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love-god-forever · 6 years

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After I Know How Jesus Will Return, My 40-Year Wish of Being Raptured Comes True

By Li’na, Australia

I had longed for the Lord’s arrival upon a white cloud since I was little.

I was born in a Christian family in Malaysia. Since I could remember, I had begun to go to church with my mother. I often heard my family and the pastors say that we who believed in the Lord were the most blessed and that in the future the Lord would descend on a white cloud to rapture us into the kingdom of heaven to enjoy eternal blessings. So, in order to enter the heavenly kingdom, I had always obeyed the teachings of the Lord: I was humble and patient in all things, didn’t assault, curse or seek to gain small advantages over others, and I spread the Lord’s gospel and often gave to the poor brothers and sisters.

Afterward, I went to Australia to work. Over two years passed, I hadn’t found a Chinese church. So, I could only pray to God and read the Bible at home and occasionally looked at some denominational websites. Not attending church meetings for a long time made me very weak in spirit, so I was eager to attend meetings. For this, I often prayed to the Lord and asked Him to prepare it for me.

At the end of 2017, I got to know Sister Nian’en on Facebook. Her timeline was all about belief in God, which was beneficial to me. Then I began to communicate with her. When she knew that I had not attended meetings for two years, she cared about me and told me that her cousin, Brother Liu, was a preacher and suggested I listen to his preaching on the internet. I agreed right away.

After listening to sermons on the internet, I understood the true meaning of Eastern Lightning.

In January, 2018, I started to attend church meetings on the internet. Brother Liu’s preaching was very practical and I could gain so much every time I listened to his preaching. Over a month later, Brother Liu said that the Lord would become flesh and do the work of judgment when He returned. Just then, I felt very surprised and thought, “In many verses of the Bible, it is clearly written that the Lord will arrive upon a white cloud. But why did Brother Liu say that the Lord will become flesh when He returns? Our pastors have never said that before.” Then I got online and searched a little, and learned that only those who believe in Eastern Lightning preach that the Lord has been incarnated as the Son of man again. So I asked Sister Nian’en in private whether her cousin believed in Eastern Lightning. She fellowshiped with me, “The return of the Lord is an important thing. We should seek and investigate to figure it out. If we blindly refuse to listen, we’ll then miss God’s salvation. We should imitate the wise virgins, and focus on hearing the voice of God. That is in accordance with God’s will.” Hearing that, I felt it made sense but I still had some scruples. I thought, “I’ve believed in the Lord and been longing for the Lord’s return for 40 years. Once I believe in something incorrect, then won’t I have waited in vain?” Thus, I sent a message to the preacher from my previous church and asked him about Eastern Lightning. At my words, he immediately demanded of me not to attend meetings on the internet with brothers and sisters of Eastern Lightning. With that, I didn’t dare to contact Brother Liu anymore. So, I found an excuse and stopped my online meetings. As a result, my spirit was withered again. One unbearable month passed by in this condition. One day, a thought hit me, “I have known the preacher from my previous church for many years and he has known my current situation, but why does he not care about and support me? He hasn’t made any contact with me up to now. On the contrary, Brother Liu has only known me for just over a month, but he cares about my belief in God. It seems that Brother Liu has genuine love. Love can only come from God. Can it be that Brother Liu was sent by the Lord?” I thought it over and over again, and felt I should take investigating the Lord’s return on the internet seriously and that I couldn’t just talk it over with others. Then I prayed to the Lord, “O, my Lord. If Brother Liu is the preacher dispatched by You, may You guide and lead me, and prepare me another chance to contact him.” One day after that prayer, Sister Nian’en sent me a message to invite me to attend a meeting on the internet. I thought this was from God, so I agreed.

