life, “this is my business and mine only.” As you may have stipulated.  But is it?

“I read Chesterton’s Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history.  Chesterton laid out a clear picture of the origin of civilization, with God stepping into history through the incarnation of His Son.”

“For when we look deep inside ourselves, we see the wretchedness of our souls, and the sin nature, as looking in a mirror, which is all about man’s will and the stubborn resign, that we know better.”  What arrogance.  That too is what is wrong with America today, the arrogance of this President, the arrogance of the American Pop Culture, which I hate.  Even the arrogance in rebuilding 911 and the new tower; built in defiance without repentance.  And it could come tumbling down again.  Does not God tell us over and over to “examine our own soul?” To “see” if there be any wicked way in us.  Does He expect us to be perfect?  Of course not, for when we err, that is when we are to go in our prayer “closet”, shut the door and the world out, and continually ask HIM for forgiveness.  For God gives us that free will.  It is your choice after all.  Jesus paid the ultimate price, so that we might be with HIM.

Lewis wrote: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.  When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.  A moderately bad man thinks he is all right.  This is common sense really.  You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping.  You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them.  You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk.  Good people know about both good and evil; bad people do not know about either.  Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.”  Mere Christianity

“No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves.  They are all holy when God’s hand is on the rein.  They  all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.”   The Great Divorce. (Which in some instances becomes idol worship.)

Lewis further wrote:  “God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.  If you are thinking of becoming a Christian,” (asking Jesus to save you and come into your life as Lord and Savior).  “I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the WHOLE of you, brains and all.  But fortunately, it works the other way around.  Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened; one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.  That is why an uneducated believer like Paul Bunyan was able to write a book (Pilgrims Progress) that has astonished the whole world.” Mere Christianity

For when we come to Jesus, like Saul on that road to Tarsus, who fell on the road, the presence of God was so overwhelming, and the Holy Ghost fell upon him.  A slave trader and murderer, like John Newton was, until both had a Holy encounter with Christ, came down on his face, to write one day, “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound to save a wretch like me.”  When Saul got up finally he became a new person in Christ, to be called Apostle Paul, the greatest preacher and evangelist in the Bible.  Both he and Newton DIED, as all of self was cast out as with Paul.  When he was revived, the old man was dead, and the new man was reborn, in Christ. “With that, intellectualism, and rationality is also cast out, and we are given faith, mercy and above all grace and eternal life.  What more could we ever ask for.”   Lewis said, “Die before you die.  There is no chance after.”  Til We Have Faces

“The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.”  Christianity and Literature.  It is more important than life itself, global warming, race relations, all of seculars rights, even terrorism, for there is only ONE who is really in charge, God Almighty.  We are in essence in HIS hands, in HIS mercy, and under HIS grace.   

I was asked a question a few weeks ago, by a Christian, who I believe has one foot in the world and secular, for she did not understand one iota.  She asked, “Noah was really old when he built Noah’s Ark, why did God shorten our lives?  Was it life expectancy, all the illnesses that they didn’t have back then? “ Ie Climate change?  You see that is how the world thinks?  Like Lewis wrote above in intellectualism vs faith.  I Answered this back and she still didn’t get it.  “Noah was 600 years old. He was the grandson of Methuselah, ( remember song, “It Ain’t Necessarily So, in it, Methuselah lived 900 years….” )  Also was the son of Lamech a decendent of Adam.  Cause of man’s SIN nature, God destroyed “everything with breath.” Because HE IS God.   

From my Smith’s Bible Dictionary.  (Old) “Nothing is known about Noah (means “This name shall comfort us”) until he was 500 years old.  He begat 3 sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (see Genesis 6). The best remembered event was that God chose him to build the ark.  Remember, it took him 40 years, and he was mocked and laughed at, ridiculed.  But when the rains started to come, and the flood, and God said close the gate, there was screaming and pleas to take them  in the ark.  But, they had their chance, and God closed the door.  That’s how God is.  Heartless? Mean? Depicted wrongly by Hollywood’s version.  No, but He gives us every opportunity in our lifetime, to repent of our sins, and come to HIM.  Remember, my old teaching I blogged?  “Righteousness the Seven People God Can’t Save”?  Once you are dead, it is too late.  The Catholics can pray their rituals, and make the sign of the Cross, but it’s too late.  When you are dead, and haven’t given yourself to Christ.  IT IS TOO LATE! Your soul has already either gone up or gone down!

Look up the word, “Antediluvian” for that was the society Noah lived in then.  The ark was built with divine direction.  Like the Ark of the Covenant, and the Holy of Holies…  The priest in the Temple, had to walk backwards, to get inside the curtain, to the Holy of Holies, for the light, and the Power of God was so strong, that if he faced it, he would have been struck dead.  Do you know that that East Gate too, has been closed now for way over 2,000 years..guarded.  That is the Gate  that Jesus is going to go through when He touches his feet on Mt. Olivet.  God said that if anyone went through that Gate which is HOLY…He would strike them dead!  STILL today!

SIN…Does anyone acknowledge sin, in this politically correct, occult, lewd, selfish, greedy, pop culture, media driven, politically correct world filled with terrorism?  Of course not!  So now we have too, Islam rampant as can be in Europe and encroaching upon us here in America, to take over all of Western Civilization.  Why?  When did this begin?  I have on here post after post on the Ottoman Period from the early 1300’s to 1920’s.  Centuries of blaspheme and lies, torture, killing, stoning, heads sliced off….in a brutal movement called Islam.  Genesis 25:12-18 talks of the origins of Islam.  Yes.  It is Biblical.  I say thanks to stupid Sarah who couldn’t obey God. SIN.  Abraham had two sons..Isaac and the generation of Ishmael, from his handmaiden who was Egyptian, Hagar.  (Ishmael had every opportunity to serve God, but regrettably he chose another path.) pp Expositor’s Study Bible.    13. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations.  Verse 18 then states, “ And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as you go towards Assyria and died.  (Ishmael was the head of the Arab people who regrettably, at least for the most part, chose also a path of faithlessness.  Christ being rejected as always is the case with sinners, wherefore, a false deity filled the void.  That false deity was Muhammad, who has enslaved the Arab people from THEN until NOW! For there is no freedom from sin outside of Christ!)  Expositor’s Study Bible.  

Concrete doesn’t last forever, concrete only “cracks” with time and weakens.  For every argument you atheists and agnostics ​have, I have an answer and the truth!  Hawking may be a brilliant physicist in his own right, but he is going to hell and I’m afraid so are you.  There is a hell.  EVERYTHING..EVERYTHING that is happening in this world with the Muslims, Israel, etc., has been warring for thousands of years.  It is all Biblical, it is historical.  We are NOW in Ezekiel 38, 39 and Joel 2.  The very same countries from Genesis to what is coming in Revelations in the mid east.   It is all about God and who HE is and man’s SIN nature.

This is the most important time in all of America’s history.  So please,  Christians know your Bible, know your history and vote.  If you aren’t gung ho to the candidate that wins the electorate?  It doesn’t matter, trust GOD.  If God can use a donkey, HE can raise up the one HE wants to save this country, else we will be doomed literally, and lose America as Europe is being lost to Islam.  We have one chance before the final war, one chance for redemption, one chance to repent of our arrogant ways, one chance to get it right and take Washington apart, for the shame we have caused God and our Founding Father’s.  We have ONE chance to DIE IN CHRIST FOR OUR NATION, OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR FRIENDS…ONE CHANCE ONLY.   John 3:3 “Unless a man be born again, he will not enter the Kingdom of God.”  We are at war.  God is about to close the doors as he has done throughout Bible history because of SIN!  Like Lot when God had him lead the people out of Sodom and Gomorrah.  God warned Lot’s wife not to look back in lust.  But she did, and as HE closed the door of the Ark, before the flood, so he turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt.  To die for Christ doesn’t come cheap.  We all come short and have to repent, and enter our prayer closets to seek HIS Holiness on us.  It is your choice.  For one day soon, it may be too late.  So is He Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?  He died because he took on YOUR sins, and will make you into HIS image, like the potter.  My prayers for all this New Year. Ask HIM, the only true Lord Almighty, Name Above ALL Names, into your life.   My prayers with you…My prayers with Israel and this nation I love.    What is happening is because of SIN…it is a HEART problem and there is only ONE who can pour out His love and change hearts….Jesus.  

We are to STAND with Israel!  PBS Frontline on Israel, its history and Bibi Netanyahu.  A must watch if we are to learn from history!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/netanyahu-at-war/

Trump, The Left Media, And God

Trump is EXACTLY right. If those who still read and know history, Carter did the same thing with the Iranian Hostage Crisis, banning Muslims and Iranians. Yet, the hostages were not released until Reagan got into office, carrying a bigger stick. We have 3 Christian hostages in Iran now. The Saudi’s too are training terrorists. Going back to history, even Thomas Jefferson dealt with Muslims with the Barbary Pirates, as did Winston Churchill who ended in the early 1920’s the centuries old Ottoman Period. (Who Karly Firorino stupidly praised.)

Having studied Ancient Civilization in college, and also my Bible (Ezekiel 38 and 39 [now] which pertains to the whole mid east and what is happening, as well as Joel 2.} The object of all of the Koran is to take over all of Western Civilization. As now the Muslim Brotherhood is running this White House. Beware of what this President can do with his pen in this last year of office. While Egypt has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood and put Morsi in jail. And France has outlawed and cracked down, now even banning Burka’s. What do we do? Stand stupidly with this “Politically Correct” threats coming from this White House calling us racist, while the left media blindly follows his lead. Trouble is no one reads anymore. And history ALWAYS repeats itself.

Now too, Merkel in Germany making decisions with these Islamists, much the way Hitler started out. If ever we needed a man like Trump, it is now! And I’m college educated, (unlike the left media says) and an evangelical Christian, who loves America and history. One who also believes we can turn this country around, and influence the world scene with leadership, morals, a good defense built back up, and an end to this left garbage, but most of all GOD back. I happen to believe that God is using Donald Trump. Only my opinion but, I see a few Christian main stream leaders, voicing the same. I hope someone reads this, and goes to the truth here about Islam.

ISLAM:   https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/islam-by-lehmann-3/                                                    http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/12/54996/                                                                                            http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/12/muslim-hospital-worker-in-ohio-calls-for-       beheading-of-us-soldiers-gets-this-instead/                                                                                                             http://norwegiandefenceleague.info/europe-news/item/253-france-mosques-closed-330-war-weapons-found-223-arrests

Franklin Graham Supports Trump’s Muslim ban: http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/December/Franklin-Graham-Supports-Trumps-Muslim-Ban?cpid=:ID:-6378-:DT:-2015-12-10-09:28:34-:US:-TW1-:CN:-CP1-:PO:-NC1-:ME:-SU1-:SO:-TW1-:SP:-NW1-:PF:-I

From Evangelist Prophet Rick Joyner:

“Everyone is hammering Donald Trump on his statement that he would ban the immigration of all Muslims until the government figures out what they’re (the gov) is doing. Some of these reactions were obviously from those who had not actually heard Trump’s speech, but I think it is going to hurt them a lot more than him. Let there be one more attack such as San Bernardino and what Trump recommended will sound moderate.

It is right to be concerned about our Muslim citizens, but we are at war, and the main point Trump was making is that our government needs to figure out what it’s doing. Very few Americans feel safe, and with one more attack the outrage at those who failed to protect us will be great.

The GOP establishment presidential candidates, and some lawmakers, bashed Trump the hardest because they said he was hurting the GOP brand. How do you hurt something that is already so close to zero? What has hurt the GOP brand has been weak, incompetent leadership. Almost no one doubts more attacks are likely, and with just one more those who are so worried about their brand will have done even more damage to it, and to their own futures. We are at war, and political correctness is one of the biggest factors that has put us in the jeopardy we’re now in.”  Morning Star Ministries

THAT statement by Rick Joyner echoes all through our Christian Community.  The GOP is broken, most from Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Rubio, Kasich, and of course Christy are ALL Socialists.  I don’t want the Establishment.  They make deals with the left and their really isn’t much difference from what we’ve had in the White House.  God has been taken out of everything.  Sin is no more.   And I’ll tell the media this:  WHAT IS WRONG IN AMERICA, ISN’T DUE TO RACE RELATIONS, HOMOPHOBIA, WHITE POLICE OFFICERS TRYING TO DO THEIR JOB, ALL THE VIOLENCE – IT IS A HEART PROBLEM.  AND ISLAM ISN’T THE ANSWER IT IS A FALSE RELGION BORN 560 YEARS AFTER CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED.  WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL THAT IS GOING ON IS A HEART PROBLEM.  AND THE ONLY CURE, IS REPENTANCE, AND THE CROSS! 

Excerpt from a book out by Thomas Horn & Chris Putnam “On the Path of the Immortals”          

Who are the immortals? Prophetically is the significance of Genesis 6:5. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0990497453keywords=Thomas%20Horn%20and%20Chris%20Putnam&qid=1449842982&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

It is said:  “1. Islam will use weapons of mass destruction.  2. Pope Francis will call out for Christian power of the call of war. (Referring to what is to come in the end times.)  3. Remember 1948? The fig tree blossomed …all the birth of the Revivals, from Billie Brim, Katherine Kullman, and the Messianic revival of Jews; the huge move of God in the 70’s and 80’s.  4. The call for us as Christians, is as never before! ”

I believe the greatest Revival of all times is going to move across this great America, with such an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that it will be EVIDENT, to ALL the secular media and Muslims in America, who the REAL God really is.  There will be signs, and wonders, and an outpouring such as we have never seen before.  THIS IS MY CRY…THIS IS MY DESIRE, THUS SAITH THE LORD THY GOD!  Any Amens?     “If my people shall humble themselves and call out my name, THEN will I heal their land. ” II Chronicles 7:14

NOW:  EZEKIEL 38:2 “Son of man, “set thy face against Gog the land of Magog, (Russia) the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal (Turkey), and prophesy against him. 3. And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold , I AM AGAINST THEE O GOG, the chief prince of Meshech (Moscow) and Tubal. 4. And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring forth, and all thine army, horses, and horsemen, all of them clothed in all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. 5. Persia (Iran) Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet.” (All going against Israel…but God will protect Israel…and open up the earth and swallow her enemies up  with earthquakes and flames from Heaven…)  

Revelations 13 Talks about the 10 horns, that represent the European Union.  And I saw a beast rise up…(out of an Islamic nation) …The leopard refers sto the EU, the bear Russia,  and the lion, I always thought was China, but, now some have said the UK, because their crest is the lion.   And the dragon gave him his power.  ..The Antichrist I believe with others is alive on earth now.  Waiting to surge into power as the greatest peacemaker. And remember, GOD allowed Obama in this White House.  For since he got in, all of the Islamic nations, and trouble with Russia are in place.  

I say all this to warn and to shake up you want to be President in this White House.  We are going to see destruction, before the tribulation.  We are going to see violence as never before, as we are now.  America is out of control.  And we need I believe you, Donald Trump who needs to realize how much he is going to need God Almighty and be a praying man.  So my prayer to him now?  As John 3:3 says, “Unless a man be born again he will not enter the Kingdom of God. ” Mr Trump, I want you as our President.  I also want to see God’s hand on you so profoundly, that in these end times, as God has set nation against nation,  and used the depravity of Obama’s misguided ideologies, the only way you are going to make it work THIS TIME… is not as the Apprentice, but as an ANNOINTED LEADER WITH THE HAND OF GOD ALMIGHTY ON YOU.  I PRAY THAT YOU ACCEPT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN A PERSONAL PRAYER AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR.  FOR WITH ALL RESPECT SIR…RELIGION DOESN’T CUT IT.  YOU WILL NEED HIM, MORE THAN ADVISORS, FOR ONLY HE CAN SET THE CAPTIVES FREE, GIVE YOU GODLY DIRECTION AND ANNOINT THE OFFICE THAT YOU WILL TAKE.  THIS IS MY PRAYER.. And to the media?  You know not who and what you are up against.  For this President Obama, has put a curse on himself, and Judgment from God on America. 

I beg you to pray this Salvation Prayer, as John 3:3, 3:16 says, no man enters Heaven without salvation.  Mr. Trump you may be a Presbyterian, but “religion” won’t cut it.  You need the Lord as your personal savior, so that you may talk and pray one on one with HIM.  “Dear Lord, I repent of any sins that I may have had in my life, and ask you to save my soul and put your hands on me so that I may succeed in what YOU want for me.  (Thine will be done ,Lord’s Prayer, not ours). I ask that you give me divine wisdom, and come into my heart, and pour YOUR anointing on me Lord, in Jesus name.   I ask that I have your blessings in all I do, and that includes the love of America and Israel.  Please come into my life. If you are with me Lord, we can turn this country around.  Thank you Lord  for saving my soul.”

Thank you Jesus…Use me Lord, as I am your servant.  Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Far We Have Fallen

The following is a re-blog from Morning Star Ministries: 

MorningStar Prophetic Bulletin #95 – October 19, 2015

Rick Joyner

 

“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

James Madison

        “In the core foundations a society is built on, America is in a decline. This includes government, business, education, and security (crime and national defense). Attesting to the warning of Madison above, the slide began over fifty years ago. It has gradually but relentlessly picked up speed, mirrored by a continual spiritual and moral deterioration and a steady decoupling from our Constitution.

         We can still see this decline reversed, but in pilot terms, we are in an ever-tightening downward spin that is getting dangerously close to entering a “death spiral.” If you enter a death spiral, recovery is virtually impossible. We are in a critical time.

 

The Steady Hand Recovery

John Adams warned that democracy could only work for a moral and religious people. The descent into our present condition has been gradual but relentless, coinciding with our gradual but relentless moral and spiritual slide. These are connected, and we must recover in both areas.

The way you recover from a spin is to level the wings and also give it opposite rudder to the direction of spin. You need to do this with a firm but steady hand because if you overreact, you can go inverted and greatly complicate your problems. The consequences of society continuing down will be either another revolution or a terrible tyranny. To recover we need a revival, another Great Awakening. Once we get the wings level and stop the spin, we can then in a controlled, steady way return to our desired heading and altitude.

 

We Have the Experience

America is not the New Jerusalem or the kingdom of God. We have been far from perfect, and at times have made terrible and evil mistakes. Even so, we confronted them and came out better. Overall there may not have been another nation in history as free and yet as generally noble and moral as America has been.

The present moral slide began in the early 1960s. It continued until what was once incomprehensible became normal. The trend is toward an ever-darkening corruption of our national character. Even so, it was during the greatest times of darkness in our past when the Great Awakenings began. We are due for another.

We also have the pattern of each period of darkness being darker than the last, and each period of Awakening being greater as well. Our vision should not be to just get back to where we were before the slide, but to go higher. No doubt the darkness we are now in is greater, so we should expect an even greater light.

 

An Ultimate Depravity

In Scripture one of the ultimate evils is to shed innocent blood, and it is promised to bring a curse upon a nation. What could be more innocent than an unborn child? Even the beasts will naturally sacrifice their own lives to protect their young, but Americans slaughter theirs by the millions. Now the most dangerous place for an American to be is in the womb.

The holocaust of the innocent continues while we debate the nuances of whether they are alive or not, even though we know they can hear, feel, and recognize voices. God addressed when there is life, declaring, “the life is in the blood” (see Genesis 9:4). If there is blood there is life, and if there is a heartbeat then there is without question a human life. To kill that life is to be guilty of murder.

It has now been exposed that Planned Parenthood not only performed illegal late-term abortions, but also “partial birth” abortions. This is when the baby is taken partially out of the mother so that it can be killed in a way that preserves organs to be sold. How can anyone not be outraged by this atrocity? We know the helpless baby feels and cries for its mother and for a chance to live. When we tolerate such diabolical behavior we must ask if we have any humanity left. Yet, no one has even been prosecuted for these heinous crimes committed by Planned Parenthood.

The first test of Solomon’s wisdom was to distinguish the mother that valued life from the one that was careless with life. This is still the first test of a government’s wisdom. Our U.S. government has been failing this test for many years, but now it is getting worse and fast. Once you lose the core moral foundation of the value of life, evil will come pouring through the floodgates just as we saw happen in Germany in the 1930s.

Of course, the guilty protest any comparison to the Nazis, but if we do not learn where certain paths lead from historical examples, then we have learned nothing from that history and will go down the same path. The Nazis moved fast from abortion to the weak, retarded, and elderly who could no longer work, dubbing them “the useless eaters.” From there it was a small jump to political opponents, and ultimately, to condemning almost anyone for anything. The same paths lead to the same place.

The U.S. Congress, with a Republican majority in the House and Senate claiming to be pro-life, could not even secure a vote to stop giving the wicked, depraved Planned Parenthood organization hundreds of millions of our hard earned tax dollars each year! When you have the power to stop something and you don’t, then you are as guilty as those doing it. This is a new low, and both parties are guilty.

As if we needed further proof of our national meltdown into madness, we now have a state, Oregon, allowing fifteen-year-olds to have sex-change operations without parental consent. If that is not the most outrageous insanity yet, consider that the state will even pay for these operations with your tax dollars.

Think about that for a minute. What fifteen-year-old is stable enough to make such a life-altering decision? Without question, Oregon has reached a new low in governmental insanity. Yet, you hardly hear a whimper from the people of Oregon about this outrage.

America has now become a sick society. At the rate we are melting down, we will soon be one of the sickest and perverted of all time. This is a main reason Islamists call America “The Great Satan.” They believe we have become so perverse that there is no alternative but to destroy us in order to rid the earth of this evil. Over the last few decades we seem to be intent on proving this verdict. But this is not our nature. Rather, it is being imposed on the nation by a small percentage of people. The issue is whether the rest rise up with courage and resolve to take back our country.

We know from the sure testimony of Scripture that if we do not repent there will be a point when the court of heaven agrees that destruction is the only remedy. There are other nations doing worse things, but we have the greater guilt because we know better. If we think that we are still so good, having done so much good for the world that we will be exempt from any such judgment, we need to look at the sure testimony of Scripture. The Lord Jesus’ own teaching refutes this.

Jesus warned the righteous cities of Israel that Sodom would have it easier in the judgment. Consider that according to the law, these cities were some of the most righteous ever. They would even stone those caught in adultery. Yet, the Lord said that if the works that had been done in them had been done in Sodom, they would have repented and remained to that day. By this He established that it is not the degree of wickedness as much as the degree of light rejected that determines the severity of the judgment. How much light has America been given? Is there any country in history that has been given more?

In this declaration the Lord also established the principle that even those caught in the terrible debaucheries of Sodom repented easier than the self-righteous. Legalism is not God’s answer to lawlessness. His answer is simple righteousness and justice as He clearly defined these in His Word. Righteousness is doing what is right in the sight of the Lord. Justice is ensuring that all are treated fairly. Speaking of justice for the unborn, as Ronald Reagan once said, “I have noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

 

The Blessing or The Curse

In Scripture, the nation with God’s light and favor attracts other nations (see Isaiah 60:1-5). America has always had enemies, as is to be in this age, but we used to be the place that most in the world wanted to come to and be friends with. Now it is the opposite. Almost every nation on earth is trying to distance itself from America. Think about it: Is there a single nation on earth that we have better relations with now than we did five years ago?

Some developing nations are rejecting us for a reason you won’t read about in the media. It’s because our State Department has implemented a foreign policy of threatening nations to adopt the LGBT agenda if they want to continue getting aid from us. Thank God for courageous leaders like those in Africa who told our leaders to keep their money and their perversion far away from them.

In America, sexual madness is glorified more than righteousness. The sexually perverse are made “heroes,” but displaying a Bible can be a crime. You cannot pray in the name of Jesus in public, but there has been no such restriction on praying in the name of Allah. Aren’t these the ones that knocked our towers down, shot our soldiers at Fort Hood, and bombed the Boston Marathon?

To demonstrate the degree of our national insanity, the Department of Homeland Security has again put out a memo on the potential sources of domestic terrorism. Topping their list are Christians, veterans, and 2^ndAmendment rights groups. Do you remember when anyone from these groups committed an act or terror? Have Christians flown planes into buildings? Yet, the single group that is responsible for over 99% of all terrorist attacks in the last few decades, Islamic jihadists, is not mentioned as a potential terrorist threat to our Department of Homeland Security.

These are the people responsible for our protection. Who is going to protect us from them? This is the Department responsible for securing our borders, the ones that ISIS leaders have recently boasted about being able to cross at will. Yet, they want Americans to surrender their guns to them so they can protect us. Go figure.

 

Justice for All

In general, Christians don’t expect non-believers to live according to biblical morals, and they want all American citizens to have their rights protected. There are some extremists in every group, but Christians do not want to impose their morals on others. However, neither do they want what they consider to be immorality imposed on them. The recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage did just that, even though its most serious violation of America was about much more. It was an unconstitutional decision, and if allowed to stand, brings into question whether we are still a Constitutional Republic, or a nation of laws.

The Constitution is clear that any authority not specifically given to the Federal Government is reserved to the states and the people. Nowhere is the Federal Government given authority to impose such a social agenda. Many Americans seem to assume that because the Federal Government is bigger, it has authority over the states. The opposite is actually true if we are still basing our government on the Constitution. The states have authority over the Federal Government in everything that is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution as being given to the Federal Government. Any other authority it takes does not have legal legitimacy.

Thomas Jefferson’s loudest and most vehement warnings were about “judicial tyranny,” which he warned would become exactly like what the Supreme Court, and many of the Federal Courts, are now imposing on America. These rulings are unlawful and unconstitutional. The justices that blatantly violated their oath to defend the Constitution by voting for something like this should be impeached.

California’s vote for Proposition Eight in 2008 was the constitutional way to handle such issues—by the states and by the people. A state does have the right to have same-sex marriage or not. The State of California, and the people, decided how they wanted this issue settled in their state. They voted not to have same-sex marriage. A single Federal Court judge, who was himself exposed as being a practicing homosexual at the time of his decision, overturned the will of millions of people and the State of California. That is what Jefferson called “judicial tyranny.” It is unlawful and unconstitutional.

This judge should have certainly been impeached for such a violation of the Constitution, but no one did a thing because we do not have leaders who keep their oath of office. Those who did nothing should be impeached as well for not obeying their oath to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic.

So should the President and his previous Attorney General be impeached for saying that they would not enforce laws they did not agree with because they took an oath to uphold the laws of the land? Absolutely. Their brazen contempt for the Constitution and the laws that were lawfully passed by Congress and signed by a President was a blatant violation of their oath of office, and so they should have been removed from office.

Not to defend the laws and the Constitution only releases further lawlessness in the land. So, those who did nothing in the face of this are just as guilty. If the President does not have to obey laws he does not agree with, why should anyone else?

So what can we do? It is up to the people, the ultimate authority, to impeach those who violate their oaths of office, to remove them from office, and indict those who have so betrayed their country.

With the same-sex marriage decision, our Supreme Court has released into the land that those who hold to what have been the moral standards accepted by every nation, religion, and civilization in history can be attacked as “haters.” We already have examples of those who have lost their livelihoods for refusing to violate their conscience by serving what they believe to be immoral. The next step will be to see them prosecuted for “hate crimes,” as is already happening in Europe.

 

Who Are the Real Haters?

I don’t hate homosexuals and don’t know a single Christian who does. In fact, the only hate I’ve witnessed, and the worst intolerance in the land today, is coming from the LGBT agenda toward anyone who dares to disagree with them or fails to celebrate their perversion.

A few years ago, I was waiting to speak at a conference in Switzerland. I was listening to the speaker before me say something about what he and his wife were doing. Then he stopped abruptly and apologized for using the term “wife,” saying he meant “partner.” While I was being introduced, I asked him why he apologized for using the term “wife.” He replied that the terms “wife” and “husband” are no longer politically correct. I could see genuine fear in him that there could be consequences for this slip.

I have spent a good part of my life speaking in different European nations, and I have always considered Switzerland a type of barometer. It has been one of the most stable, civilized, sane, and honorable nations. I knew if such craziness was seeping into the fabric of that great country, then Western civilization was indeed sick. We are very sick.

But we have hope. There is strong evidence that this sickness is in the Federal Government and in the elitists who think they are the only smart ones capable of dictating how we live. Most people are still not so deluded! The people have been expressing loudly when given a chance to believe differently than what the elitists consider politically correct. Their defense of Dan Cathy, owner of Chick-fil-A, and Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty are examples. Most people are not for the madness being imposed on us, and we will not take it much longer.

 

The Consequences

The Prophet Isaiah warned what would happen when a nation fell to this ultimate depravity of calling good evil and evil good, honoring the dishonorable and dishonoring the honorable. There could hardly be a more clear definition of the corruption and perversion that has now taken over America and most of Western civilization. We are beginning to suffer the consequences Isaiah warned would certainly come upon those nations—the subjection to immature, capricious, and incompetent leaders.

The Republican Party establishment is mystified by the appeal of Donald Trump, but it is clear to those not taken over by the politically correct (PC) sickness. He may be coarse, offensive, and callous, but Trump seems to be one of the few public figures left who is not taken over by the creeping madness of PC. He has given hope to millions of people that there may be real leadership yet to be found in this country.

Lawlessness is increasing at the same time our police forces are under the worst attack in our history. Our borders are wide open and our enemies are pouring through them. Our Federal Government seems more intent on aiding them than stopping them. An illegal alien now has more rights and benefits than American citizens. Looters are lauded as heroes while the police who are risking their lives every day to protect us are being demonized—by our government!

You can’t make this stuff up. If this were put into a movie no one would go see it because it would be too far-fetched. Who could blame our enemies for losing respect for us and smacking around our leaders like weaklings on the playground? America is in increasing jeopardy from enemies within and without.

 

What Can We Do?

Psalm 11:3 asks, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” There is a lot that we can do. Let’s begin by considering what the Lord is doing, as expressed in Psalm 2:1-4:

Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples devising a vain thing?

   The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

“Let us tear their fetters apart, and cast away their cords from us!”

He who sits in the heavens laughs…

As Bishop Wellington Boone once said, “We need not worry about the things God is laughing at.” There is a difference between valid concern and worry. Concern leads to positive actions. Worry clouds our vision. The perfect action plan is found in the rest of this Psalm:

The Lord scoffs at them.

           Then He will speak to them in His anger and terrify them in His fury.

            “But as for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

            “I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to Me,‘You are My Son. Today I have begotten You.

            “‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth as Your possession.

             “‘You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

             Now therefore, O kings, show discernment; take warning, O judges of the earth.

             Worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling.

             Do homage to the Son so that He does not become angry, and you perish in the way. For His wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! (Psalm 2:4-12)

We need not worry about the Lord defending His own name. He will soon demonstrate His contempt for those who have shown Him contempt. Nations that have acted arrogantly toward Him will be shattered. It is our place to worship the Lord with the reverence that He deserves, without compromise or yielding to the fear of man. We can rejoice that His kingdom will surely come, but also tremble at the awesome God we serve. If we live in the pure and holy fear of the Lord, we do not have to fear anyone else. Those blessed by Him have their refuge in Him.

 

What Do We Do?

Whether we are being dismantled on purpose or by incompetence, the results are the same—our foundations are being destroyed. Many have already left America for what they think is a safer place. Others are planning to leave. The saying is that “rats are the first to leave a sinking ship.” We should be glad those who no longer care for their country are gone. The Lord told us to occupy until He comes. We are called to be the salt and light. If America goes down, I for one intend to go down with it. I will not abandon my post.

The United States was founded by the most unique revolution in history—a revolution led by the most prosperous and prominent. When they resolved to risk their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, they had something to lose. Those who signed the Declaration of Independence were among the wealthiest in the colonies—they were the top one percent. Two who signed the Declaration knew that the moment they signed they would lose everything they had worked so hard for as British troops were camped right next to their estates. They signed anyway.

Many of those remarkable souls lost their lives and their fortunes, but they did not lose their honor. The only commandment given by God with a promise attached was to honor our fathers and mothers. The promise is that it will go well with us, and that we would dwell long in the land that the Lord has given to us. This promise is in both the Old and New Testaments (see Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:2). What could we do that would dishonor our Founding Fathers more than abandoning that for which they paid such a price?

I walked among the graves of our fallen soldiers in Normandy, France. I was determined to lay my eyes on each grave in order to acknowledge and honor them in the only way I knew how. I was with three of my children. Their average age was nineteen at the time, the same as those who were in those graves. I explained to my children that we could have a family and all of the blessings we enjoy because those young people buried there were willing to sacrifice their lives. The way we thank them is by not letting what they paid such a high price for be in vain—that it would not be lost on our watch.

The only safe place in these times is in the will of God. We can be sure that doing something so dishonorable as abandoning our country and heritage will not lead to the will of God, or the sought after safety. As most who are leaving the country are people of great means, have you considered that you were blessed with what you have in order to help save your country? Many of these may prove to be the greedy and selfish who only took advantage of us, but I think we are going to see the rest of the one percent in our times rise up again with the noble resolve that mirrors that of our Founders.

We may think that the Bible has many bad things to say about the rich, and it does the evil rich, but our Founding Patriarchs were some of the richest of their times. Many of the other heroes of the faith were some of the most prosperous in Israel’s history, such as kings like David and Josiah. America was meant to be an exception, which is what is meant by “American exceptionalism.”

It will take the same kind of courage, honor, and sacrifice to save the country as it did to found it. Where are the great souls today who will arise with the courage of our Founding Fathers? They will arise. The only question is if we will be one of them. ”

https://www.morningstarministries.org/resources/prophetic-bulletins/2015/how-far-we-have-fallen-0#.Vk3LYDI1JT8

Thank Rick for this insightful comment.  While we have so much to be thankful for, we have  much to be weary of, and much to  pray about!  God give us wisdom.  Bless you who DO read!

Are You An Enabling Parent?

How much help do you give a child, never mind, adult child, and adult married child?  And should a parent  65 live with and support a married daughter, her husband,  and two small grandchildren?   The following is from Crosswalk:

“Let’s face it, not all adult children are dysfunctional, any more than all parents are enablers. Many adult children have been raised to have deep respect for their parents and themselves. For these children, the thought of taking advantage of anyone, let alone the parents who raised them, is abhorrent. Let’s call these childrenfunctioning adult children.

However, for many of us, that term does not describe our adult children. Instead, we “parents in pain” dream about seeing our adult children live as independent, functioning adults instead of the dependent, dysfunctional adult children they have become. And no doubt many enabling parents would argue that their adult children are incapable of taking care of themselves. That may be true. However, is this because of a real physical handicap, a viable developmental disability, or have years of enabling crippled your adult child? And if crippled, is this disability temporary or permanent? If temporary, what can we parents do to help reverse the disability and see our adult children take responsibility for themselves?

The first step is for us to accept any part we may have played in making our adult children whom—and what—they’ve become. We also need a better understanding of the difference between helping and enabling, and the wisdom and willingness to make the necessary changes in our own lives when at last we truly recognize the difference.”

Matthew 19:5, “So should a man leave his father, etc..and the two (husband and wife) should be as one.”  In other words be a man..Be the breadwinner, and take care of his family. But when a grown daughter with two children still ask “Daddy “ for money instead of her husband, then there is something wrong. It is not of God.

“What Is the Difference Between Helping and Enabling?   

Helping is doing something for someone that he is not capable of doing himself.

Enabling is doing for someone things that he could and should be doing himself.

An enabler is a person who recognizes that a negative circumstance is occurring on a regular basis and yet continues to enable the person with the problem to persist with his detrimental behaviors. Simply, enabling creates an atmosphere in which our adult children can comfortably continue their unacceptable behavior.

When we continue to allow these behaviors to occur, we are setting a pattern of behavior in our children that will be hard to change. We are enabling their repeated inappropriate behavior. Then we repeat the enabling pattern with the result of instilling bad habits and accepting what should be unacceptable behavior for so many years that it eventually becomes as natural to many of us as breathing. Yet all the while, a nagging feeling deep in our heart and soul tells us something is very wrong.

Are You an Enabling Parent?

Here are a few questions that might help you determine if you are an enabling parent.

1. Have you loaned him money repeatedly, seldom (if ever) being repaid?
2. Have you paid for education and/or job training in more than one field?
3. Have you finished a job or project that he failed to complete himself because it was easier than arguing with him?
4. Have you paid bills he was supposed to have paid himself?
5. Have you accepted part of the blame for his addictions or behavior?
6. Have you avoided talking about negative issues because you feared his response?
7. Have you bailed him out of jail or paid for his legal fees?
8. Have you given him “one more chance” and then another and another?
9. Have you ever returned home at lunchtime (or called) and found him still in bed sleeping?
10. Have you wondered how he gets money to buy cigarettes, video games, new clothes, and such but can’t afford to pay his own bills?
11. Have you ever “called in sick” for your child, lying about his symptoms to his boss?
12. Have you threatened to throw him out and didn’t?
13. Have you begun to feel that you’ve reached the end of your rope?
14. Have you begun to hate both your child and yourself for the state in which you live?
15. Have you begun to worry that the financial burden is more than you can bear?
16. Have you begun to feel that yourmarriageis in jeopardy because of this situation?
17. Have you noticed growing resentment in otherfamilymembers regarding this issue?
18. Have you noticed that others are uncomfortable around you when this issue arises?
19. Have you noticed an increase in profanity, violence, and/or other unacceptable behavior?
20. Have you noticed that things are missing from your home, including money, valuables, and other personal property?

If you answered yes to several of these questions, chances are at some point in time you have enabled your adult child to avoid his own responsibilities—to escape the consequences of his actions. Rather than help your child grow into a productive and responsible adult, you have made it easier for him to get worse.

To put it simply, your helping is hurting—and it’s time to stop. But trust me when I say that it won’t be easy. Although it’s high time many of our adult children begin to accept the consequences of their choices, the plain truth is we must first accept the responsibility for our own choices—past, present, and future.

Our biggest problem isn’t about our adult child’s inability to wake up when his alarm clock rings, or her inability to keep a schedule, hold down a job, or pay the bills. It’s not about drug use or alcohol addictions. It’s not about the mess these adult children are making of their life. The main problem is about the part we’re playing in stepping in to soften the blow of the consequences that come from the choices they make.

The main problem is us.” 

 

 http://www.crosswalk.com/family/parenting/when-helping-hurts-are-you-an-enabling-parent-11599054.html

Idols

What Constitutes Idols In Our Life?   Idols are a false God.  Idols are anything that takes our mind and our heart away from Jesus and worship the fake.   Idols can be photographs, it can be a television program you are addicted to, it can be football.  It can be listening to your friends, more than reading your Bible and doing things in the “natural” instead of what is “Biblical”.   When trouble befalls you, as it does almost everyone sooner or later, who do you go to FIRST?  Do you pray, get in your prayer closet and seek God’s will for this situation and your life? Or do you wallow and wallow in self, and go complaining or crying to your husband, relatives, friends, and leave God last?   God will not be last.  If HE isn’t first, then He will not act on your behalf.

From CBN:  “Unfortunately, many Christians also have a skewed, idealized definition of idols. We only see idols like those mentioned in the Old Testament or those in the movie “The Ten Commandments” where Moses, played by Charlton Heston, descends from Mount Sinai to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf and in righteous anger, hurls the tablets at the golden calf and destroys it.

When God gave Moses the Commandments, He said:

“Do not worship any other gods besides me.” Do not make idols of any kind, whether in the shape of birds or animals or fish, photos. You must never worship or bow down to them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not share your affection with any other god! (Exodus 20:3-5 NLT)

An idol is any person, object or activity you give a higher priority in your life than a relationship with God. An idol can be your home, your job, a vehicle, a relationship, or even your family and photos you hold HIGHER THAN GOD. An idol can be a pet, a computer, or what you look at on that computer. An idol can be alcohol, drugs, sex, or any sin. An idol can even be the work you do for the Lord that consumes all your energy and time. God says He’s a jealous God. He wants our time and attention.

Look at this:

“This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw what I did to Jerusalem and to all the towns of Judah. They now lie in ruins, and no one lives in them. Because of all their wickedness, my anger rose high against them. They burned incense and worshiped other gods – gods that neither they nor you nor any of your ancestors have ever known. “Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them, ‘Don’t do these horrible things that I hate so much.’ But my people would not listen or turn back from their wicked ways. They kept right on burning incense to these gods. And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and now they are a desolate ruin.” (Jeremiah 44:2-6 NLT)

 

This is God’s anger against HIS PEOPLE. The prophets warned them but they refused to listen. Today, just as in those days, righteous men and women are saying, turn back to God! Destroy the idols. Put away the things that are hindering a righteous walk with God. Repent of putting others before the Creator of the universe!

 

Recently, the Elijah List published a warning from Patricia King. Here is an excerpt:

“…For a few days now, I have felt very unsettled in my spirit. The New Orleans disaster has been on my heart, but also, I have been receiving warnings that more upheaval is coming. It is almost as though I can smell war and crisis. It is not good, but can be thwarted, if we come into proper alignment.

I sense upheavals in many nations, but my spirit is especially feeling a warning for North America, with a specific prayer burden for the USA.

I have seen a vision of the enemy planting grenade-like objects in the land and getting ready to detonate them. I believe this involves terrorism and a “sudden” attack. I have also seen further shakings in the land of such magnitude that many people’s lives could be lost.

I also see critical, economic shakings coming that man will have no control over. I see increased taxation and escalation of interest rates and commodities. I see crime and violence out of control as lawlessness increases. Prayer and repentance can thwart disaster. The answer is to go to prayer and to repent for our sins.

Recently a cricket got into our office space. Everyone commented on the chirping cricket. I could not hear it. I honestly asked them if they were kidding me. I could not hear the sound of that cricket at all! I began to get disturbed. To my knowledge, I hear just fine. My co-workers were even puzzled that I couldn’t hear this cricket.

God immediately began to speak to me and showed me that some Christians hear different things at different times in the natural and in the spiritual realm. I have heard some godly leadership say they did not have any clear revelation about Hurricane Katrina and what it means for our times and our nation, while others are alarmed at the bell that seems to be pealing in the Spirit realm; BE WARNED! BEWARE! BE WARNED! BEWARE!

Recently, God began to give me a clear revelation about Christians in this country. He told me that many intercessors are caught up in idol worship. We are guilty of putting people and things ahead of praying and entering in with Him. As I have prayed in the Spirit, one prayer keeps coming up — that God will re-establish our nation’s borders and that the Watchmen will get back on the wall.

God is gracious and kind, but God’s Word prevails. In the days of Noah, God gave the people over a hundred years to repent. But then a day came when the rains started. On that day, no amount of crying out could change the outcome.

A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. (Proverbs 27:12 NLT)

We must heed the signs of the times. Do we believe the word of the prophets? Are we going to take seriously the admonition of the Lord to repent and to destroy our idols! If we do not repent, there is a day coming in this nation where no amount of crying out will change the plan God puts into motion.

“So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual sin, impurity, lust, and shameful desires. Don’t be greedy for the good things of this life, for that is idolatry. God’s terrible anger will come upon those who do such things. ” (Colossians 3:5-7 NLT)

“Don’t be greedy for the good things of this life, for that is idolatry…” People everywhere are caught up in the “good things of this life”. There is a bell tolling in our nation today. We must pay attention. However, As Patricia King notes, the Body of Christ is full of sin. “As long as there is unaddressed darkness in the church, we lack authority.” We’ve got to address what hinders our walk with God and let it go!

To take authority, we’ve got to release the sins and repent. The Word points out that man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at our hearts. Our hearts are guilty before the Lord. God is done with the mess we call righteous living. We have to destroy idol worship. We have gone long enough with a wink and a nod toward sin in the Body. I am not pointing fingers. I am as guilty as anyone is.

There is a call going out among the Body today. I hear the Lord saying,

WAKE UP

SHAKE YOURSELVES

KILL YOUR IDOLS

REPENT

GET BACK ON THE WALL

RE-ESTABLISH THE BORDERS

TAKE AUTHORITY

The Word of the Lord for this hour is NEW BEGINNINGS. In the Spirit realm, we are coming into a spring season. Spring is a time of new growth. It’s a time of renewed hope. This is a time of new beginnings in the Spiritual, but only if you’ve left the baggage of the past behind.

The Word says it’s better to obey than sacrifice. Obey what? The Word of the Lord. When God says to repent, we must repent. God hates idolatry. It’s a commandment and God has been judging — yes, judging righteous people on earth for it since time began. It’s true, He loves us and yes HE HAS A PLAN for each of us but only in His parameters.

Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14 NLT)”

From: http://www1.cbn.com/devotions/kill-your-idols

From Dr. Frederick Price Idolatry in the church:                                     https://youtu.be/zh9az6FQrmk

Standing with Israel or Radical Islam?

The media in the United States never ever sides with Israel.  How blinded all this political correctness has become.   In the first place, I am posting a note from a Jewish lady in Ma’ale Adummim, Israel which was sent to me on Facebook.  It is a plea.  A plea for understanding,  as most of us who are Evangelical Zionists would agree with, but never ever mentioned in our left media.  We are being duped!  We are being connived with left wing propaganda, because they see us as Obama does, “stupid” Americans who will do as they are told!  Isn’t it time we stopped being so illiterate and “read” and learned from history?  Hitler did the same thing.  And the German people were duped.  Stupid.  And I can say that because I’m German.  My mother had relatives stuck in Germany on the outset of all of Hitler’s propaganda, just as Obama and the left media is doing to us now.  Do they tell you the truth about Palestine? No.  Do they tell you the truth about Muslims? No…and let me tell you it is not a religion of peace, Mr. President!

This from Israel….a mother’s plea:  “you kindly offered me your timeline as a place to rant and grieve and rail against the daily terror we are living here in Israel. Today I’ll take you up on the offer. No today was not the worst day of terror and violence we’ve seen recently, no there wasn’t a higher death count, more stabbings or shootings than in days past... It’s just that today I am so very very tired and so very very scared.

This morning as I took my kids to school and kindergarten and nursery my usual quiet neighborhood was shrill with the sound of sirens, as first responders rushed to the scene of an attempted suicide bombing at our safety check point. With no plans to get on the road to Jerusalem until tomorrow for important Dr.’s apt’s for my girls I took a deep breath and kept going…just like I’ve done everyday after hearing about murders, shootings, stabbings, orphans and widows, all the victims of Palestinian terror.

But then I saw the news coming out of the western media about the bombing today, attempted stabbings yesterday, violent riots,missiles lobbed from Gaza throughout the night…and little pieces of me are just crumbling, I’m breaking into a thousand little pieces when I see how we’ve been forsaken by the US government, by the media… We are being painted the villains, we the aggressors, we the instigators. How could they be so wrong? When our blood is soaking the streets if Jerusalem, when our children can not go to school, travel on buses, for fear of being killed, literally, how is it possible we are being blamed for defending ourselves, for weeding out the terrorist?! Please, I beg you encourage your friends to seek out honest news outlets, encourage them to see us for who we are, please who love our homeland, honor our religion and our history, seek peace but refuse to cower and refuse to be week. Please encourage your friends to stand for what’s right, to stand with Israel.”  

How I grieve with this woman and all of those in Israel, seeing their dream from God Almighty being shattered before their eyes.  The dream of Theodore Herzl, for a Jewish state, while the  imperialistic Brits held tight before 1948 when the dream came true.  And our US media.  Do you even know the history of the Ottoman Period, dear Carly Fiorino so stupidly held high in her business dealings with the Arabs.  I have it on here, as well as history, and Lehman’s comments on Muslims.  For it was Winston Churchill, who this President hated (returning that bust of Churchill in an insulting gesture) who ended the Ottoman Period after centuries of these Islamic radicals taking over Europe.  And Thomas Jefferson too, also had his run in with Islamic pirates, also on here.

But we have one who is higher, that is watching and allowing all that is happening, for the final war.  HE is in charge after all.  And while Obama doing Satan’s work thinks he has the world bamboozled, now going over the America’s laws, and our Constitution, crippling us more and more, by going straight to the UN.  He has proven to be the greatest “dictator” America ever elected.   But, God is watching and allowing, as we are in such judment now from God Almighty.  What is going to happen and the fire that God is going to send, will even have agnostics shake in their shoes.  And THIS I believe.  For in Genesis 12:1 begins..”Now the LORD had said unto Abram, get thee out of your country, (Ur in Iraq in the North where the Euprates and Tigress meet.) from your kindred, and from your father’s house (who made idols), unto a land that I will show you.  2. And I will make you a GREAT NATION, and I will bless you, and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. 3. And I will bless them who bless you, and curse him who curses you”…ISRAEL!   THEY DO NOT OCCUPY PALESTINE, OR JERUSALEM, THEY OWN IT!   

Israel had been fought over and taken over by the Turks, then the Roman soldiers, when Ceasar took the country over and it was Caiphus, Herod who killed Jesus, a Jew and Rabbi in Matthew. That little country only 8 miles wide, has been the hotbed of contention, wars, and hatred, since Abraham and his two sons, Ishmael son of Abraham and Sarah’s handmaiden Hagar, and Isaak, born from old Sarah….One of God and a Jew the other Arab and oil.  And nothing has changed in thousands of years, and won’t, until our Messiah,  (Jesus) comes back.  Never before, in history has everything been so in place as it is now.   But, we who are Christian, are mandated to STAND for ISRAEL!   And I shall not keep silent!   I pray with her, and I cry with her…..and I plead with God to send your fire Lord, for then after repentance, shall we see the biggest revival  on our land and I hope across the world that we have ever seen in history.  Something is going to happen..That I know.   God Bless Israel, and God save America…open eyes Lord, take off the scales…..so we see your truth.

*Biblical History…NO Palestinian ARABS!  “The name Israel was given to Jacob (Genesis 32:28) after the wrestling of the Angel with him (Hos. 12:4) at Peniel.  The name “Israel” means Soldier of God.   It became the national name of the twelve tribes collectively.  They are so called in Exodus 3:16 and thereafter.  After the latter days of King Soloman and the division of the Kingdom, one tribe, (Judah) went to the House of David.  Eventually the greater part of Benjamen, and probably the whole of Simeon and Dan, were included as if by common consent in the Kingdom of Judah.  With respect to the conquests of David, Moab appears to have been attached to the Kingdom of Israel.  (2Kings 3:4).  Much of Syria too then remained subject to Solomon.  (1Kings 11:24) It was no doubt claimed by his successor in the Northern Kingdom, and Ammon, whose mother was an Ammonitess (Arab).  (1Kings 14:21).  Shechem was the first capital of the new Kingdom (1Kings 12:25), subsequently, Tirzah became the royal residence, if not the capial of Jeroboam.  Samaria, uniting in itself the qualities of beauty and fertility, and a commanding position, was chosen by Omri (1Kings 16:24).  The details of the history of the Kingdom of Israel, will be found under the names of it’s nineteen Kings:  Israelite, Issachar, (9th son of Jacob), Isshiah, descendent of Moses, Isuah, 2nd son of Asher (Gen. 46:17), Isui, 3rd son of Asher, Ithai, a Benjaminite, son of Ribai of Gibeah,  Ithamar Son of Aaron (Ex 6:23), Ithiel A Benjaminite, son of jesaiah (Neh. 11:7), Ithmah a Moabite, one of the hero’s of David’s guard (1Chr. 11:46), Ithra an Israelite (2 Sam. 17: 25)m Uthran, son of Dishon, a Horite (Gen. 36:26), Ihream, son of David, born in Hebron, Ittai  (the Gittite), a Philistine in the army of David  (2Sam. 15:18) , Izehar name given in Numbers 3:19, Izeharites (the) a family of Kohathite Levites, Izhar, son of Kohath grandson of Levi, uncle of Moses and Aaron (Ex. 6:18), Izrahiah, man of Issachar (1Chron. 7:3),  Izrahite (the), and Izri, a Levite leader of the 4th course or ward in the  House of God (1Chr. 25:11) , In verse 33 he is also called Zeri.”  *Smiths Bible Dictionary

Israel’s timeline on one page, click link:  http://www.odyeda.com/en/

What Muslim refugees left behind in Hungary on cell phone videos, torturing each other to prepare for interrogation.  Do we want 100,000 more of these uncivilized, unschooled violent refugees in America?  Stop Obama!  Wake up media!  http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/10/shocking-videos-and-photos-found-on-phones-left-by-muslim-migrants/

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

Does God allow suffering? Did Jesus suffer for our sins so we would escape suffering?

Not much is preached about suffering, only a false message on prosperity and happiness.  But, God never intended us to be “happy”.  There is no place in the Bible that God says that we are not to suffer.

We know that God loves us and cares for us..(in my previous Salvation blog). Yet we wonder why He allows suffering. When a tragedy happens, the media instantly puts the blame on God.  God uses our suffering when things happen in our lives. What we fail to realize is that even though we cannot see what God is doing, He is patiently at work fulfilling His will.  One of the most important and awesome ways of God is that He uses our suffering.   When my son committed suicide, did I blame God?  No, because even though I was so broken then and wanted to die myself, I had had enough Biblical teachings and was grounded enough in faith to know that my son was in Heaven (saved) and that while I didn’t understand His will; I had enough faith even in my mourning, which lasted through a mini stroke I only faintly acknowledged, and pain and tears for 3 1/2 years.  But, God used me, and used my talents, and in the process, healed me.  Now, I can be a testimony .

Peter wrote a letter to suffering believers in the first century.  He said, “therefore, those also who suffer according to the will of God shall entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right” (I Peter 4:19).  Paul was in jail, had horrific arthritis, Jacob walked with a limp,  Moses stuttered, Peter had a temper, and it shows that none  of us are above suffering or perfect, except Jesus, yet He suffered the most at the CROSS for our sins.

Suffering is the result of anything that causes us pain in some way.  In such a sinful world, all of us suffer.  Some of our suffering may take the form of persecution for our faith. There are other kinds of suffering we bring on ourselves, such as violating good health principles. God USES suffering in order to get our attention.   We now are like Sodem and Gomorrah in America.  We refuse to repent and turn from wickedness.   The wages of sin is death.  In verses 67 and 71 of Psalm 119 we read that affliction helps us to learn God’s ways.  When He sees that we are moving toward sin and disobedience, the Lord allows suffering because our pain drives us back to HIM.  God uses suffering to develop personal righteousness and maturity.  When my son killed himself, thank God I at least had the maturity and knew my scriptures, even in pain, I knew the truth.  As Christians, we are often unaware of sinful activities that remain in our lives.  God is in the process of developing maturity through us, and suffering helps to reveal those issues that He wants us to resolve.

God uses suffering for the purpose of pruning.   Pruning as we prune a tree, that once its’ done and the roots spread in the ground it is able to finally bear fruit.  Corinthians.. Else we can never be productive for the Kingdom of Christ.   What does God prune? He “cuts away” our attitudes and our actions so that godly ones may grow, thus maximizing our potential as children of God.  Suffering too, teaches obedience.  Even Jesus had to learn obedience.   Hebrews 5:8  He was always perfect, yet always learning obedience. Focus on what God is teaching you.  Accept His discipline because it applies to those whom He loves.  God uses suffering too, to teach us to trust Him.   In 1Peter 1:7, we read that our faith when tested by fire, is more precious than gold,which is perishable.  God makes no apology for sending us suffering because He loves us so much.   He wants us to have continuous dependence upon His grace.  He allows suffering to manifest Christ’s life in each of us.  He wants our heart to be purified to make us holy.   In going through suffering, He teaches us to praise Him and give thanks for everything.   For he is perfecting us in HIS image…like clay..He is the potter and we are the clay.   It is allowing us to build CHARACTER!  Someone said , our talents can take us to the top, but, only our character can keep us there.

He allows adversity to enable us to share the suffering of Christ. Philippians 3, Paul writes that he desires suffering because Jesus Christ suffered on his behalf.  Since both Christ and Paul suffered, we know that God calls us to endure trials as well. It is a false Gospel that claims our faith should only bring us health and prosperity.  God allows suffering to prevent pride and keep us humble.  He wants to reveal man’s evil and God’s righteousness.  When we are in a trial and in pain, hard as it may be, ask God what He wants us to do.  Was this pain we are going through caused by our own sin, or though some other influence?  As God for strength and discernment during this time of testing…  Some of the above in excerpts were taken from a teaching by Dr. Charles Stanley, “the Ways of God 7”

Dr. David Jeremiah, also did a teaching from II Corinthians.  I Cor. 4:7-12 “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed, perplexed, but not in despair Persecuted but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”  (we live the resurrection life by understanding that we have been planted together in the likeness of His death. jwexpositors) “For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death works in us, but life in you.”   He ALLOWS us to go through things to see Jesus through our pain.  It’s not about us, but about HIM.  For the ultimate is settled in Heaven.

The one thing that you should not do?  Don’t give up, and don’t blame God.   Faith works! So does prayer!   If you are going through a trial now, ask Jesus into your heart and ask Him to lead you step by step and to heal your emotions and pain.  It may take time…but, He has never failed me, no matter how long it took.  I never doubted for one moment that my Jesus had His arms around me holding me up…Thank you Jesus for loving me..I pray my testimony aids someone out there that needs help now…

The Old Cross and The New

I had this wonderful article for a long time, and first published in 2010. This is an excerpt from an article written by A. W. Tozer.   “The truth is the modern ministry little believes that what  Jesus did at the Cross answers every question, solves every problem, meets every need, and breaks every bondage of sin.  Yes, there may be some superficial likenesses between the Old Cross and the New Cross, but when inspected, even to a small degree, the differences are fundamental, and even that is an understatement.”

“All unannounced and mostly undetected, there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles.  Anything that promises salvation or victory other than simple faith in Christ and what HE did for us at the Cross must come under the heading of the “new cross”.  While the “old cross” is mentioned from time to time in modern preaching, it is mostly used as window dressing.  The truth is the modern ministry little believes that what Jesus did at the Cross answers every question.”

“From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, and from that new philosophy has come a new evangelical technique – a new type of meeting and a new kind of preaching.  Its content is not the same as before.  The Lord does NOT rehabilitate anyone. HE KILLS THE ‘OLD MAN’ AND MAKES ALTOGETHER A ‘NEW MAN’.  He does not as the new cross, a friendly pal, and it is the source of oceans of good clean fun and entertainment and ‘gimmicks’ from prosperity, to ‘feeling good’ and a new one now with supposed revival even finding diamonds in pew seats.  What blasphemy!  Jesus doesn’t give us a ‘how to kit’…It lets Adam live without interference.  His life motivation is UNCHANGED, he still lives for his own pleasure” (which those like Oprah cannot give up)..”Only now the accent is still on enjoyment. Instead of tears and repentance!   The fun is on a higher plan morally if not intellectually.  It is the message of morality, which is pleasing to the carnal ear.  The truth is Judas Iscariot proved that association, participation and environment although good things, STILL does NOT change the heart of man.  In other words, the born-again experience now is all but ignored.  It is some moral evolution.  Thats the reason the bartender or liquor salesman is now told he can keep his day job, as well as the dancer in Las Vegas.  But, it is a SIN!”

“Whereby, their lives are not changed, the old things of the past still remain except they now claim Christ.  Christ cannot be bought and had in such circumstances.  Joel Osteen, who once I said was nothing but a sales pitch; however,  I now watch Joel, and have a different opinion.  He does use scriptures.

John said, ‘love not the world nor the things in the world.’ Spoken of here by John pertains to the ordered system of Satan is the head.  ‘If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.’ God the Father will not share the love that must go exclusively to HIM with the world.  He did not sacrifice the life of His only begotten son, for this new cross and excuses. ‘For all that is in the world there is nothing in the system of this world that is of God, the lust of the flesh, (referes to evil cravings) and the lust of the eyes (craves what he sees)  and the pride of life (that which trusts its own power and resources and shamefully despises and violates Divine Laws, is not of the Father, but the world, Satan.”

“The NEW cross does not slay the sinner , it REDIRECTS him.  It gears him into a cleaner and jollier way of living and saves his self-respect.  To the self-assertive, it says, ‘Come and assert yourself for Christ and is a false word to the Bible and CRUEL to the unsaved souls that hears the message.  The faith of Christ does not parallel the world, it intersects it.”

“The Old Cross is a symbol of DEATH.  It stands for the abrupt violent and end of a human being.  The man in Roman times who took up his cross and started down the road had already said bye to his friends…(the old life was killed with repentance and salvation)..and all passed, the old man , is the old you, and dies.  The Cross made no compromise, modified nothing!   Spared nothing!  It slew all of the man, completely  and for good. It struck cruel and hard, breaking ties with all friends, habits, hangouts, and yes, even unsaved relatives of the past. ”  (Did not Jesus say, ‘I come not in peace but to pit mother against daughter,” etc.)  When we get saved we DIE by the blood…and if we deny the BLOOD shed at Calvary, we mock Jesus Christ, and our supposed salvation is nothing, but a farce.  When truly saved, the old man is no more.”

“Dare we, the heirs of such a legacy of power, tamper with the truth? Dare we with our pencils erase the blueprint or alter the pattern shown us in the Mount? May God forbid.  Let us teach the  Old Cross, the only TRUE Cross and we will know the old power of Jesus Christ.   Romans 6:1-14,8: 1-2,11, ICor. 1:17-18, 21,23, 2:2, Gal 5,6:14, Eph 2:13-18, Col 2:17-18” from AW Tozer “Man the Dwelling Place of God.” 1966

May we all look deep inside our own walk with Christ. We do not have Holy Ghost power to lead others to the Cross and witness the word, if we are not dead in Christ ,ourselves.  To die in repentance at that Cross and the blood shed at Calvary, kills the old man in us and when we come up..All things are passed away, we are NEW …we get a new life...(Thats what the media and Catholics do not understand with the salvation message..) new friends that are Christian, and we don’t throw the past up in someones face, for the PAST IS DEAD!  Gone..Washed by Jesus blood shed at Calvary.   Paul says to push towards the mark..and that we must always do.  Wallowing about what is dead is of Satan..and not life under the salvation’s message.  I pray for ministries led astray…I pray boldness of this message at pulpits across America, I pray for the Catholic Church to understand and reach their parishioners.    The Cross…all that pain and blood Jesus shed for our sins….is the ONLY way. For didn’t Jesus say, “I AM the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIGHT, and NO ONE COMETH TO THE FATHER, EXCEPT BY ME…COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.”   Then, it says HE will mold you like clay in HIS image.  If you are not converted, how can you be molded anew?  What else is there?  Jesus bore it all…..Alleluia to the lamb of God!

http://www.awtozerclassics.com/page/page/4891821.htm

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America’s Prayers

 Consider what is happening now in this worrld.  I first wrote this in 2011.  Now? Well, many laughted at the Four Blood Moons. But when all is documented on NASA, listen. AND it concerns Israel…not necessarily us. What more proof do you need? The last Blood moon Passover in April in spite of Obama’s interference with his organizers in Israel, Bibi won the election again. Now our Tower in NYC which was built on defiance not repentance was hit twice so far with lightening. It “could” get worse. I still think lightening comes from God??? Now too Obama has addressed the UN Assembly, and is going along with a New World Order (666 in Revelations) not to mention, advocating along with the UN for a Palestinian State. He has shafted Israel, and God says, “I will bless those who bless my people (Israel & the Jews) and curse those who curse her. Add to that the Supreme Courts decision on Gay rights, abortion, and we are under the biggest judgment from God Almighty we have ever been under. Top it off now with Putin taking over as the worlds super power, going into Syria, 100,000 Syrian Islamic Refugees coming into America? Use your head….It is all Biblical. ALL! No one said the 4 Blood moons would be the end of the World. But THIS only happens rarely. This last was on the Feast of the Tabernacles 9/28. It is the Jewish day of judgment of sin. Deut 1-6. The last 4 Blood moons was 1967-68 When Israel had the 6 day war. Before that? 1949-50 When Israel became a State. The first time was 1492 when Queen Isabella was murdering Jews, and Columbus took them to America. LEARN…and look up! America is not in the Bible. AND Iraq is Mesopotamia, Iran Persia. Up in Iraq where the Euprhates and Tigress meet, is UR where Abraham was born. And we never should have left in 2011. Iraq (Mesopotamia) was the first civilization in the world.

From old post: “This has been a revealing week.  So much so, I fell on my knees, bad back and all, to cry out to the Lord for our nation.   For “God is my rock and my salvation and I shall not be moved. ” Psalm 62:6

Jefferson said, “In a matter of style, swim with the current; in a matter of principle, STAND like a rock!” author unknown. And STAND I will on Godly principles and what HE wants from me, not the leaders of our nation, that are dishonest and not after our best interests.  For God and God alone will take care of Social injustices! And soon!   Wherefore, pray for me too, as I am out in a political limb, now, intentionally, and and making my voice known on my Facebook, and to my leaders on their websites.  I am now under the label of “radical extremist”.  I feel like we are entering back to the  “McCarthy” era, only it is the radical fascist left playing at being McCarthy.

I watched the first part of an excellent program on PBS, “WWII, Behind Closed Doors” this week.  And will definitely watch repeats and next time take notes.  Here is the website for more information.

http://www.pbs.org/behindcloseddoors/

This is on Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hitler and secret meetings held with all the horrific murders and brutality that ensued thereafter, and the consequential slaughter and entry into Poland.
Now Bush’s work for the arms protection of Georgia and the Czech Republic is shot down by this President, and Russia will be free to take more land off of little Georgia, who is a democratic nation.  And what about Israel?   God’s chosen sits there all alone, and all they had to side with them was America.  God says I will bless them that bless Israel, and curse them that go against her.
And it is very clear who this President sides with.

And this week, the National Day of Prayer, just came and went unacknowledged.   The Christian God of this nation went under the carpet, and Jesus went out with the bathwater.   I heard Dr. James Dobson on Sean Hannity, in such despair of this President.  At the same time the Presidents left honcho for votes , Acorn is FINALLY under investigation.   As this election was by all stances, illegal.  They signed even illegal aliens up 2 or more times to vote, numerous times.  They are also in affiliations with a lot of “under cover” organizations, and have the money to twist  elections.  What has happened to my country?

And now all this war we are going into in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and meetings this week.  I’ll make a prophesy here, that he will send (have no choice) into both countries, and in a year or two there will be more body bags coming back than we had WINNING and freeing Iraq and we won’t be  able to get out!   And Bush kept us safe after 9/11. Now our borders and safety are being let down, and I’ll also predict along with others, and Pastor Dave Wilkerson, that we will be hit again.  He sees NYC once more going up in fire and flames.  God help us…

Now, the left fascists want us out of Guantanamo, but, no one wants these prisoners, and I for one do not want them in the U.S.   Legally they are under military law, captured as terrorists, which they
still are to me. (Even though Janet Napolitano eliminated the word “terrorist”…they are still terrorists).  They are still a danger, and wouldn’t think twice about hooking up to more groups and
killing us!  The ACLU and these left fools that are either STUPID or NAIVE as our President, would even give them aid and food stamps.  Please….You all need to smarten up and get in the real world.   As for me?  I STAND…like Psalms 62:6 above..  And I’ll stand with Jay Sekulov and the Christian counterpart, the American Center of Law and Justice!  http://www.aclj.org    I don’t want Obama’s Socialistic/fascist reform!   I want our borders in the south to Mexico protected!   Americans are being kidnapped and killed, even to this little 3 year old boy in CA.   I don’t want Socialized medicine!  It doesn’t work.  Doctors have been on tv all week, in the UK Sweden,  Canada, speaking out on what a failure it is.  Even Stewart Varney now a US citizen from the UK,
says, the hospital and medical care in England is terrible…and dirty!   We don’t need it.. Anymore than we need to abolish Capitalism.   Oh, and part of the 17 billion the President cut yesterday?  Well part of the so called “pork” he cut from spending, was our Medicare!  Better watch this slippery President….his mouth says one thing and his deeds show another!

And speaking of Capitalism, what about China?  Does anyone have a clue?  Here we are going to China of all people to bail us out and borrow all these billions and billions for bail outs to make  Move on.org and George Soros( who ought to go back to Hungary) happy.  The laugh is that Obama slammed Wall St., and all the “speculators?”…What does he think George Soros is?  That is just how he made his billions and billions, on our American Stock market.

So, back to china..  Here we are with this Free Trade Agreement, making all these products, that like the wheat whey in pet foods,  and toxic chemicals that got recalled in baby foods, and chemicals on clothes, that need to be washed before using or wearing.  Now , their people in their sweat factories, (their human rights conditions are deplorable), are dying from making America’s little curly light bulbs for energy (Obama pushing) with all that mercury inside, that you better not throw in the trash!   And people like me, that are old, and have had eye surgeries, (mine was a detached retina and cataract) and can’t see  to even read with these darned lights.  And God  forbid if I ever dropped one and broke it.  I don’t have masks in my home, nor can I bend to fool  around cleaning up with cardboard, not touching….put in a jar…I mean, give me a break!   I need
back surgery.  ( Maybe if I choose).

Then add to all this, our military ships on the other hand are sitting in Chinese waters getting attacked by small Chinese fleets, while we pray they don’t attack Japan.    (Of course we also have North Korea to worry about with their nukes too?!)  YET WE BORROW MONEY FOR BAIL OUTS FROM THEM?  Doesn’t anyone know their Bible?  It’s for darned sure sitting in Rev Jeremiah  Wright’s church, that Obama doesn’t know a thing, nor is he a Christian.  All he was taught was HATE.  Now too, don’t you think it ironic. That Janet Napolitano puts us that are right wing evangelical Christians on her new hate list…Why not Wright?  And with the Fairness doctrine, when /if it comes to pass, may put a stop to even my free speech, and First Amendment rights on this blog.  Here I am Holder….Here I am Napolitano…Put this old woman in jail and take away my freedom…But, like in the days of Hitler…You would NEVER kill my soul for Christ!    And if I had to die like many Christians are doing and getting persecuted in so many
countries…Then die I will in Christ!   I WILL stand like a ROCK!  I shall not be moved!..  And I don’t see it as being a martyr, like Islam.  I see it as believing in what my country once stood for..and our  Founding Fathers.  If Washington, Adams, and Jefferson could ever see the mockery these idiots are making of all they believed in.

China, is the lion in Revelation..who will join the bear Russia  (on my Christian group site blogs) and join the Arabs to attack Israel in the final war of Armageddon.  Wow, just like before WWII, when Roosevelt and the idiot Joe Kennedy all were thinking Hitler and Stalin  was so great.  They didn’t see the writing on the wall…BUT neither did all the churches in Europe either.  No one stood for anything.  NO ONE..  Not the Catholic Church, the protestants…even Germany’s own Lutheran Church.  While Hitler went and stole their sons for the perfect Arian race…and they all died in the war.    Ego mania, and Narcissism and manic rulers and dictators, communism doesn’t work.  Every time I see this President speak out his lies, and see his behavior, his is Narcissistic Personality Disorder with grandiose ideas, and ideologues.   History repeats itself.   The young he shanghaied with Acorn to vote, were a lot of illegal aliens as well as youth that have no idea of history and what made this country.  It is all being taken away from us.  Yet, like Germany , before the war, everyone just goes about their own business…and tries not to get into anything too heavy.   America wake up!

I actually hope Israel sends her missile’s into Iran to stop that maniac.  Obama will never get his way with Netanyahu.  And that man knows his Bible and gets it.   And even the liberal Jews in CA, ie dear Barbra , Michael Douglas,  Spielburg, Tom Hanks…none of you get it!  Us, that are evangelical Christians, are your friends.  We, that call ourselves Zionists and love God, and love Israel, it is us that are your true friends.  Just like Pastor John Hagee, and Christians United for Israel.   Do you actually think this President gives one iota about any of you and the Jews?  Did you know that even Jews, and rich Jewish bankers helped us win the Revolutionary War?  Read Read Ray Rapheal’s book ” A People’s History of the American Revolution.”  (I’m in the DAR).

Read Ezekiel 37-39, I Thes, Revelations, Matthew 24.  And no one is going to tell me we are safe now.    God’s wrath is coming.  And Israel is not to give up one more parcel of land in Israel.  Even that West Bank of Palestine belonged to Abraham, Isaak , Jacob, David….and the lineage of Jesus!  A Jew  and Rabbi!  There is a warning to Secretary of State Clinton….Beware dear, of  God’s wrath and don’t be a duplicate of Madeline Albright!   For there will never be any mid-east peace, until my Jesus touches His feet on Mt. Olivette and that East Gate opens after GOD shut it,
2,000 years ago.

I will look up..He’s coming and I believe soon.  Bush in spite of his spending and his 2nd term, he did a lot right.  Especially after 9/11.  He was a praying man.   But, this President is too narcissistic and an egomaniac to do anything except on his own grandiose juice.  God help us America.  God help  NH now too and the impending Gay marriage bill.  We are like Sodom and Gomorrah. What is happening now?  Is all prophesied.   Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel….

Thank you Jesus.  I have your righteous anger.  I am so fed up Lord I pray for your intercession on America and our evil ways.  Take away from this foolish Government all the crooks , the evil ones,  those that bask in their own lustful desires, and greed.  Eliminate them Lord, but let the PAY for their sins and what they have done to the American People..and that Lord includes Sandy Berger,  who was never prosecuted or even investigated for stealing all those secret documents..  Let us have vindication in YOU Lord.  YOU are our advocate if we cry out to you.  I am crying out to you  Lord God, to come and send your Holy Spirit upon your people and this nation once again…
Show them the error of  their ways,  and rid us of all the crooks and dishonesty.  For you are LORD, and bigger than this government.  YOU ARE my Almighty Lord God Jehovah…I pray that you come and supernaturally like you did with Elijah in his fight with Jezebel, SHOW AMERICA,  YOU ARE THE ONLY GOD…THERE IS ONLY ONE!   Not the cults, not the extremists, not Islam, but, the SAME God of the Old and New Testament …We need a sign here in this country Lord that YOU will not stand for the way we are going.   In you Lord do I trust.  Send your FIRE God… Wake America up Lord.    I pray for leaders to be sworn into office, that have ethics, character,
morals, honesty, integrity, and humility, and that more than anything are GODLY men and women,  that trust in you and not in their own understanding.  Thank you Jesus..

For you will come quickly like a thief in the night..I pray soon..For this is not my America anymore that I knew.  She is a harlot..and evil.   God we need you.  I cry out for your intervention, Lord on my face.  Help us to heal and turn from our sins and wicked ways…Take away all the immorality, greed, and murderous (abortion) deeds.  Help us Oh Lord…This is my prayer , my heart after you  Lord, on this week of our UNOBSERVED NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER.  Amen…

From Jonathan Falwell May 8th 2009
Still Praying for America

On May 6, 1982, President Ronald Reagan stated: “Today , prayer is still a powerful force in America, and our faith in God is a mighty source of strength.  Our Pledge of Allegiance states that we are ‘ONE NATION UNDER GOD’, and our currency bears the motto, “In God we Trust”. The morality and values such faith implies are deeply embedded in our national character. Our country embraces those principles by design, and we abandon them at our peril.  Yet in recent years, well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away.  For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice in the classrooms.  the law of this land has effectively removed prayer from our classrooms.  How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?”

Twenty -seven years later on this National Day of Prayer our religious freedoms continue to diminish beyond anything President Reagan could have imagined.  I believe that prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor” (as well as anti-Semitism) ” in the so-called mainstream of our culture.  The result of this campaign is that many of our fellow Americans having absolutely no idea of the rich Judeo-Christian heritage of our nation.  Subsequently, few raise an eyebrow when a valedictorian is barred from mentioning Jesus at a graduation service or a Ten Commandments display is taken down in a public arena or a cross necklace is banned in a workplace.”  ( And this writer younger was fired from more than one job for being a Christian…an institute of art was one and an insurance company another..)

“Our Founders wanted a prayerful citizenry that understood the need for God’s involvement in our nation.  As I write this column , my mind hearkens back to the First Continental Congress in May 1775, when our wise delegates called for a National Day of Prayer, which included these words: “that we may…by sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease God’s righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain this pardon and forgiveness.”   Two years later the Continental Congress authorized the distribution of 20,000 BIBLES for the troops, noting the ” importance” of scripture.  And in October 1780, the Continental Congress again issued a Proclamation for a Day of PUBLIC Thanksgiving and Prayer. The fact is that our nation WAS and IS CLEARLY founded in prayer and the study of God’s word. Today’s civil libertarians ignore our unmistakable history when they attempt to stifle religious expression in our nation.

In 1952 Congress and President Harry Trumen established the National Day of Prayer as an annual event, while in 1988 the first Thursday in May became the official observance for the event, with President Reagan signing into law.

Today while our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer, I believe that our Nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.  President John Adams declared May 9, 1798 as “a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer, ” with our citizens beseeching God “that our country may be protected from all the dangers which threaten it.”

What a pertinent prayer for this day and age………….”

We need to be on our knees and repent….This country was not founded on the “politically correct”.”

(Written in 2011)

Our New Godless Morality

Praying today for our country, youth…after visiting Facebook early, and seeing my own children, grandchildren, absolutely in another “pop culture” world.   Young in my 20’s I used to watch debates with conservative William F. Buckley, Jr and Gore Vidal (which was in the 60’s).  The intellectual plain that these two men discussed the world and politics, this pop culture generation wouldn’t understand one iota.  Ok.  I’m old.  But thank you Jesus, I still have my brain, and Jesus in my heart.  I’ve said before, we are the most uneducated, illiterate generation, from world history, American history, and Biblical history than in any other time in our lifetime. By comparison, my generation were grounded.  It was just after WWII, and America was flourishing.  We were taught manners, politeness, to be patriotic and to SERVE.  Not take, but, serve. As well as get a good education, and WORK.  My grandparents had no Social Security, and there was no Medicaid-Welfare.  Your relatives or Church did back then in the 40’s and 50’s what the government does now.  My German grandfather lived with us when I was around 10. My mother took care of him.  That is just the way it was done.  My parents never complained, they just did what was right.

Some friends I went to school with took elocution lessons, and debate classes.  When I was in high school, artist that I was, I was in the Art Club, Thesaurus school magazine, Drama Club, Glee Club, voted on the Student Counsel 3 years in a row, modeled, took 7 years of classical piano, was in Rainbow Girls (part of Masons I hate to say.)  Classmates went on to college, Annapolis, one became a nuclear physicist (was voted less likely to succeed), another went on to the Defense Dept., other career Army and Special forces.  We were overachievers back then.  And look at this slang ridden violent, hip hop pop culture selfie generation now.  Do you know Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and many of our Founding Father’s as well as Christian author, C.S. Lewis, were reading Wordsworth, Plato, and all the classics by the age of 12?  They were genius’s. Madison, who wrote all the Federalist papers…my idol.  No one reads now.  They text, they email, and the slang they use now, and all this fast world, is going to eat them up alive, and destroy them.  Not to mention,  in my day, we were a Godly generation.  I understood Shakespeare and read at 13. Hollywood, then had not only the “Duke” John Wayne, and patriotism, but the Jewish moguls out there produced some of the finest Biblical films back then, still shown now on Trinity Broadcasting, a lot starring Charlton Hesston.  I sang in the church choir, and taught Sunday School, and the church of my parents and paternal grandparents…most buried in the back.   Now what comes out of Hollywood, is so much killing and violence, and occult, and how it must grieve Jesus.   We are an unrepentant rebellious Society of violent takers without morals, without accountability for paying the consequence for evil acts.  It has become the most out of control Society I have seen in all my lifetime. But they say, they are “happy”??  How can you have such vain, empty values and think it is of God? And let me tell any who read this?  Something HAS to give.

I doubt whether anyone receives the political and Christian emails and calls of prayer, that I receive, or knows one iota of the prophesies, that are being fulfilled….never mind what is coming.  Everyone is “happy”….with all their “selfies” and their own jargon of pop culture, that is way beyond my expertise to understand.  I am old.  Still sharp, but, I’m missing something.  Do I worry? (I know we are not supposed to) but, yes, not for myself, for I have lived this life; but for them?  YES!  This is such an illiterate, selfish, uncaring, uneducated generation out there now. And “they” are going to lead churches and lead America?  So much taken for granted.  I’ve preached, blogged, and posted, tweeted, Facebook’d….til I’m blue in the face…Today I ask, for what?  No one READS. They arrow down and click like, with a smiley face, but no one clicks to read the whole article, a lot researched and historic/Biblical.

Last night I watched one of the best episodes of 60 Minutes I’ve seen.  Iraq: Laura was in Iraq way up past Mosul.  There was a monastery up there and interviews with monks, as I watched with tears in my eyes.  They have been there for 2,000 years.  All these hand-scribed books, and Christian documents.  The Nineveh plains since 263 AD, this monastery stood.  Books since early Christianity burned by Isis! Jonah is buried up there.  Jonah of the Bible Jonah?!  Everything EVERYTHING that is happening in this careless, cruel, world, now with Isis, destroying ANYTHING of God, and Christianity, EVERYTHING…is GOD…and it ties to prophesies to come…and my heart breaks, for this youth and selfie generation, having such a good time, just doesn’t get it…and God is not even called upon.  The link is below, and I really hope you click and watch these monks interview.  It is heartbreaking.

In college I took Ancient Civ, and was enamored, not knowing that one day when I got saved and God put me at a huge charismatic church in 1984, with such a move of God; I’d tie to end time prophesies. And little did I ever know we would be where we are now.  Iraq is Mesopotamia, the first civilization.  Up north where the Tigress and Euphrates meet is UR where Abraham was born.  We never should have left Iraq in 2011…never. These are good people. Just like my Coptic Christian friend, Alfie in Cairo Egypt…a beautiful man in Christ.   I look forward to this new series at my church and Salt class covering how God is involved with what is going on in this world.  God willing, I can get up that early, at 76, and have good back/hip days to make all the classes.  Am I the only one still hungry for Jesus and the word?   It seems there are only a handful of us Christians, and those who “get” this and read, I love you, and pray God’s blessings on you.

This past Sunday, we had a teaching at church which ties in perfectly with this “Selfie” generation.  I mean, this can go on unendingly.  All you have to do, if your a Christian, is open up your Bible. THERE is accountability staring you in the face!  I don’t think anyone feels guilts today…as anything goes.  WRONG.  God is going to judge each and every one of us.

When I was newly saved in the 80’s the first books I was told to read was Proverbs and Psalms. While I was a “Christian” as a child, taught Sunday school, though I was never taught the salvation message.  In a Congregational church back then, it just wasn’t preached.   But, I learned.  The very first book of Proverbs 1:7 God issues a warning.  Take heed.  “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.   Where is the boundary line that constitutes a lie, or gossip, or slander and libel?  What do you in this selfie generation concentrate on?  Cruelty? Cutting down? Self, selfishness, greed?  And if your a Christian, or say you are, who do you follow?  Where are YOUR morals in this Godless society?  Well, this is what GOD says!  Beware!

Proverbs 1:20-33 “Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets…She cries in the chief place of concourse in the opening of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying ..How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?” (Like the pharisees did are you who call yourselves Christians and saved, mocking God? For it was them who later turned on their own to crucify Him.)  23 “Turn you at MY reproof: behold, I will pour out MY spirit unto you, I will make known MY words unto you. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out MY hand, and NO man regarded, But, you have set at nought ALL MY counsel, and would have none of my reproof.  I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when YOUR fear comes..When YOUR fear comes as desolation, and destruction comes like a WHIRLWIND: when distress and anguish comes upon you.  THEN shall they call upon ME (GOD ALMIGHTY), but I will NOT answer; they shall seek ME early , but they shall not find ME.  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD, they would have none of MY counsel: they despised all MY reproof.  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of FOOLS SHALL DESTROY THEM.”  

You see what this says is wisdom speaks and pleads with the frivolous, the mockers, and the hostile, promising them that if they would “turn” she would abundantly enrich them with her own spirit and with understanding.  But such is conditional upon conversion,  even to those who “think” they are saved and play at church, only to go home back to their selfish ways.  Because the “old man” has never died….it just got redirected so to speak.  But conversion and repentance at the Cross demands the old man in us die!  The “simple” turns away from God, to be led in the “now”, and will be destroyed by God one way or another.  Does not the Lord’s Prayer, say “thine ” will be done?  It is HIS way vs OUR way.  We have become so DESENSITIZED in this society, with all the killings and vile language on tv, now, that there not only are no boundaries, but, no distinction of right or wrong.   The young man who preached at my church Sunday ended with, ” If someone gives you their trust, it is the most important thing you can do and HAS to be protected.”  There is no trust in today’s culture, one iota.

Other scriptures, Proverbs 12:18, 21:23, 10:19, 10:18, Eph 5:4, 5:29-31, Matt 12:36, James 3:10, Ez12:2, Matt 6:22, Heb 4:13, Ps101:3, Heb 12:2, Psalm 119:18, Job 31:1, & 2 Tim 2:16.

There is only one God who can save us from ourselves….For one day He may say to you,”I never knew you.“

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Trump Right on 14th Amendment

 From an article in Freedom Outpost – So Donald Trump was right!

“Robert Tracinski at The Federalist argues that deporting birthright citizens would be a direct assault on the Constitution and “the thousand year history of English common law.”

He says to do so, “requires precisely the sort of thing conservatives are supposed to be against.” He explains that, at the time of the founding, America embraced birthright citizenship – that “for the Founders, rejecting jus soli or birthright citizenship would have meant either greatly restricting the growth and expansion of the new nation or, more likely, creating a system in which there was a large and growing subpopulation of people who were disenfranchised in the land of their own birth. An idea totally incompatible with a government based on the consent of the governed.”

Tracinski then moves on to the 14th amendment, which is the centerpiece of the argument for birthright citizenship. The 14th amendment was the second post-Civil War amendment and was written to bestow citizenship on the freed slaves.

Like Tracinski, I too argued that Trump couldn’t just deport “birthright citizens.”

So now, I am here to eat crow, as it were. I thought I recalled the 14th amendment sufficiently to disagree with Trump, I was wrong—so are Tracinski and anyone else who hold up this amendment as proof that these illegals are, in fact, citizens.

And, of course, it took my favorite and most knowledgeable constitutional scholar, Mark Levin, to remind me of this.

The 14th amendment, ratified July 9, 1868, reads: “Section1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

If one wishes to fully understand the Constitution, one must also read what the Founders said and wrote regarding it. This is what is called original intent. By doing so, one can glean not only what they wrote but the motive behind it, which can be found in many letters the founders wrote to each other and, of course, the Federalist Papers. In short, go back to the source.

And Levin did just that. He writes that Senator Jacob Howard authored the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. “He [Howard] told us what he meant. He defined who would fall within the jurisdiction of the United States.”

This is what Howard said: “Every person born within the limits of the United States, subject to their jurisdiction, [meaning the states – their jurisdiction] is, by virtue of natural law and national law, a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great issue in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.”

Senator Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, supported Howard, contending that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else…subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States.”

Well, it doesn’t get much clearer than that. There can be no question of his intent and no longer any question of what he meant by “and subject to their jurisdiction.” In other words, Levin writes: “You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States,” and you can’t magically become a citizen if both your parents have fidelity to another nation.

So shame on me for not looking more closely at the amendment and just assuming the amendment had not been bastardized like everything else in the Constitution. Thank you, Mark Levin, for setting me straight.”
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/08/who-knew-trump-was-a-constitutional-scholar/#

 

Who Lost Europe? Is US next?

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe ?”

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons in New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

“Dear friends,

  Thank you very much for inviting me.

 I come to America with a mission.  All is not well in the old world.  There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.  We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe.  This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West.  The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

 First, I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe ..  Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem ..

The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks.  But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world.  It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen.  And if they are, they might regret it.  This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners.  The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe .  With larger congregations than there are in churches.  And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.  Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

  Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden.  In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.   Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

  Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils.  In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.  Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’.  Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin .  The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.  Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II.  French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya , Israel ..  I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering  25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now.  Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers.  And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.  But there are few signs of that.  The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France .  One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’.  And this is how we give them respect.  We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.  We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example, against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots.   Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.  I call the perpetrators ‘settlers’,  because that is what they are.  They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.  Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.  Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

 The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet.  His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized.  Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem.  But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages – at the same time.  Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed.  Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza.  If it is good for Islam, it is good.  If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.  Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its essence Islam is a political ideology.  It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person.  Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life.  Islam means ‘submission’.  Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.  If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam ‘the most retrograde force in the world’, and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.  The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor.  I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times.  I support Israel , first, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz , second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance.   Israel is facing the front lines of Jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and Aceh in Indonesia .   Israel is simply in the way, the same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel .  It is a war against the West.  It is Jihad.   Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us.  If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest.  Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West .  It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values.  On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed.  The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning.  It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination.  If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’.  In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II.  And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat.  Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing.  The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine.  An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.  With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem ….

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts.  My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives.  All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish.  My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians.  We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe ‘s children in the same state in which it was offered to us.  We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.  Future generations would never forgive us.  We cannot squander our liberties.  We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.”

http://en.europenews.dk/Geert-Wilders-Wisdom-and-Courage-78603.html

My question to those in Washington, those running for President, those in the Media, and especially Christians all over the United States;  Are you going to STAND, or be swallowed up and destroyed?   THIS NEXT ELECTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN ALL OF AMERICA’S HISTORY!  AND REMEMBER THERE ARE ONLY 6 RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT WHO ARE NOT SOCIALISTS; Cruz, Trump, Paul, Huckabee, Walker, and Carson.

History And Prophesy Of The Mid East

Islam, Christianity And The Antichrist

Islam by Lehmann

Update: Last night this hit my email.  So this is coming (here) to the US.  A Christian man in Maine, beaten and killed, his blood all over his Bible by an Islamic. Yet, watching the tail end of NCIS California, the whole show of politically correct,  calling us who are Christians, against Islam, the fanatical right.   But, Winston Churchill saw through the Koran, and he is the one who ended the centuries long Ottoman Period which overran Europe then, as now, it’s object is to take over all of Western Civilization.  Geert Wilder is absolutely right.  And I watched Sunday, Pastor Jack Graham preaching out of  Revelations.  He is right, the CHURCH is not ready period. God help us.  

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/08/islamic-immigrants-spend-hours-beating-christian-man-to-death-in-maine/

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/10/doctor-describes-horrors-in-german-hospital-overrun-by-muslim-migrants-doctors-stabbed-no-arrests-no-media/

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/09/look-trash-destruction-left-behind-muslim-refugees/

http://www.teapartycrusaders.com/international-news/thousands-europeans-take-streets-drive-islam/

Compromise, Again?

Bishop T.D. Jakes on Daystar Television Network and TBN Trinity Broadcasting Network is wrong again in his “Gay” Conclusion. It once was called a “mental illness”, which I believe has to do with the wiring of the brain, just as mental illnesses, ie bi-polar. But here Jakes, once again goes off away from GOD and HIS word, to form his own word. It is hypocrisy….Just as his voting for Obama was, and is…a Muslim Communist? That is NOT God’s word.   Again, some of these preachers in high media have chosen to RE-write the Bible, and change GOD’s original intent.  It is morally, and incomprehensibly, wrong.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/08/td-jakes-takes-american-religion-to-its-inherently-homosexual-conclusion/

From above link:

“The “We the People” worldview inherently, inevitably and quite proudly leads to everything from the “freedom” to murder tens of millions of our own babies for convenience to the “liberty” to “marry” whomever we please. (See: Note to ‘Merica: There is no “God-given right” to murder children. Repent accordingly.) It’s all about us. It’s all about “We the People”…a people who will not have Christ to rule over us.

The derivative horrors of mass child sacrifice and sodomite “marriage” are born of our cherished “right” to freely and openly worship any god that we like. That’s what we (blasphemously) call a “God-given right” here in ‘Merica, and by treating God’s Nature and Word as optional we have set ourselves up for the cultural implosion that is now upon us and the much worse that is to come. (See: Note to ‘Merica: There is no “God-given right” to worship false gods. Repent accordingly.)

A Quoted T.D.Jakes:

“Megachurch leader and author T.D. Jakes says that homosexuals should attend congregations that affirm their lifestyle and that politics do not need to reflect biblical ethics, adding that his position on homosexuality is both “evolved and evolving.”

(MY word:  Since when does the Holy Bible, Word of God, “evolve”? Did not God say not to add or take away from the Bible?  He is the SAME, yesterday, today, and forever!! And so is what God deems as sin!)

During an interview with the Huffington Post on Monday, Jakes was asked by a viewer if he believes that homosexuals and the black church can co-exist.

“Absolutely… I think it is going to be diverse from church to church. Every church has a different opinion on the issue and every gay person is different,” he replied. “And I think that to speak that the church—the black church, the white church or any kind of church you wanna call it—are all the same, is totally not true.”

Jakes said that he thinks homosexuals should find congregations that affirm their lifestyle.

“LGBT’s of different types and sorts have to find a place of worship that reflects what your views are and what you believe like anyone else,” he outlined.

“The church should have the right to have its own convictions and values; if you don’t like those convictions and values [and] you totally disagree with it, don’t try to change my house, move into your own … and find somebody who gets what you get about faith,” Jakes added.

He said that the issue of homosexuality is “complex.”

Then we got this clarifying – and quite damning (in a proud, All-American kinda way) – little gem:

“Once you begin to understand that democracy—that a republic actually—is designed to be an overarching system to protect our unique nuances, then we no longer look for public policy to reflect biblical ethics,” Jakes explained. (Emphasis added.)

We no longer look for public policy to reflect biblical values.” WHAT?? 
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/08/td-jakes-takes-american-religion-to-its-inherently-homosexual-conclusion/#WrZEiKrYIbbDR834.99

What happened to the 10 Commandments?  What happened to “Thou shalt have no other God’s before me?”  What happened to the Bible being the “INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD” without any compromise?  Does Jakes use his pulpit now for following Obama? For HE voted for him, and in doing so, was not voting the Bible, but Action.  Unlike Black pastors like Bill Winston, and Frederick C. Price, Creflo Dollar, etc.  Jakes has his own agenda, that of Obama’s it would seem.  “By ye fruits we shall know them.”  No different than Pastor Rick Warren, starting up “Crislam” some time ago?  FALSE PROPHETS!  The trouble is I like this preacher, and often watch him.  He is powerful, and has a profound impact on his fellow Black men in the audience.   The problem is, I agree with Rev. Franklin Graham, and others, that the word of God is NOT to be compromised.  We cannot cave into what is “politically correct” jargon in the Government and the Media, and adapt in our churches.   Did not Jesus say, “Render to that which is Caesar’s, and unto God what is HIS?”   If God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then we cannot change and alter HIS HOLY Word.  So I leave you a couple of links, to other posts.  How can we STAND in CHRIST and not adhere to HIS word?   I don’t believe “liberalism ” has any place in the House of God!    Any Amen’s out there?

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/compromise/

Here is Rev. Franklin Grahams statement on Gay marriage:  http://www.westernjournalism.com/franklin-graham-just-slapped-the-supreme-court-with-the-one-thing-about-marriage-they-dont-realize/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/the-apostate-church/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/confronting-sin-and-repentance/

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/hiding-the-stain/

Christians And The Abortion Issue

(Originally posted 4/22/14)

After the last election, President Obama, who advocates a “Woman’s Right to choose”.  Planned Parenthood has received over $400 Billion Dollars from the Black community.

Elections keep coming and going, and Christians who don’t vote in apathy, totally ignored the 6 million babies (not fetus’s) that were murdered in abortion.  I don’t believe this issue is dead, and I think its’ time we went back to basics and Biblical truths, that God calls abortion an abomination. We have important elections coming in 2014 and 2016, and I would hope that Christians rallied, did the work of God and stepped up to the plate as warriors. We have work to do. New Hampshire’s past Senator Bob Smith was the very first in Washington to show huge posters of aborted babies such as on this post. It is shameful that many close their eyes to these senseless murders, which amount to the progressives keeping the population down in African Black neighborhoods, where Planned Parenthood is more prevalent.

I thank God for Black African American preacher’s like Rev. Childress, whose links are on this site.   I thank God for others that did not get taken in by the media rhetoric and left during this election.   But, now, what about all these murders?    How my Lord Jesus must grieve when He sees all these babies come into Heaven, knowing how many were destroyed.

John 8:42-44  ” Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love Me; for I proceeded forth and came from God neither came I of Myself, but He sent me.”( The unconverted man cannot understand the word of God, and neither can many Christians now!)”You are of your father, the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning” (Satan originated sin, and sin brings forth death.) “and abode not in truth, because there is no truth in him, when he speaks of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (Satan ).

God speaks out against Israel in Hosea 9:12-15 “As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!” ( The thrust of this verse is that God would continue to deal with Israel, even in Judgement, attempting to bring them back to Himself; however, the day would come that upon continued rebellion, He would be forced to say no to them. ) “Give them, O Lord; what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts, ” (The prayer of this Verse is a prayer of compassion ..of 2 evils the Prophet chooses the lesser.  Better to be childless than to provide children for the MURDERER [Planned Parenthood?])  “All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I HATED them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.” ( In Gilgal they later dethroned Immanuel [I Sam. 8:7, 11:14-15], and later enthroned the golden calf under Jeroboam, hence ‘all their wickedness’.)

All Christians as well as those that vote for abortion, may face just this from the Lord.  And it’s clear as can be how God reacts to rebellion.  “I will love them no more!”  “I will drive them out of my house!”   But, even worse, God says he HATED them.  All those Pro Choice advocates that call yourselves Christian, whether Catholics or not, beware of the wrath of the Almighty God.  Job 24:14 Says, ” The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.”   The murdering of these unborn babies is more of a sin, than anyone with their politically correct jargon and “pro choice” rhetoric can ever imagine.  For you may have the door to Heaven just closed on you.

I Peter 4:5 ” Who shall give account to Him” (the coming Great White Throne Judgment where all unbelievers shall appear) “to Him” (Christ) “Who is ready to judge the quick”(living) “and the dead.”  God is the final judge, not Congress, not the liberals, and feminists, but the God many deny. I Peter 4:15 “But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.”  And if we suffer as a Christian in verse 16, we are not to be ashamed, but give glory to God on this behalf.  Abortion and voting for abortion in an elected official does NOT glorify God.

I John 3:15 says “Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has Eternal Life abiding in him. ”  There is forgiveness for those that had abortions and cried out to the Lord acknowledging their sin.  But, to those that defile God, and propose this in laws and vote for those in office that proport abortion and a Right to Choose?  God will see you for what you are, a murderer.

After looking at that photo, I don’t understand Christians that did not vote God’s word in this election.  I don’t understand our new President Obama, receiving donations from Planned Parenthood.  Does he not care about life?  There are Christian alternatives and Care Net and other places that have adoption.  But, I cry out to my Lord who grieves at the murders of these innocent babies.   Christians ?  You need to come back to the cross of Jesus Christ and beg His forgiveness.  In Jesus precious Holy name, Amen.

Photo from:  http://blackgenocide.org

Photo from:  http://voiceforlife.glorifyjesus.com                                                                                        and on Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/voiceforlifenz/                                                              

Abortion And Genocide

This is a comparison of Nazi Germany to slavery and abortion.  I am German decent.  As a child, I can remember my mother and father reading letters from relatives still in Germany; my mother horrified.  My grandfather and grandmother came over from Hof and Ahaweis Germany, in 1903 on the ship, the Kroonland out of Belgium.  What happened thereafter, was a horrible Holocaust.  My maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Schneider, and I’ve always wondered, if I had Jewish blood too.

What has happened in America now with Abortion, and now  Planned Parenthood selling organs of aborted babies is just as horrifying as what Hitler did.   If you go on Rev. Childress’s site, you will see photos of aborted babies.  They ARE babies, not a fetus, or blob, unrecognizable.  And they FEEL …just as we do.  What a horrible act abortion is and how it must grieve the Lord we serve.

Printed in text form with permission from Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr.  http://www.blackgenocide.org/abortion.html

 

Holocaust                           Lynchings                            Abortion
Personhood is always redefined to exclude the intended victim class. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws codified the exclusion of Jews from German society. The next year, the Reichsgericht (Germany’s highest court) essentially legalized the Holocaust. Cartoons routinely depicted Jews as pigs, dogs, rats, and other vermin. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Blacks “…a subordinate and inferior class of beings…” in [Dred] Scott v. Sandford. Black slaves were often assigned diminutive names, such as “Mingo,” that were normally reserved for pets. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court found that “the word ‘person,’ as used in the [Constitution], does not include the unborn.” Today, unwanted children are spoken of in dehumanizing terms: “embryo,” “fetus,” “products of conception,” etc.

 

Genocide often framed in the language of “choice.” The Nazis asserted that the racial make-up of the German nation was an internal matter for the German people to decide. They also emphasized Hitler’s choice, his “Will to Power,” as a Nazi propaganda film put it. In the Senatorial debates of 1858, Stephen Douglas said that he was personally opposed to slavery but that each state should have the right to choose whether to be a slave state or a free state. Pro-abortion advocates argue that if pro-lifers don’t like abortions, they shouldn’t have them. Abortion is not mandated; it is a matter of personal “choice.”

Victim class tends to be people who have what we want or get in our way. Eastern Europeans owned land that the Nazis wanted for lebensraum (“living space”) for the German people. Jews owned material wealth that Nazis wanted for themselves. Blacks owned the work product that slave owners desired for themselves. The loss of this uncompensated work product would deprive slave owners of material wealth they desired to maintain. Killing babies is often justified based on the desire to acquire material wealth and /or maintain lifestyle. Babies get in the way of career development, women’s rights, sexual freedom, etc.

 

Victim class is often seen as a “disease” on society or as diseased themselves. “Parasites” and “bacilli” were words used by Nazis to describe Jews and others targeted for extermination. Benjamin Rush, a leading American scientist who personally opposed slavery, speculated that all blacks were really leprous, diseased, whites in need of a cure. In his medical textbook Abortion Practice, Warren Hern analogizes the unwanted, unborn child to a disease, the treatment of choice for which is abortion.

Resources are inadequate to care for intended victim class if they are allowed to live. The Nazis justified killing “useless eaters” based on the fact that they were using up resources needed by the German people. Pro-slavery advocates justified the continuation of slavery because they said the slaves, if emancipated, could not take care of themselves and would be a drain on society’s resources. Pro-abortion advocates attempt to justify abortion by stating that there are inadequate resources to care for all unwanted babies if they are not killed by abortion.

 

A Conservative Stance

I love God, and I love my country.  I don’t know what is going to happen in this next election, or if Christians will even stand up and be counted.   “Self-righteousness is wretchedness turned inside out. A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling, stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or have much patience, with those who urge it.” William F. Buckley, Jr.

Someone wrote, “The gospel itself is unattractive and alarming to the world.  It exposes sin, and condemns pride, convicts the unbelieving heart, and shows our own righteousness to be worthless and defiled.  It affirms that the real problems in life are not caused because of anyone but ourselves.  We cannot blame anyone else for our failure.  If church history teaches us anything, it is that different times do not require different messages.  The message doesn’t need changing – WE need to allow the message to change US!”  author unknown.

We are a country in chaos, now.  We have a Government that has turned us to Socialism to such an extent, that most cannot even recognize America in history nor the Constitution, never mind our Judeo-Christian heritage.   We are in a pop culture society, of meism, and that drives God out.  Anything goes.   When trouble grows your character shows.  Trouble that drives you to Jesus is a precious asset.  Trouble will help you find out who your friends really are, both personally, our work, private lives, and those we thought we trusted at the voting booth.  Trouble therefore, is an asset.  It makes you delve into yourself to take stock.  It drives us Christians into our secret prayer closet to seek the only one who can change the situation; sometimes us.  It is so sad and actually astonishing that now of all the candidates running from both GOP and Democrats, that only 6 are not Socialists. They are, Cruz, Trump, Carson Paul, Walker, and Santorum.  Everyone else on both sides, including Jeb Bush are Socialists (Progressives they like to say).  Some more than others, like Bernie Sanders who could be called a Communist.

Why does that matter?  Because, we are in a very similar state as we were 35 years ago, after the terrible progressive presidency of Jimmy Carter and the Iran Hostage crisis, and now again we are faced with another terrible presidency of  Barack Obama and this Nuclear Iran deal; as they once more hold Christian hostages of US Citizenship. Whereby, once again, as history repeats itself, we are in the world facing many of the same challenges we had then, including a presumptive  cold war with Putin in Russia.  Donald Trump has made headlines in much the same way as Ronald Reagan did back in 1979-80 and as Trump has his brash personality and deficits, so did Reagan, with his age, and his reputation as an actor, but also extreme conservatism.  Yet, on the day of his swearing in, the Iranian government released the hostages.  And later it was Reagan who roared to Russia, “tear down this wall” in east Berlin.  While now Trump is yelling, build this wall on our borders!  Somehow, I see a parallel here.  Now, I am not endorsing Trump, in fact lean to Cruz more than anyone, as a strong Constitutionalist, who interned for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.  I’m just making a comparison from the past to the present, with something to pray about and meditate on.

Spiritual insight is not found by emptying our minds of questions.  The God of the Bible asks HIS people to do their best thinking.  According to Isaiah 1:18 God’s invitation was a spiritual renewal after this invitation “Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord.”  The prophet Isaiah goes on to quote a God who appeals to the minds and thoughts of His people.  Over and over God asks His people to do their best thinking, so as to trust HIM for answers that He alone understands.   Only after appealing to the highest reason and best  judgment of his hearers does the prophet go on to  ask, “Have you not known? Have you not heard?  God is never weary.  He neither faints and His understanding is unsearchable.  He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might HE increases strength.  Those who wait on the Lord, shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like an eagle, shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:28-31

We need to know and have deep insight a to what is really going on in the world around us, our leaders, whether locally or in Washington.  But, we need to have wisdom, and see deeper than phony rhetoric to win a campaign, but deep within the candidate themselves, so as not to be taken in again as we were with obama.   This is spiritual warfare we are facing in America, reaching down to each and every one of us.  It is also the most crucial time for us to repent.  Personally and for our nation.  Ground level spiritual warfare, is a ministry of deliverance or casting out demons from individuals, even if afar.  We need to see beyond the shallowness of media filled emptiness, and see deep within as God stirs in us from HIS eyes.  We need to speak out and be active against atrocities, such a my last post on Planned Parenthood, for it is an abomination to God Almighty…and those strongholds must come down!  We need to neutralize territorial power and high ranking spirits of greed, lust, power, corruption, lies, the dumbing down of our history, control, racial suppression, and baiting, and not fall for any of this in a candidate and to bind Satan’s influence in the voting booth.  We need to bind Satan and his evil spirits in all walks of life, and his demons from the progress hindering evangelism in America and the World.  Pray!  This is WARFARE, have no doubts.

Ask God to give us humility as we focus.  To clarify certain issues, and give us truths.  For humility is indeed a quality of one’s character…and much much more.  If we don’t humble ourselves before Christ as we pray for our nation, and repent  too, then God will not honor us.  Humility IS discipline, not merely virtue.  It has more to do with what we seek than what we become.  If we take responsibility for what we seek, God will determine what we  will be….and our nation.  Humility is not the result of having low self-esteem. Ronald Reagan had deep humility and strength of character.  He showed it repeatedly throughout his presidency, even after he got shot as well as with his friend Tip O’Neil, even though on opposite sides of the isle there was deep respect between them.  THAT kind of friendship and idealism for America is what is missing.  Humble people are too occupied with the well being of others to guard their own interests or notice their own self-importance.

“Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be a slave of all.  For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for man.” Mark 10-43-45  What begins in the glories of heaven ends with the worst kind of death–the cruelest, most shameful mode of execution ever devised by mankind: crucifixion.  Paul reminds us that Jesus chose this voluntary downgrading so that He might one day lift us up!    With that in mind, our prayers must extend from our solitude and prayer closet, to our family, churches, local towns and cities  to our nation.  A CHRISTIAN and Judeo nation, for God is the same yesterday, today and always….And as He birthed Israel in Genesis 13, so did He birth America.  It is up to us as Christians, to not let it be destroyed, and that can only come in prayer.  God Bless you..God bless America.  * Excerpts Chuck Swindall

 

DEFUND Planned Parenthood

I beg, BEG readers to copy and paste, use, and send to Congress so that they “get it” and defund Planned Parenthood, who is now selling the organs of aborted  (murdered) babies.

Also please see the links attached and do whatever it takes to stand, especially as CHRISTIANS as this is murder in God’s eyes, and no better than what Hitler did in his experimentations.

http://www.senate.gov/senators/states.htm

(All also on Twitter!)

TO: The Republican Members Of The United States Senate:The Hon. Mitch McConnell, The Hon. Dan Sullivan, The Hon. Lisa Murkowski, The Hon. Jeff Sessions, The Hon. Richard Shelby, The Hon. John Boozman, The Hon. Jeff Flake, The Hon. John McCain, The Hon. Marco Rubio, The Hon. David Perdue, The Hon. Johnny Isakson, The Hon. Joni Ernst, The Hon. Chuck Grassley, The Hon. James E. Risch, The Hon. Mike Crapo, The Hon. Mark Kirk, The Hon. Dan Coats, The Hon. Jerry Moran, The Hon. Pat Roberts, The Hon. Rand Paul, The Hon. Bill Cassidy, The Hon. David Vitter, The Hon. Susan Collins, The Hon. Roy Blunt, The Hon. Roger Wicker, The Hon. Thad Cochran, The Hon. Steve Daines, The Hon. Thom Tillis, The Hon. Richard Burr, The Hon. John Hoeven, The Hon. Ben Sasse, The Hon. Deb Fischer, The Hon. Kelly Ayotte, The Hon. Dean Heller, The Hon. Rob Portman, The Hon. James Lankford, The Hon. James M. Inhofe, The Hon. Pat Toomey, The Hon. Tim Scott, The Hon. Lindsey Graham, The Hon. Mike Rounds, The Hon. John Thune, The Hon. Bob Corker, The Hon. Lamar Alexander, The Hon. Ted Cruz, The Hon. John Cornyn, The Hon. Mike Lee, The Hon. Orrin G. Hatch, The Hon. Ron Johnson, The Hon. Shelley Moore Capito, The Hon. John Barrasso, The Hon. Tom Cotton, The Hon. Mike Enzi  

RE: Spare Us Your Feckless Bluster. Defund Planned Parenthood!

The recent sting video outlining how Planned Parenthood harvests and sells the organs of aborted babies — in violation of the law — proves what right-thinking Americans have known for years. Planned Parenthood is evil. No one needs a congressional hearing to confirm that sad and sickening fact, and it’s time for the GOP-majority in Congress to keep a promise that is entrenched in the Republican Platform and the 2011 Pledge to America and defund Planned Parenthood, once and for all.
Nothing in Roe v. Wade says that my tax dollars must fund abortion and an organization that sells the body parts of innocent children does not deserve a dime of taxpayer money. You certainly don’t need Congressional hearings to come to such a self-apparent conclusion. Talk is cheap. It’s time for action. The defunding of Planned Parenthood must happen and idle talk and symbolic votes are not going to pass muster. Filibuster appropriations bills if you must and let Barack Obama explain to the American people why he is willing to shut down government agencies to preserve the barbaric butchery of innocent children.

Let me be frank. The American people are sick and tired of your feckless bluster, your puffery and feigned outrage and your dog-and-pony shows. You don’t need to mug for the cameras and issue sound-bites for the media to fool right-thinking Americans into believing that you oppose the government funding of Planned Parenthood so that you can pander for votes. If you are really outraged, you will DEFUND Planned Parenthood and you will defund it NOW!
From:
https://fs6.formsite.com/westerncenterjournalism/form211/index.html

References:

http://www.blacknews.com/news/homosexuality_abortion_martin_luther_king101.shtml#.VazwK9DlYiA

http://www.blackgenocide.org/home.html

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/christians-and-the-abortion-issue/

Baby “fetus” 22 weeks trimester aborted neck cut

The Supreme Court vs The Supreme Being

Christ for All Nations Crusade in Chicago 6/26-27/2015

RE-BLOG FROM MORNING STAR MINISTRIES: 

MorningStar Prophetic Bulletin #94 – June 30, 2015

Rick Joyner

When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declared same-sex marriage to be a constitutional right, it was a slap in the face to the laws of God and man. It was a direct frontal assault on both religious freedom and the Constitution of the United States, undercutting the very foundations on which they stand. This is a brief on the consequences of this momentous decision using “The Three Questions” from the U.S. Army Manual for addressing a crisis. Those questions are:

1)  What is happening?

2)  What is not happening?

3)  What can we do about it?

         As we address these, we will begin with the natural first and then the spiritual.

What is Happening?

As the four dissenting justices pointed out, the Supreme Court does not have the constitutional authority to make this decision. First, even though SCOTUS has taken this authority upon itself, it is a usurped authority and nowhere does the Constitution give it this authority. The authority to determine the constitutionality of laws was given to Congress, not the courts. We are now suffering under the very tyranny that the founders warned about if the courts ever presumed this authority. Regardless of our position on same-sex marriage, every American should be deeply troubled by the actions of SCOTUS that this case is just the most recent and dramatic.

Creeping Tyranny

The first reason this crucial authority was given to Congress instead of the Executive branch, or the courts, is because the Congress is elected every two years, and therefore would be the most accountable to the people, who in the U.S. are the sovereign. The courts were for deciding whether or not individual cases had been tried fairly and justly. But nowhere is any court, including the Supreme Court, given authority to determine if a law or action is constitutional.

Congress does have the authority to designate specific cases to the court for this purpose if it chooses to, but if Congress does not give this authority in a specific case, SCOTUS has no legal authority for such a decision, and it is therefore not valid.

The second reason why this was an unlawful decision is that the Constitution states that any authority not specifically given to the Federal Government is reserved to the states and the people. Nowhere is the Federal Government given authority to give definitions or policy on social issues such as marriage and the family. The hubris of the Supreme Court to change the definition of marriage that has been universally accepted in civilized nations for six thousand years of recorded history is not only shocking, but an unprecedented level of arrogance by the Supreme Court.

Because Congress’ accountability to the people would be the most direct, it was designed to be the most powerful of the three branches of government. It was given “the power of the purse” to maintain their ultimate authority. Because of weak leadership in Congress, both the Executive and Judicial branches have usurped Congress’ authority in recent times to the point where it is now almost powerless, and the predicted tyranny is now a reality.

Without the constitutional authority to do what it did, the SCOTUS has violated its oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States from enemies both foreign and domestic. It is against every principle of a republic to have five un-elected officials determine the law of the land. This is why Justice Scalia declared this decision “a threat to democracy.” This was not an overstatement. If this is allowed to stand, we no longer have a Constitutional Republic in America.

What the Federal Government has become is proof that you can have the best form of government and still have bad government if you put bad people in it. The whole system by which we nominate our leaders has become distorted in order to favor incumbents and the establishment so that it is nearly impossible for the will of the people to prevail now.

The government of the United States was not established to be the all-powerful authority over everyone, but rather to be the servant of the people. We, the people, are the sovereign and everyone who works in government is supposed to be working for us. It has now become a runaway monster that is consuming everything in its path. If the people do not rise up to take their authority back, then it will very soon require another revolution to recover democracy in America.

The Foundation of Our Union

The Constitution is the foundation upon which our Federal Government is based, and without the Constitution, our Federal Government no longer has legitimate authority to govern. There has been a long and continuous erosion of the links between the laws and actions of the Federal Government and the Constitution. This decision on same-sex marriage may seem innocuous and even frivolous to most Americans, but it represents such a radical decoupling the Federal Government from the Constitution that it will destroy the legitimacy of the Federal Government if allowed to stand.

The overreach of our Federal Government has put itself in great jeopardy, and in recent years it has divided Americans into factions instead of uniting them. A growing chorus of states is talking seriously about secession, and this is a very real possibility.

Paul the Apostle wrote to Titus that even false prophets can sometimes tell the truth (see Titus 1:12-13). Pravda, the Moscow daily newspaper, has been predicting for years that the United States would break up into several pieces just like the Soviet Union. Their reasoning was not based merely on sour grapes, but on the historically proven consequences of the kind of direction in which our government has been going. To date, we have most alarmingly followed the pattern predicted. We really are close to breaking apart.

Worldview

Islamists consider America “the great Satan” because of our moral and spiritual debauchery that has made us “a homosexual nation”—so perverted that the only remedy is to wipe us off the face of the earth. Their belief about the U.S. has now been affirmed by this Supreme Court decision. This decision will likely make their recruiting to this cause much easier. This is not the only issue fueling these groups, but it is a major one.

This is not to imply we should ever base our laws or domestic policy on what other nations think, but we should understand how we are perceived by the nations and how it will affect our relations with them. This has also been a major wedge driven between the U.S., Russia, and China, as well as Africa and South America. To much of the world, the U.S. and Western Europe now look like Sodom and Gomorrah.

What is Happening (Spiritually)?  

All devout Christians, Muslims, and Jews base their faith on the written word that they hold to be the revelation of God’s will for those who serve Him by seeking to obey Him. These three major religions have a clear definition of marriage in their written word, and all three agree that homosexuality is a sin. To compel devout Christians, Muslims, and Jews to accept homosexual marriage as marriage forces them all to decide if they will obey God or men.

The very first lie of Satan that was used to cause the fall of man was “Did God really say that?” This remains Satan’s most deadly strategy against mankind—to get us to doubt the clear Word of God. If we are true Christians, we must establish in our hearts and minds what God says about these issues and resolve to stand on His Word. He said that if we do not obey Him, then we are not really following Him. This is an obvious demarcation point that will force many to choose if they will follow God or man.

Just as the devil attacked Adam and Eve by trying to confuse them about what God had really said, he begins this same attack on every believer. He knows that if he can get us to doubt God’s Word, then he can keep us deceived our whole lives. The devil continues to use this strategy because it has been so successful, and it has been successful in our own time with many Christians. This is why studies of even conservative evangelical Christians who are supposed to be the most devoted to The Bible revealed that less than 10% of them had a biblical worldview.

The Lord gave us His written Word so we could see the world, mankind, and ourselves as He does. To see as He does is to see the truth. As the Lord said through Isaiah the prophet, those who do not speak according to His Word do not have the light in them (see Isaiah 8:20). Of the Christians I have discussed the Supreme Court decision with, only one used Scripture for their perspective. Most of the Christians I talked to were parroting the world’s perspective, which is based on a humanistic philosophy that stands in direct conflict with God’s will as revealed in His Word. According to His Word, these have already fallen away and do not have the light.

A primary reason for this has been the dumbing down of The Great Commission to merely making converts instead of disciples, which is defined as teaching them everything the Lord commanded. Lacking this solid foundation of biblical truth has made it very easy for the devil to deceive and confuse Christians about what God really said in His Word. Now we must ask from what were these saved?

God made His opinion on homosexuality very clear. In the Book of Revelation, we see that one of the final and ultimate conflicts is between the Lord’s messengers and “the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt” (see Revelation 11:8). This issue will be a demarcation point that will determine who will walk in His truth.

Because of the shallowness of believers to even know what is in His Word, it is likely that not many will be standing at all very soon. Of one thing we can be sure, if any are standing, it will be enough. If just one is standing on the truth, the truth will ultimately prevail. Even so, for a time we can expect that those who will be standing on the truth and wholly following the Lord will be paired down to a very small number.

The increasing persecution against Christians in America is already having the positive effect of having many Christians’ worldview challenged. Some are waking up to the profound differences between what the Scriptures actually say and what they have been told they say, often even by their own compromising pastors. This will be fuel on the fire of another Great Awakening. Regardless of how small a number the faithful become, their faithfulness will ultimately turn the tide. There will be a Third Great Awakening in America.

All devout Christians, devout Muslims, and devout Jews have been thrown into the same boat on this issue. Already many non-religious Americans who care about freedom and the Constitution are beginning to also speak up. It will be most interesting to see how this plays out.

As the divisions in our country become more clear and pronounced than ever, look for the greatest unity and fellowship to grow in the small and persecuted company of the faithful. It is always worth it to stand on our convictions without compromise. We will also find out that those we did not think we had any common ground with are standing together with us.

What is Not Happening?

First, the same-sex marriage issue is not about allowing people who love each other to have a committed relationship. The LGBT has been brilliant in keeping so many Americans believing this, and the naïve, the ignorant, and the lukewarm have bought into it. Those in marketing, branding, and messaging know that they will be far more successful by projecting a simple message and staying on point.

You must give the LGBT credit for knowing what they are doing in forming public opinion. Regardless of what they say, the LGBT community is between 1.6% and 2% of the population. The way they have changed public opinion in America in such a short time is a remarkable accomplishment.

However, to American citizens, this is about freedom—everyone’s freedom, not just freedom of religion. The religious have rights too. If the LGBT has the right not to have moral standards imposed on them, then the religious have the right not to have immorality imposed on them. To force what a religion considers to be sin imposed upon the devout, taught to their children, or to determine whether or not they may do business, is the destruction of the freedom of religion in our country and a profound undermining of all our other freedoms as well.

Second, Christians do not hate homosexuals. I am pretty well connected in conservative evangelical circles, as well as with other movements and denominations. I do not recall ever meeting someone with a hatred of homosexuals. Disagreeing, even vehemently disagreeing, is not the same as hatred. Hatred is what anyone who has stood up to the LGBT has usually faced.

Most devout Christians that I know have friends, co-workers, neighbors, and family members who are homosexuals. I don’t know any who do not love and respect them. That is the biblical command for Christians, but it does not mean we have to agree with them. Disagreeing does not mean one is a hater, or a homophobe. For the LGBT to keep using that tactic will be their own ultimate undoing.

Most Christians that I know would fight to protect homosexuals from being attacked or discriminated against. The resistance of Christians that I know to same-sex marriage has nothing to do with depriving the rights of homosexuals, but about preserving their own rights and freedoms that have come under continuous and relentless attack from the LGBT.

The LGBT has been most successful in getting its message out.  Christians and other religious conservatives have done a very poor job of getting their message out, or educating their fellow believers about the real issues, much less the public in general. Much of this is the result of Christians being in such disunity. As we are taught by the unfolding consequences of this SCOTUS decision, which will be a very expensive lesson, the Christians that are left standing will unify and will get their message right.

The LGBT has fought with great courage, resolve, and wisdom. The lack of courage in the Christian community may be the greatest crisis in our times. One congressman recently said to me that if they saw more courage in the church, we would see more courage in Washington.

With but few exceptions, the conservative religious community has been just as lacking in resolve and wisdom as it has lacked courage. The exceptions being things like the passing of Proposition Eight in California. In that case, one homosexual judge, who should have recused himself from even hearing this case, threw out this vote by millions of Californians. Is that how a republic is supposed to operate? Of course not, which is why the courts were not given the authority they have now usurped, and by this are destroying the foundations of our Republic. But the protest against this was hardly a whimper.

The LGBT has been successful by using Saul Alinsky’s strategies outlined in Rules for Radicals. This is basically using threats, intimidation, and almost any form of guile to win, because the end justifies the means. These have proven very effective against a weak or indifferent people, and now they have proven effective in America. We can, therefore, expect a lot more of the same until there is a courageous and resolute stand against any agenda that uses such tactics.

What Can We Do About It?

#1)   We must resolve that we will obey God rather than men.

The Supreme Court does not have authority over the Supreme Being. Christians are commanded to respect and obey the laws of civil governments until they conflict with the laws of God. Then we must obey God rather than men. This test has come frequently in history, and is a basic determining factor in who we are really worshipping.

We will all one day stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. The worst thing we could suffer is to come before Him as a watchman who did not sound the alarm, or a shepherd who failed to protect His people. Let us resolve above all things that we will obey Him regardless of the consequences. The greatest souls to ever walk the earth were all similarly tried. Many of our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ risk their lives every day to worship and obey Him. Now it is the American church’s time to be tested.

#2)   Know what you believe, and why.

We must resolve to base our convictions on the clearly revealed Word of God in the Scriptures and to reject the enemy’s devices to confuse them. If Jesus, Who is the Word, would take His stand on “It is written!” how much more do we need to know what is written and resolve that we will believe and live by it regardless of what anyone thinks of us?

Spurgeon once said he could find ten men who would die for The Bible for every one who would read it. This is likewise a great tragedy of our times and a reason why so few believers are true salt and light as they are called to be. Have the noble spirit of the Bereans who, even after hearing the great Apostle Paul, went back to search the Scriptures for themselves to see if the things he taught were true.

#3)   Engage in the crucial issues of our times.

According to Isaiah chapters 1-5, an ultimate depravity a nation can fall into is to start calling evil good and good evil, to honor the dishonorable, and dishonor the honorable. Good is what God calls good, and evil is what He calls evil, not what is politically expedient. Because the U.S. has fallen to this ultimate depravity, we are now suffering the first of the consequences of this that is foretold.

The first judgment against such a nation is to be ruled over by the capricious and immature. How else could you better describe what has happened to our country? It gets worse if we do not repent. The things that will soon come cascading down upon us are not the Lord smiting us as much as Him just removing His hedge of protection, so that we reap what we are sowing.

For the sake of our country, our fellow believers, and even our enemies, we must never compromise our convictions regardless of the consequences. It is time to be bold. The great ones who have taken such a stand in history have often lost all they had, including their freedom, and in many cases, their lives. But they never lost their faith in God. It is worth any price to remain faithful and not compromise His truth that has been entrusted to us.

The only reason why anti-Christian forces are prevailing in America is because the church is asleep, or worse, lukewarm. As we are warned in James 4:17, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin” (NKJV). If just a small fraction of the evangelical church had voted in the last two elections, we would have different leaders, and we would have a different Supreme Court. We would not be talking about these issues that are now trouncing upon our liberty.

From the Executive to the courts to the Legislative branches, the Federal Government has become dysfunctional and incapable of leading through these times. Democracy has not failed, but we have failed democracy. We did this by allowing all the things the founders warned us the Republic could not survive. In many ways, our Republic is now on the brink of collapse. Yet it will not collapse, if we turn to the One who upholds the universe by the Word of His power. He can restore us.

The Lord promised that if just two or three would gather in His name, He would be with them. Two or three with Jesus is an overwhelming majority against even the biggest forces of evil. Do not be like the ten evil spies who were intimidated by how big the giants were in their land; be like the faithful Joshua and Caleb who saw the same giants, but saw how much bigger their God was than any of them.

#4)   Never forget that “Love never fails.”

We must love the Lord above all else. We must love our neighbor as ourselves. If we love someone, we will tell them the truth. If we love the truth, we will devote ourselves to finding it, and then obeying it, always keeping in mind that truth is what God says it is, not what men say it is, even those on the Supreme Court.

Always remember that God’s definition of a word is what counts. His ways are higher than our ways, and His love is higher than our love. His love is not like that which is based on human sympathy or lust. His love will never fail, and it is His love that we must seek and walk in. His love is also severe at times. Do not confuse fallen human emotions with His love.

Keep in mind that the heathen only believe as we would believe if we had not been shown grace. They are only doing what we would be doing if we had not been shown grace. It is not just a cliché but sober truth that “Except for the grace of God there go I.” We must pray for grace for our adversaries, and the greatest victory of all is their salvation.

#5)   “Love never quits.”

This is how the verse from I Corinthians13 could have been translated, and it also applies. Do not give up on your country. The greatest prophets arose, and the moves of God in history all came during the times of greatest darkness and debauchery. Regardless of whether or not we personally get to see it in this life, the truth of God will ultimately prevail. The nations will come to His light, just as we are promised in Isaiah 60:1-3 and other places.

We must not put limits on how long we will stand or what cost we will pay to stand for God and His truth. We do not just stand for truth because it is the winning side, but because truth is our oxygen. God’s truth will ultimately win, but for His own reasons, the Lord often allows setbacks to test His people. Truth will win over all deception and lies, but we may not get to see that in our lifetime; however, our life can help lead to this victory if we live by the truth.  We stand because it is the right thing to do.

Just as the apostles went out rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for the sake of the name of the Lord, to be persecuted for His truth is one of the greatest honors one can have in this life. This is something we now get to do. It is now our time.

Don’t give up. The ship can still be saved. It is heavily damaged and listing to the port side (left), but as long as it is still floating, we must resolve to save her. We cannot allow to be lost on our watch what so many paid such a high price to found and to preserve.

#6)   Walk in the truth.

Again, truth is what God says it is. The first principle of walking in truth is to know what God has said about the matter and to obey this. We must not continue getting our worldview from humanistic philosophies such as political correctness, but rather on what God has clearly said. That being said, it is not enough to merely know the truth, or stand for it, if we ourselves are not walking in it.

One of the greatest veils of deception on all people is rooted in the tendency to judge people or groups by their most extreme elements. Conservatives do this to liberals, and liberals do it to conservatives. Christians do this to the LGBT, and the LGBT does it to Christians. It is not right to do this, and is in itself a deception.

As the Apostle Paul wrote that we should not judge anyone after the flesh (externals) but after the Spirit, and Martin Luther King, Jr. prayed that the day would come when we would no longer judge each other by the color of our skin, but the content of our character, this is a good time to practice it. It is the right thing to do regardless of whether the other side does it or not.

#7)   It is time for Christians to boycott.

I would never advocate using tactics such as those found in Rules for Radicals because they are diabolical. The second reason I would not use them is that they are good for short-term success, but are almost always ultimately counter-productive. You can force someone to say what you want or do what you want, but it will never be in their heart if they are forced. In fact, they will hate being manipulated and pressured, and will rebel against it as soon as they get the chance.

The truth has more dignity than to stoop to such tactics as those taught in Rules for Radicals. However, Christians have never really used one of our most powerful weapons—the power of the boycott. It is not unrighteous to stop buying from those who are supporting attacks on our faith and liberty. That is just wisdom. It is now time to use this.

If even 10% of Americans who claim to be Christians boycotted any company or industry, the consequences would be immediate and dramatic. There would quickly be far more concern for this than anything other anti-Christian groups could ever hope to counter. Besides, we should be supporting those companies and businesses that share our values.

There is much more that can be and is being said on this ultimate battle for our country and our faith. As this battle continues to intensify, never forget I Corinthians 15:58:

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 

http://www.morningstarministries.org/resources/prophetic-bulletins/2015/supreme-court-vs-supreme-being?

 

Independence Day

Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England’s King George III. There was growing unrest in the colonies concerning the taxes that had to be paid to England. This was commonly referred to as “Taxation without Representation” as the colonists did not have any representation in the English Parliament and had no say in what went on. As the unrest grew in the colonies, King George sent extra troops to help control any rebellion. In 1774 the 13 colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia Pennsylvania to form the First Continental Congress. The delegates were unhappy with England, but were not yet ready to declare war.

In April 1775 as the King’s troops advanced on Concord Massachusetts Paul Revere would sound the alarm that “The British are coming, the British are coming” as he rode his horse through the late night streets.

The battle of Concord and its “shot heard round the world” would mark the unofficial beginning of the colonies war for Independence.

The following May the colonies again sent delegates to the Second Continental Congress. For almost a year the congress tried to work out its differences with England, again without formally declaring war.

By June 1776 their efforts had become hopeless and a committee was formed to compose a formal declaration of independence. Headed by Thomas Jefferson, the committee included John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the first draft which was presented to the congress on June 28. After various changes a vote was taken late in the afternoon of July 4th. Of the 13 colonies, 9 voted in favor of the Declaration, 2 – Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted No, Delaware undecided and New York abstained.

To make it official John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock signed his name “with a great flourish” so “King George can read that without spectacles!.”

The following day copies of the Declaration were distributed. The first newspaper to print the Declaration was the Pennsylvania Evening Post on July 6, 1776. On July 8th the Declaration had its first public reading in Philadelphia’s Independence Square. Twice that day the Declaration was read to cheering crowds and pealing church bells. Even the bell in Independence Hall was rung. The “Province Bell” would later be renamed “Liberty Bell” after its inscription –

Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants Thereof

And although the signing of the Declaration was not completed until August, the 4th of July has been accepted as the official anniversary of United States independence. The first Independence Day celebration took place the following year – July 4 1777. By the early 1800s the traditions of parades, picnics, and fireworks were established as the way to celebrate America’s birthday. And although fireworks have been banned in most places because of their danger, most towns and cities usually have big firework displays for all to see and enjoy.  God Bless America ONE NATION UNDER GOD!

God Bless America this 4th of July:

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/god-bless-america-this-independence-day/

God Bless America this Independence Day

America has had a history that some may think now has too many bad memories over race.  But with that, we have as a country had a wonderful history of our Founding Fathers and good Christian men and women, that tried since our inception to PRAY and do the right thing for our country.  So this 4th of July I leave you with a plea for prayers for America, specifically South Carolina, and this wonderful outpouring of Jesus love, forgiveness and the move of the Holy Spirit after this horrific tragedy.  I pray too, for America to heal and come together,  and give us Lord your solutions we need as a nation.  For we have a US Constitution, that has worked.  No other country in the world has what God has given us, other than Israel.  In this I pray in Jesus name by the blood He shed on the Cross for all our sins.

With this comes a plea to know your roots, your history of America, no matter where you or your family immigrated from, this is the land you must give credence to. With that comes a sacred pledge to our American Flag, our laws, and our English language.  It is time for Americans to come together in patriotism, and love of country once more.   We are a Republic after all, and a democracy under that Republic.  We are not, under our US Constitution, a Communist nation nor will we EVER be, as long as we are educated on the issues.   We are one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.  We are in essence a miracle of God Almighty, indivisible, the land of the Free.  And freedom does come with a price.   Do not take for granted this great land of all the sacrifices and wars that we have endured, from the Revolutionary war to the present in Afghanistan.  Do not undermine the great sacrifices made for this is a nation that was born out of the desire and hope from religious tyranny and freedom for all.  In the last few decades the threat of those freedoms,  by different groups from the progressives are posing a threat to our nation as we know it.   Let us not be deceived, even those of us who are Christians, must be vigilant like watchdogs, and know what is going on in the political arena.  Wherefore I put together some sites, studies, and Biblical reference as to how we are to vote as a Christian.  But, if you love your country, and do not adhere to Christian beliefs, this is still a good road map for values and morals, for I do believe in moral absolutes and ethics.  I quote:

“It is time for every Christian to be educated on the issues that concern the moral fiber of our country and the future of our families. Pastor Hagee gives you insight and educates you on the Bible’s position of various political issues you’ll face in the voting booth. The Bible tells us to listen to the voice of God and to obey His Commandments and He will cause His blessings to overtake us. We have been a blessed nation, yet we have failed as a people to maintain Godly principles, which guide our nation. We have failed to use the freedom to vote that our Constitution has afforded us. If we do not use our freedom to defend our freedom, we will lose our freedom. Learn God’s position on abortion, homosexuality, and your obligation as a Christian to be involved in the political process. If you are confused about your civil rights as a church or as a pastor, this series will define those guidelines.” Pastor John Hagee

Bible Positions on Political Issues by Pastor John Hagee

http://www.jhm.org/Catalog/Product/KT111/Bible%20Positions%20On%20Political%20Issues

From David Barton’s  Wallbuilders:

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John Adams

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature . . . the power I mean of electing at stated periods [each] branch. . . . It becomes necessary to every [citizen] then, to be in some degree a statesman, and to examine and judge for himself of the tendency of political principles and measures. Let us examine, then, with a sober, a manly . . . and a Christian spirit; let us neglect all party [loyalty] and advert to facts; let us believe no man to be infallible or impeccable in government any more than in religion; take no man’s word against evidence, nor implicitly adopt the sentiments of others who may be deceived themselves, or may be interested in deceiving us.

[John Adams, The Papers of John Adams, Robert J. Taylor, ed. (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977), Vol. 1, p. 81, from “‘U’ to the Boston Gazette” written on August 29, 1763.]

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Samuel Adams

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

[Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907), Vol. IV, p. 256, in the Boston Gazette on April 16, 1781.]

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the character of public men.

[Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907), Vol. III, p. 236-237, to James Warren on November 4, 1775.]

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Matthias Burnett

Consider well the important trust . . . which God . . . [has] put into your hands. . . . To God and posterity you are accountable for [your rights and your rulers]. . . . Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you. . . . [L]ook well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. . . . Think not that your interests will be safe in the hands of the weak and ignorant; or faithfully managed by the impious, the dissolute and the immoral. Think not that men who acknowledge not the providence of God nor regard His laws will be uncorrupt in office, firm in defense of the righteous cause against the oppressor, or resolutly oppose the torrent of iniquity. . . . Watch over your liberties and privileges – civil and religious – with a careful eye.

Norwalk, An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 12, 1803(Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1803), pp. 27-28.]

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Frederick Douglass

I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, “Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people” [Proverbs 14:34]. This constitutes my politics – the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics. . . . I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.

[Frederick Douglass, The Frederick Douglass Papers, John Blassingame, editor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), Vol. 2, p. 397, from a speech delivered at Ithaca, New York, October 14th, 1852.]

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Charles Finney

[T]he time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them. . . . Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently. . . . Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it – and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course they [Christians] take [in politics].

[Charles G. Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1868), Lecture XV, pp. 281-282.]

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James Garfield

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

[James A. Garfield, The Works of James Abram Garfield, Burke Hinsdale, editor (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), Vol. II, pp. 486, 489, “A Century of Congress,” July, 1877.]

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Francis Grimke

If the time ever comes when we shall go to pieces, it will . . . be . . . from inward corruption – from the disregard of right principles . . . from losing sight of the fact that “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but that sin is a reproach to any people” [Proverbs 14:34]. . . .[T]he secession of the Southern States in 1860 was a small matter with the secession of the Union itself from the great principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, in the Golden Rule, in the Ten Commandments, in the Sermon on the Mount. Unless we hold, and hold firmly to these great fundamental principles of righteousness, . . . our Union . . . will be “only a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

[Rev. Francis J. Grimke, from “Equality of Right for All Citizens, Black and White, Alike,” March 7, 1909, published in Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, Alice Moore Dunbar, editor (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2000), pp. 246-247.]

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Alexander Hamilton

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.

[Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, ed. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1962), Vol III, pp. 544-545.]

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John Jay

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

[John Jay, The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Henry P. Johnston, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1890), Vol. IV, p. 365.]

The Americans are the first people whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing the forms of government under which they should live.

[John Jay, The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Henry P. Johnston, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1890), Vol. I, p. 161.]

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Thomas Jefferson

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

[Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, ed. (Washington: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903), Vol. 10, p. 235.]

[T]he rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

[Thomas Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Paul Leicester Ford, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905), Vol. 12, p. 136.]

[S]hould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

[Thomas Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Paul Leicester Ford, ed. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905), Vol. 10, p. 245.]

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William Paterson

When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

[Supreme Court Justice William Paterson reminding his fellow justices of Proverbs 29:2. United States Oracle (Portsmouth, NH), May 24, 1800.]

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William Penn

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad. . . . But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn. . . .[T]hough good laws do well, good men do better; for good laws may want [lack] good men and be abolished or invaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws nor suffer [allow] ill ones.

[William Penn quoted from: Thomas Clarkson, Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn (London: Richard Taylor and Co., 1813) Vol. I, p.303.]

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Daniel Webster

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

[Daniel Webster, The Works of Daniel Webster (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1853), Vol. II, p. 108, from remarks made at a public reception by the ladies of Richmond, Virginia, on October 5, 1840.]

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Noah Webster

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate – look to his character. . . . When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country.

[Noah Webster, Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education to which is subjoined a Brief History of the United States (New Haven: S. Converse, 1823), pp. 18, 19.]

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, “just men who will rule in the fear of God.” The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be sqandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

[Noah Webster, History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), pp. 336-337, �49.]

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John Witherspoon

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. . . .[And t]he people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

[John Witherspoon, The Works of John Witherspoon Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. IV, pp. 266, 277.]

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How Does God Judge Us?

Much of what I am about to write is going to come from C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”, Book 3: chapter 4.  For when my bi-polar son committed suicide in 1999, in my pain and brokenness, I received a lot of comments from misinformed Christians, who only added to my pain.  It was through Warren and David Weirsbe’s book “Comforting the Bereaved” and this by Lewis, that I was too comforted, by the truth, and able to heal.  You see, my son was in a Christian Academy from K-6^th grade, and was saved at 11 years old.  He went to evangelism classes with me. Young, he knew Jesus. However, when puberty hit, so did the first signs of Bi-polar disorder.

The premise that suicide is a sin, not to be tolerated, and that the individual will automatically go to hell, came out of a misinformed Catholic Church. (They are still misinformed, now with a Marxist Pope playing politics on global warming, which is cyclical and God, and now guns, which is none of his business in the 2^nd Amendment and US Government.)  If some prophetic ministries are right, the antichrist is alive now, and will come out of the Vatican. This Pope who may not have read the Old Testament, whereby, God gave Israel to the Jews, in Genesis 13, also siding with Palestine, Hamas, and terrorists, against Israel and the Jews.  Whose work is he doing?  Certainly not Jesus, for Jesus was a Jew, Rabbi in Matthew.  And it is merely my view that the same Romans that nailed Jesus on the Cross for centuries lied and blamed it on the Jews, hi-jacked Christianity, for Jesus never intended to start a new religion. It was only after His death and Apostle Paul’s travels, to Greece,  Italy, Rome, etc. ministering to the gentiles that it changed. Even Martin Luther knew that, when he was unable to attain salvation through dead works, on his knees in an abbey, scrubbing floors in tears.  But, when he called out to Jesus, he received it free by grace, and left the Catholic Church, starting the Lutheran church.  Not to mention this Pope now siding too, “re-thinking” gays?  When God clearly points out in Deuteronomy and Leviticus that “man shall not lie with man.” Who is therefore right? This left wing Pope doing the devil’s lies, or God Almighty?  So how will God judge him, or us?

In this chapter, Lewis spoke of “Morality and Psychoanalysis”.  Since my son, died having a mental illness, I wanted to know truths….God’s truth.  And I think this applies to those who end up with Alzheimer’s, Agoraphobia, (me afraid of heights), Schizophrenia, those afraid of insects, afraid of leaving their house….on and on.

Lewis: “First of all, since Christian morality claims to be a technique for putting the human machine right, I think you would like to know how it is related to another technique which seems to make a similar claim – namely psychoanalysis.  Now you want to distinguish very clearly between two things: between the actual medical theories and technique of the psychoanalysts, and the general philosophical view of the world which Freud and others add to this.  The 2^nd thing with Freud is in direct contradiction to the other great psychologist, Jung.  When Freud is talking about how to cure neurotics he is speaking as a specialist on his own subject, but when he goes on to talk general philosophy he is speaking as an amateur.”  (My belief is this Pope is too!)

“It is therefore quite sensible to attend to him with respect in the one case and not the other. But psychoanalysis itself, apart from all the philosophical additions that Freud and others have made to it, is NOT in the least contradictory to Christianity.   Its technique overlaps with Christian morality at some points and it would not be a bad thing if every person knew something about it.

When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved.  One is the act of choosing.  The other is the various feelings, impulses, etc. which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the RAW material of his choice.  Now this raw material may be of two kinds. Either it may be what we would call normal; it may consist of the sort of feelings that are common to all men.  Or else it may consist of quite unnatural feelings” (being gay or transgender used be called a mental illness and I think is.)  “due to things that are really wrong in his subconscious.  Thus fear of things that are really dangerous would be an example of the first kind, an irrational fear of cats or spiders would be an example of the second kind.  The desire of a man for a woman would be the first kind; the perverted desire of a man for a man (or woman for a woman) would be the second.  What psychoanalysis undertakes to do is to remove the abnormal feeling, that is, to give the man better raw material for his acts of choice, morality is concerned with the acts of choice  themselves.   However, much you improve the man’s raw material, you have still got something else; the real, free choice of the man, on the material presented to him.

The bad psychological material is NOT a sin, but a disease.  It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured!”  (And THAT one statement helped me over my son’s death! For once Gays were treated as mentally ill and that has slowly dissipated in the past decades making it acceptable behavior.  It isn’t, and will have dire psychiatric and emotional problems in future years with the children of same sex couples…or transgender’s.  For like mental illnesses, etc,  I believe it, too, is a chemical imbalance of the brain.   One day, maybe, if society wakes up, there will be laser surgery to go in and fix all….including Alzheimer’s.) “Human beings judge each other by their external actions.  God judges them by their moral choices.  When a neurotic who has a pathological horror of cats forces himself to pick up a cat (maybe to save him from a car), in God’s eyes he has shown more courage than a healthy man may have shown in winning the V.C.  When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at” (or killed if in a gang) “by his companions, he may, in God’s eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend.”  Did not Jesus too, forgive the man next to Him on the other Cross?

“It is well to put this the other way around.  Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends.  Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler?  That is why Christians are told not to judge.  We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material.  But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but WHAT he has done with it.  Most of the man’s psychological makeup is probably due to his body; when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the REAL central man, the thing that chose, the best or the worst out of this material, will stand naked!  We shall then for the first time see everyone as he really was.  There will be surprises.

Taking life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature that is in harmony with God, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God.   To be the one kind of creature is heaven; that is, it is a joy and peace and knowledge and power…(Holy Ghost power).  To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, importance, arrogance, selfishness, greediness, and eternal loneliness.  Each of us at each moment is progressing to one state or the other.

That explains what always used to puzzle me about Christian writers; they seem to be so strict at one moment and free and easy at another.  They talk about mere sins of thought as if they were immensely important; and talk about the most frightful murders and treacheries as if you had only got to repent and all would be forgiven.  But they are right.  One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at.  But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it.”  (Perhaps this happened to Dylann Roof, only 21, so misinformed, so full of hate and these murders in So Carolina. But he was forgiven…he was witnessed to, and he just might go to Heaven and be seen by God for that raw material inside.) “The bigness or smallness of the thing, seen from the outside, is not what really matters.”  (Just as the thief next to Jesus was forgiven.)

“One last point.  Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.  When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.  When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.  A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.” (I think of Obama now and his left Communist ideologies from his childhood associations with Marshall.)  “You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping.  You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them.  You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk.  Good people know about both good and evil, bad people do not know about either.”  C S Lewis

Perhaps somewhere down the line, this is why somehow we are not successful in leading our friends or family members to Christ.  I pray that we act in obedience to God.  Peter jumped overboard.  He went overboard for God.  He leaped into a miracle.  Maybe we all can now too, by understanding how God sees us.  Cause he knows every flaw, every blemish, every transgression…..and He still can forgive.  Thank you Jesus.

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Race in America

This a sad day in America…and unfortunately there have been far too many. This young man just by looking at him is so mentally ill..Yet it was his father who gave him that 45 on his birthday? Hate is learned. As we have seen with Isis and photos of a child carrying the chopped of head of a Christian. Yes, Obama’s only solution to all things, is to strip America of their 2nd Amendment rights, instead of addressing mental health, but ALSO HIS FAILURE for his past 7 years of BUILDING race relations, in DEED , not Race-baiting with his cronies, Sharpton and Jackson. It is Blacks killing Whites , and BLACKS KILLING BLACKS especially in Chicago..Does he address that? No! He is a failure as our first Black  President, his socialist ideologies getting in the way. He could have done so much. With Christ, all are equal when we come to the Cross. There are many huge mega churches as John Hagee’s in Austin Tx, that has been shot at, attacked and threatened. They have security guards now. Sad. But, has Obama ever spoken out once about all the Christians in America, (held hostage in Iran), or killed in Egypt, around the world? No. He saw this as a photo op to once more expand his sick ideologies. When HE in essence has brought America to this head! God help us..We need a Christian President that can through God heal America! remember hate is learned behavior…ie Isis.

It HAS to change. I watch intently conversations by Dr. Ben Carson, and Lt Col. Allen West, (West Republic). Whoever runs for GOP…MUST address race/guns and HAVE a plan to heal this country. It is a HEART problem..and there is only one that can fix our hearts..Jesus Christ. I know preacher T. D. Jakes is doing something with his ministry on this. (Guess I’ll be busy on here.) But when deciding who to vote for? The next President has to undo what Obama messed up…and it may take us 20 years. Pray..My God hears you..HE though has allowed what has happened..Just remember that. Because we have murdered unborn babies, shoved Jesus and our Founding fathers and our Constitution out the window. It is time for prayer and repentance. God bless you all.  We have work to do. This next election is going to “make” or “destroy” us. We can have a 2nd chance if America repents. Watch September. On the Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles and the 4th last Blood Moon. Something is going to happen. On the last one in April, on Passover, Bibi got elected again, in spite of Obama’s organizers over in Israel. Folks this is war. Good against evil. It is war with Isis and hates, and our own Black people here in America.  This President had such a magnificent chance in the last 7 years and failed; instead instigating,  race baiting, pouring kerosene on a  smolder, that has now erupted. It is the 60’s all over.

Excerpts from “Open Democracy”

“Take for instance the American Dream. It’s founded in the belief that America is a land of freedom in which hard work will yield opportunity. But America is a nation founded in slavery. The slave trade capitalized the original colonies and eventually the project of creating the United States of America.

Because of slavery, the U.S. was founded as a land of opportunity, but only for European immigrants. This reality persisted all the way up to the end of the Civil War, a conflict that ended less than 150 years ago. That’s real.

White immigrants were drawn to America in order to escape the rigid European class system and achieve the dream of becoming gentry in the New World. The economy they entered relied on a racial caste system that favored whites. White people’s dream of social mobility had nothing to do with black slaves and would continue to have very little to do with their descendents, even through the mid-twentieth century rise of the American middle class.

With slavery as its economic engine, the U.S. expanded across the continent. Americans won territory by engaging in genocidal campaigns against the original people of North America.

In spite of this history, we call ourselves a “nation of immigrants.” The very notion is rooted in our history of excluding African Americans and Native people from citizenship, making the U.S. historically, indeed, a nation made up only of immigrants. That’s also real. Yet we conflate the idea of the “nation of immigrants” with liberty and justice for all.

We continue to organize our understanding of America according to race today. Consider the Asian American stereotype. The stereotype is rooted in the 1960s when it was deployed to undercut support for the Civil Rights Movement.

Asians in America like me were described during this period as compliant, uncomplaining strivers, as compared with black people, who were cast as a “problem minority.” Asians were said to have channeled our concerns about racial injustice into hard work, winning success and supposedly putting the lie to the claim on the part of black leaders that government action was required to resolve persistent black poverty.

But race is so powerful a force in shaping our understanding of one another that the “model minority” stereotype has become accepted as fact. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that genetics play a factor in Asian American achievement.

As a racial justice advocate and community organizer, I’ve had to learn to live with this reality. In the 1970s, the angry young man I was believed that race is a political system requiring political solutions. We would win racial equity only by appealing to political and economic self-interest. Anything else was just feel-good politics; they might feel nice but they’re ultimately a waste of time.

But over the years my cynicism eroded, replaced by the recognition that in spite of all of the organizing I was doing, work magnified many times over by the efforts of thousands of campaigns for racial justice waged by people far cleverer than me, racism adapts to changing circumstances and persists in ever more insidious forms.

Racism is not just a political problem. It lives in our hearts and we live it every day through our shared culture. All of us do, even if we may experience race differently, and many of us to our disadvantage.

We are, indeed, a broken mirror. To truly understand human need and find our way to a just peace, we must commit to the slow and painstaking work of pulling the jagged shards of that mirror together so that with each touch we become a truer reflection of what it means to be human. 

This will require honest dialogue, and a willingness to invest as much in cross-racial community building as we do in campaigns and public policy. Through expanding our relationship networks we expand our perspectives, ideally in ways that redefine our sense of community need.” https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/scot-nakagawa/for-racial-healing-we-need-to-get-real-about-racism

Afterthought at this Church shooting. I watched “The Butler” yesterday on Netflix, and my thoughts went back to high school, the 50’s, then the 60’s and Martin Luther King. I bawled my head off from the beginning to the end of this movie. This man saw his mother raped repeatedly by a white cotton plantation owner, then his father shot to death right next to him when he began to speak out. He went into service..then the White House through so many of our historical Presidents. He saw them all. And Obama? YOU ARE A FAILURE! ALL YOU HAVE DONE THE PAST 7 YEARS IS PUT KEROSENE ON A FIRE..INSTIGATE WITH YOUR RACE BAITER CRONIES. Address hate, including ISIS, Blacks on Blacks in Chicago, Blacks too killing whites and going after cops ..(any color). Address the murder of Christians all over the world. Instead what do you do? Why go after our 2nd Amendment Rights again. HOW DARE YOU, insult our intelligence? I read James Baldwins “Tell Me How Long The Trains Been Gone, ” in my 20’s with 3 babies.. I remember Billie Holiday, singing “Strange Fruit” “Black man hang’n in a poplar tree…strange fruit..And I knew at 13 years old what she was singing..the pain..Are we not human beings? MORE THAN ANYTHING, MR PRESIDENT, THIS IS A HEART PROBLEM….and there is only ONE who can heal, who can soothe, who can CHANGE thinking, It is JESUS CHRIST AND THE BLOOD HE SHED AT THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS. (Not Allah, and more killing and hate! ) BUT THE GOD OF ALL..THE I AM…NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES…JESUS! Postscript..This movie IS worth seeing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10451522/The-Butler-the-real-White-House-butler-interviewed-aged-89.html?fb_ref=Default

I leave you all with this, written to this shooter Dylan after this horrific shooting in this wonderful Black historic church:

His name is Marcus Stanley. He is a 30-year-old, award winning Black gospel musician from Virginia. Marcus has also been shot, eight times. According to his website:

Marcus was shot 8 times at point blank range with a .45 caliber automatic weapon while touring as an initiation act by gang members. Due to the shooting, Marcus became temporarily paralyzed on his right side, lost the ability to walk, and leaving one bullet permanent lodged near his spine. With God’s grace and mercy, Marcus was successfully able to regain the strength to walk and recover most of the feeling in his right arm.

Here is the message he left for Dylann:

There is nothing left to say…It IS a heart problem.  Thank you Marcus for your witness to a killer.  God help us.   God help America. And let us all choose the next Presidential candidate who has a PLAN, a GOAL, and a HEART after GOD, to heal RACE and AMERICA!  Amen…Bless you all who read.

Marcus, you tugged at my heart! God Bless you !https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePianist247

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Generational Curses

I do believe in Generational curses, that pass down from grandfather to father to son, and grandmother to mother to daughters.  In this messed up world without marriages that are ordained by God, so much in our society upside down; ask, is it any wonder?

All we have to do is look at the news of generational hates with ISIS, murders, and even a child in one photo I saw, carrying the head chopped off of someone killed.  Little children! And children too caught in the crossfire here in America with gang killings, rape, and abductions. We need Godly parents to understand this.  We need FATHERS to be there for their sons, and to give a Godly example.  We need mother’s that do not rely on the world, but rely on God Almighty.  We are in dire trouble here in America and around the world.  We need JESUS…but, most of all, we need to REPENT!

The following studies are from various ministries.  Not much is taught on all this anymore, like it was in the 70’s and 80’s.  I hope it helps even just one person. For him that have an ear, let him hear the word of God. If it applies to you? PRAY dear heart, PRAY!

From Marilyn Hickey Ministries -Are you affected by a Generational Curse?

“Answer the following questions and see!  Do YOU or ANYONE in your family (including PAST GENERATIONS) :

Have a pattern of constant failure?

Have a history of untimely deaths and suicides or a large number of people who have died prematurely?

Exhibit a high level of anger?

Have a high record of accidents or accidents that are unusual in nature?

Have a history of abuse such as physical, emotional, or sexual?

Have a history of chronic illness (repeated colds, long-term health problems, etc.)?

Have a history of mental illness that may have progressed through generations?

Exhibit any of these personality behaviors: high-control, manipulation, addiction, co-dependency, depression, unforgiveness, or social isolation?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, you could be under a Generational Curse!”

Ex. 20:5    Prov. 28:13

From: Great Bible Study:  http://www.greatbiblestudy.com/generational_curses.php

“Have you ever seen a family where the father has a problem with uncontrollable anger, his son seems to have been ‘handed it’, and the grandpa had the same problem? Or have you noticed that not only do you suffer from something such as persistent irrational fears or depression, but your mother and her father also suffered from it as well? There are many people today who are living under bondage that the sins of their forefathers has brought them under.

Exodus 34:7, “Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting (punishing) the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”

Lamentations 5:7, “Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne (been punished for) their iniquities.”

This is beyond learned behavior; many children learn to be messy if their parents are messy. This is a spiritual bondage that is passed down from one generation to another. Some symptoms of a generational curse is a continual negative pattern of something being handed down from generation to generation. Often people who are adopted end up with the same characteristics as their birth parents, not because they were around their birth parents to learn how they behaved, but because they inherited their spiritual bondage. Some common symptoms of generational curses are family illnesses that seem to just walk from one person down to the next (cancer is a common physical manifestation of a spiritual bondage), continual financial difficulties (they continually hit roadblocks in their finances), mental problems, persistent irrational fears and depression. Anything that seems to be a persistent struggle or problem that was handed down from one generation to another may very well be a generational curse.

The purpose of a generational curse

I believe the reason God would punish the future generations with the sins of their fathers, is because of God’s bitter hatred for sin. He would require somebody who practiced witchcraft to be put to death (Exodus 22:18). He knows that one of the most prized possessions you have, is your children, and therefore it makes sin a lot harder to commit when you realize that you are not the only one that is being punished for it, but also your own children are going to pay the price for your foolishness. That’s what I believe is the reason behind generational curses. The whole human race fell thanks to Adam’s sin for that matter.

The price for generational curses has been paid!

The good news is that once you accept Jesus, the transference of bondage stops from your ancestors by means of generational curses. You can no longer receive spiritual bondages in this manner from your parents once you accept Jesus!

Christ was made a curse, so we can be freed from the curses that sin (both our sins and those of our forefathers) has brought us. Galatians 3:13, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:”

Once you become a child of God, no longer will the sins of your forefathers cause curses to transfer into your life: Jeremiah 31:29-30, “In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.”

So why are there so many believers who seem to be living under a generational curse? This has puzzled me before I understood how it works too. What may need to be dealt with though, is any bondage that was already passed down to you before you came into covenant with God. The legal grounds are certainly paid for on the cross and therefore broken. The only thing left to do is cast out any spirits that have gained entrance before you accepted Jesus.

Non-believers are still affected

Even after Jeremiah 31:29-30 makes it clear that believers are redeemed from generational curses, the next chapter in Jeremiah (32:18) clearly says, “Thou shewest loving kindness unto thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name.” Apparently, generational curses are still in effect, but for who is the big question.

Ezekiel 18:2-3 tells us, “What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.” (Note the keywords “in Israel”… this is referring to those who are in covenant with God, which are us believers, not the rest of the world.)

Obviously, generational curses are alive and well in the lives of those who are outside the new covenant with God (non-believers).

‘Triggering’ the effects of a generational curse

It is possible for demons to enter a child before he accepts Jesus, then remain dormant or hidden in that child’s life until some time later in his or her life when it manifests (or makes itself known). Sometimes when a person heads for the ministry, it seems like the devil kicks up his ugly heels and causes havoc for that person. Other times, a line of fear runs in the family tree, but isn’t manifested in a person’s life until they get themselves involved in something fearful, such as watching a demonic movie. All of a sudden, the spirits in that person’s life “come alive” so to speak, and make themselves known. They were there all along, but just now they have come out into the open. The solution is to cast them out.

If you have involved yourself in any sin or opened any doors in your own life while ‘awaking’ or triggering the spirits, then it’s important that you clear up any legal grounds (or strongholds) that you gave the enemy in your own life relating to the bondage. For example, if you have went to see a demonic movie, and it seemed to have triggered spirits of fear in your life that were handed down to you, then it’s important to repent for going to see such a movie before trying to cast out any spirits. It’s also possible that you picked up the spirits from such a movie without them even being there in the first place, and/or added to spirits that were already inside you. It’s always a good idea to clear up any legal grounds or strongholds in your own life before casting spirits out.

I believe unforgiveness is a great way to ‘trigger’ generational spirits, so I would be on the lookout for any bitterness or unforgiveness in your heart as well. A common sight is when a spirit of cancer is running down the family tree, and I believe bitterness is a great way to trigger those spirits. Unforgiveness is a serious sin that blocks the forgiveness of your own sins (Matthew 6:15), which creates ample legal grounds for the enemy in your life. Unforgiveness in itself puts us into the enemy’s hands (Matthew 18:23-35), say nothing about awaking any evil spirits in us already!

The curse may be canceled, but the demons may remain

Just as other demons don’t automatically leave at the time of salvation… neither do the demons that you get from your ancestors automatically leave you either.

Let’s say that you accept Jesus at age 15. Because you were born a sinner and outside of God’s covenant, you were still living under the curses handed down to you and demons can enter you through those curses. Once you’ve accepted Jesus, those curses are broken automatically, but often the demons that entered in before you accepted Jesus still need to be cast out. In other words, the curse is already broken, and there’s no need for you to break any generational curses. But the demons who entered into you through those curses before you accepted Jesus may still need to be cast out. That’s why it seems so many believers are living under generational curses, when the Bible makes it clear that we have been freed from any curses handed down from our forefathers!

My parents have almost perfect health well into their 60’s, while it seems the family tree has many health problems that have been handed down from the forefathers. My parents seem almost immune from the health problems in the family tree! Sure, they take care of their bodies, but they also believe that they have been freed from the curses handed down in the family tree, and since no demons have entered them to take advantage of those old curses, they were freed from the effects simply by standing on what Jesus had done for them on the cross!

On the other hand, if demons have entered you through curses handed down to you before you became a Christian, then those demons may need to be cast out. Demons often don’t leave on their own accord, and when they don’t, the remedy to get rid of them is by casting them out.

There’s a neat story in Mark 9:17-27, where Jesus deals with what is almost certainly a generational curse (verse 21). Notice that Jesus didn’t have the boy confess the sins or iniquities of his ancestors, He cast out the demons that entered in through the curse. That’s how I believe we are to deal with the affects of a generational curse; since the curse has been broken, all there is left to do is just cast the demons out that entered into that person’s life back before they became a Christian (before the curse was broken).

Confess what is rightfully yours!

We know that our generational curses have been broken in Jesus’ name, but I still like to verbally confess what is going on and what is rightfully ours anyways, because there’s power in our verbal confessions, and helps us to realize that we are set free, and also lets the enemy know that he’s in trouble! Here’s a great sample confession prayer you can use to do just that:

In the name of Jesus, I confess the sins and iniquities of my parents (name specific sins if known), grandparents (name specific sins if known), and all other ancestors. I declare that by the blood of Jesus, these sins have been forgiven and Satan and his demons can no longer use these sins as legal grounds in my life!

In the name of Jesus, and by the power of His blood, I now declare that all generational curses have been renounced, broken and severed, and that I am no longer under their bondage!

In the name of Jesus, I declare myself and my future generations loosed from any bondages passed down to me from my ancestors. AMEN!

Another factor to consider

**[There are other things that can ‘seem’ like generational curses, but aren’t. Perhaps the most common is if there is an ungodly soul tie formed between you and one of your ancestors, that can also allow for the transferring of spirits. There is more to learn on this subject in the teaching on Soul Ties.]   

Ignorance: Another source of bondage!

I also believe that some people can live under what SEEMS like a generational curse, simply because they believe it’s still in affect! We need to know that it is NO LONGER in affect, and we have been FREED from any generational curses we used to live under! Jesus makes it very clear that we can be held in bondage to sin through ignorance (John 8:31-36), and I believe the same is true with bondage to generational curses.

In a nutshell

To wrap it up in a nutshell, I don’t believe Christians can live under generational curses… but I do believe they can be affected by spirits that have entered through those curses before they accepted Jesus. Just like many people’s past actions before they came to Christ have landed them in demonic bondage and caused them to pick up demons. Those demons are not automatically shed at the time of salvation, they often need to be cast out. The same is true with demons that enter in through generational curses (a doorway to demons).

How you deal with a spirit that has entered through a generational curse is very simple: Mark 16:17, “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils…” Learn of the Spiritual Authority that Jesus has given you over demon spirits, and by faith, you can command those spirits to leave you in Jesus’ name! If you can’t seem to get them out, try prayer and fasting, as Jesus clearly stated, some demons won’t come out unless you have a higher level of faith that only prayer and fasting can bring you into (Matthew 17:19-21). If you are facing heavier bondages, it is recommended to seek deliverance through a man or woman of God who is knowledgeable and working in the ministry of deliverance. Before seeking out a deliverance through another person or minister, I recommend reading the teaching on Seeking a Deliverance.

Another type of generational curse

The type of curses handed down as a result of an ancestors sin is automatically atoned for on the cross, providing we don’t hide the sins of our forefathers in our hearts (holding sin in our hearts is never a good idea – whether its ours of the sins of our ancestors). But there’s another kind of generational curse that is handed down, and it’s a spoken curse that takes a toll on future generations as well. We can see this kind of curse in action in Genesis 9:24-25, “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.” As the Bible goes on to say, this curse ended up affecting an entire nation! I believe these kinds of curses may need to be renounced and broken. If you are unsure of whether a curse should be broken, I recommend breaking it anyways, just so you know it’s broken. It doesn’t hurt to break a curse that’s already been broken. Here’s a sample prayer you can pray that you can use to break yourself free from spoken generational curses:

In the name of Jesus, and by the power of His blood, I now renounce, break and sever all curses that have been handed down to me from my ancestors. In the name of Jesus, I now loose myself and my future generations from any bondages passed down to me from my ancestors!

Again, if a curse has landed on you and has been broken, it still doesn’t mean you are delivered from the spirits that entered in through that curse. You may still need further deliverance to have the spirits cast out that took advantage of the curses handed to you.”

From Got Questions.org:

Question: “What does the Bible say about breaking generational curses?”

“Answer:The Bible mentions “generational curses” in several places (Exodus 20:5;34:7;Numbers 14:18;Deuteronomy 5:9). God warns that He is “a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.”

It sounds unfair for God to punish children for the sins of their fathers. However, there is more to it than that. The effects of sin are naturally passed down from one generation to the next. When a father has a sinful lifestyle, his children are likely to practice the same sinful lifestyle. Implied in the warning of Exodus 20:5is the fact that the children will choose to repeat the sins of their fathers. A Jewish Targum specifies that this passage refers to “ungodly fathers” and “rebellious children.” So, it is not unjust for God to punish sin to the third or fourth generation – those generations are committing the same sins their ancestors did.

There is a trend in the church today to try to blame every sin and problem on some sort of generational curse. This is not biblical. God’s warning to visit iniquity on future generations is part of the Old Testament Law. A generational curse was a consequence for a specific nation (Israel) for a specific sin (idolatry). The history books of the Old Testament (especially Judges) contain the record of this divine punishment meted out.

The cure for a generational curse has always been repentance. When Israel turned from idols to serve the living God, the “curse” was broken and God saved them (Judges 3:9,15;1 Samuel 12:10-11). Yes, God promised to visit Israel’s sin upon the third and fourth generations, but in the very next verse He promised that He would show “love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments” (Exodus 20:6). In other words, God’s grace lasts a thousand times longer than His wrath.

For the Christian who is worried about a generational curse, the answer is salvation through Jesus Christ. A Christian is a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). How can a child of God still be under God’s curse (Romans 8:1)? The cure for a “generational curse” is repentance of the sin in question, faith in Christ, and a life consecrated to the Lord (Romans 12:1-2). “

Read more:http://www.gotquestions.org/generational-curses.html#ixzz3dKXTCvHD

From Pastor Larry Huch in Charisma Magazine:

http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/spiritual-warfare/16463-9-ways-to-break-generational-curses

“You don’t have to let sin and shame cripple you. These steps can help you discover freedom from your past.

1. RECOGNIZE THE CURSE. In order to get set free and stay free, you have to admit you have a problem. That sounds simple, but we live in a day and age of denial. No matter what has happened to us in our lives, each of us are responsible for the choices and decisions we make. If you really want to be free, you will accept that responsibility.
2. BREAK THE CURSE. As we apply God’s Word and power to our lives, and as we choose to walk in righteousness and obedience to God, the chains of bondage will be broken. There are three steps to breaking a generational curse:
3. (1) Give your life to Jesus; the blood of Jesus removes our sin; (2) Fight the battle with spiritual weapons (such as the Word of God and the armor of God); and (3) Regain control over the power of your will. When Jesus shed His blood, he bought back our willpower. Through the blood of Jesus, we can say no.
4. REVERSE THE CURSE. There are three keys you can use to reverse the curse and live in victory: (1) Recognize your enemy. We battle not with flesh and blood. Our enemy is Satan, and the battle is spiritual. (2) Forgive people who have hurt you. (3) Treat causes, not symptoms (for example, insecurity, jealousy or fear).
5. RELEASE THE POWER OF LOVE. To become people whose lives are transformed by the love of God, we must not only get rid of what holds us captive and keeps us in bondage, but we must also be filled up with love–for God, for self and for others. Unconditional love will release blessing. To know more of the love of God in your life, love those who have hurt you, those who have opposed you and those who have sinned against you.
6. DEVELOP A GODLY ATTITUDE. A good attitude does not make everything go perfectly all the time. Matthew 5:45 tells us that God sends the rain on the just and the unjust. But our attitude determines whether the rain will water the seeds of our harvest or wash those seeds away. Get serious about where you are going with God by getting your attitude lined up with His Word, having faith and trusting in Him.
7. ALIGN YOUR WORDS WITH GOD’S WORDS. Your words give evidence of your faith, and they should reflect God’s good purposes for you. Exchange your negative words for positive words, exchange your negative thoughts for positive thoughts, and exchange your negative actions for positive actions.
8. ACCEPT GOD’S ACCEPTANCE. Jesus didn’t come to condemn us or punish us. He came to give us hope that our lives really can be different. We don’t have to live under the burdens of pain, hurt, shame or sorrow. All the power in heaven is available to you to set you free from every chain that binds you. Corrie ten Boom said, “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.”
9. WALK IN OBEDIENCE. In order to break free from the curses and walk in freedom, you must learn to walk in obedience to God’s ways. We don’t have to be perfect or without mistakes, but our hearts need to be surrendered and pliable toward God. We need to be moving forward in the things of God every day of our lives. Today’s decisions determine our tomorrows. There is a miracle on the other side of your obedience. “

Larry Huch is founder and senior pastor of New Beginnings Christian Center in Dallas, Texas. He and his wife, Tiz, have planted six churches in the United States and Australia.

From Beth Moore: http://www.todayschristianwoman.com/articles/2004/may/beth-moore-breaking-free-generational-curse-sin.html

Beth Moore:  IS THERE A GENERATIONAL CURSE FOR SIN?

“A. Exodus 20:5 says, “You shall not bow down to [idols] or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.”

The word punishing in this verse proves a stumbling block for some people. The King James Version translates this as visiting, which is more reflective of the original Hebrew word paqadh, meaning to inspect, review, number, deposit, or visit in the sense of making a call. It’s also used for taking a census.

Ezekiel 18 assures us God doesn’t punish children for their parents’ sins. God clearly says, “I will judge you, each one according to his ways” (v. 30). I believe God is numbering or reviewing those who have been adversely affected by the sins of their parents and grandparents. For instance, if a pollster took a census of the number of alcoholics in three generations of an alcoholic patriarch’s family, the head count likely would be very high. Why? Because alcoholism was deposited in the family line. It came calling, and an unfortunate number of children and grandchildren answered the door.

Can you think of any negative traits or habits in your life that have been in your family line for generations? Perhaps you can identify negative patterns such as alcoholism, verbal or physical abuse, pornography, racism, bitterness, or fear. These areas of bondage are anything you may have learned environmentally, anything to which you may be genetically predisposed, or any binding influence passed down through other means. Whatever the bondage may be, the Lord wants to rebuild, restore, and renew these areas of devastation.

We must face generational strongholds head-on. If we don’t, they can remain almost unrecognizable—but they don’t remain benign. Family strongholds continue to be the seedbed for all sorts of destruction. Oftentimes we’ve grown up with these chains and they feel completely natural. We consider them part of our personality rather than a strangling yoke.

Thankfully, Christians aren’t doomed to live with our families’ sins. The Cross of Calvary is enough to set us free from every yoke; God’s Word is enough to make liberty a practical reality, no matter what those before us left as an “inheritance.”

Before we parents die of fright, let’s remember God is the only perfect parent. He’s not cursing three or four generations over a little parental irritability. In fact, I don’t believe he’s calling a curse down on anyone. As believers under the New Covenant who have been cleansed by Christ’s blood, I think the concept of generational sin applies to us through its powerful repercussions instead. I believe God is referring to a natural phenomenon described poignantly in Hosea 8:7, “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.” Parents and grandparents must be very careful what they sow because it may reap the wind in their own lives and a whirlwind in the lives that follow.”

Paula White breaking generational curses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSmmrQSQRA&list=PLNjOddnh1PBL9lyPW0mDuBItGfCgmqhm_&index=5

Full blog role:  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/author/jwtn/

 

The Supernatural Move of the Holy Spirit

In 1970’s to 80’s we saw one of the greatest spiritual awakenings of all times. Evangelism was rampant in America, and we elected one of the greatest Presidents, Ronald Reagan. More people heard the gospel, more received Christ, and more saw the evidence of signs and wonders and a supernatural move of God and the Holy Spirit. There were healings, and miracles and testimonies and a powerful move of God, and a supernatural move and power of the Gifts of the Spirit.

I covered the Occult and what has evolved in America, especially with this ungodly move by Hollywood and the secular to entice our youth into the glamorization of the supernatural and evil of Satan. But there is another supernatural move, that once was prevalent before the “politically correct” atheist, socialist fools in Washington sought to take Christ and prayer out of our schools, our Pledge of Allegiance, American history, and government. Wherefore, now we have a serious problem, and true facts are not represented in Common Core, schools, or state and local government. There is a disconnect. I believe that disconnect is Jesus Christ being cast out with the bathwater. Our Lord has commanded us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world as Christians, but we see little evidence of the influence of Christianity. Even Glenn Beck this week said the same thing I, and a handful of friends that are public are saying, “Where are the
Christians?”

We need in America, Revival, and we need a Holy Ghost move of God Almighty and to bind the devil out of our schools, government, state and local, and Federal, and to elect good Christian men and women who STAND for the word of God, and our US Constitution. There is only one way to achieve that power, and that is a supernatural move of Christ and for all who call themselves Christian to be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. First, there has to be a communication of knowledge. Without at least some Biblical teaching no one can become a Christian, and no Christian can live a victorious life. That only comes with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And if HE isn’t living inside you, and you do not have His special Gifts, then you know not the move of God. That’s why so many Christians live defeated lives. That is why so many just cloister themselves with other Christians, in groups, but, have no victory, do not have the boldness and power to speak out against the tyrannies all around us, and stay in apathy.

The Christian and the Holy Spirit: Is a discussion of the Holy Spirit who is the third member of the Godhead, of Trinity. This Step teaches us who the Holy Spirit is and how He works in the lives of individuals. It shows us how we may have HIM working in our own lives and what the results can be. It teaches us how we may have HIS power continually energizing us. Jesus said, “I came that they (you and I and all Christians) might have life, and might have it abundantly.” John 10:10. There are so few Christians filled with the Holy Spirit, because of false teachings which are directly against the words and mandates that Jesus left us with. Did HE not say He before He ascended into Heaven that he would leave us the “comforter” the Holy Spirit to dwell within us? There is so much lack of knowledge and pride with this topic. But Jesus also said, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold on to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon. But seek first HIS Kingdom, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:24-33

“ I CAN Be Born Again and Spirit Filled
WHO IS GOD?
God is described in the Bible for only one reason: because He wants you to have a revelation and understanding of Himself. God, Who is invisible, desired to communicate with man so much that He manifested Himself as “the Word made flesh,” in the Person of Jesus Christ, His Son. His existence is not a matter of debate. The fact that He “Who is invisible and all powerful” exists is shown in the creation itself. Your acceptance of Who He is becomes the starting-point of your faith.

God is Holy
God does not conform to a standard of holiness; He is that standard. 1 Samuel 2:2 declares, “There is no one holy like the Lord, Indeed, there is no one besides Thee, Nor is there any rock like our God.” God is holy, and no unrighteousness could exist in Him. Because of His holiness we do not judge His Word. His Word judges us.

God is Just
Depending on how they compare to God’s character, things are either just or unjust. God sentences the wicked and rewards the righteous according to His Own standards of what is right or wrong. On our own we could never meet God’s standard of righteousness. Being totally just, God cannot allow unrighteousness to be unpunished because it isn’t an agreement with His character. There is a distinct separation between God and unrighteous man.

God is Merciful
God is compassionate, and full of loving kindness toward man. In His mercy, He realizes that sinful, guilty man cannot measure up to His standard of righteousness without help. But if you will first believe that God is merciful, you have taken the first step in putting yourself in the position to receive His mercy. It is God’s mercy that provides a way for your salvation from sin’s wages:
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23 KJV).
“He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5).

God is Love
God is Love, and love always gives. God gave you the most precious Possession He had: His Only begotten Son. Love seeks the welfare of another. God was seeking the best for you when He gave His Son to end the separation of sin between you and Himself. John 3:16 reveals His love toward you:
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
Believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

God is Truth
God cannot lie. He is true to all that He says: “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Numbers 23:19).
God’s Word does not conform to reality. Reality conforms to God’s Word, for God’s Word is what created reality when He spoke the world into existence. All things made by God’s Word are subject to His Word, for He is Truth.

God is Omniscient
God is all wise and knows all things. He knows everything that ever was or will be. He knows the everything that isn’t but could be. All of this knowledge does not come from outside of Himself, and it causes no confusion. Hebrews 4:13b says that “all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” God is perfect wisdom, so He can devise perfect plans and use perfect ways to accomplish them. His wisdom sees everything in focus, and everything in proper relation, with all things working for an intended goal. God works in wisdom for His intended glory, and for the highest good of the greatest number of people over the longest span of time. What God does cannot be improved upon. He deals with you in perfect wisdom!

God is Omnipresent
He is present everywhere, close to everything, next to everyone. Psalm 139 declares that there is no place where man can possibly hide from Him. God fills heaven and earth.
Because He is infinite, God knows no limits. Don’t try to put limits on God’s presence, for He has so much for you. He knows you through and through because He made you, and best of all He loves you: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him” (John 14:23). God is in you and every believer.

God is Omnipotent
Nothing is too difficult for God to do, for He is all powerful. He gives power to those who serve Him, yet His Own power is never diminished. Everything that God does is done without effort, one task never being more difficult than another. How marvelous it is that your all powerful God is also good, true and merciful! Best of all, He wants to be powerful in your everyday life. Ephesians 1:19 says that He wants you to know “the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.” The Christian life is a “light burden” to bear because it is lived by God’s power in you, not by your own power.

WHO IS THE TRINITY?
The mystery of the Trinity is accepted by faith. God’s Word reveals that three Persons exist in the Godhead, yet they are One God. Each Person is co-equal with the other Two, yet none of Them are more or less God than the Other.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit do differ, functionally. The Son has voluntarily subjected Himself unto the Father, and the Holy Spirit is the One Who abides in all believers at the command of the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit carries out the purposes of the other Two.
Throughout the Bible, the three Persons in the Godhead are seen:
1. At Creation. God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1), and Jesus was present, too (John 1:3). The Holy Spirit was also there, waiting to actively bring forth God’s spoken Word (Gen. 1:2b).
2. In the Incarnation. Three Persons were spoken of to Mary (Luke 1:35). The Holy Spirit would come upon her, the power of the Most High would overshadow her, and the Holy Offspring would be the Son of God.
3. At Christ’s baptism (Luke 3:21, 22). Jesus was baptized, the Holy Spirit descended on Him as a dove, and the Father spoke, “Thou art my beloved Son.”
4. In the Atonement (Heb. 9:14). Here you see the blood of Christ, the eternal Spirit, and the offering without blemish
5. In the Resurrection. At Jesus’ resurrection the Scripture speaks of the Father (Acts 2:32), the Son (John 10:17, 18) and the Holy Spirit (Rom. 1:4).
6. In prayer we are to pray to the Father (Matthew 6:9), we pray in Jesus’ Name (John 14:13, 14), and the Holy Spirit intercedes for us (Rom. 8:26, 27).
7. Jesus Himself recognized three Persons in the Godhead. He prayed to the Father (Luke 23:34), He said, “I am the Way to the Father” (John 14:6), and He promised the coming of the Holy Spirit (John 14:16).
8. In the Great Commission. Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”

RECONCILED TO GOD
Because God is pure, holy and righteous He cannot look upon sin and disobedience. Men cannot do right before God because man’s righteousness is like “filthy rags” to Him. A great separation stands between God and sinners. Because God is just, there is a judgment of man’s sin. Man was sentenced to die three different deaths as a result of Adams sin: First, there is a physical death. Genesis 3:19 says that “you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Next is the spiritual death. Romans 5:12 says “just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.” Finally, there is eternal death spoken of in Revelation 20:15: “And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
Because God is merciful toward you, and all knowing, He had a perfect plan in which to demonstrate His mercy toward you and justice toward you at the same time. The price was high yet God’s love knows no limit. He gave His Only begotten Son to take your judgment, the death which was upon men because of Adam’s sin. Jesus Christ Himself bore in His body every one of your sins and diseases when He hung on the cross:
“Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him” (Isaiah 53:4-6).
Jesus Christ abolished the sin that separated you and God, and you became God’s child when you received Christ as Savior and Lord. Now the penalty for your sin has been satisfied and you have life instead of death. You have a new life ahead!

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?
The Holy Spirit has all of the attributes of God because He is God. He is equal with the Father and the Son:
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14).
His personality is described through all of the New Testament. Here are some of His characteristics:
1. He can be grieved. Ephesians 4:30 says, “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
2. He can be resisted, according to Acts 7:51 which says, “You men who are stiffnecked…are always resisting the Holy Spirit…”
3. Acts 9:31 tells us that He desires to comfort all believers, personally: “So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and, going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit…”
4. The Holy Spirit creates and gives life, just as He created new spiritual life within you when you were born again. Job recognized this fact: “The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life” (Job 33:4).
5. He dwells with you. “…that is the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because he abides with you, and will be in you” (John 14:17).
6. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would not glorify Himself, but that He would glorify Christ: “He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you” (John 16:14).
Now that you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit wants to glorify Christ in your life. He wants to confirm the truth of God’s Word to you and give you power for Christian service.
RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT
When you were born again by receiving Christ as you Savior, you received the Person of the Holy Spirit. Without Him there could be no indwelling of God. This explains the freedom and joy that you received at the new birth, for the Holy Spirit gave you peace with God. This same experience happened to the disciples in John 20:22:
“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.”

This was not Pentecost, but it was a new spiritual beginning. The same word for “breathed” is used in Genesis 2:7 when God “formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostril the breath of life.” Earthly life began for Adam with the breath of God. Spiritual life began for you with the breath of God: the Spirit of God Himself!

THREE BAPTISMS
Baptism Into Christ’s Body
Three baptisms take place in the believer. You were baptized in the Body of Christ when you were born again:
“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, and whether slaves or free, and we were made to drink of one Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
The candidate for baptism is the believer who is repenting of sin and accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior. The Baptizer is the Holy Spirit Himself, and the medium for baptism is the Body of Jesus Christ. It was at this time that you were indwelt by the Holy Spirit:
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you” (Romans 8:11).
In simple terms, the Holy Spirit lives in you to give you God’s life and presence. At the same time, you are baptized (introduced) into the Body of Christ to find your place among the other members.
Water Baptism

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). The candidate for water baptism is yourself—and I highly recommend that you are water baptized as soon as possible. The baptizer is a qualified disciple of Jesus Christ, and the medium into which you are baptized is that of water.
The mode of baptism varies according to tradition, but the original Greek word baptize actually means “to immerse.” The Bible says that when Jesus was baptized He came “up out of” the water, so again we see baptism as immersion into the water. This is highly symbolic. It shows the washing of regeneration:
“He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior…” (Titus 3:5, 6).

Water baptism also symbolizes Christ’s death, burial and resurrection:
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me” (Galatians 2:20). Death is shown when the candidate for baptism is taken down into the water, burial is shown when the person is totally immersed in water, and resurrection is shown through the rising out of the water.