When we communicated again on the internet, Brother Liu said frankly that he was from The Church of Almighty God, which was Eastern Lightning I spoke of. Seeing his sincerity, I felt remorse and confessed that I had found an excuse not to attend meetings and deceived them. Brother Liu didn’t blame me but fellowshiped with me, “Many brothers and sisters in the religious world don’t know what Eastern Lightning means. Next, let’s talk about its meaning. The Lord Jesus prophesied, ‘For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be’ (Matthew 24:27). ‘For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day’ (Luke 17:24). As we all know, the east of the world refers to China. Almighty God appears and works in China to express all the truths that cleanse and save mankind, like the great light shining out of the East. This is the origin of ‘Eastern Lightning.’ However, the pastors and elders in the religious world, facing the truths expressed by Almighty God, not only do not seek or investigate, but fanatically condemn and blaspheme against Eastern Lightning. Also, they report the brothers and sisters who believe in Almighty God and even collude with the atheistic CCP government to capture them. Nevertheless, the pace of God’s work is unstoppable. In only twenty years, Almighty God’s work of the last days has already spread throughout China and is by now a household name. Nowadays, the words expressed by Almighty God are already available online for all to see so that people from countries and territories around the world may seek and search. Almighty God’s work of the last days is just like a bolt of lightning shining out of the East into the West. This completely fulfills the Lord Jesus’ prophecy, ‘For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west.’ Wise virgins all over the world who truly believe in God and can hear God’s voice have been returning to God’s family, one after another, so that it takes on a gratifying scene where all people are streaming to God’s holy mountain. This is all the effect of the work of the Holy Spirit. From this we can see that Eastern Lightning refers to the work of God in the last days.”

From the brother’s fellowshiping, I understood the true meaning of Eastern Lightning. I felt so happy and continued discussing the topic relating to God’s return with him….

Will the Lord come upon a cloud or as a thief?

I said, “Concerning the Lord’s return, it is written in the Bible, ‘And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory’ (Matthew 24:30). ‘Behold, he comes with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him’ (Revelation 1:7). According to these verses, I think that the Lord will descend on a cloud when He returns.”

The brother said, “Sister, we all know that there are many prophecies in the Bible about the Lord’s return. You’ve only found some verses. Next, let’s read other verses, ‘Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come on you’ (Revelation 3:3). ‘Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame’ (Revelation 16:15). ‘But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night…’ (2 Peter 3:10). These verses say that the Lord will come as a thief. And there are some other verses saying that the Lord will come upon a cloud. Do you think they are at odds with each other?”

I read these verses carefully, thinking, “It turns out that in the Bible, not only are there the prophecies that the Lord will descend on a cloud, but there are the prophecies that the Lord will come as a thief. How come I’ve never noticed these verses before?” But I was too embarrassed to say I didn’t understand, so I said, “No, I don’t. ‘Come as a thief’ means that no one knows the days of the Lord’s coming.”

The brother said, “I had the same view as yours before. Afterward, I encountered the brothers and sisters who believed in Almighty God. Through their fellowshiping with me, I came to know that the Lord’s return is in two different ways: secret arrival and public arrival. ‘Come as a thief’ means that God will be incarnated and arrive in secret, and express words to do the work of judgment starting from the house of God. Through this, God will make complete a group of overcomers and then He will publicly descend upon the clouds to reward the good and punish the wicked. We can further clarify this issue by reading a passage of Almighty God’s words. Almighty God says, ‘I still want to tell every so-called saint who follows Jesus that, when you see Jesus descend from the heaven upon a white cloud with your own eyes, this will be the public appearance of the Sun of righteousness. Perhaps that will be a time of great excitement for you, yet you should know that the time when you witness Jesus descend from the heaven is also the time when you go down to hell to be punished. It will herald the end of God’s management plan, and will be when God rewards the good and punishes the wicked. For the judgment of God will have ended before man sees signs, when there is only the expression of truth. Those who accept the truth and do not seek signs, and thus have been purified, shall have returned before the throne of God and entered the Creator’s embrace. Only those who persist in the belief that ‘The Jesus who does not ride upon a white cloud is a false Christ’ shall be subjected to everlasting punishment, for they only believe in the Jesus who exhibits signs, but do not acknowledge the Jesus who proclaims severe judgment and releases the true way of life. And so it can only be that Jesus deals with them when He openly returns upon a white cloud. They are too stubborn, too confident in themselves, too arrogant. How could such degenerates be rewarded by Jesus?’ Almighty God’s words make it very clear: When the Lord publicly descends upon the clouds, some people will go down to hell to be punished. Because when the Lord came hidden as the Son of man, they not only didn’t accept but condemned, resisted and rejected God. God arriving secretly is to save mankind, while when He publicly descends upon the clouds, He will reward the good and punish the wicked. So, those who don’t believe in Almighty God until they see the Lord publicly descending will be eliminated by God in the end. Sister, after we finish communicating, what are your thoughts?”