Baptism With The Holy Spirit
Receiving the promised gift of the Holy Spirit for power is the third type of baptism which believers can receive. The candidate for being baptized with the Holy Spirit is the water-baptized believer. Some individuals are baptized in the Holy Spirit before being baptized in water (Acts 10:44-48), but you can only receive this baptism if you are a born-again child of God. The Baptizer is Jesus Christ. Just as the Holy Spirit baptized you in the Body of Christ, now Jesus Christ wants to baptize you with the Holy Spirit Who is, of course, the baptismal Medium:
“I baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit” (Mark 1:8).
Just as you are physically flooded by water in the act of water baptism, so God wants to flood your life with His Own character through the baptism of the Holy Spirit:
“…and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has given to us” (Romans 5:5). You receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit so that God can empower you to develop and express your new life in Jesus Christ. Recognizing the work of the Holy Spirit in your life is essential for proper Christian growth. The three types of baptism (and three is a number of perfection) are clearly indicated in the account of Saul’s conversion (Acts 9:1-19) and in the salvation of the Gentiles who were at the house of Cornelius (Acts 10:44-48). Look these up in your Bible and study them closely.

WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES IN YOU
He gives you authority to witness. Acts 1:8 says, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
1. The Holy Spirit will cause you to worship God, for He glorifies God: “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24).
2. He manifests power in your prayer life: “And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God” (Romans 8:26, 27).
3. He helps you understand the Scriptures: “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God” (1 Corinthians 2:12).
4. He gives you spiritual gifts: “…so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,…” (1 Corinthians 1:7).
5. He will produce God-like qualities within you, and cause you to act like the child of God whom you have become. The Holy Spirit wants to be your source of direction, strength and comfort. He wants to fill your life with the abundance of all that God has for you.

RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Believe God’s Word I know that God must have highly esteemed the baptism of the Holy Spirit, for He prophesied about it: “And it will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see vision. And even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days” (Joel 2:28, 29).
John the Baptist and Jesus Himself also prophesied about the baptism of the Holy Spirit:
“John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but He who is mightier than I is coming, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He Himself will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Luke 3:16).
“…but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
You must first know that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift that God wants you to have. Believe that God wants to give you His best, just as He gave His best when He gave you His Son, Jesus Christ. If Jesus, the disciples and the early church were all baptized in the Holy Spirit, then you should be, too. You are a member of the same Body, and God will withhold no good thing from you:
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? (Luke 11:13).
God is not a respector of persons. Many feel that they have to become “good enough” to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, it is the reverse: you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit to empower you to do better.
Ask For Him
Jesus said that God would give the Holy Spirit to those who would ask. Is that different from asking Jesus to be your Savior? It certainly is! In John 14:17 Jesus called Him the Spirit of truth Whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him.” To get saved you had to behold Jesus. No one preached to you about the Holy Spirit; they told you about Jesus Christ. But now you know the Holy Spirit, because you received Him when you were born again. You only have to ask the Father for Him.
Praise The Lord
Expect the Lord to give you a new language of praise, just as He gave the disciples in Acts 2:4:
“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.”
They “began to speak,” just as you must “begin to speak.” Then as you speak, know that it is the Holy Spirit Who gives you the utterance. Praise Him in your new language.
Believe You Received
The Father gives good gifts, and He will not give you a counterfeit. Receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit by faith, just as you received salvation by faith. If your heavenly language does not flow immediately, do not doubt that you have received. Just keep praising and thanking God.
God imparts the baptism of the Holy Spirit in two ways: 1. By sovereign outpouring (Acts 2:1-4; Acts 10:44-48). Many times Jesus simply baptizes people with the Holy Spirit anywhere they are, wherever they ask Him. Other times, they may not even as, and they are baptized with the Holy Spirit because of someone’s prayer for them. Jesus is a giver, and He loves to give people His most precious gift—the Spirit of God.
2. By the ministry of laying on of hands. Sometimes Christians may have another member of the Body of Christ lay hands on them to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:14-19).

YOUR EVIDENCE
On the day of Pentecost the evidence of the Holy Spirit baptism was seen through the apostles boldness in preaching, after which 3,000 people were saved! They also heard sounds of rushing wind, saw tongues of fire, and they spoke in tongues, praising God (Acts 2:1-4). The Holy Spirit overflowed from their spirits and filled up their senses, causing an overflow!
Acts 8:14-19 tells of the Samaritan Pentecost and the Bible doesn’t tell us what the evidence was. I do know that it was certainly something to be seen, for Simon the magician was present and the Bible says he “saw” what happened and wanted to buy the power of the Spirit. Needless to say he was harshly rebuked! Jesus’ blood is the only way that the Holy Spirit could be purchased for mankind.
When the apostle Paul was filled with the Holy Spirit the “scales” which had represented spiritual blindness disappeared from his eyes. Later he told the Corinthians, “I speak with tongues more than you all.” Though the Bible does not specify, Paul probably received the gift of speaking with other tongues when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, since that is when others received the gift (Acts 9:17-19). We know by his own testimony in 1 Cor. 14 that he prayed in tongues.
At the Roman Pentecost, the baptism of the Holy Spirit was given by God to Gentiles who believed on His Son. This happened while Peter was preaching to them, and suddenly the Holy Spirit came upon all who were present. They immediately responded by speaking in tongues and exalting God (Acts 10:45, 46).
At the Greek Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon some believers and they began to speak in tongues and prophesy (Acts 19:1-6). All who received the Holy Spirit demonstrated supernatural power.

WHY YOU SHOULD SPEAK IN TONGUES
You don’t have to speak in tongues if you don’t want to—God will not force you to. However, when you yield your tongue to the Holy Spirit you indicate your willingness to yield the rest of your body to Him. It is your tongue which rules over the rest of your body: “For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well” (James 3:2).
As a believer you function on two levels: the spiritual level and the natural level. The natural level refers to your five senses; of those five senses your tongue is the only one that allows you to communicate with God. All Christians use the natural earthly level of communication with God when they pray. The Bible calls this speaking with the “tongues of men.”
When entering into worship and praise, however, many people feel limited when using only “tongues of men.” Often, repetition sets in. It is there that God frees us with His supply for another level of worship: the “tongues of angels” spoken of in 1 Corinthians 13:1. This is also called “tongues.” Your heavenly language gives you a new capability: you can now communicate with God without the limitations of your natural mind.

“For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful” (1 Corinthians 14:2, 14). The Holy Spirit in you already understands God’s thoughts and His ways. Now He wants to communicate to God accordingly, and He wants to speak those thoughts to you. While you natural tongue is controlled by your mind, your “unknown” tongue speaks by the Spirit of God.
You should speak in tongues simply because this is one evidence of the Holy Spirit inside you. Speaking in tongues is one way that God builds you up, spiritually: But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit;…” * Booklet from Marilyn Hickey Ministries

IT IS A SECRET LANGUAGE IN PRAYER BETWEEN YOU AND GOD. The devil cannot hear…and if you don’t know what to pray, tongues edifies, and tongues say what you don’t know how. It is a GIFT!

Benny Hinn’s book, The Anointing, offers much insight into “who” the Holy Spirit really is, and how “He” should be treated. He also talks about his first encounter as a young man with the late Katherine Kuhlman in this quote when she had to decide on a man she was in love with vs God: “ I had to make a choice. Would I serve the man I loved or the God I loved? I knew I could not serve God and live with Mister. [She called Waltrip “Mister” from the very first time she met him]. No one will ever know the pain of dying like I know it, for I loved him more than I loved life itself. And for a time, I loved him even more than God. I finally told him I had to leave. God had never released me from that original call. Not only did I live with him, I had to live with my own conscience, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit was almost unbearable. I was tired of trying to justify myself. I saw a street sign. It said simply, “dead end.” There was heartache, heartache so great it cannot be put into words. If you think it’s easy to go to the Cross, it’s simply because you’ve never been there. I’ve been there. I know. “(So have I with divorces, estranged children who hate, and do not understand your walk with Christ, as well as the suicide of a 19 year old bi-polar son. Yes I know her pain, and understand. For my last divorce too, in 1982, God clearly said to me, when I got saved a year later, “Now you are mine alone, there will be no more marriages.” I was only 43.) “And I had to go alone. I knew nothing about the wonderful filling of the Holy Spirit. I knew nothing of the power of the mighty third person of the Trinity which was available to all. I just knew it was four o’clock on Saturday afternoon and I had come to the place in my life where I was ready to give up everything – even Mister – and die. I said it out loud: “Dear Jesus, I surrender ALL…I give it all to you. Take my body. Take my heart. All I am is yours. I place it in your wonderful hands.” (I, in essence as I sit alone, live alone, write alone, call on HIM alone, have too, surrendered ALL.) To me, when denying the Gifts of the Spirit, it puts you in danger of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, which to God, is the unpardonable sin. How can you deny what God left for us as a gift?

Benny said, “The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God –the glory is the Holy Spirit. When you experience HIS presence –the overwhelming realization that God Almighty is so near, you can almost reach out and touch HIM (in the supernatural) –then you have experienced the glory of God. You feel the warmth of HIS love, the comfort of HIS peace. THIS IS AN ANNOINTING, in a sense, of course, an anointing that brings the presence.” Thank you Benny. For I could not have done my paintings without HIS presence after the death of my son, I missed so much. I could not sit here now, starting at 5am without HIS presence and inviting the Holy Spirit to help me. For it is HE who guides, loves, and envelopes me with the warmth of his wonderful presence. I could do NOTHING, I am convinced in spite of my physical limitations, without my loving Holy Spirit. Nor could I STAND in Christ Jesus, and politic, speak out, yet on other occasions, have the agape’ love and compassion without my Holy Spirit. He cannot and should Not be denied. It is a gift…a free gift, that is so precious. I am Blessed! The Holy Spirit I know Healed me of a mini stroke after my son’s suicide, healed me, cared for me loved me. Thank you Jesus for your gift to me. It is the evidence of the magnificent wonders that I will see when I meet you Lord in Heaven and see my son once more.

IN THY PRESENCE
Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in thy presence will prevail to make!
What heavy burdens from our bosoms take,
What parched grounds refresh as with a shower.
We kneel, and all around us seems to lower;
We rise, and all the distant and the near,
Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.
We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power.
Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong.
Or others, we are not always strong.
That we are ever overborne with care,
That we should ever weak or heartless be,
Anxious or troubled when with us is prayer,
Joy and strength and courage are with thee.
–Author Unknown

Benny Hinn Who Is the Holy Spirit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8PQZjXL0k

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The Supernatural And Occult

There is so much from Hollywood movies and tv on the Occult now more than ever before.  It is demonic.  Youth are looking for the supernatural in all the wrong places.  One of the 10 Commandments says, “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.”  The secularist and Socialists now teaching public schools have taken prayer out, now taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance, and in it’s place the Bible has been replaced by the books from the pit of hell.  The Occult rampant today as never before!  Then too are horoscopes that God warns about playing with divination.  Harry Potter has been recommended reading in schools, and it is demonic.  No Christian child should be allowed to read or forced by any school to read.  Our moral compass and whole fiber of our society has fallen to Satan.

http://www.cbn.com/family/youth/elliott_horoscopes.aspx

Harry Potter book, horoscopes, witchcraft, Ouija boards, tarot cards, talking to the dead..

TV:  

The Whisperers, Once Upon a Time, Secrets and Lies, The X-Files, Grimm, Gravity Falls, True Blood, Millennium, Dominion, American Horror Story,  Roswell, Charmed, Constantine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost Girl, 

Ghost Whisperer  (Jennifer Love Hewitt talking to the dead. She plays 

Melinda Gordon is a young woman who can communicate with the earthbound spirits of people who have died — and who seek her help. IT is demonic.)

God warns in all through the Bible about not talking to the dead.

Remember the STRANGE FIRE  in Leviticus 10:1-3.  “And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron (they were priests) took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He commanded them not. (This was “fire” which came from something other than the brazen Altar.  As such, it was not a type of Christ and Him Crucified and, therefore, could not be recognized by God.  It was the sin of Cain.  They attempted to put the “strange fire,” on the Altar of Incense, situated immediately in front of the Veil.  All false doctrine falls into this SAME category and thereby, presents a fearful spectacle.) *Expositors Study Bible

2.  “And there went out fire from the LORD (from the Ark of the Covenant, which passed through the Veil without burning it), and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.  (A short time earlier, fire had come out from this same place and consumed the sacrifice on the Altar [9:24].  Inasmuch as the Cross of

Christ was ignored here, that same fire came upon the sinner instead of the sacrifice.)  *Expositors Study Bible  

3.  Then Moses said unto Aaron, THIS is it that the LORD spoke saying, I will be sanctified in them who come near Me, and before all the people I will be glorified.  And Aaron held his peace.  (The Lord is saying by this statement that if men place on HIS Altar the workings of their own corrupt will, [worshiping false gods…or little gods, idol worship] what will be the result?  Judgment!” *Expositors Study Bible    

And God’s judgment came and took these 2 priests out …dead…in one instant! And I believe that HIS judgment is on all of us who “play ” at church.  Youth who mock and do not fear God?  You could be taken out he same way.  And when God is done, there will be no doubt WHO is Lord, and who can act in a supernatural power of retribution.  For the devil is defeated at the Cross and his days are numbered.   For HE says, THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.   What are other Gods?  Worshiping that which is not God Almighty, from tv, being involved in divination, even to worshiping dead people of the past, and putting up a shrine for them.  That is like worshiping Baal.   God prohibits pagan practices.  

Deuteronomy 18:9 “When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10. There shall not be found among you any one who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire (human sacrifice), or who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11. Or a charmer or a consulter, with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.   (The last is one who professed to call up the dead, and from them learn the secrets of the future.  All of these things had to do with witchcraft, and were not at all to be a part of Israel, nor are they to be a part of us, under Christ, not be involved in abominations.)   12.  For all who do these things are an abomination unto the LORD; and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out before you.  13. You shall be perfect with the LORD your God. (The word “perfect” means single -hearted that is, pure IDOLATRY.)  

So who DO you worship?  The LORD? or false gods?  Baal?  Baal refers to the old Semitic storm or rain god, the fertility god of the Canaanite peoples, who was the chief contender with Jehovah for the worship of Israel.  Different gods were called the Baal of different regions.  Just as the tower of Babel, was built by mankind just after the flood in Shinar.  The story presumes that those surviving the flood had remained a unit.  The motive assigned was “let us make us a name ie monument to human achievement.  Sound familiar?  No?  What about One World Trade Center?  After 9/11 did America fall on her knees and repent to the LORD, and cry out to HIM?   No this high tower, is just like Baal, and was built on defiance, not repentance.   And something cataclysmic is going to happen, for God is judging us now, and the last Blood Moon is on Sukkot September 28th the Jewish Feast of the Tabernacle.    America has turned her back on God Almighty, with it’s politically correct false gods and doctrines, and the wrath of God Almighty, is going to make himself known!   Just as God killed Aaron’s two sons, many will again lose life.  Something is going to happen that will involve Israel, and the U.S.  But, if God hypothetically did take that new tower down, I don’t believe it would be by a terrorist but, by an act of God, in a natural disaster, letting the world know WHO HE IS!    Do you fear God?  I do. Always have.  He may be a loving God, but He is also a God of Judgment and wrath.  

Be careful whom you worship, and be careful who you hold high. 

The words of Jesus in Matthew 7:21-23  In this familiar passage our Lord declared, 

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but 

only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on 

that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive

 out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never

 knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'”

1 John 4

“Test the Spirits

4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

 

John Hagee: Angels and Demons and Exposing and 

Expelling Demons  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JrlvDBJDzk  

 Youth that hunger for the supernatural?  You are looking in all the wrong demonic places… For the God I serve with signs and wonders…and the move of the Holy Spirit, can give you more of the supernatural than you can imagine.  For what is coming will be nothing but spectacular and cataclysmic.  Are you ready? For whether you believe in post or pre trib we will go through tribulation, but you can also go through magnificent signs, wonders, healings, and miracles from Jesus.  He is there for all of us if we only call HIS name!   

Sid Roth: Breaking the end time prophetic codes:  

http://sidroth.org/store/products/breaking-end-time-prophetic-codes-7-cd-series-perry-stone-code-1909??src=STsc

https://www.getv.org/Videos/Watch/2769FB31-5907-4065-99E7-D63D74D7A45C

The Three Heavens  (Angels and Demons) 

 Bill Winston…Exposing Demonic Forces

https://youtu.be/NnnEwNzTasQ

 

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Major Ezekiel Worthen

Link to my site of my 12th generation ancestor, Major Ezekiel Worthen (NH) who, along with his four sons, Ezekiel, Samuel, Jacob, and Enoch, fought in the Revolutionary War. I am proud of this ancestor, and I sincerely hope that I see him one day in Heaven. What a glorious day that will be!   If  I get passionate on here for love of my America, it is with this tremendous history of Christians who fought to make America free.  Thank you Lord..

Major Ezekiel Worthen.

Egypt, Israel, America And Mideast

Please pray for Egypt. I have had one Coptic Christian Egyptian friend, who I have known now for 11 years from another site. He loves Jesus and has been such a wonderful light for our Lord. His site now here down and cleared. Please pray for my friend in Cairo and ALL of Egypt.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=2555536011001&w=466&h=263Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

We all need to understand what is going on in Egypt and around the Arab world, DOES affect us here in the US. Obama now is pulling all stops to encourage Muslims here, and take down our US Constitution and our freedoms by Executive order before he leaves office. It is my belief as a Christian believing in Bible prophesy, that we are now in Ezekiel 38 and 39. I do believe that by September something cataclysmic is going to happen, which is the last Blood Moon on the Sukkot, the Jewish holiday. This current new tower in NYC went up in defiance, but NOT repentance! God’s judgement is on the WH, and on America now. Obama will push for Sharia law, and all that he can in the time he has left. Be sober, be vigilant, and know your enemy. And Stand. The Muslim Brotherhood was defeated in Egypt and Morsi is serving 20 years in jail. The MB in America is NOT on any terrorist list and should be, and advises Obama. We need to wake up..Get in your Bible, pray, and understand where we are for the first time in history we are seeing the end times play out. All you have to do is read Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, (38-39) , Joel 2, I Thes., Matt 24, Revelations. And pray.

 

Add this to above on Egypt….And I hope and pray you all click and go in and play this video, see the photo of his Communist advisor back then Frank Marshall, and now add to it all his Muslim Brotherhood advisors..and understand WHAT America and Christians are up against …PLEASE…Add to that this Pope doing the devils work, calling Palestinian  leader Abbas, an “angel”, working with Hamas, their terrorist group bombing Israel, and it doesn’t take a genius, to not know we are for the first time in history seeing all of the end time prophesies happen all around us.  Please be vigilant.

God’s wrath and judgment is on us..and something is going to happen in the supernatural.  God bless you all….look up!

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/…/warning-for…/

A fast history lesson for the secular media:

What you in the media don’t get.  I studied Ancient Civilization in college in my younger days.  When I got saved  and came to the Lord, Jesus, in repentance, the first thing I gravitated to was end time prophesies.  Who are the prophets?  They are in the Old Testament, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Nehemiah, especially now Joel 2…then I Thessalonian, and Revelations.  All things put together for those who seek.  The European Union, 13 nations, Greece now trying to bow out, the 10 horns…out of which in one of these mid east countries now will come the Antichrist.  He is alive today..I believe it.  The Pope now too, figures into this..because they don’t want to have ISIS take down the Vatican, which is a part of the Caliphate, and the object too, in taking ALL of Western Civilization as they tried to do in the Ottoman period.  And who stopped both the Ottoman period AND later Hitler? Winston Churchill.  No wonder his bust in the White House as an insult went back to the UK…(all his Muslim friends.)  Iran (Persia in ancient civ, and Ezekiel 38 &39) all wanting to control Israel.  Israel does NOT occupy Israel.  THEY OWN it..given by GOD in Genesis 13!  They lived there, also Genesis, since God moved Abram (Abraham) from UR,  in Iraq,(Mesopotamia the first civilization)  by the top of where the Tigress and Euphrates meet, to Cannan (Israel) to the land of milk and honey.  God says, “I will bless those who bless my people and curse those who curse them” the Jews…ISRAEL!  Period. I am a Zionist…I am a member of CUFI , and I back Israel.  Even the Shah of Jordan, said the Jews owned Palestine and was there first.  In essence there is no Palestine!   This economy is going to collapse, because of the EU and 10 horns and them wanting to eliminate CASH…A cashless society? THAT dear media, is the 666 and a micro chip going in your head or hand.  And anyone who takes this chip, will NOT enter the Kingdom of God..(Revelations).  What other proofs in this disgusting world of hate and beheadings, lies, and greed, and even all this Gay rights, which is like Sodom and Gomorrah…do you need.  God is going to destroy. The tribulations are coming soon..Whether we Christians are going in the Rapture pre or post? I don’t know.  60 Minutes? Leslie Stahl, no more water way underneath in this whole world…Satelite Grace..CA, Turkey, Iran, Africa.. the whole world. The new fight will not be oil but water.  All that China is doing killing Elephants, leaving babies to die next to their dead mother..Arab’s and China buying up in America.  What China has done in New Guinna.. The poor people.. Now ravaging and putting chemicals into all the water there including not only rivers, but the ocean.  Whatever they touch they destroy…and they will join Russia, in the final war..Russia..Gog and Magog…Magog, Moscow.   Everything  for us believers is clear as can be..We know what is coming.  Do you?  Oh, I forgot, your all secularists, and don’t believe in God.  Good luck…My word

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Why “Christians” Throw Christians Under the Bus

The following below is a very good article from Freedom Outpost.  One which I agree wholeheartedly.  Christians in America for the most part are in “lala” land.  They are not “taught” the Bible, and continue to be secularized, instead of STANDING on Biblical principals, they know “nothing about”.  T.D. Jakes said this is now the most Biblically and scripturally illiterate generation in ALL of history.   The salvation message is not enough.  Used to be Christians read their Bible cover to cover at least once in their lifetime, studied, took courses, and digested the people, stories, and messages from the Genesis to Revelations.  They knew God’s intent in the “beginning”, knew the beneficial stories, (from reading, not a Hollywood crocked up movie ie Russel Crow doesn’t even believe in God and mocks him), and knew from Matthew to Revelations, how we were to STAND, and knew how it was going to end; and to be prepared.  No one is prepared, with end times all around us.  They are on pablum instead of meat.  And yes, to save themselves, adhere to secularism, and throw their brother under the bus.  Whereby, sin has ceased to exist.  And you don’t put your Christian children in a secular college, getting taught by some Socialist!!

Scott Buss May 31, 2015

“Why “Christians” Throw Christians under the Bus…And Then Run ‘Em over

Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/05/why-christians-throw-christians-under-the-bus-and-then-run-em-over/#fCdWOXvgYRXtQGAv.99

Leonard Ravenhill once said, “If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.”
This is something to think about as we live in a very proud America defined by three things:

1. A population overwhelmingly comprised of professing Christians.
2. A landscape dotted by thousands and thousands of often very well attended professing Christian churches.
3. A culture utterly overrun and defined by anti-Christian worldviews, smoldering in its proud rebellion and on the verge of collapse.

Today in America, we have Transgender Kindergarten, enforced cross-dressing in our Army, Transgender Girl(?) Scouts, a lesbian Army general, purposeful , systematic economic bondage through man-made fiat currency, perpetual war in the name of peace, the perpetual surrender of freedom/liberty at home in the name of preserving freedom/liberty, the free (and often happy) surrender of our children to the anti-Christian State for Statist/satanic “education”, a national government that spies on us at a level that would make the KGB or Gestapo weep with envy, and a so-called “Christian” religion that enables and encourages all of it.

But everybody loves Jesus.

Well, nearly everybody, anyway, or so they say. Apparently, Leonard Ravenhill was on to something.

While, for generations now, we’ve been attending churches, reading Bibles, watching Veggie Tales, going to church camps, “getting saved” and laying claim to something we imagine and therefore proclaim to be Christianity, it seems fairly obvious, especially in this late hour, that many of us who dearly adore and regularly attend even the most “conservative Christian” churches in America are not actually down with biblically-defined Christianity. Not at all.

Truth be told, we seem to hate it; we seem to have a visceral disdain for the concept of Christ as King in practice right here and now in every realm of His creation (think: law, politics and economics). We tend to openly recoil at the mere suggestion that His people have been lovingly commanded and equipped to make disciples of the nations, teaching them to obey all that He has commanded, right here and now in every area of live, including law, economics, art, education and everything else. No, that Christianity is something that we were born hating, continue to hate, and have been conditioned to persistently reject at every turn through immersion in things like State-controlled “schools,” Corporate-controlled pop-culture, and, most importantly, professing Christian “churches” who are as opposed to the true life- and culture-changing Gospel-fueled Great Commission as anyone else.

It is these American churches and professing Christians are those most responsible for all of the rest; they are the gatekeepers between the Gospel and the world, and they have chosen to close the gate between the two, keeping the world “safe” from the confrontational, corrective Gospel command and rule of Christ the King. They’ve replaced the Gospel of the Kingdom of God with any number of convenient, marketable, man-centered and inherently popular counterfeits. They aim to give us just enough to “get us saved” and make us feel good about doing…well…pretty much whatever we want to do. I mean, if we’re saved and the Gospel is only about getting us saved, then what’s the big deal, right? Live and let live. Don’t sweat the details. Just go with the flow.

So it is that we have not sweated the details of the true Gospel and gone with the flow of the anti-Christian worldviews that are actively working to shape and dominate the culture in which we live. And we seem to love it even now – this tiny little fake gospel of ours – at least enough to clamp down on those annoying “religious zealots” and the “extreme” perspectives of some who actually, you know, take the Great Commission seriously.

We just love our Candy Christianity, our Toy Box Christianity, our Easy Button Christianity, our Magic Christianity, and our “Gospel in a Bottle” Christianity, each featuring our own personally assembled and diligently customized Mr. Potato Jesus-type toy savior. We love these play gospels and toy Jesuses, and we will defend what we love. So it is that we – the professing Christian church in America – have enabled and often ourselves become the most vigorous persecutors of those who really, truly stand for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In loving, promoting and living out our favored counterfeit gospels rather than the Gospel, we’ve thrown biblical Christianity and, by natural extension, true Christians under the bus…a bus that is driven by professing Christians.

They’re the ones sending their kids to the State for anti-Christian “education” and tired of hearing that sort of thing called “sin.”

They’re the ones who love their contrived political theater and look to their favored Pagan Right/Pagan Left political and economic “experts” to save the day here in “the real world.” (See: Confronting the Gay Orwellian Party: Dragging the Pagan Right out of the closet and into the light.)

They’re the ones who want to keep their Mr. Potato Jesus in the safe position of being lord over their hearts, their prayer closets, their church activities, and some future heaven-type place out there somewhere, but never as lord over their approach to politics, business, and education right here and now.

They’re the ones who want a “Kingdom of God” that is always out there…separate…safely away from them. (See: Christianity in a Box: Containing the Contagion of Obedience to Christ.)

And they’re willing to run over anyone who gets in the way of that delusion.

Which brings us neatly ’round to one of the major duties of true Christians: Lovingly confronting and correcting the self-serving delusions of the proud and rebellious with the Gospel commands of Christ the King.

Even if doing so gets us thrown under the bus. And run over. By “Christians.”

Ultimately, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess, and every artistic, political, economic, and scientific thought will bow to Him as His Gospel conquers and makes all things new through His obedient people—all by His grace, all for His glory, and all to their eternal benefit.

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* Amen for this article!

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Warning for Repentence Before Judgment

Warning from Ann Graham Lotz

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/May/Mayday-Ann-Graham-Lotz-Warns-Judgment-Is-Near/

The Bible says, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”  Just like Noah, 40 years building the ark; all the people laughed and laughed, while God gave them every chance. Then came the flood and God had Noah close the door of the ark and they all perished. So, I’m sorry,but God ALWAYS sends a “Watchman” and a prophet to warn. ALWAYS; and it is no different today. The 3rd Blood Moon was April on Passover, and in spite of all Obama’s parade of organizers he sent to Israel, Bibi got re-elected…Praise God.  And I’m so glad my daughter saw Israel before all this hits. The next and last is coming in September on Sukkot and the Shemitah.  (From Jonathan Cahn who has been on Perry Stone and Gary Keesee others, his book now called “The Harbenger” which is a foreshadow of what is to come. ) You know there is a story in history and the Bible on the Sycamore tree (Harbenbger) before God allowed judgment and destruction.  God poured out His judgment because there was no repentance. Well, 9/11? There was a sycamore tree on that ground of the twin towers that came down.  (I never knew this…media never showed. ) The roots were on display before this new tower was built…But this tower too, just like in the Bible of old, was built on “defiance” but, there was no repentance either. 3 years after 911 Tom Daschel spoke and quoted Isaiah, “We are serving Baal right now.”  And we are! This new tower is like the tower of Babal. The Harbengers is a fore shadow of what is to come Isaiah 33:36.   From all over America, no repentance.  We are under judgment. Hagee has 3 degrees, and one of them is in history. He is a brilliant extremely intelligent man. He knows Biblical and political  history.  There was something else he said,  concerning the Balfour Declaration .  When England signed this proclamation, in 1917 with Israel.   It will be 100 years in 2017 since that signing.

“http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/balfour_declaration_of_1917.htm”>

Theodore Herzl’s dream of a state to happen in 1948. Israel had been ruled by Rome, by Turkey, by Persia (Iran)…But that land God gave to the Jews in Gen. 13.  Something cataclysmic is on the horizon for America and Israel September on Sukkot.  God is going to cause earthquakes Tsunami’s of huge magnitude and volcanos to erupt.  And ours at Yellowstone and Oregon are getting ready and due….I DREAD this winter.  When we are to be looking for Gods signs; and they are there NOW!  There is such an URGENCY. Dear God what is coming is going to be devastating, yet God will protect his Christians. And the  economy is going totally collapse, even Greenspan has warned. The Rapture is coming soon. I feel this urgency like butterflies in my heart pounding, shaking in the Holy Spirit. God ALWAYS sends someone to warn. For he that hath an ear let him hear. I AM HEARING. I pray all of you are too.   God help us!

http://www.cbn.com/tv/4245125388001

http://www.lamblion.com

http://garykeesee.com

Interview with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1WNup-dAaY

Hagee..Anti Christ is here now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUV5reBCed4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Snz3PUOkY

http://www.voe.org/store/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8Bbl14xm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xn-LKSgEVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YPbLRPbAk

termination of  church age

(80,000 hours studying his Bible)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hHhTxL6fU

The following books (and there are a lot more) on Amazon, let you read and open the introduction and 1st chapter…eye opening! Cataclysmic!  I’ve saved to get  on my Kindle…I didn’t realize that Jonathan Cahn also spoke to Congress and warned them..Now THEY are defiant just  as those in NYC were building this new high tower.  Even Boehner, McConnell ? They are all heading towards a new world order, banking system, and defying God Almighty!  In one of these books in the front, I think it was the 9/11 Prophesy, he spoke of what Lincoln went through seeking God, after the horrific carnage of the Civil War..It was eye opening and to read what Lincoln wrote applies to  today.  It would not surprise me  if this tower too, came down.  They planted a fresh new Sycamore tree and that too died. NYC is the whore…Babylon sleeping with Kings in high places….The UN!  Making deals with the devil, and Baal….ignoring God’s warnings.  No Repentance! Built only on “defiance”  While Obama has let all these infidals and ISIS in America.  LOOK at the carnage of the murder of that Greek CEO…by these Blacks..His poor little 10 year old son, abused, tortured and eventually murdered…A friend posted a photo in Syria…this little 8 or 9 year old boy, laughing…carrying by the hair, a human head that had been chopped off….with all his little friends an followers laughing with adults, praising Allah. I couldn’t sleep for 2 nights seeing that image.  What barbaric vulgarity.  .God help us.  Something cataclysmic is going to happen..to America!  Pray…

The Islamic Antichrist

http://www.amazon.com/The-Islamic-Antichrist-Shocking-Nature-ebook/dp/B004NEW0HK/ref=pd_cart_wl_1_2_p?ie=UTF8&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&coliid=I10VSNAJWQ12BB&refRID=12KCVZSVRFGHF9J9KAN1

The Harbenger

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PG7BXGM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&coliid=I1AN74JM5M4BTD

The Mystery of the Shemitah

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LKBSAZA/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&coliid=I390OXCAWPIXMO

The 3 Heavens

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PG7BXGM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&coliid=I1AN74JM5M4BTD

The 9/11 Prophesies

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E9CZ90G/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TBP5BONYYDRV&coliid=I2EA0YR81MEWN5

This Pope and Idealogue

Pope Francis, did what this White House does and Obama…stated in a declaration against Israel and a State for Palestine.  The Vatican has absolutely no authority by the UN, or any courts.  This was not the result of peace talks and concessions agreed upon by Israel.   Instead now the Islamic State has won, yet this Pope has just lost for many Christians are being persecuted that he never stands up for.  When the Caliphate comes to the Vatican in a full attack?  He will have no help.  Is this Pope the Antichrist, or like Obama, doing the work of Satan, ushering in the Antichrist.  This act is a defiance against Israel and all the Jewish people, by a Vatican that cannot clean up it’s own sins.  Like the  early 40s and Hitler’s rise, so, now another Holocaust could be enabled.  My  question?  How legal is this?

Perhaps I need to repent as well, which I have.  Not being a Catholic, there is much with the history of the Catholic church that I do  not agree with going way way back to the Crusades,  their rituals, what we evangelicals call “religiousity”.  However, in all fairness I just watched a movie on Pope Francis, on Netflix, that had me see a different side to this Pope.  Young, in Argentina, he saw Christian persecution, and so many priests murdered under Peron’s regime. That dictator Peron was horrific, same as what is going on in Argentina today.  Francis saw.. Saw pain and death all around him.  I do not doubt for one moment that this man is not saved, and in that respect must apologize.  More than 30,000 were slaughtered in Argentina, not to mention Brazil back in the 50’s 60’s.   I encourage you to watch his story on Netflix.

Call Me Francis:  https://www.netflix.com/title/80117627

Israel OWNS THAT LAND in the West Bank! Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:15 God gave to Abraham and his seed from Isaac…PERIOD THE END! Pope Francis? You have once again gone against ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE. YOU NOW HAVE A CURSE ON YOU ALONG WITH OBAMA! “I will bless those who bless my people and curse those who curse them.”..ISRAEL and God’s chosen the Jewish people. They STILL haven’t learned…The Vatican once blamed Jesus Crucifixion on Jews…now the land belongs to the JEWS AND ISRAEL (Genesis 12-13) GOD gave to the Jews!!! He needs to keep quiet because GOD did not give that land to Palestine. Wait til ISIS comes and takes over the Vatican. This Pope doing Satan’s work?

I STAND WITH ISRAEL! I shall not keep silent!! in Jesus name! Jesus a JEW AND RABBI! Genesis 12:7 “And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said, Unto your seed (Isaac) I will give this land!” Genesis 13:15 And the Lord said, “For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed (Isaac)…for EVER.” (The Lord tells Abraham that the Promises are forever..Modern day Palestine does not acknowledge…neither does this Pope…Neither did the Roman soldiers that killed Jesus along with Caiphus and Herod. (Later by 310 ad becoming the Catholic church! with the first Pope Constantine..) PHARISEES! ISRAEL DOES NOT OCCUPY THE WEST BANK, THEY OWN IT! This is the onset of the HOLUCUST repeating..as Hitler! Elephants would roost in trees before I kissed this Popes hand! I worship one God…JESUS KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS…NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES THE I AM!

http://www.westernjournalism.com/vatican-officially-recognizes-state-of-palestine/?utm_campaign=54ebe14371e7fc692400399a&utm_source=BoomTrain&utm_medium=email&utm_content=recommended&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNGM2NjZjNC1iYzE4LTRkYzAtOTg4MC05MWIyZTUzNDhkMWQifQ%3D%3D

FROM CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL 5/19/15 PASTOR JOHN HAGEE:

“We were disappointed to see initial reports that Pope Francis called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas an “angel of peace.” We were relieved to see reports that the Pope was likely misunderstood.  It seems that what he said to Abbas was that he “could be” an angel of peace.  

And indeed, President Abbas could be an angel of peace.  In order to rise to this role, he would first have to his express his moral — not just tactical — rejection of terrorism.  He would have to renounce the unrepentant  terrorists  of Hamas as a legitimate governing partner.  He would have to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and reject the so-called  Palestinian  right of return.  And he would have to bring himself to accept one of Israel’s generous offers of a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. 

If he did all of these things, then Abbas certainly could  be an angel of peace.  

Having done none of these things, Abbas is far from earning his wings.  

Sadly, however, we fear that the Vatican’s recent decision to formalize its recognition of the “State of Palestine” will not prod Abbas towards compromise.  We believe the opposite to be true. As recently as 2008, Abbas refused a Palestinian state because he was unwilling to risk his career — and his life — by taking the steps outlined above.  As an increasing number of nations around the world have since rewarded him with recognition, Abbas has less incentive than ever to take these risks for peace. He now sees that he can have it all — intransigence and recognition. And this is a tragedy for all concerned, Christian, Jew and Muslim alike.”

Also Posted in CUFI – From Israel to the Pope:

An open letter to the Pope by Dror Eydar

Your Holiness, you are about to sign off on recognition of an Arab-Palestinian state. We are not so naive as to think that you believe that this will promote peace. It’s more likely that you think that by doing so, you’ll save what remains of the ancient Christian communities in our area from being destroyed by Islam.

We Jews have long been wronged by the Church. What Islam is doing to Christianity today, Christianity did to the Jews for centuries. A brutal historical irony, indeed — the work of a divine hand. Generation after generation, you blamed us for the crucifixion and death of your savior and forced us to feel his pain. What was anti-Semitism if not a forced return to the cross? A single Jew was crucified in Jerusalem at the start of the first millennium, and for the 2,000 years since, an entire people has been crucified all over the world.

Your Holiness, establishing a Palestinian state on the Samarian hills in the heart of the historic Land of Israel is the latest attempt to nail the entire Jewish people to the cross.Read more at Israel Hayom.

 ADD TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS TO WHAT THE KORAN SAYS?  THERE IS NO PALESTINE!

Quote from Sheikh Ahmad Adwan who said:

“Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, who introduces himself as a Muslim scholar who lives in Jordan, said on his personal Facebook page that there is no such thing as “Palestine” in the Koran. Allah has assigned the Holy Land to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment (Koran, Sura 5 – “The Sura of the Table”, Verse 21), and “We made the Children of Israel the inheritors (of the land)” (Koran, Sura 26 – “The Sura of the Poets”, Verse 59).

“I say to those who distort their Lord’s book, the Koran: From where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars, you accursed, when Allah has already named it “The Holy Land” and bequeathed it to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment. There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in the Koran. Your demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t succeed, and Allah will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them (i.e. the Jews).”

The sheikh added: “The Palestinians are the killers of children, the elderly and women. They attack the Jews and then they use those (children, the elderly and women) as human shields and hide behind them, without mercy for their children as if they weren’t their own children, in order to tell the public opinion that the Jews intended to kill them. This is exactly what I saw with my own two eyes in the 70’s, when they attacked the Jordanian army, which sheltered and protected them. Instead of thanking it (the Jordanian army), they brought their children forward to (face) the Jordanian army, in order to make the world believe that the army kills their children. This is their habit and custom, their viciousness, their having hearts of stones towards their children, and their lying to public opinion, in order to get its support.”

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/02/jordanian-sheikh-allah-gave-land-of.html#.VViTb6nlYiB

https://www.facebook.com/search/str/sheikh%20ahmad%20adwan/keywords_top

 http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/15/jordanian-sheikh-there-is-no-palestine-in-the-koran-allah-gave-israel-to-the-jews/

Standing for America & God

I hear on Fox News, after something happens in Congress, or with Arabs now objecting to our Government or even Arab students in Colleges, “Where are the Christians?”  I ask the same thing.  For our Judeo Christian Government has changed drastically.  A lot of you Christian women do not follow politics, and brush off, and that is wrong, when it is your God given right, when there are so many countries that prohibit your voice, that to me is apathy.  I prayed about whether or not to post this, for over a week.  I haven’t been writing on here either that much with so much happening in the world.  However, after prayer and contemplation, I have decided to post this, after all.  Ladies, especially Christian ladies, you have an obligation under God, to voice your opinions and to be politically involved and know what your Government is doing, for we have just about lost our nation.  Those in Congress both the House and Senate need to hear from each and every one of us.  We need to stand!  Together!  “If” and I say big “IF”, we are blessed enough to pull off this next election in 2016 and get a Republican President elected, it is going to take 20 years to undo what this White House has done.  So I say to you now, PLEASE know your facts and what is going on in America AND the world.  Copy and paste the following, and write to your State Senators and Representatives.  For unless they hear from all of us, they do nothing!

Painting in the Rotunda of our U.S. Capital of Pocahontas getting baptized.

“TO: The Members Of The Republican Leadership OfThe United States Senate And The United States House Of Representatives: The Hon. John Boehner, The Hon. Kevin McCarthy, The Hon. Steve Scalise, The Hon. Cathy McMorris Rogers, The Hon. Luke Messer, The Hon. Lynn Jenkins, The Hon. Frank Guinta,Hon Ted Yoho; The Hon. Mitch McConnell, The Hon. Orrin Hatch, The Hon. John Cornyn, The Hon. John Thune, The Hon. John Barrasso, The Hon. Roger Wicker and The Hon. Roy Blunt, The Hon. Kelly Ayotte, The Hon. Tedd Cruz 

RE: The Time To Impeach Barack Hussein Obama Is Upon Us And That Time Is Now!

Enough is enough. Barack Obama is not our king and he is not our dictator. The American people are sick and tired of Mr. Obama’s childishness. The American people are sick and tired of Mr. Obama’s delusions of godhood. The American people are sick and tired of Mr. Obama’s lawlessness and, most of all, the American people are sick and tired of Barack Hussein Obama.

Congressman Ted Yoho is introducing a resolution in Congress that will move the ball forward on impeachment. The American people expect you to support it. The American people expect you to use your bully pulpits to advance it. The American people expect you to vote on it and, finally, the American people expect you to do what must be done and rid this great country of the cancer that is slowly killing it.

The things that he has done, from this deal now with Iran, which is putting the US, Israel and the world at risk, since Iran is funding terrorists, and has as American prisoners (Pastor Saeed for one) in the most inhumane conditions and beatings.  He has made an enemy of our good ally, Israel.  He has not been a leader of the free world. Instead refused to lead!  By his taking our troops to early out of Iraq, it has caused murders from ISIS, with Christians being killed, the country ravaged and women raped, as well as children killed. This President has opened up the doors for dire events to take place in America and around the world with his continuing friendship with the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt has condemned and outlawed as an evil organization. How do I know? Because I have a Coptic Christian friend from Cairo Egypt! Instead this President invites CAIR and has Muslim Brotherhood Advisors, which we see as treasonous! He has left the door wide open for an attack home grown, on our soil! Bigger than 9/11!  Why are you standing for this?

What he has done to cripple us with his Acts of a pen with Obamacare, has caused states and doctors to take action.  Many doctors will not take Medicare patients, many prescriptions can no longer be filled, many states have been split down the middle as well as insurance companies.

This President with his Marxist ideologies and his reducing our troops, the things now allowed such as Muslim prayer rugs in the Pentagon, Chaplains now being threatened with a Court Marshall, should they even attempt to console a family after losing a son or daughter, as a Christian, not allowed to mention Jesus when this country was founded on Judeo Christian principals? Even our Supreme Court, and laws came from the 10 Commandments and the laws God gave.

He has turned this country upside down with his hatred of Whites, and blatantly encouraged reverse racism on every level in this society. Yet this is not about race, but about his ideologies based upon his own words in his own book, and his Communist friends as a youth, mainly Frank Marshall.  He has committed more crimes against this United States than Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon, and Watergate put together! And to further re-affirm, I have an adopted Black grandson, I love, and is having a real hard time now at 22.  The Pandora’s box that Obama opened up with race, is disgraceful!  And not at all held by those as Dr. Ben Carsen, Dr. Altheda King, Lt. Col. Allen West, and other great conservative Black leaders!

Let us not forget either, what he has done to Christian organizations in America, that do so much good. One in particular, Rev. Franklin Graham’s Samaritan Purse, which helps more disaster victims than this government ever could, and the blatant assault from the IRS on this President’s orders.  This is no longer the country that my ancestor, Major Ezekiel Worthen fought in the Revolutionary War.  It is not the country under the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution, guaranteeing that Government “make no religion”, whereby, HIS ideologies do not fall under the Constitution, but that of a dictator of a Marxist country. Since history always repeats itself, this President has regressed our country to a time when Senator Gene McCarthy’s Senate hearings on Communism, would almost seem warranted. Our Constitution does NOT allow for Communist ideologies. Period! We are not a third world country, like Venezuela, with dictators, nor a Communist country as Russia, China, instead we boasted once when we WERE great, Ronald Reagan telling Russia, to “TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!” NOW ALL WALLS ARE UP!

Do you realize that upon our founding, there used to be “church” held right in the rotunda of the Capital?  That big beautiful painting of Pocahontas getting baptized. It was the days of John Whitefield and “the Great Awakening”.  Well, it would seem that you in Congress need another AWAKENING…for the American people are fed up.

This administration also has concentrated so much on Global Warming, (when we were frozen in the east this winter), yet the priority should be modernizing our electric grids across America. They are 60 years old, and antiquated.  The men that knew how to care for these grids are retired.  Parts made too, now in China! Which, with all the hacking in cyber space going on, that is not an option.  Although I saw that an American Company could be ready to assist in this in 2 years.  If OUR GRIDS WERE attacked by terrorism, there would be anarchy, no oil, no food trucked in, no gas, no phones, and most of all no internet, no banking, no jobs, no travel.  THINK about it!  THAT should be a number one priority!

Now, too that horrid draught in California. Was part of this caused by the EPA under this President’s orders, to divert water from farms that have been in families for a hundred years to save a minnow fish?  God will take care of the minnow.  But, what about all the corn and food we need as Americans, now dried up!?! Not to mention the need in the whole world, especially Sudan now, with little toddlers eating dirt off the ground because they are so hungry?! We need California’s farms!  Tell the EPA to undo what they diverted. There are over 400,000 starving people in this world.  Not to mention all the Christian people raped, killed, tortured, churches burned, living in fear of ISIS, that America no longer helps as a leader of the free world.  This is unheard of! This President wants to get rid of millionaires, and have everyone equal, yet it is the millionaires that give. What Obama has done to degrade and change America will take decades to build back up.  THAT is an Impeachable offence!  It is UNAMERICAN!

Barack Obama is bold as brass, and bold problems, like Barack Obama, call for bold solutions. It’s time to put impeachment on the table. Make no mistake, when it comes to the woes that are afflicting this great country, Barack Obama is the disease and impeachment is the cure!

Sincerely (name)”

Send to:  U.S. House of Representatives, (name of Rep.), Washington, D.C. 20515                                   U.S. Senate, Office of Senator (name), Washington, D.C. 20510

Eliminate what you want, and add other topics you want…But PLEASE TAKE A STAND FOR JESUS!   Encourage and tweet email Glenn Beck to have a Conservative CHRISTIAN  and JEWISH march on Washington…WE MUST PRAY…ACT…MAKE YOUR VOICES KNOWN AND DO “SOMETHING”…Or America is lost forever!  And I for one love my country.  And note too, if your Senator as mine did, just voted for this new Atty. General? Tell them how fed up and disappointed you are!  God bless you and thank you…My heart cries out for what we have become.

God bless Rev. Franklin Graham…BLESS him!   “Franklin Graham just gave  this message to Muslims: “leave America and go to a Muslim country.” He said this in response to the University of Maryland canceling a screening of the film, American Sniper, and declared this sentiments on his Facebook page, in which he said:

Can you believe that the University of Maryland canceled a screening of the movie American Sniper after Muslim students complained? This afternoon, I’m going to meet with wounded military veterans and their spouses who served this nation with honor–fighting to preserve our freedoms and many times shedding their own blood. Chris Kyle was an American hero. It’s brave soldiers like these that make all of the freedoms we enjoy possible. Shame on the University of Maryland for listening to these voices! If these Muslim students can’t support the military members who do their job to protect us, let them leave America and go to a Muslim country. God bless America and our heroes! ”

Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/04/franklin-graham-just-sent-this-message-to-muslims-leave-america-and-go-to-a-muslim-country/#jCPo4I1uLkiCIFBU.99

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The Islamic AntiChrist

Watching Daystar, and a guest on a show, author Joel Richardson I was awe-struck by the conversation tying in what is happening in all the mid east now, and the belief that the Anti-Christ is alive on this earth now! Joel has a book and a video out..as he was covering the story when all these Christians in orange were beheaded. We are in the end times. Please check this book out on Amazon, and open what you can..

http://www.amazon.com/The-Islamic-Antichrist-Shocking-Nature/dp/B008GAZI58/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1426160453&sr=1-1

Christians, listen to me..There are 2.2 billion Christians in this world, only 800 million are born again! Islam has already surpassed the born again believers. There is a falling away going on. Listen to leaders like Rev.Franklin Graham, as outspoken as he is, he is risking his life! We are in the end times! Any of us Christians who makes “waves” puts his life in danger! Yet we are to STAND! The church is in false money doctrines today….And GOD is AGAINST the love of MONEY in these end times. The financial system is about to hit. For the church has been preaching another gospel. While Islam is building mosques all over America. Saudi Arabia has evangelized training going on in the hate preachers and schools in the USA. We Christians need to RISE up…Do you know more of Islam is being evangelized in all our US prisons now more than Jesus? There is an Islamic revival going on while we remain in “lala” land, and happy clappy mode, and will either sink or swim. Muhammad did the same thing and slaughtered over 4 million Christians in Ephesis, Antioch, etc. were all wiped out! Isis is doing just the same! If the church is to overcome we have to stand and speak out , yet in love! We must rise up and meet the challenge . The 20 Christians who were beheaded, had their blood run into the Mediterranean. Isis is coming to America…Another book, “The Day of Wrath”, by William Forstner.

Also this DVD which should be shown in every Evangelical church. http://www.amazon.com/…/1938…/ref=wl_mb_wl_huc_mrai_2_dp

End Times Eyewitness: Israel, Islam and the Unfolding Signs of the Messiah’s…

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Where is the Christian outcry!? Only Rev Franklin Graham speaking out?! It’s called FEAR! When we are to put on the whole armor of God in righteousness, and STAND! Muhammad killed 50,000 mil too…Wilders is right! Chicago now has over 350,000 Muslims! Doesn’t anyone get it? I only serve one God, Jesus, and they can behead this old woman anytime they want! But I shall STAND on the faith of my God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! “Thou shalt have no other God’s before me!” Period! Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the whole armour of God that you STAND against the wiles of the Devil. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with TRUTH “(the truth of the CROSS) “and having on the Breastplate of RIGHTEOUSNESS”. 17″And take the Helmet of Salvation, and the SWORD of the SPIRIT” (Of JESUS CHRIST) “which is the word of God! 20 For which I AM AN AMBASSADOR “(for Christ) “in bonds “(a prisoner)” that therein I MAY SPEAK BOLDLY AS I OUGHT TO SPEAK!” In other words, we CHRISTIANS are NOT supposed to have fear in light of ANY persecution! You either speak the word under salvation and STAND against the enemy, or lose your salvation! Revelations 3:15 “I know thy works! You are neither cold nor hot but because you are lukewarm, I will spew thee out of my mouth!” THAT MEANS YOU LOSE YOUR SALVATION! YOU GO TO HELL. We are not to be bound in fear but fight the enemy…both in prayer, deed, supplication, and in voice! Let thy voice be heard! Where are you Christians?

Jefferson and the Barbary Islamic Pirates

Well, I keep saying history repeats itself…This is from Freedom Outpost:

“First, keep in mind that Islam and terrorism have gone hand in hand since its inception at the beginning of the 7th century. In fact, it’s founder Muhammad was a terrorist and used “religion” to band his merry men together to conquer, rape and pillage.

For nearly fifteen centuries the world has faced the disease of Islam, but our nation faced it head on when Thomas Jefferson, serving as the ambassador to France, and John Adams, serving as the ambassador to Britain, went to London to meet with Ambassador Abdrahaman, the Dey of Tripoli’s ambassador to Britain. Of course they met with Abdrahaman to negotiate a peace treaty, but keep in mind that in Islam, the only peace is submission to Islam.

Islam requires jizya under Sharia law, you know that alleged “harmless law” they want to impose here in the West. Jizya is a per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state’s non-Muslim citizens, who meet certain criteria. The tax is and was to be levied on able-bodied adult males of military age and affording power. So as Adams and Jefferson met, they found out the price of peace was quite expensive.

Gary DeMar writes,

If America wanted “temporary peace,” a one-year guarantee, it would cost $66,000 plus a 10% commission. “Everlasting peace” was a bargain at $160,000 plus the obligatory commission. This only applied to Tripoli. Other Muslim nations would also have to be paid. The amount came to $1.3 million. But there was no assurance that the treaties would be honored. In vain, Jefferson and Adams tried to argue that America was not at war with Tripoli. In what way had the U.S provoked the Muslims, they asked? Ambassador Abdrahaman went on to explain “the finer points of Islamic jihad” to the Koranically challenged Jefferson and Adams.

Jefferson then wrote a letter to John Jay that read:

“The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

This is loosely based upon the Qur’an’s teaching from Surah 47:4 which reads,

“Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah’s Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.”

So what happened? Though the US, along with Great Britain and France had paid a “tribute” for protection against piracy, once Tripoli increased the tribute following Jefferson becoming President, he refused to pay them the increase, though he did continue to pay until the end of his presidency. Tripoli then declared war on the United States on May 10, 1801. This was the beginning of the First Barbary War.’

http://youtu.be/cM97XzQn9IQ

“After the United States won its independence in the treaty of 1783, it had to protect its own commerce against dangers such as the Barbary pirates. As early as 1784 Congress followed the tradition of the European shipping powers and appropriated $80,000 as tribute to the Barbary states, directing its ministers in Europe, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, to begin negotiations with them. Trouble began the next year, in July 1785, when Algerians captured two American ships and the dey of Algiers held their crews of twenty-one people for a ransom of nearly $60,000.

Thomas Jefferson, United States minister to France, opposed the payment of tribute, as he later testified in words that have a particular resonance today. In his autobiography Jefferson wrote that in 1785 and 1786 he unsuccessfully “endeavored to form an association of the powers subject to habitual depredation from them. I accordingly prepared, and proposed to their ministers at Paris, for consultation with their governments, articles of a special confederation.” Jefferson argued that “The object of the convention shall be to compel the piratical States to perpetual peace.” Jefferson prepared a detailed plan for the interested states. “Portugal, Naples, the two Sicilies, Venice, Malta, Denmark and Sweden were favorably disposed to such an association,” Jefferson remembered, but there were “apprehensions” that England and France would follow their own paths, “and so it fell through.”

Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued in letters to future presidents John Adams, then America’s minister to Great Britain, and James Monroe, then a member of Congress. As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, “I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro’ the medium of war.” Paying tribute will merely invite more demands, and even if a coalition proves workable, the only solution is a strong navy that can reach the pirates, Jefferson argued in an August 18, 1786, letter to James Monroe: “The states must see the rod; perhaps it must be felt by some one of them. . . . Every national citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water. A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both.” “From what I learn from the temper of my countrymen and their tenaciousness of their money,” Jefferson added in a December 26, 1786, letter to the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles, “it will be more easy to raise ships and men to fight these pirates into reason, than money to bribe them.”

With US merchant ships being attacked and Americans being kidnapped he finally issued letters of marque and reprisal, which sent a groups of privately owned war ships, that were approved by the government, to make war against the Barbary Pirates. He utilized this constitutional measure, which we are not using today.

In doing this he sent for the “privateers,” as they were referred to. The privately owned frigates USS Philadelphia, USS President, and the USS Essex, along with the schooner USS Enterprise was America’s first navy to cross the Atlantic. Others would also join and see action as well.

Ultimately, in 1805 United States Marines crossed the desert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forced the surrender of Tripoli and free those Americans that had been kidnapped and were made slaves.

Thus, this is where the famous line from the United States Marine Corps (Oorah!) comes from: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Demar says it not only refers to the First Barbary War, but specifically to the Battle of Derna, which took place in 1805.

It is ironic the Rep. Keith Ellison, who became the United States’ first Muslim Congressman took his oath of office on Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an at a time when we continue to be at war with Islam. While Ellison has called Jefferson a “visionary,” what I think we could all learn is that Jefferson was wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their own book of jihad. Sadly, many today would rather listen to the lies of Islamists rather than understand what the Qur’an actually teaches. After all, it’s been said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.””

AND THIS FOLKS, IS WHY OBAMA HATES AMERICA, AND THE UK, AND HIS FALSE IDEOLOGIES, HATING WHAT HE CALLS “COLONIALISM” ORIGINS, IE SLAVERY..ETC.  THIS IS WHY HE SIDES WITH ISLAM AND HIS MUSLIM BROTHER- HOOD ADVISORS, WHEN EVEN EGYPT HAS OUTLAWED THEM!  HE HAS DEFACATED ON AMERICA, AND HATES HER…AND OUR FOUNDING FATHER’S!

GOD HELP US ALL IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS.  PRAY…AMERICA HAS ONLY ONE HOPE, GOD ALMIGHTY!

Glenn Beck and David Barton on our Founders and Islam  http://youtu.be/UlT1IXSv830

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h63ibnpdBE4#t=28

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/02/hey-obama-heres-how-islam-was-woven-into-the-fabric-of-our-country-its-called-the-barbary-wars/

http://conservativetribune.com/jeffersons-response-to-islam/

Statement by Rev. Franklin Graham

Thank you Reverend and my prayers go with you.

“In the wake of more brutality by militant group Islamic State, Franklin Graham has said that even they will one day bow to Jesus.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, wrote: “The evil of ISIS really shouldn’t shock us – it is fully in keeping with their ultimate agenda of hastening a final apocalypse. God’s Word tells us that there will be a final battle one day, but it will result in the defeat of Satan and all those allied with him.

“One thing is for sure – one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Graham highlighted the video released by IS on Sunday showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, as well as the fatal shootings in Denmark over the weekend by a gunman suspected to have been inspired by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.

The evangelist criticised President Obama for failing to “acknowledge the truth and call Islamic extremism what it is.”

“After a weekend of terrorism in Libya and Denmark, beginning today the White House is hosting a three-day “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.” I am perplexed as to why our President will not acknowledge the truth and call Islamic extremism what it is,” Graham wrote.

“In a statement the White House even called the 21 Christians who were beheaded ‘Egyptian citizens,’ refusing to identify them as Christians. The truth is–their barbaric murderers openly said they killed them because they were ‘people of the cross.’ Why is the President seemingly continuing to protect Islam and refusing to open his eyes to the truth?”

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On Monday, Graham posted a statement to his Facebook page warning that “the storm is coming”.

“Can you imagine the outcry if 21 Muslims had been beheaded by Christians? Where is the universal condemnation by Muslim leaders around the world?” he asked.

“As we mourn with the families of those 21 martyrs, we’d better take this warning seriously as these acts of terror will only spread throughout Europe and the United States. If this concerns you like it does me, share this. The storm is coming.”

Graham has previously encouraged Muslims to turn from Islam and accept Christ.

In a live panel interview on Fox News in January, he said: “I want to say something to all the Muslims that may be watching this that are confused and are afraid themselves. I want them to know that God loves them and that Jesus Christ died for their sins – and Christ will forgive them and heal their hearts.

“And they don’t have to die in a jihad, they don’t have to kill somebody else to please God. God loves them and he will accept them through faith and through his son, Jesus Christ.”

In an interview with Christian Today in December, he said Islam is “a religion of war”.

Extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram have not “hijacked” the religion, he added. “This is Islam. It has not been hijacked by radicals. This is the faith, this is the religion. It is what it is. It speaks for itself.”

Obama, History, Truth or Fiction

Problematic Historic facts on who God was and is,  which this President has no clue as to any of the history of Islam, or Christianity.  “By your fruits ye shall know them”.  Matthew 7:16,20   (It would seem that Obama does not bear any fruits, only vain dead branches.)

First Genesis 1 and the original creation of the universe is 4,000BC.  2. “And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) moved upon the face of the waters. “(God did not originally create the Earth without form and void; it became this way after a cataclysmic happening; this happening was the revolt of Lucifer (Satan now) against God, which took place some time in the dateless past…but this was the beginning of life!) Expositors Study Bible.

He then created Adam and Eve, which represents the fall and sin of mankind.  Genesis 5 states all of Adam’s decendents; in Genesis 6 is the story of Noah and the Ark, and the great flood, and the Tower of Babel (modern day Iraq which was Mesopotamia, the first great civilization. )   The Abrahamic Covenant began around 1921 BC, wherein in 12:2 God says, “I will make you a great nation”…ISRAEL, WHICH INCLUDED PALESTINE…As Abram then as he was called, was led by God out of UR which is in the north of Iraq where the Euprates and Tigris meet, to the land of “milk and honey” Canaan…(Israel).  And that covenant was given to now Abraham…the Jews!  Later of course came Moses in Egypt and their 40 year trial going around that mountain over and over, complaining…

Then throughout the Old Testament are the stories of Joseph, Solomon, Saul, and King David, the apple of God’s eye, in spite of his sins…and all his cries and praises to God in Psalms.   Babylon supremacy ended in 538 BC when the Meeds and the Persians (Iran now) overran Babylon (located in Iraq now, south, near Kuwait…which Saddam Hussein had started to rebuild, the hanging gardens of Nebuchadnezzar, who he believed he was reincarnated from foolishly). * Also from a 1989 UPI article by the late Peter Jennings.   As a result, the Jews were liberated from captivity (See Mr. President…the Arabs fought the Jews way back before Jesus AND Mohamed!)  The Jews then went back home and rebuilt the walls of the Temple…leading up to Haggai, Zechariah the Prophet, and Malachi, who also prophesied to the Jews.  (c. 430 BC).  Between that time and its fulfillment when John the Baptist came announcing the coming of the Messiah, was a period of a little over 400 years.  (Expositor’s Study Bible).  At the close of the Old Testament the Persians (modern day Iran) were the dominant political power….(not religious, for Islam hadn’t come yet.)

There was conflict between descendent’s of  Ptolemy as well as the descendent’s of  Seleucus so that when Ptolemy IV died, Antiochus III (the Great) took Palestine away from the Jews in  198 BC.   (It NEVER belonged to the ARABS….and Islam wasn’t even a religion then!!! )  Many Jews were then killed at this time too.   GOD gave that whole country of Israel to the JEWS and the COVENANT BELONGS TO THEM!  What followed was the Maccabean Revolt.  The Syrians took full advantage of the Jews, who refused to fight on the Sabbath.   (SAME countries …almost SAME battles as in the world now.)  God gave the COVENANT TO ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC, TO THE ARABS, THROUGH ISHMAEL, HE GAVE OIL….

But, through Ismael, to Esau, who was in the womb yet with his twin, Jacob, he had hates, and had a hold of Jacobs heal before birth, and Jacob always had a limp thereafter.  Evil..Esau meaning “the hairy one”…the only one God said “Him do I hate!”  Esau much to the distress too of his mother and father, Isaac and Rebecca, married 2 Hittite (Turkey) women (Genesis 26:34).  We are told by the prophet Ezekiel that Hittites were partially responsible for founding Jerusalem.   Ez. 16:3, 45.    Jacob and Rebecca were Amorites. A professor Hugo Winckler discovered in 1905 a number of cuneiform texts and hieroglyphics.  *The Bible as History by Werner Keller         http://www.amazon.com/Bible-as-History-Werner-Keller/dp/B000OYH4DI/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423330674&sr=1-4&keywords=the+bible+as+history+by+werner+keller

Now the New Testament:

Matthew states that Jesus was born while Herod the Great was still alive and that Herod ordered the slaughter of infants two years old and younger (Matt. 2:16), and based on the date of Herod’s death in 4 BC (contra Dionysius Exiguus), many chronologists conclude that the year 6 BC is the most likely year of Jesus’ birth.

Before Jesus birth there were numerous rulers, until Simon (the Just) who ruled 144-135 BC.  He was the first to really rule the Kingdom.  He was then assassinated in 135 BC by his son-in-law, Ptolemy.  John Hyrcanus rules from 135 -106 BC.  Then came Roman control.  Aristobulus and his sons rules until Rome took over.  After a period of independence under the Maccabees, Palestine came under Roman control in 63 BC under Pompey.  He besieged Jerusalem for three months and reportedly killed twelve thousand Jews after he took the city!

Based on inferences from Gospel accounts, Jesus was executed by crucifixion on a Friday, and on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Nisan under the administration of Pontius Pilate. Pontius Pilate held his position from 26-36 and the only years in which Nisan 14 fell on a Friday are 27, 33, and 36 and possibly in 30 depending on when the new moon would have been visible in Jerusalem. Scholars have defended all of the dates.

The Romans entered the Temple and the Holy of Holies…(a sin)..but they did not take the costly furnishings.. The Temple worship was still allowed.  *REMEMBER THE JEWS DURING THIS TIME, AND THE TEMPLE BUILT BY GOD ALMIGHTY WAS THE ONLY RELIGION AND THE FIRST RELIGION OF THIS WORLD!  PERIOD!   We Gentiles only come to the throne of God via Jesus Christ, who was a Jew too, and Rabbi.   THERE was no Mohammad then, nor ISLAM, Hindu, or Buddist or Catholic church, for in then Mesopotamia and UR (Iraq) when Abraham was born, was the FIRST and only civilization on our whole planet! Other countries took hundreds of years to reproduce.    Therefore, there is even historically only ONE God, the Father, God the son, and God the HOLY Spirit…

Muhammad was born around the year 570 AD  in the city of Mecca, Arabia. His name means “highly praised.” Muhammad’s full name was Abu al-Qasim Muhammad Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Abd al-Muttalib Ibn Hashim. He was the last prophet of the religion of Islam.  (*This means he was born 564 years AFTER Jesus.)

Muhammad’s father, Abdallah, died several weeks before his birth and his mother, Aminah, died when he was six years old. He was raised by his paternal grandfather, ‘Abd al Muttalib, until the age of eight, and after his grandfather’s death by Abu Talib, his paternal uncle. Under the guardianship of Abu Talib, Muhammad began to earn a living as a businessman and a trader.

The tradition of Islam claims that in the year 610, Muhammad, while on a retreat to Mount Hira for meditation during the month of Ramadan, received his first revelation from the Archangel Gabriel. Gabriel said to Muhammad: “Iqraa,” meaning “read” or “recite.” He replied, “I cannot read.” Gabriel embraced Muhammad and after releasing him repeated: “Iqraa.” Muhammad’s answer was the same as before. Gabriel repeated the embrace, asking Muhammad to repeat after him and said: “Recite in the name of your Lord who created! He created man from that which clings. Recite; and thy Lord is most Bountiful, He who has taught by the pen, taught man what he knew not.”  (How could he be learned if he couldn’t read?)

The Prophet’s mission was to restore the worship of the One True God, the creator and sustainer of the universe, as taught by Prophet Abraham and all Prophets of God, and to demonstrate the laws of moral, ethical, legal, and social conduct. Islam means peace by submission and obedience to the Will and Commandments of God. Those who accept Islam are called Muslims, meaning those who have accepted the message of peace by submission to God.  (Note:  This tells me he hijacked Judaism from Abraham and the covenant God gave to the JEWS….and 564 years + after Jesus birth and Crucifixion, the beginning of Christianity, which did NOT begin in the Catholic church…(I’ll get to) but from the JEWS,  Jesus, (Rabbi in Matthew) Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etc. ALL JEWS!    To me, this represents a FALSE God….During the early civilization of Abram when God took him out of UR and changed his name to Abraham, there was only one God then and now.  Jesus never took authority away from God the Father, but as the son, and WITH the Holy Spirit beckons us to come to the throne, with salvation.  For there is NONE other…Name above all names!

The Roman period began from AD 6 (AD 66 rebellion; AD 70 destruction of Herod’s Temple, AD 73 the fall of Masada.  About AD 70 was the Gospel of St. Mark. Between 75 and 95 Matthew and Luke, John 90 AD and apocalypse.  End of the 1st century, Acts of the Apostles and Gospel of St. John. Also the establishment of the Hebrew Bible canon at Jabneh, followed by Second Epistle of St. Peter…in 2nd century AD.  It was before this all that Jesus said in Matthew 22: 21 to the Temple money changers, “Render to Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”  In AD 33 came the destruction of the Temple.  In 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. ”  NOW! “All these are the beginnings of sorrows…”  First half of the great tribulation….like birthing pains…which this President Obama has ushered in doing the work of Satan himself!   And the world now for the first time in all of history, with all technolgy…the gospel has been preached in all the world for the first time!  All the  false religions, of which Islam is…

(Below…Jordanian Sheikh, attests that God gave Palestine to the JEWS!)

http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/15/jordanian-sheikh-there-is-no-palestine-in-the-koran-allah-gave-israel-to-the-jews/

Matthew 26  (AD 33,  Jesus, 27 if born in AD6)  “Then assembled together together the Chief Priests and the Scribes, and the Elders of the people (members of the Sanhedrin), unto the palace of the High Priest, who was called CAIAPHAS. (It was Caiaphas a Roman who plotted to kill Christ….not fellow Jews. For the appointees in the Jewish Temple and Holy of Holies, and Rabbi’s then were appointed by Romans since the rules Jerusalem then.   For decades and decades the Catholic Church lied and in their “own” hate blamed fellow Jews for killing Jesus.  (And I know not what O’Reilly [a Catholic] wrote and who he blamed for Jesus death…But it was not JEWS!  Herod too, was a Roman and not a Jew.  He was born in Idumea his father Idumean, his mother Kypros, was ARAB!!  Herod died at 70 in 4 BC, 36 years after Rome made him a King.  Herod was born in southern Palestine. His father, Antipater, was an Edomite (an Arab from the region between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba).

WHEREFORE, it was the Caiphas, and the Roman soldiers and an Arab, Herod,  who killed Jesus!!   And Muhammad, wasn’t born until 570 AD, again… born 564 years AFTER Jesus.  AND the Catholic church and first Pope (540-604 ) Also after Jesus who was a JEW.  The Roman’s hijacked the Jewish religion the FIRST religion, and then the ONLY religion, into the Catholic Church…and so did the ARABS…Jesus was a Rabbi in the Temple, a Jew…and he never intended to have a new religion, ie Christianity.  That happened after his death with his disciples, especially the travel and witness by Apostle Paul.  

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263437/Herod

“Pope Gregory I (Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope from 3 September 590 to his death in 604. Gregory is well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope.  He is also known as St. Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Christianity because of hisDialogues. For this reason, English translations of Eastern texts will sometimes list him as “Gregory Dialogus”. Throughout the Middle Ages he was known as “the Father of Christian Worship” because of his exceptional efforts in revising the Roman worship of his day.”  Wikepedia

Within the conciliar process Rome had always sustained a position of respect and leadership in the Christian world but the Roman Church and the Pope in particular never acted over the heads or apart from his brothers in the east. Sadly his was all to change in the 11^th century.  It was the tragedy of the Great Schism in 1054 AD and the 4^th Crusade in 1202/04 AD that finally separated Rome from Orthodoxy. The first dispute was theological with a significant prehistory of drifting apart. The second incident concerned a human tragedy caused by rampaging western Crusaders trashing Constantinople and its churches. More significant perhaps was what happened in the west after 1054. Going on to:  The “reforms” of Pope Gregory 7th (c. 1020/25) put the western part of the Church on a confrontational footing with the State by asserting Church and Papal supremacy.  Moreover, this Pope’s teaching and policies also put Rome on a collision course with Orthodoxy which continued to adhere to the ancient principles of local episcopal authority, conciliarity and a married clergy; all of which Pope Gregory sought to undermine.  Within a generation Rome and Constantinople were out of Communion and the so called Great Schism has remained as it was to the present day.

There has been slavery too, since the beginning of time, to Abraham.. After all Ishmael’s mother who was Arab, Hagar was Sarah’s handmaiden…(a slave!)  Moses too, the Egyptians, Arabs, slavery and persecution and slaughter of Christians and Jews have existed for thousands of years.  And…as I watch Genealogy Road Show on PBS…it seems that FREE BLACK SLAVES, here in America, also OWNED slaves.  So before the left points a finger, know your facts!

From Brigitte Gabriel: “It was in that setting that President Obama delivered remarks comparing the actions of the Islamic State to things done “in the name of Jesus Christ.” Among those things according to President Obama: slavery.

He then cited the Crusades.

Not only were his remarks inappropriate for the occasion and insulting to peace loving Christians everywhere, they were historically inaccurate.

In terms of slavery, while it is true that Christians owned slaves, slavery is not an integral part of Christian doctrine. Jesus did not own slaves. The same cannot be said of Islam. Mohammed owned many slaves and even shared concubines with his warriors. There are today forty different words in Arabic to describe slaves; that’s how prominent slavery has been in the Islamic world. The slave trade in Africa was largely run by Muslims. And when Western nations finally abolished the evil practice of slavery, that slave trade in Africa persisted without them. Remember, Saudi Arabia, the site of Islam’s holiest sites, did not outlaw slavery until the 1960s. Moreover, slavery is still practiced today in parts of Islamic Africa, notably Sudan.

But Obama’s biggest dose of disinformation came in the form of his remarks on the Crusades.

There is a myth that the Crusades were nothing but an aggressive series of wars in which Christendom attacked the Muslim world and committed atrocities.

The reality is somewhat different.

The Crusades actually began after centuries of Islamic jihad invading, pillaging and conquering Christian lands in present-day North Africa and parts of Europe.

After 400 years of systematic genocide of Christians at the hands of Islamic jihadists, Pope Urban II, acting on a plea from the Byzantine emperor whose people had been attacked by Muslim hoards, finally called on “Christ’s heralds” to sound the call for help for the Christians in the east and free the Holy Land.

So, the first Crusade was a defensive action in response to Islamic jihad.

This is an historical fact that our president unfortunately left out of his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast.”  *quote from ACT, Brigitte Gabriel  https://www.actforamerica.org        https://www.facebook.com/actforamerica

Muhammad (Arabic: محمد‎; c. 570 – 8 June 632^[3]), full name Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم), from Mecca, unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. Believed by Muslims and Bahá’ís to be amessenger and prophet of God, Muhammad is almost universally^{[n 1]} considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind.^{[4][n 2]} While non-Muslims generally regard Muhammad as the founder of Islam,^[5] Muslims consider him to have restored the unaltered original monotheistic faith of Adam,Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets in Islam.^[6][7][8][9]

Born approximately in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca,^[10][11] Muhammad was orphaned at an early age; he was raised under the care of his paternal uncle Abu Talib. After his childhood Muhammad primarily worked as a merchant.^[12] Occasionally he would retreat to a cave in the mountains for several nights of seclusion and prayer; later, at age 40, he reported at this spot,^[10][13] that he was visited by Gabriel and received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that “God is One“, that complete “surrender” (lit. islām) to Him is the only way (dīn)^{[n 3]} acceptable to God, and that he was a prophet and messenger of God, similar to other Islamic prophets.^[14][15][16]

Muhammad gained few followers early on, and met hostility from some Meccan tribes. To escape persecution, Muhammad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadto Abyssinia before he and his followers in Mecca migrated to Medina (then known as Yathrib) in the year 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under theConstitution of Medina. After eight years of fighting with the Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The attack went largely uncontested and Muhammad took over the city with little bloodshed. He destroyed the pagan idols in the city^[17] and sent his followers out to destroy all remaining pagan temples in Eastern Arabia.^[18][19] In 632, a few months after returning to Medina from the Farewell Pilgrimage, Muhammad fell ill and died. Before his death, most of theArabian Peninsula had converted to Islam, and he had united Arabia into a single Muslim religious polity.^[20][21]

There is only ONE GOD…NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES!  THE ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END.  “THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GOD’S BEFORE THEE..”  God the Father, the Almighty…the CREATOR, cannot be reached by any of us unless through his son, Jesus Christ, who died knowingly on that CROSS at Calvary, shedding his blood for the sins of mankind.  The I AM!  My God is the only God of Abraham…and as a Gentile, I can only come to the Father through the son.  Beware of false prophets…They will lead you to hell.

My God heals, he saves, he molds us like clay in HIS image, he gives us love, as a Father does, and chastises us when we do wrong, so we repent of all evil.  He does not teach hate, and he does not advocate brutal killings…(The 10 Commandments).  Yet HE and only HE sitting on the right hand side of the Father, will be our final judge.  There is only one….In him do I serve…I shall  not keep silent!  “If my people, which are called by MY name shall humble themselves, (humility) and pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ”  II Chronicles 7:14 

AND WHAT JUDGE JEANINE SAYS:      http://video.foxnews.com/v/4039002088001/judge-jeanine-president-obama-is-comfortable-with-extremism/?#sp=show-clips              

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

http://www.thenazareneway.com/date_of_birth_and_death_of_jesus.htm

 

 

 

 

Brown, Liberals, and Race

First, I am so fed up with riots, Black Commies from Chicago being bused in and the destruction of Ferguson, or ANY American city, and cry out to God for JUSTICE, by God Almighty!   Whereby, I sent the attached to New England Cable News, Laytoya Edwards, yesterday.   Yes, it is sad Brown had to be killed.  But, the media does not put it in the right perspective.  YOU decide.

“Referencing my email yesterday on Michael Brown.  And…I’ve emailed prior, to your
station’s very liberal stance and all this “politically correct” stance on all Blacks and that police have to “tone down” and not do their job? We have laws!  Laws are for all races and nationalities.  You break the laws, you go to jail. There is something drastically wrong with this ideology that “too many Black’s are in jails”  therefore it is the fault of police???  What about taking responsibility for your actions, and being accountable!??  Michael Brown was no little teeny-bopper.  Nor was he a “teen ” in the sense.  He was 18 and legally a MAN who committed a crime on camera, thumbed his nose at authority; and was 6’4″ of intimidation.  The officer was still in his car. And look how small a man he was. If he’d got out of his car, Brown would have killed HIM?  And THAT, though is all right?

NECN, CNN, and ALL liberal media, is not taking responsibility nor addressing the Chicago thugs either, Blacks killing Blacks.  From your views, we should have a lawless society, where Blacks get a free reign.  And that goes for Obama too and all his cronies including Holder and Sharpton. Thank God for Lt.Col. Allen West, Dr. Ben Carson, and Dr. Altheda King, who ALL disagree with you.  ALL!!! And many others too.  And I wrote before, because I disagree with you and have an adopted Black grandson;  who was taught to respect authority and police.

You can’t have it all.  Most of the Blacks I see on news from left media, especially are THUGS!  Most of the Blacks (as Hernandez)  in the NFL getting millions, are street thugs too, who have been involved in crimes and /or drugs.  Yet they all want a free pass, because they are Black?  WHAT is this now with reverse hatred and all the hates towards us White Crackers they hate.  You people in the media do not even know your true Black history…nor do most young people Black, White or purple. They come here from other countries and\ that includes Islam, and could care less about American laws or history and most of all the US Constitution.  How DARE the Browns go before the world on Human Rights violations when their son robbed a store, and attacked this officer, too, and was a 6’4″ tyrant who was defiant of all laws!????  How DARE you all fail to report truth.  NO person Black or whatever should receive a free pass because of color when they committed a crime!

My next point? You want police to have their hands tied, and be namby pamby, babysitters for men that need to take responsibility for their actions. (IE. Like the Black student in MA who brutally raped and killed his White Irish beautiful young teacher.) We have ISIS coming or ARE in America. We have bigger problems this asinine President doesn’t even care about.  I went without power for 3 days and 3 nights at 75, up here in NH.  It leads me to think about ISIS if they attacked our grids.  Then what?  Oh God forbid, our US police in all cities should do anything that is politically not to your left liking?  Bull!  We are in a war against good vs evil.  You don’t sit down and talk sweet talk to your enemies, you destroy them.  America, is being destroyed by your left ignorant ideologies, that most of us who have a brain, and knew World War II, are appalled with! Theodore Roosevelt said,when immigrants come here they do it legal (mine did from Germany in 1903 through Ellis Island!) They pledge allegiance to the American flag, not the country of origin, and obey our laws, and become legal citizens, period!   I agree. The 20’s and 30’s…maybe even up to the 50’s generations have been brought up in screwed up homes of divorce, now Gay’s..messed up households where there are no father’s, or God in their home.  And I said GOD…not Allah….The I AM!   Jesus Christ who died for the sins of mankind, and does not teach hate…unlike Esau in the Bible, who in the womb with his twin, had ahold of Jacobs heal…..and Jacob always therefore had a limp.  Esau, meaning the “hairy one”…the beginning of the Arab nation, from Ishmael…Esau, the only one in the Bible, that God said, “Him do I hate”.  Jesus…name above all names….And your Black Christian counterparts if any of you have the courage of your worldly convictions to watch Daystar or Trinity Broadcasting,do not act, preach, talk, or interpret todays problems as you on the left.

You all who think you have all the answers. Our police officers are not hired to be politicians, or babysitters. We need marriages Black and white with a man and a woman…with respect, teaching values. Do any of you in the left media, know what VALUES are?  Character?  Integrity?  ETHICS? MANNERS….thats a good one. No, instead you all wanted things handed on a silver platter. Well I was a child of WWII. And I wasn’t brought up that way.   I started working in the 5 &dime at 15 1/2; bought all my own clothes all through high school.  I was in the honor  society, glee club, art club, School magazine, Rainbow Girls, given piano lessons, and I worked and maintained a B average.  We were brought up to respect our elders as well as laws.  We were taught to work hard, and not settle for less than our own self worth.   We were brought up  with GOD…AND CHURCH. No matter if Catholic or Protestant. But we had prayer in school; pledged allegiance to the flag…in school.  God and Country..  Kids today..could care less about values. THAT is what is missing; NOT police having to babysit.  Get a life!   THERE are no values anymore, unless your in a born again Christian evangelical church.   You liberals have changed America, to the extent we have lost our respect on the world scene.  And I want my country back!   AND for your info,my high school in the 50’s had Blacks too; not many back then.  BUT they were our friends and part of us – played football, etc.  And they got educated better than today’s.

So when we get hit by ISIS and the following article?  How the heck are police supposed to react?babysit them too?  You liberals are ridiculous.  You haven’t a clue!  And I probably won’t waste my time ever writing again…But I have had it, as many I have known for 60  years, who were in service…Navy, Special Ops; another friend worked for the Defense Dept.  Now no values; only free passes to spit on the country I once loved…and now see it being destroyed.  And unfortunately this is all on deaf ears.  But I and others are sick of Michael Brown.  He belonged in jail!  The end!”

http://www.actforamerica.org

Postscript:  Now it came out yesterday, that Browns stepfather was instigating getting all these rioters in Ferguson from other States.  One Black woman too, who had once been homeless, and somehow managed to open up a bake shop, had HER business totally destroyed too.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/02/police-consider-charging-michael-brown-stepfather/19777847/

Who paid for this?  Sharpton and cronies?  If it wasn’t so disgusting, it would be comical.  America has a US

Constitution.  We don’t bow down to Baal or the likes of this commission.

http://www.youngcons.com/michael-browns-parents-make-absurd-demand-about-officer-darren-wilson-to-the-united-nations/

The Browns should AND this President should get educated by Black preacher Rev. Childress.

http://www.blacknews.com/news/homosexuality_abortion_martin_luther_king101.shtml#.VH8mphGir7U

O’Reilly and Tavis Smiley

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/211818-2-guest-makes-baseless-accusation-bill-oreilly-serves-super-sized-dose-reality/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Crime

http://blackgenocide.org/planned.html

Wallbuilders…CHRISTIAN TRUE documentation of early Black Congressmen…TRUTH..liberals are in denial of.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBblackHistory.asp

https://shop.wallbuilders.com/black-history

History And Prophesy Of The Mid East

The following is a condensed history going back Biblically, 4,000 years of the Mid East, which disputes the Palestinian stance that Jerusalem was theirs.  It has been a contested land for centuries, before Christ.  The prophet Muhammad was born and lived in Mecca (which is in Saudi Arabia) for the first 52 years of his life (570–622 A.D.).  He did not live in Palestine, nor was  that land given to anyone by God except the Jews.

Remember too, that the first church was NOT the Catholic Church as many think…But, Jews.  As Jesus in Matthew, was “Rabbi” and also remember his encounter with the Pharisees, (money changers) in the Temple, Priests too,  who were appointed by the Roman Empire  in a Jewish Temple.  Jesus, Apostle Paul, and all the disciples were all Jews, and that was the FIRST church.

Now it also might be of note to add that the first Pope was Constantine.  Imperial Rome became PAPAL Rome on October 28, 312 A.D. (after Christ), when Constantine exchanged the eagle for the cross. From Roman soldiers who along with Caiaphas, and Pilot who helped kill Jesus, they exchanged the uniform for the Church and running countries with money and power.

The following is from the Church of God.  It is however, a good condensed history.  Wherefore, my feeling is that history speaks for itself, no matter what claims by Islam is made, and the Bible is very historic.

“For most, the fact that Daniel 10 and 11 record nearly 400 years of Middle Eastern conflict is not a big deal.  After all, there are thousands of history books, many of
which give a much more detailed account of the history than Daniel. But what makes Daniel’s version different is that it was written before the events happened! That’s right. Daniel wrote about 400 years of history before it was history! That makes it fulfilled prophecy. But part of this recorded history is yet to be fulfilled. Daniel said it would happen at the “time of the end.” In this booklet, we will cover both parts of Daniel’s
prophecy: that which has already been fulfilled, and that which will be fulfilled. Once you discover how astonishingly accurate.  Daniel was in recording events that have since happened, there should be no question that what he said would happen in the near future WILL, in fact, happen. As we study this passage, please read along in your own Bible, and learn this vital Middle East lesson in history and prophecy.

A GREAT CONFLICT

Daniel 10:10 through 12:4 is the longest single vision in the Bible. God revealed it to Daniel during the third year of the reign of Cyrus the Great (Daniel 10:1)—around 535 b.c. That
date alone makes what Daniel wrote in chapter 11 astonishing. Daniel 10:1 says the vision given to Daniel “was true, but the time appointed was long.” Moffatt translates this better: “the true revelation of a great conflict.” That’s what this prophecy is about—great conflict. Lange’s Commentary titles this vision of Daniel “great tribulation.” It’s a vision about violence, warfare and bloodshed. And, as we shall see, it all revolves around the Middle East.

Let’s pick up the story in verse 14: “Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.” “Latter days” means the time just prior to the return of Jesus Christ. Even though much of this prophecy was fulfilled centuries ago, the main fulfillment of this passage is during the latter days—the time we are living in now.  Verse 1 of chapter 11 is actually a continuation of the
thought in chapter 10. We now come to the specifics of this incredible prophecy.

THE END OF PERSIA PROPHESIED  (IRAN)
“And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia” (verse 2). Remember, Daniel received this vision during the third year of Cyrus the Great—the founder of the Medo-Persian Empire. God said there would be four more kings to reign after Cyrus. Actually, there were at
least 12 more Persian kings after Cyrus, but there is a reason God only drew attention to the four who followed him. Cyrus had two sons, Cambyses and Smerdis. After inheriting
his father’s throne, Cambyses secretly killed his younger brother. Cambyses ruled from 529 to 522 b.c. His reign was short-lived, because after returning to Persia from an Egyptian expedition in 522BC, he found one by the name of Gomates who had usurped the throne by impersonating Cambyses’s dead brother! Cambyses was so disheartened he committed suicide. After discovering the imposter, however, Persian nobles rejected him in favor of Darius i, who ruled from 521 to 484 b.c. This third king who followed Cyrus has been called “the second founder of the Persian Empire” because of his empirical expansion efforts and his popular domestic policies. Darius’s son, Xerxes, inherited the powerful empire his father had built. He was the strongest and richest of all Persian kings, just like it says in Daniel 11:2: “[A]nd when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece” (Revised Standard Version).

Let’s now get historical confirmation of these prophesied  events from Philip Van Ness Myers’s classic volume Ancient History: “After crushing the Egyptian revolt and suppressing another uprising in Babylonia, the great king [Xerxes] was free to devote his attention to the distant Greeks” (page 93; emphasis added throughout). Just as Daniel said! Xerxes stirred up his empire against Greece. But it ended in disaster when his naval
fleet, as Myers says, was “cut to pieces.” It was the beginning of the end for the Persian Empire, as Myers notes: “The power and supremacy of the Persian monarchy passed away with the reign of Xerxes. The last 140 years of the existence of the empire was a time of weakness and anarchy, which presents nothing that need claim our attention in this place” (ibid). Note that! After Cyrus, Myers feels that only four other Persian kings are worth
mentioning!  As we continue studying this remarkable prophecy, you will see that there are just too many historical details revealed in advance for this to be mere coincidence. Verse 3: “And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.” Verse 2 said Xerxes began tangling with Greece. And in verse 3, we read that a mighty Grecian king stood to “rule with great dominion.” His name was Alexander the Great. He arrived in 334 b.c. to crush what remained of the Persians. (The Medo-Persian Empire had been in steady decline for over a hundred years, ever since Xerxes made the mistake of  attacking Greece.)  Myers notes that once Alexander slew the weak Persian
king, he regarded himself not only as conqueror, but as successor to the Persian throne. This is especially interesting considering what God revealed in Daniel 2 about four world-ruling empires that succeed each other up until Jesus Christ returns to Earth to set up His Kingdom. Alexander’s Grecian Empire was the third of these biblically prophesied world powers. (First was the Chaldean Empire, then the Medo-Persian, Alexander’s Greco-Macedonian and finally the Roman Empire.)

ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE DIVIDED
Continuing in Daniel 11, verse 4: “And when he [Alexander] shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.” Alexander’s reign was cut short in 323 b.c. by his untimely death at age 32. There was no one strong enough to rule the vast expanse of his territory. Thus, his kingdom was divided into four parts, each ruled by one of Alexander’s generals. Myers describes the fragmented state of the empire after Alexander’s death: “Besides minor states, four monarchies rose out of the ruins. Their rulers were Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus Nicator and Ptolemy, who had each assumed the title of king. The great horn was broken, and instead of it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven” (pages 286–287). Again, note that! In that last sentence, Myers refers to Daniel 8:8! (Study Daniel 8:2–8, 20–22 as a parallel to Daniel 11:4.) Even Myers can’t help but draw attention to Daniel’s amazingly accurate prophecy, written 200 years before Alexander’s empire was divided among his four generals! Cassander ruled over Greece and Macedonia, and Lysimachus ruled Asia Minor. These two were the weaker of
the four generals. The other two, however, are significant, especially in how they set the stage for two centuries of conflict and struggle in the Middle East. It is these two kingdoms, one north of Jerusalem, the other south, that Daniel 11 primarily focuses on
in the next several verses.

KINGS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH
Seleucus ended up with Alexander’s far-eastern territory, all the way to India. His western boundary included the region known as Syria today. He ruled the general region of ancient Assyria, and also Babylon. “This kingdom,” according to Myers, “during the two centuries and more of its existence, played an important part in the civil history of the world” (page 290).  Ptolemy captured Egypt, Judea, and part of Syria. This kingdom was perhaps the most important of the four divisions,  insofar as its influence upon civilization.  “And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion;  his dominion shall be a great dominion” (Daniel 11:5). This verse more specifically explains how the two strongest empires  of the four divisions developed. For a while, after Alexander’s death, Ptolemy (Egypt) was the most powerful (“the king of
the south shall be strong”). Seleucus Nicator was originally one of Ptolemy’s generals (or “princes”) in Syria. But while Ptolemy was tied up in war after Alexander’s death, Seleucus
gained control in the north, founding the dynasty of Seleucidæ in 312 b.c. And, as verse 5 says, this dynasty actually exceeded the king of the south in power and might. It was the kingdom of Seleucus that then most closely resembled the great empire under Alexander.
Notice the amazing details God provides in verse 6: “And in the end of years they shall join themselves [or ‘associate themselves’] together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall
come to the king of the north to make an agreement ….”  After 50 years, this prophecy was fulfilled to the letter. By this time, Antiochus ii (called Theos) ruled the northern kingdom in Syria. His wife’s name was Laodice. Largely  because of his wife’s influence, Antiochus ii was persuaded to  initiate war with Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of the south, in 260 b.c. The war was terminated in 252 when, as prophesied, the king of the south’s daughter came to the north to “make an  agreement.” Antiochus Theos banished his wife Laodice when
Philadelphus offered his daughter Bernice. The two married and both kingdoms temporarily joined themselves together.  “[B]ut she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm …” (verse 6). In other words, though  strengthened by that union, neither Antiochus Theos nor  Bernice could retain that power.  Continuing this incredible verse: “[B]ut [Bernice] shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.” Indeed, after Ptolemy
Philadelphus died in 247 b.c., Theos promptly gave up Bernice and retained Laodice as his wife. Still fuming from being banished years earlier, Laodice stayed with Theos long enough to conceive and then promptly murdered her husband, thus securing the throne for her son, Seleucus ii. She then tracked down Bernice and assassinated her as well, squelching the last hope of the Ptolemies to have a descendent on the Seleucidæ
throne in the north.

The story continues in Daniel 11: “But then shall arise a scion of her [Bernice’s] own family, in succession to his father, who shall head an army to enter the fortress of the king of the north; he shall take action and master the men of the north” (verse 7, Moffatt). The King James translation says one “out of a branch of her roots” would stand and fight against the king of the north. This branch from her own family was none other than Ptolemy iii, Bernice’s brother. He invaded Syria in 245 b.c. and quickly avenged his sister’s death by murdering Laodice.  Verse 7 was precisely accurate in describing Ptolemy’s victorious conquest. He acquired most all of the Syrian realm, from Cilicia to the Tigris, and besieged “the fortress of the king of the north” in Syria.  Verse 8 says Ptolemy iii would carry many captives and spoils back to Egypt, which he did—history confirms more than 2,500 molten images and vessels. God also prophesied that Ptolemy’s reign would continue longer than that of his counterpart in the north, Seleucus ii. God was right again.
Ptolemy outlasted him by four years. “But his [Seleucus’s] sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress” (verse 10). The plot thickens! After Seleucus ii died, what was left of his kingdom was divided between his two sons, Seleucus iii (226–223) and Antiochus iii, called “the Great” (223–187). The prophecy in verse 10 quickly narrows its focus to one of these sons, Antiochus iii, no doubt because the other died three years into his reign. Verse 10 describes the two expeditions Antiochus led against Egypt. The second one, after 27 years, enabled him to re-capture his fortress, Seleucia. Verses 11–12 prophesied that the young Egyptian king, Ptolemy iv (Philopater), would not wallow in defeat: “In a fit of mad rage the king of the south shall march out to fight the king of the north, who shall raise a large army, but it shall fall
into the hands of his foe and be taken prisoner, to the proud joy of the king of the south, who shall rout tens of thousands of them” (Moffatt).  Once again, Egypt gained control of Judea, but only for a short time. Verse 13 foretold another resurgence by the king

HISTORY AND PROPHECY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

9 of the north in this see-saw battle over the Middle East. It says after “certain years” (actually it was 12 years, bringing us to 205 b.c.), Antiochus iii returned with greater riches and a bigger army. Antiochus garnered military support from Philip of Macedonia and others. Jewish historian Josephus says many Jews helped in this fight against Egypt. Now consider how accurately God foretold of this anti-Egyptian alliance hundreds of years in advance: “And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south …(verse 14). Indeed, Daniel 11 is an astonishing prophecy! The next time someone tries to cast aside the Bible as flawed and uninspired, point them to this prophecy! The next several verses give more details concerning Antiochus the Great’s conquests. Verse 15 says he would come upon Egypt and “take the most fenced cities,” a probable reference to his capture of Sidon. Verse 16 says “he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.” The “glorious land” refers to the land of Judea. After Antiochus captured Sidon, he defeated Egypt at Mount Panium in 198 b.c. and assumed control of Judea. This fulfilled prophecy is important because it sets the stage for a latter-day prophecy discussed at the end of Daniel 11, which will again revolve around the glorious land. In verse 17, Daniel wrote, “He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom ….” Antiochus’s success in Phoenicia, Syria and Judea prompted him to go after the “whole kingdom,” meaning Egypt. Verse 17 continues, “… and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.” After his military venture into Egypt in 198 b.c., Antiochus the Great offered his daughter Cleopatra (not the Egyptian queen of 31 b.c.) to the young Ptolemy, hoping to gain complete possession of Egypt. It didn’t work, as verse 17 verifies. Cleopatra knew she was only being offered as bait. She betrayed her father and gave her full support to her new husband, the king of Egypt.  Antiochus focused his energies elsewhere. “Thereafter he shall turn to the coastlands of the West [off Asia Minor] and capture many of them, but a certain Roman general shall put a stop to his defiant insults and pay him back for them”
(verse 18, Moffatt). By this time, the Romans were beginning their ascension to world rule. The young Roman general mentioned in this scripture is Lucius Scipio Asiaticus. He crushed Antiochus’s forces in the Battle of Magnesia in 190 b.c. Tail between his legs, Antiochus iii returned to his own land (verse 19). He died in 187 b.c. “Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle” (verse 20). Antiochus was succeeded
by his son Seleucus Philopator (187–176). As the scripture notes, he was famous for collecting taxes. He sent a tax collector by the name of Heliodorus throughout Judea, hoping to raise money for the waning empire. The scripture says his reign would be short-lived and that he would die neither in anger nor battle. History confirms that his brief, 11-year reign was cut short by his tax-collector Heliodorus, who poisoned him. Since Seleucus left no heir, the other son of Antiochus the Great was left to wrest control of the empire from Heliodorus. The other son was called Epiphanes (Antiochus iv).  Thus we reach a critical turn in the Daniel 11 story. Antiochus Epiphanes was responsible for setting up the abomination of desolation. This is significant because of a prophecy concerning an end-time abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15; Luke 21:20). (There is also a spiritual dimension to this story because it revolved around the temple anciently. Today, in this
end time, the Church is that temple; Ephesians 2:21.)

ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES
Antiochus Epiphanes was a ruthless dictator who obtained rule through deceitful lies and flatteries. Verse 21 of Daniel 11 said he would “come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom
by flatteries.” George Rawlinson gives the historical account of this event in his authoritative Manual of Ancient History: “Antiochus, assisted by Eumenes, drives out Heliodorus, and obtains the throne, b.c. 176. He astonishes his subjects by an affectation of Roman manners.” Antiochus Epiphanes gained control by pretending to be someone he really wasn’t. Continuing in verse 22: “The opposing forces shall be swept before him and shattered, and so shall God’s high priest” (Moffatt). In this verse, we begin to see how much Antiochus hated the Jews. Rulers before him had typically treated the Jews
well. But Epiphanes’s ruthlessness toward the Jews far surpassed that of his fathers (verse 24). Verse 22 says Antiochus would even go so far as to murder the Jewish high priest.
History confirms that Onias iii was high priest in Judea at the time, and that Antiochus put him to death in 172 b.c. According to Rawlinson, Jews “were driven to desperation by the mad project of this self-willed monarch.” In 168 b.c., Antiochus pillaged and desecrated the Jews’ temple in Jerusalem. Greek historian Polybius observed that he “despoiled most sanctuaries.” He also burdened the Jews with unbearable taxes. “Throughout the turbulent changes of its past history,” Werner Keller writes in The Bible as History, “Israel had been spared none of the horror and ignominy which could befall a nation. But never before, neither under the Assyrians nor under the Babylonians, had it received such a blow as the edict issued by Antiochus Epiphanes by which he  hoped to crush and destroy the faith of Israel” (page 331; see also 1 Maccabees 1:44). Much of this struggle between the Jews
and the Syrian kingdom is recorded in the book of Maccabees (in the Hebrew Bible).
Verse 23 shows that even though this vile human being only had a few supporters at the outset, he eventually gained a large following through deceit and flatteries. Verse 24: “He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.” In this end time, we will witness another force that enters into the
Holy Land “peaceably.” But, like Antiochus, the leader of this end-time peace-keeping force will not really want peace. Verse 25 tells of another great clash between Epiphanes and  the king of the south. It was his second successful Egyptian campaign. This clash revolved around Jerusalem. Verse 27 says both kings were mischievous and lied to each other. On his return from Egypt, Antiochus encountered another Maccabean insurrection. Verse 28 says his heart was against the “holy covenant.” “He shall do exploits” means Antiochus just did as he pleased against the Jews. He massacred them.

In verse 29, God prophesied of a third campaign into Egypt. But this one did not fair well for Antiochus. Verse 30 says the “ships of Chittim” came against him. He was cut off by a
Roman fleet from Cyprus. Defeated and dejected, Antiochus returned to the land of Judea and took his frustration out on the Jews. Verse 30 says he again had “indignation against the holy covenant”—God’s people. Then it says he had intelligence with a disloyal contingent of God’s people. In other words, he was plotting deceitfully with people inside the temple. Verse 31: “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.” Here we find the Bible’s first reference to the abomination of desolation. Consider the scene as Daniel describes it. Moffatt says “armed forces shall be set on foot by” Antiochus. It is talking about an army in Jerusalem. This army is what makes Jerusalem desolate. It desecrates the holy place and takes away
the daily sacrifice (see also Daniel 8:11, 24). This happened in 167 b.c. Tradition says that Antiochus built a statue of Jupiter Olympus in the holy of holies—the holiest place inside the temple. He tried to stamp out the Jewish religion altogether. “And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits [or take action]” (Daniel 11:32). Most of the Jews were deceived by flatteries. But there were a few who did make a stand and take action. A few Maccabees acted on what they knew to be right. These few instructed the many, as it says in verse 33. Some of those faithful few even lost their lives for doing what was right.
Throughout history, it has always been the few who have stood up and done what was right. There were just a few during Christ’s day. Many of them were martyred. Jesus was
crucified.  Verses 34–35: “Now when they shall fall, they shall be holden with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with f latteries. And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.” This prophecy describes the present condition within God’s Church today. But it also describes the history of God’s Church in general. God says many of understanding have fallen to deceitful lies and flatteries. When that happens, their only “help” comes from the faithful few who take a stand.

THE NEW KING OF THE NORTH
We now come to a critical transition in Daniel 11. “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done” (verse 36). 2 Thessalonians 2:4 shows that this verse directly relates to an end-time prophecy being fulfilled in God’s
Church. (For more on this subject, request your free copy of Malachi’s Message.)
But there is also important history recorded in Daniel 11:36.  As we have already noted, when Antiochus went down to Egypt for the third time, his forces were resisted by Roman ships.  Antiochus’s Syrian kingdom was on its last leg. By 65 b.c., it was swallowed up by the Roman Empire. The region became a Roman province. Now here is the key point. Because the Roman emperor now controlled Judea, references to the king of the north from this point forward in Daniel 11 refer to the Roman Empire, not Antiochus. Verse 36 is an apt description of Roman emperors who have historically done according to their own will, even exalting themselves above God. Elsewhere in Daniel (chapters 2 and 7), God prophesied of four world-ruling empires that would succeed each other right up to the return of Christ at the end of this age. The Roman Empire was the fourth and final empire to rule before Christ’s return. True, the empire was crushed in a.d. 476, but passages
in Daniel and Revelation prophesied of seven resurrections of what became known as the “Holy” Roman Empire. In a.d. 554, Justinian began that restoration. Since that time, there
have been five more resurrections of the Holy Roman Empire, meaning there is to be one more before Christ returns. That’s what makes this prophecy at the end of Daniel 11 so critical. Verses 37–38 continue to describe this new line of Roman rulers in the region called the “king of the north.” Historically, Roman emperors have set themselves up to rule in God’s stead. Verse 39: “Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.” These rulers of the king of the north do practice a religion, but, as verse 39 says, it’s the religion of a strange god.

PROPHECY SHIFTS TO END TIME
Now we see how this amazing prophecy in Daniel 11 will affect everyone on Earth. Verse 40: “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.” Moffatt begins verse 40 by saying, “When the end arrives.” At this point, the prophecy jumps way ahead to the time we are living in now. It brings us right up to date with today’s news. God says that when the end arrives, the king of the south will push at the king of the north—or the Roman Empire, which, for the last 1,500 years, has resided in the heart of Europe. The word “push” in verse 40 means to strike or to wage war against. It denotes violence. Both sides will be motivated by radical religion. Centuries of recorded history prove that when it comes to religion in the Middle East, it often means war. And who is this king of the south which pushes so violently? Anciently, it was south of Jerusalem in Egypt. In this end time, it will comprise a conglomerate of nations much larger and more powerful than ancient Egypt. Much of this force will be south of Jerusalem, but not all of it. Certainly, though, we know it will be south of the resurrected Roman Empire. The nations around the Holy Land, for the most part, are Islamic.” (And do you all remember Pope Francis siding with Palestine, for “peace talks a month ago”)  “It is this great power, fast becoming a force to be reckoned with, which is the king of the south. Most notable among the rising tide of radical Islam is Iran, which, since the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, has accumulated massive military might. It is considered the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism. And with the support of many other Islamic nations, like Iraq, Algeria, Egypt and Libya, Iran will be able to deliver a formidable “push” against the king of the north.  But, as the next verse reveals, it will be no match for the whirlwind response of the European force. We can see this force now developing, but the sheer might of its power will not be unveiled until this moment. Verse 41 says many nations “shall be overthrown”—more than just Egypt (as in ancient times), although verse 42 shows that this nation will certainly be one of them. God says Egypt will not escape the whirlwind—neither will the rest of the king of the south. The Edomites, the Moabites and the children of Ammon—the modern-day region of Jordan—will be spared.  Then the king of the north enters into the glorious land—or Jerusalem. The Hebrew word for “enter” indicates a
peaceful entry. But, like Antiochus Epiphanes, the king will deceive with flatteries, and what will be revealed is another abomination of desolation. This king of the north will eventually conquer all the end-time nations of Israel. ” (Russia the Bear in Revelation and China the Lion).

“ARMAGEDDON                                                                                                                                    The gathering place of all end-time armies Verse 44: “But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” Tidings to the east (the Orient) and the north (Russia) will worry the king of the north. Other scriptural passages discuss this communist army that challenges the king of the north for supremacy. Verse 45 shows that the king of the north will establish its headquarters in Jerusalem—in the “glorious holy mountain.” But the communist hordes will descend upon that holy mountain, gathering 55 miles north of Jerusalem in the place called Armageddon (Revelation 16:16). The end of the “beast” and the “false prophet” will be near.  Now continue in Daniel 12:1. Remember, this is all one vision. Notice what these events lead to: “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” This Great Tribulation leads to God protecting His people in a place of safety. Verse 44: “But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.” Tidings to the east
(the Orient) and the north (Russia) will worry the king of the north. Other scriptural passages discuss this communist army that challenges the king of the north for supremacy.
Verse 45 shows that the king of the north will establish its headquarters in Jerusalem—in the “glorious holy mountain.”  But the communist hordes will descend upon that holy mountain, gathering 55 miles north of Jerusalem in the place called Armageddon (Revelation 16:16). The end of the “beast” and the “false prophet” will be near.
Now continue in Daniel 12:1. Remember, this is all one vision. Notice what these events lead to: “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” This Great Tribulation leads to God protecting His people in a place of safety. Then, at the time of the resurrection of the saints, Christ will return to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem—that holy mountain—and put a stop to the violence and bloodshed. The saints will rule with Jesus Christ and help to establish God’s government over all the Earth (Daniel 2:44; 7:13–14, 18, 27; see also Revelation 11:15). This vision, recorded from Daniel 10:10 through 12:4, begins with the kingdoms of Syria and Egypt that developed soon after the death of Alexander the Great 2,300 years ago. But it concludes with the resurrection of the saints and the return
of Jesus Christ and the eventual peace and happiness He will bring to this world. What a vision! Now here is the point: Most of that vision, as we have already noted, was fulfilled to a tee centuries after the book of Daniel was recorded. Now what does that mean to you? Doesn’t it mean that the remaining, unfulfilled details of this vision are sure, and they will happen? Of course they will. A European superpower is fast becoming the world’s
greatest power. The rise of Islam is there for all to see. These two powers will clash. The abomination of desolation will be set up in Jerusalem one last time. And just as surely as those events will unfold, Jesus Christ will return to this Earth in power and glory, as dozens of scriptures confirm! The question is not whether or not those events will occur.
The question is, What are you doing to prepare for it?

https://www.pcog.org/literature/23/history-and-prophecy-of-the-middle-east

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Is this Pope too, doing Satan’s work?  For Palestine belongs to Israel and the JEWS!  THEY OWN THE WEST BANK!

I STAND WITH ISRAEL! I shall not keep silent!! in Jesus name! Jesus a JEW AND RABBI! Genesis 12:7 “And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said, Unto your seed (Isaac) I will give this land!” Genesis 13:15 And the Lord said, “For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed (Isaac)…for EVER.” (The Lord tells Abraham that the Promises are forever..Modern day Palestine does not acknowledge…neither does this Pope…Neither did the Roman soldiers that killed Jesus along with Caiphus and Herod. (Later by 310 ad becoming the Catholic church! with the first Pope Constantine..) PHARISEES! ISRAEL DOES NOT OCCUPY THE WEST BANK, THEY OWN IT!  This Pope needs to keep  quiet…and worry about his own crimes in the Vatican.

Unexpected: This Bold Move By The Vatican Has Israeli Officials Furious

“This step does not advance the peace process…”

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Loving the Unlovable

I wrote on here “My Reply to Muslims that hate”, trying to see both Ishmael and his heritage and Isaac as God sees them.  I sense what God says in Genesis, and the destination He put down for both lineages.  Yet, I know that God loves the Muslim as well as the Jew.  I know too, in my heart that forgiveness begins in the spirit and then the heart.

Ah, but, what about hates in your own family?  I wrote in “Enemies” from Ron Carpenter, “Be careful when you say “I love you”, for it is the license to be hurt.  People that are close to you need to EARN IT!  Toxic love never moves to the next level and earns one thing!  The toxic love wants what you have,  or it will destroy you, and slander you and all those close to you that you do love and respect.  Family members too that are destructive, need to be put at bay.  We may be stuck with them, but we don’t need them close to us to hurt us either.  HONOR your father and your mother, means NOT AS A PARENT,  but as YOUR MOTHER who gave you life!”

Someone said to me that you don’t have to “earn it”…I differ with that.  For if it begins with behavior that cuts and hurts another, is belligerent, lying, greedy, selfish, hateful, backstabbing, with failure to recognize the abuse they are causing, you cannot have a relationship with them.  You can forgive, yet, you cannot ever forget the damage they have done to you.

Forgiveness too, begins with love.  “Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.  Love does not demand its own way.  Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.  It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.  Love never gives up, loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. ” I Corinthians 13:4-7.

However, if the pain is insufferably so deep, with perhaps even a prior suicide attempt, caused by people that hate you and literally wish you dead,  how far do you go to make peace with the unlovable?  No psychiatrist, psychologist, would tell you to stay in such a dangerous situation.   Forgiveness?  We can forgive from a distance, we can love from a distance, but, love too, is far different than “liking” someone or respecting them.  I have no respect for abusive people that intentionally want to defame, slander you and control,  it is libel.  In that situation, a line has to be drawn.  For the one who is really at fault here is Satan after all.  I can pray for these people, that God has HIS way, and ask God to reach them, but, unless the Holy Spirit comes in and shows them the error of their ways, and change is imminent, you must keep your distance else they destroy you.  God has given me discernment, and I know the difference between God’s love, and manipulative, controlling love.

I was given this scripture, “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?  Even sinners love those who love them.  And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you?  Even  sinners do that. ” (Luke 6:27-33 NIV) My Expositors Study Bible says, “Pray that they will see GOD’s way!” 29 says “And unto him who smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him who takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat…”  (Is meant to serve as a principle and not to be taken literally; for example, the Lord, Himself did not offer Himself to be stricken again (John 18:22-23), but, firmly with courtesy, rebuked the one (which I had done to my abuser, showing scripture) who struck Him; the principle is that one should not seek retaliation, for if one demands too loudly, the loss could be greater than the cloak or coat. (But your own life, if you have any illnesses ie stroke, heart, or depression.)  John 18:22-23 “And when He had thus spoken one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand saying, Answer thou High Priest so?” (This answers the fact that they were looking for a reason …) “Jesus answered him, if I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil. ”   (In essence says, “if I have spoken or committed some type of evil, tell ME what it is…ie prove it!” ) Instead we know he was then taken to Caiaphas the High Priest.  But, Jesus did stand up to the wrongs, and he didn’t just say…oh I love you…He stood his ground until the end…taking the abuse and beatings; with forgiveness, but without a physical loving relationship to those who were killing him.

We, as women especially, even in our churches we attend, or relationships in our own families, need emotional intimacy which unites us with other Christians.  If a situation in hatreds and acts receives, oversteps bounds putting us in danger, we can drive hurting women especially, and elderly, deeper into themselves and even suicide.  Guilt devastates. So does shame of even bringing these hateful people into this world.  This is my heart from the depths of pain that I have lived with.  “Death ends a life, but it struggles for a resolution that it will never find.”  Author unknown

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/enemies/

The Apostate Church

What is an apostate church?   An apostasy is a falling away from what was once believed.   Wherein, in these end times, (which we are definitely in) before the Rapture of the Church, there will be and IS a great falling away of the church, especially in America.  Look at what comes out of Hollywood.   Look at what is on television with all the sex and violence.  There are no more stops anymore. There are no morals.   There is no love of God or Country or patriotism from the left in America.

II Thessalonians 2:1-3 “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come (Rapture) unless the apostasy (falling away) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.” Before the anti-Christ is revealed, there will be lawlessness, already in process. The one who is coming (Jesus) will appear after a furious activity of apostasy.  Satan and all the powers of darkness will be setting the stage, destroying the faith of many.  Because sin (as it is now) will be more rampant, the love of many of God’s people will grow very cold.  There will be shipwrecked believers on all sides.  God’s greatest concern is not what Christians are falling into….but, what they are falling away from!  Multitudes of Christians, including pastors, deacons, and ministry people of all kinds are losing their faith and confidence in the power of Jesus’ name!   Now, if you read my blog too, on the Old Cross and the New THAT is evident.   There is a turning towards methods, psychology, human expertise, and the philosophies and doctrines of men, not God including just a “feel good” sales pitch , without scripture or the CROSS!  Some  of this article comes from an old article in the 80′s by Dave Wilkerson, with my own interjections.  It is a good wake up call.

The message begins with a revelation of God’s grief over the cause of the apostasy!  “Woe to the rebellious children, declares the Lord, who execute a plan, but, not mine, and make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;  Who proceed  down to Egypt without consulting Me, to take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!”  Isaiah 30:1-2   Why does God call them rebellious children?  Because they have now committed the ultimate sin, causing Him the utmost grief?  Here is introduced a sin WORSE than adultery, or fornication or stealing , or lying, or hating one’s brother.  It is the ultimate sin of rebellion and apostasy!  God calls it a compounded sin…adding sin upon sin!  It is a slap in God’s face…The consummate, ultimate, most brazen sin possible for a child of God to commit.  It is proceeding down to Egypt rather than consulting the Lord!  This was directed to the leaders of Israel under Hezekiah, but also to the church of these latter days.

Drug abuse, alcoholism, adultery, gambling, homosexuality, fornication, pornography are all sins against the flesh, against society, and against the laws and commandments of God. But THIS sin is against the Lord Himself!  It is a personal indignity against a holy God!  “Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the Lord!” Isaiah 31:1.  Remember, this is all about how to be delivered from the enemy!   How do we deliver God’s people from the raging enemies?  The Assyrians are at the gate, threatening destruction.   Assyria means successful enemy here.. but, here too, now we have the war on terror, and the haters of Christians  out to kill us from the Old Persian Empire (Iran).   How are God’s leaders going to face this formidable enemy at the gate?   Do we have ”believers”  in Washington and in our pulpits ready to defend Christ in this nation and the Cross, not to mention fight without compromise?   We have become apostate….and our leaders do not want to “rock the boat” or ”stir up”.   They don’t want to STAND for values, and Christianity and what America was founded on.

As a youngster during WWII,  the church in Germany did exactly what we are doing now!  Not a one spoke out against Hitler….and our own ambassador then,  Joseph Kennedy the bootlegger, thought we should make a pac with Hitler.  How blinded do we have to be? Now, are we being blinded by Putin and Russia too? He is still KGB, and history repeats itself.  These little countries of Georgia, Ukrain, and then Poland to the left..All border next to Turkey, and south of them, is Iraq and Iran.  Are we being blindsided thinking Putin is a “good guy”?  He is selling arms to Iran, and Iran to the south moving north and Russia moving south?  There goes democracy in the area…Isaiah is right! God is right!   Iraq, Georgia, Afghanistan…All these countries that want democracy, including Jordan are hurting.   They are our allies, and it is time the CHURCHES  came together, including the Catholic church and the Vatican.   Pope  John Paul, knew..a man born in Poland remembering what Hitler did….and later the Russians..Speak up churches!    They want to kill us that are Christians and are…and they want to take over all the oil and cripple our economy and kill us!  History repeats itself!

“For this rebellious people who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord” Isaiah 30:9.  Moses prophesied that this very thing would happen in the latter days!  He foretold of the great falling away of God’s people.  “Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you. For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?  For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, for you do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands.”  Deuteronomy 31:26 -29.

God is saying to us now…”When you were first called…when I touched you and delivered you from the enemy…you wanted only ME!   I was your joy…I alone was your satisfaction.  (As new baby Christians after we were saved).  You were not burned out; you had a yearning in your heart after ME!   Now you have experts and how to books, seminars, training sessions,  experts, and all the technology on internet, never mind, texting day in and day out.  No one talks on the phone to each other anymore..They just send a text message.  We have become so impersonal and cold, selfish. The me ism generation, excluding God. You are learning how to do things better, but getting to know God less!  You do things God says, in “My” name, yet always busy, hardworking on the go ALL the time…But, it leaves you weary, burned out, and empty because you are on the road to Egypt!  You are headed in the wrong direction!  You know , I see this all the time….YOU CANNOT hear from God unless you are in that quiet place to hear that small small voice of God in prayer, that comes through in the spirit.  How can you hear from God with a stereo blasting while online, or text messaging all at the same time or while going , going , going…like the energizer bunny.  You can’t!  It is a falling away and becoming apostate.

Our churches no longer have the power of God to attract people.  They go down to Egypt and borrow its music, dancing…Its all entertainment now, hoping for a crowd.  It is a “sales pitch” and  gimmicks, most of which with the “prosperity” message, to make money.   They have  NO PASSION FOR SOULS, just crowds!   Church growth at any cost?  The average church bulletin looks like a theater calendar.   It is a stench in God’s nostrils.  (Now, not all of today’s mega churches are this way…but, most are.) Which is why we need too, discernment, instead of being attracted to “what is playing “, ask “do they preach the cross? ” “Do they preach holiness, judgment, and repentance?”

Jeremiah was sent to prophesy against the apostate Jews, the Lord’s own people.  God warned him:  “They will fight against you…they have forsaken Me, the fountain of the living  waters, to hew for themselves cisterns…the dread of Me is not in you (them)” Jeremiah 1:19, 2:13-19).  Why do people embrace the prosperity message and reject correction and calls to repentance and holiness?  It is because of their life-styles.  Prosperity  preaching fits beautifully into their successful life-styles.  They are in no mood to give up anything or to hear of crosses and losses.  They are into buying, acquiring, enjoying, climbing!  They refuse to heed the prophetic warnings that the party will soon be over.

“And whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar;  so ruthlessly shattered” Isaiah 30:12-14.  There is coming a sudden, overnight, ruthless shattering…a collapse of ministries, churches, lifestyles of those who are at ease in Apostasy.  There is coming an economic calamity so sudden, so unexpected, the money flow will stop!  Man-centered ministries will go bankrupt one after another.  Apostate churches laden with debt will fall into bankruptcy…..and I’ve already seen that happen.   The ones that preach prosperity exclusively will become the most hated preachers in the land.  An awesome collapse is coming soon.   The kingdom of self, of pride, and of ambition is coming down.   The warnings of Isaiah will not be heeded, as well as preachers who tell the truth and warned!    These warnings will not trouble those Christians who are shut in with God..  (Halleluiah)   Yet, trusting in Jesus , He said to us that are faithful, “Fear not”…For there is a glorious side to it all!

The closing curtain is about to fall and the church is getting its final call to repent, forsake its selfish ways, get back to the holy place, and be poured out as a sacrifice.  A remnant now is being deeply stirred  by the spirit of God.    Is the spirit of God calling you?  That sweet-smelling aroma to Him.  Are you weaned from the “world”?  Do you feel the spirit of God tugging at you inside that a mighty move is about to happen?   I do..  God is going to do something or allow something to happen to get us on our knees.   He wants us to be a living sacrifice to Him.   Thank you Lord Jesus,  for those Christians that are obedient to you Lord, and love you.   I pray that America changes and gets down on her knees in repentance. How about you and your walk with God..Do you even know Him?   He’s here..just waiting…….  and meanwhile in the natural, we need to deal with Iran and Russia!   If not? They will make their way to our shores!   I pray for the wisdom of our leaders and America!   I pray for the hearts of church leaders to clean up the stench  stop the Apostasy ……..we are grieving our Lord who loves us so much.

*This is an article by the late Dave Wilkerson’s October World Challenge. Oh, what a warning it is for all of us.

“God promised the prophet Zechariah that in the last days he would be a protective wall of fire around His people: ‘For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about.’ Zechariah 2:5).

Isaiah also testifies to this: ‘For thou hast been a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. (Isaiah 25:4)There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. (4:6) These promises are meant to comfort us as ‘prior warnings.’ You see all the prophets warn of a great storm coming in the final days. And this storm will beat against God’s wall of protection with ferocity. Jesus says the coming storm will be so frightful and overwhelming that people’s hearts will fail them as they see it forming (Luke 21:26). If Jesus says this storm is going to be ferocious we can know it will be an awesome moment in history. Yet the Bible assures us God never sends judgment on any society without first revealing to his prophets what he plans to do? ‘Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.’ (Amos 3:7)

We are always to keep this in mind: God’s purpose in lovingly calling us back to himself is to protect us in such times of storm. Yet we then and now, grow weary of these warnings. They simply didn’t want to hear anymore. No one now wants to hear the true word and warnings either. So, the prophet’s voice got switched off.  Same later in Ezekiel. How he warned people, and us, today as well. Yet, many do not want to hear. He told Ezekiel to tell people, ‘I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate…..because of all the abominations which they have committed.” Ezekiel 33:288-29.   Think about the $14 trillion we owe China, while they are making all our products, the out of control fires destroying land, houses, the drought and dust storms destroying farms, corn, which cuts our food and the prices go up…along with gas.  This is only the beginning.  Who will we rely on?  It is only the HOLY church of Jesus we will be able to find refuge in.. For the rest who are happy clappy will all fold!  GOD Almighty Himself in all power, will take them out, and THAT is what will bring about the mightiest move of repentance and REVIVAL we have ever seen.  When that happens, look up …Look up in the air, for Jesus will come in the Rapture.

The majority of churchgoers today soundly reject all prophetic warnings of a coming storm. Indeed the American church is the most blatant ‘feel good’ church in all history,” and as T.D. Jakes said too, “the most scripturally illiterate”, too. But, like Israel, we are only experiencing the calm before the storm. Like in Moses time, while he was on that mountaintop for 40 days, all kinds of lawlessness took over, including drunkenness, and acts just like today’s world. Christians today too, are casting off the yoke of Christ, tossing aside all limits of restrictions.” Even to Chrislam now, a new move with Islam…a horrific blatant act going against everything Holy and the CROSS at Calvary, where Jesus died for the sins of the world.

We are in an economic recession, and we’ve all heard this for many years in churches. Like with the prophets, people grow sick of the warning sounds. “The Apostle Peter predicted that many believers would have the same attitude as these scoffers: ‘There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. So, they think the warnings and prophets predicting the storms are fools. This is the very reason God tells h is prophets to shout their warnings from the housetops.

Just before his death and resurrection Jesus stared into the face of a horrible coming storm. He saw what was just ahead: Jerusalem would he surrounded by powerful armies, the temple would be destroyed, the city would be burned to the ground, and thousands would die on crosses erected by the invading enemy. The Jews’ entire society as they knew it was about to collapse. Christians seemed focused mostly on their own needs: ‘my needs, my problems, my past, my future; how my friends have failed me, how the church as wounded me.’ God’s people were no longer weeping over a dying world. Yet the Holy Spirit showed me who our Lord reacted in the face of the coming storm. The apostle John writes, ‘As he is, so are we in this world’ (1John 4:17) We simply have to have Jesus mindset in all things.”

“God wants us to be prepared. He is clearly telling us, ‘Don’t be moved or agitated by anything you see. Keep your eyes focused on me and you will retain your joy. It is as if Christ is telling us, ‘I faced everything you’re going to face in the closing days of time. I had the same foreboding feelings because I saw the coming storm.” But, when you run into the presence of our Father and He lifts all our concerns, it is in this presence, where we find, joy, hope and the rest I would ever need, to the very end.” I have peace and joy because I have HIM in me.   My flesh shall rest in HOPE..and with (Acts 2:26) and with that hope, our faith grows, that which is unseen. It is only too, by trusting in the only one that loves us and will hold us in His arms of love. Do you have hope? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?

*Excerpts from World Challenge News letter
www.worldchallenge.org

**Note:  I had written this way back in 2012 or earlier, and somehow it got deleted.

 

What Does The Koran Really Say About Jews And Israel?

The following is from  JewsNews:

“Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Istituto Culturale della Comunita Islamica Italiana (Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community) in Rome, who will speak on the sanctity of Jerusalem to the Jewish People.

The sources he intends to quote, from both the Bible and the Qur’an, indicate that, just as Mecca is sacred to Islam, so is Jerusalem sacred to Judaism. He sees no contradiction in the fact that Jerusalem, also sacred to the Muslims, should be under Jewish sovereignty.

As he tells us, he is no politician; he is merely giving us the benefit of his opinion as a theologian, a religious scholar: There is nothing wrong, he says, with Jerusalem being the undivided capital of the Jewish State, under Israeli sovereignty.

Here is ample illustration of my conviction that our ideas may be corroborated from various directions. 

And this is, I repeat, only one of the topics to be discussed here.

I am indebted to President Weizman for hosting the opening session of the seminar. Let me express the hope that our discussions will be interesting and fruitful.

Jerusalem: Three-Fold Religious Heritage for a Contemporary Single Administration

Any discussion of the problem of sovereignty over Jerusalem necessarily means involvement in a kind of investigation that has political, cultural, psychological and religious implications. For Jew or Muslim, religious or secular, thinking of Jerusalem means to feel reason and sentiment mingled together.
In this paper I do not want to enter into specific features directly connected with politics; but, as a Muslim scholar and man of religion, only to try and determine whether, from an Islamic point of view, there is some well-grounded theological reason that makes it impossible for Muslims to accept the idea of recognizing Jerusalem both as an Islamic holy place and as the capital of the State of Israel.


Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Istituto Culturale della Comunita Islamica Italiana (Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community) in Rome, spoke on the sanctity of Jerusalem to the Jewish People.

The sources he quotes from, both the Bible and the Qur’an, indicate that, just as Mecca is sacred to Islam, so is Jerusalem sacred to Judaism. He sees no contradiction in the fact that Jerusalem, also sacred to the Muslims, should be under Jewish sovereignty.

There is nothing wrong, he says, with Jerusalem being the undivided capital of the Jewish State, under Israeli sovereignty.


1.1 Sovereignty belongs to God

First, I would like to emphasize that the idea of considering Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel as a western “invasion”, and Zionists as new “colonizers”, is very recent and has no relation to the basic features of Islamic faith. According to the Qur’an, no person, people or religious community can claim a permanent right of possession over a certain territory, since the earth belongs exclusively to God, Who is free to entrust sovereign rights to anyone He likes and for as long as He likes:

قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَن تَشَاء وَتَنزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّن تَشَاء وَتُعِزُّ مَن تَشَاء وَتُذِلُّ مَن تَشَاء بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ إِنَّكَ عَلَىَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

“Say: ‘O God, King of the kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom Thou pleasest, and Thou strippest off the kingdom from whom Thou pleasest; Thou endurest with honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest; all the best is in Thy hand. Verily, Thou hast power over all things’”.
Qur’an, Sura Al-i-Imran (“The Imrans”), 3:26 (Palazzi translation)

From this verse one can deduce a basic principle of the monotheistic philosophy of history: God can choose as He likes as to relationships between peoples and countries. Sometimes He gives a land to a people, and sometime He takes His possession back and gives it to another people. In general terms, one might say that He gives as a reward for obedience and takes back as a punishment for wickedness, but this rule does not permit us to say that God’s ways are always plain and clear to our understanding.

1.2 Anti-Zionism is un-Islamic

The idea of Islam as a factor that prevents Arabs from recognizing any sovereign right of Jews over Palestine is quite recent and can by no means be found in Islamic classical sources. To see anti-Zionism as a direct consequence of Islam is a form of explicit misunderstanding which implies the transformation of Islam from a religion into a secularized ideology.

This was originally done by the late mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, who was responsible for most of the Arab defeats and during World War Two collaborated with Adolf Hitler. Later, Jamal el-Din Abd el-Nasser based his policy on Pan-Arabism, hatred for Jews and alliance with the Soviet Union. All these doctrines were the real cause of Arab backwardness. Most of Nasser’s mistakes were afterwards corrected by the martyr Anwar Sadat.

Following the defeat of Nasserism, “fundamentalist” movements made anti-Zionism an outstanding part of their propaganda, trying to describe the so-called “fight for liberation of Palestine” as rooted in Islamic tradition and derived from religious principles.

1.3 Both the Bible and the Qur’an confirm that God gave the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel, and that He will bring the Children of Israel back to the Land of Israel at the End of Days

This plan for the transformation of Islam into an ideology of political struggle nevertheless encounters a significant obstacle, since both the Qur’an and the Torah indicate quite clearly that the link between the Children of Israel and the Land of Canaan does not depend on any kind of colonization project but directly on the will of God Almighty.

We learn from Jewish and Islamic Scriptures that God, through His chosen servant Moses, decided to free the offspring of Israel from slavery in Egypt and to make them inheritors of the Promised Land. Whoever claims that Jewish sovereignty over Palestine is something recent and dependent on political machinations is in fact denying the history of revelation and prophecy, as well as the clear teachings of the holy books.

The Qur’an cites the exact words with which Moses ordered the Israelites to conquer the Land:

وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ يَا قَوْمِ اذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَعَلَ فِيكُمْ أَنبِيَاء وَجَعَلَكُم مُّلُوكًا وَآتَاكُم مَّا لَمْ يُؤْتِ أَحَدًا مِّن الْعَالَمِين يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الأَرْضَ المُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللّهُ لَكُمْ وَلاَ تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَى أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنقَلِبُوا خَاسِرِينَ

“And (remember) when Moses said to his people: ‘O My People, call in remembrance the favour of God unto you, when he produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave to you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O My People, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin”.
Qur’an, Sura Maida (“The Table”), 5:20-21 (Palazzi translation)

Moreover – and “fundamentalists” (Wahhabis) always “forget” this point – the Holy Qur’an quite openly refers to the reinstatement of the Jews in the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment, where it says:

وَقُلْنَا مِن بَعْدِهِ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ اسْكُنُواْ الأَرْضَ فَإِذَا جَاء وَعْدُ الآخِرَةِ جِئْنَا بِكُمْ لَفِيفًا

“And thereafter We said to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, We will gather you together in a mingled crowd’”.
Qur’an, Sura al-Isra (The Night Journey) – Bani Isra’il (Children of Israel), 17:104 (Palazzi translation)

1.4 Jewish Sovereignty over Jerusalem

The most common argument against Islamic acknowledgment of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem is that, as al-Quds is a holy place for Muslims, Muslims cannot accept its being ruled by non-Muslims, because such acceptance would be a betrayal of Islam.

Before expressing our point of view on this question, we must reflect upon the reason that Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque hold such a sacred position in Islam. As everyone should know, the definition of Jerusalem as an Islamic holy place depends upon al-Mi’raj, the Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad to heaven, which began from the Holy Rock.

While remembering this, we must admit that there is no real link between al-Mi’raj and sovereign rights over Jerusalem, since when al-Mi’raj took place the city was not under Islamic, but under Byzantine administration. Moreover, the Qur’an expressly recognises that Jerusalem plays the same role for Jews that Mecca has for Muslims.
We read:

مَّا تَبِعُواْ قِبْلَتَكَ وَمَا أَنتَ بِتَابِعٍ قِبْلَتَهُمْ وَمَا بَعْضُهُم بِتَابِعٍ قِبْلَةَ بَعْضٍ

“They would not follow thy direction of prayer (qibla), nor art thou to follow their direction of prayer; nor indeed will they follow each other’s direction of prayer”.
Qur’an, Sura Al Baqarah (“The Heifer”), 2:145 (Palazzi translation)

All Qur’anic commentators explain that “thy qibla” is clearly the Ka’ba of Mecca, while “their qibla” refers to the Temple Mount (bayt al-maqdis) in Jerusalem. To cite just one of the most important of them, we read in Qadi Baydawi’s commentary:

“Verily, in their prayers Jews orient themselves toward the Rock (sakhrah), while Christians orientated themselves eastwards”.
M. Sheikh Zadeh, Hashiyya ala tafsir al-Qadi al-Baydawi, (Istanbul: 1979)

As opposed to what Islamic “fundamentalists” (Wahhabis) continuously claim, the Book of Islam – as we have just now seen – recognises the Temple Mount (bayt al-maqdis) in Jerusalem as the Jewish direction of prayer. Some Muslim exegetes also quote the Book of Daniel as proof of this:

“And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house — now his windows were open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem — and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime”.
Daniel 6:11

After reviewing the most relevant Qur’anic passages in this connection, one easily concludes that, as no one wishes to deny Muslims complete sovereignty over Mecca, from an Islamic point of view there is no sound theological reason to deny Jews the same rights over Jerusalem.

If we see ourselves as religious men, we must necessarily include justice among our qualities. As regards the argument, we have to admit that the same idea of justice requires that we treat Jews, Christians and Muslims equally. No community can demand for itself privileges that it is not ready to recognise for others.

We know that Roman Catholics see Rome as their own capital. The fact that Rome has the largest mosque in Europe and an ancient Jewish community does not alter its role as the world center of Catholicism. Even more can be said of Mecca: It is the main religious center for Muslims the world over and is completely under Islamic administration.

Respecting this principle of fair-mindedness, we necessarily conclude that Israelis as a nation and Jews as a religion must have their own political and religious capital, under their sole administration, even though it contains certain places regarded as sacred by the other two Abrahamic faiths (Christianity and Islam).

To my mind, this is the only realistic ground for any discussion of the future of the Holy City. The other parties must understand that Jews will never agree to have less rights than other religions, and that Israelis will never agree to see David’s City divided into two parts.

If everyone was happy to see the Berlin Wall destroyed, it was because the very idea of forced separation within a single city is something objectionable to human sensitivity. We cannot even think of creating another Berlin in the heart of the Middle East. Of course, the idea of “two Jerusalems”, if ever realized, will by no means be a solution, but a source of new troubles and conflicts.

It is quite clear that the future of Jerusalem requires general agreement. In our opinion, the only reliable partners for Israel seem to be the Holy See and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. They must understand that Israelis will never agree even to discuss the possibility of dividing their capital and spiritual center, while Israel must grant Christians and Muslims considerable autonomy in the administration of their respective Holy Places.

Those who speak of Jerusalem as the future capital of “two different states” know very well that this kind of proposal has no basis in reality. It is time to suggest imaginative solutions, and to become involved in a global project for the development of the Middle East as a whole, so that peaceful coexistence with Israel can make a real contribution to overcoming the backwardness of most Islamic countries.

1.5 Prohibiting Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims from praying on the Temple Mount (bayt al-maqdis)

The administration of the holy places in Jerusalem is a very complicated issue, and it is not possible here to enter into details. We would nevertheless like to mention something that appears unbearable for any person of religious conscience: The fact that at present the Islamic administration of bayt al-maqdis (Temple Mount) permits Jews to visit the Temple Mount but not to pray there. There are special officials in the area whose task is to ensure that Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount are not moving their lips in prayer.

To my mind, this is clearly opposed to Islamic prescriptions and rules. We have seen that the Holy Qur’an declares the Rock a qibla (direction of prayer) for Jews. How then, is it possible that – in the name of Islam – someone dares to forbid Jews to pray in the place that God has appointed as their qibla?

This is a clear example of a case in which pseudo-religious principles may work against the real spirit of religion. Moreover, we must ask: Is it possible for someone who believes in God to forbid another human to pray? What kind of religion can let us interfere in the relationship between the Creator and His creatures?

On this point the Qur’an says:

وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِي عَنِّي فَإِنِّي قَرِيبٌ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُواْ لِي وَلْيُؤْمِنُواْ بِي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ

“When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close to them: I answer the prayer of every suppliant who calleth on Me”.

Qur’an, Sura al-Baqarah (“The Cow”), 2:186 (Palazzi translation)

This verse explains that God is always close to His servants when they are praying. Wherever we are and whoever we are, according to the Qur’an we can be sure that God is listening to our prayers and will answer them, although, of course, we are not always able to understand His response.

This being the case, no one who believes in God can possibly prevent others praying, notwithstanding the fact that they belong to another religious tradition.

The very idea of opposing someone’s prayers reveals a really deep lack of faith.”  

I have absolutely nothing more to add to this, except to ask how many Korans are out there?  ie From prior post, the one Brigitte Gabriele quoted came from Saudi Arabia.  Regardless before Kerry and Obama fund terrorists in Palestine with millions of US money, perhaps they should know their history.

http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2013/10/03/what-does-the-koran-really-say-about-jews-and-the-land-of-israel/

Know Thy Enemy

Know thy enemy, as Obama has opened the doors to the influx of Islam into America.  And Jihad is a part of Islam,  and History from the Ottoman Period is now repeating itself.  First from Wiki then other Link on Ottman Period, following is at the end.

From Wikipedia:  (Our involvment in the Ottoman period when Jefferson was President.)

The First Barbary War (1801–1805) also known as the Tripolitan War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two warsfought between the United States and the Northwest African Berber Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States. These were the Ottoman provinces of Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis, which were enjoying a large autonomy, as well as the independent Sultanate of Morocco. The war was fought because U.S. President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay the high tributes demanded by the Barbary states and because they were seizing American merchant ships and enslaving the crews for high ransoms. It was the first declared war the United States fought on foreign land and seas.
Obama can learn a lot about how we should be dealing with Islamic extremists from Thomas Jefferson.

From Downtrend:

In 1786, Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain. They asked this ‘diplomat’ by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved her citizens and why the Muslims held such hostility toward this new nation, with which neither Tripoli nor any of the other Barbary Coast nations had any previous contact. The answer was quite revealing. Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja (the ambassador) replied that Islam:

“Was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur’an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

That is indeed quite revealing. Yet, America continued paying ransoms to these terrorists for the next fifteen years or so. Until Jefferson became President. Then, the Pasha (leader) of Tripoli sent a demand to the new leader for an immediate payment of $225,000 and $25,000 per year on an ongoing basis. Jefferson flatly refused, leading the Pasha to cut down the flagpole of the American consulate and declaring war on the United States. The rest of the terrorist states followed suit.

“The Ottoman Empire

The Great Mosque in Damascus, Syria ©The Ottoman Empire was the one of the largest and longest lasting Empires in history.

It was an empire inspired and sustained by Islam, and Islamic institutions.

It replaced the Byzantine Empire as the major power in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Ottoman Empire reached its height under Suleiman the Magnificent (reigned 1520-66), when it expanded to cover the Balkans and Hungary, and reached the gates of Vienna.

The Empire began to decline after being defeated at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and losing almost its entire navy. It declined further during the next centuries, and was effectively finished off by the First World War and the Balkan Wars.

One legacy of the Islamic Ottoman Empire is the robustsecularism of modern Turkey.

At its peak it included:

• Turkey
• Egypt
• Greece
• Bulgaria
• Romania
• Macedonia
• Hungary
• Palestine
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Syria
• Parts of Arabia
• Much of the coastal strip of North Africa

Why was the Empire successful?

The recipe for success

There were many reasons why the Ottoman Empire was so successful:

• Highly centralised
• Power was always transferred to a single person, and not split between rival princes
  • The Ottoman Empire was successfully ruled by a single family for 7 centuries.
• State-run education system
• Religion was incorporated in the state structure, and the Sultan was regarded as “the protector of Islam”.
• State-run judicial system
• Ruthless in dealing with local leaders
• Promotion to positions of power largely depended on merit
• Created alliances across political and racial groups
• United by Islamic ideology
• United by Islamic warrior code with ideal of increasing Muslim territory through Jihad
• United by Islamic organisational and administrative structures
• Highly pragmatic, taking the best ideas from other cultures and making them their own
• Encouraged loyalty from other faith groups
• Private power and wealth were controlled
• Very strong military
  • Strong slave-based army
  • Expert in developing gunpowder as a military tool
  • Military ethos pervaded whole administration

Origin

After Baghdad fell to the Mongols, the Seljuks declared an independent Sultanate in east and central Asia Minor.

In 1301, Uthman, an Uzbek of the Ottoman clan, overthrew the Seljuk aristocracy and proclaimed himself the Sultan of Asia Minor.

Rule of force

At first the rule of the Ottoman Sultans was insecure. To consolidate their Empire the Ottoman Sultans formed groups of fanatical fighters – the orders of the Janissaries, a crack infantry group of slaves and Christian converts to Islam.

The Ottomans inflicted a series of defeats on the declining Christian Byzantine Empire and then quickly expanded westward.

Constantinople

Constantinople was the heart of the Byzantine Empire. It became the capital of the Ottoman Empire when it was conquered in 1453 by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II.

Sultan Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Mehmet slaughtered many of the population and forced the rest into exile, later repopulating the city by importing people from elsewhere in Ottoman territory.

Mehmet renamed Constantinople Istanbul – the ‘city of Islam’ – and set about rebuilding it, both physically and politically, as his capital.

Economics

Istanbul became not only a political and military capital, but because of its position at the junction of Europe, Africa, and Asia, one of the great trade centres of the world. Another important city was Bursa, which was a centre of the silk trade.

Some of the later Ottoman conquests were clearly intended to give them control of other trade routes.

Among the goods traded were:

• Silk and other cloth
• Musk
• Rhubarb
• Porcelain from China
• Spices such as pepper
• Dyestuffs such as indigo

The economic strength of the Empire also owed much to Mehmet’s policy of increasing the number of traders and artisans in the Empire.

He first encouraged merchants to move to Istanbul, and later forcibly resettled merchants from captured territories such as Caffa.

He also encouraged Jewish traders from Europe to migrate to Istanbul and set up in business there. Later rulers continued these policies.

The siege of Constantinople

When Sultan Mehmet II rode into the city of Constantinople on a white horse in 1453, it marked the end of a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire. Earlier attempts to capture the city had largely failed – so why did the Ottomans succeed this time? What effect did the fall of Constantinople have on the rest of the Christian world?

Roger Crowley, author and historian; Judith Herrin, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King’s College London; and Colin Imber, formerly Reader in Turkish at Manchester University discuss these questions.

Effects of the fall of Constantinople

The capture of Constantinople ended the Byzantine Empire after 1100 years. The effect of this on Christian Europe was enormous.

One unexpected effect was that many scholars fled from the new empire and went to Italy, where they were influential in sparking off the Renaissance, and increasing trade with the east.

Although the Pope demanded a crusade to recapture Istanbul from the Muslims, the Christian nations failed to produce an army for him, and no attempt to retake the city was made.

The Muslim dominance of the trading centre of the former Constantinople increased the pressure on Western nations to find new ways to the East by going westwards. This eventually led to the expeditions of Columbus, Magellan, and Drake.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/ottomanempire_1.shtml

AMERICA HAS TO DECIDE WHAT  IT WANTS…ISLAM AND SHARIA LAW OR OUR US CONSTITUTION, AND CHRISTIANITY.  WE ARE LOSING AMERICA FAST…WAKE UP AMERICA AND VOTE THE BIBLE!  ELSE WE ARE DOOMED.

History Repeating Itself AGAIN!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-semitism-spike-in-germany-raising-old-fears/

I feel so much compassion for BiBi….Netanyahu looks so tired…So much weight on his shoulders. Obama should be ashamed of himself.

This blog from Holland reposting my post:  http://jitskesez.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/islam-by-lehmann/

I Watched Sid Roth on TBN yesterday..Jonathan Cahn…The mystery of the Shimitah…and ties in with the 4 Blood Moons….eclipses ..all on Jewish Holidays..  He went into talking about how disasters happen on these days, going back to the Tower of Babel all the way to 9/11…by this time 2015…A disaster with SOMETHING horrendous that is going to happen…and on Obama’s watch.   God is in charge!!!  For what we have done aborting (murdering) babies since 1973, to Islam..letting them infiltrate hate and all the antisemitism against the Jews…  BEWARE….and  with all this…the market will CRUMBLE! Christians and Jews MUST plan…save …and know what is coming!  We ARE in the end times!

http://sidroth.org/television/tv-archives/jonathan-cahn

For those who deal in financial planning…This is a warning of what is to come…There is too a download of the whole transcript on Sid’s site….The Rapture is coming soon.   No doubt …We just had a Jewish holiday, Sudat in Sept.  Next is the eclipse of the sun…on another holiday in January 2015, then the Passover in April 2015, and the last the Sudat  again Sept 2015…(4 Blood Moons) Add to this what Jonathan Cahn says about the Shimitah…GOD is moving…and HE is angry.  It would not surprise me one iota if that new 9/11 tower came down again…..But all this is going to be on Obama’s watch….God is moving. He will show the WORLD HE IS THE “I AM…NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES”….In Jesus name!  There is no other !  “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!”

From Decision Magazine:  http://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/october-2014/turning-the-tide-of-history/

As it once was…when America had God’s protection…Now the Government sends the IRS on Christians, and Billie and Franklin Graham.  Such arrogance!  In the face of God Almighty!!

Good vs. Evil

My Bible says, “By ye fruits ye shall know them.” If Islam is so wonderful, name me one thing “In the name of Islam” that has contributed FAVORABLY in this world? One!!! Has Islam started hospitals? Have they produced inventors ? Have they produced musicians, (like the Jews), have they produced medical cures? Have they produced honest intellectuals that can solve todays scientific problems, Have they produced vibrant schools and technology for helping mankind? Have they produced ONE THING THAT IS A BENEFIT TO THE WORLD? IF so name it (other than oil)? My Bible AND the Torrah, speaks of loving thy neighbor, while your religion is just a bloodbath. Shakespeare said “Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may  be aware of thee.” Christian and Jews didn’t go looking for this war with Islam, Islam went looking for us in their hate, and being aware of this evil, we will darned well fight to the end of your Caliphate…since you CHOOSE to live unschooled, and in ignorance trying to convert the world to a “stinking” thinking…rather than CONTRIBUTE good to the world..It is good vs. evil…and guess what, I read my Revelations ..GOD wins out…Not Allah and evil. You are no different than Hitler! I rest my case!  Islam came out of the loins of Esau, which means “the hairy one”..the only one God said in the Bible, “HIM do I hate!” The history of Islam, started 500 years AFTER CHRIST died on the Cross for the sins of mankind.  It bred terror and blood curdling wars ever since, including the Ottoman period, when the Brits finally had enough.  This is not an about being “politically correct” when good people, Christian, Jews, little children and anyone in their way, get killed and beheaded for “Allah”?

The truth is politicians have played games in Washington, and perhaps the public is fed up with being embroiled in wars. However, read Ecclesiastes chapter 3, one of my favorite books of the Bible:  “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the Heaven.  A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted.  A time to kill, an a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.  A time to weep, and a time to  laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time  to refrain.  A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, an a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”  

Now, is a time to go back in war, with an enemy that wants us in America as it’s next agenda.  Now is a time to stop keeping silent, and it’s a time to speak up and defend our liberties, our values, and above all God and our HOPE in America.  NOW is a time to step up to the plate and help other Christians, in Iraq etc, before this evil war is fought here on American soil….for I still believe we will be hit again.  God isn’t against all wars, as some are necessary.  This is one that is worse (if you can believe anything worse than the slaughter of 6 million Jews) than WWII.  If not fought THERE?  It will be HERE!  For everything that is good, sacred, and morally correct, we MUST make the right decisions. God bless America and Israel, who only wants her peace.  Lord watch over our nations, and lead us YOUR way!

I know that there are many Muslim leaders who denounce violent Islam, but can someone please explain why “the religion of peace” is so bloody? Why is Islamic terror so widespread — without a worldwide equivalent in any other religion today?

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/islam-is-the-most-violent-religion-in-the-world-but-lets-keep-calling-it-peaceful-anyway/

http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/israel-biblical-history/

Rev. Graham: “As I read the news, I can’t help but wonder if we’re in last hours”

I know many local pastors that are feeling the same way, as I agree with this too. We cannot out think God, and yet, we have no right either, as Christians speaking out against other ministries, lest you face eternal judgment. For it all rests with God Almighty as HE is the final judge and wants us to be united. Thank you Joel for all you do…and Franklin. My prayers with you.

Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog

“Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the international Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse and son of world-renowned preacher Billy Graham, said that given all the ‘bad news’ about the killing of Christians by Muslims in some countries, and attacks on Christians by the media and the government even in America, he cannot ‘help but wonder if we are in the last hours before our Lord Jesus Christ returns,'” reports CNS News.

“As I read the news, I can’t help but wonder if we are in the last hours before our Lord Jesus Christ returns to rescue His church and God pours out His wrath on the world for the rejection of His Son,” said Rev. Graham in a post on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) website.

“I don’t know if we have hours, days, months, or years—but as Christians, God calls us to take the truth of…

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A Time For Everything

In this world, now with so much corruption, wars, and hates, a society now that has shrunk with cell phones and technology; so many not even knowing what is going on in this world, nor do they care, when material things and tv and Hollywood “fame” lure them instead of God.  The more they get, the more they want.  However, everything we have ever gone through in history, has always had a price to pay.

Many Christians now got on the bandwagon with the “refugee” illegal children that have crossed our borders.  I do not take that stand.  I don’t know if I’m right or wrong, however, I am not for amnesty.  One exception leads to another, then another and on and on.

Many too, now have been against Israel for bombing the tunnels, with all the horrible casualties in Gaza.  I wish we could blow up and destroy the tunnels coming from Mexico in our border.  I wish our leaders in Washington, Republicans as well, would stop playing politics and put fences on our borders exactly like Israel has done.  War is not a game; and freedom isn’t free.

Whereby, I opened my Bible up to Ecclesiastes this morning reading in one of my favorite passages, from the 3rd chapter.   “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven:  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a  time to sew; a time to keep silence,  and a time to  speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (To misunderstand this Chapter is to misunderstand the purposes of God.  One can only know an understand these respective “times,” if one properly walks after the Spirit.” Romans 8:11.  )* Expositors Study Bible.

Also reading Solomon’s questions trying to reason out oppressions by others which increase vanity in the 4th Chapter.  “So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. ”  (It portrays a world that has banished God from its life; consequently, there is confusion, ignorance, and misery.  Such characterizes most of the present world.   The words, “so I returned,” mean “I resumed my investigation.”)

“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.”  (The tragedy is that the “dead,” without God, do not end their oppression but, in actuality, it increases, and forever.)  “Yea, better is he than both they, which has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. ”  (Solomon reasons, and despite his great Wisdom, that it would be better that man not even be born; however, all of this is reasoning without God!  If, in fact, there were no  God, no Saviour, and no “Comforter” [the Holy Spirit] then he argument would be valid; however there is a “Comforter”m, and HE is the Holy Spirit [John 14:16].)

We can go into Matthew 24 and the destruction of the Temple predicted, when in vs 4  Jesus said, “Take heed that no man deceive you. 5.  For many shall come in my name. 7. For nation shall rise against nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. ” (Few places in the world, if any will be exempt from these judgments).  Look now at the weather all over the globe. Have we ever seen  hurricanes hit Hawaii? Never!  “8 All these are the beginning of sorrows” (like birthing pains…the first half of the Tribulation).  “9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you..and you shall be hated of all nations in MY Name’s sake. “(Pertains to the midpoint of the Great Tribulation when the Antichrist  who Israel will think is the Messiah, will show his true colors  No nation will come to her rescue.. ) All of he hates of Hamas, Al Quada, Hezbollah,now ISIS. Russia even, Iran (Persia), will come against Israel and I believe America as well, for we have to back her.  “I will bless those who bless my people and curse those who curse her!”

Every eye in the world will behold the Second coming.  “27 or as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.” The biggest cataclysmic event known to man  the world has ever seen is coming, I believe soon.  Many many will be blinded to these Prophecies as they were in the days of Noah.  And God will destroy the wicked and the evil.  He will open the earth and swallow them up in earthquakes, sinkholes, and volcanos, storms and floods. (The earthquake 6.5 in Napa,CA.) Look up…Look up and take heed to the 4 blood moons Hagee wrote about, all on Jewish holidays..one has come and gone in an eclipse of the moon in April on Passover, another in October…then an eclipse of the sun January 2015, another eclipse of the moon April 2014 Passover, and the last October 2015 Sadat.  After this last, Israel went to war.  Watch…While Hollywood promotes sin and garbage, fame and frivolity, disasters will happen.  As an Islamic preacher Glenn Beck had in his video, proclaimed Jihad to the Jews, in a Chicago Mosque.  And I agree with Cheney that we will be attacked in America worse than 9/11 and it will be from within the US, home grown.  Look up….and if you really love the Lord, pray…For with all these threats, the Graham Evangelism, and Franklin are starting crusades and so is Bonke,  Christ for All Nations, and in America.  There is going to be a cataclysmic clash of good vs evil…the Crescent and the Cross /Star of David!

STAND just like Meriam Ibrahim did for her faith through persecution in Sudan.  She is a faithful servant to our Lord, under attack, did not fold and with two small babies as well.  This so called religion of “peace” Islam teaches that anyone who converts from Islam to another religion is to be put  to be put to death.  One of the Hadiths, or sayings of Mohammed, reads; “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Sahih Bukkari ol. 9, book 84, numher 57). Although more moderate Muslims may tend to overlook such statements, 27 countries consider apostasy from Islam illegal, and in 11 countries, it is punishable by death.  * from Decision magazine,  Billie Graham Evangelism Assoc.

General Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council was a member of the US Army’s Delta Force, having spent 36 years in the military, now an ordained minister of the Gospel of Christ.  He said, in Decision magazine, “We’ve got to be willing to stand strong and say, ‘If it costs me my 20,000-member church’, or ‘If it costs me as a business leader, like Hobby Lobby did, ” so be it. Let’s take up the Cross and carry it. “

“In order to stand and be counted in these perilous times, people must know what they believe.  It isn’t enough just to know the teachings of the Bible, but it is critical to deeply contemplate WHY we believe the Word.  Otherwise, it will likely cause us to fail when challenged by a determined adversary who wants to defeat and discredit our line or reasoning,. “

“We prepare for battle by knowing WHAT we believe and why, then we demonstrate moral courage by being willing to stand for what we believe, even when all those around are compromising. ”  Boykin BGEA  Lord I pray for the peace of Israel and around the world.  Show us your way Lord, and pour your spirit on our two countries.

 

 

 

Christians and Politics

I’ve just ran across a little booklet I’ve had for a long time, from Focus On The Family, by Chuck Colson, “Do Christians Belong in Politics?”  Everyone in my era knows who Chuck Colson is, but, you younger readers may not.  Charles served under President Richard Nixon from 1969-73, as counsel (lawyer) to the President.  He pleaded guilty to Watergate related offenses in 1974 and spent seven months in prison.  Colson was thereafter Chairman of Prison Fellowship, in Washington, D.C., an international prison outreach he founded in 1976.  What excerpts I will write here came from his book, Kingdoms in Conflict, a PDF version at the end. Wherefore, as I begin this, let me reiterate again, how terribly important it is for Christians especially, but ALL youth to learn and understand our history in America.  We were blessed beyond compare, with all the work our Founding Fathers did on our behalf.  We have a country, a Republic, with the US Constitution, the First Amendment and it’s Establishment Clause, that is the most amazing experiment known to mankind.  Embrace it and what you have been given.

For all those who came here from other countries, I beg you to learn what this great country is all about; and read, learn, and absorb, giving allegiance to OUR American Flag, and our laws, which produced the best democratic society in all of the world.  Therefore, too, let me add, that our Founding Fathers, based it all on a living God, Jesus Christ.  Who too, at one time, held “church” in the Rotunda of  the US Capital.  From George Washington, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, and my idol, James Madison, author of the huge volumes of Federalist Papers, these men, gave us their heart and very soul in reverence and toil, to give us the greatest foundation of laws known to mankind.  For it has “worked”, where all else failed in other countries.  When you come here “act” like an American and become a citizen.  I am too, bothered by small “communities” throughout America who still adhere to the countries and ways which they came from, whether Hispanic, Chinese, or Arab; when you come here, learn English, learn American laws, and history or go back where you came from.  BE an AMERICAN! WAVE an AMERICAN FLAG!  My grandparents did, coming from Germany in the early 1900’s. But then they came through Ellis Island and became citizens immediately.

Therefore, I am of the firm belief that all who call themselves Christians need to be involved in politics, else, it has the repercussions of electing those that could be a threat to our U.S. Constitution, laws/courts/church/state structures, with a horrific outcome. It is imperative that we take our God given rights to vote, and express our views VERY seriously.   America cannot afford to have our conservative Christians to take a backseat in apathy with the very fabric of our Republic at stake.   That is why I feel it is so imperative that you understand fully too, WHO and WHAT they stand for in EVERY candidate you vote for, and all that are over our airwaves promoting causes.  If it is not Biblical?  Don’t for it.  If someone that is on a  conservative ticket, is pro choice? You in all conscience under our scriptures, should not vote for him or her.  Use as Patrick Henry wrote, “Commonn Sense.”

From Colson:  “Both church and state assert standards and values in society; both seek authority; both compete for allegiance.  As members of both the religious and the political spheres, the Christian is bound to face conflict.

The conflict is particularly apparent in the Judeo Christian tradition because of the assertion that the God of both the Old and New Testament Scriptures is King.  That has been an offense to the proud and powerful since the beginning – and the reason Jews and Christians alike have been systematically persecuted.

The tension between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of man runs like an unbroken thread through the history of the past 2,000 years.  It began not long after Christ’s birth.  Herod, the Roman appointed King over the Jews and as vicious a tyrant as ever lived arrived from the East seeking the ‘King of the Jews’.  Though not a believer, Herod knew the ancient Jewish prophecies that a child would be born to reign over them, ushering in the Kingdom of peace and might.

The distinction Christ made is clear; both church and state have a clear and distinct roles ordained by God.  The issue is how to apply these teachings to each institution in today’s volatile world.  ‘Christ did not give the keys of the Kingdom to Caesar nor the sword to Peter,’ wrote a contemporary scholar.  In God’s provision the state is not to seize authority over ecclesiastical or spiritual matters, nor is the church to seek authority over political matters.  Yet the constant temptation of each is to encroach upon the other.

The passing-through mindset is represented by those who believe they are simply sojourners with loyalties only in the Kingdom beyond.  Patriotism has become a dirty word to them, particularly in the wake of Vietnam, ” (now Iraq and Afghanistan) “and they believe it their real duty to oppose the United States in just about every endeavor on just about every front.  These two extremes miss the kind of patriotism Augustine had in mind.  He believed that while as Christians we are commanded to love the whole world, practically speaking we cannot do so.” We cannot love an enemy either that wants to annihilate us and kill and destroy in the name of Allah!  “It is God’s calling that we ‘pay special regard’ to those around us in that state.  We love the world by loving the specific community in which we live.

C.S. Lewis likened the love of country to our love for the home and community in which we were raised.  It is a natural love of the place where we grew up, he said, ‘love of old acquaintances, of familiar sights, sounds, smells.’  He also pointed out however, that in love of country, as in love of family, we don’t love our spouses/children only when they are good.  Similarly, a patriot sees the flaws of his country, acknowledges them, weeps for them,  but remains faithful in love.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his love for his country even as he attempted to change laws. ‘Whom you would change, you must first love,’ he said. ”

Colson went on to say, “There are at least three compelling reasons Christians must be involved in politics and government.  First, as citizens of the nation-state, Christians have the same civic duties all citizens have; to serve on juries, to pay taxes, to vote, to support candidates they think Godly and best qualified.  They are commanded to pray for and respect governing authorities.  (For years Christian fundamentalists shunned the ‘sinful’ political process, even to the extent of not voting.  Whatever else may be said about it, the Moral Majority as well as the Christian Coalition, performed a valuable service bringing these citizens back to the mainstream.”  Now, though, these organizations have taken a backseat to the “Tea Party”.

“Third, Christians have an obligation to bring transcendent moral values into public debate.  All law implicitly involves morality; the popular idea that you ‘ can’t legislate morality’; is a myth. Morality is legislated every day from the vantage point of one value system or another.  The question is not whether we will legislate morality, but, whose morality we will legislate. ”  And abortion is front and foremost with this issue.

“I would like to end on a triumphant note, announcing that ultimate peace and harmony can be achieved through human efforts.  But, that utopian illusion is shattered by the splintered history of the human race.  Governments rise; even the most powerful fall.  Where then is hope?  It is in the fact that the Kingdom of God has come to earth – the Kingdom announced by Jesus Christ in that obscure Nazareth synagogue 2,000 years ago. It is a Kingdom that comes not in a temporary takeover of political structures, hut in the lasting takeover of the human heart by the rule of a holy God.  Thus in the midst of the darkness all around us, and habitual chaos of earth, a light penetrates the darkness.  It cannot be extinguished; it is the light of the Kingdom of God.”

And now, too, with all the conflicts in the Mid-east, as well as Israel, who we must pray for and back,  they too have the hand of the living God upon their lives, their country, and we need to pray for our Jewish brothers and sisters as never before.  We are a Judeo Christian Sovereign Society, and they too were part of America’s inception.  We could not have won our own Revolutionary War without the Jewish bankers God had in place.  Thank you Lord for what you do in each and every one of us.  Open our eyes, take off the blinders, and search your hearts for what God would have you do in these end times.  America needs salvation badly.  “If my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves , then will I save your land…”  Thank you God for using me this day…

Should Christians Be Involved in Politics

 https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/should-christians-be-involved-in-politics/

God-Government by Charles W Colson

http://www.amazon.com/God-Government-Charles-W-Colson/dp/0310277647

So Much For Our Great Awakening

http://www.breakpoint.org/search-library/search?view=searchdetail&id=1751

God and Government -Colson, PDF

 http://books.google.com/books?id=3vAW2y_-pjUC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=Do+Christians+Belong+in+Politics+by+Charles+W.+Colson&source=bl&ots=R7cIwlD7EH&sig=YSMxcqbTS-l57KoaShtsmrobAsw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jbjTU6b1EcO3yASHzIHIDA&ved=0CEUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Do%20Christians%20Belong%20in%20Politics%20by%20Charles%20W.%20Colson&f=false

The Holy Spirit Or Flesh

 There are so many Christians out there that have no knowledge whatsoever as to the works of the Holy Spirit. Does the Holy Spirit dwell in you?  Does “rivers of flowing waters” flow out of you?  When you engage in conversations with others are you lead by the Holy Spirit, or do you answer and speak impulsively in the flesh?  So many are confused with the term, “being led by the Lord”.

When Saul was on the road to Tarsus, and was a slave trader at the time, doing the work of evil, God in the manefestation of the HOLY SPIRIT, came upon him and spiritually, knocked him to the ground in Holy Revelation, and when he got up, not only was he saved, but he was filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, (Acts 10:44) and he was then Paul, the Apostle, who ministered to all around him.  Same with John Newton, who too, was a slave trader and was a wicked man, until the power of the HOLY SPIRIT came upon him.  Out of his awakening and salvation, he wrote, Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, to save a wretch like me.  Same, then as the history showed with Martin Luther, a devout Catholic, who gave up self, and struggled deeply in deep depressions and angst, because he knew that all the works, scrubbing floors in an abbey, and pleading with God, that he knew he hadn’t gained salvation, and struggled for years and years, til finally, the HOLY  SPIRIT fell upon him, and he knew that he knew he was saved by grace.   And out of that the Lutheran Church, was born, with an outcry from Catholic bureaucrats of the time.

Who is the Holy Spirit?  Acts 2-4 ” And when the Day of Pentacost” (where Pentacostal originated from) “was fully come they were all in one accord in one place” (not in the upper room but the Temple) “And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the HOLY SPIRIT and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance.   We have no power against the enemy, Satan, if we do not have an indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God.  For we can rationalize and reason, until hell freezes over, but if we do not have the person of the HOlY SPIRIT in us, we are in the flesh in all our decisions, and day to day tasks, and have absolutely no discernment whatsoever.

The following was a Baptist teaching by Charles Stanley..and following 2 teaching tapes by Pentacostal Benny Hinn.   May they bless you immensely and may the Holy Spirit just fill you and spill out touching others.  Thank you Jesus…be blessed!

Walking in the Holy Spirit

http://www.intouch.org/broadcast/this-week-on-tv

Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

By Dr. Charles Stanley

The phrases “filled with the Holy Spirit” and “Spirit filled” in every case but one (see Ephesians 5:18) refer to the initial entry of the Holy Spirit into a person’s life. Jesus promised the coming of the Holy Spirit. When He arrived, Luke records that the people in the Upper Room were “filled with the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit came to indwell them.

After the book of Acts, the filling of the Holy Spirit is not mentioned again except for the one instance in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. There, however, his grammar and word order indicate that he has something in mind other than the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit. As pointed out, he is talking about surrendering to the influence of the Spirit.

Now all of this raises two questions. First, why aren’t there any more references to the filling of the Spirit in the New Testament? Surely in application-oriented books such as Romans and James, there should be some mention of the believer’s responsibility to be filled with the Spirit! But there isn’t. After the book of Acts, the whole concept of being filled with the Spirit drops out of sight except for once in Ephesians.

In light of that, the second question that begs to be asked is, what does the remainder of the New Testament have to say about the believer’s relationship with the Holy Spirit? If being filled with the Holy Spirit is not emphasized, what is?

These are two very important questions. Much confusion has stemmed from people’s refusal to deal with the implications of the biblical data or their ignorance of that data. But there is no cause for confusion.

A Time of Transition

When the Holy Spirit arrived on the day of Pentecost, there was tremendous excitement. Keep in mind, the focus of that excitement was His arrival and the manifestations of His presence through those He had come to indwell. The first manifestations were not character oriented. They were sign oriented. The Bible doesn’t say that after being filled with the Holy Spirit, those in the Upper Room went out with great patience, kindness, gentleness, and so on. It says they immediately began talking in other tongues. In that way, the unbelievers in the city knew that something supernatural had taken place.

Initially, it appeared that He came to indwell only those gathered in the Upper Room (see Acts 2:3-4). Soon, however, other believers were filled with the Holy Spirit (see Acts 4:31; 9:17). Everybody was not filled with the Holy Spirit at the same time. It happened in stages. Some have described it as a wave that slowly swept over the Christian community. During that time, some had Him, and some didn’t. That is why the author of Acts described some people as full of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 7:55). He wasn’t talking about their yielding to the Spirit. How would he know that? He was talking about the fact that the Holy Spirit had definitely come to dwell in them.

At some point, not too long after the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came to indwell all believers. Two things lead us to this conclusion.

1. There are no other recorded instances of individuals being filled with or receiving the Holy Spirit—apart from salvation—after Acts 19.

Paul encountered some believers who had never heard of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 19:2). He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” Why did he ask them that? Because apparently by that time the Holy Spirit was filling people when they believed. The waiting was over!

When the fellows informed Paul that they didn’t know anything about the Holy Spirit, Paul was a little confused. The men were clearly an exception to what had become the rule by that time. He asked, “Into what then were you baptized?” It was his way of saying, “How in the world could you not know there was a Holy Spirit?”
The men had come to faith under the teaching of John the Baptist. After John was taken off the scene, those faithful men continued preaching his message: The Messiah is coming! Don’t you know they were amazed to hear all that had transpired in their absence?

The book of Acts continues for nine more chapters. But there are no other recorded instances of people being filled with the Spirit. Within a few years following the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit had swept through the world, filling those who had put their faith in Christ.

2. The New Testament authors specifically state that all believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

In an open letter to the church in Corinth, Paul wrote, “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13)

Paul felt free to use the term all because he believed every believer had by that time been indwelt or filled by the Holy Spirit. He used two figures of speech to describe the filling of the Spirit. We have all been baptized into the body by the Spirit, and we have all been made to drink of the Spirit.

In an open letter to Christians everywhere, the apostle John wrote, “By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit” (1 John 4:13).Like Paul, John believed that believers everywhere were filled with the Spirit. The presence of the Holy Spirit is a source of assurance. We know we belong to Christ because His Spirit dwells in us. Without Him, there is no assurance.

Functions of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is not as mysterious and illusive as some would have us believe. The Holy Spirit is an integral part of our Christian experience. But because we are so unfamiliar with His ways, we miss Him. As long as we miss Him, we certainly can’t follow Him. And, you guessed it, as long as we can’t follow Him, we can’t experience the wonderful Spirit-filled life.

To get you thinking in the right direction, here is a list of a few tasks the Holy Spirit endeavors to accomplish in your life on a daily basis. Take a minute now to familiarize yourself with this list. Next time you experience one of these things, stop and thank the Holy Spirit. In doing so, you will develop a heightened awareness of His activity in your life. And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, the greater your awareness, the easier it will be to recognize Him and follow Him.

The Holy Spirit . . .

• convicts (see John 16:8-11)
• illuminates (see John 16:12-15)
• teaches (see John 16:12-15)
• guides (see Romans 8:14)
• assures (see Romans 8:16)
• intercedes (see Romans 8:26)
• directs (see Acts 20:22)
• warns (see Acts 20:23)

Related Resources

• How does the Holy Spirit help me serve?
• What gifts does the Holy Spirit give me for service?
• Learn About Your Spiritual Gift

 Benny Hinn The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Part 1

 http://youtu.be/vyVdWuHexdE

Benny Hinn The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Part 2

http://you.tu.be/vbgJEG:Y-G8

 

 

Once Saved Always Saved?

I’m addressing this issue as have never believed that “once saved is always saved.”  Good works, too, does not earn us salvation either.   I’ve known some “Christians” in my life that always had that “Holier than thou” attitude.  No one is right, except them.  Yet, everything out of their mouth is an attack and NEGATIVE, spewing nothing but false self-righteousness and evil.   If someone you know is like this?  Stay away, lest they pull you down to their level, for they are doing the work of Satan…not God Almighty.

Mathew 7:21-23“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

2Peter 2:20-22 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.

2 Timothy 2:11-12 The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; Ezekiel 18:24-26 But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die. “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.

Hebrews 10:26-28 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

1John 2:3-4 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Romans 11:22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Romans 2:6-8 He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Hebrews 6:1-20 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come.

Revelation 2:4-7 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ John 10:28-29 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hands. John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 6:50-71 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Revelation 3:1-6 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Acts 2:38-39 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Mark 11:25 “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Mathew 24:13 “But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Hebrews 3:7-15  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”(Heaven).

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 “For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.”

John 67-71 “So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.”

Matthew 24:24 “For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.”

Revelation 22:19 “And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”

Philippians 1:6 “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Meaning the work continues our whole life..and if  not, we don’t make it.

Ephesians 2:18 “For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.”  All of us who  call ourselves “saved” should be of ONE mind and SPIRIT lest Jesus is NOT in us!

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your OWN doing; it is the gift of God.”    If you do not operate under the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you are operating in the FLESH, and the devil himself, no prayer, no God.

Galations 5:4 “You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. ”  And lose your salvation…which was all in vain.

John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”  Wherefore if you act in your everyday life, and open your mouth before praying about your actions?  You are in the “world” and “flesh” and are an abomination to God.

Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?”  Again Satan wins out in a lot of lives that “think” they are Christian, while Jesus sees the truth.

Psalm 69:28 “Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.”  Again, once saved is not always saved.

Exodus 32:33 “But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.”  Not make it to Heaven.

Jude 1:5-6 ” Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—”   All will be judged.

Titus 3:5 “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”

Romans 3:23-26 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”  HE is the only way to eternal peace.

John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”  And if we still by our actions do the things of the “world” and not “God and His Word”, then our religion is in vain, as we are doing the works of the devil.

Psalm 50:22-23 “Mark this, then, you who forget God, LEST I TEAR YOU APART, and there be none to deliver! The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”   Meaning if you don’t walk in LOVE and Jesus…HE will “tear” your apart, and tests and HIS judgment as HE will be the ADVOCATE of all those you hurt and speak ill of…period!

1 Peter 3:18-22 “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.”

Matthew 7:21-22 ” Not every one who says unto Me, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but, he who does the WILL of MY FATHER which is in HEAVEN.  Many will say to ME in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name? ..and done wonderful works?   These “things” arae not the criteria, but rather faith in Christ and what He did on that CROSS; meaning IT NEEDS TO BE A DENIAL OF SELF!  Revelation 3:15-16 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot, so then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of my mouth.”  Vomit you out… This the most important scripture…says it all…IT IS DIVINE REJECTION.

God cannot save the self righteous.   Luke 18:11-14 (Those who exalts him or herself.  Trusting yourself above God, means you think  your a “little God”, and He cannot save you.)  Matthew 5:20, John 8:44. Those who have “religion” but not righteousness (trees without fruit), Sounding brass!  “American Idol”, that have “other God’s before them instead of the one true God!  A Pharisee is Holier than thou, which means spirited, doctrinal positions, and has NOTHING TO DO WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS!

In this anything goes, pop culture, politically correct, hateful, society, living for Christ and keeping His  word is not an easy task.  It requires REPENTANCE, AND GETTING ON  OUR KNEES PETITIONING THE THRONE OF GOD! And when your down there remember too 1 Corinthians.  Verse 2:14 says, “But the natural man receives not the things from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, “(Just as some teach falsely that the gifts of the spirit in Acts are of the devil,  yet remember this, without these gifts it is the DEVIL that comes out of us..not the Holy Spirit.  I Coe 6:9 says “Do you not know that the unrighteous shall NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?l BE NOT DECEIVED.”   In Chapter 10:12 Paul issues a warning …Let him who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall..”  And lastly, all of Chapter 13 on love.  DO YOU EDIFY , LIFT UP, LOVE,  YOUR RELATIVES, FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS, AS CHRIST?  Or when you see someone you tear down, doing the work of the devil?   Do you cast the first stone, refusing to take out the boulder in your own eye?   Lastly, Jesus said, Matt. 10:14 “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not to send peace, but a SWORD.”  For the entrance of Christ into this world, when He died on the CROSS, manifested evil in the heart.  We can expect to be attacked for the CROSS…and the Blood He shed.  So in all you do, simply ask, am I tearing down with a critical spirit, or am I lifting this person up and edifying them?  Do I walk after the flesh and the things  of the world? Or am I walking in the Holy Spirit?  Out of our mouths can come cursing or blessings.  Do you bless?  Trouble is that no one in this youth generation fears God anymore.

From another post I wrote, quoting the preaching of Pastor John Hagee, “Righteousness People God Can’t Save”:

 https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/righteousness-people-god-cant-save/ http://www.openbible.info/topics/losing_your_salvation

“Selfies”, “Perfect” People And Abuse

I have written here before on my disdain for this pop culture, now also this new term, “selfies”, which is exactly the opposite of the teachings of Christ.  I also include in this, as I’ve written before, today’s culture hating those of us “old.” Jacob was a cheater and had a limp, Peter had a temper, David had an affair and even had Bathsheba’s husband killed, Noah got drunk leaving himself easy prey, Jonah ran from God, Paul (as Saul) was a murderer and slave trader, Gideon was insecure, Miriam was a gossiper, Martha was a worrier, Thomas was a doubter, Sarah was impatient and doubted God, Elijah was depressed and suicidal after fighting Jezebel, Moses stuttered, Zaecheus was short, Sampson was easily deceived and taken in by Dalila, Abraham was old, Job had pride, as God allowed him to be tested, Lazarus was dead, and Judas betrayed Jesus.  God doesn’t call the “perfect” and the “qualified”, He qualifies those He called!  No one was EVER perfect, except our Lord.  However, God loved David, and he was the apple of God’s eye.  David’s cries to the Lord repenting are all through Psalms.  For that is what God wants us to do…repent.

“We repent of tarnishing YOUR glory with out bitterness, meanness, unforgiveness, pridefulness, unkindness, rudeness, SELF-righteousness or any sin .Verbal and emotional abuse .” YES it is ALL SIN..” that makes others think less of YOU.  We repent of gibing others the impression that YOU tolerate sin because we do.  We REPENT of our arrogance and pride that have led us to think we are sufficient in ourselves..  by Anne Graham Lotz 

Many young people today have such an aversion to elderly, their parents, teachers, those in authority, and our society of rules and regulations.   A lot in the news today too, is the infliction of pain and bullying in schools, some that even led to suicide of the victim.  There is so much violence, sex, “meism” , self, money,  idolatry, and even occult in the media now, whereby, nothing is left to the imagination anymore.  The most perverse act is held up as the norm now.  We have no leaders that know how to lead, no one moral,  to lead an example for youth, no character, manners, politeness, no one humble, integrity, or honesty anymore.   Parents don’t set an example, teachers don’t teach, there are no scruples, the child is left on his own, women don’t act like women, but whores, or aggressive loud tarts, while men go their own illegal way in gangs, refusing to work or take responsibility for the children they bring into this world.  In other words anything goes…and we have become Sodom and Gomorrah.    And we wonder why there are so many divorces, murders, and crime and self-destruction.  It is the exact opposite of the teachings of Christ, but rather our media, Hollywood, and even our Government are doing the very work of the devil himself. Emotional (or psychological) abuse consists of the intentional infliction of mental anguish or distress on the older adult.

It can involve threatening, intimidating, insulting or demeaning an individual; for example, “If you wet yourself one more time, you’re going to the nursing home,” or “If you don’t sign this, I’m not going to give you your pain medication.” “Everybody yells at everybody at some point in time,” notes Lee Stones, a gerontologist based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and regional consultant for the Ontario Strategy to Combat Elder Abuse. “It’s not the occasional unkind word but continual marginalizing, minimizing and yelling that constitutes abuse.” Emotional abuse can also include isolating a person from friends and relatives, not allowing him or her to have contact (either by talking on the phone or receiving visitors) with people outside the immediate household. Neglect takes place when, intentionally or unintentionally, a caregiver does not support the physical, emotional and social needs of the older person. It can include failure to provide food or medication, health services, or even an enriching environment; for example, confining him or her to an empty room with nothing to do. Neglect is usually the result of caregiver overload or ignorance concerning appropriate caregiving strategies.

“Someone might take in an elderly person to live with his or her family, but the caregivers themselves may already be overwhelmed with work responsibilities or health problems of their own and not be able to provide proper care for the elderly person,” says Sharon Brangman, division chief of geriatrics at the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. In other situations, caregivers simply do not know what things they should be doing to properly care for the older individual. In extreme cases, abandonment occurs, wherein a caregiver totally deserts the elderly or dependent person. “This is where you’ve taken over care of an elderly person and you just can’t handle it anymore,” explains Laura Mosqueda, director of the Elder Abuse Forensic Center in Orange County, California. “So you might drop him off at an emergency room or you might take off for another state and not look back.”  Then, too in the news are many murder cases of elderly, killed by a 40-50 year old son, too lazy to work and robbing a parent who should be respected instead of tormented.

The Bible and Treating the Elderly with respect

http://www.bible.ca/f-elderly-treatment.htm

“I read recently in a newspaper that instances of child abuse were rising in the United States, but instances of abuse of the elderly were rising twice as fast. This is one of the indications that treatment of the elderly needs to be an area of great concern to all of us. There seems to be two views of age in today’s society. The most prevalent view seems to be that of repulsion. Age is looked upon as an incurable disease. We fight against aging, we do not want to be reminded of what time can do to us. Thus, the aged elderly person is cast from society. They are made to feel useless, a burden to family, and often are cast off, avoided except on rare occasions of birthdays and Christmas morning. Another view is that age is beautiful. That age demands respect and dignity. That the elderly are giants of the forest, wise, full of experience, worthy of our praise and adoration. This is the view the Bible holds on age. In Proverbs 23:22, Solomon exhorts his son to “harken to your Father who begot you and do not despise your mother when she is old.”

In the story of Job, we find that Elihu the younger of Job’s friends waited until the older men had spoken to Job. He also treated his communication to Job with admiration and respect, since Job was his elder. In Exodus 20:12 we find the commandment – to honor your -father and mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. In Mark 7:10-12, we find Jesus saying, “He who speaks evil of his father and mother, let him surely die.” He goes on to say that the Pharisees had made void the law of God by their disgraceful treatment of the elderly. I am reminded of Caleb, who at the age of 85 came to Joshua and took possession of that inheritance he had earned. Age demands an inheritance. Old age should be a time for ego integrity. The elderly have made their mark on life. They have performed well, and have confidence that their life was well spent in raising children, making the world a better place, and in training the next generation. They have a wealth of wisdom to share, experience to relate, expressions and advice on life to share. They await new experiences, and are getting prepared for the last experience of this life, and for a whole new world beyond death. They have earned our love and respect. Nature herself teaches us that age demands dignity and honor. The older the redwoods, the more majestic. The older wines and cheeses are, the more they are praised and honored for taste. Should it not hold true that the older a man, the more he is to be appreciated by others. I am convinced that young people are missing one of the greatest opportunities available when they do not get to know the elderly and associate with them. All too soon these towering pillars of faith and wisdom will pass from our midst and the loss will be tremendous.

In closing, let us remember 4 lessons that might make all the difference in the world on our view of the elderly. First, age does not mean that someone is useless. I have been shamed by the failure of the young to use the talents of the elderly. I am inspired by their fighting spirit. In our efforts to destroy them we have tried to make them useless. They have fought back saying, “I exist. I have something to offer you if you will accept it.” I have been amazed at the elderly people who have accepted challenges of work in the church and done fantastic work. Get to know your elderly in your neighborhood or family. You might be surprised by their wit, humor, and their ability to guide you. Secondly, allow them to share with you their life. Some of the greatest lessons I learned about life, I learned from my grandfather.  He was 86 and full of cancer, yet he taught me some lessons on living. He was full of humor, wisdom, and was a strong man of faith in God. His advice I will never forget. I am reminded of Timothy as he learned from the Apostle Paul, an old warrior instructing the new recruit. Had Timothy now allowed Paul to share his life with him, the church might have been hurt, even destroyed where Timothy was concerned. Thirdly, age carries with it only one promise. That when we are old we will receive the respect, dignity and honor that is due us. That someone will care and want to return the love and care that was given so long ago to others. It is the Golden Rule in effect. They now want others to do unto them what they have done unto others. Fourthly, remember – growing old is not a disease or a woe to humanity. It is our right. It is a privilege allowed by God. It is an opportunity to be useful and productive a little longer in the service of our family and of our God. Truly age is beautiful.”