I came to a sudden realization, “That’s right! In Matthew 24:30 it says, ‘And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.’ When we people see the Lord descend on the clouds, we should be joyful but not wail instead, as we can imagine. It turns out that it is because some people don’t accept God’s work and miss the chance to be saved during the period of the Lord’s hidden arrival that they will wail when the Lord publicly descends upon a cloud. Brother, you fellowshiped that the Lord’s return is in two different ways: secret arrival and public arrival. This completely conforms with the Bible’s prophecies, so I can accept it. But I’m still a little unclear as to the Lord’s coming as incarnate. Is there any prophecy about this in the Bible? ”

The brother said, “About that, let’s read some verses. ‘Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not’ (Luke 12:40). ‘For as the lightning, that lightens out of the one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation’ (Luke 17:24-25). All of these prophecies speak of the coming of ‘the Son of man’ or ‘the Son of man in his day.’ This phrase ‘the Son of man,’ refers to One who is born to a human and has normal humanity. So the Spirit can’t be called the Son of man. For example, Jehovah God is Spirit and thus He cannot be called the Son of man; the reason why the incarnate Lord Jesus is called the Son of man is that He is the incarnation of the Spirit of God, and He became an ordinary, normal man, living amongst man. Therefore, ‘the Son of man in his day’ and ‘the coming of the Son of man’ refer to God’s coming through incarnation in the last days. Especially, the Lord Jesus said, ‘first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation,’ This proves even more explicitly that the Lord will return through incarnation. If God came through the means of the Spirit, He certainly wouldn’t experience any suffering, and certainly wouldn’t be rejected by this generation. So the Lord Jesus’ return is through incarnation and He comes to express the truth and do the work of judgment in the last days.”

Seeing that Brother Liu’s fellowship was well grounded, I was left agape. I thought, “Without listening I didn’t understand, but once I do listen I know that it really was recorded in the Bible that the Lord will come through incarnation. It seems that I lack profound understanding of the Bible. It’s a major event that the Lord will return through incarnation. I really must understand it.”

Why does God become flesh to do His work?

I said, “Brother, I have no doubt about what you said. But there is still one thing I do not understand. Why does God not appear through the means of the Spirit, but becomes flesh?”

Brother Liu said, “Sister, your question is very important. Let’s study two pieces of scripture to see the results that can be achieved by God’s Spirit appearing to carry out work. ‘And he said, I beseech you, show me your glory. … And he said, You can not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live’ (Exodus 33:18-20). ‘And all the people saw the thunder, and the lightning, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said to Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die’ (Exodus 20:18-19). From these verses we can see: God is holy while we men are corrupted and the Spirit of God will strike down the impure that He sees, so we cannot approach Him at all. Besides, the voice of God’s Spirit is like thunder and we cannot understand it at all. Thus, this does not facilitate the progress God’s work. As to this question, let’s read some more passages of God’s words. Almighty God says, ‘God’s saving of man is not done directly using the method of the Spirit and the identity of the Spirit, for His Spirit can neither be touched nor seen by man, neither can man draw near. If He tried to save man directly using the perspective of the Spirit, man would be unable to receive His salvation. If God did not put on the outward form of a created man, there would be no way for man to receive this salvation. For man has no way of approaching Him, much as no one was able to go near the cloud of Jehovah. Only by becoming a created human being, that is, only by putting His word into the body of flesh that He is about to become, can He personally work the word into all who follow Him. Only then can man personally see and hear His word, and moreover enter into possession of His word, and by this means come to be fully saved. If God did not become flesh, no man of flesh and blood would be able to receive such great salvation, nor would a single man be saved. If the Spirit of God worked directly in the midst of mankind, all humanity would be struck down, or else, with no way of coming into touch with God, they would be completely carried away captive by Satan.’

‘By the same token, during the first incarnation, only the flesh of God incarnate could redeem man through His crucifixion, whereas there would have been no way for the Spirit of God to be crucified as a sin offering for man. God could directly become flesh to serve as a sin offering for man, but man could not directly ascend to heaven to take the sin offering that God had prepared for him. This being so, all that is possible would be to ask God to run back and forth a few times between heaven and earth, not to have man ascend to heaven to take this salvation, for man had fallen and moreover man simply could not ascend to heaven, much less obtain the sin offering. Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to come among men and personally do the work that simply could not be accomplished by man. Every time God becomes flesh, it is out of absolute necessity. If any of the stages could have been carried out directly by the Spirit of God, He would not have submitted to the indignity of being incarnated.’

From God’s words we understand: We’ve been corrupted by Satan, so if we directly come into contact with God’s spirit, we’ll be struck down by Him. This is a fact that everyone has accepted. Moreover, every time God becomes flesh it is completely based on mankind’s needs. Just as in the Age of Grace when God was to do the redemption work, if God had appeared to man through the means of the Spirit again, then there would have been no way for Him to be crucified, shed His precious blood or suffer pain. So God came to earth from heaven and put on the outward form of a created man to become a man so that He could be crucified practically to redeem our sins. If the Lord Jesus had not become flesh, we would have never gained the sin offering. Similarly, in the last days, for God to express the truth to save us, He must be incarnated into flesh. If the Spirit did the work, we would not be able to understand the words expressed by Him.”

Hearing this, I understood more clearly. I said, “That’s right. We are of flesh and blood. If God appears to us through the means of the Spirit, we not only won’t be able to approach Him but will feel afraid. It seems that God becoming flesh to do His work is most suitable for us mankind, and is also beneficial to His saving us. ”

The brother said, “Sister, you understand very well. Next, let’s read another passage of God’s words: ‘The flesh of man has been corrupted by Satan, and most deeply blinded, and profoundly harmed. The most fundamental reason why God works personally in the flesh is because the object of His salvation is man, who is of the flesh, and because Satan also uses the flesh of man to disturb the work of God. The battle with Satan is actually the work of conquering man, and at the same time, man is also the object of God’s salvation. In this way, the work of God incarnate is essential. Satan corrupted the flesh of man, and man became the embodiment of Satan, and became the object to be defeated by God. In this way, the work of doing battle with Satan and saving mankind occurs on earth, and God must become human in order to do battle with Satan. This is work of the utmost practicality. … It is because God is incarnated that He can defeat Satan and is able to save mankind. He does not directly destroy Satan, but becomes flesh to do the work to conquer mankind, who has been corrupted by Satan. In this way, He is better able to bear testimony to Himself among the creatures, and is better able to save corrupted man.’ From God’s words we can see that we man have all been deeply corrupted by Satan, and have become the embodiment of Satan. Meanwhile, we are mortal flesh and have no ability to escape the bondage and control of sin. To save us, God must be incarnated in person to express the truth and reveal the truth that we have been corrupted by Satan to allow us to discern Satan so that we can abandon it and return to God. If God directly destroyed Satan, our old nature would never be resolved. That is, God must be incarnated to do the judgment work to conquer, perfect and cleanse man and in this way, He is able to defeat Satan and save mankind.”