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Elder-Abuse/

A Christian View of Divorce and Abuse

Keeping the faith in an abusive marriage

Published on April 20, 2012 by Randi Kreger

“One of my Welcome to Oz community support groups is WTOChristian. Often, members feel conflicted about divorcing an abusive spouse because of what the Bible says. Here is what the book Keeping the Faith: Guidance from Christian Women Facing Abuse by Marie M. Fortune (1987, HarperCollins) says about the subject:

We have always taught within the Christian tradition that the marriage covenant is broken by adultery or sexual unfaithfulness in marriage. The main reason that adultery is a problem is that it results in broken trust between man and wife. If the promise is made to be monogamous, then adultery breaks that promise. But we should realize that there are other kinds of unfaithfulness. Bringing violence into one’s marriage is also unfaithfulness. Once violence has entered a relationship, trust is destroyed. If you can’t trust your [spouse] not to hit you, what can you trust?

Anyone] who brings violence and abuse into [his or her] family life is putting asunder the marriage covenant that God has blessed. The violence is what breaks up the marriage, and the one responsible for that violence is the one responsible for the breakup. The actual divorce is in fact only the public acknowledgement of the private truth that the marriage has long been since destroyed by abuse. You are taking steps to let other people know what has happened to remove yourself from a destructive situation and get on with your life. There may be things in your past that you regret having done or that you are not proud of. There may be sins of which you have not repented. You may not go to church regularly nor do all the things that you think make a good Christian. But no matter what kinds of things you have done or neglected to do, you do not deserve to be abused, and God does not send this abuse to you as punishment. This book is written to remind you that God is present to you even now, and that there are Christians who do understand your pain, your fear, and your doubt. We will not turn away from you; we will not abandon you. We will walk with you as you seek to end the abuse in your life. Now, does “abuse” mean only physical abuse? I don’t think so. Here is the dictionary definition of “abuse”: 1. To use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one’s authority. 2. To treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a horse; to abuse one’s eyesight. 3. To speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign. 4. To commit sexual assault upon.”  end… It is therefore, relevant, and even urgent, that you have a cut-off point in this society now that has become so evil, and get into the word of God.   The Bible is our only salvation, wisdom, and truth on how we our to conduct our lives, in a selfish, greedy, warring world.  God, I ask you to reach the hearts of those that read this, and to seek God’s wisdom on their behavior, and actions in this the end times.  It can’t get much worse, but, God’s judgment and accountability are coming soon.   Help us Lord, in these evil times discern YOUR will upon all our lives, and help us to live accordingly.  Thank you Jesus…

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stop-walking-eggshells/201204/christian-view-divorce-and-abuse http://www.christianpost.com/news/caring-for-the-elderly-50611/ http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication/elder-abuse

What Price Freedom

 

“The greatest lever for change is awareness!” author unknown

On this 4th of July, America’s celebration of our Constitution and the one day of the year we celebrate our freedom and patriotism,  I am reminded of what is at stake, and what perpetuates our success or failures.  I am forever thankful when a brother, sister in Christ, a political or Christian leader, a world event, even a secular movie or tv documentary, or situation generates this amazing nudge by the Holy Spirit who gratefully puts all these thoughts together for what I hope is clarity.  I love my America, our veterans and those in active duty,  all that we have sacrificed,  for the freedoms we must not lose.

Glenn Beck is right about President Woodrow Wilson.  But, more so, the murky politics that urged him on, as well as a very alive Socialist party in our early 20th century.  I am not going into a heavy dose of this, enough has been written and can be searched easily.  But, in 1981, there was a movie out called “Reds” with Warren Beatty playing Jack Reed, the famed Socialist journalist who died in 1921.

Through  media, everyone has heard of the story glamorized of “Anastasia”.  She was while her father was alive, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (The Romanov’s) who was executed with her family in an extrajudicial killing  by members of the Cheka, the Bolshevik Secret Police, July 17, 1918.  Til today, there were rumors and movies of her possible escape, since the graves of her family were not revealed until 1991!  During her young life there was a traveling peasant called a “Holy” man, Grigori Rasputin.  Another who was viewed evil and hit headlines even in America.  By 1917 the family was under house arrest as the Bolsheviks approached, then murdered. (KGB like Putin during the Cold War.)

Enter American Socialist Journalist Jack Reed, who wrote “Ten Day’s That Shook the World”…(and it’s still shaking now with Arabs.)  The “Workers Union, and Socialism started way back then.  Imagine, the Socialist movement, in our Democratic Party, the idealism of Obama, started 97 years ago!  HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF!  The Socialist movement gained ground here by illiterate workers wanting to overthrow Capitalism and free trade, our Constitution, our Founding Fathers and the Federalist papers, our freedom. Instead Wilson at that time lead us into WWI, lying to Americans.

During the Bolchevik Revolution  4 million Russian people died!  They had no freedom but bread lines, eating only bread and cabbage.  Many died of typhoid, KGB firing squads and it was a system that could not work then, nor could it work now!  Meanwhile Reed was on a quest, and went to Russia, sickly too, with only 1 kidney, and eventually died there in 1921. The Bolchevik’s wouldn’t let him come home to America, since he was such a good organizer, and WAY BACK THEN, THEY WANTED TO EXPAND THIS MOVEMENT AS OBAMA DOES, TO THE MID EAST!  When Reed traveled to these Arab countries, in this movement that caught fire, there were effigies of Uncle Sam with our American Flag, being burned.   And who gave it the name, to motivate, of “Holy” War?  The Russian Bolcheviks.

So as my previous post said, 6 million Jews with all their talents and genius, were slaughtered to be replaced by the Arabs!   And Russia started it then, and has their hands in it now. Socialism didn’t work then, nor did it work then with us, when we had the great depression, with bread lines here just like in Russia…AFTER WWI.  Think about all that is coming from Obama..it is a repeat , and even while he fights with Putin, they have EXACTLY the same ideologies…Marxism, Socialism, with 70 members of House and Senate in the American Socialist Party, including Harry Reed.   Unfortunately, Glenn Beck didn’t delve deep enough, as Reed was a master at deceit and organizing this movement. which is Communism.

I might add, that Beatty was brilliant in “Reds”, but, couldn’t have been that prolific acting Reed’s speeches, without believing exactly in everything, coming out of Russia at the time, then and now.  It is Communism.  Beatty received awards from “Americans for Democratic Action”, a member of Brennan Center for Justice, Center for National Policy, Progressive Majority, Counsel on Foreign Relations, even attends the World Economic Forums at Davos, Switzerland.  Needless to say, Beatty along with his sister, Shirley McClain, and three forths of Hollywood, are Communist.  And who influences, has the monies to donate to the Democratic Party promoting their Communist agenda? Hollywood. Beware of what you watch and your children.  Look at these organizations above, that is a lot of influence, that we need to generate with intelligent, honest CHRISTIAN, conservatives!  WE NEED that voice! And make no mistake, we need also from our pulpits, organizational skills and God’s voice and will to perpetuate!  Imagine Beatty was brought up Baptist?  Wow!  Warren, will you ever be judged by God Almighty!

I know that I know that God has tried to wake America up and if we don’t listen we lose all our freedoms, and possibly our Constitution, and it could be replaced by Sharia law and Communism.  Have we got on our knees and repented and interceded for America, our leaders, and who we vote for?  The Establishment won’t cut it.  God will not hold us sinless if we keep silent and SURRENDER TO NO ONE ELSE BUT HIM!  If it is evil, we STAND and be vocal!  Email your Congress, Senate, local Governors and leaders…even this President.  I do. I fear no man…only God.

I love the prayers of Anne Graham Lotz, I have been receiving by email this week.

” We worship You, Lord Jesus Christ, for YOU are the incarnation of God’s wisdom.  Your thoughts higher than ours.  We repent of our attitude of familiarity (Daddy) with you that has caused us to lose our reverential fear of You, and thus we have not even the beginning of wisdom with which to handle the vast knowledge we possess.  We repent of complaining as we wring our hands in despair, thinking our nation and world are falling apart when they are really falling into place…right at your feet.  We repent of striving to control our own destiny, or our church’s ministry, or our nation’s priorities so that they conform to our agenda.  We repent of feeling entitled to and demanding what someone else has earned, (and our Government) instead of taking responsibility for ourselves and our families as we trust YOU.   Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive all…  “That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which HE exerted in Christ when He raised HIM from the dead and seated HIM at HIS right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age, but also in the one to come.  And God placed in all things under HIS feet..” Ephesians 1:19-22.

My prayer too, for the America I love, Israel, it’s safety, and this world that is exploding, and God’s hand on our whole earth. Prayer too for Warren Beatty that he renounce his wicked Communist ways, and come back to the God of his childhood, Jesus.  I pray too for an implosion of revelation in Hollywood, our left Media, and our left politicians, to repent as their idealogies hold no ground, only destroys and never worked in almost 100 years. I lastly pray Lord for Revival..and let all know YOU are the ONLY answer. Amen

 http://www.annegrahamlotz.com/resources/daily-devotional/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/03/nyregion/the-story-of-reds-and-the-reed-house.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

Define Tolerance

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2011. It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe – and possibly to the rest of the world.

THIS WAS IN A SPANISH NEWSPAPER: “EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ” By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

“I walked down the street in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz … We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance,  crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.  (Proverbs says “Pride cometh before the fall.”)

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful  Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.  

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for  backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe (Germany) . A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves. Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.

It is now more than seventy years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This was an e-mail that was sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six  million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were ‘murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated.’ Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.  

How many years will it be before the attack on the ‘World Trade Centre’ ‘NEVER HAPPENED’  because it offends some Muslim in the United States ? If our Judeo-Christian heritage is offensive to  Muslims, they should pack up and move to Iran  , Iraq or some other Muslim country. “

 AND BE NOT DECEIVED, FOR AMERICA TOO IS GOING TO BE ATTACKED AGAIN, AND GOD IS ALLOWING!   BY MUSLIMS, AND ALONG WITH PASTOR JOHN HAGEE’S BOOK THE FOUR BLOOD MOONS, IT IS A SIGN…AND THIS WRITER PREDICTS IT WILL HAPPEN BY THE END OF OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY, AND THE BLOOD WILL BE ON HIS HANDS FOR LETTING  ALL THESE MUSLIMS IN OUR CHRISTIAN COUNTRY.   THE BIBLE PROPHECIES ARE BEING LIVED OUT RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES.   GOD IS STILL IN CHARGE AND IS ALLOWING, AND WE WILL HAVE THE GREATEST REVIVAL FOR OUR JUDEO CHRISTIAN NATION THAT THE WORLD WILL EVER SEE…OUR MESSIAH IS COMING!!!  

The German people were lied to by a madman named Hitler and were totally blinded.  After our troops went in Germany at the end of WWII, the German people were faced with piles and miles of dead skeletal bodies, and had to bury them all by hand, including children.  It took Germany 40 years to rebuild their cities and the carnage left behind that all these unschooled, hateful Muslims in their Caliphate that is happening now, want to lie to you now in America.   I will continue to sound the warning, (not claiming to be a prophet of God), but just one who hears God say, “sound the alarm!”  We will be attacked again, Dick Cheney was right. It is not “if” but “when”.  Learn your history.  Look up Muslim history  and pray for innocents now in Europe, and our allies who allowed Christianity; Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan..our allies, who I fear are next after Syria and Iraq.  Will you STAND and PRAY with me for God’s will to be done?  Pray for our Jewish friends in Israel and our Christians in Egypt.   The world is like combustion, ready to erupt, and  God is allowing,  HE has a plan…and there will be victory, but the cost can be great.  Look at the three young Jewish teens just murdered and found in a ditch.  Lord, send your army…put an end to this in Jesus name.   

 Persecuted: These photos show the liberation of Dachau.

The dead before being loaded on trains for disposal.

 

 

 

Warning to America

The following is from Ezekiel 3:17-21 when God made Ezekiel a watchman, as His prophet.  A watchman warns people before impending doom or tragedies that happen when peoples or a country do not heed the word of God.  God always sends His prophets to warn so that His people will turn from their wicked ways, as He will also in Revelations.  I am therefore applying this scripture and sounding the alarm.

Ez. 3:17 “Son of man I have made you a watchman unto my House of Israel; therefore HEAR the word at MY mouth, and give them warning from me.  18 When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die’ and you do not give them warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in his iniquity; but his blood will I require will be on your hand.  19. Yet if you WARN the wicked, and he turn not from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity ; but you have delivered YOUR soul.  20.  Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die; BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM WARNING, he shall die in his stink and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand! “ (ok?  GOD mandates us to lead the lost to HIM…He mandates us also to warn of what is coming in the supernatural….ie all that is happening in the world now in the Mid East…etc.) “21 Nevertheless, if you don’t warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is WARNED, also YOU HAVE DELIVERED YOUR OWN SOUL.“

Pastor Burned By Muslims Warns America About Impending Islam

Pastor Umar Mulinde was born in Uganda to a Muslim family with his father being an area-Muslim leader. But after Mulinde converted to Christianity he was attacked for his new faith. Mulinde went on record to tell his story and issue a warning to America. Because he was raised as a Muslim Mulinde says, “I know whatever a good Muslim and a true Muslim… and a leader in Islam must know.” But once he converted to Christianity, he was hated by the Muslims in his community. Mulinde was called out one night by a voice in the darkness. “Pastor,” the man called. As Mulinde turned to respond to the voice, half of his face was covered in acid by the man in the dark. In an effort to escape, Mulinde turned and ran for help. Half of his face and part of the back of his head was badly burned by the acid. But despite this, Mulinde still has hope.

A tearful moment happens at 4 minutes when he says, “I realized, I had fallen in the hands of my enemies… It’s not because of this [pointing to his scarred face] that I am crying. It’s because of doing something right and then you’re paid something wrong.” When asked why he wasn’t dead when he should be, Mulinde responds, “God is mighty.” He then turned to deliver a powerful word to America.

“God Almighty has given you the grace. Whatever you do in America influences everyone in the world. You have that grace. One thing that Islam is doing to defeat you is causing you to be coward and fearful to stand up and speak against the invasion of the Islamization that is going on in your country. Stand up before it’s late. …If you get [sic] afraid today, within time, you will find your children and your grandchildren being Muslims and torturing other people. Stand up now and defeat the challenge of the global Islamization agenda.” He ended by saying, “If it is truth, then let’s stand for it and the God of the Bible will defend your land.”

http://thefreedompress.com/pastor-burned-muslims-issues-warning-america-impending-islam/

Thus, I felt the Lord tugging me, then even more so when I watched Chris Wallace on Foxnews interview House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Mike Rogers.  Add to that Hannity’s investigation into Iraq and Radical Muslims on the move…all the other violent acts around the world, of beatings, killings.  My consensus is we need to take heed, and it all is a warning for the US to act, before we get hit again like 9/11.  For all those in America that do not want the US involved in war, I say you have a choice,  we either fight this war with Radical Muslims on the shores of Iraq and Afghanistan or in New York City again or Washington DC.  But, it is my contention, that if Obama sits back and does nothing, we will be hit again.

Therefore, too, remember this.  With all the Democrats and this Global warming threat, and the monies they want to spend, one of the most important URGENT need we have to attend to is repairing ALL of our electrical grids in America.  California also just had grids go down.  Washington has been warned over these electrical grids failing since 1962!  Also, as it stands right now all the parts for these grids are made in China.  Unacceptable.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/02/24/our-death-toll-would-be-staggering-judge-jeanine-power-grid-threats

 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-electrical-grid-on-failure/

Wherefore I say we need to have God-given discernment and be careful whom we listen to.  America over the last decade or more has been led down a slippery slope believing “flesh” and being sold a bill of goods that have been UNGodly and a detriment to our nation.  John 1:65-71 shows Jesus with his own disciples answering Him back with negativity.  Everyone sooner or later at one point, gets pulled in another direction than what is God’s mandate.  But, my warning now, says, it is time to get on your knees and repent, and take up the CROSS and follow HIM again.  Listen to the Word, study, and ask Him what HE would have you do.

IIChronicles  6:34-36 on war.  “If your people go out to war against their enemies by the way that You shall send them, and they  pray unto YOU toward this city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for YOUR Name; 35 Then hear Thou from the Heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause 36. If they sin against You, and You be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near (Rom. 3:23). ” (Means God does maintain the cause of His people (Israel AND “once” America as a Christian nation.) but when sin is committed, He Himself becomes their Judge and metes out the penalty for sin.)

7: 14 “If my people, which are called by MY name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek MY face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from Heaven , and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” That is his mandate for us now in America.  I am sounding the alarm like Ezekiel, we need to get it right. Right now Obama has made us sitting ducks here in America, with his false premises and failure to make decisions to show the enemies our strength.   We have an obligation mandated by God to be where HE wants us to be and protect Israel.  Show us Lord, what YOU would have us do.  Thank you Jesus.

My next novel, or a real headline? “ISIS Threatens to Invade Jordan, ‘Slaughter’ King Abdullah.”

From Joel Rosenburg

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(Washington, D.C.) — Last month, when I was in Amman doing research for my new novel about the “ISIS” threat, most of the top Jordanian officials I spoke with warned of an “explosion” of Radical Islamic extremism and foreign jihadist fighters coming out of Syria that could threaten other nations in the region, including them.

“I’m not worried about Syria imploding,” a senior advisor to Jordan’s Foreign Minister told me, “I’m worried about it exploding” and sending newly emboldened terrorists across the region and across the globe.

I specifically asked Jordan’s Interior Minister, His Excellency Hussein Hazza’ Al-Majali, if ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Arabic for the “Levant,” or Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel) — was a particularly serious threat. Without hesitation, he agreed it was.

Majali said he wasn’t worried about ISIS toppling King Abdullah II, assuring me that he and the King’s intelligence and security forces work around the clock…

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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

 

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Quote Patrick Henry and what this country was based on:  “No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House.  Bu different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.  This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country.  For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of responsibility which we hold to God and our country.  Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act disloyalty toward the Majesty Heaven, which I revere above all earthly Kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.  We are apt o shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.  Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?  Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not [Jer. 5:21],  the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?  For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.  I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.  I know of no way of judging of he future but by the past.  And judging by the past, I wish to know there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been  pleased to solace themselves and House.  Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?  Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet.  Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss [Matt. 26:48].  Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land.  Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?  Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?  Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.  These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.  I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission?  Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it?  Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?  No, sir, she has none.  They are meant for us:  they can be meant for no other.  They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.  And what have we to oppose them?  Shall we try argument?  Sir we have been trying that for the last ten years.  Have we anything new to offer upon the subject?  Nothing.  We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been in vain.  Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?  What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted?  Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves.  Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on.  We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.  Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!  In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.  There is no longer any room for hope.  If we wish to be free–if we mean contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained–we must fight!  I repeat it, sir, we must fight!  An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.  But when shall we be stronger?  Will it be next week, or the next year?   Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?  Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?  Shall we acquire the means of effectual  resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?  Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.  The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.  Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.  There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us [2 Chron. 32:8].  The battle, sir, is ot to the strong alone [Eccl. 9:11]; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.  Besides, sir, we have no election.  If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.  There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!  Our chains are forged!  Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!  The war is inevitable–and let it come!  I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.  Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace–but there is no peace [Jer. 6:14].  The war is actually begun!  The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!  Our brethren are already in the field!  Why stand we here idle [Matt. 20:6]?  What is it that gentlemen wish?  What would they have?  Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”  end

Wherefore, that about sums up the start of our Revolutionary war in America.  Think of the statement that was made here.  Are we as Christians…(and even secular) going to be stupid enough as this Governor,  (whose name I don’t even know), from Missouri who would not sign a bill outlawing Sharia law?   FEAR…Where is the strength, in Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death?  As for me, I side with Rev. Franklin Graham, and other Christians as well as Huckabee, Lt. Col Allen West, and Beck…I don’t care WHAT this Government imposes on me, I shall only listen to one, His name is JESUS!  I choose light verses dark and evil.. I shall STAND….will you?

Compromise

Compromise is not of God, when we are dealing with evil.  “Follow the instructions of the Lord…do not compromise with evil. “Psalm 119:1-3  Much of the following here is from a man I deeply admire, the Reverend Franklin Graham, May’s Decision Magazine.

When Noah, the movie was released, it was described as a “biblically inspired fantasy film”, loaded with compromises that cannot drown the truth.  Some say the world is not held responsible for misinterpreting God’s Word, but the Bible does not agree.  “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…and He was grieved in His heart.  And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”  Genesis 6:5-6,13 God not only holds His followers to account, but all of mankind.  The human race continues gulping the bitter water in the sea of immorality, rejecting truth and trying to silence God’s people.  Immorality still reigns alongside of evil around the world.  Much of what has been argued between God’s people and the left wing liberals, many of those who call themselves Christians have departed from the clarity of God’s Word, as the leadership of World Vision US did in March when they announced heir employment of “gay Christians in legal same sex marriages.”

Graham goes on to say, “The very day World Vision announced its great compromise on a basic truth of Scripture, that the homosexual lifestyle is sin and that marriage is between a man and a woman, the Supreme Court began hearings to determine if the owners of Hobby Lobby, should be required to provide life terminating drugs etc. to their employees, in spite of their spiritual convictions.” “The contrast was stunning”, he went on to say.  “While the Christian owned business stood up against a federal government bent on forcing them to compromise the right to life, (murder in God’s eyes) a Christian charity compromised the sacredness of marriage, stating that “it’s the right thing to do for the unity within the church.”  Forty eight hours after World Vision’s announcement, they were forced to reverse their epic decision after a flooding backlash from offended donors.  (Now too, this week, the monumental decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, allowing prayer in public and government, town hall meetings, which is an epic decision.  Thank you ACLJ and Counsel Jay Sekulov for all you do.)

The Bible gives strong warning to those who tamper with God’s truth. “From among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away  [followers] after themselves.” (Acts 20:30) Graham went on to say how especially grievous it was to him since World Vision and Samaritan’s Purse, were founded by the same man, his mentor and friend, the late Dr. Bob Pierce.  Pierce often said, “I want my heart to be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”  For the whole episode was a disregard for Biblical truth. True followers of Jesus Christ cannot endorse same sex marriage, abortion, and/or anything that offends the word of God.  These moral issues have been settled by God Himself.  And I agree with Rev. Graham that I too, would rather be on the wrong side of public opinion, that on the wrong side of Almighty God, whose word established the standard of living for the world He created.  It is a moral issue not a political one.  It is now in this pop culture about  the great compromise, calling into question the authority of the Holy Scripture!   And I add also to this, the move several years ago that was in a Christian magazine, called “Chrislam”, trying to meld Christianity and Islam together to be “politically and culturally correct”.  It was also called out on one nationwide tv station, when then, Rev. Jack Van Impe,  canceled his contract and left the tv station.  He stood for the Word of God and what was correct.  For Islam is not a religion such as Christianity, and has hate and killings while Jesus and the gospel tells us to lay that down.   You cannot side with evil. The Bible says, “Now the Spirit [of God] expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy”.  (I Timothy 4:1-2)

The late Adrian Rogers said, “It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.  It is better  to stand with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude.” Graham said, ” It is time for the discussion of unity within the church to come into alignment with God’s Word on the issue of marriage.  When there is division within the church, it is because individuals are against Christ Himself, for He is the head of His church, made up of the redeemed who are called to be one with Christ.  The church, therefore, is on dangerous ground when it departs from the teaching of Christ and attempts to redefine His commands and compromise His truth.  There are many things in Scripture that Christians disagree on, but the Bible is crystal clear about the sanctity of life and marriage. ” Compromise is dangerous territory for the Christian; mixing a little truth with a lot of error, wavering between right and wrong.  Jesus said, “I know your  works, that you are neither hot nor cold.  So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot I will spew (vomit) you out of My mouth. ” Revelation 3:15,19.  That means anyone who does compromise and thinks he is saved, will “compromise” himself out of heaven losing his salvation. Spurgeon said, “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right or wrong.  It is knowing the difference between right and almost right!”

Franklin Graham said, “from compromise to deceit is a small step.” The Bible says, “I, even I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins – state your case that you may be acquitted”. Isaiah 43:25-26  We are all great sinners who have received forgiveness by a great Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, from the lineage of David, Isaac, Jacob, Abraham.  Who went on that Cross and shed His life and his blood for the sins of all mankind.  If He could do all that for us, can we not be of one accord, as Christians, and not divert from the true Word of God? From Biblical times to now, has been fraught with the peril that comes when believers fall out of allegiance to their first love, thereby inviting grave consequences.

Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas Governor, said, “I’m stunned by the preponderance of white surrender flags flying from churches, pulpits and once decidedly biblically based organizations and businesses. We want to be ‘accepted’ and ‘included’ by the cultural elites. The result is a collapse of conviction.  Even worse is the rationale and justification.  The consequences are fairly straightforward and simple –‘if the salt has lost its savor, its useless.” Ephesians 6:11-17 “Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to STAND against the wiles of the Devil.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of the world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  Wherefore, take unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day (now?) , and having done all, to stand.  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with Truth (the truth of the CROSS), and having on the breastplate of Righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace; Above all, taking the shield of Faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  And take the Helmet of Salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.”

Wherefore, Christ makes it clear, we are not to just go with the flo of compromise, or evil, but put on His armour and STAND…Let your voices be heard…be not a milk toast, cowering, and /or remain apathetic! Embracing sin, divides us.  Words like “unity, love, acceptance and forgiveness” are being widely used, these days OUT OF BIBLICAL context in an attempt to rationalize positions that DEFY scripture!  Some say we should simply stop rendering moral judgments about others, but thats NOT the answer Jesus offered.” Evangelicals who don’t compromise scriptural principles on morality are accused, both in secular and religious circles, of over-emphasizing the topic and being hateful.  Which is hogwash!   Relenting is not an option! Those who keep silent on key issues, don’t think of consequence, then you bend and ok issues that defile God. Over the years, segments of the church have been either lax or anti-biblical on issues like slavery, racial segregation, abortion, and essential doctrines of the Gospel.

In the 1940’s the German church, collapsed under the influence of Hitler’s Nazi regime.  “The consequences are DEADLY!  We have become a stumbling block to the Gospel.   There is no more severe indictment of any church or any Christian than that! Huckabee said, “I’m on earth temporarily, so the worst the world can do is shun me, punish me, or kill me.”” In 100 years years, it won’t matter.  What WILL matter is if I was faithful to God’s word.”  Wherefore I agree with the Governor, 100%.  This woman, will STAND for the gospel, for Jesus, and for the CROSS, in spite of threats, in spite of the turmoil of the world, in spite of pressure even from other Christians.  For my goal is towards eternity with my Lord, and no one else here on earth, has any dominion over me, only the one who died for my sins at the CROSS. Egypt knew truths, when Coptic Christian churches that stood for centuries, where destroyed and young Christian women killed. The Muslim Brotherhood is now deemed evil in Egypt and CRIMINAL, but Cair and the Muslim Brotherhood in America has direct access to the White House, pulling the strings! Shame on American Black pastors that voted for Obama and color, instead of voting for the CROSS!

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/love-thy-enemy/

If you think this is wrong? Play this tape..for this is coming or is already here now in America too.  Man got arrested for quoting Winston Churchill in UK.  Sharia law now being enforced in the UK..Also Brussels, Belgium.  Watch whole tape, please.

HOPE!!  That is what my blog is all about…from CBN news:

http://www.cbn.com/tv/3541794198001

I can only pray for the Brits. This is what happens when they leave Jesus Christ for secular.  The enemy has invaded and taken over.  I know that Trinity Broadcasting has opened up a Christian Studio in London, right down the street from Buckingham Palace. I pray for TBN’s safety, and for British laws cover them.  Think…and remember all this on our American elections, as we cannot let this happen here in America!  Both books below are on Amazon, as well as Wallid Shoebat and Brigett Gabrielle’s books.

When I saw this on Trinity Broadcast, and the crowds …And maybe all those saved were illegal…Still want to send them back when they accepted Jesus? They have families…born in USA…God Bless you Franklin! When I heard him say after covering adultery, homosexuality, and all sins….he said, “I don’t care what the President says, I don’t care what Congress says, I don’t care what the Supreme Court says, I care what Jesus said!” Alleluia!  This is good vs evil…Dark vs light!  

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3569810574001/women-share-stories-about-living-under-sharia-law/#sp=show-clips

Robert Spenser’s book, “Arab Winter Comes to America”

 

 

 

Joy Brighton’s book, about Dearborn, MI  “Sharia-ism is Here”

Islam, Christianity And The Antichrist

This is a comparison of the Bible verses the teachings of Islam.  Islam is  monotheistic (Koran 3:64).  The first phrase in the Declaration of the Faith states: “I bear witness that there is no God but the Almighty God and that Mohammad is a messenger of God.” “For God hath said , “Take not to yourselves two Gods, for He is one God.”(Sura 16:53;cp 20:7) “Verily God will not forgive the union of other gods with Himself.” (Sura 4:51) Islam rejects the concept of the Trinity. The Koran misrepresents the teaching of Christianity regarding the Godhead, claiming Christians believe in “three Gods”, Father, Mother, and Son. (Sura 5:116, 5:73:75; cp (Koran 5:114). Christianity teaches the account of creation recorded in the book of Genesis, God speaks plurally of His own Person.  (Genesis 1:26, 27; cp.Genesis 3:22,11:7; Isaiah 6:3,8. The Christian Scriptures, both New and Old Testaments, teach that the Godhead consists of three persons in one:  The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Isaiah 11:2, the spirit..the Lord..Him” Is 42:1, Is 48:16, 61:1,63:9, Matt. 1:20,21, 3:16, 17, 12:18, 22:42,43, Acts 11:16,17, 20:21-23,Romans 1:1,3,4, 5:5,6.

Islam says Muhammad was not divine but the last of the prophets- the very one predicted in Moses day.  “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak to them all that I command him.  And whoever will not give heed to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself, will require it of him. (Deut. 18:18,19) Jesus claimed to be God.  He accepted worship, forgave sins, lived a sinless life, possessed all the attributes of God and raised himself from the dead. Islam considers Jesus a prophet just like Moses, Abraham , and Noah.

Christianity says Jesus was more than a prophet. He is God (Matthew 17:5, Mark 1:1; Luke 1:35, Philippians 2:6, Hebrews 1:8, 1John 4:15. ) Islam rejects the divinity of Jesus Christ, and says God has no sons…ie..”..Allah forbid that He should have a son” (Koran 4;171) It is not meet for God to have children.” Koran 19,92, 112:3, 23:91. Christianity teaches “He was God manifest in the flesh” 1Timothy 3:16, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9, 2 Cor 5 :19, Hebrews 1:3. The Father declared Jesus to be His Son:  “Thou art my son.  This day have I begotten you.” Heb 5:5 ,Psalms 2:7, Luke 22:70, John 10:36, 19:7.  “And the angel answ4red and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and …that holy thing which shall be born OF thee shall be called the SON OF GOD. (Luke 1:36). Islam rejects the doctrine of original sin.   The Bible teaches man is born into sin.

Islam says salvation comes only through Allah.  Only those who obey Allah and Mohammed his prophet can enter into Heaven: Kor 3:85, cp 5:10, 25:68, 48:13.   The Bible says salvation only comes through Jesus Christ.  “Neither is there salvation in any other [than Jesus]: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. ” (Acts 4:12, John 8:24, 14:;6, 10:1-2,9, Acts 4:12, Rev. 5:1-9, IJohn 2:22,23; Isaiah 43:11, Hosea 13:4, 1Tim. 2:5.    Islam denies the crucifixion of Jesus (Koran 4:154-8…The Bible says Jesus died and rose again. (Romans 6:9,  Philip. 2:8, Heb. 9:16, Luke 18:33, 24:20, John 11:13, 12:33, Acts 2:24, 22:20, 11:26, 15:19, 20,22 Heb. 2:14. ) There are endless differences between the two religions. You can read more on: ISLAM and CHRISTIANITY The Koran vs. the Bible.

A Comparison of the Christian Scriptures with the teachings of Muhammad.  copyright 2001 Diane S. Dew

http://www.dianedew.com/islam.htm   

Islam by Lehmann:

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/islam-by-lehmann-3/

Perry Stone on End Times:

http://www.voe.org/component/youtube/?v=qbgrNZ53aKI

Biblical History (ie Palestine vs Israel)  https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/biblical-history-2/

Wallid Shoebat on Islam and End Times

Brigitte Gabrielle The Muslim Brotherhood in American Schools

Wafa Sultan A God Who Hates

 

 

 

We can all go on YouTube or click on Amazon for Christian books from Pastors, Perry Stone, John Hagee, Rick Joyner, Franklin Graham, David Jeremiah, Ed Young Sr…on and on, and it is evident to most that the Anti-Christ will come out of Islam.  Schools need to be more attuned to what most of us Christians already know, believers or not, and stop letting the Muslim Brotherhood bully them into favoring Islamic practices, while treating Christians unequally.  The Spirit of the Antichrist by Joel Richardson: ”  While we have already discussed the actual person of the Antichrist, the Bible also talks of an antichrist spirit.  Apart from the one direct reference in the Bible to The Antichrist, there are four other times that the word is used in a more general sense by the Apostle John.  Each time it is in reference to a particular spirit.  This spirit is defined by its denial of some very specific aspects of Jesus’ nature and His relationship to God the Father.

Following are the verses that describe this “antichrist” spirit:   This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.  But every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God.  This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. 1 John 4:2-3 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ.  Such a man is the antichrist–he denies the Father and the Son.  No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.  1 John 2:22,23 Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 John 1:7 From these verses, we learn that the antichrist is a spirit that is identified as a “liar” and a “deceiver” which specifically denies the following:

1. That Jesus is the Christ/Messiah   (The savior/deliverer of Israel and the World)
2. The Father and the Son   (The Trinity or that Jesus is The Son of God).
3. That Jesus has come in the flesh.   (The incarnation – that God became man)

The Anti Christ Spirit of Islam The religion of Islam, more than any other religion, philosophy, or belief system, fulfills the description of the antichrist spirit.  The religion of Islam makes it one of its highest priorities to very specifically deny all of the above points regarding Jesus and His relationship to the Father.  In fact, it can very fairly be said that Islam literally is a direct polemical response against the above essential Christian doctrines.  Regarding the above points however, Muslims will be quick to argue that Islam teaches that Jesus is indeed the Messiah.  But this is really just trickery.  While it is true that Islam does retain the title of Messiah for Jesus, when one asks a Muslim to define what the title “Messiah” actually means in Islam, the definitions given are always hollow and fall entirely short of containing any truly messianic substance.  In Islam, Jesus is merely another prophet in a very long line of prophets.  Biblically speaking however, the role of the Messiah, among other things, also entails being a Divine Priestly Savior, a Deliverer and the King of the Jews.  As we saw in the earlier chapters about the Muslim Jesus, rather than being a Messiah that saves or delivers Israel and all of his faithful followers in any way, in the Islamic traditions, Jesus instead returns to lead Israel’s enemies against her in battle and to kill or convert all Jews and Christians.  This would be the equivalent of calling Adolph Hitler, rather than Moses, Israel’s deliverer.  For now, we see that the apostle John informs us that just before the final hour, a very specific “spirit” will dominate the earth. This spirit will deny many of the essential biblical doctrines regarding who Jesus is and what He came to do. Islam epitomizes this spirit perfectly.

Tawhid and Shirk   In order to properly understand the antichrist spirit of Islam, there are two doctrines that must first be understood.  The first is called Tawhid.  It is the most essential belief in Islam. Tawhid refers to the belief in the absolute oneness of God.  Islam adheres to the strictest form of unitarian monotheism possible.  In Islam, God is utterly alone.  But in order to understand tawhid, one must understand that it is more than just a doctrine. In Islam, belief in tawhid is an absolute commandment.  And if adherance to tawhid is the highest and most important commandment in Islam, then the greatest sin is called Shirk.  Shirk is the opposite of tawhid.  It is in essence, idolatry. From the “Invitation to Islam” newsletter published by a Muslim group from Toronto, we read a very telling statement, which helps us to understand exactly how shirk is viewed by Muslims:   Murder, rape, child molesting and genocide. These are all some of the appalling crimes which occur in our world today. Many would think that these are the worst possible offences which could be committed. But there is something which outweighs all of these crimes put together: It is the crime of shirk.  ¹   Thus many Muslims feel as though either believing in the trinity, or ascribing divinity to Jesus are both among the greatest sins conceivable.  In fact, believing in these essential Christian doctrines is more than just a sin; it is the most heinous of all crimes!  In the Muslim mind, shirk refers not only to the beliefs of polytheists, or pagans but also to the essential historical doctrines of the Christian faith.  Below we will examine these three essential doctrines and how Islam specifically denies them.

Islam Denies The Sonship Of Christ

The religion of Islam has as one of its foundational beliefs, a direct denial of Jesus as God’s Son.  This denial is found several times throughout the Quran: In blasphemy indeed are those that say that God is Christ the son of Mary. -Surah 5:17 (Yusuf Ali) They say: “God hath begotten a son!” – Glory be to Him! He is self-sufficient!  His are all things in the heavens and on earth!  No warrant have ye for this!  Say ye about Allah what ye know not?  -Surah 10:68 (Yusuf Ali) They said, “The Most Gracious has begotten a son”!  You have uttered a gross blasphemy.  The heavens are about to shatter, the earth is about to tear asunder, and the mountains are about to crumble.  Because they claim that the Most Gracious has begotten a son.  It is not befitting the Most Gracious that He should beget a son.  –Surah 19:88-92  (Rashad Khalifa) …the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!  -Surah 9:30 (Yusuf Ali) The Quran literally pronounces a curse on those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son.  People say such things utter “gross blasphemies” and are likened to “unbelievers” or infidels.  Without question then, in this regard, Islam is an antichrist religious system.  Remember Jim Hastings comments from chapter one?  He was the priest in training who converted to Islam. “The thing I’ve always latched to is that there’s one God, he doesn’t have equals, he doesn’t need a son to come do his work.”  Islam attempts to create an acceptable form of monotheistic worship yet it not only leaves out the most essential aspects of a saving relationship with God, but it also literally exists to directly confront these things and even calls them the highest forms of blasphemy.  “Far be it from God that he should have a son!”  These words encircle the inside of the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem.  This is the very location where for centuries God’s people; the Jews, worshipped in their Temple awaiting their Messiah.  This is also where Jesus, the Son of God and the Jewish Messiah will someday rule over the earth.  Islam has literally built a monument of utter defiance to this future reality.

Islam Denies The Trinity

The same claim of blasphemy is also applied to those who believe in the trinity: They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them. –Surah 5:73  (Yusuf Ali) Thus belief in trinity is also defined as blasphemy.  But what is the “grievous penalty” that shall befall those who believe such things?  Well, as we saw in previous chapters, many Muslims are ironically expecting their version of Jesus to return and actually kill these “polytheist Trinitarian Christians.” And the Quran does not stop at denying that Jesus is the Son of God or that God exists as a trinity.

Islam Denies The Cross

With tears in his eyes, Paul the Apostle warned the Thessalonians that, “many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.” (Thessalonians 3:18)   It should not come as a surprise then that Islam also even denies the most central event of all of redemptive history: The crucifixion of Jesus.  Speaking to the Jews of Jesus’ day, the Quran says: That they said (in boast), “We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah”; but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise – Surah 4:157-8 (Yusuf Ali) Among Islamic scholars, there are actually numerous conflicting theories regarding exactly what happened to Jesus.  (For ironically, regarding this issue, it is actually they who are the ones who have “only conjecture to follow.”)  But despite the inability of Muslims to arrive at any form of consensus regarding what happened to Jesus, they are very much in agreement on at least one issue: He was not crucified! This passage of the Quran makes at least this much clear.

How Does The Antichrist Spirit Of Islam Affect Muslims?

So we see that Islam very specifically and very deliberately denies all three of the specific doctrines that the Apostle John identifies as defining the antichrist spirit.  And the Quran does not merely deny these doctrines, but actually expresses utter disdain for them, actually cursing those who believe these things, accusing them of gross blasphemy.  But how do these Quranic attitudes then affect Muslims?  This statement may sound strong, but in all of my years of outreach, interfaith dialogue and casual conversations with those who are not Christians, the two groups that I have personally witnessed express the strongest degree of contempt and mockery toward the gospel have been Satanists and Muslims.  (Yes, believe it or not, I’ve actually had quite involved conversations with more than a few Satanists.)  Now, let me be clear that I am in no way trying to liken all Muslims to Satanists in any way.  I have met many wonderful and very decent Muslims who would never express any form of blatant disrespect for Christian doctrine, even if they secretly felt this way. But I am speaking very truthfully when I say that in terms of my personal experiences of witnessing assaults toward the Gospel message, only Satanists and Muslims have expressed such a high degree of venomous disgust.  While there are indeed many religions and systems of belief that do not agree with the doctrines of Christianity, many which do not even believe in God, only Islam fills the role of a religion that exists to deny core Christian beliefs.  And of course, following the lead of the Quran, the three doctrines that are most severely and most often attacked and mocked by Muslims are the doctrines of the trinity, the divine incarnation and the atoning sacrifice/crucifixion of Jesus.  I recently saw a suggestion by a Muslim on an Internet discussion group, for a bumper sticker.  It read: “Divine Insanity: God died on the cross to save his own creation from his own wrath.”  One Muslim friend insists on referring to Jesus as a “god-man sandwich.”  I have weathered innumerable accusations that by believing in the historic Christian God I am no different than a pagan polytheistic idol worshipper.  Many times, I have been told that the doctrine of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus is as archaic and pagan as a human sacrifice to some kind of “volcano god.”  I have been accused of believing in a God who is a “sadistic child abuser.”  I have seen attempts to liken Jesus’ death on the cross to a suicide bombing. I have even weathered the mocking of the Christian God as a “blood-thirsty vampire.” If you are a Christian and you love God, I’m sure these statements grieve you as they grieve me, and I apologize for recalling them.  I don’t relate these attacks in any way to provoke negative feelings against Muslims.  Please do not come away with any such feelings!  My reason for relating these examples is to acquaint you with the blatant antichrist spirit that resides within the religion of Islam and that many Muslims therefore manifest.  We should not be surprised then to find that one of the descriptions of the Antichrist is that he will be very fond of uttering great blasphemies against the God of the Bible: The king will do as he pleases. He will… say unheard-of things against the God of gods.  Daniel 11:36 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints.  Daniel 7:25 The Quran itself expresses such blasphemies. As someone who is in continual dialogue with numerous Muslims from all over the world, I can testify that the blatant antichrist spirit that we saw expressed in the Quranic passages above, quite often blooms into an overt disdain and utter contempt not only for Christian beliefs but also for Christians themselves. While this is not always the case, should we really be surprised when Muslims act out against those who the Quran literally curses as idolatrous infidel blasphemers?  And if we are being realistic, should we expect the future of Islam to be given to those Muslims who identify with the Quranic scorn for Christians or to those who show an amiable attitude despite the curses of their own holy book? And lastly, in regard to whether or not Islam is specifically the Antichrist system that the Bible foretells, there can be no question that this, the second largest, fastest growing religion in the world, is and has been from its inception, the quintessence of the very antichrist spirit that John the apostle warned us of.  “Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill.  Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand – a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come.”   Joel 2:1,2  In the days that we are now living, I believe that there are a handful of issues that God is trying to highlight to the West and specifically to the western Christian Church.  Yet sadly, even among those few who do seem to be hearing the trumpet blasts from heaven, there are even fewer who seem to be discerning what it is that they mean.  The signs are now literally emblazoned across the front page of the newspapers almost daily, yet few seem to understand where these signs are pointing.  It is my hope that this book will contribute to opening the eyes of many to the times that are quickly approaching.  Beyond this, my prayer is that this book will add understanding to those whose spirits are already both watchful and discerning. ”

Above from “Will Islam Be Our Future?” By Joel Richardson  – His book in full on this site: http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/index.htm

Note: God help us during this turmoil.  Islam and the Arabs have been trying to take over all of Western Civilization since before the Ottoman period.  But, I STAND..I believe the word of God.  Might some of us be persecuted in America too before the Rapture and our Lord comes for us?  It is a possibility, isn’t it? And in closing remember to pray for Saaheed our American pastor, in a hospital in Iran after many beatings.  He has stood, and will not renounce Jesus for Islam.  Prayers and blessings  to this man so ill, and his wife and children so devastated, while our administration does nothing to free him because he’s a Christian.  We must put on the whole armor of God and STAND, speak out, and pray.  There is no tolerance with Islam.  They want to kill us, or make us Muslims by force.  They have taken over much of Europe…and now working on the US.  I shall not keep silent!

Look at this  photo in Pakistan. Is that already here in MI?  Muslim girls being lead off in chains to meet their new husbands. The leading experts in Islamic Law met recently at the 191st meeting of the Council of Islamic Ideology and declared as un-Islamic any laws attempting to establish a minimum age for girls to be married. 

At the 192nd meeting the Council of Islamic Ideology went further and declared that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah. “Women by existing defied the laws of nature, and to protect Islam and the Sharia women should be forced to stop existing as soon as possible.” Women who express their own will (most especially non-Muslim women) will be the first targeted for extermination.

Sean Hannity interview with two women on Sharia law:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3569810574001/women-share-stories-about-living-under-sharia-law/#sp=show-clips

It is either America, God, our Constitution or Sharia, and evil..  So thank you President Obama for bringing this in our country. Please stand..pray..and voice your concerns.

History’s Past

First, I am German.  My Paternal Grandfather came here in 1903,  before Hitler.  The Holocaust happened.  I’m also 75.  I remember  as a child of WWII my mother getting terrifying letters from relatives in Germany. My grandmother’s maiden name was Schneider.  In high school I was so ashamed of being a German, in fact no one knew except other German kids.   It took me a long long time to come to terms with it. As Glenn Beck too, name shortened. And one of the first places he visited was the Museum and Auschwitz in Germany.  So many Muslims like Iran, deny ignorantly, the Holocaust existed.  I believe history does repeat itself, especially when we have allowed so many college professors politically left, socialists, to teach.  There is an agenda to change history.  My agenda from my Lord, says, NEVER FORGET THE GRUESOME HISTORY OF THE PAST.  We cannot move forward, without remembering the horrors of yesteryear, lest it be repeated. The list of “bystanders” — those who declined to challenge the Third Reich in any way — that emerges from any study of the Holocaust is long and depressing. Few organizations, in or outside Nazi Germany, did much to resist Nazism or aid its victims. 

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For we should never forget…EVER. Photos below.  Plus there are so many documentaries on Netflix.. and I watched many…it sickened me.  But the German people were lied to.  Oh there were a few martyrs, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  who tried unsuccessfully to kill Hitler; a pastor, who knew Germany’s freedoms were gone.  And no church spoke out even Martin Luther’s, Lutheran church.   Who knows, I could have Jewish Blood in my veins too.  But I worship, Jesus, as my Lord and He and the disciples were Jews.  From the God of Abraham, Isaac , and Jacob,  the lineage of David.  I have on here Biblical history.  I have Palestinian history.  But,  that land of milk and honey, God gave to the Jew!  Israel, where one day Heaven will reign over it.  To the Arab through Ismael and his mother Hagar, he gave oil!

http://archive.adl.org/braun/dim_14_1_role_church.html#.U1_xG3ByRmg Excerpts from link above: “The list of “bystanders” — those who declined to challenge the Third Reich in any way — that emerges from any study of the Holocaust is long and depressing. Few organizations, in or outside Nazi Germany, did much to resist Nazism or aid its victims. 

[I]t has become abundantly clear that [the Churches’] failure to respond to the horrid events…was not due to ignorance; they knew what was happening. Ultimately, the Churches’ lapses during the Nazi era were lapses of vision and determination.

Assisting European Jews was not a high priority of the Allied governments as they sought to defeat Hitler militarily. The courageous acts of individual rescuers and resistance members proved to be the exception, not the norm.  To a great extent, this inertia defined the organized Christian community as well. Churches throughout Europe were mostly silent while Jews were persecuted, deported and murdered. In Nazi Germany in September 1935, there were a few Christians in the Protestant Confessing Church who demanded that their Church take a public stand in defense of the Jews. Their efforts, however, were overruled by Church leaders who wanted to avoid any conflict with the Nazi regime. Internationally, some Church leaders in Europe and North America did condemn the Nazis’ measures against the Jews, and there were many debates about how Christians outside Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied territory should best respond to Hitler’s brutal policies. These discussions, however, tended to become focused more on secondary strategic considerations — like maintaining good relations with colleagues in the German Churches — than on the central humanitarian issues that were really at stake.”

I took Ancient Civ in college, and loved it.  The Arab goal now is a caliphate,   and has been since way before the Ottoman Period.   Their goal is to take  over all of Western Civilization.  Why, so much hates?  And what they do to women?  People that surgically impose their will on your girls 8 years old, and younger, and hide women and beat them, never mind having no remorse to cutting someone’s head off, I have a hard time, “loving my enemy”.    Ninety five % of Brussels  Belgium now is Arab, and not far behind is the UK, who are having  a terrible time. And I don’t want all that abuse and Sharia law here in the US one iota.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Photos of Genocide http://www.genocide.heydrich.dk

From Ellie Wiesel’s “Night” which I read. He was 15 and IN the German camps. https://www.google.com/images?client=opera&q=elie+wiesel+night&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ei=gKdZU-nPOpapyASnloKQCA&ved=0CDEQsAQ

OUT OF EVIL, GOOD MUST FLOURISH- Ellie Weisel Foundation for Humanity http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org

The Israeli’s 6 day war docu clip: http://youtu.be/fRZSzdQuOqM

When Hitler was gaining power before WWII and begun to infiltrate the churches, no one spoke out at all.  There were hero’s afterward, like Eric Bonhoeffer, but no one really spoke out against him, even Martin Luther, after he broke away from the Catholic Church, starting the Lutheran Church. From Irwin Lutzer’s book “Hitler’s Cross”:

“Six million Jews…dead. The monstrosity of Adolph Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’ remains a stunning chapter in the pages of history. Although the power by which he hypnotized an entire nation is legendary, one question in particular begs an answer: Where was the church of Christ? Seduced by the Satanic majesty of The Fuhrer, church leaders throughout Germany allowed the Swastika a prominent place alongside the Christian cross in their sanctuaries. Nationalistic pride replaced the call of God to purity, and with few exceptions, the German church looked away while Adolph Hitler implemented his ‘Final Solution’ to his Jewish problem. How did this happen? In Hitler’s Cross, Erwin W. Lutzer examines the lessons that may be learned from studying the deception of the church: the dangers of confusing “church and state,” how the church lost its focus, the role of God in human tragedy, the parameters of Satan’s freedom, the truth behind Hitler’s hatred of the Jews, the faithfulness of God to His people who suffer for Him, the comparisons between Hitler’s rise and the coming reign of the Antichrist, and America’s hidden cross-her dangerous trends. Hitler’s Cross is the story of a nation whose church forgot its primary call and discovered its failure too late.”

Hitler’s Cross by Irwin Lutzer with a Forward by Ravi Zacharias on

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Cross-Revealing-Christ-Symbol-ebook/dp/B00394UCMK/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398710792&sr=1-6&keywords=irwin+lutzer”

Photos http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299219/The-colour-darkness-Vivid-pictures-Nazi-concentration-camps-chilling-insight-dawn-Holocaust.html

Joel Rosenburgs Blog:

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/netanyahu-vows-israel-will-never-allow-another-holocaust-asks-has-the-world-learned-from-the-mistakes-of-the-past/

NOW…Are we to go through more genocide with Islamic Terrorists?  What will the churches profess?  Will it once more be too late? Photo below of all the Mosques in the US.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/the-shepherds-dilemma-speaking-out-against-islamic-terror

Hollywood’s Agenda

The following is from Rev. Franklin Graham in “Decision” magazine. “Hollywood, Entertaining ourselves to death? Whether or not we realize it, we all have been influenced by the entertainment industry more than we might think. When I was a young boy, about the most risqué’ thing I remember watching on television was Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke. Just a decade later, far more explicit and suggestive scenes were commonplace. Now,, even watching the advertisements on television or viewing the trailers fro movies is enough to make you blush. Our culture has been so desensitized to immorality and debauchery that we have lost even the semblance of a moral compass.”

Yes, and older that I am, than Franklin, I can add to this. In 1948 my dad an electronic engineer, and business owner, had the first tv in the State of NH. I was 8 years old with my picture in the newspaper. It was to change things forever, now as internet has forever changed having only tv. But we were back then taught morals, us girls taught to be young ladies, and have manners, respecting our elders, and saying please, and thank you. The Bible says, spare the rod, spoil the child. The family then was the backbone as the churches of this society. Now the Progressives have made the Government and their prodding technology, overseeing even our basic values, priority over the family, not to mention Obamacare.

“The Bible says: ‘But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, blasphemers, unholy, without self control; despiser’s of good, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. And from such people – Turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives; for their folly will be manifest to all. 2 Timothy 3:1-9

What a description of our world today and its godless entertainment. Are we turning away or applauding what Hollywood is pumping out?” (There are terrible scenes now on tv, with sex, murder, and even decapitation. Nothing is secret anymore, or kept private, including what should only be between a husband and wife and the marriage bed.)

“Such scenes should trigger righteous anger, but many parents do not regulate entertainment for their children or themselves.” (Used to be too, that children had chores to do around the house and yard, to earn an allowance. Now its gimmee, gimmee, I want and I’ll get on my terms.)” What about the Bible commands, and are they even welcome in our homes, instead watching the flaunting of sin that glorifies the flesh and curses the Name of Jesus (constantly on tv) while on Sundays He is glorified at church? Matthew 22:37 Is it possible to obey God with the whole mind while feeding on godlessness? The answer is no, yet we let strangers ‘creep’ into our homes and minds. Sinful entertainment deposits rubbish in the mind, giving Satan a foothold in our lives. Once There, he thrashes around even as we sleep.”

“To consider how far we’ve come in just 60 years is disturbing. Suggestive jokes in the 1970’s are today fully demonstrated in speech and acts, conditioning the carnal mind to openly celebrate shameful behavior. Even Disney World is preparing for Gay Day at the Magical Kingdom, exposing thousands of children to a lifestyle that the Bible calls corrupt. (Deuteronomy) Again the Bible declares, ‘For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds; bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ’ 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.

Sinful entertainment deposits rubbish in the mind, giving Satan a foothold in our lives. (Ephesians 4:27) Once there he thrashes around even as we sleep. Whatever has entered the mind crosses the welcome mat as a thief and begins its lethal work of breaking down defenses. The moral compass that once guided our nation’s people has been ridiculed and rejected, making sin the national sport and pastime. What happened? Removing God-Consciousness from society has given way to self-gratification, chasing after the ‘sin which so easily ensnares’ (Hebrews 12:1). The Bible calls it folly. What is the antidote? “put on the Lord Jesus Christ an make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” Romans 13:14.

“God’s people need to rise to the hype calling of Christ and e light in the darkness. ‘For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them!” Ephesians 5:8-16

“Almighty God spoke the world into existence and He will have the last word! The day is coming soon, when the heavens will become HIS grand theater for the drama of the ages. He will spit the canvassed sky wide open and all who have ever lived will behold when the ‘Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to convict all who are ungodly. (Jude 14-15) But until that day, let’s not run after the ungodly amusement. Let’s be about our Father’s business as genuine believers testifying of the Savior who lives IN US, to redeem lost and wandering souls for HIS KINGDOM!” 2014 BGEA Billy Graham Evangelist Association

A Case For Moral Absolutes

Much has been written on the “case for moral absolutes”, and I have included several sites as well as RBC ministries PDF on the subject. Some of which I do not necessarily agree with.

Those of us that are born again Christians and are also political conservatives,  face a harder scrutiny, even among our liberal Christians.  I believe in voting for a person, according to the Bible.  For me? It is clear and simple, abortion and my staunch stance against it, being number one.   I’ve seen in my Christian walk, too much suffering among women who now follow Christ, but, had an abortion in their past.  That hole in their side, that emptiness, that wonder of what that child would be like, never goes away.  Like the hole in Jesus side, He left for us.  Wherefore, I made a decision…no God made that decision, many years ago, when I came to the Cross,  that I could never ever vote for a Pro-Choice candidate.  I’ll go one step further.   I believe with all my heart, that the decision to vote even for a pro-choice candidate, will be among the top things we will be judged when we stand at that Great White Throne Judgment Seat of God!  That is my conscience, my soul, my beliefs, my opinion.   The 6th Commandment, “thou shall not kill,” is to me abortion, and the MURDERS of all these babies.  I stand by it.  (See photos of aborted babies, on my Abortion blog, and the links to Black Genocide and Rev. Childress.

http://blackgenocide.org/photos.html

I believe that our moral code still comes from the 10 Commandments.1, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make any graven images. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain.  4. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.  5. Honor thy father and thy mother. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shall not commit adultery. 8.  Thou shall not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife or anything of thy neighbors.  All right, yes, under the New Testament we are saved by grace.  But, the law coming God gave Moses and these 10 Commandments were the very fiber of the laws of our land starting with our US Constitution and our Us Supreme Court.  With the Ten Commandments STILL etched in stone there…not yet removed by the secularists.  It is what we should adhere to as Christians.

Ecclesiastes says there is a time for peace, a time for war.  I honor our American soldiers and Veterans for their sacrifice to our country.  When they have to kill it is to protect America, (now against radicals that want to destroy our Western way of Civilization and faith in Jesus.) There IS a difference.  They are to be HONORED.   We are in dangerous times.  For those politically correct, you and your secularism are leading us too, closer to Sharia law and not the law God gave to Moses.  Wisdom and clarity begin with knowing God, and having moral absolutes.

Attached links and PDF are arguments that have been carried on for a long time.  What happened in Germany with Hitler, came about too, because none of the churches stood up with moral absolutes against him in protest.  He was a madman, with schizophrenia in his family, and being fed drugs and yes even Cocaine by his doctor.  He was a killer.  Like Margaret Sanger who started Planned Parenthood and all the abortions since, that dear
Hillary holds up in reverence.  She is a murderer!  So was it an atrocity to what Joe Kennedy did to his daughter Rosemary because she was challenged, putting her in a hospital in VA and getting her a lobotomy without even telling his own wife!   Like Hitler and Sanger…if you are an imbecile, we need to eliminate you.   Still think there shouldn’t be any moral absolutes?  Eliminate the Jews, the imbeciles,  those with Down Syndrome, (Like Sarah Palin’s child?), and the crippled or elderly who can’t pull their weight, as well as the Blacks, and those not “superior”.   How dare there be no moral absolutes and anyone vote for people that hold up murderers, and call themselves a Christian!  How dare you mock and insult God!  Now I see why Eunice Shriver did all she could with the Special Olympics.  Her own father!

In this immoral society now, anything goes.  All that is on TV, is sex, and lewdness, and  filthy language.   The moral fabric of our teenagers now has deteriorated so much, with this “hooking up” and all the nude photos they send via email.  Where are the parents?  The bullying, the hatred, the prejudices and racism are not of God.  There are no moral absolutes, as anything goes.  We have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.  Remember Lots wife, when  she looked back as they fled, with lust and longing, and God turned her into a pillar of salt?  Does ANYONE fear God anymore?  Is He just a namby pamby love, love, love…But, no  wrath or judgment?  I don’t think so.  You that sin, will be punished one way or another.  We are now like Sodem & Gomorah and anything goes, especially on reality tv. See also this on our Pop Culture:

This Pop Culture vs The Bible

If you commit adultery, you are a sinner.  If you fornicate and are not married, yet call yourself a Christian, you are a sinner.  If you steal you are a sinner.  The Ten Commandments were given to us as a guidepost.  So, you out there that are liberal Christians, voting for your unions, and your pensions, and your feminist beliefs and pro-choice…You are a sinner!  Why?  Because my BIBLE tells me so!

Youth?  Get it together, and get on your knees and repent at the Cross of Jesus, and beg God to forgive you.  Then live a Godly life and let HIM minister to you and change you.   You all in Washington?  Dear Hillary, Obama, killing Black Babies in poor sections of cities with your Planned Parenthood, Barney Frank with your gay lifestyle…You are sinners!   Your going to hell!   Period.  But, you will not lead this here woman over to your lifestyle choices.  For I will STAND like a rock and not waver in the wind or the waves.   But, will keep my Lord’s Commandments, and love and fear Him only.   Only Him do I trust.  And I believe with all my heart…how we vote? We will be judged!  Jesus is coming…  Soon..This too I believe.  For we have become such an Ungodly nation of fools with all this progressive movement, which would never work…Those that tried it or Communism have admitted it failed. Come back to the CROSS…Only HE is tried and true.  God help us all as I pray for our nation and the world.

http://conservativeblogtherapy.blogspot.com/2006/03/natural-lawand-moral-absolutes.html

Reaping What America Has Sown

I heard a thought provoking teaching by Dr. Charles Stanley yesterday. I put the link on my Facebook on “America’s Future”.

I am convinced we, in America just don’t “get it”.  I have long since been extremely contentious on moral absolutes and the fact that we have become morally decayed.  More and more God and especially Jesus has been taken out of our laws, schools, and society.    We have literally thrown Jesus out with the bathwater.  One by one, Christian rights, liberties, and freedoms have been tossed aside.  While the liberals fight for civil rights they have infringed on the very core that made America what it once was.

Once upon a time in an early America, the Church was the very fabric of a town, a city and early society.   Our Founding Fathers were Christian.  But, slowly through history and a cause to eliminate any reference to Christianity in our history, it has been changed, mostly by judges.  I give that trial with Judge Hugo Black as a perfect example.  He ADDED to our Constitution from the bench.  Whereby, our “separation of church and state” which is non existent in the Constitution was thereby incorporated as if that was Jefferson’s doing,  10 years after the Constitution was signed.   (I have all this on another blog).

The church used to be the fundamental backbone of any community in America.  Meetings were held there, moral decisions about the direction of a town and its’ leadership were prayed about and discussed there.  The churches in America from even the tiniest little country church in the west, all had a pivotal influence in the communities throughout America.  We held to the character of our leaders, and integrity, with checks and balances from local churches and God Almighty Himself.   That, sadly,  is no longer true.  Now, churches keep silent.  And with that silence is an apathy, that is letting our country and all that is reverent, be taken from us.
Do we care?  I do.  Whereby, I thank Dr. Stanley from the bottom of my heart for his sermon yesterday.  For he is absolutely right.  Judgment begins in the house of the Lord, and it is time without a doubt, that America and politics starts getting preached from every pulpit across America.  For I believe in moral absolutes….and it is only from you who are preachers of the word of God, can we influence a society that is desensitized.

It doesn’t happen all at once.  But, slowly, slowly we saw prayer taken out of schools.  I’m 70, I prayed in public schools.  We had Jewish kids there and other nationalities, Catholic and Protestant.  We pledged Allegiance to the flag, and we had a short prayer. It didn’t hurt or offend anyone, and there was no ACLU threatening lawsuits.  We all believed in God, especially then after WWII.   Then there is the lawsuit over the cross standing as it had forever, in the Hollywood Hills representing Los Angeles, the “city of angels”.  There is almost a parady to that now.   But, that is how it was originally.  We have abortions, which God calls murder, crooks in Washington, crooks on Wall St., Socialism creeping in ever so slyly. If ever a country needed God, it is America!   Thank you again Dr. Stanley for lighting this fire in me, which I had  before, but, now you confirmed I was not wrong.

Galations 6:7 “Be not deceived GOD IS NOT MOCKED!”  (Refers to the fact that believers can definitely be deceived; allowing false teachings to move their Faith from the Cross to other things…including letting liberalism in a church.)  “FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWS THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.”  A lot of the teachings I’d had in the past always referred this to money.  It is not just money..but ALL we do, and are and profess to be in Christ Jesus.

“For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit shall to the spirit reap life everlasting.” (GOD’S PRESCRIBED ORDER FOR VICTORY!)  Man and the ACLU can change laws, but NOT GOD’S LAWS.  We used to be under this umbrella in America, from the politicians to Main St., and most of all our Churches, which was all the umbrella of the Word of God.  And now we are reaping what we have sowed.  HIS name which is written in Glory is becoming hidden, squashed.   But, God will not be mocked!   For this woman believes with all her being that God’s hands of protection (as with 9/11) are almost off of America, and especially now with this Marxist President who has gone against Netanyahu and Israel!

I say this to you, Mr. President, who called himself falsely a Christian, never hearing any scriptures of Jesus love for you, only hatreds against us that are White for 20 years.  Listen…Gal. 5:25 “If we live in the Spirit let us walk in the spirit.” That is not YOUR narcissistic spirit but, the spirit of the living God. 26″ Let us not be desirous of vain Glory, provoking one another.” (Self righteousness holding yourself up high, instead of a humble spirit.) Pride cometh before the fall in Proverbs..EVEN for a President, as it did in Kings..Kings have been toppled and so can Presidents.  For there is nothing around you that is righteous, only corruption which puts on incorruption.

Philippians 2:3 “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but, in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”  For ONE day, “Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”  And for you, Obama, here is the scriptures on “race”, “groups,” “color,” “divides”, unlike the hatreds opined by Rev. Wright, my God is truth.  ” Gal. 3:26 “For you are all the children of God by FAITH in Jesus Christ “(saved, washed under the blood)” For as many of you have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond” (black slave)” nor free, there is neither male, nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  And if you be Christ’s, then you are Abrahams seed and heirs according to the Promise”. Every person who is saved and every person who has ever been or ever will be saved, is saved only by Faith and what Jesus did on the Cross.  We are all ONE under Christ.  There is no White group, Black group, German Group, Hispanic Group…roots…We are EQUAL under the Cross, and our roots become with HIM.

Freedom has a price.Isaiah 5:18″Woe unto them who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope.”  God help this nation and all those speaking vanity in Washington..and Churches across this land, not speaking out at all.  God help us.  For God shall not be mocked! “Woe unto those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own right! ” God gives a warning; and that warning I see is prudent for our whole Congress who want to ram legislation down our throats in spite of  the “majority of the people, by the people”.

Do we in America realize that we are at war?  I don’t mean war in Iraq, Afghanistan…I mean right here, to hold fast to the America our Founding Father’s gave us.  Joshua 1:9 ” Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wheresoever you go.”  We are COMMANDED to preach in the pulpits.  We are commanded as the late Dr. James Kennedy preached on America, and now Stanley, and Pastor Hagee.  But, the majority are not preaching in churches on losing America; on standing; on fighting for what is right.  Charles said, “love your enemies” is taken out of context. Enemies are unlovable, even in war.  It is only by the Holy Spirit that our enemies can be loved.  But, in war, as Joshua  and David, still killed.

To see how kings (Presidents) can fall? Look at Daniel. Remember Belshazzar’s feast? Dan. 5-5-6 “In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candle -stick upon the plaster of the wall of the King’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote” (this is the same spiritual hand which inscribed the 10 Commandments on two tablets of stone.) “Then the King’s countenance was changed…”( he must have become white and shook, for it scared the devil out of him. ) All his wise men like Obama’s wise men, and all his Czars, may not be able to help him, if we all just pray…PRAY..P R A Y..Nothing helped Richard Nixon..did it?  But, that shamed man of Watergate, still did good things, and it was he who remembered his mother’s Quaker prayers, and gave US money to Israel and helped her with troops during the 60’s and 6-day War.  Nixon, disgraced, but forgiven and saved by the blood of the Cross.  What will Obama’s legacy be?  For when Daniel was finally called in as Pastor Hagee said, when he gave the interpretation to the King, he was NOT politically correct!  He told the truth..He STOOD.

We have had more than 50 million babies murdered, calling it a fetus and abortion.  We have lost our prayer in schools thanks to Judge Hugo Black.
We have lost the 10 Commandments in public places, nativity scenes in parks and even churches at Christmas.  We are told during Christmas by stores, “happy holiday”, but, we are not allowed????to say Merry Christmas?  Now even this principal and his friends arrested and being (thankfully) represented by Liberty Council for praying before a meal publicly?  We are desensitized as a society.  No one speaks up.except Sarah Palin,  and Carrie, the ousted Ms USA.   We are losing America.  Are we all that apathetic?   Where are we headed?  Do YOU care?  Will YOU encourage your church to STAND for the truth?   We cannot be free without STANDING!

For like a woman who has had an abortion.  That hole is always there eating her soul.  I’ve seen the young women.  Even saved, forgiven by the Lord, as they may end up…They are reaping what they have sown. America too, has all these holes in her side..like a ship that is slowly sinking with no one watching the bow.  No one cared about a few little leeks the ACLU took away..But, now those leeks have grown and grown.  America is making herself known in tea parties and across America’s town halls, but, we need to pray and come together STANDING, one nation UNDER GOD…WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!  WE, are after all the people.

The Forgotten War (1812)

American’s think of the horrific day of infamy on 9/11 or Pearl Harbor when we think of an act of war on American soil, however, we have forgotten in our history the War of 1812, which was just as horrific, if not more so. For at that time the President’s House, newly renovated after our third President’s term, Thomas Jefferson, by Dolley Payne Madison, First lady and wife of our fourth President, James Madison, the Father of the Constitution; only to suffer unheard of destruction.

Dolley was a Quaker of the John Payne family, who had later resided in Philadelphia, where she had met and married John Todd; having a daughter with him who died young, and a son Payne, when Todd himself died young as well. While only 11 years old, she had met the wonderful James Madison, not realizing it was destined at so young an age. After Todd’s death she met him again, along with another potential suitor, Aaron Burr. She had always known Burr, and thought
him a kindly man, though not really knowing the reserved only 5’6” Madison. At last she chose James Madison, who was overjoyed at the prospect of having Dolley as his wife and welcoming her son, Payne, as his own.

James Madison, (as well as Thomas Jefferson) was a brilliant man. By the age of 12 years he was reading Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Sallust, Terence, and Justinian. He was also learning Spanish and French, both with a Scottish accent. In 1759 when he was eighteen, he arrived at the College of New Jersey, and here, became a zealous patriot, untiring scholar, probing philosopher, ribald satirist. Returning home then, he was physically debilitated but still an ardent student, this time of religious history, international law, and politics, which was to make him later described as “the best informed man in America on the principles of government and the keenest analyst the world had yet produced of the relationship between government and economics.” (Note: It would be a blessing if we had this man in office now with our trillions of debt!)

By June 25, 1778, Virginia voted 89 to 79 to ratify the Constitution. But it was not the deciding state, after all. For already on June 21, little New Hampshire had become the ninth to ratify. From NH to Georgia the bells were ringing and the flags waved with parades and celebrations, with Calvary, light infantry, a herald with a trumpet proclaiming a “New era”.. The cries of Patrick Henry…”Give me liberty of give me death.” And James Madison was at the head of this magnificent document, the Constitution of the United States of America, which is still held as sacred, throughout modern day battles, with judges taking liberties they shouldn’t have, as with the case of Church & State, which was based upon a single personal letter, from Jefferson to the Baptists in Danbury CT, not the actual Constitution itself. The courts ‘incorporated “ it rather illegally into it’s own interpretation…and wrongly, I might add! Roe vs Wade, too, took liberties that were not in the Constitution.

However, the country then in 1778, was still in turmoil, its two political factions polarized. The Republicans headed by Thomas Jefferson, lover of France and ardent Democrat, were in sympathy with the new republic, arguing for support of the treaty even if it led to war. Its excesses, Jefferson believed stoutly, were only temporary. Its ideals –liberty, equality, fraternity- would triumph in the end. On the other hand, Federalists, many of whom had remained Tories even during the Revolution, were all for support of England. The treaty, the claimed, had been made with the King, and the King was dead. Therefore it was void. Not so, asserted Jefferson. A treaty was made with a “country” not a person, and was sacred. Madison had explained to Dolley that there were “three fundamental types of government,” as he had outlined in a paper entitled “Spirit of Governments.” There are military despotism’s, under which human nature has groaned through every age; there are money despotism’s, which pretend to give liberty (Obama’s Administration now!) but really rely on interested partisans to defend the domination of the few over the freedom of the many; and there are republican governments (which remember then were democrats), which it is the glory of America to have invented, and her unrivaled happiness to possess.

Jefferson and Madison had opposed Hamilton on many issues: the creation of a National Bank, which they condemned as both unconstitutional and profitable to merchants and financiers rather than to the mass of the people: the protection of manufacturers by the taxing powers of Congress through subsidies, tariffs, and prohibition of competitive imports; the attempted suppression of democratic societies formed in protest of government policies. “The rights of citizens,” asserted Madison firmly, “to enter into voluntary organizations and to censure the government as they see fit, must be inviolable if a people are to remain free.” (Note, does that sound like the fights in Washington now with Freddie and Fanny, Madoff, Corzine not to mention Timothy Geitner printing and printing money we can’t back up.)

For this opposing view clashed on foreign as well as domestic problems. During the Revolution and the years immediately after there had been strong national affection for France, but as years passed an increasing number renewed their loyalty to Britain. (Then why did they come here in the first place?) In the Constitutional debate Hamilton along with other conservatives, had revealed his preference for the British monarchical system. He had lost. Jefferson, though, interpreted the excesses of the French liberationists (for Napoleon was reigning yet) as indictments not of democracy but of the abuses of monarchy, and had been deeply involved as his 5 years as minister to France. Both Madison and his friend Jefferson, were accumulating a magnificent library, and to Madison’s hundreds of books, Jefferson had thousands in Monticello, that they read too.

Madison fought hard with other Democratic-Republicans in the House before he was elected President, to prevent the implementation of the unfair and unpopular treaty that Washington had reluctantly signed. Number 58 of his “Federalist Papers. “The House cannot only refuse but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of government.” THEY HAD (AND DO NOW) THE POWER OF THE PURSE.” Throughout it all Dolley listened, learned, understood, and sympathized with James’ frustration, become his ardent helpmate throughout their lives.

In the election of 1800, when Jefferson had run for President, James had shar4ed in the calumnies heaped on his head by the opposition. Jefferson, (like today) had been accus4ed of every crime but murder. Dolley smarted at the memory of the slanders directed at them both: atheism, cowardice in the Revolution, hostility to commerce and manufacturers, ruthless ambition, government by the riffraff, the dregs of society. CHANGE, opponents had decried! Exchange Secretary of State John Marshall for a James Madison? (Same as today’s fights). And Madison did serve as this third President’s Secretary of State. And for 16 years the Madison’s would live and be a part of the Washington life, throughout the turmoil and war to come.

Later on, too, Dolley was recalling the friendship (and almost marriage) to Aaron Burr, whose treachery, when it was finally proven, seemed to Dolley as a personal betrayal. But the fall of 1806 there was indisputable evidence that Burr was conspiring to found a separate nation to the West, collaborating with Britain to take the Southwest out of the United States by armed revolt. His partner in this conspiracy seemed to be General James Wilkinson, commander in chief of the American Army and governor of Upper Louisiana, who realizing finally the reality of things,notified the President and caused Burr’s arrest. Wherefore, Burr was tried for high treason. However, just as in today’s news, with Attorney General Holder, there too, was harsh condemnation of the Chief Justice for his narrow interpretation of the treason clause in the Constitution and he dismissed the evidence on technical grounds. Wherefore, Dolly recalled, the trial was a farce…”a circus, politicians juggling for Marshall’s favor.”

Jefferson throughout this time was a strong defender of the equality and rights of the people and the Constitution he and Madison helped design and a strong President. He stayed loyal to America and his friends. He accomplished much and was maligned in current history and slandered I think wrongly by the left, who needed a scapegoat, over the whole Hemming thing. True of false, it cannot take away from his intelligence, loyalty to this country, and friends, and accomplishments.

Madison became his successor as President in 1809, and a two year term to 1817. Both Presidents always remained close friends, journeying later from each others homes, Jefferson’s Monticello and Madison’s Montpelier. By 1812, the war crisis was coming to a head. In fact war was already starting. New York was blockaded. American ships were being seized, as if by pirates holding up income from trade. War was being decried, but,(unlike Obama today with Libya)Madison responded that the “President can make recommendations, but, ONLY Congress could declare war.” (That being true, why hasn’t OUR Congress challenged this President?) On June 4, 1812, the House voted for war 79 to 49. On June 17, the Senate concurred with the vote, 19 to 13. The President, (Madison) that night was pale indeed.

All through a century and a half later historians would still be arguing over the wisdom of the war of 1812 and of the man on whose slender but resolute shoulders rested the burdens as Commander in Chief. (America’s 2nd War of Independence). America was like a puny bold David challenging the heavy giant Goliath. Madison had to choose his generals either from aging Revolutionary veterans or from young officers who had no war experience. The first source of danger was from British troops controlling the Great Lakes and lower Canada, with tribes of hostel Indians as their allies. They moved into Detroit too. Congress was refusing to raise the necessary taxes, except through the painless method of taxing imports, and unfortunately there were no imports. (Sound familiar now?) Turned out General Hull eventually was court-martial ed, and showed his cowardice and blundering to the enemy. Then Captain Isaac Hull, commander of the frigate, Constitution, had captured, burned, and sunk the British frigate, Guerriere. And while the election of 1812 was bitterly contested, Madison still got in a 2nd term in the middle of war, with the Federalists, like John Adams, giving him strong defense.

By 1814, they were embroiled in war, Britain’s pacific offer of negotiation had been just empty words. Conquest of Napoleon had left her free to concentrate on America, and opinions waxed hot. Then the fateful August 24th, Dolley to her horror on the night, fixed hour after hour on the angry red glow in the sky, as the Brits were coming up the Potomac. They had both left the Presidents House on warning’s, Dolley with friends, having taking everything of importance such as James papers, out of the house, while James rode with leaders in this climatic war. Every building was set on fire, and the Presidents House and Library of Congress was in flames. All that remained standing and black after was the 4-square, while the glow in the sky raged. But, something happened that night of miracle proportion. GOD Almighty intervened. And as the British soldiers were burning, and ravaging what souvenirs they take, a huge huge hurricane came out of nowhere, and between the horrific pelting rain and heavy winds, the British soldiers could not even stand up, never mind do any more damage. Then again, out of nowhere, came this tornado, that ripped through Washington DC. The Brits were then defeated. God in the supernatural protected what was left of our capital. And God too, was given credit (not the usual liberal “mother nature”) in the History channels recent documentary. (Note: remember too, months ago, when the earthquake rattled Washington and Maryland? That too,was GOD sending us a warning! And THIS I believe. Therefore, later when they started to rebuild, it was changed from the President’s House to the White House as the 4-square had to be painted white.

I can’t even fathom after the devastation we saw after 9/11 and the Pentagon, what James, Dolley, and the rest saw when they went back. She did not cry or scream or vent in any way, seeing the destruction all around her, and the shock and outrage was in Britain as well as Washington. It violated her gentlemanly code of ethics in warfare. While burning, pillaging, despoiling of private property, even murder and rape of civilians which should have been condoned, was swept under the rug, with this horrific destruction of the citadels of government. And boldly and courageously, once James was reunited with her, in his arms, she did finally weep, but they were tears of joy. The worst was over. Whatever happened now, they could face it, boldly, as long as together.

After this, Francis Scott Key’s poem “Oh, say can you see by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?” appeared in the National Intelligence, which Dolley read with shining eyes. And the Star Spangled Banner was then born as our national anthem. How fitting…and now it’s words make total sense. For this dawn’s early light was America…a war and fire on our land – our Capital, our President’s house. And after 9/11 we had better start remembering this war too, and stay prepared from terrorists, so it never happens again. And that entails a strong military presence!

Some later in history, reputed Madison to be a puny weak and timid President. He was not! Yet in that same year of 1815, Justice Joseph Story wrote: “Never did a country occupy more lofty ground; we have stood the contest, single-handed, against the conqueror of Europe and We are at peace, with all our blushing victories, thick crowding on us. If I do not much mistake, we shall attain to a very high character as well as crush domestic faction.” A century later, Irving Brant wrote, “It was under the guiding hand of President James Madison, that the struggling young country won an equal position among the free nations of the world, and began its long climb to leadership.” The youthful nation had come of age. Meanwhile while they rented a house, while the White House was being appropriated and rebuilt, life began again. And look at us now, since these past 3 years, declining in leadership, with other countries with an apologetic President, that doesn’t even understand his countries revered greatness.

Already Jefferson had offered to compensate for one of the Capitol’s greatest losses, the Congressional Library. It turned the British Vandalism almost into a blessing. For the old Library had contained only some three thousand volumes, while Jefferson’s was twice as large chosen to fit the needs of scholars and statesmen. Whereby, eventually, Congress agreed to Purchase the library of some six thousand volumes, for a modest $23,950. The books arrived in Washington via a wagon train from Monticello, VA. Peace and prosperity after a treaty, once more ensued. The Union was saved. And soon the Madison’s were once again in the new White House. It was 1816.

By 1817, after two terms, Monroe took the oath of office, before Chief Justice Marshall, and the Madison’s returned to Montpelier in VA, with their friend Thomas Jefferson in nearby Monticello. They couldn’t have been happier.

Later on, Madison attended the celebration of the July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, his friends (Jefferson) noblest achievement. Fittingly Jefferson, died that very day soon after noon. Strangely, enough, while the citizens of Quincy, Massachusetts were celebrating the same 50th , John Adams, his predecessor died as well.

The partnership between Jefferson and Madison was the most remarkable in history. “The Great Collaboration,” one historian would call it. The two such scholarly, knowledgeable men. Madison app4eared less studied, brilliant and frank, more natural, candid and profound. Jef4rson had more imagination and passion, quicker and richer conceptions. The truth were they were two dies of the “same” coin, metal fused in the heat of their democratic idealism, and spent without stint in its pursuit. “Take care of me when dead. James knew what he had meant. Keep on where I leave off. As Dolley would do until her death after James had died. She kept in pursuit for years for all his papers to be published – this very learned man. Yet, both men here, always remained humble. And Dolley too, lived through 13 Presidents, friends with Martha Washington in her early years, who she felt a mentor.

When they both helped form the University of VA in later years, Jefferson was horrified at the influx of undisciplined youth from wealthy families, who attacked professors, frequented taverns, turned the dormitories into gambling dens, even throwing a stink bomb into a professors house. Jefferson rose before the board, looking at the defiance of these youth, in the tenderness of a father, and couldn’t speak, instead, this big man, sat back down in tears. Shocked, the students submitted, acknowledged their faults, answering all questions. Abashed by the great man’s tears, they had willingly subscribed to a new disciplinary system. Reading this, in my own tears, I think of “Occupy” and these young undisciplined, uneducated youth, that haven’t a clue to our Constitution and all that made this country what it was and is. I include Obama in this, who also hasn’t a clue as to the Great Country, he rules. And let me tell you Jefferson, Madison,Adams, and most back then wanted and tried to abolish slavery. And both Jefferson and Madison succeeded at the end, except for the wrongdoing of Dolley’s son Payne, who too was undisciplined. But, that fight would come later once and for all. But, America if we are to succeed, must remember the history of our Founding Father’s. O’Reilly has Lincoln and Glenn Beck has Washington, but, as for me? My hero now, without a doubt is James Madison and I include his queen, Dolley. She was revered, by all in Washington long after his death, by all until God took this woman home at 81. She was remarkable!

So, in this next election 2012, I’d like to leave this with a quote from Madison to take heed for what you believe in. He wrote:

“Advice To My Country”

“As this advice, if it ever see the light will not do it till I am no more, it may be considered as issuing from the tomb, where truth alone can be respected and the happiness of man alone consulted. It will be entitled therefore to whatever weight can be derived from good intentions, and from the experience of one who has served his country in various stations through a period of forty years, who espoused in his youth and adhered through his life to the cause of liberty, and who has borne a part in most of the great transactions which will constitute epochs of its destiny. The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions, is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one, as the Serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Paradise.”

There is the essence of James unswerving loyalty to his country’s unity, remaining unquestioned. And his papers left of his genius mind were the greatest legacy to America, the FUTURE, the fruit of his unending struggle to secure the rights and privileges of her people through the democratic process. As long as those rights and liberties remained intact, were not forfeited by force or political intrigue, (AS THE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN UNION)our country and it’s Constitution, the memory of Madison, Jefferson, and all our Founding Father’s will stay in tact with human aspiration. All men have flaws, including Newt Gingrich, now in this election. But, could he and the other candidates, understand what is at stake?
We must all ask ourselves that now with each and every candidate vetted and scrupulously analyzed, for out future and this countries is at stake. And WE do not take orders and adhere to the laws of other countries or the UN. BUT our alienable rights under AMERICA’s Constitution ONLY! And for those ideologues like the Communist-Socialist left as this President, I say to you this, WE the people, me, you, and our children and our children’s children, will fight you and those like you who want to take away our alienable rights and equality and merge us into something WE the people are not, nor want. We fought before for our independence throughout history, and we will NOT be deterred. GOD..YES…GOD BLESS AMERICA…The Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Jesus Christ, of whose hand is over America protecting her, do I give my thanks and trust. Thank you Lord, for your hand on us, even when we are too stupid to realize truths. Free speech? Yes, but, only unless it does not infringe on the rights of others. Bless you all….

Excerpts taken from a book “Queen Dolley” by Dorothy Clarke Wilson © 1987

Atlas Shrugged & Rands Predictions

Who is John Galt?  The character in Atlas Shrugged whose speech went on for 60 pages.  “You have heard it said, this was the age of moral crisis; you have cried that mans sins are destroying the world.  Against all human nature to practice the virtues that you demanded.  Since virtue to you consists of sacrifice, justice, and mercy.   You have sacrificed self esteem to self denial, happiness to duty.  You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil, and achieved all that which you held to be good.  All you wished for and I am the man who has granted your wish.” (With elections on the horizon, this is a reblog.https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/atlas-shrugged-rands-predictions/ )

Sounds almost like some prophesy coming from the Bible.  Yet, this book was written by a brilliant philosopher, whose predictions 50 years ago, have all but, come true.

In 1957 Ayn Rand published her last novel, “Atlas Shrugged”, which is still today, in print, and selling.  The setting for Atlas Shrugged was an American apocalypse  glimpse into the future.  If Rand was here today she’d point to anything in government today and say, “I told you so.”!  Regulations breed regulations in Washington and control and laws get massive to breed more control.  Government will grow, freedoms will shrink.  Markets will dive, and are, and government programs will expand, crippling us. More and more government intervention making it worse will and IS happening.  Ayn predicted this would happen and understood way ahead of her time the moral and intellectual decay we are at now.  No one reads a book anymore or has intellect; it is anything goes and reality tv and decay.

During the 50’s, it was one of the most prosperous time in our nation – a utopia in Atlas Shrugged. (It was for me growing up as well.  My dad, an electronic engineer and inventor, had his own business, and flourished. Television had been introduced in 1948, and he had a summer camp, and America was booming, all after WWII.)

Ayn’s prophesy tells the story of D. Taggart, the owner of a railway, as one by one the men of the Vanguard Industry simply vanish. Atlas shrugged sold over 7 million copies and to date has never been out of print. Ayn thought, though, that there would he an intellectual moral minority that could see the philosophical achievements she had done with Atlas Shrugged.  It didn’t happen.  Ayn had hoped to change what she saw as America’s relentless march toward ustopia depicted in her novel.  She wrote the book to prevent what now, 50 years later, has come true.  For no one could see what was happening then on the surface, as the problem was philosophy.  Ayn said, “Identify the philosophy of a society and you can predict it’s future.”

Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, a Russian Jew, in Czarist Russia in 1905.  Alisa was a top student and knew by the age of 9 that writing would be her life’s work.   She was writing novels at 10 years old.  She was 12 years old when the Russian Revolution began.  Her father’s business was taken away, Russian soldiers closed the shop and her father never worked again.  (THAT is happening now, with farmers in America, and other business, and tax laws and government laws, that need to be eliminated.  Farmers who have been in business for 300 years, are now out of  business, one because of a EPA law and minnows being harmed.)  She saw at 12, that people who worked the hardest were punished and stripped.  They were broken.

Young Alisa was drawn to the cinema and saw a very prosperous America in the 20’s.  She resolved to go to America as soon as possible.  By the time she arrived in NY Harbor in 1926, she felt she had left the soul gripping Communism far behind.  To protect her family still in Russia, she changed her name to Ayn Rand.  America then was the wonders of the world. Capitalists were having a productive great time. Then the depression hit and it looked like Capitalism had failed.  Then it was thought that Socialism (Wilson)
and Communism was the better way (just like now).

Ayn voted for FDR, who spoke on radio, “Some would see what we are doing as Fascism or Socialism, or Communism” ; and Ayn, having left Russia because of this and seeing the Revolution, totalitarianism, collectivism, Socialism, looked at the soul of the people and what she left.  The move to introduce this began with Wilson in 1912, then FDR.  Ayn knew she made the wrong vote.  Whereby middle Protestant America said, “I am my brothers keeper.”  It was the first time the government was looked at as savior instead of charities and churches.  (And here we are, aren’t we?)

She wrote “We the Living” her first book on the threat to America.   It drew from her own background.  Lillian Hellman, Eugene O’Neil, all visited Russia, and felt Ayn didn’t know about it, yet they never saw or heard of all the mass murders, as with any totalitarianism society.  (Remember the movie “Red’s”? Hellman and O’Neil were portrayed…and the end proved it didn’t work…Tell that to Streisand and the rest of the Hollywood Marxists.)  Then the news reported all the famine and brutality.  She felt her warning came too late.

Ayn then published “The Fountainhead”.  What does it mean to be a human being? (We Christians have our expectations in the Bible, but Ayn was intellectually and philosophically coming from another area. And being Jewish had no knowledge of the Bible, yet, how closely prophetic) Work itself, she wrote, and instincts.  The Fountainhead became a movie.  But most followers missed the point of her collectivism, so it frightened all the “experts”.   She thought, what if all the brilliant minds, engineers, hard workers just disappeared, and all that was left was the tax collectors, and left with no one to create or build anything of value for them.  (Very similar with what is prophesied in Revelations when the Rapture comes and all of us saved, meet the Lord in the air.)  Think about the ramifications of where her intellect was going.

Her first title for Atlas Shrugged was “The Strike” and government interference only created social injustice and extreme poverty.  It gives the excuse to start more programs and more regulations.  It’s the fight before the makers who make things, and the takers who are too lazy to work with their hand out, including the class action lawyers, government and moochers.    To Rand these looters were no different than the Communists thugs who took her father’s business, in the name of the people, when in actuality were nothing more than criminals.  It gives those in power the right to indoctrinate the mind’s of the people, the persecuted, by a moral code called “Altruism”.  It says everybody, is more important than you. There has to be a fair-equal relationship. (Obama, and Van Jones thinking, and it has been proven over and over that it only destroys.) It provided weapons for government to chain up FREE individuals!  She felt each man should be an end to himself, and being benevolent when it was put on your heart.

Who is John Galt?  He is the first man of ability to regard it as guilt. And by not letting government use his virtues, who would not suffer martyrdom in the hands of those who wish him to perish, for the benefit of keeping government alive.  Ayn loved the original “Founding” principals; freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to own property, right to bear arms, etc.  Jefferson, too, had a clear view on government staying out of our freedoms, evils of too much government.  He said, “We have a moral right to our own lives. ” So Ayn had multiple agenda’s…..AND so should we now in this crucial point, and who we elect.

She began to write Atlas around 1945.  She didn’t publish the book until 1957.  Her characters were vivid in the steel and railroad industry.  It shows how the government lies and corrupts to destroy the Capitalist for its own power.  Man, (Galt) has the power to act as his own destroyer, which is the way he’s acted for most of his history.  Finally, she goes to print,; all her objectivism with her hero John Galt, hoping it will be well received and change the world.  She was also part of the start of the John Birch Society back then and an integral member.  Then the reaction was negative.  Because it was so radical and challenged.  Even William F. Buckley Jr. of  National Review gave the book to Whittaker Chambers, who was an ex-Communist spy.  Chambers gave it the worse review.  Buckley was in competition with Rand over the conservative -political movement and direction.  But, she did not expect Chambers harshness. She was crushed.