I said, “Brother, through your fellowshiping, I realize that it is really very meaningful that God is incarnated to do His work and realize that all that God has done is to better save us. However, I had a very inflated view of myself, didn’t know what I am and made conclusions about and judged God’s way of working at will. I was so completely without sense! What manners God will use to save mankind is God’s own affair. What we should do is to obey Him.”

Brother Liu said, “Thanks be to God!”

Through his fellowship, all of my confusions had been relieved. I acknowledged in my heart that the Lord would be incarnated when He returned. After that, I installed The Church of Almighty God app and started to hungrily read God’s words. After a period of investigation, I firmly believed that Almighty God is the returned Lord Jesus and that the words of Almighty God are the utterances of the Holy Spirit. And so I happily accepted God’s work of the last days.

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1ST CORINTHIANS 5:1-7 Okay, now we get into some tough stuff. Paul tells them that he has heard about a situation where one of the brothers is sleeping with his step-mom [fathers wife, though probably not his mother]. And the rebuke is they are not repenting over it, but instead are kind of proud of the whole thing! Paul says to ‘deliver him to satan for the destruction of the flesh so the spirit may be saved’. Now I already showed you the way I view this verse. I tried to follow the other times where Paul speaks this way in this letter and when using this type of language I see him speaking of physical death [chapter 11- sleep-death as judgment to a believer who sins]. I often ‘day dream’ how bout you? I’m not sure if it’s the lord at times trying to tell me stuff. One of my noble fantasies is I can picture myself as the sole Christian preacher who has survived some nuclear holocaust and I am responsible to train the survivors. In this scenario [I am kinda ad libbing here, I don’t day dream this much!] I have both Catholic and Protestant believers. Although I am tempted to raise this new generation of people as Protestants, I instead teach the Catholics true Catholic doctrine [though I don’t fully agree with it all] and I teach the Protestants their stuff. Now, I think this little day dream in some way speaks to what I need to do at times on this blog. I need to honestly tell both sides! In this verse ‘commit to satan for the destruction of the flesh’ some do see it a little differently. You can read ‘flesh’ as meaning ‘fleshly nature’. Paul does use the word this way at times. You can’t really make the distinction by going to the Greek. Instead you have to simply look at the context. So this view would be saying ‘deliver this believer to the enemy, don’t allow him to remain ‘in the camp’ and continue to receive the benefits of the believing community. As you ostracize him he will feel the effect of not being with you, he will come to his senses and leave his sin’ [which in this scenario is ‘his fleshly nature’] so the ‘destruction of the flesh’ in this interpretation would fit in well with Arminians. Now, do I believe it this way? No, but I sure feel noble, sort of like the Protestant preacher in my ‘day dream’. [p.s. if you tell anybody about this day dream, I will deny it!]