But despite it all, it went on the NY Times bestseller list- all 1,000 pages!  She’d gone after the thinkers and movers and shakers, but, her acclaim never came.   Rand never published another fiction book.  As the years past her book stayed in print, and still is selling.  She was so brilliant she was intimidating.  In 1972, Al Ruddy producer of the “Godfather”, felt it was the most important book to film.  But, it never went through cause she wanted script approval.  She died in 1982.

Ayn always said “Atlas Shrugged” was set the day after tomorrow” and we’re there now.  People are rebelling, losing control, big brother, bureaucracies- ie the people are losing their freedoms.  In the year 2007, the 50th anniversary of Atlas Shrugged, the US Federal Regulation agencies employed a high of 238,000 people, and issued more than 4,000 new regulations, closing small businesses, and farms etc.  (ie the car industry forced to take a government handout). By the end of 2007, another 3800 new regulations were already in the works. And did you know that now, we have more people in our jails (mostly Federal ) because of these new regulations, than BOTH Russia and China combined!

When we see trading done by compulsion not consent, in order to produce, you have to get permission from government, men who have produced nothing.  The way its going our society is doomed.  Capitalism did not cause the housing bubble, ie Freddy and Fannie, it was the Government (Barney Frank too) and its immoral rules and laws.  So they passed more!  Ayn’s prediction came true running amok.  All that Washington’s done, Greenspan, Bernacke, is like a mirror out of Atlas Shrugged.  When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect man to do any good!   Their government heavyweights are after power now as she predicted. (NOT the good of the people).  Crippling the farmer, and many industries, Eminent Domain taking property for the good of what?  Her objectivism is really not too far from our Founding Fathers, for she truly loved America – where the people elect, except now our politicians are all life long professionals, and there should be “term limits”….period!

Our happiness is a God given Right!  As a consequence we are losing our rights and Ayn prophetic vision was absolutely CORRECT!  All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind, which God gave each and every one of us.  In another 25 years, we will collapse as Greece had and Ireland just may too.  Atlas Shrugged, says  “what happens when looting runs dry?”  We need to really take a good look at America in the 50’s (racism aside as that was an atrocity, but business and prosperity).  We all need to send the right message to Washington.   THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT !  And pass around to your friends and read Atlas Shrugged, as well as Ayn’s other books, one, “Capitalism”.  There is a cry out there…business that have gone overseas, want to come back.  We want our freedoms back, that is why the Teaparty really began.  Those in Washington need to be voted out!  Harry Reid has been in office too long, and is a member of the American Communist Party, as 70 other members of Congress.  There is a move now, trying to obliterate our Constitution. We are losing America.  So I close by begging you to read Atlas Shrugged, Ayn’s work…all prophetically true, while we sat back and slept.  Let us get America back and throw out the thugs.  God Bless America, please keep your hands on us Lord, and do not forsake us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand 

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=index

http://www.whoisjohngalt.com/

The World, Oil and Obamacare

Repentance calls us to our knees if slandered, for we cannot under Christ as Christians be offended. The pain we may feel when we are attacked, is in the flesh, and the flesh lusts against the spirit of Christ. If we call ourselves born again Christians, unless we can forgive others for their hatred, their sins in the world, their lust of worldly things, then we are not free, and are in bondage. It is not something we can turn on and off, for the Holy Spirit is either in us, in our hearts, in our very being, or we are ruled by Satan. Jesus died on the Cross for our sins. The sins of all mankind, all religions, all peoples in this world. Do we not owe HIM who saved us, love, integrity, honor, and the compassion to others that HE showed in all His grace and mercy, hanging on that Cross, beaten, abused, His very blood draining out of his body…to us, acting as His servant?Are we servants of Christ or are we pharisees? Are we especially in America, phony Christians, or are we loyal, to His teachings and the Cross? We are not necessarily condemned if we fail, if we stumble, if we make a mistake or lost. There is only one way to atonement, and forgiveness and that is repentance and coming to the Cross, for the flesh always wars with the spirit. Jesus told His disciples to give up all they had to follow Him. While in the flesh most only want more and more in greed, and do not understand the move of the Holy Spirit one iota. We live in an out of control society now across the world. The flesh and Satan are running rampant with crime, unholiness, murders, crooked politics, and quick fixes, reality tv, and so much technology, it minimizes and distorts God’s word and the work of the Holy Spirit, who in fact is slandered too, even in courts, and Jesus is tossed out with the bathwater.

However, I know in my heart HE and only HE still rules this earth and one day, we will see our Lord come in all His glory, in the sky for His children, and all those who will wear many crowns and succeeded in overcoming adversity. “Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple” Luke 14:27 He is not talking about having one foot in the world and one foot in the church, He is talking about total trust, for nothing is halfway with Jesus…nothing. We either stand on HIS word and KNOW His word, for ALL to see as a testimony, UNASHAMED, or we deny Him as Peter did three times…(yet later repented.) Sometimes, if not most of the time, God limits our resources to ensure we give HIM all the glory. If you win something, or gain a gift, it is not a tribute to HIM is it? I learned this lesson early in my Christian walk 30 years ago. Sometimes He takes material things from us…withholds purposely from us, or lets us loose materially, to get us on our knees in repentance, so we ONLY trust and go to HIM. My God is a jealous God, afterall. But, He is my redeemer, my Savior, my all. In Him do I trust and only in HIM.

When we follow Jesus, we can’t settle for a partial victory because we’re exhausted. God won’t allow it either! HIS plan is always for our full deliverance and sometimes that comes only in the last half hour, when we’re so frustrated, tired and can’t go one more step. PRAY…Get in a prayer closet…lock the door, and keep everyone out until God gives you an answer. Your family will just have to rely on one another. My youngest son I lost, always respected my prayer time, and when I was in my Bible and in prayer, he knew to go back to doing whatever quietly, and honor my relationship with my Jesus. Do you have prayer time with your husband and children? The fact is, every battle we face has an eternal purpose. It just isn’t to defeat the enemy, but it’s the EXALTATION OF JESUS. And He hears our cries, our praises in Heaven. Are we dry bones? Or are we filled with the Holy Spirit, and let HIM lead us. He’s a gentleman you know…He won’t come inside us unless he’s invited. Whatever He calls us to do, he will supply all strength to accomplish it. If He tells us to give up all and quit the fight? He is testing us and will always replace, when He has us in that special place of intimacy and peace with HIM.

We cannot hate anyone, we cannot carry a grudge against anyone, but need that repentance, and only through repentance does the blood He shed on the Cross, make any sense. THAT is what is was all about.. When Adam & Eve sinned, it took the blood atonement, of Jesus dying on that Cross for our sins, to make forgiveness and repentance possible for us. By His blood, grace, mercy, we can come to His throne and receive all His love and give Him all the glory…THAT in itself…gives us the victory, through our sin bearer, Jesus..the perfect sacrifice. And we are to give Him our constant glory and love, knowing he will draw all men unto himself. And we are guaranteed to have life eternal. You cannot have odds against anyone, and say your a Christian. Matt. “If you love mother, father, child more than me, you are not worthy of me.” Glory…I am not ashamed of you Lord, and I will confess you as my Lord and STAND on your word continuously, in all parts of my life, as you want..Go ye in all the world and tell of His word….for He paid the final price afterall…Only His agape’ love through His Holy spirit can heal us all…and it all starts with repentance.

When my Greek ex-husband died last year of cancer, who abused me in my 20’s, I wrote the following poem. I know he didn’t get saved, for out of his mouth was only vile curses to the Lord who loved him. My daughter too, somehow could not pray the sinner’s prayer with him at the very end…..and so it goes..it is finished. For repentance of the heart is all He asks.

My Heart
Your eyes ask questioningly of me,
They seek to peer inside my soul,
But I have bared my life before all eyes,
Throughout this journey’s work I left behind.
There was nothing hidden in what I wrote or preached,
Whether in blogs or books, poetry and such,
Except the truth of where I’ve been and what I’ve seen
In this path of love and pain.
My only question to all has been; “Are you washed in
The Blood of the lamb?”

Some of you I’ve known since we were young, may outlive me,
But don’t shed tears.
You knew I have had loves in my life that bloomed in youth,
And I still cared.
For God knew my heart, when you did not, of husbands and
Children who predeceased me,
Like the jewels in the Kingdom of God, I left no stone unturned.
Those that loved me knew this heart and never needed to ask,
I was there in spirit and loved both pleasure and pain that
Bore such a price,
For all I asked at the end was, “Are you washed in the blood of
the lamb?”
J.E.Worthen 3/11/2011

Repentance

Repentance calls us to our knees if slandered, for we cannot under Christ as Christians be offended. The pain we may feel when we are attacked, is in the flesh, and the flesh lusts against the spirit of Christ. If we call ourselves born again Christians, unless we can forgive others for their hatred, their sins in the world, their lust of worldly things, then we are not free, and are in bondage. It is not something we can turn on and off, for the Holy Spirit is either in us, in our hearts, in our very being, or we are ruled by Satan. Jesus died on the Cross for our sins. The sins of all mankind, all religions, all peoples in this world. Do we not owe HIM who saved us, love, integrity, honor, and the compassion to others that HE showed in all His grace and mercy, hanging on that Cross, beaten, abused, His very blood draining out of his body…to us, acting as His servant?Are we servants of Christ or are we pharisees? Are we especially in America, phony Christians, or are we loyal, to His teachings and the Cross? We are not necessarily condemned if we fail, if we stumble, if we make a mistake or lost. There is only one way to atonement, and forgiveness and that is repentance and coming to the Cross, for the flesh always wars with the spirit. Jesus told His disciples to give up all they had to follow Him. While in the flesh most only want more and more in greed, and do not understand the move of the Holy Spirit one iota. We live in an out of control society now across the world. The flesh and Satan are running rampant with crime, unholiness, murders, crooked politics, and quick fixes, reality tv, and so much technology, it minimizes and distorts God’s word and the work of the Holy Spirit, who in fact is slandered too, even in courts, and Jesus is tossed out with the bathwater.

However, I know in my heart HE and only HE still rules this earth and one day, we will see our Lord come in all His glory, in the sky for His children, and all those who will wear many crowns and succeeded in overcoming adversity. “Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple” Luke 14:27 He is not talking about having one foot in the world and one foot in the church, He is talking about total trust, for nothing is halfway with Jesus…nothing. We either stand on HIS word and KNOW His word, for ALL to see as a testimony, UNASHAMED, or we deny Him as Peter did three times…(yet later repented.) Sometimes, if not most of the time, God limits our resources to ensure we give HIM all the glory. If you win something, or gain a gift, it is not a tribute to HIM is it? I learned this lesson early in my Christian walk 30 years ago. Sometimes He takes material things from us…withholds purposely from us, or lets us loose materially, to get us on our knees in repentance, so we ONLY trust and go to HIM. My God is a jealous God, afterall. But, He is my redeemer, my Savior, my all. In Him do I trust and only in HIM.

When we follow Jesus, we can’t settle for a partial victory because we’re exhausted. God won’t allow it either! HIS plan is always for our full deliverance and sometimes that comes only in the last half hour, when we’re so frustrated, tired and can’t go one more step. PRAY…Get in a prayer closet…lock the door, and keep everyone out until God gives you an answer. Your family will just have to rely on one another. My youngest son I lost, always respected my prayer time, and when I was in my Bible and in prayer, he knew to go back to doing whatever quietly, and honor my relationship with my Jesus. Do you have prayer time with your husband and children? The fact is, every battle we face has an eternal purpose. It just isn’t to defeat the enemy, but it’s the EXALTATION OF JESUS. And He hears our cries, our praises in Heaven. Are we dry bones? Or are we filled with the Holy Spirit, and let HIM lead us. He’s a gentleman you know…He won’t come inside us unless he’s invited. Whatever He calls us to do, he will supply all strength to accomplish it. If He tells us to give up all and quit the fight? He is testing us and will always replace, when He has us in that special place of intimacy and peace with HIM.

We cannot hate anyone, we cannot carry a grudge against anyone, but need that repentance, and only through repentance does the blood He shed on the Cross, make any sense. THAT is what is was all about.. When Adam & Eve sinned, it took the blood atonement, of Jesus dying on that Cross for our sins, to make forgiveness and repentance possible for us. By His blood, grace, mercy, we can come to His throne and receive all His love and give Him all the glory…THAT in itself…gives us the victory, through our sin bearer, Jesus..the perfect sacrifice. And we are to give Him our constant glory and love, knowing he will draw all men unto himself. And we are guaranteed to have life eternal. You cannot have odds against anyone, and say your a Christian. Matt. “If you love mother, father, child more than me, you are not worthy of me.” Glory…I am not ashamed of you Lord, and I will confess you as my Lord and STAND on your word continuously, in all parts of my life, as you want..Go ye in all the world and tell of His word….for He paid the final price afterall…Only His agape’ love through His Holy spirit can heal us all…and it all starts with repentance.

When my Greek ex-husband died last year of cancer, who abused me in my 20’s, I wrote the following poem. I know he didn’t get saved, for out of his mouth was only vile curses to the Lord who loved him. My daughter too, somehow could not pray the sinner’s prayer with him at the very end…..and so it goes..it is finished. For repentance of the heart is all He asks.

My Heart
Your eyes ask questioningly of me,
They seek to peer inside my soul,
But I have bared my life before all eyes,
Throughout this journey’s work I left behind.
There was nothing hidden in what I wrote or preached,
Whether in blogs or books, poetry and such,
Except the truth of where I’ve been and what I’ve seen
In this path of love and pain.
My only question to all has been; “Are you washed in
The Blood of the lamb?”

Some of you I’ve known since we were young, may outlive me,
But don’t shed tears.
You knew I have had loves in my life that bloomed in youth,
And I still cared.
For God knew my heart, when you did not, of husbands and
Children who predeceased me,
Like the jewels in the Kingdom of God, I left no stone unturned.
Those that loved me knew this heart and never needed to ask,
I was there in spirit and loved both pleasure and pain that
Bore such a price,
For all I asked at the end was, “Are you washed in the blood of
the lamb?”
J.E.Worthen 3/11/2011

He that Hates

I wrote this blog about 4  years ago.  From a Christian perspective now after the killing in UK and what I wrote on here on Islam, yesterday.

Hatred.  Have you ever known people that hate?  I mean REALLY hate?  I know people  that are unsaved and hate so much it is eating them up alive. Hate destroys, and is evil, and even doctors and clergy, relay how it even causes stress, and destroys our health.

Look at Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, skinheads and all the other hate groups.  They teach their children to hate, have them carry automatic weapons, and teach them to kill.  Most people carry this inside instead.  Discrimination, dominance over another human being, bullying even, are all examples of hate.

Therefore,  I pondered about the people I knew that are filled with hates, as well as those in the media, that of course I do not know.   Nothing good comes out of hate.  Hate kills the soul, it kills the dreams, and it kills the very fibre of having any love.  You cannot love your child and teach them to hate others and to kill, or even hate other races.  God is love, hate is evil and is Satan.

I had a friend for 15 years or so, I ministered to daily and helped so much over the years, that refused to accept Christ as her Savior.   Finally, this New Year, God said enough, and weaned me from her.  She smokes, she only has one lung, and had sacroidosis and the other out 30 years ago. She looks terrible, her face at 73 ashen from the cigarettes.  She has COPD, asthma, and will not do one thing to help herself.   But, when she needed, I was there, and my church even helped her pay a phone bill, and I bought and brought so many groceries to her and “things” over the years, including getting her a used tv,  yet I was repaid, with ungratefulness and mockery over my beliefs, verses her science.  Again, God said enough and  I told her not to call me anymore.  She hates everything, including herself.  And will end up without eternal life and a horrific death, no doubt having to have more lung surgery, cancer, or an oxygen tank.   There are sometimes we have to let go.  After 15 years, it was time, as she was draining me. I repeatedly asked her not to call me on Sundays, as respect for my beliefs, as it was my day with my Jesus.   I watch a lot of Christian preaching on Sunday’s and her wallowing phone calls, took away what the Holy Spirit was teaching me.  It was time to let go..

What does the Bible say?  First, look at how all of God’s prophets were hated.  In II Chronicles 18:7 Jehoshaphat, was warning against false prophets, “And the King of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but, I hate him, for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil (wanted his own controlling way); the same is Micaiah the son of Imla.  And Jehoshaphat said, let not the king say so..(as few prophets are really from the Lord).

Then look at Saul.  Saul changed, and he turned from God.  I Sam. 28.  And in that verse we see that God can just let us go!  “When God departs from thee”.  Also Proverbs and in Hebrews 6, and 12:14.  Esau too, for all he did selling his birthright, caring nothing about spirituality only material things.  God said, “Him, do I hate!” I Sam. 28:9 Imagine God saying he hated you?  The Philistines were as Palestine now.. God said, “shall be as dead”. Just as the young man I wrote of, that says he is dead?  God will turn his back on him ..and let him go.  But, the Lord will deliver israel!  Prov. 1:22-33, Heb. 6:16, but, for those that turn their back on God? He will give you up!  Heb. 6:8.   Gen. 16:11-12 Refers to Ishmael and what became the Arab nation now…Esau as “a wild man”…Gen 21:17-21, Gen 25:12-20 ..But, the covenent belongs to Isaak, Jacob…the Jews.

Gen 25:20 On Ishmael (became the seed of Muhammad).  Rebekah and Isaac had twins and in her womb,  they were warring insde her…(2 nations).  ie Jacob & Esau, (the hairy one..a wild man).  Esau was born first and when Jacob came, he grabbed his heel.   Esau only cared only about the material things.  Gen 22:38 & 22:40. “And by the sword shall you live!”  (and the Arabs have been then and since a violent people. Esau hated Jacob as Cain hated Able. And still the Arab nations hate Israel for thousands of years.  God told Jacob though that he would then be called Israel! “And the land I gave Abraham & Isaac to you I will give it..the land!’ Heb. 12:16.  Esau rejected God, and was a profane man.  Malachi 1:2,3 “God hated Esau” and let him go…Prov 1:24-29.  God says because I called and you refuse, He will not hear him in times of calamity.  HE LETS US GO!   If you reject God and are profane?  You have made your own destiny and hell is what you will end up with.  There comes a point with God that He stops trying and what you profess in profanity and worldly things will be your inheritance…as well as hell.

You say, how can a “loving” God let us go or even say he hates us?  Then say Jesus is the only way?  Many Christians today are being deceived by modern twisted politically correct thinking, suggesting there are mulitple paths to heaven.  Being the age of diversity, this thinking has crept into some contemporary church pews, if not a few pulpits.   However, here is the bottom line for Christians; including the FALSE doctrines out of the Episcopal Church, that the only way to heaven is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, which means we must fearlessly and lovingly preach this message and never stray from the path, no matter who challenges it.    So, do people who do not believe go to hell? How can a loving God send good people to an eternal hell?   Well , He gives us a choice though doesn’t he?  If one chooses to hate, and live an evil life, God will let him go.  And when he is let go, will end up cast in hell.  When we turn our backs on God, He eventually if evil enough, will turn from us.

Psalm 34:21 “Evil shall slay the wicked; and they who hate the righteous shall be desolate. That includes my lost friend that hates me.  They hate so much they shall be desolate.  For God gave me righteousness and with that, came help and a spirit of  the compassion of Christ, which will now be missing in their lives.  They are now cut off. . Now, she is really in the dark, spiritually too. (Although she may not realize it.)  In Ecclesiastes 2, the Preacher says in essence that pleasure is vain.  Then in verse 17 says “Therefore, I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.  (The ONLY one that can make life worth living is Christ.  A life totally immersed in Him, irrespective of its circumstances, will bring fulfillment, satisfaction, and contentment, as well as “joy unspeakable and full glory”.  [John 10:10]).

Luke 6:22 says, “Blessed are you (happy are you) when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.”  23 “Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy for, behold, your reward is great in Heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the Prophets.”  If the world and the “religious” establishment did such unto the Prophets (ie the media and those unsaved hating us that are evangelical, then we can expect no less.

I’m going to add another verse here too, as there is someone I’ve been witnessing to for 5 years.  “But woe unto you who are rich!”  For you have received your consolation and the spirit of God for ‘things’.” ” Woe unto you who are full!  (Things of the world). For you shall know hunger”.   “Woe unto you who laugh now! For you shall mourn and weep.” “Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!  For so did their fathers to the false prophets.” In other words they (like many politicians, and media folk, are telling men what they want to hear instead of what God wants them to hear.  That’s the differences between having righteousness and Christ, and being in the world that has hates. I’d be more afraid of offending God and having Him hate me and let me go than any one person in the “world”.

Ephesians 6:1 says too, specifically for children to obey their parents in the Lord, for this is right.  But,  it also says in verse 4 “And you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”  Discipline without love is NOT God. And I know many that were brought up with dysfunctional families and abusive fathers, or as Catholics even in school with nuns that were strong disciplinarians, yet, showed not the love of Jesus.   Whereby, children were again, provoked.  That discipline not channeled properly turns into abuse!  And abuse turns into hates…  That leaves a dire legacy in emotional  turmoil for any child to bare.   It is NOT of God, and I don’t care where it was received.

I John 2:9 says, “He who says he is in the Light, and hates his brother” (mother, father, son, daughter, neighbor) “is in darkness even until now.”  How can we claim to have love, and at the same time hate our brother?   John goes on to say how this person walks in darkness, but, also when I heard this from someone, “consider me dead” as they didn’t want to be bothered by the other relative.  That person has put a curse on himself.  For what this young man doesn’t realize? He SHUT the door on THIS side, and he opened the door to the OTHER side. He hasn’t Jesus as his Lord and savior, and like the terrorists, has no value for life itself or regard, even for his own children.  He belongs to Satan and darkness.  God will allow him exactly what he ask for..For in essence this person already IS DEAD!   Romans 1:30 ” Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only do the same, but have PLEASURE in them who do them.”  Exactly like Hamas?  Consequences.  There are consequences to your actions. Hate has a price, and that price is always death!  Do you know a young person in a gang or laughing at God, thinking they can live life in whatever way they want?   We all die!  But, our way of living, and what we believe, has the consequence of where we will spend eternity.   There is no in between.   You who wants to do drugs, are in bondage, or laugh at any witness of Jesus, are on the road to death, and damnation.  YOU have a choice.  After death, comes the judgement..Christian, or unchristian, haters of God, and man, or those that gave given their life to Jesus, we will all stand naked at that Great White Throne Judgment Seat of God!! Amen!

Charles Stanley said in numerous teachings that hate is from within, like a crockpot that keeps on cooking. Anger, and lack of forgiveness.  That person needs to search for the roots of the problem, ie either immaturity, or something going on inside that lacked consequence.  Where you are today, are results of yesterday.  There are consequences to anger, and they are dier.   Anger stirs up feelings of intense displeasure, hostility or indignation, threats, insults, imagined rage, resentment like that crockpot that continuously boils or simmers…rage.  The indignation, too that Jesus had in the Temple, as it was anger and injustice. That  kind of anger is righteous.  If someone hurt you a long time ago, divorce, rape etc.  Its something you have to deal with.  But, Ephesians 4:26-27 says “Be angry and sin not.”  Don’t leet the sun go down and cause you to give the devil the opportunity (over what they thought/felt/in the past.)  So you build a case against yourself, so,  let go before you go to sleep at night.

You cannot be with God and against another.  Anger in they’re heart, a critical spirit,  etc.  There is a difference between ‘criticism’ and ‘correction’.   When your angry your shield is up; you isolate yourself.  “I will never do this..that etc.”  You feel it…you set yourself up fot this, but you don’t trust anymore.  That’s what happened to me too, for years young after I divorced my abusive Greek husband in 1969, still in my 20’s, with 3 children.  Like Charles said, it was like a record player playing over and over, “you can’t do nothing right”…then the re-enactment in my mind and sleep of the beatings, and I hated what he did to us, as well as his girl friend, destroying my family.  It crippled me to find a nice man as I equated, back then unsaved, that all men were like him. But, God did not build us to live in anger, but to have an intimate relationship with Him and our spouses, which I found out by 1982, when I got saved.    That anger, you can pick up in language, which married to this man, I saw daily.  Sometimes putting it to you, either deep seated or subtle; “you aren’t going to tell me anything!  I’ll do what I want”…and he did.  Anger is deceptive, its destruction.  Because you cannot have any harmony with that kind of husband or wife/children/parents with all this anger.  I found out all this when I got saved, and had to let it go and forgive.

When you have anger, you get sloppy in your job.  Anger will effect EVERY aspect in  your life!! You loose your enthusiasm, you lose everything.  I did.  My ex hated so much. He hated his lot in life then, his parents business he was forced to work in, and gradually he hated me and even his children, although he claimed he wanted them.  So he had other women and drank…escapism, until that last one he had then wouldn’t give him up and came on my doorstep.  So, he got what he wanted, and I was left too, with my own anger and pain to deal with.  He stuck a knife in my heart, because he couldn’t deal as a mature man with whatever was really inside ticking away like a time bomb ready always to explode. Lack of focus and mind gets divided and they  procrastinate and don’t want someone telling them what to do.  What these people don’t realize, is it’s causes, a need to satisfy something, ie same as obesity, alcoholism, even sex without love is anger.  It also affects our health, to causing high cholesterol,  blood pressure goes up, tension, stress.  But, anger not dealt with is destructive and the person feels it.  They set themselves up for this, and don’t trust anymore.  Anger twists and all it leaves is emptiness.

If your angry, you’ll take it out on someone else; for instance, what your husband/wife said.  There is no forgiveness.  Sometimes we don’t even know what is going on in another persons life.  “You don’t know what he/she did to me!”  But, were you crucified?  Anger doesn’t have to reside inside you.  And I had to saved, let go to God, and even forgive my abuser.   What I still even now deal with though, is that he could never say he was sorry to  me.  There was never any contrition, and he went on treating woman after woman this same way.  Looking down on them, finding fault, always, treating them as objects, and abuse.   But, now, I look at it differently, and see how his fate is already decided, as he laughs at salvation, and one day will face that judgement seat of God and hell.  For, that I feel sorrow, now, and pity.  That too, is what happens in a life of anger.

The devil has had a field day with this man for his whole life.  He still works at 74, for he has nothing else, but this old fallen business that was his “inheritance”.  He has no love, no friends, no hobbies,  no joy, no other talents, and above all, no God!  This man has been led by the devil for his whole life, and will die the same way.  When you don’t believe in the devil, you are duped and leave yourself open to him.  62% Charles Stanley said, of youth today do not believe in God,  and under 25 is 82%.  This not having any theology or belief in God effects our whole lifestyles, including who we vote for. That’s why the ACLU and secular humanists keep pushing to take God out of everything.  However having tolerance for wrongs is not of God either.  We are too, to be “doers” of the Word of God, not just sitting back trusting even the Government blindly.   If something is wrong, morally, you don’t tolerate, anymore than God did, you eliminate, make better, change laws, and above all pray.  IT IS CALLED DISCERNMENT!    If a man grabs and rapes your daughter, you don’t want tolerance, you want justice.  And there is no better guidepost for JUSTICE than the Holy Bible!

1Peter 3:13-15 “who is there to harm you if your zealous, etc.  What you believe effects every aspect of your life…EVERYTHING!  II Timothy 4:1-2 on false teachers.  “Preach the word reprove, REBUKE the time will come they want their ears tickled, etc..For instance, can you defend your faith?  Whats your authority?  Like the man above with all the hates?  Miss California, Carrie, against the gays etc…She STOOD!!  You think that if your being just good, your going to Heaven? On WHAT authority?  If you are a hater of God, and led an ungodly life as my ex husband in hates and abuse, and STAND for NOTHING…you are going to hell.   Others that have led clean lives but are not saved, yet go to church will have the same fate as the abuser. The error of this thinking that you only need to be a good person is disastrous! 1Peter 3:14-15 says, you should know what you believe in, and WHY you believe what you believe.  If you do not have salvation, and have asked repentance for all your hates and deeds, you have no authority.  Without the word of God you have only the devil and hell.   Hate destroys!.. Jesus saves!

When it comes down to pain, suffering, hurt, all the truths come out. It did with me..  And I had to leave it at the Cross and the Blood of the lamb, and let go…many years ago now.  Glory for the lamb of God.    It is our responsibility to teach our children and grandchildren the AUTHORITY of the word of God.  What has happened to the Godly morality I was brought up with in the 40’s and 50’s?  If all these young people now, just sleep around and still go to church?  It will destroy you! Look at what is happening now in America!  What you believe and how you deal with hates makes a difference for all eternity.  When people like my ex, brag about all their sins, who they slept with, conning this one and that, always putting someone down to their level.  Well, they won’t brag when they are on their deathbed!   For God’s word is the FINAL authority!

Hates will devour you, it will eat you up alive, in sickness, malfunctions, loneliness, pain, and envy til you have nothing left.   This is something I wanted to delve into for a long time. My friend, what will you have?   Jesus says, come unto me all ye that are heavy laden….If this young Hamas man can get on his knees and leave all hates, and come to Jesus, why are you that stubborn?   He showed what God wanted and Esau didn’t have, a heart and spirituality. Do we?  Be careful that God doesn’t just let you go.  You can go your own way and reject and reject Christ, but, there will come a time, when you are profane, and deliberate in your actions, that cause just walks away and takes His hands off of you.  I fear Him and love Him more than man.  We all have a choice, friends.  Fashionable, feel-good doctrines have come and gone over the course of the ages, but the Truth of Jesus Christ has stood the test of time (Heb. 13:8).  And He stands today amongst all the cults, the lies, the diversions, the hates, today with arms open waiting to receive unto Himself all who will trust and follow Him.  How are you going to die?   Are you going to stay in denial and hates?  How are you going to face God?  The preacher is not the authority! God’s WORD is !!  Will that be you, my friend?  And before anyone asks about tolerance?  I have another blog and  answer here, “The 7 People God Can’t Save.” Which came from a teaching from Pastor John Hagee.

https://jeworthen.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/righteousness-people-god-cant-save/

What Is To Come?

On this Easter, Resurrection Sunday, Jesus, Yeshua, I AM, the God of all nations, let us give thanks to Him who saved us from our iniquities.  America and the world, is in such a mess.  There is much to give thanks for, and yet much to pray for.   But one thing is sure, God’s will, will reign. America now has sunk lower than I can remember in all my 75 years on this earth.  I am deeply disturbed, and I agonize for a mighty move of God in America, and across the world, to quell the frantic uprisings, and show the world who God really is.   I am disturbed by the young people now in America, that have absolutely no morals, whatsoever.  On Hannity’s expose’ there are women, on spring break in Florida not only taking off their tops but bottoms where young men can do anything they want in public.  IT IS SIN!  Public lewdness of these young women should put them drunk and disorderly right in a jail cell.  No one calls sin, sin anymore.  Where are the parents? Between the lack of morals, character, integrity, with our young people, we have a country too, that has run amok.  Politicians in their left agenda’s and political money making deals, all of our rights and freedoms as I knew it, and grew up with, are fleeing us for a total government takeover.  Look at the news, it is sickening.  Look at Hollywood, it has a left agenda too, to destroy Christian -Judeo values.  Our Ten Commandments have gone out the proverbial  window.

We are now, in the end times and even for those not versed in the word of God, it must be evident.  One eclipse (4 Blood Moons and lunar eclipse of the sun..) has gone on Passover this week, another will be in October (Sadar) 2014.  Then comes the Lunar eclipse of the sun, Jan 2015, two more eclipses of the moon on April 15 Passover ​and the last will be Oct. Sadar, 2015.  There have only been these 5 eclipses together like this, 3 other times in the last 500 years.  (Nasa online has all the dates).  The first was when Queen Isabella pogamed and killed the Jewish people, or expelled them, and then Columbus helped them and discovered America in 1492.  The second was in 1948, when Theodore Herzel’s dream of a Jewish State to take back the land God gave them in Genesis, when He made the Covenant to the Jewish people with Abraham.  (NOT Palestine). And Harry Truman was the first to sign it making Israel a State for the Jews!  The 3rd was in 1967 in the 6 day war when once again Israel was being invaded by Egypt..Tim McKay has a book out….all over the Christian community on Daystar and TBN…ALL the miracles  that transpired then…Israeli soldiers..that were walking through a mine field…And God opened up the Heavens a a star and the moon shone down, showing the mines, so they could get to safety..other things…God opened up the earth and swallowed the enemy up…like our sink holes in the news now.  Most have no idea what is coming. Youth are in the world, caught up in their technology.  Now too, this tape I attach  with John Hagee about Putin and the Ukraine.  Yet does anyone get it?  I agonize if anyone  even cares.  So why?  Russia is the Bear in Revelations, and China the Lion.  Harry Reid now in this fight to take the land away from this rancher in Nevada? His son  plans to make millions, selling to a Chinese Company. But if you watch Alex Jones on Youtube, you will hear truths.  Harry Reid too, is a member of the American Communist Party.  Yet Nevada keeps voting him in the Senate.  Now the Ukraine? Putin the old KGB now at odds with the US because we do not have a leader in the White House like Reagan.  He is starting to invade the Ukraine too.  History repeats itself.  This all too centers around God’s chosen the Jews…all of what is happening. As well as Antisemitism in Europe and here.   God is ANGRY..and America is going to see HIS wrath.  Ezekiel 38 and 39..the same countries mentioned as the Arab Spring. The world powers are set for a nuclear war.  Armageddon!  We need to look up! Get out of self, and look up to the Heavens..Jesus is coming..Gog and Magog…Russia, Moscow.. Putin supplying arms to Iran (Persia in the Bible)& Syria to destroy Israel and the Jews. EVERYTHING happening in the news now centers around the Jews.  China is going to join Russia..And Iran wants to send missiles not only into Jerusalem but AMERICA!   China will get us in the west…And Iran will get is in the East…The wind, and rain and snow last night…GOD!..(on a small scale). Wait!  He is going to come back in war…And God will show Islam and Obama and Putin, who HE REALLY IS. Christian tapes are all over You Tube..Hagee, Perry Stone, on and on.

North Korea has the capacity to destroy our electrical power grids.  Those that don’t educate yourselves and READ …READ…and learn your Bible, AND history, you will not go up in the Rapture, but history ALWAYS repeats itself.  I just saw these first 2 authors on Daystar this afternoon, Maloof and Forstchen. If we have no power grid, there will be  no electricity.  Washington is caught up on Global Warming which I am in doubt if it is as bad or just cyclical..and God!  Our power grids according to these authors had been known to Washington to need to be upgraded, since 1962!!!! Now? With all our Internet, with electric cars on the Horizon we are in dangerous ground.  If it goes THINK about it. There will be anarchy, and Marshall Law.  No food, no garbage or waste disposal, no automobiles running.  Gangs joining extremists, and chaos.  And if a sun sends large blasts of fire/bolts down to earth to our EMP’s power grids, all will be dead…Elderly like me will be shot, and as the violence and chaos runs amok,  we will be in limbo.  And all the parts for these EMT grids are made overseas in Japan, Thailand, etc.  NOTHING made in America, and I say all this to point this out too.  If Washington doesn’t get this fixed and doesn’t let the Pipeline come in from Canada, America is down the tubes.  The world stage is set even in the solor system and Heavens.with these 4 Blood Moons, as well as the Arab Spring Nations..  Christian groups as well as Glenn Beck on his Blaze TV is selling emergency food boxes  like in case of Marshall law, famine, catastrophe’s, and they range from $175/ up…have a shelf life of 5 years. We are in a scary place!!!  To fix these power grids it was said, would cost 2 Trillion dollars.  If not, and we’re attacked it is disaster and anarchy.  There is no choice.

Dear Lord, I come to you as a woman who loves you and trusts only YOU Lord, who loves her country and our Constitution as I was brought up in the 50’s with prayer in schools, morals, patriotism, no abortion or murdering of babies.   We were a country after WWII that was flourishing, with “made in America” and new appliances, bridges, highways, and people worked.  Funny too, there wasn’t even Welfare as we know now, nor was there Social Security.  But my Dad a good man and business owner helped his mother and paid her hospitalization, and my grandfather lived with us.  The church used to be responsible  for helping out as well as the one who was head of a family.  We had no disgraceful murders and decapitations, back then..in fact we hardly locked our doors in the daytime.  We were safe as children with all the mothers’ in the neighborhood on watch.  Lord God, I want my America back, I want a President that is strong and has ethics, character, who is trustworthy, moral, and not a liar, like Ronald Reagan.  I want to feel my country safe Lord, and many of you will disagree, but when Cheney was serving, no one messed with us or tested us, we were SAFE!   I want a Reagan again, that can tell Putin to stuff it, or ELSE…like Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall”.  Instead we are weak and sitting ducks.  Glory Lord, for I know nothing can happen without your approval, but many of us agonize.  Help us Lord, hear our prayers Lord, send your watchmen, and RAISE UP AND BLESS THE PERSON YOU WANT TO LEAD THIS NATION.  Not the establishment, not the Liberals selling America to the highest bidder, but YOUR choice Lord…as you raised up King David…Thank you Lord Jesus on this Good Friday tomorrow, and Easter Sunday.  Let the world know that you the only God.  Bless this nation God. Amen.

​”A Nation Forsaken” by Michael Maloof​
Analyzes the threat of an electromagnetic pulse event, arguing that America’s defenses are not prepared for a natural or man-made incident that could devastate a country almost entirely dependent on its electrical grid for power and communication. The United States is more vulnerable than ever to an EMP attack that could shut down the country overnight, resulting in tens of millions of deaths and a 19th-century lifestyle for Americans for the foreseeable future, says a new book, A Nation Forsaken, written by a long-time national security expert.Even worse, the threat doesn’t just come from terrorists, but from unpreventable solar activity — and a new peak period is on the way, threatening the economic and national security of the entire country, writes F. Michael Maloof.Although presidential candidates such as Newt Gingrich and congressmen such as Roscoe Bartlett have warned for years about the danger posed by an EMP, the government is ignoring simple, inexpensive steps that could safeguard critical infrastructure from an attack. Incredibly, even while the idea of an EMP has entered the public consciousness through pop culture events like NBC’s new show Revolution, the federal government is ignoring its own reports and not taking it seriously.The reality of a potentially devastating electromagnetic pulse event is brought home by Maloof in A Nation Forsaken. He reveals the nature of the EMP threat, describing how a nuclear detonation in low orbit creates an electromagnetic pulse that can disable all electronics throughout the entire country. The result would be a complete breakdown of the delivery and distribution of food, medicine and other essential supplies. The author also describes the plausibility of such an attack, noting that several nations already have the means and motivation to use such weapons. Even more terrifying, Maloof describes how a ônaturalö EMP caused by solar flares is becoming ever more likely — with increased likelihood in the first quarter of 2013.Maloof exposes the self-interested actions of the energy industry in preventing simple reforms that could potentially save millions of lives. Most importantly, Maloof provides a practical guide for how individuals and families can prepare for the day when the lights go out for good.

Best selling author William R. Forstchen “One Second After”now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real…a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages…A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP).  A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.

The Importance of Salvation

 

A 15 year old girl was hit by a car riding a bike this week near my daughters home in NH.  She died at the Boston hospital with head injuries.  My daughter, too, now 45, also was hit by a car riding a bike in 1983.  I can only imagine her flashbacks, and the pain.  I prayed with my church prayer line that God, in His grace and mercy usher this young girl into Heaven, for it was very unlikely that she ever heard the salvation message.

You see I too, in 1999, lost my then 19 year old to suicide.  Young though, my BJ went to a Christian school and charismatic church, and he gave his heart to Jesus at 11 years old on 8/2/90.   Thank you Jesus that I know that I know that he was saved in spite of the eventual bi-polar disorder and depression which overtook his teenage years.

We never know, when we will die…..Look at the bridge that collapsed over the Mississippi River, or those trapped in coal mines…or those that died recently in all the tornadoes.  How do we know?  Oprah speaks of her New Age, with her $40 billion, and life to her is pretty good. The true God of her Baptist grandmother and childhood, is shoved aside, and her god now is the god of money.  The Bible says we cannot serve God and Mammon together.  She has lost her way, leading others to hell, as well as herself.   Mark 8:35-38 says:  “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but, whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul?  Of what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?   Whoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in the Glory of his Father with the Holy Angels.” (The Rapture and the 2nd coming).

We never know when that trump will call us home..We never know how long we have on this earth.  So, Oprah has gained the whole world, but, she’s lost her soul and will go to hell.  So I ask you that may read this, what is your choice?   John 3:3 says, “Verily I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”  see also Luke 19:10, John 3:16,John, 1:12, John 8:32, John 10-9-10, Acts 16:31, Romans 3:23-24, Romans 5:8, Hebrews 2:3..Rev. 3:20  plus others all testifying to the salvation message as the ONLY way to the Kingdom of God and Heaven.

The news just came over that former Foxnews journalist and White House Press secretary, Tony Snow died at 53 of cancer.   My condolences to his wife Jill and 3 children…even though I didn’t know them, as a Christian he was my brother in Christ.  I think of his grace and such a happy man that conveyed so much to others, including that hard press corp in Washington. Tony had that group in the palm of his hands.  He was without a doubt the best press secretary that I can remember.  He knew his job, he was always, laughing, and yet tough, he was trustworthy, he had character, and he did the BEST he could always, loving God and country, and family and most of all genuinely loved people.   Tony Snow will be missed.  Tony has a place in Heaven and is home with the Jesus he loved.  He left a legacy worth emulating.

Look at the other end of the spectrum.  Scott McClellan, an angry, hateful self absorbing man, that didn’t know how to be gracious or do his job right.  All the doors this President opened up for him , he didn’t have a clue as to what he was given.  Tony Snow did…forever appreciative. But, Scott wasn’t intelligent enough to do his job right, and he had no Lord to rely on.   So, when he left the White House, a ruffled up little man, that was inept at doing the job, he writes a backstabbing book hating the hands that fed him and opened up doors.   Look at the difference between 2 men..One that loved his God, country, and family, people, and jobs afforded him, one inept loathing perhaps self, with nothing…both doing the SAME job!  What a lesson on the fragility of life, and what obituary you are going to one day leave behind.  It doesn’t take a genius to see the difference.  Tony left us even WITH cancer ravaging him, by his own words, a “happy guy”…he had it all including Jesus and faith!    What is Scott going to leave behind ?  His book his only legacy…

What about those so filled with hates?   Will they “get” it?   O’Reilly wrote his books…one to kids.  But, I wouldn’t buy it for my grandchildren.  Why?  It is written in the natural, by a very arrogant man, without salvation and God in his life, calling himself a Catholic, yet Proverbs says, “Those that profess themselves wise, become fools”. For O’Reilly, like Oprah is on his own power trip.  Money is his God for he does not know God as his savior.  Works does not get you into Heaven.  For you have to have great humility to come into the Kingdom of God and admit your a sinner.

One day, each and every one of us will stand at that Great White Throne Judgement Seat of God!   We are now an Apostate church, as in Romans 1:29-32.  “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers.  Backbiters, haters of God, spiteful, proud, boasters,inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.  Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.  Who knowing the judgement of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them who do them. ” Romans 2:5 “But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasured up unto YOURSELF, wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God. “  It is our choice after all, but, God’s wrath will eventually catch up to the haters of God…and no one will escape the Judgment.

The book of Revelations speaks of overcomers.   For we are to be conquerors, not just survivors, and overcomers..”For he that overcomes shall wear many crowns. To him who overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God..”Rev. 2:7   God gave us a free will…Are you going to follow Oprah and her lies?, and the things of the world?, or Jesus and have everlasting life?   I’ve long ago chosen life over death. I may die in this world in the natural, but, my soul in Heaven will live on forever, and I will see my son and baby Dana I lost at 3 mos to crib death.  There is no death in Heaven.   There is nothing on this earth in Hollywood, or movies, or reality shows, and all the garbage of this world that is worth going to hell and being in that lake of fire with the gnashing and screaming forever.   Life is fragile….Life need not be taken for granted so you live it as YOU please..with all the me isms, and selfish actions day in and day out.  As above says, what profit a man that gains the whole world and loses his soul?   Your choice friend…

FIRST…GOD LOVES YOU!

“For God  so loved the world that he gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever should believe, would not perish but have EVERLASTING LIFE.” John 3:16.

SECOND…MAN IS A SINNER, AND SIN HAS SEPARATED HIM FROM GOD.

“For there is not a just man upon Earth, that doeth good and sins not.”  Ecclesiastes 1 “For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.” Romans 3:23

THIRD…JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY REMEDY FOR SIN!

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for unjust, that He might bring us to God.” I Peter 3:18

FOURTH…YOU MUST RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR. 

Jesus calls this experience the “new birth”.  It is NOT a religion, but a personal relationship with Jesus.  He told Nicodemus: “Except a man be BORN AGAIN he cannot enter he Kingdom of God.”  John 3:3 Simply ASK Him into your heart by praying this simple prayer:

Dear Lord Jesus, I now realize that I am a sinner.  Please forgive me of my sins.  Mold me like clay Lord Jesus, in your image, so that I be a new creature in YOU Lord.  Help me, for I can not rely on my own ways.  Put the right Christian people in my life, so that my walk will be narrow, my eyes on You.  I now open my heart’s door and repent, and ask you as SAVIOR and LORD, to take full control of me and help me to be the kind of Christian YOU want me to be.   Romans 10:9-10 says: “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised HIM from the dead, you shall be saved. Take away anything or anyone in my life that is a hindrance to my walk with you, Lord. For with the HEART man believes unto RIGHTEOUSNESS; and with the mouth, confession is made unto Salvation.  Thank you Jesus for saving my soul.

Are you bought by the blood of the lamb?  If you prayed this prayer, and gave the Lord your heart, then you are saved.   It is a gift, afterall, because He loves us so much.   Now, once saved, you can talk to Him directly, and have a personal relationship with Jesus.  HE will help you in this walk,  and direct you….all you need do now, is ask….Ask and it shall be given unto you.  Seek and ye shall find.  He will live in your heart,  and He will send the Holy Spirit to comfort you and be with you.  You need a good Bible to start learning the word of God, and a Church that preaches the gospel.  God bless you,  on this walk..

J E Worthen 2006

The Coming Future

I’m sure most of you have heard excerpts on Youtube  or seen the book out, The Four Blood Moons by John Hagee.  Well, Evangelist Perry Stone also has expounded on this subject.  But here, is a link straight from NASA to back it up scientifically.  This will be directed at those who want to see Israel destroyed.  This link on NASA bears out God’s word:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2014.html

The term 4 Blood Moons, means eclipses.  The first is on the Jewish passover of 4/15/2014. The second, on the Jewish Sukkat 10/8/2014, the next an eclipse of the sun which I believe he said only comes every 50 years or so, again on the Jewish day of Adar 29 NISAN 1 on 3/20/2015.  The next eclipse of the moon is on 4/15/15 again on Passover, and the last on Sukkat again 10/15/2015.

Joel 2:30 “And I will show wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.” ( This pertains to the Great Tribulation. ) 31 “The sun shall be turned to darkness, an the moon INTO BLOOD, before the great and terrible day of the LORD to come.” (This is fulfilled in Revelation 6:12 under the 6th seal.”  32 And it shalll come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered:  for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverence, as the Lord has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.   ( The entirety of these passages proclaim three great outpourings of the Holy Spirit:  1. On the Day of Pentecost, which continues unto this hour [Acts 2:1-28:31]  2 During the future Great Tribulation. [Acts 2:16-21], and 3. During the Millennium [Isaiah 32:15,  44:3, Ezekiel 36:26-27, 39:29, Zechariah 12:10.])  parenthesis Expositor’s Study Bible.

The Sukkot Hagee reiterated stands for God’s protection of the Jewisih people.   The sun signals in Ezekiel 39 Gods prophesy against the Gentile powers at Armageddon; as God to be repulsed.   “And the word of the Lord came unto me saying,   2. Son of man, set your face against Gog, and the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.   3 And say, Thus sayeth  the Lord God; Behold, I am AGAINST YOU, O GOG, the chief  prince of Meshech and Tubal.  ” The hook next mentioned is oil.

38:5 “PERSIA (Iran), Ethiopia, and Libya, with them “(Gentile nations: Russia, Turkey, Iran, Libya, Germany (Gomar) and Iraq…most all the nations of the Arab Spring).  Germany is Iran’s number one trading partner.  [ God has not forgotten the Holocaust, and he never forgets and HE will vindicate – Term unwalled villages means symbolism of God’s protection.  And now we have a President that is a weakling…not like 1948!   We are so war weary we are leaving Israel without protection, and God is keeping score!  Magog is Russia , Meshech ..Gog (man- Putin & oil).  See Genesis 10:2  The sons of Japeth were Gomer, and Magog (Russia & Moscow), and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal (Turkey, and Tiras.  Germany too, is Iraq’s number one trading partner, denying now the Holocaust,  in Ez 38.  Yet, look at the lies of Benghazi in Libya and this killing that was twisted lies of a tape that had nothing to do with the pleas from our Ambassador for help while Hillary and the rest ignored.  God is not forgetting!  The US now seen as being weak, gives countries now like Russia and Putin power to do whatever they want…ie now in the Ukraine.   Gods FURY and ANGER is going to be like the fire coming upon earth in HIS wrath.

Ok…but, God is a God of love you say?  NOT with WHAT is to come He isn’t.  Which is a mistake of  churches not preaching the truths on endtime prophecy, or not teaching it at all.   The God I know is a God of  love, who is always there and hears my prayers. But, He is has also ALWAYS been my Advocate.  Whenever in my long life, and even in court battles concerning wrongs, and my son’s mental illness that I fought so hard to get help?  Even when I was called a liar, in no uncertain terms, the TRUTH ALWAYS came out….ALWAYS..God..and I ended up 3 years after my sons death winning a Wrongful death case as he did not get the help he needed.  GOD allowed!  And my God has always been the God of JUSTICE….God too,  has always been the God of DISCIPLINE….When we do not obey, and we have an UNYIELDING  SPIRIT, an UNTEACHABLE SPIRIT, that is when God allows the devil in our lives.   Every time I erred in my early walk with God and did not heed the Holy Spirit in my decision making, I fell on my face.  And it was God who miraculously picked me up and dusted me off and again set me on the right path.  Sometimes His LOVE for us, has dire consequences until we “get it! ”  Why am I saying this now?  Because America and now the GOP with Karl Rove who is an agnostic, but, has all the money to flaunt, looking  for their Establishment candidate, has the power, money , and media backing, to again destroy this next election.   I write these posts, of late, in excruciating back pain, and yet claim healing that I had been given by God…and struggle, because I MUST OBEY HIM…AND GET THIS  OUT TO ALL OF YOU.  IT IS A WARNING.  Who am I?  Just a 70 something woman who is not afraid to speak out, that loves my God above all, and I love America.  This BLOG IS AFTERALL ABOUT HOPE!

We in America, and now other countries too, are so caught up in this pop culture (another post), Hollywood, and fast media technology of tweets, we can’t even be decent to each other. Crime is up, hate is up, murder and decapitation is up and publicized, with how to’s on our tv as well.  NOTHING is sacred anymore, nothing is honorable, including prayer or patriotism.  And God help me if we offend anyone.  There are no stops …to think about consequences before one acts out.  Everything that should remain private and personal, now is out there to demean, and the suicide rate is up once again.  But, this is a blog of hope.  Whereby, I plead that we all look within, that we cry out to God to get us back on our knees again.  That young people up to the 50’s LEARN what the word  DISCERNMENT means.  Do you follow the world and pop culture, or are you following Jesus and the Holy Spirit?  Discernment means,  the inner capability after prayer, to know the difference if the Holy Spirit is guiding you, or your being guided by false gods,  (demonic Gods) of the world, fame, promises of big money, etc. or God Almighty.  HE SHALL SUPPLY ALL OUR NEEDS.  If God shall supply all our needs, why would we let ourselves be cast down, with the fleshly desires of the world?  Know your adversary…his name is Legion. And I will leave it at that.

http://www.pray4zion.org/thecomingbloodmoons.html

 

 

FDR, Churchill, History, and Obama

America has always had a good relationship with the Brits once the Revolutionary War was won, and history put us together with our sister country repeatedly.  I don’t think this President Obama, who claims to have a knowledge of history, fully understands this, else he wouldn’t have degraded the American Presidency by giving Prime Minister Gordan Brown, such trivial un-presidential a gift as CD’s, not to mention, giving back that wonderful statue of Winston Churchill.  That was an insult between our two countries.  We need the UK to be our friend and Allie, especially as now, in times of war.  The close relationship and the excellent working relations that developed between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were crucial in the establishment of a united effort to deal with the Axis powers of WWII.  Not only that, Churchill, knew how to deal with Stalin, and the Soviet Union, which Obama, does not (in this new cold war with Putin.)  And you discount, “history repeating itself?”

It would seem to me, that since we asked them for help in Iraq, and now need the Brits in Afghanistan also, that we extend the same excellent working relationship and friendship between our two countries; as Bush had with Tony Blair, so should Obama have with Gordan Brown.  Instead I saw a snub, and wall being put up between a country that is our most important Allie.  To that and a lot of other things this President is doing,  especially not speaking up and defending the uprising and deaths of the Iranian peoples.   Then again, I didn’t approve of AIG, and all those bonuses, which were actually approved by dems and the White House.  There is plenty of room for improvement in this administration, as well as a heavy dose of humility.  And while he wants the American people to “button down the hatch ” and be frugal, he certainly is not practicing that effort with his very frivolous trips, like NYC, who still thinks he is on the campaign trail (with taxpayer money).

For a quick refresher course in history, lets go back to WWII.  In late December, 1941, shortly after the entry of the United States into World II, Churchill met in Washington, D. C. with Roosevelt in what became known as the First Washington Conference, code name “Arcadia”.  The conference placed first priority on the Atlantic theater and defeat of Germany and Italy.  On December 24, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill delivered Christmas greetings to the nation and the world from the South Portico of the White House, during the lighting of the National Community Christmas Tree; FDR closed his short message with the following passage, “And so I am asking my associate, and my old and good friend, to say a word to the people of America, old and young, tonight.

By August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met for the first of nine face-to-face conferences during the war.  The four-day meeting aboard a ship anchored off the coast of Newfoundland at Argentia Bay was devoted to an agreement  on war aims and a vision for the future.  The document created at this meeting and the neutral United States, was the Atlantic Charter.   It set forth concepts of self-determination,  end  to colonialism, freedom of the seas, and the improvement of living and working conditions for all people.  Many of the ideas were similar to those proposed by Wilson’s Fourteen Points, but not accepted by our allies at the Versailles Conference at the close of World War I.

From 1941 when they first met until FDR’s death in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill sustained a close personal and professional relationship.  They established a easy intimacy, a joking informality and moratorium on pomposity and cant.  Roosevelt cabled Churchill after the meeting, “It is fun to be in the same decade with you.” And later he wrote, “I felt I was in contact with a very great man who was also a warm-hearted friend and the foremost champion of the high causes which we served.”  There is from an excellent book by Jon Meacham, “Franklin and Winston”.

Churchill also carried over the same loyalty to General Dwight David Eisenhower, who he relied on and trusted instinctively.  Almost immediately after France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Allies planned a cross-Channel assault on the German occupying forces.  At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt reaffirmed the plan, which was code- named Overlord.  The decision to mount the invasion was cemented at the Teheran Conference held in November and December 1943.  Joseph Stalin, on his first trip outside the Soviet Union since 1912, pressed Roosevelt and Churchill for details about the plan, particularly the identity of the Supreme Commander of Overlord.   (although no decision had yet been made as to who that would be.)  Stalin pointedly rejoined, “Then nothing will come of these operations.  Who carries the moral and technical responsibility for this operation?  Churchill and Roosevelt acknowledged the need to name the commander without further delay.  Shortly after the conference ended, Roosevelt appointed General Dwight David Eisenhower to that position.

By May 1944, 2,876,000 Allied troops were amassed in southern England, while awaiting deployment orders, they prepared for the assault by practicing with live ammunition.  The latest armada in history, made up of more than 4,000 American, British, and Canadian ships, lay in wait.  More than 1,200 planes stood ready to deliver seasoned airborne troops behind enemy lines, to silence German ground resistance as best they could, and to dominate the skies over the impending battle theater.

Leaving headquarters at Portsmouth, Eisenhower first visited the British 50 th Infantry Division and then the U.S. 101st Airborne at Newbury; the latter was predicted to suffer 80 percent casualties.  The troops recognized “Ike” and the word quickly spread of his presence.  According to his grandson David, who wrote about the occasion in “Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945, the General wandered through the formless groups of soldiers, stepping over packs and guns.  The faces of the men had been blackened with charcoal and cocoa to protect against the glare and to serve as camouflage.  It was cheers, and positive talk,  like a roll call of battle honors.”

“At half past midnight, as Eisenhower returned to his headquarters at Portsmouth, the first C-47’s were arriving at their drop zones, commencing the start of “the Longest Day”.  The confusion  and carnage of the landing efforts as troops in full kit waded through choppy, bloodstained water amid the deadly, deafening thunder of enemy fire must be deeply etched in the memory of those who took part in or witnessed the assault.  During the invasion’s initial hours, Eisenhower lacked adequate information about its progress.  After the broadcast of his communique’ to the French people announcing their liberation, SHAEF switchboards were overwhelmed with messages from citizens and political officials.  SHAEF communications personnel fell 12 hours behind in transcribing radio traffic.  In addition, an Army decoding machine broke down.

According to his secretary-chauffeur Kay Summersby, as recounted in David Eisenhower’s book, “Eisenhower spent most of the day in his trailer drinking endless cups of coffee, ‘waiting for reports to come’.   He only gained sketchy details for most of the day about the British beaches, UTAH and the crisis at OMAHA, where for several hours the fate of the invasion hung in the balance.”  Eisenhower was forced to make his decision to proceed with a June 6th invasion in the predawn blackness of June 5th, while horizontal sheets of rain and gale force winds shuddered through the tent camp.  The forecast that the storm would abate proved accurate, as he noted later.  The vivid memory that stirred his memory doubtless heartened him throughout the day until conclusive word reached him that the massive campaign had indeed succeeded.

*Information compiled by archives for Government Education.  Documents are all on line.  http:www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-churchill/index.html?

Whereas, that brings us to a lack of experience and knowledge of history, war, and our military by this new President.  The fact that he was even “thinking” about taking away medical coverage of our military and veterans, many of whom came back with no fanfare, no than-you’s, and this media, who is so left wing, did the same to the Vets when they came back from Vietnam.  It is inexcusable!  I love our Veterans, and I thank them from my heart for making our country safe and being put in harms way all over the world.  They volunteer to make us safe from war and terrorism.  Hear this, new director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano; THEY are STILL enemy combatants, and STILL TERRORISTS.  Oh, how Islam and the terrorists even in this country must be in such joy that this Administration has opened the doors to another attack.  I read a prophesy by a preacher that NYC was once again going up in fire and smoke.  The same preacher that 3 weeks before 9/11 was given a prophesy that “something” was coming in NYC.  I believe Dave Wilkerson, and know the heart of his Church at Time Square and World Challenge, Teen Challenge.  Our defenses are down and I feel now that we might be friendless in time of need and crisis, under another attack, and our friends, the Brits, may not help us.

I therefore, pray for this President even though I am struggling with God, because I was so close to hating him., myself.  As a Christian, I forgave so many in my past, and I had no hates whatsoever, until this administration.  Dear God, help me, for I don’t know this man’s heart, and pray to you Lord , knowing you do.  Help us Lord in America do the right thing.  Protect us Lord, even though I know that “thine will, will be done”.  (The Lord’s Prayer)  God Bless America, and God bless our allies, Canada, and the UK.  I let go Mr President, I let God.

Winston:   http://www.biography.com/people/winston-churchill-9248164

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born to an aristocratic family on November 30, 1874. As his life unfolded, he displayed the traits of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a British statesman from an established English family, and his mother, Jeannie Jerome, an independent-minded New York socialite. As a young child, Churchill grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where his father was employed by his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill. When he entered formal school, Churchill proved to be an independent and rebellious student. He did poorly at his first two schools and in April, 1888, he was sent to Harrow School, a boarding school near London. Within weeks of his enrollment, he joined the Harrow Rifle Corps, which put him on a path to a military career.

At first it didn’t seem the military was a good choice for Churchill. It took him three tries to pass the exam for the British Royal Military College. However, once there, he did well and graduated 20th in his class of 130. Up to this time, his relationship with both his mother and father was distant, though he adored them both. While at school, Churchill wrote emotional letters to this mother, begging her to come see him, but she seldom came. His father died when he was 21, and it was said that Churchill knew him more by reputation than by any close relationship they shared.

Churchill enjoyed a brief but eventful career in the British army at a zenith of British military power. He joined the Fourth Hussars in 1895 and served in the Indian northwest frontier and the Sudan, where he saw action in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. While in the army, he wrote military reports for newspapers The Pioneer and the Daily Telegraph, and two books on his experiences, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899).

In 1899, Churchill left the army and worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post, a conservative daily newspaper. While reporting on the Boer War in South Africa, he was taken prisoner by the Boers while on a scouting expedition. He made headlines when he escaped, traveling almost 300 miles to Portuguese territory in Mozambique. Upon his return to Britain, he wrote about his experiences in the book London to Ladysmith (1900).

Early Careers: Government and Military

In 1900, Churchill became a Member of Parliament in the Conservative Party for Oldham, a town in Manchester. Following his father into politics, he also followed his father’s sense of independence, becoming a supporter of social reform.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF..Before World War II Ambassador Joe Kennedy shook hands with Hitler..as we have the left Communists doing in Washington!   And when you play this video, it was the year before I was born, 1938 in NYC, Madison Square Garden!

How Ready Do You Have To Be

How Ready Do You Have to Be?

The following is from an article from the mid 1980’s by the late C. M. Ward. I saved this for many years, short as it is..It says it all.

“Who is to judge whether or not a believer is “looking”? Who is the foolish society and what is the “wise” society? Labels now become libels.

Christ so loved the Church and gave Himself for it.  Am I to become a self-appointed arbiter and decide what portion of the Church is worthy?

Christ’s company, gathered in Galilee, was a polygot one.  It represented every shade of opinion and conduct. Christ thanked His Father for them and called them “friends.”

Saved by grace.  I will continue to be saved by “grace through faith”, and nothing more.  I can never save myself.  ‘Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace’. (II Thes 2:16).

This salvation is progressive.  I have been saved (from guilt).  I AM being saved (kept).  I SHALL be saved (from the presence of sin).  Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.  Paul says we look for the Saviour.  At the new birth I am accepted.  “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved.  (Eph 1:6) The salvation of the penitent thief took him fom the gallows to glory.  Grace is sufficient.

The salvation provided for me is “to the uttermost”.  There are no revisions needed.  The ‘catching up’ is not a reward.  It is an intrinsic part of my salvation.

The dead will be raised.  There are almost two thousand years of believers graves.  “The dead in Christ shall rise first. ” Jesus said,  “The hour is coming, in that which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of damnation.” (John 5:28-29  If all the dead in Christ shall be raised, justice demands that all the living in Christ shall be “caught up”.  “We shall ALL be changed.” It is true that some will be saved, “yet so as by fire.” But that is the Judgment Seat.

No longer our own.  My body is the possession of the Holy Spirit.  It is no longer the inventory of wrath  (hates). “And because ye are sons, God hath send forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba Father”.  (Gal. 4:6) I have become a portion of the “purchased possession. ”

“What?” Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost…and ye are not your own?”  (I Cor 6:19)  The believer’s body is under this contract.  Paul understood this.  “For our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” (Phil.3:20-21)

He will present us.  The “spots and wrinkles” are His business…not the evangelist’s or the denomination’s.  He has guaranteed to present me “without blemish”.  I will lean upon Him.  “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.” (Jude 24)

Paul knew the Corinthian believers and he loved them.  They were far from perfect.  Some were quarrelsome.  Some were proud.  Some were babies.  Paul said “all” would be changed.  We must give account.   Very soon after this event a sorting will take place.  “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God”.  (Romans 14:12)  Paul says “everyone’s work shall be made manefest”.  All believers have an examination date.  “For we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ.”  (II Corinthians 5:10)

How can the believer “appear before the Judgment seat of Christ” if he or she is involved in the Great Tribulation?  Our condition will not cost us the COMING.  It will cost us the CROWN.

The Great C. M. Ward:

http://www.pentecostalgold.com/C_M_Ward.htm

http://www.sermonstore.org/CM-Ward/Ward-Index.html

 

 

Dealing With Cancer

The following was written in 2010 when I went through cancer…not once but twice (also an ovarian cancer in 2003). There are no easy solutions.  For anyone going through it now,  my prayers are with you.

I never thought I would have it.  It doesn’t run in my family.  But, I have breast cancer and have been dealing with it for a month now.  July 12th, I have a lumpectomy to look forward to, so my political opinions, will have to be on the shelf for the time being.

For women that have gone through it, you know it is not just a “piece of cake”, but very invasive and almost feeling like being violated.  Today, I had the Dobutamine Stress Echo tests, which took 2 hours at least in the hospital.   I had to have it this way, instead of a treadmill, since I have spine/arthritic problems and osteo.  They say the test is non invasive but it was to me.  The test combines an ultrasound of the heart (an echocardiogram) taken at rest and again at each stage of the medication, Dobutamine.  (Through an IV).  The Dobutamine increases the increase the heart rate similar to the effect of exercise or adrenaline.  This test helps identify the overall function of the heart valves and chambers and areas of abnormal blood flow to the heart muscle caused by blockages in the coronary arteries.  It uses ultrasound or sound waves to produce an image of the structures of the heart.  A technician applies gel to the chest wall, a wand-like tranducer is then moved across the chest creating two-dimensional images of the heart muscle and valves.

Once the intravenous line (IV) is inserted in the arm, ten ECG electrodes will be placed on your chest so that your heart can be monitored.  Baseline ECG’s. blood pressure, and echcardiogram will be done before starting the medication, and throughout the remaining parts of the testing.  If an adequate heart rate is not met during the Dobutamine administration, Atropine may be given.  There is chest discomfort, and could be dizziness or shortness of breath. For me, it was like my throat and chest were swollen and closing up and I started getting tremors and lightheadedness.  It was scary and uncomfortable.

I had yet another uncomfortable biopsy to go through the morning of my surgery as well.  Part of being a cancer patient.   I already have met with a radiation team,
as well as therapy, which I’ll need with my arm after the lymph nodes and cancer are removed in the lumpectomy.  I’ve been overwhelmed with all this information and appointments for the past month…before surgery!!  What they failed to tell me though, was there was another procedure called Brachytherapy, which puts a balloon where the tumor was, so when you have radiation, they insert a tube right to that balloon, and it saves all the other cells in the breast.  Whereby for stage 1, it is not invasive.

For others that have gone through cancer treatments, my prayers are with you, as it isn’t easy by any means.  I have faith, my Lord, and a lot of prayers. With that I’ll keep you all informed if your reading my blogs, and will let you know when I’m back writing again.  If my friend can go through a mastectomy I can get through this. She too, is a light.  A friend I’ve known since we were 5, 66 years ago now!  Plus, at church yesterday, I experienced such a wonderful “sisterhood” of women, that it touched me deeply.   One woman, just had the same surgery I am going to have, and ironically,  has the same surgeon.  She has just gotten through her last radiation treatment.  My daughter, though in NH, had breast cancer 8 years ago, which I always attributed to my Greek ex-husbands side of the family, as I said prior, my English-German family had no cancer whatsoever.

HOWEVER,  I live in a Federally run very beautiful Senior Apartment complex here in NH, that allows smoking.   For nearly fifteen years,  I have been exposed to “other people’s smoking”.   When I first moved here, in 1996, the couple that lived underneath me, having sold their home to live here in retirement, both smoked.  Then the husband,  got sick with COPD and his wife had to stop smoking as they had a huge “no smoking” sign on the door, as he was now very sick, carting around an oxygen tank.    Ah the perils of enjoying that last cigarette!   So help me, I think people that  smoke, are brain dead!    The woman across from them smoked, then also got sick  and went in a nursing home.  This man Henry, who was a friend of mine and helped me for many years, also smoked (although not around me).  And his poor little dog Teddie who must have gotten cancer too.   Henry’s heart started to fail with all that smoking and he too, had COPD.  The VA kept him and he too died 2 years ago in December 08.  He had a wonderful artistic talent and made models of old ships, in a Plexiglas case with a wood base, all from original schematics.  It was very intricate work and when he died, his daughter donated to a museum.  But, the smoke still remains in that apartment two years later, and is in the walls, and wallboard, insulation, and the woman that moved in, says she can still smell it. Paint does not get rid of years of that smoke.  Now I have a nice couple that live underneath me, but he still will not give up those cigarettes.  He even had cancer too, but still has 5 cigarettes a day, although thank God, his wife won’t let him smoke in the apartment.  But, sometimes when he smokes outside, it goes up through my windows, and porch.  Since then a woman in another building had a total mastectomy and the woman smoker across her porch who caused the 2nd hand smoke damage, has since died.

You know what got me?  Here I came home from my echo tests getting punched, so they can get the ultra sound pictures right…So sore…3 hours in the hospital, to go to my outside mailboxes, and give directives to my mailman, when I go in for surgery, and  there are 4 people standing around out there puffing away on cigarettes.   AND I HAVE CANCER!!!   I got this from all of them!!  I know I did.

This is the only senior apartment complex (and others that are run by Rural and Housing Development,  in the whole state of NH that allow smoking), this for people
62 + and/or DISABLED?  Wherefore, I took no time in writing to Washington, through my two Senators in NH.   THE FACTS COME FROM THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES!  YET RURAL AND HOUSING (ANOTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY )SEEMS TO BE IN DENIAL!  These are the facts:

 

Secondhand Smoke What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoke. It is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: sidestream smoke (smoke that comes from the end of a lighted cigarette, pipe, or cigar) and mainstream smoke (smoke that is exhaled by a smoker). When non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke it is called involuntary smoking or passive smoking. Non-smokers who breathe in secondhand smoke take in nicotine and other toxic chemicals just like smokers do. The more secondhand smoke you are exposed to, the higher the level of these harmful chemicals in your body. Why is secondhand smoke a problem? Secondhand smoke causes cancer Secondhand smoke is classified as a “known human carcinogen” (cancer-causing agent) by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US National Toxicology Program, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer. Secondhand smoke causes other kinds of diseases and deaths Secondhand smoke can cause harm in many ways. In the United States alone, each year it is responsible for: An estimated 46,000 deaths from heart disease in non-smokers who live with smokers About 3,400 lung cancer deaths in non-smoking adults Other breathing problems in non-smokers, including coughing, mucus, chest discomfort, and reduced lung function 150,000 to 300,000 lung infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) in children younger than 18 months of age, which result in 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations annually Increases in the number and severity of asthma attacks in about 200,000 to 1 million children who have asthma More than 750,000 middle ear infections in children Pregnant women exposed to secondhand smoke are also at increased risk of having low birth- weight babies. Secondhand smoke may be linked to breast cancer An issue that is still being studied is whether secondhand smoke increases the risk of breast cancer. Both mainstream and secondhand smoke contain about 20 chemicals that, in high concentrations, cause breast cancer in rodents. And we know that in humans, chemicals from tobacco smoke reach breast tissue and are found in breast milk. But a link between secondhand smoke and breast cancer risk in human studies is still being debated. This is partly because breast cancer risk has not been shown to be increased in active smokers. One possible explanation for this is that tobacco smoke may have different effects on breast cancer risk in smokers and in those who are exposed to secondhand smoke. A report from the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2005 concluded that the evidence regarding secondhand smoke and breast cancer is “consistent with a causal association” in younger women. This means that the secondhand smoke acts as if it could be a cause of breast cancer in these women. The 2006 US Surgeon General’s report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, found that there is “suggestive but not sufficient” evidence of a link at this point. In any case, women should be told that this possible link to breast cancer is yet another reason to avoid being around secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke kills children and adults who don’t smoke, and makes others sick (Surgeon General’s report) The 2006 US Surgeon General’s report reached some important conclusions: Secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more severe asthma. Smoking by parents causes breathing (respiratory) symptoms and slows lung growth in their children. Secondhand smoke immediately affects the heart and blood circulation in a harmful way. Over a longer time it also causes heart disease and lung cancer. The scientific evidence shows that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Many millions of Americans, both children and adults, are still exposed to secondhand smoke in their homes and workplaces despite a great deal of progress in tobacco control. The only way to fully protect non-smokers from exposure to secondhand smoke indoors is to prevent all smoking in that indoor space or building. Separating smokers from non-smokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings cannot keep non-smokers from being exposed to secondhand smoke. Where is secondhand smoke a problem? You should be especially concerned about exposure to secondhand smoke in these 4 places: At work The workplace is a major source of secondhand smoke exposure for adults. Secondhand smoke meets the standard to be classified as a potential cancer-causing agent by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for health and safety regulations in the workplace. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), another federal agency, also recommends that secondhand smoke be considered a possible carcinogen in the workplace. Because there are no known safe levels, they recommend that exposures to secondhand smoke be reduced to the lowest possible levels. Secondhand smoke in the workplace has been linked to an increased risk for heart disease and lung cancer among adult non-smokers. The Surgeon General has said that smoke-free workplace policies are the only way to do away with secondhand smoke exposure at work. Separating smokers from non-smokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating the building cannot prevent exposure if people still smoke inside the building. An extra bonus other than protecting non-smokers is that workplace smoking restrictions may also encourage smokers to quit. In public places Everyone can be exposed to secondhand smoke in public places, such as restaurants, shopping centers, public transportation, schools, and daycare centers. Some businesses seem to be afraid to ban smoking, but there is no proof that going smoke-free is bad for business. Public places where children go are a special area of concern. At home Making your home smoke-free may be one of the most important things you can do for the health of your family. Any family member can develop health problems related to secondhand smoke. Children are especially sensitive to secondhand smoke. Asthma, lung infections, and ear infections are more common in children who are around smokers. Some of these problems can be serious and even life-threatening. Others may seem like small problems, but they add up quickly: think of the expenses, doctor visits, medicines, lost school time, and often lost work time for the parent who must take the child to the doctor. In the United States, 21 million, or 35% of children live in homes where residents or visitors smoke in the home on a regular basis. About 50% to 75% of children in the US have detectable levels of cotinine, the breakdown product of nicotine, in their blood. Think about it: we spend more time at home than anywhere else. A smoke-free home protects your family, your guests, and even your pets. In the car Americans spend a great deal of time in cars, and if someone smokes there, hazardous levels of smoke can build up quickly. Again, this can be especially harmful to children. In response to this fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency has a special program to encourage people to make their cars, as well as their homes, smoke-free. And some states have laws that ban smoking in the car if carrying passengers under the age of 17. What about smoking odors? There is no research in the medical literature about the cancer-causing effects of cigarette odors. Research does show that secondhand tobacco smoke can get into hair, clothing, and other surfaces. Some researchers call this “thirdhand” smoke. This refers to the toxic particles that are left in the air after you can no longer see the smoke. Over time, they settle on surfaces and can be measured long after the person is done smoking. Though unknown, the cancer-causing effects would likely be very small compared with direct exposure to secondhand smoke, such as living in a house with a smoker. But this is an active area of tobacco research. What can be done about secondhand smoke? Local, state, and federal authorities can enact public policies to protect people from secondhand smoke and protect children from tobacco-caused diseases and addiction. Because there are no safe levels of secondhand smoke, it is important that any such policies be as strong as possible, and that they do not prevent action at other levels of government. Many US local and state governments, and even federal governments in some other countries, have decided that protecting the health of employees and others in public places is of the utmost importance. Many have passed clean indoor air laws in recent years. Although the laws vary from place to place, they are becoming more common. Detailed information on smoking restrictions in each state is available from the American Lung Association at http://slati.lungusa.org. To learn how you can become involved in helping to promote laws to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, you can visit the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network on the Web at www.acscan.org and see what’s happening across the country. The Web site can also take you to your state’s page so you can find out what is going on there. Or you can call ACS CAN at 1-888-NOW I CAN (1-888-669-4226). Additional resources More information from your American Cancer Society We have selected some related information that may also be helpful for you. These materials may be viewed on our Web site or ordered from our toll-free number. Guide to Quitting Smoking (also available in Spanish) Questions About Smoking, Tobacco, and Health (also available in Spanish) Smoking in the Workplace — A Model Policy Other organizations* Along with the American Cancer Society, other sources of information and support include: American Heart Association & American Stroke Association American Heart Association Toll-free number: 1-800-242-8721 (1-800-AHA-USA-1) Web site: www.americanheart.org American Stroke Association Toll-free number: 1-888-478-7653 (1-888-4-STROKE) Web site: www.strokeassocation.org Quitting tips and advice can be found at everydaychoices.org or by calling 1-866-399-6789 American Lung Association Telephone: 1-800-586-4872 Web site: www.lungusa.org Printed quit materials are available, some in Spanish. Also offers the tobacco cessation program “Freedom from Smoking Online” at www.ffsonline.org Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking and Health Toll-free number: 1-800-232-4636 (1-800-CDC-INFO) Web site: www.cdc.gov/tobacco Free quit support line: 1-800-784-8669 (1-800-QUIT-NOW) TTY: 1-800-332-8615 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Telephone: 202-272-0167 Web site: www.epa.gov Has advice on how to protect children from secondhand smoke, a Smoke-free Homes Pledge, and other tobacco-related materials on the direct Web site, www.epa.gov/smokefree National Cancer Institute Toll-free number: 1-800-422-6237 (1-800-4-CANCER) Web site: www.cancer.gov Toll-free tobacco line: 1-877-448-7848 Tobacco quit line: 1-800-784-8669 (1-800-QUITNOW) Direct tobacco Web site: www.smokefree.gov So, till I’m back giving my opinions and fighting for the America I love, I thought I’d tell you all why I won’t be active in July.  Happy and safe 4th…God Bless America and all of my friends that read what I write.  Thank you for your prayers. http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/TobaccoCancer/secondhand-smoke http://www.colelaw.com/tobacco_use_dangers.shtml”>http://www.colelaw.com/tobacco_use_dangers.shtml

Bringing Up The Past

This is for all of you, especially older parents that are saved, and yet constantly have to face persecution from children, family, old acquaintances, who constantly bring up the past.  It is also for those who have been wronged unjustly and have no way to prove otherwise.

You are saved.  Bought by the blood Jesus shed at Calvary, many of you may have grown children, or relatives, friends in your “old” life, that may remember you before you were saved. Perhaps you drank, perhaps you did drugs, or lived as the “world”.  But, now you are saved, and the things of the past are no more!  Yet, every once in awhile, whether it be family gatherings, or Christmas, or in passing, these particular people constantly bring up the past, and the “old you”.

I have gone through this…I know many women especially that are divorced, that go through this constantly.   I know of one from another church I attended awhile back, who is so hurt, too, with grown children that blame her for the divorce as mine have.  And they do not know this Donna as a woman of God.  I knew others then too…It hurts.   You smart under the condemnation and you know in your heart of hearts the truths, and the why’s and wherefore’s, yet you cannot prove a darn thing.   My children when I divorced my 2nd husband, were 10, 7, and 6.   They knew nothing!  So, I know exactly what these women are experiencing.

Then perhaps, you are a male…maybe the same things have happened to you as well.  Maybe you were doing drugs, and did things young, but now you belong to Jesus.   Yet, others you knew, still judge you wrongly.  Or perhaps as someone who is in the workplace and someone has lied about you and tried to get you fired because are a Christian.   And you can’t prove your innocence.   You feel wronged, hurt, angry, and persecuted.  After all, didn’t you pay enough of a price?

The one thing I’ve learned in my years as a Christian, is that God is the vindicator.  God and God alone ALWAYS, ALWAYS, has cleared the way,  for retribution and been my advocate.  And the TRUTHS ALWAYS, have  come out.   God always, vindicates, yet, sometimes, not in the time-table we would like, but, when He is ready, based upon our walk with Him, and our faith.  Meanwhile you hurt, and feel frustrated, want restoration and a relationship, and in spite of prayer after prayer, sometimes for years, you see no end in sight.

When we get saved, all things are under the blood at Calvary.   You cannot change the past one iota, and God says to let it go and give it to Him.  For me?  God took the “old man” (self) away from me, when I fell on my face before the Cross.  All sins passed away.  Now, chaste as the newly fallen snow…as a virgin all over again….under the blood Jesus shed on the CROSS.  Without the Cross, we are still in the world as those who sometimes judge us wrongly.   But, you have to let go and give it to God.  Without Christ in our lives, we are no better than the “world”.   But, we have to change our thinking….(a pastor used to say, stinkin’ thinkin).  So, this blog is a pep talk….to bolster you all up….

First, go in Genesis 37:18- 27  This is the story of Joseph, one of Jacob’s sons, whose brother’s wanted to kill him for his inheritance.   But, instead of killing him, they threw him into a pit, and stripped him of his coat “of many colors”, which his father gave him.  Then, they saw a company of Ishmeelites that came and decided to sell Joseph, and he was captive and led into Egypt.  His brothers lied to Jacob, (whose other name was Israel), but, had no idea of what was to come.  Think of how persecuted and betrayed Joseph must have felt.  For his father thought he was dead.   Many years passed, and Joseph was brought by Potiphar and officer of the Pharaoh, who took him away from the Ishmeelites.  Then it says in verse 39:2 But the LORD was with Joseph!!  and he was a prosperous man; and was in the house of his master, the Egyptian (found grace).  You see, GOD WAS WITH HIM…as He is with you. When you continue reading you see that then Zuleikah, the Pharaoh’s wife, tried to tempt him, and seduce him.   But, Joseph refused (vs 8),as he had respect because she was Pharaoh’s wife, but, also feared God.   So she became angry to try to trick him…but, he fled, leaving a garment in her hand.  So she lied to her husband, who then placed Joseph in prison….At that point he exchanged a palace for a prison.  But the LORD was with Joseph (vs 21),
who was wrongly accused.

Then it came to pass the Pharaoh had a series of dreams, and wanted an interpretation, but, none was found, and he became angry with his servants, so he called on Joseph.   Yet, when asked, Joseph gave ALL the glory to the Lord.   And he interpreted the dream.  The Pharaoh rewarded Joseph, knowing he had the Spirit of God in him…Whereby, he was made into a rich man, gathering all the food while there was plenty….Then came the famine.  The story being, that his brother’s, including, Benjamin came before him, who Jacob had sent, but, did not recognize Joseph.   But the story ends, with the brother’s still not knowing Joseph, bringing their father to Joseph as well.   Did Joseph retaliate and show anger upon them as they had left him to die, sold him for his inheritance, and finally sold him?  No, instead he had his men slaughter a lamb and they dined with him…And finally after all the tests and they reunited and knew Joseph and brought his father to him, and in Chapter 47, presented his whole family and their flocks, and herds to Pharaoh, whom Jacob also met.

I love that story.  For like Cain, who could not run from God hiding in the fields, after he killed his brother Able….Neither can our enemies and foes run from God and His retribution either.   Those that attack you and judge you who are not saved?  Remember, that they are doing the work of Satan and God not only sees your pain and heart, but, HE and HE alone will also vindicate you one day.    For when you say to someone, “It’s under the blood, as I’m forgiven, and it is no more”…And they answer with a “BUT”.  “I know , BUT…”  Well, there is no but..There is no Biblical Godly right if they are also saved, to throw  one thing of the past in your face..period! For Jesus paid the price, with all the blood He shed at the Cross.  Else it makes the whole gospel of Christ a lie, and He died for nothing.  Jesus abolished death when He came.

Isaiah 53:4-10 the Atonement chapter.  He paid the price for our sins.  In Lev. 16:9, and Is, it wasn’t the priest that slaughtered those poor innocent lambs at the Temple, but the people that brought them as sinners as an offering.  Can you imagine how deep the blood ran then?   Can you imagine how that Temple looked?   That’s why we need to constantly remember and repent of even the smallest sin.  For Jesus paid the price and God VINDICATED Him of ALL atonement.

That atonement for our sins, is also ours once we have repented and come to the cross to be saved.   It is free….our gift of grace.  Wherefore, accept no more condemnation from your enemies.   Philippians 4:5 “Be careful for nothing, in everything give prayer and supplication.”  If God be for me, then man cannot be against me.  He is my  vindicator and yours!   And with that vindication and standing on the word, comes faith.   You may not have restoration with your unsaved children right off, or even not in your lifetime, or see wrongs righted in your lifetime.  But, God knows.  And rest assured, HE will vindicate you.   Just remember that all accusations come from the devil.  God never accuses.

For you cannot move forward in your walk with God as a saved born again Christian, if you get yanked like a yo yo back and forth with your saved or unsaved loved ones or old friends, who keep accusing and bringing up the past.  No way..  You have to take a stand.  The devil is already defeated.  So stomp on him and take authority.   Matt. 7:4-5 How will you say to your brother let me pull out the mote in your eye, when the rock is in your own.”  Ye hypocrite…Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine….I have blog after blog on my 2 sites here on hates…taking authority.  Let God purge all the hurt and anger out of you, and then you will have total peace.   It took me years and years to discover how this works.   Jesus took it all.   You can do nothing to change your past, and those you offended, except apologize, and move on to what God wants.

For you are royalty..You are a King’s Kid…If God loves you and is for you then accept no more condemnation.   And while we are not supposed to judge ourselves…”Judge not lest ye be judged”…we are to test the spirits, and any spirit of accusation you receive about the past?  It is not of God, but of Satan.  Forgive, and move on.

Charles Stanley preached on 1/17/10 on the dark moments of our life.  They will only last as long as God accomplishes His purpose.  HE will work out His will in our life.  Ask yourself, how does God view us? How did God view Joseph when his brothers sold him?  Did God dessert him?  Will He you?  NEVER!   Be faithful, diligent, obedient…and all your fragility’s and weaknesses, despondency, hurts, pain, of not receiving the love and understanding and restoration you want, will be answered.  He sees and understands.

Joel Olsteen also said once that God is our vindicator.  All those that cut us down and wrong us?  God sees it and one day we will see the victory and those people will pay the price, and God himself will call them accountable, as long too as we give HIM all the glory in our lives.  So, Joel said, lift your head up, get out of the hurts, depression, and put your shoulders back, and trust in God…and He will open all the doors and lift you far above all those that had trodden on your soul and maligned you or wronged you.   Romans 8:1-   “Therefore now no condemnation” (guilt) “to them which are in Christ Jesus” who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.”   Romans 5:16 “And not as it was by one who sinned, so is the Gift for the judgment was by one to condemnation “(by Adam)”but the Free Gift is not many offences unto Justification” (Cleanses us from all sin).  If God be for us man cannot be against us!

For unfortunately, what your unsaved children or friends do not understand is that when you fail to honor your parents, you are in fact putting a curse on them.  But, we as Christians, have Holy Ghost power to break that curse, and walk free in obedience with the only one that paid the price at Calvary………Jesus….the name above all names……my prayers with you friend.

Being A More Loving Person

Trying to be a more loving person is perhaps the hardest thing God requires, and with some in my life, very difficult, indeed.

We all have our faults, and as my older daughter says, have “cracked pots”.  It is terribly hard to love someone in Jesus “agape” love.  Not, just say I love you..but, mean it from the bottom of your heart, even when this person has hurt you over and over again.  You forgive them repeatedly, but, loving them gets really hard.  It’s not their faults and sins that get in the way (at least not with me), its the fact that they refuse to repent and really change from their sinful ways.   I love as a mother as I should, but, that “agape” love of Jesus is a challenge.  Sometimes, these people can push your buttons, and just charge at you, and all you want is space and your peace and quiet.  Has anyone ever been there?   This is the time when  I loose my patience, that I need to get on my face before God and ask that my heart be changed.

About 10 years ago, I had a study in this, and I still had it saved, from June 2004.  It begins,  “Let us love one another, for love comes from God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God IS love.   And He has given us this command:  Whoever loves God must also love his brother.” (mother-father) I John 4:7-8-21 You can’t love God and not someone that hurt you.  It’s a misconception; love is uncontrollable; that is not true.  You CAN control who you love and don’t love.  And some choices require painful decisions.   Sometimes you must decide, God’s desire for me, or my own free will?  Which of the two will I follow?  Love is an ACTION, I John 3:18 “Let us not love with words or tongue but with ACTION & TRUTH.”   You can’t love someone from a DISTANCE… not just talk…its not just a “feeling”.  Love isn’t love unless its given away.  LOVE IS ALSO ACTION.   It is doing for someone else.   Giving ones self, in sacrifice to someone hurting, not things, not a pat on the head.  God wants our hearts! Loving someone you don’t like or agree with is very hard.

You need to experience God’s love yourself.  “I pray that Christ will be more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust Him.  May your roots go deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love and may you be able to feel and understand how long, wide, deep and high His love really is and experience this love for yourselves.”  Ephesians 3:17-18 Unloving people who are unloved and selfish and wallow, only are hurting themselves.  A divided heart is a RESENTFUL heart. Forgive others who have hurt you.  “Forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.  Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”  Col 3:13 “Love others as I have loved you.”  John 13:35.  “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But, if you forgive not men their trespasses , neither will God forgive your sins.”  Matthew 6:14-15.  You can’t LOVE YOUR KIDS, IF  YOU HATE YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER!   Your staying in the past..LET GO!

I really struggle with this from some  who constantly brings up the past when I got  divorced  many years ago.   Some constantly bring up the past from 40 years ago.  It is over and done with.  I was 30 when her father’s girlfriend was on my doorstep, who he would not give up.  That pain for me never left.   Then losing my youngest son to suicide 10 years ago, is another pain in my heart, that hurt so badly, I had a mini stroke after I buried him.   At 70,  now, I fight every day against depressive thoughts from a legitimate pain in my heart.   My daughters do not understand how that kind of pain, and uncaring,  can affect the elderly.   I even looked up online to find out that there is actually a “broken heart syndrome”.  The actual pains in the heart from hurts, false accusations, and death, can actually affect the heart.    I am more than a cracked pot, I am damaged goods.   I leave it all at the Cross.   But, it is therefore, very hard for me with anxiety to be a loving person.    I can’t change the past, I can’t change another, I can only with God’s help, and deep prayer, change myself. You think loving thoughts….”Don’t just think about your own affairs and SELF, but be interested in others too, and in what THEY are doing.  Your ATTITUDE should be the same kind that was shown to us by Jesus Christ.” Philippians 2:4-5.  Paradox:  Those who deserve your love the least are those who need it most!

Hurt people HURT OTHER PEOPLE..Focus on NEEDS and hurts that are in THEIR life…OUR ACTIONS MUST BE A WITNESS TO GOD! Begin acting in a loving way.  It is way easier to act MY WAY into a feeling than it is to FEEL my WAY into an action.  ” Love your enemies , do good to those who hate you , bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”  Luke 6:27-28  That too, is really hard, when you have been so hurt by others.  You put a wall of distrust up around you, and it isn’t that you lash out to them so, but, you don’t want to be hurt again.   The only one who can tear down these walls is the Lord. Five things we need to do to people who hurt us: 1. Love them.  “Love your enemies.  Be patient with each other, making allowances for each other because of your love. ” Ephesians 4:2.  2. Do good to them.  You can give without loving gut you cannot love without GIVING.  Love is to be given away.  AND the past is in the past…Under the blood at Calvary..Dead and buried!   Jesus has washed the past clean!  His Crucifixion has blotted out all iniquity.  3. Bless those who curse you.”  4. Pray for them.  Choose the WAY you want to respond, when someone hurts you.  You hurt back, your reacting.  You don’t control, when you react the Christian way is not to hurt back, but, to face the other person and respond as Jesus would have you do.