(953)Yesterday I managed to catch a few TV shows that were good. National geographic did a special called ‘the first Christians’. It was excellent. They covered more historic truth in one hour than you would get from years of sermons. They basically taught the New Testament word for ‘church’ [Ecclesia] and showed how because the early Christians did not believe the ‘church’ was a building, that therefore they spread rapidly without lots of money. They then covered the historic development of the ‘church building’ and the effect this had on them. They also got into the ‘end times’ scenarios that are played out over and over again by today’s prophecy teachers. They interviewed true theologians who put Johns Revelation in historical context. Just an excellent job overall. I also caught the show ‘Journey Home’ on E.W.T.N. [the Catholic channel]. I do like the show, it often gives good historical stuff. Last night they were a little ‘too Catholic’ [I know, what should I expect]. They had a good brother on who left ‘non-denominational Christianity’ and became Catholic. Now, most of these brothers are very intelligent believers who make this choice out of sincerity. They usually study the early church fathers and realize the ‘Catholic tone’ of these early believers. I simply felt the brother who spoke last night was a little too critical of his former church experience [Willow Creek]. I then caught Scott Hahn [an excellent Catholic scholar and apologist], he always has stuff that interests me. He brought up an argument I have heard before on how the early church saw the ‘real presence of Christ’ as being in the Eucharist. Others have made this argument before from the Catholic perspective of Jesus being with us, as opposed to the detractors arguments that he misled the early followers to think that he would soon return and set up a literal earthly kingdom. I have heard and do understand this reasoning. In essence it defends Jesus and his followers by saying ‘Jesus didn’t let down the early church by not returning and ‘being with them’ he was with them all along thru the Eucharist’ good intentions. I would prefer to argue the same point thru the fulfilling of the Fathers promise and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost. Jesus says in John’s gospel ‘I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you’ it is understood by most theologians [Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant] that Jesus is speaking of the Holy Spirit. Jesus actually refers to the Spirit as ‘One just like unto myself’. The new testament very Cleary speaks of the Holy Spirit as Gods presence tabernacling among us in a real way. So in my thinking I would prefer to argue the real presence of Christ as being among the early believers as fulfilled thru the Comforter. Overall it was a good night of viewing some good teachers. I also couldn’t help but notice how I have been skipping over the ‘more popular’ preaching shows of the day. I did click on one of the prophecy guys, he was defending ‘the rapture’ and I couldn’t help but notice the difference between the good theological discussions from the earlier shows, and the ‘silliness’ of what this brother was teaching. I don’t want to demean you if you hold to the rapture theory, it was just such an obvious ‘step down’ from the level of theologian to the level of popular prophecy preaching. In our current study of Corinthians we just went thru the verse ‘though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you have only one father’ [Paul referring to himself]. I couldn’t help but get this sense of the modern seen. You could flip thru all the religious broadcasting of our day and get every possible conceivable viewpoint on some subject, ten thousand of them! But there is a consistent voice of truth and wisdom that comes to us from both scripture and church history/tradition. I think we would be better off sticking with ‘the father[s]’.