However, there are times as I wrote once, when even though you love this person, you have to let go for a time.  Letting go and letting God is not reacting in a way to hurt back, but, to let God work in their lives, and get out of God’s way.  There is a difference.  “Love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast.  It is not proud.  It is not rude.  It is not self-seeking.  It is not easily angered.   LOVE KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONGS…IT DOES NOT BRING UP THE PAST, CONTINUALLY WEARING DOWN  A RELATIONSHIP.   I Cor. 13:4-5 Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth.  Love ALWAYS protects.  If one person is experiencing fear, and anxiety, then they were not given love.  Love always trusts.  If you cannot trust a person, and you know they have love/hate towards you,  it is not a healthy love.  That person needs help.  Love always hopes.  Love always perseveres.  THAT kind of love never fails.  I Cor. 13:6-8.  Help me Lord be a more loving person.   How we all fail so miserably. Expect the BEST from them.  “If you love someone you will always believe in him (her) , and always expect the best of them.”  I Cor. 13:7  Labeling only REINFORCES the negative, it never  changes anyone, yet, when the same things keep coming up in accusations for 25 years that person doing the accusing needs help.  They are not living in Christ.  They only add fuel to the fire.  Treat them as you would want to be treated.  Learn how to TAKE CORRECTION WITHOUT  TAKING OUT OF CONTEXT!  Going off the deep end on “feeling’s” is NOT Godly, Neither is constantly bringing up the past which cannot be changed!

“Moreover if your brother hurts you, go and tell him his fault between you and he alone.  If he shall hear you, thou has gained a brother in my name.  But, if he will NOT hear you, then take with you one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established.  If they REFUSE to listen, tell it to the church, let him be unto me as a heathen man and a publican.”  Matthew 18:15-17.  Refusal to act in God’s way is a rebellious, having an unteachable spirit against Jesus and a hardened heart. You cannot love God and be a Christian if your heart is hardened towards another.  Study 1 Cor. 13, the Love Chapter.   Help us all Father God, come to the Cross and bear our own pain, sins,  and hurt, and leave them all with you to heal.    Thank you Jesus for your healing touch.   Take away the “empty” feelings, sadness and anxiety, take away lack of energy, physical back pain, loss of interest in normal activities, sleep problems, tears, feelings of guilt, helplessness, and feeling worthless, being irritable, and any thoughts of death.   Help all those who are as me, broken vessels, that just want to be loved.   Thank you Jesus for loving us unconditionally.  Amen

*Excerpts of this came from a study from a Pastor Manning in 2004, and from my book “Restoration Road, copyright 2004

When Your Child Backslides

I know there are parents out there, who have children, that know the Lord as their Savior yet, either by intention, or temptation, backslide. It is painful to watch, when we know the end times are here and Jesus could come in the Rapture at any time.  Then in pain, you get down in your knees, convinced they will never make the Rapture, once more engulfed in sin, and you can do only one thing….PRAY!

“Lord, I lift my children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren up to You today and pray, according to Your Word, that:

1.  They will know Christ as Savior early in life and desire a close relationship with You throughout their childhood, teen, and adult years. (Mark 10:13-16, Luke 2:52, 2Timothy 3:15)

2.   They will develop the discipline of prayer and time in You Word (Joshua 1:8, Daniel 6:10, Matthew 4:4, Philippians 4:6-7.

3.   You will bring into their lives godly adults and friends who will help them grow in Godly living. Psalm 1:1-3, Philippians 1:27, Proverbs 27:17, I Corinthians 4:15.

4.   You will keep them pure and strengthen them against temptation.  Job 17:9, Psalm 24:3-4,1Corinthians 6:18-20.

5.   They would develop discernment, wisdom, responsibility, and a strong conscience. 1Kings 3:11-12, 1 Timothy 1:5, Daniel 6:3.

6.    They will be CAUGHT if they wander into cheating, lies, or mischief.  Psalm 119:71, Proverbs 20:30.

7.    They will see other people as You do, treating them with love and kindness.  Matthew 25:35-40, Romans 12:10, Philippians 2:1-4.

8.   You will protect them from emotional, physical, and spiritual danger.  Psalm 28:7-9, Psalm 41 , John 17:15, 2Thesalonians 3:3.

9.    You will prepare them to be a Godly, loving and faithful spouse or prepare them to glorify YOU in their SINGLENESS.  1 Corinthians 7:7-8, and that YOU also prepare their future spouse.  2 Corinthians 6:14-15, Ephesians 5:21-33.

10.    They would leave home with an eternal perspective and Christ-like values.  Matthew 28:18-20, Galatians 2:20, Philippians 1:21.

11.   They will sense YOUR calling on their lives and their lives will count for YOUR kingdom.
Psalm 78:1-8, 103:12-18, 2Timothy 1:9.”
* From Family Life

So what do you do when you know now, especially that we are in the end times, and Jesus could come in the Rapture, at any day, and your child who was saved, is an adult, and for that matter maybe even a parent , and is sinning?   You come to the point, if you’ve gone through it before with him or her, that you cannot ram anymore.   Your relationship is fragile, as you have a child that is independent and does their “own” thing.   So what do you do? The hardest thing you can do…Step back, trust God, and pray and let go and let God.

You have fears, because you worry, that they will not make it to Heaven.  But, our soul is between Jesus and themselves.  They may be in other sin such as drugs, or worldly desires,sexual temptations.   Their children may or may not be church-goers, and even if they are taken to church, they are receiving mixed signals.  For this parent is pretending to be what they are not.  They tell their child to live one life while they are living another.   They are in essence hypocrites, Jesus says.  Their world is full of deceit.  One of the blogs here,  by A. W. Tozer, the “Old Cross and the New”, says it.  Lust and worldliness has crept into many churches.   “Oh, I’m a good person, I do this..I do that…”  But, that doesn’t get you into Heaven.   And what if you say nothing and even as a Christian you condone the behavior you see, because you don’t “want to rock the boat or hurt the friendship?”  What does Jesus say?

First, to those that condone backslidden and sinning behavior from a family member, God says, we are to be RESPONSIBLE.  Romans 14:13  Let us not therefore judge one another any more (can be translated, “let us no longer have the habit of criticizing one another.)  BUT judge this rather, that no man PUT A STUMBLING BLOCK or an occasion to fall in his brother’s (sister’s) way (tells us what is, in fact, PERMISSIBLE to judge; as Believers, we are to judge EVERY brother and sister and situation which surrounds them, irrespective what it might be, as to how we can help them, instead of harming them).   Also God says about a stumbling block, “that it shall be like a millstone hung around your neck!”  Boy, at the risk of alienating everyone, I sure wouldn’t want that heavy millstone (they used with oxen) around my neck.  God too, will call a person that condones this wrong sinful behavior into accountability, with perhaps, a harsher discipline and correction than the person sinning.  Why is it that most in the churches now don’t understand this?  Sin has invaded our pews.  And how can this sinner, that may be fornicating or doing drugs, then pretend he is “one of them” and bring their children to church, without the conviction of the Holy Spirit, driving them to their knees in tears and repentance?  Where today is the repentance?

 

For in 1 Corinthians 8:9 Also says, “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours BECOMES A STUMBLINGBLOCK to them who are weak. (WE who condone sinful behavior make men worse if, by OUR example , we teach them to act in CONTRADICTION  TO THEIR CONSCIENCE!)   It is sinning against Christ!  It makes the salvation message a lie!  Furthermore, in Matthew 10:34, Jesus said, “Think not that I come to send peace on earth, but a sword…For  I am come to set a man at VARIANCE against his father, and the daughter against her mother. And the man’s foes shall be that of his own household.”  When one is saved it causes this variance in most families, for if the “family” say, is unchristian or playing at religiosity, it causes deep dissention.  But, if you truly love God, then you must pick up that cross and follow HIM!

God expects us when we are saved, to have MORAL STANDARDS, and be strong in mind, body, and spirit , by having the Holy Spirit in us, not to be weak, but, to guard against ALL
temptations.  For we cannot bear fruit and live for HIM, if our roots are corroded in lust, sin,
and temptations.  You cannot be saved, and go to church and “pretend” to be what you are not, then go out, and live your life in the world, as if God didn’t exist.   You are being a hypocrite when you do, and God says, I will spew thee out of my mouth.   You are an abomination to him.  Ephesians, speaks of moral standards in the 4th Chapter.  Verse 17 “This I say therefore, and testify  in the Lord ” (given to Paul by the Lord as it relates to our everyday lifestyle), “that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk” (how one orders ones behavior) “in the vanity of their mind” (refers to living in the spheres of emptiness; it denotes an ignorance of DIVINE things, a  Moral blindness.) 18. “Having the understanding darkened (speaks of a process completed in the past..the fall..but having results in the present) , “being alienated from the life of God” (proclaims the ONLY true life there is ) “through the IGNORANCE  that is in them” (does not refer merely to intellect, but denotes an
ignorance of Divine things),  “because of blindness of their heart” (it is a ‘WILLFUL IGNORANCE’ which brings about a ‘WILLFUL BLINDNESS,’ ie SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS).
27. “Neither give place to the Devil. (FAITH properly placed in the Cross givens Satan NO place in our lives for temptation, perversion, lust, of any kind.)

I do not believe in “once saved always saved” and have always, since I was saved 26 years ago had a fear of God.   Churches today, especially in contemporary churches which are under the “new Cross”, lenient, don’t preach sin.  It is a lie of the DEVIL!   Hebrews 6:8 says, “But that which bears thorns and briers is REJECTED” (this speaks of believers who have TURNED THEIR BACKS ON CHRIST AND THE CROSS, and now bring forth no proper fruit, but, thorns and briers) “and is nigh unto cursing  “(refers to judgment); “whose end is to be burned.” (This refers to the simple fact that if a person who was once a BELIEVER remains in that state, he will lose his SOUL.)  God gives them up…just like He gave up Esau  (the hairy one the Bible says, who gave up his inheritance and hated his brother Jacob…the ONLY one God ever said in the whole Bible, “Him do I hate!”  Yes, I believe, God can and does, let us go, when we repeat the same sin over and over, and keep coming back like a little game.

Hebrews 12:16 “Lest there be any fornicator, or PROFANE PERSON, AS ESAU, ” (he was ‘profane’ because he rejected God’s way, ie the CROSS, and the results are inevitable) “who for one morsel sold his birthright.” (He was in the Family of God, but was not OF THE FAMILY of God, which characterizes untold millions in churches today.) (*parenthesis from the Expositor’s Study Bible throughout.)  What about you?  Are you OF the family of God?

17.”For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the Blessing, he was REJECTED (proclaims Esau, as millions, desiring the BLESSING without the BLESSER ‘Jesus’) “for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it” (the blessing )carefully through tears.” (He like many today, wanted the blessing but he did not want to repent and change his sinful ways, placing his faith on other things other than Christ.)  God is the judge of all.  Hebrews 12:23  12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.  (the fire of God will consume EVERYTHING  that is not Faith in Christ and the Cross  [1Corinthians 3:10-17].)

Sin: 1John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin” (refers to the sin nature)” we DECEIVE ourselves “(refers to self-deception), and the TRUTH is not in us.” (This does not refer to all Truth as it regards Believers, but rather that the Truth of the indwelling sinful nature is not in us.)   9. “If we confess our sins (and turn from our wicked ways) , He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  HOWEVER, vs 10 “IF we say we have NOT sinned ” (nor repent, and change, John here is denouncing the claims of sinless perfection; he is going back to Vs 8, speaking of Christians who claimed they had no sin nature) “We make HIM a LIAR “(the person who makes such a claim makes God a liar, because the Word says the OPPOSITE), “and His Word is not in us.”  (If we properly know the Word, we will properly know that perfection is not in us at present , and will not be until the TRUMP sounds.)   And 1John 1:9 “he who says he is in the light and hates his brother, mother, father, sister, is in darkness even until now.

God, I pray that you send your FIRE, I know that before we have revival, the fire will come and purge us all.   For none of us are sinless, but, most of us that have deep roots in you Lord, know when we are sinning and seek your repentance immediately.   We as Christians, check each other out.   We are there for each other.  But, if you are backslidden and hiding in a sinful way of life, keeping your life secret from other Christians, leading a double standard, you are not walking in Christ.   You need to turn from your worldly ways, and come back on your knees to Christ.  If you are a young person, who is having a problem with lust, and keep choosing the wrong person getting hurt over and over…You are not trusting God, and  are just plain impatient.  Was not Sarah 90 years old when she gave birth to Isaak?   She laughed and mocked God, and because of her impatience and lack of faith, she gave Abraham her handmaiden Hagar.   Hagar begot Ismael…who became as Esau later, the Arab nations.  But, God gave His covenant to Isaak.   She didn’t believe God, for she was old.  She couldn’t wait for HIS blessings.   For whatever is going on in the Mideast now?  Blame Sarah.

Can you wait on God?  Can you have self-control and trust only in HIM?  If you know someone who is backslidden, in a relationship that is unequally yoked, and sinning, on drugs, doing the things of the world..  Print this and give it to them…They don’t need you  to condone and overlook their behavior, lest they lose their salvation, and chance God rejecting them.  They need you to show them the TRUTH, in love and Godly CORRECTION.    They are sinners, that need the Cross, and need to repent.  One cannot repent and have the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and their conscience, unless they are Corrected.   I pray this helps those see the error of their ways, and seek your face oh Lord.   I pray for all those in this world that is like Sodom and Gomorrah, for America has lost it’s way.  There is temptations all around us..I pray for the youth of this country, to come to the CROSS.  It is the ONLY way!  Jesus is coming soon….

Egypt, Mid East And The Ramifications

As I’ve watched the riots on the streets of Egypt, and listened to many “experts”, on the subject, and our Washington counterparts tell us this is all about “democracy”, I then listened to Glenn Beck this week, when he used the word “CALIPHATE”, and believe he speaks the truth. For we are not being told the whole truth. What happens now when other countries take to rioting in the streets as in Egypt? I pondered, this and emailed a Christian friend of mine, who is a teacher in Morocco, with an adopted Moroccan son. She seemed to think that Glenn was right.

We need to be vigilant. Hypothetically, what happens when countries besides Egypt; Somalia, Tunisia, Iran, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon (already run by Hezbollah),Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Libya, Turkey, Nigeria, So Africa, and Morocco all took to the streets. If Morocco flips, it cuts off Portugal and Spain (22% Muslim) then look at Belgium (Brussels 90% Muslim) and France. It is about power, not democracy.. and the Marxists, are in bed with these radical extreme Muslims. This was the goal of many in the Mid East and Iraq, going back to the Ottoman Empire. When we went into Iraq with George W., the one thing that our soldiers never bombed was the ancient ruins of Babylon, in the south near Kuwait. In 1989, the late Peter Jennings was over there long, before the Iraqi war, and in a UPI article he wrote how Saddam Hussein thought he was the re-incarnation of the Ancient Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar, and started re-building Babylon with its hanging gardens. The word Caliphate means “all Islamic states banning together, including Hamas and the Islamic Brotherhood. It is intended to take over all of Western Civilization with Sharia Law. Please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate

History from wikipedia site above:

The caliph was often known as Amir al-Mu’minin (أمير المؤمنين) “Commander of the Believers”. Muhammad established his capital in Medina, and after he died it remained the capital for the Rashidun period. At times in Muslim history there have been rival claimant caliphs in different parts of the Islamic world, and divisions between the Shi’a and Sunni communities.

According to Sunni Muslims, the first caliph to be called Amir al-Mu’minin was Abu Bakr Siddique, followed by Umar ibn al-Khattāb, the second of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs. Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib also were called by the same title, while the Shi’a consider Ali to have been the first truly legitimate caliph, although they concede that Ali accepted his predecessors, because he eventually sanctioned Abu-Bakr.[6]

The rulers preceding these first four did not receive this title by consensus, and as it was turned into a monarchy thereafter.

After the first four caliphs, the Caliphate was claimed by dynasties such as the Umayyads, the Abbasids, and the Ottomans, and for relatively short periods by other, competing dynasties in al-Andalus, North Africa, and Egypt. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk officially abolished the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, and founded the Republic of Turkey, in 1924. The Kings of Morocco still label themselves with the title Amir al-Mu’minin for the Moroccans, but lay no claim to the Caliphate.

Some Muslim countries, like Indonesia and Malaysia were never subject to the authority of a Caliphate, with the exception of Aceh, which briefly acknowledged Ottoman suzerainty.[7] Consequently these countries had their own, local, sultans or rulers who did not fully accept the authority of the Caliph. The rest you can read on the above site, as well as numerous other sites.

I have a Christian friend of mine, who lives in Morocco, who I asked her opinion on all of this. Since she is a teacher there, and is in close proximity with it’s people, this was the response she sent me.

“I did see part of the Glen Beck show and will watch the rest tonight. I do however think it is pretty accurate. I went Sunday to the grocery store and stocked up on food and supplies, for what I think is a very real possibility that Morocco can also have these riots. People were laughing at me BUT I will have the last laugh when I can stay for over one month in my house and not need or want for anything. When I ask local people here thay all say, “No”, but I am not stupid nor ignorant. The poor males here are very dissatisfied. The food prices are rising and the salaries are not, the rich get richer and the poor are getting poorer. I posted last night an article on FB about the possibility of a the same here in Morocco. I hope and pray the King will be proactive and take preemptive measures to avoid the same things that are happening in other countries form happening here.

When people complain about America and how they try to control stuff, how they prop up dictators and evil men like Saddam and Mubarak, they forget that our government also has the bigger picture. They knew what the ramifications were when Saddam was out, chaos in the Middle East. And without Mubarak in Egypt, eventual war with Israel. I don’t always condone what out nation does BUT I don’t have all the intelligence information. However,  I also know that people in other countries who have been raised with different cultural and ethnic and religious backgrounds do NOT think nor act like us. Here in Morocco, and I am sure in many similar nations, when the police tell someone to do something they usually argue and don’t obey. NOT until the police come and beat them will the submit. That is why the government has to have a heavy hand otherwise it would be total anarchy and animals in the street. Whenever there is a soccer match, the people have to get off the street, the busses and taxis often stop operating in certain areas and the police and army come out in droves just to control the crowds of angry or jubilant youth. If that is what it is like after a soccer match what will it be like if they riot for freedom and rights. BUT if you act like animals then perhaps you shouldn’t have rights.  On the other hand, Christians are being persecuted for not turning Muslim in all of these Arab nations.  Look at poor Saeed in Iranian jail, an American pastor leaving a beautiful wife and two children here.   He was there building a secular school.

I hope this helps and I hope you will please pray for me and my safety. I have at least till June to be here in this country, after that will depend on the direction I have form the Lord, to stay or go. I need to hear clearly from Him about that. I want to go home BUT I also don’t know how I would live or earn a living while I was there. I can stay here and earn a very good living IF things don’t go nuts, and be used by the Father doing it.”

This is another perspective from someone who lives among these people. So we, in America want to democratize so many of these countries, without knowing the full truths. How do you deal with youth that acts like animals in the streets? Is this all a call to Democracy or are they too being pushed by extremists, fractions, that want Sharia law and control, as well as Marxists? My friend is right, as we do not have all the information. But, Washington does and they are not telling us. We have Americans in many many of these countries.

This writer does not have the answers. I do know however, what the ramifications are if all the countries above get on Egypt’s bandwagon and start rioting in the same manner. Are these rioters college student’s and the educated or those that do act as my friend says, only like animals. How do you change thousands of years of a backward way of life without education, jobs, food, etc. Remember Jakarta in the 60’s when Sukarno was overthrown in 1965….people lived like animals there too. What is the answer? This has always happened when a dictator ruled and gets overthrown. I’d like to think that Iraq was a success story. I’d like to be this Pollyanna that thinks democracy is the answer and jobs, etc. I’d like to believe my own US Government. But, I don’t trust my own President. And remember too, in 1965 in Jakarta, Obama’s mother married again and he was dragged in that poor country, then, 3 years old? Think of what he came out of with a Kenyan father, and a mother that was a fruit cake in my estimation. He didn’t have a father to look up to, so no wonder he gravitated to Socialism, seeing what he did at a very young age. So, I don’t have any answers. All I can post here is an awareness. We are in a very dangerous time in the world, and food and gas are going to go bonkers. Think about the Suez Canal being blocked?? We need a lot  of wisdom, with this next elections in the US in 2014 & 16….a lot!

Christian Persecutions, Open Doors:

http://www.opendoorsusa.org/persecution/

Matthew 5:10-12 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

For almost 60 years Open Doors has worked in the world’s most oppressive and restrictive countries, strengthening Christians to stand strong in the face of persecution and equipping them to shine Christ’s light in these places. These believers stand strong, despite the many obstacles that they face. What are some of the things that we can we learn from their faith?

There is something about hardship that allows us to know God deeply. When times get really tough, we discover more about who God is and how He works. Christians who have endured persecution for their faith, know this well.

There are no easy answers for why God allows his followers to face suffering. However, the lives of persecuted Christians reveal that even when things look out of control believers can rest secure, knowing that God is still in control. He is able to give courage, peace and even joy to stand strong through the storm. It is through these storms that believers discover God’s love in new and powerful ways.

Standing Strong Through The Storm is the curriculum that Open Doors uses to help Christians stand strong in the face of persecution. There are six theological and biblical lessons from this curriculum:

1. 1.     Sometimes you need to build yourself a cell

Be still, and know that I am God—Psalms 46:10

One Chinese church leader, who spent 23 years in prison, once said this to Christians who did not face persecution:

“I was pushed into a cell, but you have to push yourself into one. You have no time to know God. You need to build yourself a cell, so you can do for yourself what persecution did for me—simplify your life and know God.”

It is vital that we spend time with God, to grow in Him, so we are prepared to stand strong in the face of persecution.

Putting Our Needs Before the Lord

We need to put our needs in prayer before the Lord, when we pray. Not approach God with vain words, but, come to the throne seeking communion with Him. Ask God with wisdom what to do with you and your family. Then we need to seek scripture to back up what God tells us through the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:30, If God be for me, then man cannot be against me. We need to know when the Holy Spirit tells us to let go of a situation. For when we continue to persist, we get in God’s way, and He cannot move in this other persons life.

Romans 2:13-16 “For not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law, these having not the Law, are a law unto themselves. Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel.” Whereby, while the Lord will not hold the Gentiles accountable to the Law of Moses regarding the Old Testament times, this is in no way means that He will not hold them accountable for their sin; the fact of sin is not abrogated in any case respecting ignorance in effect, places the Jew in a more responsible and even fearful situation. The mere having of the Law or even hearing the Law saves no one. At the Great White Throne Judgment, God will judge the Gentile world which existed before the Law according to that which they did know; once again, this has nothing to do with salvation; ignorance never brought salvation. Conscience, too, does not prove a reliable guide, as is proclaimed here. Jesus alone is the criteria. “according to My Gospel” Jesus and Him crucified. JS Expositor’s study Bible

We are therefore instructed to be doers of the Law, after which we have Heard. Therefore, when they judge, they also judge themselves. So, when we pray, we need to ask God, our needs, and those of others, our country, etc. For He says in Luke 18:41 “What will you that I shall do unto you? He is asking us, “What can I do for you?” It is by faith then that we come to His Throne to petition in communion with Him. The Lord is there, waiting for us to petition Him. We are not just to be hearers in His word but doers of the word.

Pour your Holy Spirit Lord over our loved ones, and families, those that need salvation, those without faith, and across this great country we live in. Through your divine supernatural manifestations, upon our nation Lord, our friends, enemies, those saved and unsaved. Let this nation know without a doubt that YOU alone are the Lord God almighty. Go to Him as the woman with the issue of blood, who crawled to touch the hem of His garment, so she could feel Holy Ghost power in just touching it, and healing. Show Lord, the doubters, who never experienced Holy Ghost power and are in denial of Acts being for today, that yes, it is! Let your truths be shown, for all the world to see Lord God.

Ezekiel 13:3-10 “Vain prophets have seen nothing! Lying, divination, this President and the Arab Spring, who calls himself a Christian, is defiling the word of God. Those so called spiritual leaders he takes counsel with will one day feel the supernatural power of the Living God, who says, “I AM Against You!”, thus sayeth the Lord. All they see in vanity in Washington, and our leaders. Because they have seduced my people and there is no peace, nor will there be in the mid-east until Jesus comes in the Second Coming. All man does will backfire, while we are a nation in debt. God caused this earthquake in VA this week, week and in Washington, DC. Vanities of Vanities all while Obama golfs! And God Almighty is angry, and His wrath is becoming unleashed. “There will be an over flowing show3r, stormy wind, (this hurricane Irene?) with great gale overflowing in MY FURY, thus sayeth the Lord. Ezekiel 13:11-12.

God is in charge of our promotions, and He says He is removing barriers to the Holy. Keep your eyes on me, He says, for I am turning everything upside down! I am pleased when my men and women are in their prayer closet…alone with me. Proverbs 2 says, “if you receive my words, treasure your commands, we bring life not destruction. Incline our ears to wisdom! Seek wisdom as gold and silver…Cry out for our leaders our sons and daughters. Wisdom needs to reign in all our decisions that we make. For when we cry out to God, (Psalm 10) He is our refuge and our strength. Then He wants me, anyways, to wait on Him. That word was given me yesterday. Out of it all, we will be a stone wall for someone that will need us, in jeopardy.

Because we are at the table of the Lord, we know how to STAND in times of chaos, and disaster, it is then that we will know how to help others. Psalm 112:7 We shall not be afraid of the evil and adversity that is all around us. For through faith it won’t touch us, that are Holy and believe. For we set our feet upon a rock! Psalm 119:33 We shall let no iniquity come over us. Wisdom…Faith..His mercy upon all of us that call out His name. The 23rd Psalm, says “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me, I will fear no evil.” Praise God. James 1:5-7 “If any of you lack wisdom “(pertains to proper knowledge of the Word of God,) “let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.” (This means when we ask wisdom of Him, He will not reproach or chide us for our past conduct. He permits us to come in the freest manner, and meets us with the Holy Spirit of entire kindness, and promptness in granting our requests.) JS Expositor’s Study Bible

Ahh…BUT, then it says, “But let him ask in FAITH, NOTHING WAVERING. FOR HE WHO WAVERS IS LIKE A WAVE OF THE SEA DRIVEN WITH THE WIND AND TOSSED. ” (He who continuously veers from one course to another only reveals his own instability and lack of a sense of being under Divine control. AND THAT applies to churches too!) “For let no man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord. A double minded man is unstable…in all his ways.” (Again, also applies to churches without Holy Spirit filled direction.)

We are to be Victorious, be living in Faith, have Humility, and most of all avoid Temptation, but live with Endurance…..Then and only then, shall we escape the judgments that are already coming. And His wrath. Wherefore, I pray this helps you all who are in need and read. All we need to do is ask, in our prayer closet, they Holy Spirit as our guide, our comforter, whom He left with us when he rose to Heaven. We are in crucial times ahead of us. Are you ready? Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb? God Bless……

Are We Living in Biblical End Times?

This came from an old article that I had received from Liberty and Thomas Road Baptist Church, Pastor Jonathan Falwell. I am quoting it word for word, as I think this is so important, and many, who call themselves Christians, do not understand the dangerous times we are living in. It is important to recognize the “signs”.

“The New Testament leaves us with the anticipation that Jesus could come at any time.”
“Those are the words of Dr. Ed Hindson, spoken at a stiffing “Global Warming Prophecy Conference” hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church last week. The conference also included Drs. Tim LaHaye and Gary Frazier.

In Luke 21.25, we read that there will be signs all around us prior to the return of Christ. Stating that we must discern the signs of Jesus’ second coming. Dr. Hindson noted six modern developments indicating that the stage is being set for the return of Christ.
They are:
1. Israel returned to the Promised Land (1948).
2. Increase of Islamic opposition.
3. Extremists threatening the world. (now with Islam wanting all of Western Civilization)
4. The political unification of Europe (EU)
5. Failure of peace attempts in the Middle East.
6. The worldwide threat of nuclear weapons. (Iran, No Korea, China, Russia)

To some, these signs may prove alarming. But, as Dr. Hindson noted in the conference, “Biblical prophecy is not designed to scare us, but to prepare us.” The rapture of the saints at the return of Christ is a message of comfort. As Titus 2:13 tells us, we must be “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.”

The most important thing to remember in terms of these last days prior to the impending return of Christ is this: God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (II Peter 3:9).

This means that Christians are on earth by design, with a specific purpose to communicate the Gospel of Christ to the nations. As I’ve noted in past columns, this is not a popular objective in our modern society that rejects the absolute truths of God’s Word in favor of a collective of “truths.” But we –those who have placed their faith in the Christ of the Bible –are nevertheless compelled to reach out in love to all with the Gospel.

I want to answer two prominent questions regarding Christianity.

1.) Why do Christians believe that Jesus will come again? Because the promise of Jesus’ first coming was wondrously fulfilled when He was born of a virgin in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago. There is evidence and verification of His life, His death and His resurrection. The early disciples were eye witnesses to the fact of the resurrection. We do not follow Christ in blind faith, nor are we following a pipedream. Not only did Jesus literally conquer the tomb, He promised to return again.

2.) Why is it important that Christians evangelize? Because after Jesus Christ calls believers (the church) to Himself when He returns, this earth will subsequently go through a period of lawlessness and chaos, the likes of which we have never seen. This tribulation period will see the antichrist rise to power, promising peace bug bringing about only corruption and death. War, “eclipsing the holocaust,” as Dr. Hindson described it in our conference, will break out across the world. We, as Christians, do not want anyone to have to live through such an awful period. Further, we do not wish fo any soul to perish and face an eternity apart from God.

I believe the promised return of Christ is as sure as the daily sunrise. And I long to see Him!
If you know Christ as your Savior, join me in looking for that glorious appearing every day. However, if you do not know Christ as your Savior, I urge you to visit our church’s website http://www.trbc.org and click on “Who is Christ?” to learn how you can know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

NOTE: Christians wishing to investigate these last days are encouraged to pick up a copy of Drs. Hindson and LaHaye’s ‘Global Warning: Are We on the Verge of World War III?’ This book is an excellent survey of the final signs that will serve as God’s global warning to the people regarding His return. ” End..

On this site too, is a blog on Biblical and scriptural signs taken from teaching by Pastor John Hagee. It covers scriptures in Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelations. The signs have been fulfilled.
And this writer believes that Jesus could come at any time.

Who, and what is the Antichrist? The “doctrine” of the Antichrist is not understood by many, even the world’s religious leaders. Excerpts on this come from Roderick C. Meredith, Living Church of God, booklet; which is 35 pages long, whereby, I will do my best to condense and answer the question. II Thessalonians 2:3 opens the door to the Antichrist coming upon the scene, but, after the Rapture but, before the 2nd Coming. 2:4, We see also that the Temple will be rebuilt, and the Antichrist will take it over, making it his religious headquarters. This leaves the door open too, for discussion, will it be where it was originally? For the Dome of the Rock is sitting right where Solomon’s Temple once stood, the wailing wall right there. So things need to happen in this world beforehand. But, think of it..Arab’s against Jews for the biggest climax and war that is yet to come.

Jude warned of false teachers using the idea of “grace” as a vehicle for licentiousness”..the license to disobey the very laws of God. God in other words does require us to obey the 10 Commandments. Why does this matter? Because not to obey, is the very heart of the doctrine of the Antichrist. It creates a lawless society…a society cut off from God, since the 10 Commandments actually portray His character. That mystery of lawlessness is already at work, and is the beginning of His coming. (2 Thessalonians 2:3, 7-8.

Jesus Himself warned us; “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name saying, “I am the Christ.” Matthew 24:4-7. The word Antichrist is first introduced in 1John 2:18; “Little children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.” Paul too, wrote about the the “false Prophet” in Revelation. Yet some mistakenly identify the Antichrist as the coming world dictator and political system called the “Beast” in Bible prophecy. They forget that the real “power behind the throne” is the mysterious “harlot” of Revelation 17, and that this fallen woman “rides” or controls the Beast of Revelation. Whowever she is, she is very powerful. She has caused the death of untold millions in the past, and millions more will die at her hand in the future. This harlot sits astride a system encompassing many nations and peoples. For she has ent3red into adulterous alliances with the leaders and kings of the world.

The 10 horns, 7 heads represents 7 empires that persecuted the Jews and Israel in the PAST,
and one last yet in the future. They are Egypt, Assyria (Syria), Babylon (Southern Iraq near
Kuwait), Medio -Persia (Iran) Greece and Rome. We now believe these to be of the Old Roman Empire in which the 10th shall rise (The Anti-Christ). The Roman Empire, the 6th head was the last that persecuted Israel before her destruction in 70 AD..out of which came the Catholic religion and the age of the “Christian Empire” and conversion of Constantine in 312AD. Gregory was later proclaimed the first pope in 590 AD, the start of the Catholics. The were however, a bloodthirsty group throughout early history and into the Crusades. And just
remember, Jesus was a JEW, a Rabbi in Matthew, who never intended to start a new religion. We, as gentiles, only come to the Father, through the blood shed at the Cross at Calvary. We owe our whole of Christianity to the JEWS! As the sign on the Cross bore, Jesus King of the Jews! But, those that have persecuted the Jews and Israel, in the past, and yet to come, will all bear the wrath of God, in the final war!

We are now already an “apostate church”. (Another blog here). Apostate means a turning away from. In contrast to the commandment-keeping Church of God, this great apostate church and her daughter churches reject the need to keep the 10 Commandments as a way of life. Jesus said otherwise in Matthew 19:17. Historically we read about a great church that did persecute millions of peoples during the Middle ages, which was the Roman Catholic church. Innocent III murdered far more Christians in one afternoon, than any Roman emperor did in his entire reign. Will Durant wrote, “Compared with the persecution of heresy in Europe from 1227 to 1492, the persecution of Christians by Romans in the first three centuries after Christ was a mild and humane procedure. ..revealing a ferocity unknown in any beast.” So, when John in his vision, saw this woman or apostate church drunk with the blood of the Saints, he was certainly not exaggerating.

Few realize that the so-called “Holy Roman (Old0 Empire has been revived right under our noses, with the EU. A detailed and revealing book “The Principality and Power of Europe” by British author Adrian Hilton, explains in detail…”Thus, this revived Holy Roman Empire, the EU, does show there is power behind the throne. Revelation 13 “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ” 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 John too, was also inspired to write that “even now, many Antichrists have come” I John 2:18.

It is time for all who believe in God to go back and prove whether their religious beliefs and practices actually came out of the Bible, or out of Babylon. “And I heard another voice from heaven saying , ‘come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.’ ” Revelation 18:3-4

Soon, the ultimate personification of the Antichrist will appear on the world scene. Appearing at first as a kind and gentle “peacemaker” he will gradually assert more and more authority. His authority will be enhanced by the false miracles Satan performs through him (Revelation 13:13) . Then the adoring masses will scream with excitement when they see him , and the doctrine of the Antichrist will permeate nearly all of professing Christianity….All except the “little flock” (Luke 12:32) described in Revelation 12:13-17. We that are saved are to obey Jesus instruction: “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36).

Are you ready? Are you saved? For Jesus said, “No man cometh to the Father except by me” and “Unless a man be born again, he will not enter the Kingdom of God.” There is ONLY ONE way to Heaven…That is through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is not by Allah..it is not through cults, and twisting gospel, it is not through Scientology, It is ONLY through Jesus Christ. And it is not through saints in the Catholic church and there is no such thing as purgatory. You can’t get “prayed” into Heaven with last rites. It has to be YOUR decision while you are alive and accountable. I leave you scriptures here to look up on Salvation
Luke 19:30, John 1:12, John 3:3, John 3:16 , John 8:32, John 10:9-10, John 14:6, Acts 16:11,
Romans 3:23-24, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9-10, Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 2:3,Hebrews 12:2, IJohn 1:9, IJohn 5:11-12, Revelations 3:20.

On this site too, is a prayer for salvation. If you truly seek our Lord Jesus Christ, you need to repent of your sins, and pray this prayer. God Bless you…Are you ready? Jesus is coming in the “twinkling of an eye”!!!

Tearing Down The Walls

As a senior, I see so many that are hurting. Many that are left alone, with no family, kids that hate them for one reason or another, are filled with loneliness, and eventually depression. They have for the most part no one to talk to, except when they go outside, or to the grocery store or sit in a doctor’s office. They are in essence, waiting to die…for God if they have belief, to just take them home. They feel hopeless, unloved, and have nothing left, smiling through their tears.

Then on the other hand there may be young people of these seniors, that purposely shut the doors to their parents, living in a world of their own making. They too, may miss this parent, but, feel that too much is water is over the damn, else want to change this person in the elder years, and “make” them see how everything wrong in their life, is this parents fault. They too feel hopeless, cheated, and unloved, even though they may have children of their own, they always point the finger to this person who could never satisfy their needs or live up to their expectation. The walls are up on both sides. Stone by stone, over the years, this wall has been getting bigger and bigger. When either of them talk to each other, the “wall” stands as a stronghold in the middle and the past gets brought up in anger. When one brings up the same things over and over to the senior, it only makes that wall immovable and the hurts and pain pile up. For the young person,
it is unmet needs, for the senior it is a broken heart and events and past that they can’t change.

How to tear down the walls. Do you know that I looked up on line to a site called “Family Resources” http://www.familymanagement.com/aging//depression.html
There is actually such an illness as “Broken Heart Syndrome”. It does exist in seniors. Some common signs are :
*An “empty” feeling, ongoing sadness, and anxiety.
* Tiredness, lack of energy
*Loss of interest or pleasure in everyday activities.
*Sleep problems, including very early morning waking
*Problems with eating and weight (gain or loss)
*A lot of crying
*Aches and pains that just won’t go away (some actually legitimate)
*A hard time focusing, remembering, making decisions.
*Feeling that the future looks grim, feeling guilty, helpless or worthless.
*Being Irritable.
*Thoughts of death of suicide, even if saved, wishing God take them home.

For these people who need family desperately, yet, have walls up preventing, “normal” relationships. Sometimes our family can be the blame for depression, and even physical ailments, as a “broken heart” syndrome can even cause genuine heart attacks. Sometimes the pain is so great between these family members, and there is so many misunderstandings and
“walls of false reasoning’s”, with the past always being brought up, year after year, that there doesn’t seem to be much point in continuing. For neither of these individuals can satisfy the other, and that wall gets higher and higher stronger and stronger, no matter which side tries, and it
only ends up in un fruitfulness.

So, before you end up with your doctor sending you to a psychiatrist, or worse, what does God say? We must ask ourselves, “Why has God allowed? What are God’s goals? I can refer to the Angel in Numbers 22:21-25. “And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God’s angel was kindled because he went” (as it regards believers, even those of Balaam’s stripe, everything is a test. How will we act? How will we react? Even though Balaam had received permission from the Lord to go, the truth is he was going anyway, hence the anger of the Lord): “and the Angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.” (he was determined to curse the people of God, and for money; let it ever be said, God is ‘against’ all who follow such a course.) “And the ass saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.” (events are caused by the Lord, but far too often men fail to see that.) “But the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a WALL being on this side and a WALL on that side. And when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.” Finally the ass bowed down to the Angel in vs 27 and the Lord gave the as a voice, who said to Balaam, “What have I done unto you, that you have smitten me these 3 times?” (Self-will refused to be instructed by circumstances, but a will yielded to God is careful to observe them. Three times Balaam refused to learn from the animal on which he rode, and so blinded. If we deny, then we deny God himself and His word.) Remember, that God never puts up walls, only we do.

Proverbs 24:28-31 “Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your lips. ” (Extra care must be taken regarding ones ‘neighbor’ ‘family too’, for simply because you live side by side or as a part thereof, consequently, all must be done, even to the taking a loss and admitting when you are wrong, to remain on good terms.) “Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work”. (The Christian is to never to pay ‘kind’ for ‘kind’. Instead he is to bless those who curse him.” Matt 5:44 “And lo, it was all grown over (like our walls are left after a rival dies) with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.” Remember, that when a family member that you have odds with, and built up a wall with, dies, your battle is ended, and there is nothing left but the briers and a broken wall forever. If you couldn’t change the past, when this person was alive? How will you feel when this person is dead. Then you can’t even hug them and say, ‘I’m sorry.”

The words we say affect the building of walls. Dear Lord, I’ve spoken so many words over the years, and reacted wrongly, and have repented over and over and over. Words stay. You may not mean those words, for we can’t help our tongue. We get hurt ,and we react out of emotion, past pain all compiled like a thunderous wave that comes over us, in defense. There have been so many many years of this back and forth, that it only takes one little thing, to set us off in defense.
James says, “The tongue is a fire” (speaks of fire in a negative way, that which destroys). Jas. 3:6
vs. 8, says the “tongue no man can tame”..

Therefore, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.” Jas. 4:10 “But and if you suffer for Righteousness sake, happy are you.” I Pet. 3:14 (Such suffering is the results of righteousness, and not the cause of righteousness, so as not to confuse the two.) “and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled (righteousness guarantees the protection of the Lord.) Isaiah 8:12-13. Your senior relatives should be treated as God says, “I have treated you”. Matt 5:44, Rom 15:8. Else it only adds to the wall.

Walls are not of God. If there is genuine repentance, and apology it could provide a start at tearing down the walls. But, the past is in the past. It must be left there. No good can come of dredging up a past that no one can change. We all have things in our past, that we would do differently.

I have seen seniors go through so much from their children. There is a lady I know slightly who have children that have nothing to do with her. She has been in and out of nursing homes, and has bone cancer and looks terrible. I’ve seen another come up from NC and get his mother who was living very nicely with someone and it broke her heart, (yet she gave him Power of Atty.) and her son took all her money from the sale of a house, and now she is in a nursing home. They never hardly see her. I’ve seen others, suffer. A lady I knew way back in the late 80’s from a church I was in, and was in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s, but, her children were not Christians, and even went to court to “get control” …and that they did. She went in a nursing home, and was dead by the time she was only 65. Now they can forget her.

Parenting is no easy task. We ALL make mistakes. Some things are caused by genetics and illnesses even that run in are genes, some things are caused by the learned behavior or our own parents that we pass down generation after generation, or else do the opposite of our parents, because we “know more than they did.” The list goes on and on. But, walls are caused by pain, and severe bitterness. And bitterness kills. “The heart knows his own bitterness; and a stranger does not intermeddle with his joy.” (The ‘heart’ that is spoken of here is the heart of a Christian. One who is a ‘stranger’ to God and His Ways has no knowledge of the burden that is carried or the ‘joy’ that resides in the heart of a true Christian.) Prov. 14:10

God goes even deeper in Acts. Acts 8:23 “For I perceive “(refers to the Holy Spirit in forming Peter of the exact cause, and not mere symptoms) “that you are in the GALL OF BITTERNESS ” (God calls this bitterness , GALL, and a condition of extreme wickedness), “and in the bond of iniquity” ( a bondage of greed for money, power, control of another). There are times when people in their anger always in the past, feeling they are right, the hurt one, and yes this word again, wallowing, can’t let go. There is something in staying in this state that soothes their wronged perception, and it is not of God. In essence they are helping Satan put a curse on that other person, but also themselves, and their own children. It must be broken..

I feel sorrow for the seniors I have met that are so alone. So many in the generation now in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s are so selfish. My prayers are for these walls to come down in Jesus name. My prayer is for all these roots of bitterness and hate be put under the CROSS of Jesus and the blood HE shed for our sins. Seniors, need love. Feeling alone in the pain of illnesses or arthritis, and unable to be a part of your child’s life or grandchildren, is not of God. God is love. Love has to be given away. May we all get back to morality and sensitivity to another’s need. I know pastors that never even knew their parents. James Robison was adopted. He has such a peace of God that is so inspiring. He doesn’t dwell, “who was my mother, why did she hate me, give me away, etc.” He gave it all to God many, many years ago, and God has blessed him. We all need to stop having un-teachable spirits for these walls to come down. Remember Ronald Reagan? “Tear down this wall!” The same thing applies in families: “tear down these walls” (Reagan said to Russia)”in Jesus name.” It begins in forgiveness, of things we cannot change in our own families.

Admitting When You’re Wrong

Do you know people that “cover up” mistakes, or try to put the blame on someone else when they mess up? Or do you know people that when this same person messes up and wallows in self pity when they do mess up has an enabler in their life? And this enabler NEVER ever rebukes them or gives this person if a Christian the right Biblical and scriptural meaning to send them on the right path of God, instead, always enables and makes excuses? (Sadly examples are all around us in the world -Even to our politicians who SHOULD be setting an exampple.)

So what happens to the person who has been enabled all their life? They never change! They never grow in Christ, and they never see their own faults or look within their own heart and being. They never come to a point of saying, “search my heart oh Lord to see if there be any wicked ways in me?” Instead, this person stays as a child and never grows up even when they have their own children. They are in essence emotional cripples, that continually rebel, do their own thing and wallow. They don’t trust God, because they don’t know how to submit.

My focus here is not on the one that wallows, but the enabler. I already did the blogs on “Confronting Sin”, ” Letting Go” and the “Jezebel Spirit”. They all tie together. But the enabler? The enabler is being manipulated and used and doesn’t understand. Perhaps, they are a sister or brother, but, regardless, they don’t want to “rock the boat”, stir up or cause dissension. Maybe they don’t see this wallower very often, of maybe they just enable as one gives a dog a pat on the head and says “good boy” now leave me alone. So, they tell this person a lie in essence because they do not want to jeopardize the friendship. They have no idea what they are doing. For they are not providing the Bible truths for this person to dig down into the roots and see where they were wrong and grow. Enablers are hinderers. They are also a stumblingblock and we know what the Bible says about stumblingblocks? “It shall be like a millstone hung around your neck.” They stunt any growth from the word of God. Just like many on drugs, or alcoholics have an enabler in their life, someone that makes excuses for them. Doesn’t point out they need help and counseling. Just even lies perhaps to an employer, “oh , so and so is out sick today, when they’re in bed hung over. THAT is an enabler.

When I was a young Christian many years now, I had a good friend, Kay, that is now with Jesus.  I thank God for my Kay.  She was like my adopted mother. You all who attend church regularly, must have gone through this, when a pastor was preaching, you look at the person (maybe your husband) next to you, and give them the elbow, (in other words , this is for you..). Well, for many years I experienced Kay’s elbow. She never allowed me to wallow when I was having such a hard time with my young bi-polar son, (who I didn’t know was bi-polar at the time). She was an encourager, but, she told me the Biblical truth and scriptures to back it up. Kay never let me get within myself, but to take responsibility for any errors in my walk with Christ, and to change. You can’t change another person, only we can change ourselves. But, an enabler prevents that change for the good from ever happening.

One afternoon this father went in his son’s room, and walked over to the window to close the drapes so the sun wouldn’t fade the furniture. He did not notice that on the floor was a marble chess set of his sons. He inadvertently stepped right in the middle of the chess set and sent the pieces flying, then said to his son, “why do you leave things on the floor like that and not put away?”

Later the son went to his father and said, “do you realize you walked into my room kicked over my chess set which nearly broke, scolded me, walked out and never said you were sorry? That is what happens when an enabler doesn’t call attention to what the sinner and wallower is doing wrong. For the wallower then has no excuse to look deep in his own soul, and apologize. Fortunately, this father did apologize to his son.

Some parents attempt to hide their mistakes. Usually, they are trying to protect the image they feel responsible to portray…ie..perfect parents who have their act completely together and who can handle anything at any time. The fact is, however that we should not be afraid to admit our failures or mistakes to our children. I made plenty the first time around. I had reasons, from the abuse of my ex-husband then. But, I did make mistakes. But, when an enabler is in the picture, always making excuses and covering for this person, they are really hurting them emotionally. That’s why there are Al Anon groups to counsel family members of alcoholics, so they don’t become enablers. How on earth can a druggie or alcoholic get it together and quit, if they are being enabled? They can’t. Sometimes, too, in churches, perhaps grace is carried on too much for these people who are in bondage. For it becomes like that little pat on the head with that dog, “ok, you messed up, we still love you as Christ” which is true, but, what about tough love? What about that person taking responsibility?

When an enabler inhibits the growth, repentance, and soul-searching of a wallower and does not exhibit tough love and scriptures to back up, it sends a mixed signal. So the person continues going on their merry little way, doing their own thing and perhaps blaming someone else who did all the right things trying to get them in the right direction to stop sinning. The enabler runs on emotion too. But, tough love also requires admitting when you are wrong!

When this enabler cannot admit they are wrong, and the wallower hears a correct teaching or scriptures somewhere else, sooner or later distrust is going to develop. For if the wallower has any sense at all, they will know they lied to the enabler, and knows only too well that sooner or later they have to face the music. So, when the truths arise and the wallower finally gets it, where will the enabler be? Out in left field! It is wrong to cover up a lie. If this wallower is not following Christ after being saved, and still doing drugs or drinking or fornicating the enabler is doing them a great disservice. In essence then they are twisting scripture, and enabling this person to fail to take responsibility for their own actions! THAT is what is wrong in today’s whole pop culture. No one takes responsibility for their own actions anymore. Sin is prevalent, because we’ve become a culture of enablers that look the other way.

It is difficult to trust any person when they cover up and lie, and wallowers always lie. They have secrets, and a secret life to cover up. And the enabler is just that, enables them to continue in their secret life. So the wallower never grows to eat meat, and stays on pablum his whole life, with no growth, no change for the good in God’s eye. When families are in this mess over one persons bondage’s and wallowing, it splits the family right down the middle. One person might be speaking Biblical truth so the wallower “gets it” and gets his act together. And on the other hand the enabler makes excuses for this person, and the family is torn to pieces.

So, i’m saying this to enablers: YOU get your act together too. If its alcoholism or drugs go to Al Anon etc. You will learn to keep you hands off the wallower, alcoholic, and let them fall flat on their face! Stop making excuses for them. It’s called tough love! Admit you are wrong! Tell the person the other family member who tells the truth, and scriptural help, is right, and tell the wallower they need to straighten out. For many people admitting an error is no easy task. Something deep inside flares up in defense of our decisions when they are questioned. That “something” is the flesh. Individuals who are walking after the flesh (the wallower) will do anything necessary to keep from looking bad. (They know their dirty little secret of drinking, drugs, fornicating etc.). They twist the truth, and manipulate and believe me they know darned well the enabler is there to give them the pat on the head like a puppy dog, and say “Oh , God loves you and we are all cracked pots of clay.” Hogwash! God loves us, but, He hates sinning and wants us told the truth! STOP ENABLING!

I’m convinced that half of psychological problems are the results of enablers. I mean too, we have become so politically correct, that no one can fail anymore. Schools limit this, that…If one doesn’t fail and fall down, or loose a game, etc, they just become selfish ingrates in a gimme gimme “I want” I , me, mine world, thinking everyone owes poor me, the wallower! Get it? People walking after the flesh like this wallower, are, by the very nature of flesh, insecure. They look only to themselves for a sense of identity and worth, but since the creature has no real significance apart from the Creator, there is a general sense of insecurity. If people look only to themselves for their sense of significance and security, the natural thing to do when confronted about a fault (the wallower) of some kind is to DENY it because accusations are direct threats to the security and the false sense of self-worth of the individual. And the enabler keeps them in this same place while the one that told the truth to get their act together, is seen as a threat. Therefore, they can’t submit to God, after all the enabler gave them a pat on the head, enforcing the idea, they are ok, and God loves them in sin. That is really pathetic. This person will be an emotional wallowing cripple for the rest of their adult life. Instead of the wallower going to the Bible for scriptural help even saved, they call up this enabler to make them feel better. How that must grieve the Lord Jesus. Stop enabling! Admit you are wrong!

We need to understand each others weaknesses, struggles, and failures, which we should all understand as we have plenty ourselves. Admit your errors, and don’t enable another person, but, tell them in tough love, that yes God loves them, but, sin is sin, and they need counseling, Bible programs, and have to change else they loose their salvation, and remain an emotional cripple on pablum all their lives. Step up to the plate and tell them Biblical truths and be an enabler no more.

If the finger of sin is pointed at you and you are a wallower, get in the word of God, get counseling and get help! Leave the enabler alone as they are only hurting your problems. Have some guts to face your own weaknesses, for your children will imitate you. For the enabler? Let go and let God, and let this person get help, else you will find yourself under God’s scrutiny. Of course God loves us, and of course his grace is sufficient, but, the wallower AND the enabler need to take responsibility for their own actions. The need to be accountable! Shakespeare said, “to thine own self be true”.

Proverbs 1:24-31 “Because I have called and you refused I have stretched out My hand, and no man regarded” (the whole of humanity is set apart in two camps: those who follow God given wisdom, ie the Bible, and those who reject God’s wisdom) “But you have set at nought all My counsel and would have none of my reproof” (the one that told the truth to the wallower while the enabler sets aside God’s counsel and truth).”I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when fear comes. When your fear comes as desolation and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you. THEN shall they call upon Me, but I will NOT answer; they shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me.” (while it is certainly true that God will hear any and all who earnestly cry out to Him, still the sense of this Passage is that a late call cannot undo the irreparable harm done in a misspent life.) “For they that hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord” (there is a choice that everyone has to make the wallower and the enabler; those who ‘choose’ the wrong path do so because they HATE KNOWLEDGE.)

Is this you? Are you a wallower living in a secret life? Or are you an enabler, hindering this wallower from growing in Christ. Which ever you are, or if you have these people in your family, print this and present the love in Christ yes, but tough love too, to take responsibility for their own actions and lifestyle.

*Parts of this came as an inspiration from a short article by Charles Stanley 2004, Biblical parenthesis from the Expositor’s Study Bible

My Faith Revived

My faith is un-shakeable, after what my long life has endured, from abuse in a marriage in my 20’s to my youngest son’s bi-polar disorder and suicide in 1999 when only 19, to losing my first baby at only 3 mos in 1958. GOD has restored me and healed me, with forgiveness to all others that offended me. I love my Lord, my Country, ALL that He created, in beauty and blessings; this great land of America, my ancestor, Major Ezekiel Worthen, who was in the King George War, the French Indian War, The American Revolution and the Siege at Louisburg. I believe in liberty, freedom which comes with a price..Thank you Jesus for all you’ve done in my life. Yes,I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, for He never lets us go through more than we can endure.

I wrote the following excerpts in one of my booklets, as a concerned conservative, seeing our Constitution being maligned. Excerpts came from these sources, which I encourage you to read: “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation of Church and State” by Daniel L. Dreisbach, a professor of Justice, law and society at American Univ. in Washington DC., “A People’s History of the American Revolution”, by Ray Raphael”, How common people shaped the fight for independence, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”, Modern Liberalism and the American Decline, by Judge Robert H. Bork. “In the first place, Jefferson’s “wall” is a metaphor…It does NOT exist in the Constitution of the United States. It is referred to as such by all the legal minds in the first paragraph . In the Establishment Clause under the First Amendment it States that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. (1791)However, most people are not taught in school nor even realize that the term “separation” or “wall” never appear in the Constitution.

On New Years in 1802, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to the Danbury, CT Baptist Association. In it, he used the term “wall of separation”. YEARS after the Constitution was signed. At the onset of his letter, it had been rewritten several times, until finally Jefferson consulted his then, Atty. General Eli Lincoln, who suggested that term. Jefferson then wrote: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his God that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”

Whereby, it was resurrected again by the Supreme Court in 1879, then thereafter in 1947 the vision of the wall seemed to have molded almost all attempts to analyze the First Amendment’s control over the Government’s relationship to religion. The court concluded in 1879, “coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure (Jefferson’s Danbury letter) may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the (first) amendment thus secured.” Whereby, this unintended letter by Jefferson was thereafter included by the Supreme Court as a “part of the 1st Amendment”. Which was NOT Jefferson’s original intent…and he and the other founding father’s must be looking down on us in utter dismay!

Then came Justice Black in 1948 who secured it even more against intent. Reemergence in Everson. In McCollum v Board of Education, the following term, Justice Black confirmed the extent to which the Court had “constitutionalized” the “wall” metaphor: “The majority in the Everson case, an minority as shown by quotations from dissenting views…agreed that the First Amendment’s language, properly interpreted had erected a wall of separation between church and State. (WHAT wall I ask?) In years since, Federal and State courts too, continue to reference a phrase which is a metaphor only. It has become the “locus Classicus” of the notion that the First Amendment separated religion and civil state, thereby mandating a secular policy. IT WAS NOT JEFFERSON’S INTENTION. In October 1801, as Jefferson became Magistracy, the Danbury Baptist Assoc. sent a letter to Jefferson expressing great satisfaction in his appointment. In the new President, the Connecticut Baptists found an ardent DEFENDER OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.. However after his letter and editing, and consulting with Eli Lincoln, what was left ended up sounding secular. However, now, through both of these Supreme Court cases, and since Black, they have taken out of original context …and imposed a letter into the First Amendment. My legal loophole question, “if this letter was NOT signed by all who signed the Constitution, then how legally can it be included as it has been? And WHY then , has no one tried to turn this around? How can this letter be legally justified, when nothing making it so was added as such, to the Constitution?

Wherefore, in 1779 when Jefferson was still Governor of VA, the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom was penned…and it INCLUDED the following punitive provision: “Every minister of the gospel shall on each day so to be appointed, attend and perform divine service and preach a sermon, or discourse, suited to the occasion, in his church, on pain of forfeiting fifty pounds for every failure, not having reasonable excuse.” Although never enacted, it was sponsored by Madison…For fasting and Thanksgiving. (Thanksgiving then as we know it came later.)George Washington wrote in 1789, “If I could now conceive that the general Government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of SPIRITUAL TYRANNY, and every species of religious PERSECUTION. (Written to the United Baptist Churches) . Yet , this METAPHOR has been running out of control in the courts…and those liberals in Congress and the ACLU that want to secularize this nation as well as atheists and are twisting the very intention of our found fathers. Instead, now it is us Christians who are censured! Chief Justice Rehnquist , perhaps was the most vociferous critic of the “wall” concluded: “It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history, but, unfortunately the Establishment Clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson’s misleading metaphor for nearly 40 years. (60 now) ..Thomas Jefferson was of course in France at the time the constitutional Amendments known as the Bill of Rights were passed by Congress and ratified by the States. His letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was a short note of courtesy, written 14 years AFTER the Amendments were passed by Congress. He would seem to any detached observer as a less than ideal source of contemporary history as to the meaning of Religion Clauses of the First Amendment. The greatest injury of the “wall” notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. The “crucible of litigation” is well adapted to adjudicating factual disputes on the basis of testimony, erasing the historical errors. Wherefore Jefferson’s wall has done what walls frequently do..it has obstructed the view. Therefore the critics too, evoke the poet Robert Frost, who observed in his poem, “Mending Wall” “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall/ that wants it down…”

The ACLU is stripping away all that the framers (and my patriot ancestor Major Ezekiel Worthen) fought for. It is BECAUSE we were (are?) a Christian nation..that had a humbleness of spirit and loved God and Country. THAT is what sets us as a “great” nation. That we always up and set the captive free. And freedom like wars come with a price. There are no atheists in Foxholes , I heard say..Ecclesiastes “a time for Peace ..a time for War.” “He who states his case first seems right until his rival comes and cross-examines him.” Proverbs 18:17..”Any story sounds true until someone tells the other side and sets the record straight.” Barton wrote: “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Promote, then, as a knowledge.” George Washington. Barton says..”The final strategy used by the Court to bolster its arguments is one previously introduced: Historical omission. Not only does the Court regularly omit cases prior to 1947 from its’ discussion, it also DISREGARDS quotes from prominent Founders other than Jefferson or Madison. Judge Bork writes: “There appears to be only one means by which the Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, can be brought back to Constitutional legitimacy. That would be a constitutional amendment making any federal or state court decision subject to being overruled by a majority vote of each House of Congress. ”

So, now it is up to Christian colleges and those like Liberty University to raise up young people who will be knowledgeable in Constitutional law and religious freedom and rights, such as the ACLJ. Now we, Christians have the American Center for Law and Justice and Chief Counsel Jay Sekulov. We need prayer back in schools…abortion turned around. For my God is a God of absolutes. Whereby, I continue to pray for my country. For I feel if we go down this slippery slope we are heading, God will take His hedge of protection of America. If we do not STAND with the Jews too, and Israel, Gods chosen, God too will call us accountable. Our children need to be taught history as our framers intended. California, now wants to put an end to home schooling, which is almost all Christian stay at home moms, they want to censor all we do and what we can say, including our Christian rights. That is not what we fought the Revolutionary War for. That is not what we fought ANY war for, but for freedom, democracy, and our religious beliefs. (Religion including Christian, also includes, though cults unfortunately..yet that THAT is what makes us America, the land of the free!) Parents, love God, teach your children the Bible, and go to Church. Teach them history and instead of Disney take them on tour of Washington, VA ‘s monuments, and Philadelphia. Without a grasp of America, all our heritage will go down the tubes, forever forgotten, and it will be the destruction of this country. And even Teddy Roosevelt said when you come to America, then speak English! That is the language of America…My German grandparents came over in 1903 from Germany through Ellis Island on the Kronland from Belgium. They came in legal, excitedly became US citizens, Americans, just as the Irish, the Greeks, the French before and after WWI and WWII. My maternal grandfather & paternal grandmother each worked hard in the mills in Manchester NH. My mother when she was young, used to go home in the heavy snow for lunch and bring my grandpa’s hot lunch pail walking all the way across the bridge, then walking in all kinds of weather back to school. They worked, were glad to be in this new land…and before Hitler. Now, I think Phil Gram was right, we are a country of complaining wimps. My grandpa never complained. They were Americans! My mother and father taught me to love this country and I guess I got my love of history from my mom. What? What? What have we taught our children? How to text messages? To think of me only? To be selfish sexy media watching ingrates with their hands out? What are we leaving America to? Where are the values of parents? Lord I come to you in prayer..In this I pray…..God help us come back to you….for we have lost our way.

As I wrote in a poem which is on one of these blogs: “You can love me or hate me, but, I am who I am. And STAND I will for America, and our Christian heritage in Jesus Christ.” I would have to be jailed like Apostle Paul, in my old age, before I relinquish one iota of my faith or bow down to even a COURT OF LAW, taking away my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH. Now, I even had a landlord tell me I couldn’t witness Jesus, which is blatant religious discrimination. He can take this woman to court and just TRY to evict me. And I’ll plaster his threatening letter right on Foxnews. For he lit a fire in me now…and backing down at the risk of having another mini stroke, will NEVER happen. Period the End. So Christians? Ask yourself, as many missionaries have been slaughtered with even their heads cut off because they are Christian, as my Pastor asked once..”Would you take a bullet for the name of Jesus?” You betcha! STAND! Stand up for God and America, and IN the voting booth, VOTE your Bible!

Letting Go

There are some of us, as Christians that have been saved a long time, who still have family members that are in the things of the world and give us a hard time.  They always think they are right, even though they have no scriptural reference to back themselves up.  You love this person, you have forgiven slights and intentional acts of hatreds, verbal abuse, manipulation, and even psychological abuse, over and over.   But, though you love this person, does that mean you have to continue to take all the pain this person causes intentionally?

I don’t believe that is what the Bible teaches.  We are to be in this world, but, not of it. For 1John 2:15 says, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. ” (The “world” here by John pertains to the ordered system of the world of which Satan is the head.) “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” (God the Father will not share the love that must go exclusively from Him WITH the world.)  16 “For all that is in the world” (there is nothing in the system of this world that is OF GOD). “the lust of the flesh “(he who lives in sin, and continues to say, ‘it is from God and God wants me happy, is a liar, for flesh refers to evil cravings.) “and the lust of the eyes”  (those that crave what they see )”and the pride of life “(that trusts its OWN SELFISHNESS and power and resources,  ie narcissism, and shamefully despises and violates Divine laws and human rights) “is not of the Father but is of the world and Satan.” Verse 19 says, “They went out from us, but they were not of us”. (means they CLAIMED to be a Christian, but, John said they were not OF us. For they continued to stay in the “world and the things of the world were more important than the work of Christ.)

For instance do you watch tv and violence, or sports or anything that takes you away from the word of God to be deemed as idol worship?  If you do, then you are not walking in Christ.    For if you are truly saved, “whosoever is born of God does not commit sin.”   If you are out fornicating and still in clubs drinking and the “worldly ” interests and temptations still have a hold on your life?  You are not saved.  You said words, but there was no repentance, there was no remorse, but, most of all there was no CHANGE. Charles Stanley wrote in 2004 about being tempted.  It amounts to a compromise on our integrity.   We see this in Congress now all the time.  Good people when they get to Washington, who we thought were maybe saved even, end up making compromising decisions, and even end up in jail.  Is that where you are today?    I has someone, that claims to be saved, and I’ve been going back and forth with this woman for 30 years.  It is unfruitful.  The relationship is unfruitful.  I’m up to my eyeballs from  throwing pearls before the swine.   Some people that claim to be saved  don’t listen, as their own selfish desires and objectives get in the way of listening to anything you quote from the Bible.  This person has an unteachable spirit, as  I have a post on here I did earlier  on the Jezebel spirit.

Dr. Stanley said our minds and hearts can be fertile soil long before seeds of temptation are ever planted there, or the seeds were always there, from abuse they had in the past events that happened in the past that they cannot reconcile with or take responsibility for their own actions.  When a woman is  abused they  must get out.   Meanwhile this person was exposed to all this abuse as a young person, and has “mouthy ” hateful children too.   So, the cycle continues.  The person  rejects Christ on one hand, and lives in temptation with dates and doing worldly things, yet can’t see where the fault lies. There is a time for letting go, especially when the doors have shut over and over and over, for 25 plus years.  Nothing changes with this person.  They are narcissistic, selfish, self-centered, and only think of “me, my, or mine”…Wallowing when they do their own thing and it backfires.  What do you expect?  Walking in God’s path, requires a price.  When you do the things of the world, and carry on in the world taking adventure trips,  going to bed with partners your children see, and still saying, “Oh God wants me to be happy.”  Hogwash!   Sin is sin. Fornication is fornication.   No fornicator or murderer (abortion) will enter the kingdom of God.

My aunt Ima  was a lovely lovely, Godly, quiet woman to be around when I was growing up in the 40’s and 50’s.  She was deemed at that time “an old maid”.  Now, I hate that terminology, as I’m 70 now and also have been alone with Christ for 27 years, so I have a better understanding.  She was very much in love, gee , I think in the 30’s to this young man Billie, who suddenly died.  Ima’s heart was broken, and she never married.   My Dad too, after they had me (and lost a baby before me, was hit by a baseball and the story in my adult life , impotent) whereby, my mother too, didn’t have sex either for all her adult life.  While they loved each  other, they just slept in separate bedrooms.  There wasn’t the focus back then on “sex-clinics” and all the other stuff out in the world today.  They just accepted what was, and went on with life.  It didn’t tear my mother apart.  She was a Godly, good, virtuous woman.  So was my aunt, and so were many women too, that were left behind single after WWII.    They were VIRTUOUS WOMEN.  My aunt died at 82, a virgin.  She wrote, was an artist as I am, and it is not killing me being alone, I love my aloneness.  There is a difference between loneliness and A-loneness.  Creative people for the most part are comfortable in their own company and like themselves, which is good with God.

I don’t understand today’s, very aggressive take charge, domineering loud-mouthed, intimidating women.  I don’t want to take on that persona, but, believe in being under Christ a virtuous woman in HIM. I did it in the “world” young in my 20’s and last child and marriage at 40.  I paid a dear price.  I owe my Lord everything, for leading me to the Cross and being a virtuous woman in Christ.  All things in my past forgiven.   Some people that are not filled with the Holy Spirit and saved, you need to let go of as God directs.  For what comes in their accusations, is the past which is DEAD in CHRIST, and Satan.  It is only Satan that brings up the past to throw on guilt’s and take you away from your peace and the word of God.  Don’t listen to the devil but rebuke him.  He is a liar.   The minute I gave my life over to the Lord, I became holy.  Peter reminds us of our call to live a holy life: ” Because it is written, you shall be Holy , for I am Holy”. I Pet. 1:16. God wouldn’t require us to do something that we couldn’t do. Walking in holiness comes when we are no longer comfortable with sin.  As sin becomes repulsive, we grow more attracted to His ways, His ways that are higher than ours.  No longer should we desire to walk in the way of the ungodly, nor should it feel comfortable.  Proverbs 1:15.

God has saved us from sin at the CROSS at Calvary.  And when we choose HIS way, over OUR way, He protects us, and takes care of us in His loving arms.  Then we shall walk in Holiness.  But, until we come to the cross in repentance,  and stop trying to manipulate God and those around us, in lies, twisting……it is of no consequence..and you are not walking in holiness.    You cannot serve God and mammon too. So, I give this scripture to you who are struggling  with sin. Ephesians 4:17 “So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the HARDNESS OF THEIR HEART; and they having become callous, have given themselves over to SENSUALITY for the practice  of every kind of impurity with greediness.   But you did not learn Christ this way, if indeed you have even heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that in reference to youth former manner of life, you lay the OLD SELF, which is being CORRUPTED in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth”. As for me?, at my age?  I must let go, and let God, lest all the chaotic dissension into evil, pull my walk astray.  I may love you…I may have forgiven over and over and over…and still will.  But, I am letting go.   My prayers be with you..I hope this helps those who struggle with sin, and lust. How I love you Jesus, and I feel so bad, for those that don’t know you as I.

Perseverance In Christ

Does God test us?  Does He let us go through tests and trials to strengthen our faith?  Yes!  When we come to Christ in salvation, life does not necessarily mean it is going to be happily ever-after.  That is one problem I always had with the false prosperity message.  Prosperity means, spirituality not necessarily money.  If we are asked to leave all and follow Christ, then it would not stand to reason that Jesus would on the other hand want us to concentrate on getting rich.  My Lord has never failed me even in times of adversity, from the time I came on my knees asking him to come into my life.  

Years back, I remember how stirred I was  at the prayer wall on Godtube, all the needs that go on unending.  I pray for every need and that we all take a lesson from Job and again in the New Testament from Paul, who even served time in jail, and was literally kicked out of many towns, he preached.  To serve Christ requires giving up on self, and doing His will not ours. Having humility and a humble spirit, yet also having the boldness to fight (in Christ’s righteousness) for what is right and what we believe in.

Its not by faith but by my spirit, thus sayeth the Lord.  WE CAN do all things in Christ who strengthens us.  God wants (Ephesians) for us to put on the whole armour of God.  I went through it all…abuse in my 20’s, even thrown out of a car 5 months pregnant, financial ups and downs, the birth at 40 of my youngest child, who was later bi-polar and committed suicide at 19.  I wanted to die,like Elijah under the juniper tree. This handsome young man broke my heart.  Did I  blame God? No..but, I had to heal and be alone only with HIM for nearly 3 1/2 years  in my creative world, and the talents HE gave me…and I had a mini stroke in the process, but He never left me. I thank God every day my BJ was saved at 11.

And I’m still standing, stronger in my Faith than ever, now in my mid 70’s , and I know if I can get through it all, so can everyone who is going through tests and trials.   I am not just a survivor, I am victorious in Christ!  I AM an overcomer in Christ, who strengthens me, never left me, and built me up in His image as a testimony for His word.  And THAT is what it is all about..To be molded like clay in His image, requires, prayer, faith, sometimes deep pain, trust, love, and endurance.   So whatever anyone who reads this is going through? Get in the word, be in a good church, and NEVER quit! 

 And now when I hear of someones hardship, or someone suffering with a child who has mental health problems, or another family whose child committed suicide, or lost a child by illness or death, NOW I can witness God’s love and give them the information and Word they need…for I’ve been there.  In Psalm 116, the person was in danger of death, so he cried out to the Lord for deliverance; and the Lord rescued him.  Vs. 15 “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”  Death is not cheap with God…It is NOT an accident, even by a car or  murder, or suicide and THAT helped me tremendously.  Over and over I thank God  my son was saved.  Before he did this act in a full blown manic attack and depression, it first passed through the sovereign hands of God.   For HE will not permit the death of one of His children to be treated with disdain and contempt.  His children are precious and purchased by the blood of Jesus at that cross. 

And my Lord shed tears too, for the blood my son shed in debilitation…his homecoming was not chance or fate..But, as death is a mystery..one day we will know why, for it too, is a devine fate.  As death is a mystery, one day we will know why, for it too is a devine provision of grace.  (Excerpts from “Comforting the Bereaved” by David and Warren Wiersbe.   For  God loves each and every hair on your head…Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest…Amen  “The Sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.  The sorrows of hell compassed me about, the snares of death prevented me.  In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God, he heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.”  Psalms 18:4-6.    

Beth Stuckwisch wrote this poem in 1984:

” When I come home to Heaven How joyful it will be,
For on that day at last My risen Lord I’ll see.
No greater happiness than to see Him face to face,
To see the Love in His eyes and feel His warm embrace.
I’ve done nothing to deserve that perfect home above,
It was given freely through the grace of Jesus love.
Then why should earthly cares weigh down upon me so?
They’ll be a distant memory when home at last I go.”

Many don’t understand the concept of delayed reward.  Some think that pain is the exception in the Christian life.   But, we live in a world filled with suffering, even for believers.  God is still in control, even if we don’t feel like He is.  He allows some to experience a trail with much hardship and others to trod an easier, less painful road.  While we are on earth, we may never see the purpose of our suffering and loss but, you can be assured that God will keep His promises to you.  In times of pain, persecution, or suffering, you may long for an easier route.  However, by surrendering each fear, doubt, expectation and tear to Him you can in faith, look forward to what the rest of the story will bring….in Heaven.

God will never let us go through more than HE knows we can handle.  I Corinthians 10:13  “There is no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but God is faithful who will not let you suffer more than you are able, but will  with that temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it.”   The CROSS is ALWAYS the Way.  (Ephesians 6:10-18).   Every choice we make, as I made having this last son at 40 and marrying his father also unbeknownst to me, bi-polar, had a price.  Remember that.  EVERY CHOICE we make has a consequence good or bad.  If anyone who reads this is going through such pain I can assure you that if you get into the Word of God and give yourself to Christ, He will help you with your situation.  If my Jesus could heal me and get me through my son’s horrific death, He can help and heal you too. but, the choice is always yours.  Thank you Jesus.

America and Islam – What Does God Say?

 Where Are You in Your Walk With God?

We all know what is happening in this world today, all we have to do is turn on the tv.  But where are we with God?   Are you hungry for the WORD, or are you still in the world, leading a busy life, with husband, children,  sports, schools, etc.    Do you hunger for a closer walk with Jesus, or just presume that, ok, I’m saved, I’m going to Heaven, and I don’t really need to do much else?

I was able to do a couple of creative projects this week, but, I had that nudge…that poke from God to get closer.    When I was saved God put me in a Charismatic Church that I loved with all my heart, now with a highway running through the land.  I was there for 16 years, and I was so hungry for Jesus; that church was my home, my hospital, my sanctuary, my refuge.  Oh, saints, and was I ministered too with those that taught me truth, the evangelists that came and preached, prophesied and ministered to us so many times.   This week,  I longed for that closeness to my Jesus as never before.  I’ve outlived three husbands I married and divorced in my youth.  My Jesus has been my husband, my father, my redeemer, my peace since I was saved in 1982, and GOD and God alone placed me at my FCC Church  so many years ago.   I love my family of God.  I  love all of you that will read this.   I pray with all my heart in tears and prayer, that you read this and pray, and that God puts this burden on you too.

Wherefore for the past three days, I have been on my knees, taking notes, watching every preacher I know of, on Christian tv; TBN, Inspirational, Daystar.   What is following is notes of what God was telling me to pass on to all of you.   This also started in my spirit from an email letter received from a former member of my church to us all.   She was right.  For some of our smaller churches are suffering badly.   Most Christians do not understand that we have authority over Satan as believers.   Some really do not care. They are too busy.   I beg you to really pray about this direction, for it is my belief and all the pastors on Christian radio and tv, internet, from Dr. Charles Stanley, Pastor John Hagee, Pastor Rod Parsley, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Jack Hayford,  Dr. David Jeremiah, Ed Young, Pastor Jim Toll, Reinhard Bonnke, on and on.

The Holy Spirit is moving across the World, through these preachers, and most are missing it.  The Gospel NOW through Satellite tv, even in Arab Countries,  has NOW been preached in ALL the world.  It s not enough in these end times, to only go to church on Sunday, but to “test” the spirits, Jesus said , and listen to what huge ministries are saying through tv, books, CD’s,  DVD’s, Christian TV and Radio while in the car even.   We need a move of God and Revival, and that is not going to happen while our churches up here in the east especially, are still on pablum, and haven’t a clue to the signs around them.

Revelations 3:15-16, to John, “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor nor hot,” (the present time ) “I would rather you were cold or hot,”  (half measures won’t do).  “So then because you are lukewarm, and NEITHER cold nor hot,  I will SPUE you out of my mouth.”  (if a person is lukewarm towards something, it means he hasn’t rejected it, but, at the same time he has by no means accepted  it; in the Mind of God, a tepid response is equal to a NEGATIVE response.   I will spue you out of my mouth means that there is no prospect of repentance here on the part o this Church, or Restoration. In fact there is DIVINE REJECTION BY GOD HIMSELF!)  Paranthesis: Espositor’s Study Bible.  From Pastor Adriane Rogers, “If you are cold or hot?  Sin if lukewarm in the modern Church today means ‘INSIPID’..Lukewarmness means that He is not speaking to those on fire that have a passion for the Holy Spirit to move, and are hungry for the word.  No, He is talking about those in between the cold dishwater Christian, and most fall into this category!   They are indifferent to personal holiness!   They lack concern for others that are unsaved.  Mark 7:6  There is no fire, tears, conviction….they are lukewarm.  To be spirit filled Ephesians 5:18-19, there’s a lack of real hunger for God.

It’s not a gimmick, its Holy Ghost fire.”  God I beg you to send the fire.  For before there is revival there has to be FIRE.   Then will come the “latter rain”…. These signs (now) God says we are to recognize.   All that is happening so rampant  from Egypt,  to all the rest of the Arab countries.   Look up!  The time is near.

The latter rain was prophesized by Joel in Joel 2:23.  In verse 21 God says Fear Not..  Then in 23, “Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God:  For He has given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for  You the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.”  (The phrase, “Be Glad then, you children of Zion.” refers to Israel now restored as the premier nation of the world, which is her rightful place.

In other words, the world cannot e properly blessed until Israel is in her rightful place , which she will be not long after the Second Coming….The “former rain” and the “latter rain” refer to the two rainy seasons in Israel.  The first, or “former” coming in October, promoted the germination and growth of the seed previously sown; the “latter” coming in April, matured the crops and got them ready for harvest.   Spiritually speaking, the “former rain” speaks of the outpouring  of the Holy Spirit on the Early Church.  The “latter rain” speaks of the outpouring of the spirit which began at approximately the turn of the  Twentieth Century and which will continue on through the Millennial Reign. [James 5:7].)

“The devil looks at the modern church today and laughs!  We’re lukewarm in our everyday lives even.  We pray without fasting, give without a sacrifice.  How many watch what tv preachers even say about end-times and these Arab nations?  Jesus is so near and nobody even realizes it!”  Love Worth Finding Ministries.   Charles Stanley  said “God wants us to have an intimate relationship with HIM..Just being saved is not  enough, just reading the Bible is not enough.  In Psalm 63:1-8 David too was a sinner  “my  soul thirsts for you…I need your power….and your glory…my soul is satisfied… my soul clings to you, your right hand holds me…”  How many of us hunger like that?

The year (written in  2011 )– Eleven means an overflow.  Over certain gentile Christians is called An abundance and we can’t let this  pass us by in the Church.  We are going to have  a “bumper crop” if we see it to sustain us in future years.   Before the revival and the  Latter Rain…it is time for a seed harvest.  Mark 10:46. That healing power would have passed Jesus by, if it hadn’t been for Barnabas.  There are to be “chosen vessels” that God uses, that God calls, for miracles of God means light…If the vessel is too small  with a belief and faith, the light can’t reach in…and God cannot use you.  For we are  His vessels.   Are you hungry enough to be one of these vessels for God to use?

Isaiah 46:9-10  Declaring the end from the beginning.   He isn’t going to destroy the earth,  but He will turn it upside down.   Ezekiel 38:4  “Hooks into your jaw”! The  Word hooks here mean oil!  Russia will he a guardian into them..(Arab nations the sold weapons to, as well as Iran the Persian nation.   But God says from Heaven HE  has the last word!   God promised after the 2^nd exile of the Jews the war with Egypt  before they were made a State,  that the Jews will NEVER be driven from that land  again!  They’re defender is GOD ALMIGHTY!  When the last enemy is defeated  that Israeli flag will fly over Jerusalem instead of any Arab nation!  The Messiah is  coming!  Joel 3:2  God will destroy its’ enemies!! Hear that Ahmadinijad?  .You  are defeated!   What will happen?  God is going to change everything upsidedown  after the Rapture, and the lion will lay with the lamb.  If you don’t believe this? You  will burn in the lake of fire forever and ever.  Egypt now?  The king of the south  has armed itself with tanks and weapons we, the US sold them!  Ezekiel prophesizes  this in the battle thousands of years ago.   Look up! The Rapture is not far away.

9/11 Changed the world, but what will happen will turn the world upside down.  The  king of the north, Russia, king of the east, is China.  China is a giant with millions to capture oil.  The EU (European Union…the same nations as the Old Roman  Empire  and out of those 10 horns will come the Anti-Christ). King of the south is Islam, and  like lightning speed, has moved nation after nation…coming together as a Calaphate,  not democracy.  But, to defeat Western Civilization.   Now that Mubarek has fell,  these weapons we sold them are in rebel hands.  Ezekiel 39!  Jesus said when we see  these signs, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD!  The King is coming! Are you ready? I mean  even though your saved…Are you ready?  Are you HOT or COLD? Or are you  lukewarm?   Will He spue you out of his mouth?   Revelations, 4^th chapter, John  hears a voice that says “come”  the 24 elders, is the 12 New Testament Saints and  the 12 in the Old Testament.   Rev. 2:10, Isa 61:10.  Revelations chapter 6, the  Anti-Christ comes BEFORE chapter 4!   The Church will be raptured soon and believers,  He will come forth soon.  Look at what is happening! The signs are here?  Do you know?

When Jesus comes for His Church He will come as a thief in the night.  While we are in  Heaven for the 7 year reign, all HELL will break loose on this earth!   Are you ready?  Are your children ready?  Is your family ready?  Will you be split up and some taken  in the Rapture and the rest remain here on earth for sheer chaos and hell?  Jesus will come on that White horse like a sword!  He will smite ALL evil on earth!  When this  gospel is preached in all the earth then shall Jesus come.  Pastor John Hagee and other  huge ministries,  by TV satellite is now reaching ALL of the earth!  King Jesus is about  to make His entrance.  Iran’s President said Israel was to be wiped off the face of the  earth and America will be destroyed.  Flash news!  Pharaoh went against Israel God  intervened.   Netanyahu sat with Pastor John Hagee a few years ago in his office, talking  about Russia.  Russia and Iran have been together now for past 20 years.  But the Bible  is clear, if you listen closely, you can hear the hoof beats of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse approaching.  I can, can you?

Remembering this, our Easter Season, the first time Jesus came he was in a manger.  But the 2^nd   time he will come (after the Rapture) He will come with his angels, and all his Saints, with eyes of fire and feet of brass.  The two witnesses will be sent first; Revelation 11:3, “And I will give POWER unto my two witnesses “ (Enoch and Elijah, two men who never died, but were ‘translated’ to Heaven before they saw death. Gen 5:21-24, Mal. 4:5-6) “And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” (This refers to three and one half years, the last half of the Great Tribulation. The clothing and sackcloth suggests that the witnessing includes the Preaching of Repentance.) Is. 34:102, Dan. 9:3-5.  There will be victory for the House of  Israel.   He will ge as a lion of the House of Judah. He will smite the ACLU and the taking down the 10 Commandments!  The next time He comes Herod will be dragged  before Him!  All the Arab Islamic Persian hates of the Jews and Israel and haters of   Christianity from George Soros, Cass Sunstein,  and all Jews that forsook their roots  will rot in hell!  We will be back to rule and reign with King Jesus!   T.D. Jakes said  that “Christian today are more scripturally illiterate than at any other time in history.

Gog and Magog (Russia) in Ezekiel 38-39.  All those armies  together from Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Iran etc. are militarized to go against Israel.   “Walls” means military and God Says  the “unwalled” will sign the peace treaty the Anti-Christ will lead.  They will be at a false peace, til they see they were cheated.  Then they will see all the armies coming against them from Russia, China, Islam.  The US has enough oil for 50 years!  But Obama won’t let us drill.  The oil nations coming out of  Ishmael and Haggar,  Abrahams hand maiden.

Where were you this Easter Season? Are you as hungry as I?   When we see what is  Happening in the world news, do we understand?  Jesus is coming…And I’m  only the messenger.  Are you sure you are going to Heaven?  Are you lukewarm?

I’m old, and nearing the end …I want more.  I want Jesus.   I want to be one of  those Saints coming with Him on the White Horse, with all the angels..  Thank  you Holy Spirit for directing me; thank you for putting this all my heart, and  I thank my Christian tv, for all I watched was of the SAME Holy Spirit, in that  I know God, you are moving all across America and through Satelite tv , the  whole world.    I want to see such a move of God, in my church, in my local  towns, across America and like Reinhard Bonnke, Christ For all Nations, all  across Africa, including those that are Islamic, with millions getting saved.

Thank you Lord, keep me right before you, Lord as I come to your throne and  obey.   I’m only the messenger.

Women And Single Parenting

Women and single parenting is a subject in which I know only too well. The statistics across the United States now show that there is 50% of households with children that have divorced parents.  Many of these households have remarried, and many have been in more than one divorce.  For myself? I have been a single mom for 28 years of my now 70 years.  It is not a subject Christians want to address.  My younger daughter, now 46, is a single mom with 3 teenage, one 22 and working but, still living at home.

I’m sure there were unmet needs when she was a child, that most articles on the subject do not even begin to cover.  When you are a single mom and working; there is no choice, there is pain involved on every side.  There is resentment too, because you cannot be an at-home mom and tend to every need, and in a sense, had it not have been for my parents with my oldest three kids who were alive then, in the 70’s, they would have been latchkey kids.  And with my youngest I had at 40, who in all essence, was an only child, living with me alone, I was thankful to have Christian babysitters.  It is not only difficult for the mother, but the children as well.

When I was 38 years old and my oldest went to college, I tried again going to college too. I took art education in college, and had a lot of plans, but then remarried for the last time, never knowing this man was bi-polar either; and I’d have a son with him, that I’d later loose to suicide (bi-polar also).  I know pain.  The decent men were not out there, and by that time, we put up walls of distrust.

Women need to help these women when they see them struggle.  I see these young mothers in church and in mu neighborhood and with family and friends.  I now have 8 grandchildren, 7 of whom I see and are a blessing. The other, who has two of my great-grandchildren, I haven’t seen since she was small.  (Another product of my oldest son’s divorce, as well as mine.)  Unfortunately, for me though, my oldest daughter who is happily married, with three children, now all nearly grown, lives in VA.  I miss them, and look forward to their summer visits, which do not happen every year.  Links such as this and Facebook, bring us closer together!

I wish churches would be there more for these young women.  If any one person needed the Lord, it is them.  When my youngest daughter had breast cancer, her world was devastated 8 or so years ago. And she was alone with her children, scared.  You cannot show all your fears to your children, after all.  To them she had to be strong.  She has done a good job as a parent and her children are all Christians, though I know not if saved, but active in youth groups at church.  But, it comes as a price as it did with me.  Now in my older age, and with all my arthritic and health problems, I could not help her and she could not help me.  But the love is there.  For that is what I hang on to.

I don’t want people who read this to think I am advocating being a single mother.   I made wrong decisions young.  I should have stayed married to my first husband, who I married in church.  I then picked the wrong men; the 2nd husband was abusive, and a womanizer, and the last 10 years later was bi-polar and deserted.  Three strikes your out!  The wall went up around me.  The ideal situation which is God, country, and the Bible, is for a man and a woman to be married.  The man head of house, not as an abuser or controller but as an equal.  And I do not advocate the far lefts’ version of anything goes either.  But, it was not the fault of my daughter  that her husband cheated on her, or my fault that my husband deserted with panic attacks and bi-polar, too stressed to deal with a wife and baby. Nor was it my fault when my oldest children’s father beat me in my 20’s and cheated on me, with a woman he would not give up on my doorstep, with three children upstairs sleeping.  (I could have ended up like Joey Butafuco’s wife with my face shot, for this woman was vile.)  Whether or not, I made wrong choices young isn’t even up for discussion.  I know I did. When I fell in love, I fell totally.  Gut, even out of errors I had the fruition of my children, and so much love, and my grandchildren, who I am so proud of. It is a hard, hard, road.  And while married mothers’ have a hard road, they have someone to lean on at the end of the day, as well as Jesus, if Christians.  But, these single moms, have only the Lord, as their husband, father, and head of house…(if Christian). And without God? I don’t know how they can even endure!

I think churches and communities ought to reach out more to these women.  For are we not to show compassion to those that are struggling?
I also think communities need to reach out to young men, and teach youth in churches, young men, especially, to be good husbands and fathers, and how to commit.  Teach them to be monogamous, and sensitive to women’s needs.  The world has changed too much now, and we have lost all our values.  Pop culture and reality shows have taken over, casting out morality.  It is not the real world, but a world of fantasy the young are looking for.  The days of upbringing in the 1950’s are over, and temptation looms all around. These young women today, are under so much pressure from the outside world in competition in the workplace, and then get criticized when the marriage fails.  These young single moms and their children that are forced into single parenting, in my estimation deserve a gold medal.  And these young girls that are still teens having babies though to stay on welfare?  Someone needs to reach these girls.  Teach them to stand on their own two feet, get state aid yes, but, only for awhile.  Get an education and stop thinking the State and a “man” is going to take care of them.  And kick that boyfriend out, who is eating up your food stamps, maybe doing drugs, living on easy street, drinking beer all day.  Make something of yourself, then you could meet someone decent, and go to church!  They have no self-esteem whatsoever.  I worked my way up with 3 children at home, going to night school, and bettering myself in my 30’s.  I can’t was not in my vocabulary.  I love to learn.  And I had good jobs young, for non profits, the legislature in NH, insurance companies etc.

I hope this gives some understanding, for it’s a hard job raising children alone.  I hope young women that read this and are teens with a baby? Go out and get that education. Go to your local church for help and counseling.  There are FAFSA grants for college, even a tech. school for nursing, etc.  My daughter now is an RN and as a single mom, is going after her BA degree.  It can be done.  You can do it.   Don’t quit.  Have a goal, and a plan.  Don’t let anyone ruin your dream, for your life only comes around once.  And with that call on the Lord to help you.  My prayers are with you. One of my daughters did it, and a good job at that.  God bless you…

What Would Jesus Do?

Some of you may be Republican, and others may be a Democrat.  Some, like me just recently, now an Independent.  I, like many others, are very disgruntled about the direction this nation is going.   I have heard from a few pastors that politics should not be preached in the pulpit.  I wrote before, that I disagreed, I reiterate again, I disagree.   Yesterday, it came out that ACORN may again get funding from this Administration.  I’ve heard other preachers such as Dr. Charles Stanley, John Hagee, the late Dr. James Kennedy, Pastor Jim Toll, Joyce Myers, Pat Robertson, Rod Parsely, on and on..ALL preaching/teaching God’s role in politics in this nation as well as our history and the intent of our Founding Father’s.  Unfortunately, it is not taught in schools anymore.

It is only Christians now, that get maligned in this society.  America now has denigrated Christianity and has now started on America itself.  I see Cuban flags, other flags being waved, but, not the American flag!  Instead now the American flag is being desecrated.  Teddy Roosevelt said, “If you come to America, then you become a legal citizen, and your alliance then is as an American, waving only the American flag!”  ONE flag..of this nation!  He was right!  What has happened to our patriotism?  What has happened to our values?  What has happened to our love of God?  Are we true Christians?  Or apathetic ones, without interest.  Are we followers of the 10 Commandments and scriptures when we are out of church?  And when we vote, do we carry through at the voting booth our “GODLY HERITAGE?”  WHAT ABOUT WHAT JESUS WANTS?  I’m in the DAR, and pretty soon, we won’t be able to pray in a meeting, if the Fairness Doctrine gets passed, nor will we be able to say grace publicly in a restaurant, if the ACLU has their way.   If Jesus stood next to us in a voting booth, would we feel His hand on us, saying “Good choice my daughter or son”, or would tears well up in His eyes and would we grieve Him?

I just left a Facebook group site, “taking back the GOP”…right! He is just as liberal as most Democrats and hates us, that are Christian as most of the media.  THAT is what is wrong now.  Glenn Beck played a video clip from Obama, promoting abortion, recorded some years back.  I’m sure its on Youtube.  He said, “If my 2 daughters who I will bring up morally, etc. (right..without God?), BUT if they make a ‘mistake’ they will have the option to abort “(to save face).  But what about that babies option? It is murder!

George Washington said Christians must be involved in politics.  Those of you who have read C.S. Lewis, especially all his pondering in “Mere Christianity”, we learn that we are very much accountable to God.  You do not be “Holy” only in church.  For, God will judge us one day on everything we do, once we are saved.  That means on our Christian merits, and what we stand for as Christians.  And I believe especially at the voting booth.  If we sit in a church, proponent of pro-life, with all that give testimony against abortion, then go and vote for a candidate based on race, a smile, a personality, that is pro-choice, do you really believe that God condones?  If we vote for a “party” even when that party is corrupt, and those persons are against Godly values and the 10 Commandments, will God approve?  I believe with all my being, that we will all be called accountable.  Seems George Washington and others agree with me.  As God won’t let me.  He
won’t let me get away with anything.

The liberal loyalists wanting to take back (what they never had) the Republican party are no better than the so-called Democrats, that are now so involved with this progressive (Communist) movement, which is nothing new, and corruption.  They all hate us that are Evangelical Christians.  I told this man on that site, before I left it, that he was not going to win this argument.

Our Founding Father’s were Christians.  During the Revolution, you also had “The Great Awakening” preacher, John Whitefield, who even led Indians to Christ.  I encourage you, who read extensively, to read “A People’s History of the American Revolution”, How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence,” by Ray Raphael.  It was a wonderful enlightening book.   I also encourage you to rad David Barton’s “Original Intent”.  On page 348, David wrote: “Christians must again become active in the civic arena and move beyond their self-imposed boundaries of church and home.  It is time to remember the warning given by Charles Finney a minister and leader in America’s Second Great Awakening, who
reminded Christians:

“The Church must take right ground in regard to politics…The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics.  God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for unless the CHURCH will take RIGHT ground.  Politics are a PART of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as a part of their duty to God…HE (GOD) will bless or curse this nation according to the course they (Christians) take in politics.”

He also said, thereafter, “As the Church reenters the political arena, however, it will be important to observe George Washington’s warning against excessive allegiance to any political party:  ‘Let me now..warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of the party.  The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of the party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.  It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

Washington is not saying to abolish parties, for they are necessary, the mechanisms by which candidates are offered to the public.  But, God fearing people should be actively involved to influence their party’s platform.

Glenn Beck lately too, was so right on!  I am fed up with the Republican GOP up here in NH, just as liberal and the Democratic fools are so left-wing Communist.  I cannot just vote for a party any longer. I think Newt Gingrich is very very wrong on this.  You don’t stay loyal to a party that is full of crooks, or has agenda’s that are immoral, and not good for this country.  You vote for the man/woman…the person.  I can’t believe how the
Democrats sabotaged their party for Socialism (Communisim and like Maxine Waters and Obama the teachings of Mau, who murdered over 600 million Chinese).   The Republican party now is the old Democratic party.of Johnson, Humprey, JFK…who was by today’s standards, a conservative.  So where is conservatism?  Where is fiscal responsibility? Where are moral God-fearing candidates?  Who is there to clean up the corruption? Where are the Christians?  They hated Sarah Palin, but, George Washington would have loved her!  And I wish now, in hindsight, I had put my votes and backing with Mitt Romney.  He is above reproach, honest, has integrity, character, intelligent, loves God and country.  I was wrong as many of us were.  Plus he knows business, and we wouldn’t be in this mess now either.  He is squeaky clean and moral.  There is no way he would have affairs, and shame the White House as Clinton did.  He would have cleaned up corruption on both sides.  But, we are not a 3rd world country, nor do we need a dictatorship.  Hitler started out this way, with his Socialism, so did Stalin, then look at Chavez, Castro…all who took away the freedom of the media.  Now, look at this Administrations war on Foxnews.  Guess Fox is doing something right in my eyes.  Do we want this for America?

God help our troops.  This President is now seeing the caskets coming home, and they are going to increase, unless he gets more troops in Afghanistan, and STANDS UP for a change.   Kerry was wrong with the Bush /McCain surge, and they are wrong now.  You don’t play politics when our troops are at risk.  He is a fool, and will go out of office like Johnson did after he messed up Vietnam.

My soul is mourning for my America I love.  Christians, are you going to
pray and ask God what HE would have you do?    The rising cost now
of all this health care.  America will be bankrupt.  Those of you that just
love all the handouts and freebies…Get out and get a job.  Have some faith in Jesus, and reach your own potential.  Do something..Having faith is taking a step.  This is a gimmee gimmee, society.  Where is the giving back, even if just your talents.  America is falling apart.  And God is grieving and I can see His tears in my spirit.

When We Fail

“Revelations 3:10 For He that overcometh, shall wear many crowns!  For the world can sometimes be grave and dark, all too negative.  For us Christians, it should be good in spite of that which will come, although we will have tests and trials.  We need to pray continuously and not just when we are in trouble. There is no holding back in God’s blessings for us, if we seek in earnest and don’t lose that first love, Jesus. When we go through the fire, it teaches us lessons. Look at Daniel in the lions den. Did God let him escape?  No, he had to go through it. The fire chastens us and gets rid of the chafe.

Everyone fails sooner or later.  It’s something everyone experiences, and normally learn how to handle.  When we learn from our failures we become better people.  The first key (my son had all this through counseling and it’s Biblical) to growing through failure is accepting responsibility for our actions and their outcome.  When people fail they either confess and repent and get it right with God, or they make excuses.  When we refuse to face our failure we never solve the problem.  To fail is to be human.  God knows our limitations (Psalm 103:14 and Romans 3:23).  Failure is refusing to get up one more time!  (Think of yourself as Rocky, and how we all cheered for him to keep getting up one more time.)

Success is not avoiding failure but learning what to do with it. I wish that would sink in with people.  Black author James Baldwin said, “The reason people don’t want to face their hates, is to do so, they would have to face their pain.”  Some now especially, are never going to know the true grace of God, and have inner healing until they face their pain and repent.  We need to go to the cross broken, and then He picks us up.  Too many churches deny the cross now!

To fail is not to be a failure.  We all strike out like great baseball hitters, once in awhile.  No one is truly a failure until he stops trying.  Edison tried over 5,000 light bulbs before he found one that worked.  Albert Einstein, who was Attention Deficit Disorder also, flunked math (distract-ability) yet achieving relativity and being a genius in other areas.  Failure is refusing to get up one more time. Also, something I learned with all the inside sales and rejection over a long period of time, business to business; Failure is success turned inside out. Sometimes a failed job or even getting fired is for a reason and God has something better already lined up and we are too hurt, stubborn, or depressed to let God be GOD.

Giving up and into failure is one of the most demoralizing decisions a man can face and yet facing it and overcoming it can lead to a man’s greatest successes.  I Kings 17:19-21. Malachi 4:5, Mathew 11:14 See the fivefold temptations if we are in Christ and He is in us, then He cannot deny us in a time of trouble for to do so would be to disown Himself.  That He cannot do.  He will never leave us nor forsake us.  Regardless of our emotions, feelings or disposition.  God is always the same.

Even Elijah under that juniper tree was depressed after Jezebel, and wanted to die.  He was one of the greatest man of God to walk the earth. But, Elijah was a “man of like passions” as we are, the Bible says, and he faced conflicts and temptations like we do.  His greatest battle was after Mt. Carmel, worn from the intensity of living as he sat under that juniper tree. I am sure he contemplated death.  But, when we are born of the spirit, becomes one, God will not deny us.  God gave him rest but, would not leave him nor forsake him. (As he did with me after my son’s suicide.  He never left me, even when I had had a mini stroke He stayed with me as I never went to the hospital. But, I in sobs and mourning pleaded with Him to help me to stop all the crying, for I know it exacerbated the pounding headache and pain down my arm.)  Elijah traded his juniper tree for a chariot of fire!  God traded HIS strength for Elijah’s weaknesses. That’s what I feel God did also for me after I lost my BJ. I know in my heart, that victory is in the cross of Christ, my Savior and He will lead my walk in HIM.” From my book, Restoration Road pages 41-43, copyright 2004

From Pursuing Christlikeness Through “Failure”, by Kay Arthur 5/11/09
Crosswalk excerpts:   “You are not alone in your failure.  Those whom you may look at and even envy or wish you could change places with have failed at one time or another.  In fact, if the truth were known, they probably are dealing with the feeling of failure to one degree or another in one or more areas of their lives.  As you read this you may feel alone.  You may feel like the biggest failure.  You may think there is no recovery, but I have good news for you!  If you will take God at His Word, your failure will become a stepping stone to greater Christlikeness and intimacy with God.  Failure will become a means to an end, rather than the end!

I say this because to fail is to be humbled.  Failure makes us aware of our own impotence, our imperfections, our shortcomings.  Failure brings us low.  And if we respond properly by humbling ourselves before our heavenly Father, then according to James 4:10, we find Him exalting us.  And when God exalts us, after w experience the humiliation and defeat of failing, then His exaltation is a safe exaltation rather than a source of pride which only and eventually leads to greater defeat and failure.

Do not give in to despair.  God is your redeemer.  He buys back, buys out, rescues, sets free, protects.  He is the God of another chance to all who genuinely have a change of mind and throw themselves into His outstretched arms and bury themselves in His all-sufficient breast.

So run to God.  Confess your failure-name it for what it is.  Call it nothing less, don’t sugarcoat it or gloss over it. Call it my name.  Be honest, be blunt.  Say it aloud.  Tell God you want to succeed, not fail, and that you know only He can do that.  Tell Him you are willing to do whatever is necessary if He will simply show you what to do by laying it upon your heart, putting it in your mind. Then check it out.  Make sure what you are ‘hearing in your mind, feeling in your heart,’ is in accord with the whole teaching of the Bible.  Observe to do according to all He tells you.  Don’t turn to the right or to the left.  Then you will have success, for it is God’s intent that you succeed rather than fail (Joshua 1:7-9).

Failure can either be a stumbling block that flattens you or it can be a stepping-stone to a life of success built upon the unmovable Cornerstone. It is all a matter of faith. Remember, you only fail if you refuse to believe God and refuse to allow your failure to be a stepping-stone to greater Christlikeness.”  Kay Arthur, Precept Ministries Int’l

I recently heard of a young woman in church ministry, who was forced out by the church, slandered, by a sin she was not partaking in.  When I accidentally found her, on Facebook, and emailed her; she said I was the only one who had talked to her.  Turns out there were a lot of lies involved in this firing as well.  Her music was beautiful praise and worship and I know that the Holy Spirit was present.  For whatever reason, she was slandered and maligned.  I had been praying and praying for nearly a year now, as to whether or not I leave this church I loved, for other reasons.   But, God would not release me.  When I found out the truths, and defended her, since this job was her reputation, and her livelihood, turning it back to the church, with also the laws on slander in my state, I
felt a release.   I believe God used me, and I believe He was just waiting for me to come to this young woman’s defense.  I am free. And my prayers now are that God clean that church up of all that is of man, and not the Holy Spirit, and purify it.  I pray too, that God puts me in a church that HE chooses, where I can flourish, in rivers of flowing waters….free to let the Holy Spirit teach me, use this old vessel, and to be a blessing to others, in Jesus name.  I also pray for my new friend.  My prayers are that she receive a letter of reference, and an apology, and that God puts her in a wonderful church of His choice where her talents will flourish.  This is one failure, that I know was a stumbling block not deserved.  And I come against legalism without a defense in any church. Don’t quit!  Your blessings are around the corner.

Friends

“Their marriage was good, their dreams focused.  Their best friends lived barely a wave away.  I can see them now.  Dad in trousers tee shirt and hat, working on the lawn mower, and Mom in a house dress, dish-towel in her hand.  It was a time for fixing things.  A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress, and my dad always working on stereos and tv’s.  Things we kept.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.  All that re-fixing, always renewing.  I wanted just once to be wasteful.   Waste meant affluence.  Throwing away, meant there would always be more.

But, then my mother, (both in my “memories album”) died in 1976, and on that clear summer’s night, in the silence of my room (I was divorced), I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn’t any more.

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away….never to return.  So…While we have it, it’s best we love it.  And care for it…And FIX it when it’s broken (like relationships).   And heal it when it’s sick.

This is true.  For marriage, and old cars, and children with bad report cards.  Dogs and cats with bad hips, and aging parents, and grandparents.  We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.  Some things we keep.  Like a best friend that moved away of a classmate we grew up with.  There are just some things that make life important, like people who are special.  And so, we keep them close!

Good friends are like stars…You don’t always see them, but you know they are there. ”  I received this as an email (author unknown) which I added some of my own thoughts; someone who thinks I am a “keeper”, so I’ve included it here on this blog, to see if you too, have “keepers” in your life.

I remember too, during WWII when my mother collected and kept rags and nylons for the “ragman” who came once in awhile in a horse and wagon.  The nylons were made into parachutes and who knows what happened to the rags.  Now instead of fixing as we used to do, our things are made in China and other places.  Instead of fixing, and the American dream, we have to throw out, as the plastic pieces are all cheap and crack and break like America is now!  We have become a society that is into immediate self gratification, and frivolity, and waste, a peoples that never fix, and always buy, buy, buy.   We lack vision and dreams in our young people, as well as imagination, caring, and love.  China’s waters don’t like our ships there, making sure they don’t turn on us.  Yet, who do we now owe our trillions to?  This is not the America I grew up in.  Fixing used to be fun; from a screen door, to my Dad fixing radios.  (He was an electronics engineer and had his own shop.) But, nothing is made now to last or be fixable.  My mom had the same vacuum cleaner for 35 years.  I’m going on my 4th in 12 years!  And unless our relationships are made to last, we will have nothing, including our country.  We all need to think about what is important to us.  Else we are left with an empty shell.

Thank you Lord, for this reminder, and help us to change and realize what is important!

You Say, God Says

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.  James (entire Chapter) You can’t change the past,  only Satan brings up the past and is the
accuser.  But, you can ruin the present by worrying over the future,  and the future belongs to God if you trust HIM.   You can’t change the past and other people or what happened, you can only change YOU!

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with HIM  We cannot make decisions on our own.  A hug is a great gift…..
one size fits all.   But, hates and rebellion are a turn off as is wallowing, and it isn’t of God.   Hugs with an open heart in Christ instead of always concentrating on self,  can be given for any occasion and it’s easy to exchange.

YOU SAY                                  GOD SAYS                                    BIBLE VS

It’s impossible                         All things are possible                   Luke 18:27
I’m too tired                              I will give you rest                           Matt 11:;28-30
Nobody loves me                    I love you                                        John 3:1-6, John 3:34
I can’t go on                             My grace is sufficient                     IICor 12:9 Ps 91:15
I can’t figure things out            I will direct your steps                    Prov 3:5-6
I’m not able                              I am able                                         II Cor 9:8
It’s not worth it                         It will be                                            Rom 8:28
I can’t forgive myself               I forgive you                                    IJohn1:9,Rom 8-1
I can’t manage                        I will supply all your needs             Phil 4:19
I’m afraid                                 I have not given you fear                IITim 1:7
I’m worried & frustrated         Cast all your cares on me              I Pet. 5-7
I’m not smart enough             I give you wisdom                           I Cor 1:30
I feel all alone                         I will never leave or forsake you     Heb 13:5

God determines who walks into your life,  only if you are with Christians and let HIM..It’s
up to you to decide who you let in and if you trust God enough, and who you let walk
away, or let stay, and who you refuse to let go.

Father, God, bless all my friends and  those that out there I do not know in whatever it is that you know they may need this day!  May they learn how to discern God’s will in their life and listen to you, ceasing to make selfish decisions on their own in the flesh .  May their lives be full of your
peace , prosperity, and power as they seek to have a closer relationship with you.  Amen

Make it a Wonderful Day in Jesus!

*Parts of this mine & parts author unknown from email

Confronting Sin And Repentance

With tears in his eyes a man said to a preacher, “I told my wife I was sorry, but she says she won’t continue to live with me.  First John 1:9 says that God forgives us when we confess our sins.  Won’t you please talk to her and tell her that if God forgives, she should too?”    

This man had “repented” several times before, only to revert back to his abusive behavior.  So, the preacher said, “No, I’m not going to tell her that, in your case saying “I’m sorry ” isn’t enough.  “His wife insisted he receive counseling and give evidence of a genuine change before returning home.  She was right, as I’ve been right in ministering to a young woman who is sinning and a single mom of 3 teens.   It is sin, and this woman refuses to repent.  “God wants her happy and the spirit she has prohibits her from repentance, or finding sin distasteful.  Whereby, I cannot forgive her as all my scriptural confrontations have been on deaf ears.  A rebellious, deceitful heart, is not one after Christ, but, is being led by Satan himself.  

The leaders of Israel in Hosea 6:4 did the same thing.  They thought a burnt sacrifice solved the problem, but God rejected that kind of “repentance.”  This woman will not even say she is sorry. To her, she is always right.  But, God says, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.   In other words, the repentance must result in a change of heart and a change in behavior, and sinful acts.  That’s “Godly sorrow” (2Corinthians 7-10)

            Repentance is to leave the sin
                That we had loved before,
           And showing we are grieved by it
                By doing it no more.   (Anonymous.)

     Repentance means hating sin enough to turn from it forever!

True forgiveness begins by dealing with sin honestly.  The Lord’s initial words are simple.  “if your brother (or sister) sins, “REBUKE” them! (Luke 17:3,4) Forgive him only if he repents.  Mark 11:25-26 States again that you forgive the sinner only if he truly repents!  Look at Luke 7:37-50 Jesus forgave this woman all her sins, (probably adulterous ) because she was weeping excessively, and she washed his feet in a servitude act of true repentance with her hair and her tears.  Without true repentance there is NO forgiveness.  I can’t forgive this woman who does the same thing over and over and wallows, in self pity when she is caught in her secret life.  I can’t, because Jesus can’t.  I rebuked her and I rebuked her with  Biblical principals, for 25 years we have been going back and forth, and there is no change.  She claims to be saved, is a backslider, and fornicator, and sin is sin.    There is no repentance. 

From RBC booklet;  ” If I come across a man raping a woman, I cannot love them both the same way…Love is inherently MORAL IN CHARACTER and demands a moral force that is as much opposing as it is defending.  I can’t go up to the struggling, terrorized woman and the overpowering assailant  and say, “I love you both just the same, and so does God.  He doesn’t want you to harm this girl, but please don’t think He is angry at you right now.  Because God is love, He doesn’t get mad.  Isn’t such love amazing?  The woman would denounce my love as sick and worthless, even cowardly.  Remember the human heart is deceptive.  If we don’t want to do what is right, we will fool ourselves!!! ” Which is what this young sinning woman is doing, she is fooling herself, for God will NEVER approve of a sinning lifestyle.  God always demands morality! 

RBC”Knowledge is not an end in itself, like faith, diligence, and VIRTUE, knowledge is a critical and strategic means to an end.  It is one more step in the ladder of faith.  What is more pathetic than a Christian” (like this young rebellious woman) ” who knows all the answers, but whose life is all messed up!  People who know their doctrine and Bible history thoroughly are often overcome by pride, rebellion, anger, lust, bitterness, unfaithfulness, deception, gluttony, alcoholism, greed,
drugs, fornication.  Why?  Because SELF-CONTROL IS NOT MERELY A MATTER OF PERSONAL EFFORT, IT’S A PRODUCT OF THE SPIRIT”.  And remember we are dealing with 2 spirits here, either Satan and all his wiles, or the Holy Spirit and Godly desires.  (Gal 5:23)  “And only when a person is building on faith, goodness, and right (Godly) knowledge can she/he expect
to have their body and soul under control.

Thank God that genuine repentance and God’s forgiveness DO bring the restoration of joy!   I thank God every day of my life (now 70) that my deceased young son was saved at 11years old before his bi-polar depressive act of suicide 10 years ago.  Thank you Jesus.  Thank you Jesus for your compassion and restoration of me now, and the complete total forgiveness I had to come to grip with to my son.  He broke my heart, but, I’ve been able to forgive.  It wasn’t the real BJ, it was the illness.  And I know where he is now in God’s grace with all the tears he shed, beforehand,  that he is with my Jesus.   I thank God for giving me my joy back, so that I can finally sing “Amazing Grace” (sung at his funeral) without crying.  And the joy to make an attempt to sing in the church choir Easter Sunday.   HE has restored me.  

RBC “The second implication of the Lord’s words is that we must CONFRONT THE SIN, courageously.  When the commands , ‘If your brother sins, REBUKE HIM,’ Luke 17:3.  He is clearly telling us that we must hold people accountable for their behavior.  This obviously requires that we have carefully and prayerfully determined that the other person’s behavior is truly sinful.  In such a case we are not called to ignore the behavior, of simply  ENDURE it.  The WORD the LORD,  uses calls us ‘to speak seriously to warn , to challenge, ‘ ” Which I did to this young woman,  only to have someone else pat her on the head and say she’s ok in essence.  This person was so wrong, and if saved, is a carnal Christian.

Sex without marriage is a sin. It is wrong!   Colossians 3:5 “Mortify therefore your members” (of your physical body, and guarding against sexual feelings) “which are upon the earth” (can be done only by the Believer understanding that everything he receives from the Lord comes strictly through the Cross, which must ever be the object of our Faith, thus giving the Holy Spirit latitude to work in our lives); “fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is idolatry” ( works of the FLESH [Satan] , which will in one way or the other show themselves, unless the Believer follows the pattern laid down by the Holy Spirit regarding Victory over the flesh, which is the Cross.)

Romans 6:11 “Likewise reckon “(account)” you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto” (the) “sin” (while the sin nature is not dead , we are dead unto the sin nature by virtue of the Cross and our Faith in that Sacrifice, but only as long as our Faith continues in the Cross)”but alive unto God”(living the Resurrection life) “through Jesus Christ our Lord”.    Romans 8:3 “For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh., God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh”.. 8:7-8 “Because the CARNAL mind is enmity against God”  (refers to attempting to live for God  by means other than the cross, which places one “against God” ).  “So then tehy that are in the flesh cannot please God.” (refers to the Believer attempting to live his Christian life in a carnal way of the flesh, other than Faith in Christ and the Cross.”

Flesh cannot be trusted.   I heard 5 teachings on this yesterday on Daystar.   Five!  And for those out there that are committing adultery, fornicating, it is sin!   If you are saved, you are a carnal Christian in danger of losing your salvation.   I heard Angela, Pastor Fred Price’s daughter, who ministers to teens, say this;  “you are a ho”..I nearly fell off my chair.  Right in the church she told it like it is.  She is right!  Its about time, especially in the Black churches they hear this, and all abortion stops, and they stop funding Planned Parenthood!  

She said, from Ex. 20:4, “The spirit man has to rise up on the inside.  Romans 7:18-25.  Romans 13:8-10.  It involves SELF CONTROL!!  Men too, you have a secretary and you buy her lunch, and one thing leads to another, and you have a wife and kids home, and go to church?  WHERE is your brain?  Its not in your head!  END IT.. Go home to your wife, where sex is sanctified under God.   Use self control and stay away from temptation.   Romans 13:9-10 “For this, YOU shall not commit adultery” (sex in any form outside MARRIAGE ),”You shall not kill,”(murder/abortion too)”you shall not steal, bear false witness, you shall not covet ” (you don’t take what doesn’t belong to you, including your neighbors wife, or women? They’re husband!) …Proverbs 3:3-6 “For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But her end is better as wormwoods, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Hell.  Lest you should ponder the path of life her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.  Proverbs 6: 24-26 “To keep you from the evil woman (man), from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman (man).  Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread; and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.”  (As immorality leads to destruction, so does a false way of salvation; hence, the term used is ‘precious life’.)    Sex without marriage is an abomination to God. 

“The goal of such confrontation is not to express our anger or to get something off our chests, but to bring about  repentance, restoration, and reconciliation.  It is also for the benefit of others  who will be victimized if their behavior /sin is not challenged. ”  ie Her children!  “Genuine repentance goes deeper than an apology or the expression of regret.  The Biblical words describe a change of mind, that produces a change of direction in their life. ” ( ie Virtue, character, accountability ) “Repentance involves more than a feeling of wrongdoing or regret, and produces more than an apology!! Remember that without repentance the process is broken.  The Lord Jesus said, ‘If he repents, forgive him.’ True forgiveness flows towards repentance.  The ideal is clear, I am sinned against, I confront the offender, he sincerely declares repentance; I declare my forgiveness.  The fact is sin contaminates everything.  Too many times there is no repentance.”  (as this woman I confronted who rejected everything).   “Do we forgive anyway,” (and accept them in their sins just the way they are?)” anyways, even when the offense sits there, like a huge elephant?” That is when you stop in your tracks and just let go and let God, and stay away from this person, lest they pull you into their worldly sins, and take you away from the Holy Spirit and what God is doing in your own life. Luke 17:33-  

“Remember too, that forgiveness is given, reconciliation is EARNED which cancels all debts, but it does not eliminate all consequences.   C. S. Lewis said, ‘ To forgive for the moment is not difficult, but to go on forgiving, to forgive the same offense every time it recurs to the memory, that’s the real tussle.’ “

*Quotations from RBC ministries booklet, Forgiveness, by Gary Inrig, copyright, Discovery House Publishers.  

As for the young rebellious woman I confronted?  I let go now and let God.  I  understand the enablers  plight, as she doesn’t want to cause dissent, and I pray that since she has not been near this young woman for  years and doesn’t know what is going on, needs to  let go too, and let God.  For no good will come out of a purposeful sinful rebellious lifestyle.  Her children will imitate her and do exactly what she is doing.  We need to be virtuous women in Christ and men that have integrity and character, and all of needs to be trustworthy in Christ Jesus. 

  

New Age

Christianity vs Neo Paganism (or New Age)

Much has been going around with New Age philosophy twisting scriptures saying we are just as equal as God, or that says the devil on the earth, and a lot of foolishness that is not Biblical.  First let me quote the 10 Commandments (Exodus 20)  For if you are not living the 10 Commandments you are living for a false God..that of self.

1. Thou shalt have no other God’s before me.
2.  Thou shalt not make unto me, any graven images.
3.  Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain.
4.  Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.
5.  Honor thy father and thy mother.
6.  Thou shalt not kill.
7.  Thou shall not commit adultery.
8.  Thou shalt not steal.
9.  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shall not covet anything that is thy neighbors.

Under the 2nd Commandment in vs. 20:4-5 God says to Moses,  “You shall not make unto yourself any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the EARTH, beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth.  Nor bow down and serve them, for I AM THE LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the father upon the children  unto the third and fourth generation of them who hate me. ”  Those who ignore this
Commandment, are guilty of idolatry.  But, this is ANYTHING that takes the place of God…
including the neo-paganists, that believe they are “like God”.  And has nothing to do with the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.

God is not my equal or my butler, Pastor John Hagee said today, (and I agree with him), for I am HIS (GOD’s) servant, not His equal.   Legalism too, is nothing but a bunch of rules where there is nothing to back it.  Rituals in a church without a true relationship with Jesus Christ in receiving salvation, is nothing!   When we die, we will give an account for everything.  Love, therefore, is an attribute of God; whereby, saying you love God and not living the 10 Commandments, and living in adultery is blasphemous and a sin, for which we will stand at that Great White Throne Judgment Seat of God and be accountable.   Attributes, living in sin, means you have replaced, God’s laws for your own.  Which means you need to get out of bondage, and live the 10 Commandments.

For Mark 8:15 says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it.” (If one refuses to place his life in Christ.) “But, whosoever shall lose his life for MY sake and the Gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be  ashamed of me, and of MY Words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man (Jesus) be ashamed when He comes in the Glory of His Father with the Holy Angels.” (the 2nd Coming).

James 4:4 ” Know ye not that the friendship of the WORLD is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”  James 1:6 “But let him ask in Faith nothing wavering.  For he wo wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

Some have chosen to criticize what is written on this site, from many pastors teachings during the past 30 years, that are tried and true men of God.  To you, I say this; James 4:11 “Speak not evil one of another, Brethren (refers to self-appointed Judges Matt 7:1-5) He who speaks evil of his Brother, and judges his Brother (sister), speaks evil of the Law, and judges the Law: “(pertains to the Law of Moses , 10 Commandments, which James is pointing, when a Believer judges another, He has taken himself out from under Grace and placed himself,  under the Law, where he will only find condemnation.) Expositors Study Bible. “BUT if you judge the LAW you are not a doer of the Law, but a Judge.” (Placed yourself in the position of God.)  12 “There is one Lawgiver, WHO is able to save and destroy…Who are you who judges another?”  (The Greek actually says, “but, you–who are you?” In other words, “who do you think you are?)

http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/_PDFArchives/apologetics/AP3W0704.pdf
New Age vs. Christianity

http://contenderministries.org/newage.php
New Age

http://www.sherryshriner.com/sherry/newage.htm
New Age in End Times

II Thessalonians 2:3-    “Let no man deceive  you by any means” (In other words don’t listen to that which is Scripturally incorrect.) “For that day shall not come except  there come a falling away first (Apostasy) and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.   2:12  That they all might be damned who believed not the TRUTH (who would not accept the Cross), but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”   (Really refers to the results of rejection of the Cross of Christ.)

Jude 1:3″Beloved, when I gave all diligence” (A compulsion generated by the Holy Spirit) to
write unto you of the common Salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you…(Paul) 4″For there are certain men crept in unawares (false teachers that crept into the Church) who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the Grace of our God into lasciviousness ” (refers to the fact that “Grace”( had been turned to license.)”and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”11 “WOE UNTO THEM! For they have gone the way of Cain. “(The type of a religious man who believes in God and “religion,” but after his OWN will and who rejects redemption by the BLOOD JESUS SHED ON THE CROSS!)

I pray that those so caught up in these false “religions” setting yourselves up as a little God,
come to the Cross and repent.  For it is a sin.  Remember Lucifer in Isaiah 14:13 “For you have said in your heart, I WILL ascend to Heaven, I WILL exalt My throne above the stars of God, I WILL sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.  I WILL ascend above the heights of the clouds, I WILL be like the Most High.”  (This is Satan’s rebellion and revolution against God.  It seems Lucifer, while true to the Lord, wa given dominion of the Earth, which was before Adam.  After his fall, he has worked deceitfully to get other angelic rules to follow him against God.)  But, God says, in vs. 15 “Yet you shall be brought down to Hell, to the sides of the pit.”    We are to obey our 10 Commandments, and not have any graven image, or to try to be “like” God…We are to be His humble SERVANT…
It is all about the CROSS and the BLOOD shed at Calvary for our sins, not self.   Here Lucifer became Satan who was banned to the earth.   Ephesians 5:6″Let no man deceive you with vain words (by trying to pull you away from the Cross) For because of these things comes the WRATH of God upon the children of disobedience.”  The CROSS alone stops the wrath of God.

Philippians 2:3 “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. (Which a correct viewpoint of the Cross will being about.)  6. Who being in the form of God, (deity) thought it not robbery to be equal with God.   11. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”

Therefore, if you also click on the links above, you will see the comparisons, between true Bible believing Christianity, under the Cross, and New Age, which twists and is a false message.  The Bible tells us to have DISCERNMENT….For in these ends days, many will come preaching a false gospel.   Be careful, and as Paul said, “test the spirits”…Thank you Jesus…for you come to set us free.

The Truth About Jehovah Witnesses

Jehovah Witnesses:
Their Bible is not THE Bible, it is the Watchtower.  They take JESUS out!  Refer to “A” God.  It is the Kingdom of Cults.   Their salvation is in question, as sin to them is anything that is not in their faith.  Jehovah Witnesses do not salute the flag.  They do not vote, salute or join the armed forces to defend our country.  Nor do they pledge allegiance to the flag or sing our national anthems.  Their only government is themselves.   They do not take any blood donations/transfusion, and will let a person die.  They take any scripture out of context.  They deny hell, believe in “soul sleep” ie
they go out of existence, to them there is no resurrection of Christ (who they deny) but a recreation.  They believe the cross to be a pagan symbol.

More FALSE teachings:
God is the ONLY Father to Jehovah’s, let God be true P.100-101, make sure of all things p386.  The Holy Spirit is God’s active force.  The Holy Spirit  is God’s active force.  The Holy Spirit is not a person, a part of the Godhead and is not alive (what blasphemy).  Reasoning from their scriptures, 1985, pp 406-407.  Jehovah’s first creation was his’ only-begotten son’..was used by Jehovah in creating all other things.  Aid to the Bible understanding ,pp390-391. (Theirs)  Here’s another big LIE:  They believe that Jesus was Michael he archangel who became a man.  The
Watchtower, May 15, 1963, p307; The New World, 284.  Jesus was only a perfect man, NOT God in he flesh,  Reasoning from the Scriptures; 1985, pp306.  Jesus did not rise from the dead in his physical body,  Awake:  July 22, 1973, p 4.  Jesus returned to earth, invisably, in 1914, The Truth
Shall Make You Free: p 300.  Their church is the self-proclaimed prophet of God,  The Watchtower; Feb 15, 1981, p 19.  They claim to be the only channel of God’s truth, The Watchtower, Feb 15, 1981, p 19.  Only Jehovah’s Witnesses will be saved, The Watchtower; Feb 15, 1979, p 30.  Good works are necessary for salvation, studies in the Scriptures.  Vol. 1 pp 150, 152.  The soul ceases to exist after death (What hope would anyone have then?)  Let God Be True; p  59, 60,67.  There is no hell of fire where the wicked are punished.  Let God Be True; p 79,80.  Only 144,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses go to Heaven (That 144,000 refers to the Jewish tribes in Revelations not Jehovah’s a lie)  Reasoning from the Scriptures; 1985, pp166-167, 361, Let God Be True p121.   Only the 144,000 may take communion.  Only members of the 144,000 are justified or declared righteous.  Blood transfusions are a sin and  no witness should take one.  If they do, they are dis-fellowshipped, Reasoning; from the Scriptures, 1985, pp 72-73. The Cross is a pagan symbol and should not be used, Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, pp 90-92.  Salvation is by faith and WHAT you do?  (what a lie) Studies in the Scripture, Vol 1 pp150,152.
It is not by possible to know that you have salvation . You can only hope so.( ??? ) Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, pp 358-359.  Each of the 6 creative days of God in Genesis was 7,000 years long.  Therefore man was created toward the end of 42,000 years of earth’s preparation, Let God Be True, p 168.  Jehovah’s can’t vote, Salute the flag, sing the “Star Spangled Banner”, smoke, or celebrate Christmas or birthdays.  They do not believe in the armed forces.  Jehovah’s have many false prophesies concerning the end of the world.  They majority of them (the great crowd) believe they will live on the “earth” (not Heaven ) forever.

If you have family members or know of those that are in this cult, pray for them and witness Jesus Christ to them.  For Jesus Is the Way, the truth and the light, and these people are walking in such darkness and blasphemus lies.   Lord, we come against these false beliefs, and bind the devil in all these false teachings.  I pray that those involved in such a cult come on their knees in repentance and come to you Lord, changing their ways.   I rebuke the bondages of these beliefs in Jesus Holy precious name.. Amen!

Christianity vs Mormans

Defining a Cult

I am a Christian..(As if by all these blogs and teachings, you didn’t already gather that.)  I believe the Bible to be the true word of God.  I believe the Torah was given to the Jews through Moses, with the 10 Commandments, around 1300 BC.  I believe in the genealogical, historical, and  archeological PROOFS of my Bible, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, that were found.  I believe in one God as the trinity, God the Father, God the son, and God the Holy Ghost.  I believe in the facts and stories of Abraham, its historical content, with Sarah, and the start of the Jewish nation through Isaac begotten by Abraham’s wife Sarah, and the Arab nation begotten by Abraham’s wife’s handmaiden Hagar, through Ishmael  (Oil nations).  I believe in the true prophets of God, in the Bible, Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel (37, 38 is now on earth), Nehemiah, Jeremiah, etc. I believe that God called his son who was sinless, to die on that Cross for the sins of mankind.  I believe that He rose from the dead on the 3rd day,  and rose to Heaven. Jesus was NOT a Christian then,  he was a Jew, a Rabbi in Matthew, teaching in the Tabernacle.  It wasn’t until his resurrection that his disciples still practicing what he taught, that Christianity and witnessing later by Apostle Paul, came to us that are Gentiles. (After his conversion experience as Saul, on the road to Tarsus.) Christianity, wherefore go and read my blog on Biblical history,   There are enough teachings on this site for you to understand Christianity, salvation, and Biblical truths.

 I did not up until this point go into Mormonism. However, with this election coming up, with Mitt Romney, we who are Christians, need to know who we are and WHAT we are voting for.  For his grandfather was a polygamist, and his father also tied to the John Birch Society, who were segregationist, and friends with Welch who started the society, as well as Ayn Rand, the Agnostic, Capitalist author of Atlas Shrugged, and the Fountainhead, and others.  On many accounts Ayn was right on, but, morally ethically, with her well-known affair at the time, was wrong in her objectivist  view.  She was a Russian Jew who changed her name as an intellect and philosopher, denying God.   So while much is being reread by us Christians too, on Ayn, we need to keep her writings in perspective and view with Godly discernment.  Please also for historical purposes check out below:

 http://witnessforhope.blogspot.com/2011/08/christian-history.html

 

Reference also book:  The Bible as History, by Werner Keller 

*(The following from here on is from other sites, and the sites are all on the end of this blog for your perusal.  So if you cannot understand the difference between true Christianity and differentiate it from a cult, I can do no more.  For I have covered other cults on here as well. )

Now, does the Book of Mormon contradict the Bible?

Yes, the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or “Mormons”) claim that, along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon¹ is a revelation from God. However, the Book of Mormon fails the tests that the Bible gives to identify genuine revelations from God; e.g.:
Deut. 13:1-3
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and …  says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Isa. 8:19-20
when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? … To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Someone might claim a revelation has come from God, but if that “revelation” contradicts what God has said before then the “revelation” is false, it is not from God. This is true of the Book of Mormon (and the other Mormon texts): they contradict the Bible so they are not from God.

Examples of the Book of Mormon contradicting the Bible.

There are various “minor”  contradictions between the Book of Mormon and the Bible; e.g.:

Book of Mormon	The Bible
1Nephi 4:2 (also 17:26) …Moses…spake unto the waters of the Red Sea and they divided…	Ex.14:21 …Moses stretched out his hand over the sea…and the waters were divided.
Mosiah 18:5,17 …in Mormon…they were called the church of God, or the church of Christ, from that time forward… [c. 148—145 B.C]	Mat.16:18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church… [1stC AD]
Alma 46:13-16 {15} …all those who were true believers in Christ took upon them, gladly, the name of Christ, or Christians as they were called… [c. 73-72 B.C]	Acts 11:26 …For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. [1stC AD]
Alma 7:9-10 …the Son of God…shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem…	Mat. 2:1 …Jesus was born in Bethlehem…
Helaman 14:20 …in that day that he [Jesus] shall suffer death the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his blight unto you; and also the moon and the stars; and there shall be no light upon the face of this land, even from the time that he shall suffer death, for the space of three days, to the time that he shall rise again from the dead	Luke 23:44 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. [i.e. 3 hours of darkness]

These “minor” contradictions aren’t so minor when we realise that even they mean that the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible, and therefore the Book of Mormon isn’t a revelation from God.
There are more serious contradictions, too, between the Book of Mormon and the Bible. For example:…

• the Book of Mormon and other Mormon texts say that Jesus pre-existed before his birth (1Neph.10:17;13:33-6 has Jesus talking c. 600-592 BC; Mormons say Jesus is Jehovah — or Yahweh — of the OT),
  • but the Bible says that Jesus, the son of God, came into being when he was conceived in Mary’s womb (Matt; Luke 1:31-32,35);
• the Book of Mormon says America is the Promised Land (1Neph. 13 — see chapter summary),
  • but the Bible says Canaan (i.e. Israel) is the Promised Land (Gen.17:8; Deut.27:3-4)
• the Book of Mormon says people carry on living as spirits after they die (Alma 40:11-14),

(HOWEVER,  the Bible says when we die, our bones go in the ground, but our soul goes to either Heaven or Hell. John 3:3 Unless a man be Born again, he will not enter the Kingdom of God.  And Revelations tells us that  that when the Rapture comes the dead in Christ shall rise first,  to meet their souls in Heaven.  We are assured of Heaven as Jesus rose from the dead.  But  not here on earth as living spirits. 

These are major contradictions with what the Bible teaches, which shows that the Book of Mormon is not a revelation from God (Deut. 13:1-3; Isa. 8:19-20). (God also says in the New Testament to “test the spirits”..So while Jesus said “Judge not lest ye be judged, weare to test the spirits of  a religion claiming to be “mainstream”, which Mormonism is not.)
These contradictions are all we need to see the Book of Mormon isn’t from God. However, there is other evidence, too. One further example of this evidence follows (for more, see Further reading):

Weakness of Mormonism’s foundation “vision”

The basis of the Mormon faith is a vision that a man called Joseph Smith claimed to receive in 1820.² This authority is weak when you compare the various accounts of Joseph Smith’s first vision — the accounts differ vastly. For a full comparison of the various “First Vision” accounts see Comparison of Mormon First Vision accounts; a summary is given below:
Smith’s official account of 1838 contradicts his earlier, first recorded written account of the “First Vision” (1832) in regard to how he discovered that all Christian denominations were astray from Jesus Christ and from the gospel:

• In the official 1838 account, Smith says that before his “First Vision” he didn’t know all denominations were wrong (it had ‘never enter my heart that all were wrong’ — v18). In fact, it was impossible for him to know, he says (v8), and the information was revealed to him for the first time during the “First Vision” (also see v10);³
• But, contrary to this, in his first written record of the “First Vision” (1832) Smith says that he discovered before the “First Vision” that all denominations were astray from the gospel — he discovered it by studying the Bible, he says.⁴ This contradiction between the two accounts makes the authenticity of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” highly questionable.

Smith’s official account of 1838 also contradicts his own earlier accounts (Nov. 9th & 14th, 1835) in regard to who appeared to him in the “First Vision”: –

• In the official 1838 account, Smith says that two personages appeared to him: One of the personages identified the Other personage as His own Son – the Father and Son here appearing to Joseph themselves (v17);³
• But contrary to this, in the 1835 accounts it is angels who appear to Smith, not the Father and the Son.⁴ This contradiction between the two accounts makes the authenticity of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” account highly questionable.

Joseph Smith’s own accounts of his “First Vision” contradict each other. At best, this shows that Smith’s words and writings are unreliable and cannot be relied upon for accuracy. At worst, this shows that Smith fabricated the “First Vision” altogether and he cannot be trusted. Either way, the foundation “experience” of Mormonism is unstable, which brings the rest of the religion into question. 

Mitt Romney and the Mormon Religion

Mitt Romney’s religious background has been extensively covered by the mainstream media, especially in connection with his 2008 presidential campaign.^[16] Mitt Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members of which are commonly known as Mormons or LDS (Latter-day Saint). 
In addition to missionary work in France in the 1960s under the tutelage of Wesley L. Pipes, Romney has served as a bishop, and has also been a stake president in his church.^[16] In accordance with LDS doctrine,^[17] as bishops and stake presidents are lay positions in his church, Romney received no compensation or money for his years of service in those positions. Also in accordance to his religious beliefs, Romney abstains from alcohol and smoking.^[18][19][20]

 

 

The Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah

Mitt Romney’s great-great-grandfather, Parley P. Pratt, was among the first leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the early 19th century. Marion George Romney, his first cousin, once removed, was one of the church’s 12 Apostles. Romney’s paternal great-grandparents practiced plural marriage, and went to Mexico in 1884 after the 1878 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Reynolds v. United States that upheld laws banning polygamy.^[21][22] Subsequent generations of Romney’s paternal lineage have been monogamous, and none of his mother’s Mormon ancestors were polygamists.^[23][24] Mitt Romney’s father, George W. Romney, was a patriarch of LDS Church. Romney’s wife, Ann, converted to Mormonism before they were married in 1969.^[25]
Romney has expressed his faith in Jesus Christ as his “Lord and Savior” openly to evangelical Christian groups.^[26] He has received support from evangelical Christians.^[27][28]
(Seems they are trying desperately to legitimize this cult into a main stream religion. Mitt’s father, George Romney was also a part of the John Birch Society, which also  while Capitalists, were segregationists when Welch started this Society with the famous Objectivist, Ayn Rand, author of the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.   )
According to claims made by Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, Jesus Christ, the Bible and America are the basis of the new religion he founded more than a hundred years ago in the United States. However, no Christian denomination has ever recognized the religion that Smith created as a Christian faith or an extension of Christianity. Instead, it is seen as a unique new religion with a theology of its own. The Mormons, as Smith’s followers would later be commonly called, see themselves as the new Israel, God’s chosen people, who wandered through America until they came to the promised land, now known as Utah.
(Please, they were run out of  every town they were in for being heretics,  by every established Christian religion and court. )
Smith said he had received a revelation, which would ultimately lead to the restoration of the true church and its priesthood, that had been lost. He believed this priesthood and authority had been lost for centuries, until he had his revelation during the 1820s near Palmyra, New York. Smith said, no other church on the face of the earth held equal authority and he became Mormonism’s first modern-day prophet.
Within the composite belief system that Smith subsequently devised, humanity is described as essentially “gods in embryo.” Smith believed that God himself had once been a human being and had become a God through a process. And that his followers could become gods too, if they would follow his new religion.
The supposed restoration of the lost priesthood and truth took place when Smith’s divine revelation occurred. At that time Smith was a 14-year-old boy. Never-the-less he claimed that divine beings had told him not to join any existing church or religion, but instead to begin his own, which would become the one true and anointed church authorized by God.
A similar story is told by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder and leader of the Unification Church. Cult leaders such as David Koresh, Shoko Asahara of Japan and Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple all seemed to feel that God had given them an exclusive mission and somehow exalted their group above all others.
In 1823, Smith said a heavenly being or angel named “Moroni,” who he claimed was the son of Mormon, a man that died about 400 A.D., appeared to Smith. Maroni, told Smith that there hidden written records on “golden plates” of a lost people who once had a great civilization in America. These plates were conveniently burried just outside the town where Smith lived. But they were written in an unknown language Smith called “Reformed Egyptian.” Maroni instructed Smith to use two special peep stones to look through, which would enable his to translate the plates. Smith said he uncovered the golden plates, translated them with these stones and the end result is now known as the “Book of Mormon.” And Maroni is now commemorated as the golden figure perched atop Mormon Temples.
Smith was largely regarded at the time as a con man and fraud. His golden plates disappeared, transported to heaven, or so he said. The civilizations recorded within the Book of Mormon have never been substantiated by any historical evidence through either archaeology or corroborated by any credible scholar or historian. Instead, as originally perceived by Smith’s contemporaries, they appear to be little more than a collection of fictional stories put together by Smith, based largely upon other writings and his own creative imagination.
Smith eventually became a virtual dictator of his own city called Nauvoo in Illinois, which was populated by his followers. He also led a large private army as its General. His rule was often tyrannical and he became a feared figure within Illinois. In 1844 after Smith destroyed a Nauvoo newspaper that dared to openly criticize him he was jailed in Carthage. An angry mob broke into the jail and Smith was killed. At the time of his death, his ardent apostles were promoting him as a candidate for president of the United States.
The story of Smith’s city and his “persecution” is somewhat like the history of Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh who created a city of believers within Oregon during the 1980s. It is also reminiscent of Jim Jones who founded Jonestown. But unlike these small groups that have been called “cults,” Smith’s small sect evolved into a major American religion. That religion is known today as “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” (LDS). LDS claims more than 4 million members worldwide, with 2.5 million Mormons on the church roles in North America alone.
Notes: This article was largely based upon “Prophet, seer said to have met with divine personages” National Post Canada, July 22, 2002
Here is a summary of important facts about the Mormon church, its doctrine, and its history that the missionaries will probably not tell you. We are not suggesting that they are intentionally deceiving you –most of the young Mormons serving missions for the church are not well educated in the history of the church or in modern critical studies of the church. They probably do not know all the facts themselves. They have been trained, however, to give investigators “milk before meat,” that is, to postpone revealing anything at all that might make an investigator hesitant, even if it is true. But you should be aware of these facts before you commit yourself.
Each of the following facts has been substantiated by thorough historical scholarship. And this list is by no means exhaustive!    For links to articles substantiating each of these points,  on the word   following the item.

• The “First Vision” story in the form presented to you was unknown until 1838, eighteen years after its alleged occurrence and almost ten years after Smith had begun his missionary efforts. The oldest (but quite different) version of the vision is in Smith’s own handwriting, dating from about 1832 (still at least eleven years afterwards), and says that only one personage, Jesus Christ, appeared to him. It also mentions nothing about a revival. It also contradicts the later account as to whether Smith had already decided that no church was true. Still a third version of this event is recorded as a recollection in Smith’s diary, fifteen years after the alleged vision, where one unidentified “personage” appeared, then another, with a message implying that neither was the Son. They were accompanied by many “angels,” which are not mentioned in the official version you have been told about. Which version is correct, if any? Why was this event, now said by the church to be so important, unknown for so long?

   

• Careful study of the religious history of the locale where Smith lived in 1820 casts doubt on whether there actually was such an extensive revival that year as Smith and his family later described as associated with the “First Vision.” The revivals in 1817 and 1824 better fit what Smith described later.   

(Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE; Some Christian tradition has tended to assume an earlier date so Mormonism has no relation to Judeo Christianity. )

• In 1828, eight years after he supposedly had been told by God himself to join no church, Smith applied for membership in a local Methodist church. Other members of his family had joined the Presbyterians.

   

• Contemporaries of Smith consistently described him as something of a confidence man, whose chief source of income was hiring out to local farmers to help them find buried treasure by the use of folk magic and “seer stones.” Smith was actually tried in 1826 on a charge of moneydigging.  It is interesting that none of his critics seemed to be aware of his claim to have been visited by God in 1820, even though in his 1838 account he claimed that he had suffered “great persecution” for telling people of his vision.

   

• The only persons who claimed to have actually seen the gold plates were eleven close friends of Smith (many of them related to each other). Their testimonies are printed in the front of every copy of the Book of Mormon. No disinterested third party was ever allowed to examine them. They were retrieved by the angel at some unrecorded point. Most of the witnesses later abandoned Smith and left his movement. Smith then called them “liars.”

   

• Smith produced most of the “translation” not by reading the plates through the Urim and Thummim (described as a pair of sacred spectacles), but by gazing at the same “seer stone” he had used for treasure hunting. He would place the stone into his hat, and then cover his face with it. For much of the time he was dictating, the gold plates were not even present, but in a hiding place.

   

• The detailed history and civilization described in the Book of Mormon does not correspond to anything found by archaeologists anywhere in the Americas. The Book of Mormon describes a civilization lasting for a thousand years, covering both North and South America, which was familiar with horses, elephants, cattle, sheep, wheat, barley, steel, wheeled vehicles, shipbuilding, sails, coins, and other elements of Old World culture. But no trace of any of these supposedly very common things has ever been found in the Americas of that period. Nor does the Book of Mormon mention many of the features of the civilizations which really did exist at that time in the Americas. The LDS church has spent millions of dollars over many years trying to prove through archaeological research that the Book of Mormon is an accurate historical record, but they have failed to produce any convincing pre-columbian archeological evidence supporting the Book of Mormon story. In addition, whereas the Book of Mormon presents the picture of a relatively homogeneous people, with a single language and communication between distant parts of the Americas, the pre-columbian history of the Americas shows the opposite: widely disparate racial types (almost entirely east Asian – definitely not Semitic, as proven by recent DNA studies), and many unrelated native languages, none of which are even remotely related to Hebrew or Egyptian.   

   

• The people of the Book of Mormon were supposedly devout Jews observing the Law of Moses, but in the Book of Mormon there is almost no trace of their observance of Mosaic law or even an accurate knowledge of it.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Mitt_Romney
http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon74.html
http://www.exmormon.org/tract2.html
http://listverse.com/2008/02/04/top-10-bizarre-mormon-beliefs/
Mormonism vs the Bible:

http://bibleq.info/answer/2379/

 

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/bibleandbomcontradictions.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses

 

Scientology

Do those in Scientology have any influence in America, along with big money and especially elections?

Many people are “into” Scientology, from those like Tom Cruise and John Travolta in Hollywood.  But, what is it?  Do you know?  In the first place, it is a cult!  It was started by its’ founder himself, L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer.  THAT in itself, should set off a warning.   Much is involved with this cult, from its organization, its leaders, the philosophy, the technology, the membership, as well as the founder himself, and dianetics.   See also this link:  http://larabell.org/scientology.html 

Their philosophy is that every being is essentially a spiritual entity and that these “flesh bodies” we push around are no more “us” than our cars are “us”, when we are driving them. This is not a new concept.  It can be found in most Eastern esoteric religions.

From this original premise stem all sorts of further principles.  The Scientology system realizes that, as spiritual beings using this meat-based body as a vehicle, the ultimate freedom would be the freedom from continual re-incarnation.  If accomplished, would allow us to transcend our limited notions of time and space, rendering moot both the laws of the physical universe and the laws compiled by human society.   It too, believes the entire world able to achieve ultimate freedom and considered sufficient excuse to bend any and every rule of society (has no ethics, no character, no repentance, no scruples) that gets in the way of achieving that ultimate goal.  While the ends, in reality, never justify the means, the utopian lure of such unlimited freedom is hard for most people to resist.  (May I say, especially, one that is Adult ADD as Tom Cruise, who cannot accept any responsibility and now has strong arm backings of this cult besides his millions to do exactly as he wishes.   (That is on earth while it lasts, but, one day even He will meet his true maker and stand on that Great White Throne Judgment Seat of God as all of us will, Christian or un-Christian.)  They have money and power, and power is what they seek.

There is a process that Scientology calls “auditing” which is a powerful method for looking into the dark crevices of the mind.  Essentially, the process consists of a trusting subject accepting and answering questions/commands from the “auditor” (a practitioner of Scientology).  These days, there is also an electronic instrument called an “E-meter” involved which measures dynamic changes in the impedance of the body  (much as a lie detector) as the questions/commands are called off.  Its the trust that is at work here.  And they go into ones private thoughts, and sexual perversions, and appetites as well.  Again, trust.   Tom and others in Scientology may feel they have unlimited power, but, to me you have to be a very weak minded individual to believe all this science fiction garbage.   Why do they love it?  There is no repentance, no sin nature, no accountability for their actions.

Hubbard was a science fiction writer in the 40’s and 50’s and one of mediocre (pulp) science fiction.  He was also an avid reader of an occultist named Jack Parsons.  There were a number of concepts expressed by Hubbard in the early years, ie 1952 Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures, that indicates the occult influence on Hubbard and his beliefs.    Remember, the Bible says in Leviticus 19:31 “Regard not them who have a familiar spirit “(familiar is a demon spirit that is invisible, which possesses the individual, and helps that person relate certain things to those who seek counsel and advice.),”neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them “(functions such as this Scientology and other occult practices, pretending to tell the people answers to their questions):”I am the LORD your God !” (We as believers are to have no association with such works of darkness; we are to be led strictly by the Holy Spirit. [John 16:13-15])

Some called Hubbard and enigma, others called him insane.  Yet this science/occultism cult seems to attract many that want that sort of cult protection (much as you might view the mafia) and their power and money, which they have plenty of.  It affords a person to not only not have to take responsibility for themselves, but to totally bi-pass the Cross of Christ, who incidentally died for people like Tom Cruise and others who are misinformed.   What irks me more than anything, is that this is all under the guise of “religion”.   This is so far from religion, and I don’t understand why they can be protected under laws in a religious category.

On this other site too I found http://www.sweenytod.com/cos/Theology/Theology/peik.htm  Here is a comparison of Christianity vs Scientology.  Only JESUS saves…the occult destroys!

On Revenge and our Enemies:

Christianity:  “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who ill-treat you.  If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also.” Jesus Christ, Luke 6:27-28 Matthew 5:38-39
Scientology:  “An enemy, may be injured by any means or tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
L Ron Hubbard, Penalties for Lower Conditions, HCCO PL 18 Oct 67
“This is the correct procedure: 1.  Spot who is attacking us. 2. Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own professionals  not outside agencies. 3.  Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. 4. Start feeding lurid , blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press.   Don’t ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough, on attackers all the way.” L Ron Hubbard PL 25 Feb 1966.

About telling the truth:

Christianity: “Simply let your ‘Yes be ‘Yes’, and your ‘No, no’; anything  beyond this comes from the evil one.” Matthew 5:37
Scientology:  “Handling truth is a touchy business…Tell and acceptable truth.” L Ron Hubbard, The Missing Ingredient, 13 August 1970.

About using religious deception:

Christianity:  “Watch out for false prophets.  The come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.  By their fruit you will recognize them.”  Matthew 7:15.
Scientology:  “Churches are looked upon as reform groups.  Therefore we must act like a reform group.”  L Ron Hubbard , 1966 , According to Jon Atack’s The total freedom trap.

About greed and money:

Christianity:  “Give to everyone who asks you, do not demand it back.” Luke 6:30  Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven” Luke 18:22  “For the love of money is the root of all evil “(which all springs from covetousness, the love of gold and wealth) “which while some coveted after, the have erred from the Faith.” (speaking of believers who have lost sight of the true faith, which is the Cross.)
Scientology:  “Make money, make more money.”  L Ron Hubbard, HCO PL 9Mar 72

About Redemption in Christ:

Christianity:  “..I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Gal. 2:20
Scientolgy:  “Christ died for his own sins.” (blasphemous remark) L. Ron Hubbard..uncertain St Hill tape # 12.

About using religion to make money:

Christianity:  “..men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to a financial gain.” Paul, I Timothy 5:5.
Scientology:  “I’d like to start a religion.  That’s where the money is.”  L Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshback in 1959, quoted  by Eshback in “Over my Shoulder”.

I think everyone gets the drift of what these twisted people are all about.   You can click onto the other websites and  read more.   God warns us in Leviticus and in Deuteronomy about cults, the occult, witchcraft, and false prophets.  There seem to be many now under the guise of religion, to tempt the weak away from the true prophet, Jesus Christ.  In HIM do I trust!

Deut. 18:10-12  “There shall not be found among you any one who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. 11, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, (or magician) or a necromancer.” (the last those who call up the dead)  12.” For all who do these things are an abomination unto the LORD your God does drive them out from you ” (in other words, this is at least part of the reason, that these heathens were driven out of Canaan.)  “YOU SHALL BE PERFECT WITH THE LORD YOUR GOD!”  Deut. 18:13

Thank you Jesus…for loving those who sin against you.  I pray that those that are locked into this cult or any other, be shown the truth, that the Lord shall provide someone to witness to them.  Amen

Rebuilding America – A lesson from Nehemiah

Not very many Christians know that the Bible in Nehemiah speaks of 10 gates, nor what they stand for. They are: 1. The Sheep Gate, 2. Fish Gate, 3. Oil Gate, 4. Valley Gate, 5. Refuse Gate, 6. Fountain Gate, 7. Water Gate, 8 Horse Gate, 9. East Gate, 10. Inspection  Gate. 

The first gate Jesus went through was the sheep gate,  Nehemiah had to rebuild. This is where animals were sacrificed.  The sheep gate points to the cross, the blood Jesus shed, not sacrificing animals.  As HE took the place of animal sacrifices.  23 Psalm, Mathew 10:40, John 10:1.  He that enters NOT by the door (without coming through the shepherd, is a thief and robber.  Ex. 14, Psalm 68, 1Cor. 5:11-13.  The shepherd leads his sheep…He leads us, out of iniquity.  The comfort zone is not where it is, as God drags us out of our comfort zone, and has HIS own plan for us.

“And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of Heaven. ” (The revelation of the actual condition of Jerusalem, especially after all this time, came upon Nehemiah with a  shock; so he took the situation to the Lord.)  Imagine what Nehemiah would think about what is going on in Israel today?

“And said, I beseech You, O Lord God of Heaven, the great and terrible God, Who keeps Covenant with Mercy for them who love Him and observe His Commandments. (Similar prayer prayed by Daniel in 9:4).   To rebuild the gates, and America too, now, our gates our being torn down, by liberals, ACLU, secularism, atheism, & judges tearing away at our Constitution.   We need to come on our knees as Nehemiah!

The valley gate, shows you have to go through the “valley” before you get the “victory.”  As Nehemiah inspected the walls…”And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.”  (came unnoticed. 2:12-13) “And I went out by night by the gate of the valley , even before the dragon well (the pool of Siloam), and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem , which were broken down, and the gates thereof where consumed with fire.”  The walls now too, of the churches are broken down.  The walls of prayer, and adherence to scriptures and especially, the wall of Faith in Christ and what He has done for us on the cross.  See also Rev. 3:14-22.  “The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.” 3:13. Nehemiah was mocked and opposed and ridiculed.   Contempt and violence from the enemy and cowardice from the men of Judah were defeated by praying.  As Christians, we must expect opposition from the world and discouragement from the Church; but prayer and watchfulness ALWAYS brings victory.

The inspection gate.  When Nehemiah heard they were torn ie he knew it needed to be rebuilt as does America today. I Cor 5:10,11.  Judgment day is coming for all.  “For we must ALL appear, God says, right here, I am the God of wrath, judgment and terror.” ie Noah’s flood,   Sodom and Gomorrah, all destroyed as it will be in the final war of Armageddon.    There is coming another judgment day.  For every believer dead in Christ will rise and will be in the presence of God and judgment seat of Christ. The ungodly later on in the Great White Throne Judgment Seat of God.  He’s going to send fire!  Rev. 19, IITim 4-8, John 14:2& Cor. 2:9.  Those who reject Christ will go through 7 years of hell on earth (tribulation).  In II Thes. 2:3 there will be a falling away, apostasy (now).  Then will the Antichrist be revealed and set up his N4ew World Government.  The antichrist will sign a 6 year peace treaty including Israel.  Sound familiar and what everyone is clamoring for?  But, he will break it in 3 1/2 years.  The antichrist will come in peace; the peace everyone is looking so desperately for now.  Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing…hummm?  It is time for discernment as never before.   For when he breaks the peace treaty it will lead to total global and economic collapse.  God is going to supernaturally save Israel.  The antichrist will be defeated, from heaven. Rev. 19:11-16  (King of Kings).  Ez 38-39  Russia is going to start the final war over oil.  We are so close to all this right now. I pray everyone gets this; and reads all of Nehemiah’s warnings.   We are so close to the brink of this…but, the Bible says the church will be gone before this happens.  All born again believer’s gone, taken up to meet Jesus, and the dead in Christ shall rise first to meet their souls in the air…Glory….Are you ready?  I am!

Look up!   “Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.”  Neh 5:11  All of this was meant to serve as a type of what the Lord has done for us. Forgiven us all things, meaning we should do likewise.  He will come in vengeance and wrath, and restore, if we PRAY.   Again, are you ready?

 

 

My Christian Conscience and the Coming Elections

I am not in favor of a Mormon in the White House, anymore than I wanted another term of Obama, a Communist and a closet Muslim.  I am pondering, praying, on my knees, hearing others locally from my church.  I am not the only one at odds against a cultist in the White House nor the GOP pushing their ESTABLISHMENT candidates down our throat.   I want America back, I want God back, in schools and as a part of our freedoms, and our National Day of Prayer…Christian, and I want our Constitution back in action, without threats of Sharia laws, now being pushed, etc, and I want a strong Military power back; without the Muslim prayer rugs in the Pentagon either!  This is, was, and always will be since our Founders, a Christian nation!  Wherefore, since Obama has pushed us back in a cold war with Russia and Putin is engaging in land grabs, if we do not have a strong defense, guess what?  They could be on American land!  Because, now Putin is encouraging Iran with missals more than ever, because we have a weakling in the White House that wants to destroy America!

I cannot in good conscience vote for a man, woman that is not Godly… I adhere to the word of God.  IThess. 2:3 Let no man deceive you.  Mark 13:22 False Christs false prophets shall rise.  Ezekiel 5:11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because you have defiled MY Sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with ALL your abominations, therefore will I also DIMINISH  you, neither shall MY eye spare, neither will I have any pity.  (The righteous judgments, consequent  upon the abominations of this verse, are still in operation, and will reach a crisis one day ..but, we too are under judgment now in America, storms, fires in CO, drought, and our corn now dying, famines, only beginning..even the earthquakes in Maryland, and near the White House.)  The church in America, allowing liberalism, abortion, Gay Bishops, all the abominations…. Now a Communist President, and a CULTIST that doesn’t even believe that Jesus is LORD?  Isaiah 1:28 “And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.( THIS passage, among many others, completely refutes the doctrine of “Unconditional Eternal Security”.  It clearly refers to those who no longer have faith in the Lord and /or reject him by settling for another, or such that we COMPROMISE HIS WORD and the CROSS!  Period the end.”  (Expositor study Bible.)   That means to me that if we do not adhere to God’s word in who we vote for, we face eternal damnation…for this bears out there is no such thing as unconditional salvation.  Even in Revelations it says, “I would rather ye be hot or cold, for if you are lukewarm, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”  THAT, includes those who call themselves Christians.  That too, tells me we cannot compromise the WORD even in the voting booth.

Romans 13:2-4 ” Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the Ordinance of God (anarchy is not of God): and they who resist shall receive to themselves damnation. (The law of the Land is always to be obeyed, providing it DOES NOT OFFEND OUR CONSCIENCE OR THE WORD OF GOD; THE ‘DAMNATION ‘ MENTIONED DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFER TO SUCH COMING FROM GOD BUT MAN.) “For rulers are not a terror to good works, BUT TO EVIL. ” (Concerns the Divine right of Government to oppose crime and to protect its citizens.)

Mark 13: 5-8 “And Jesus answering them began to say, take heed lest any man deceive you.” (Jesus is warning in his discourse about deception’ this is Satan’s greatest weapon.) “For MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME “(both Beck & Romney now under a false religion.)  “saying I am Christ..” (And Mormons feel they can BE GOD). ” and shall deceive many.   And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.”  (Carries the meaning I am Christ….like Christ. ) ” For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; (And 2 thousand years of education,culture, and experience, and wars,, have not ameliorated the problem.  Expositors Study Bible) “and there shall be famines and troubles…(NOW!..look at the world and the Arab nations, floods in Russia, famine in Africa, murders in Syria.)  “These are the beginnings of sorrows”. (The approaching coming of the Great Tribulation.)

Ecclesiastes 5:1″Keep your foot when you go to the House of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.” (Keep your foot means to be reverent. The House of God refers to the Presence of God.  To hear means to obey.  Cain offered the “sacrifice of fools)  Gen. 4:3-5 (Most of that which calls itself “church” falls into the same category.  The ONLY sacrifice that God will accept is the Sacrifice of HIS Son, Jesus Christ.  THIS is what Abel’s offering typified.  ANY MESSAGE THAT DOES NOT MAKE CHRIST THE SOURCE AND THE CROSS HE MEANS IS “A SACRIFICE OF FOOLS” AND ABHORRENT TO GOD.)  DO WE EDIFY HIM AT THE CROSS, AND THE BLOOD HE SHED, EVEN WHEN WE VOTE, OR DO WE PUT A STENCH IN THE NOSTRILS OF GOD ALMIGHTY?

Mitt Romney is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Mormonism is not Christianity, and gives no credence to the CROSS and the blood my Jesus shed for the sins of mankind.  What arrogance to think by obeying totally, rules, discarding grace, he can be “like” God.  No, I cannot vote for this man with my Conscience as a Christian that loves my Jesus, and all that He has done for me.   I did nothing to receive His gift of salvation, but, I sure do want to keep it and keep His name HOLY.   I cannot compromise the word of God.  I fear HIM more than I fear what God in all essence may be allowing.  For even Obama, was given this office, by the Lord who he hates, and has no understanding of.  For in the first chapter of Job we see that Satan still has access of the throne of God, and NOTHING can happen unless GOD ALLOWS.   But, do we compromise?  I cannot.   I can hear all the right wingers, some that are agnostics like Karl Rove, Michelle Malkin, tearing their hair out.  But, I must vote my Bible at all costs, for my LORD comes first, and I will not vote for Baal, or venture into Babylon.  And either ticket right now is evil.  Mormons, too, are STILL giving cult false baptisms to DEAD Jews, and this is not a cult? However, fearing he Lord as I do, I do not want HIS condemnation and judgment.  My deep deep heart-wrenching prayers are with each and every Christian in America at this time.

Remembering my youth after WWII, and a new President who had such a strong military presence, during the Cold War that followed…Esteemed by Churchill who trusted him explicitly, President General Dwight David Eisenhower.  And because of the circumstances prior to his election, and the remarkable similar circumstances we are now in with Russia and Iran, my heart and conscience would give anything if Lt Col. Allen West was our next President.  We need someone charismatic, who is intelligent, trustworthy, has integrity, has character, and is not afraid or intimidated by our enemies.   NO OTHER IN OUR PRESENT MEDIA BLIZES FILLS THIS BILL!   And Karl Rove?? Stay out of our GOP!   Take your centrist rich friends and your political pull and for once let the people decide, unless we want more of the same and Hllary.    This is the prayer Ike prayed when he took office.   On Wallbuilders.com.

Share this Article Dwight D. Eisenhower – 01/19/1953 This is the handwritten prayer written by Dwight D. Eisenhower the day before his Presidential Inaugural. Written on the back of hotel stationary, this is the hand-written version of the prayer that Dwight Eisenhower prayed before giving his Inaugural address. Almighty God, As we stand here, at this moment, my associates in the Executive Branch of government join me in beseeching that Thou will make full and complete our dedication to the service of the people in this throng and their fellow citizens everywhere. Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people, regardless of station, race or calling. May cooperation be permitted and be the mutual aim of those who hold to differing political beliefs, so that all may work for the good of our beloved country and for Thy glory. Amen. *Note: To see the final version of this prayer, visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library website.

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Suffering For Christ or Self Love?

I  did a post way back on Suffering, after going through cancer.  I would like to expound on that.  For many in today’s Christian community place so much emphasis on “prosperity” that they neglect what the Bible says about suffering.  Whereby, they are not open to helping those in need as they should and cannot put themselves in another’s shoes when they are going through the storms of this life.  They live in perfect worlds full of materialistic “things” and do not understand real pain.  
“In the Bible, self-love as such is seen to be a sinful thing.  After all, what is the essence of sin but that we are curved in on ourselves, placing self, rather than God, at the center of the universe.  And so Paul, in 2Timothy 3:1-5, tells us that one of the hallmarks of the last days is that people will be “lovers of themselves” instead of “lovers of God”, and that is precisely where we are in our society today.” By Melvin Tinker, Wisdom to live by.

“As Christ struggled up Calvary’s hill and bled upon it, His aim was to eradicate self-love and implant the love of God in the hearts of men.  One can only increase as the other decreases.”  By Walter J. Chantry, The Shadow of the Cross – Studies in Self-Denial.

“Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.  Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the very nature of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.  And being found in appearance as a man, he HUMBLED himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross!”  Phillipians 2:4-8

2 Corinthians 2:4 “For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish or heart and with many tears not to grieve you, but to let you know the depth of my love for you. vs 5 If anyone has cause of your grief…vs 7 So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow (despair).  vs 8 Wherefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.”  (PAUL WAS SAYING,  DO MORE THAN JUST SAY YOU LOVE HIM, BUT RATHER SHOW YOUR LOVE TO HIM. ) JS Expositor’s study Bible.  When Jesus healed the lelper, he added a personal touch too.  Am I a piece of junk mail or a letter?  Matt 5:13 on salt and light.  We are to make a stand for what we believe in. Is our saltiness is made to preserve life.  I Cor. 13:1 Not love?  We can talk all we want and that includes preachers, not just family that ignores, but, without love, its all just emptiness.

I came home from church a few Sunday’s ago, and put my usual Daystar programs on, and listened to Pastor Jeremiah, and then Jim Toll and Ed Young.  Ed young touched on this one Sunday.  IE Those sitting up in their “Ivory Towers”.  He said, ” Don’t look at fallen towers with “religious eyes…suffering and bad things happening to good people…for when you are in “religious eyes”, you throw God out”.

“Try to tell someone that was abused,” he said, ” that abuser was dancing to his DNA, or someone that has been raped.  (Bad people have all this in their DNA?) It is a ridiculous interpretation from the Godless.   Jesus in Luke 13:6-9, answers, cut it down.  If no fruit comes from it , cut it down.   We either repent or we perish.  What Jesus is saying is more than simplifying repentance, unless we are filled with what God wants from us, and repent. When things are going super we replace HIM with ourselves, and things and STUFF…The warning is we will perish!  STOP BRAGGING about all your material things, and look at the SUFFERING  and what others might see in that message.  Are we in the Kingdom business?  For when things go “swimmingly”  we forget and are blinded to others who are not in THAT place of prosperity in the material things.”  (Which means nothing anyways.) “So Christ gets pushed to one side, and that’s when the tower will FALL.   The towers are a part of life.  Because we live in a fallen world with fallen people.  We get swept up in EGO and haven’t paid the consequences.  We don’t want JUSTICE only grace.  It doesn’t work that way!  The time to repent is when things are going good!”  I heard Charles Stanley say once too,  about pain…”Even when that person gets saved, if they have been abused, had an abortion, been through rape, etc, they may be forgiven, but that HOLE IN THEIR SIDE, like Jesus had at the Cross, it NEVER goes away.  My abuse didn’t.  It’s always there as a reminder, and of His Grace, but also to have compassion to others.

I see people sick, with worse cancer than I had, others now going through chemo…I remember my friend Joan who suffered with cancer, and with all her faith, never relented or gave in to the devil one iota.  She no sooner went into remission, with one
cancer and then it popped up elsewhere, as this went on for years.   She never gave up until she was on in such excruciating pain on morphine near the end.  She was a light.  I question whether or not I could have gone through what she had, as I may have had cancer, but, a lumpectomy is a lot different, than what my friend Joan suffered through.  She died Dec. 17, 2008.  She lost her battle, but was a light, who strived towards that mark and prayed unceasingly, always thanking God, and grateful for the small things in her life.  I for one, will never forget a courageous gal named Joan.

There is something to be said for “suffering”, “perseverance”, and “endurance”.   Have we become that selfish even in churches that we cannot have the compassion of Christ to someone in time of need?   Why is there so much in the Bible about suffering, yet, nothing said in churches?  It bothers me, for it is not an accurate depiction of life.  Tragedies happen all around us, and I am convinced we are in the end days.  I am NOTHING in this world…I bury my own ego as it is dead in Christ.  If I am to follow HIM, then the “things” of this world, including money, mean nothing.  Money and prosperity, could not bring back my 3 month old baby, laying in a casket in 1958 with the autopsy cut on her head showing through her bonnet.   It could not bring back my bi-polar son, that I fought so hard to get helped, and blew himself up with 6 sticks of stolen dynamite in 1999.   Money from a consequential lawsuit later, was nothing to me, even though all those around me, had their hand out…and I gave $30,000 away…for it was “blood money” afterall…It meant NOTHING to me.  So when I hear a preacher standing at a pulpit bragging about all he has “materially” and how much “God knows” his heart and love for these “things”…I cringed.  For it lacks wisdom and maturity, for all the intelligence someone has, they don’t get it.  For as I said above, when your in that “Ivory Tower”….trust me….TRUST ME….ALL TOWERS FALL!   And you put your trust in “things”…and honey, you have been diverted very subtly by the enemy.

I love Job.  Not much is taught about him.   From Discovery “Navigating The Storms of Life”:  “Someone who, “being in the very nature of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing?  The central question of the book of Job is not, “why do the righteous suffer?” but Why do the righteous serve God?”  Why do I follow Christ?  Some forms of preaching that promise health, wealth, and prosperity to the “King’s Kids” appeal to the WORST instincts within us.  Do I love God for HIS gifts or for Himself?  Would I still love Him if He called me to walk the path of suffering and sacrifice…giving all up ? Warren Wiersbe sums up this essential issue well:
Satan’s accusation cuts at the very heart of worship and virtue.  Is God worthy to be loved and obeyed even if He does NOT bless us materially and protect us from pain?  Can God win the heart of man totally apart from His gifts? In other words, the very character of God is what is at stake in this struggle (Why us? When bad things happen to God’s people, P. 41″.

The second act of Job concentrates on Job himself, rather than his family or possessions.  Satan’s onslaught zooms in on Job’s health.  Job is reduced to a pain-wracked outcast, scraping his sores with shards of pottery, vainly seeking relief from his pain.   The author in Discovery  wrote, “It has helped me immeasurably to realize that my fundamental concern in such times must not be, How can I get out of this? but, WHAT can I get out of this?  That is not a stance of passive resignation, as Job struggled too.  At the end of Job too, he meets God and is overpowered by His wisdom, His power, His grace and His care.  “My ears had heard of You but now my eyes have seen You.  Therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes”.
You know it has been my experience in my years as a Christian, that many of those in ministry, do not realize that those who suffer, whether it be illness, death, etc; but true pain, may get in a closer place alone with God, in their tears, repentance, mourning, hurts, helplessness, loneliness, but PAIN…Pain beyond understanding, that they could not themselves possibly endure, and therefore, have no right to brush off and minimalize.  For if you haven’t been in that place of say, abuse, loss of children, deaths, cancer or other illnesses, and your in your merry little prosperous world? You are teaching a false gospel, and in that end, your towers will fall.   For when “things ” become the priority, from a golf game, music, hobbies, etc, and when you indulge your desires autonomously, then we are all falling into the trap of the evil one.  This is the old lie he used with Eve.  ‘You will be like God’.   God’s response is, ‘It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. He doesn’t attack Satan’s audacity, or mocked Satan’s credibility, but instead quotes God’s word.”  Most of the excerpts here are from Gary Inrig, True North, published by Discovery.

I do not see in my walk anymore, many that have “left all behind” materially.  I’m in touch with several in missions, and know their hearts, that have been called by God to live such a selfless life.  If I won or received a million dollars next week, I would give it away for I lost my taste in “things ” many many years ago.  Ivory towers, do you live in one?   With all the money some may possess, the suicide rate, drug addictions, and unhappy lives, like Tiger Woods, who had it all and threw it away.  Suffering in his case, isn’t the same, for he brought it all on himself in greed.  The more people get, the more they want, and are never satisfied.   So you live in your Ivory Towers, until they crumble.  Could you sell your fancy house for a lessor one, or that expensive car?  Would you obey God, if like Job, you were forced to loose what you loved most?
Most have no idea, but, I do.  For no amount of money could bring back my son or my baby.

Peter said in I Peter 3:14 “But if you suffer for Righteousness sake, happy are you. ” 5:6 “HUMBLE yourselves”  (NOT BE A BRAGGART ON ALL YOU POSSESS) “Under the Mighty Hand of God!”  Romans 8:28 Pain is a process!  It is continuous in which we are transformed by God.  To wish to be transformed WITHOUT pain is to expect a hunk of shapeless steel to become a beautiful and useful commodity without the trauma of an assembly line.”  Anchors in the Storm, Joe Stowell, Discovery

Can you weep with those who weep?  Does your heart break for those with pain?  Do you console, love them unceasingly as Jesus, hug them, edify or tear down?  For God may have to stain your cheeks with tears so that you can genuinely empathize as Christ does.   For if others’ judge me and cannot see in me all the times in pain I have been on my knees crying out to Christ, then they don’t know my heart, for I can make it through “all things” (Philippians) , through tough times….made into the beauty of Christ Jesus… I am not here on earth to impress others, for I have no ego, or self anymore…and my wings with disability have been so clipped, I go day to day, in faith,  knowing He is with me, and I don’t rely on “things”, I don’t need, but to look forward one day to seeing my Savior face to face.

When the victorious Christian life ain’t that victorious

There is much we need to focus on when afflicted, even to accepting Christ’s healing, and standing on it. We can as Paul said speak the positive, and not give the devil any glory. For even in affliction (I have excruciating arthritis) I do not have to accept it as “suffering”. But, instead, praise and thank my Lord for all He has done for me. There is always one far more worse off than we are.  Reblog:

March 15, 2014

Simone Weil made a distinction between affliction (malheur) and simple suffering. Affliction is “a laceration of the soul” that endures, not a transitory moment of pain. There is a deep hopelessness for the afflicted. Their humanity has been forced into “thingness,” and there is no going back — at least not apart from a grace that pierces through this bondage or necessity (force). Weil explains this fundamental insight that permeates her theology:

In the realm of suffering, affliction is something apart, specific, and irreducible. It is quite a different thing from simple suffering. It takes possession of the soul and marks it through and through with its own particular mark, the mark of slavery. …Affliction is inseparable from physical suffering and yet quite distinct. With suffering, all that is not bound up with physical pain or something analogous is artificial, imaginary, and can be eliminated by a suitable adjustment of the mind. [Waiting for God, p. 67]

Weil’s remarkable skill is how she discerns the “imaginary” adjustments of our minds to deflect our attention away from affliction and the affliction of others. And in our own day, I would point toward an abundance of preachers and their followers as especially enthusiastic about making these “adjustments.” This is deeply ingrained in our churches. On this point, I offer you this perfect anecdote from Philip Yancey’s Reaching for the Invisible God:

My roommate for two years at a Christian college was a German named Reiner. Returning to Germany after graduation, Reiner taught at a camp for the disabled where, relying on college notes, he gave a stirring speech on the Victorious Christian Life. “Regardless of the wheelchair you are sitting in, you can have victory, a full life. God lives within you!” he told his audience of paraplegics, cerebral palsy patients, and the mentally challenged. He found it disconcerting to address people with poor muscle control. Their heads wobbled, they slumped in their chairs, they drooled.

The campers found listening to Reiner equally disconcerting. Some of them went to Gerta, director of the camp, and complained that they could not make sense of what he was saying. “Well then, tell him!” said Gerta.

One brave woman screwed up her courage and confronted Reiner. “It’s like you’re talking about the sun, and we’re in a dark room with no windows,” she said. “We can’t understand anything you say. You talk about solutions, about the flowers outside, about overcoming and victory. These things don’t apply to us in our lives.”

My friend Reiner was crushed. To him, the message seemed so clear. He was quoting directly from Paul’s epistles, was he not? His pride wounded, he thought about coming at them with a kind of spiritual bludgeon: There’s something wrong with you people. You need to grow in the Lord. You need to triumph over adversity.

Instead, after a night of prayer, Reiner returned with a different message: “I don’t know what to say,” he told them the next morning. “I’m confused. Without the message of victory, I don’t know what to say.” He stayed silent and hung his head.

The woman who had confronted him finally spoke up from the room full of disabled people. “Now we understand you,” she said. “Now we are ready to listen.”

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My Faith and Politics

My faith is un-shakable, after what my long life has endured, from abuse in a  marriage in my 20’s to my youngest son’s bi-polar disorder and suicide in 1999 when only 19.  GOD has restored me and healed me, with forgiveness to all others that offended me.  I love my Lord, my Country, ALL that He created, in beauty and blessings …this great land of America, my ancestor, Major Ezekiel Worthen, who was in the King George War, the French Indian War, The American Revolution and the Siege at Louisburg.  I believe in liberty, freedom which comes with a price..Thank you Jesus for all you’ve done in my life

I wrote the following excerpts in one of my booklets, as a concerned conservative, seeing our Constitution being maligned.   Excerpts came from these sources, which I encourage you to read:  “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation of Church and State” by Daniel L. Dreisbach, a professor of Justice, law and society at American Univ. in Washington DC., “A People’s History of the American Revolution”, by Ray Raphael”, How common people shaped the fight for independence, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”, Modern Liberalism and the American Decline, by Judge Robert H. Bork.

“In the first place, Jefferson’s “wall” is a metaphor…It does NOT exist in the Constitution of the United States.   It is referred to as such by all the legal minds in the first paragraph .  In the Establishment Clause under the First Amendment it States that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. (1791)However, most people are not taught in school nor even realize that the term “separation” or “wall” never appear in the Constitution.  On New Years in 1802, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to the Danbury, CT Baptist Association.  In it, he used the term “wall of separation”.   YEARS after the Constitution was signed.   At the onset of his letter, it had been rewritten several times, until finally Jefferson consulted his then, Atty. General Eli Lincoln, who  suggested that term.  Jefferson then wrote:  “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his God that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”

Whereby, it was resurrected again by the Supreme Court in 1879, then thereafter in 1947 the vision of the wall seemed to have molded almost all attempts to analyze the First Amendment’s control over the Government’s relationship to religion.  The court concluded in 1879, “coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure (Jefferson’s Danbury letter) may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the (first) amendment thus secured.”   Whereby, this unintended letter by Jefferson was thereafter included by the Supreme Court as a “part of the 1st Amendment”.  Which was NOT Jefferson’s original intent…and he and the other founding father’s must be looking down on us in utter dismay!   Then came Justice Black in 1948 who secured it even more against intent.   Reemergence in Everson.  In McCollum v Board of Education, the following term, Justice Black confirmed the extent to which the Court had “constitutionalized” the “wall” metaphor:  “The majority in the Everson case, an minority as shown by quotations from dissenting views…agreed that the First Amendment’s language, properly interpreted had erected a wall of separation between church and State.  (WHAT wall I ask?)  In years since, Federal and State courts too, continue to reference a phrase which is a metaphor only.  It has become the “locus Classicus” of the notion that the First Amendment separated religion and civil state, thereby mandating a secular policy.  IT WAS NOT JEFFERSON’S INTENTION. In October 1801, as Jefferson became Magistracy, the Danbury Baptist Assoc. sent a letter to Jefferson expressing great satisfaction in his appointment.  In the new President, the Connecticut Baptists found an ardent DEFENDER OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY..  However after his letter and editing, and consulting with Eli Lincoln, what was left ended up sounding secular. However, now, through both of these Supreme Court cases, and since Black, they have taken out of original context …and imposed a letter into the First Amendment.  My legal loophole question,  “if this letter was NOT signed by all who signed the Constitution, then how legally can it be included as it has been?  And WHY then , has no one tried to turn this around?   How can this letter be legally justified, when nothing making it so was added as such, to the Constitution ?

Wherefore, in 1779 when Jefferson was still Governor of VA, the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom was penned…and it INCLUDED the following punitive provision:  “Every minister of the gospel shall on each day so to be appointed, attend and perform divine service and preach a sermon, or discourse, suited to the occasion, in his church, on pain of forfeiting fifty pounds for every failure, not having reasonable excuse.”  Although never enacted, it was sponsored by Madison…For fasting and Thanksgiving.  (Thanksgiving then as we know it came later.)George Washington wrote in 1789, “If I could now conceive that the general Government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of SPIRITUAL TYRANNY, and every species of religious PERSECUTION. (Written to the United Baptist Churches) .  Yet , this METAPHOR has been running out of control in the courts…and those liberals in Congress and the ACLU that want to secularize this nation as well as atheists and are twisting the very intention of our found fathers.   Instead, now it is us Christians who are censured!   Chief Justice Rehnquist , perhaps was the most vociferous critic of the “wall” concluded:  “It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history, but, unfortunately the Establishment Clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson’s misleading metaphor for nearly 40 years.  (60 now) ..Thomas Jefferson was of course in France at the time the constitutional Amendments known as the Bill of Rights were passed by Congress and ratified by the States.  His letter to the Danbury Baptist Association was a short note of courtesy, written 14 years AFTER the Amendments were passed by Congress.  He would seem to any detached observer as a less than ideal source of contemporary history as to the meaning of Religion Clauses of the First Amendment.   The greatest injury of the “wall” notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights.  The “crucible of litigation” is well adapted to adjudicating factual disputes on the basis of testimony, erasing the historical errors. Wherefore Jefferson’s wall has done what walls frequently do..it has obstructed the view.  Therefore the critics too, evoke the poet Robert Frost, who observed in his poem,  “Mending Wall”  “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall/ that wants it down…”  The ACLU is stripping away all that the framers (and my patriot ancestor Major Ezekiel Worthen) fought for.  It is BECAUSE we were (are?) a Christian nation..that had a humbleness of spirit and loved God and Country.   THAT is what sets us as a “great” nation.  That we always up and set the captive free.  And freedom like wars come with a price. There are no atheists in Foxholes , I heard say..Ecclesiastes “a time for Peace ..a time for War.”  “He who states his case first seems right until his rival comes and cross-examines him.”   Proverbs 18:17..”Any  story sounds true until someone tells the other side and sets the record straight.”   Barton wrote:  “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.  Promote, then, as a knowledge.” George Washington. Barton says..”The final strategy used by the Court to bolster its arguments is one previously introduced:  Historical omission.  Not only does the Court regularly omit cases prior to 1947 from its’ discussion, it also DISREGARDS quotes from prominent Founders other than Jefferson or Madison.  Judge Bork writes: “There appears to be only one means by which the Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, can be brought back to Constitutional legitimacy.  That would be a constitutional amendment making any federal or state court decision subject to being overruled by a majority vote of each House of Congress.  ”

So, now it is up to Christian colleges and those like LibertyUniversity to raise up young people who will be knowledgeable in Constitutional law and religious freedom and rights, such as the ACLJ.  Now we, Christians have the AmericanCenter for Law and Justice and Chief Counsel Jay Sekulov.  We need prayer back in schools…abortion turned around.  For my God is a God of absolutes. Whereby, I continue to pray for my country.  For I feel if we go down this slippery slope we are heading, God will take His hedge of protection of America.  If we do not STAND with the Jews too, and Israel, Gods chosen,  God too will call us accountable.  Our children need to be taught history as our framers intended.   California, now wants to put an end to home schooling, which is almost all Christian stay at home moms, they want to censor all we do and what we can say, including our Christian rights.  That is not what we fought the Revolutionary War for.  That is not what we fought ANY war for, but for freedom,  democracy, and our religious beliefs.   (Religion including Christian, also includes, though cults unfortunately..yet that THAT is what makes us America, the land of the free!)    Parents, love God, teach your children the Bible, and go to Church.   Teach them history and instead of  Disney take them on tour of Washington, VA ‘s monuments, and Philadelphia.    Without a grasp of America, all our heritage will go down the tubes, forever forgotten, and it will be the destruction of this country.  And even Teddy Roosevelt said when you come to America,  then speak English!   That is the language of America…My German grandparents came over in 1903 from Germany through Ellis Island on the Kronland from Belgium.  They came in legal, excitedly became US citizens, Americans, just as the Irish, the Greeks, the French before and after WWI and WWII. My maternal grandfather & paternal grandmother each  worked hard in the mills in ManchesterNH.   My mother when she was young, used to go home in the heavy snow for lunch and bring my grandpa’s hot lunch pail walking all the way across the bridge, then walking in all kinds of weather back to school.   They worked, were glad to be in this new land…and before Hitler.  Now, I think Phil Gram was right, we are a country of complaining wimps.  My grandpa never complained.   They were Americans!   My mother and father taught me to love this country and I guess I got my  love of history from my mom. What?  What? What have we taught our children?   How to text messages?  To think of me only?  To be selfish sexy media watching  ingrates with their hands out?   What are we leaving America to?  Where are the values of parents?   Lord I come  to you in prayer..In this I pray…..God help us come back to you….for we have lost our way.