(954)NOW IT’S A PARALLEL/BUBBLE UNIVERSE! I watched the first TV special I ever saw on the multi-verse theory. I think it’s the first one of its kind by the history channel. It was very eye opening. It seems as if its defenders have been told ‘your initial argument is nonsensical’ and they have made some adjustments. As you read down thru the Evolution section you will see that one of the arguments against a multi-verse is that it is a ‘non physical’ argument. It is metaphysical. This meaning that you could never truly prove the existence of another universe thru the science of Physics. Why? Because the original definition of ‘the universe’ was every thing that exists in the time/space continuum. If by definition, all that can be seen or detected is ‘part of our universe’ then how in the world can you detect something outside of it? [they have some ideas on this, but its pure speculation as of right now] Once you detect it, it, by definition is in our universe! Well the brothers now realize that they fell into this obvious contradiction, so they seem to be moving the goal posts a little. In the special I just saw, they now seem to be saying that our universe is simply one ‘bubble of universes’ that’s floating around in space [before, space and the universe were synonymous!] so they seem to be simply shrinking down the definition of universe and making it mean ‘our closed existing time space continuum, which is simply one of many’ Ahh, you guys are cheating with his one! But hey, how many viewers realized this? That’s the problem with these theories, they come up with them for the purpose of having another explanation for existence, but they then get into more trouble trying to keep their theory alive. Remember, the reason this theory started in the first place was to come up with some type of explanation, apart from God, to explain the fine tuning of the Cosmos [read my sections on fine tuning under Evolution]. The unbelievable fine measurements that have been found to be exactly right to support life have no other real explanation apart from a creator. The multi-verse theory simply says ‘well, if you have millions and billions of unseen universes [pure speculation!] then the odds on one of them getting it right just went up’. So this theory was originally floated for this reason. Now, even if this theory were ever proved [according to the new definition of the universe!] it would simply mean that instead of trying to figure out how ‘our universe got here’ [the original question] now we have to figure out how they all got here! It really proves nothing. But I thought it interesting to see how these giants of Academia now realize that they were violating the basic laws of logic by espousing the theory in its original form! [In essence, all these so called floating, bubble like universes would have originally fallen under the heading of ‘the universe’. You wouldn’t have seen them as a bunch of separate universes. But they had to change the definition in order to keep their argument in the boundaries of logic and common sense]. They also borrowed from Einstein’s theory on worm holes. But Einstein surmised that worm holes might be these tunnels in space/time that one could travel thru and exit at another dimension, a different location of the universe. He did not use this idea as traveling from one ‘bubble universe’ into another, like the proponents of the multi-verse were doing. The show then got too silly to even give it a speck of serious thought. They then theorized that there are possible duplicates of us, and duplicates of other sports teams and presidents and all types of stuff. They thought it possible for the Giants to have won the super bowl in one universe, though losing it in ours [and you call this science!] they even said that this theory has moral implications. How did they come up with this? One of them explained that you could be ‘good’ in one universe, but if you realize that this holy altar image of yourself is doing good somewhere else, then this might effect your choice of being righteous in ‘this universe’ WOW! As we continue our study thru the book of Corinthians, keep in mind Paul’s teaching on the foolishness of men’s wisdom, I think we just saw a good example of it. There is this stature that we give in our modern day to any ‘Tom, Dick or Harry’ that comes down the pike with any nonsensical idea. We see them as a special class, the Academics can’t be wrong! After all it sounds intellectual. A few centuries before Christ you had the great philosopher ‘Philo- Betto’ [O wait, that was Clint Eastwood’s character in ‘every which way but lose!’] I mean Plato. Truly Plato and Aristotle and Socrates have had tremendous influence on Western thought. You would be hard pressed to find other later philosophers who have had the same influence [maybe Immanuel Kant]. Plato built this great school of learning in ancient Greece. He bought the land from a man by the name of ‘Academe’. Eventually we would call this pursuit of knowledge ‘the Academic world’ or Academia. Hey, don’t be intimidated by these guys.

(955)1st CORINTHIANS 5:6-8 Okay, lets get back to Corinthians. ‘Your glorying is not good, get rid of the old leaven. Don’t you know that a little yeast can affect the whole lump? Get rid of it, you are all unleavened, Christ is our new Passover Lamb who has been sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth’ [my own paraphrasing]. A few things. I want you to see something here, over the years I have read and studied lots of great theologians. It is common for these brothers to go back to the reality of the early church fathers belief in the ‘Real Presence’ of Christ in the Eucharist [Lords supper]. It is also becoming less common [in theological circles!] to defend the symbolic view of the Lords Supper. I believe Paul is presenting the idea of all believers spiritually sitting at the ‘table of life’ on a daily basis and receiving from Christ’s new life in a spiritual/symbolic way. He clearly says ‘let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth’ [clearly symbolic!] Peter writes of the new sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving. Jesus speaks in an interesting way about this in John chapter 6. The Jews ask him ‘show us a sign, Moses gave us bread to eat from heaven. If you’re from God then prove it like Moses’. I find it interesting that in the key chapter of Jesus being the bread that comes down from heaven, the conversation turns to Moses. The beginning of the chapter does say the Passover feast was getting close, but the imagery is Moses and Manna. Moses represented the Old system of law and works, John’s gospel tells us that ‘the law came from Moses, but grace and truth from Jesus’. Jesus contrasts himself with Moses. He says ‘I am the real bread that has come down from heaven, if men eat my flesh and drink my blood they will live’. Now we must understand the tremendous offence this statement caused. The Jewish people had Levitical laws [commands in their law] that forbid the drinking of any type of blood, never mind the blood of a person! But yet Jesus would speak this way to them. In the conversation the hearers acknowledge the difficulty of the saying, Jesus will say ‘the flesh profits nothing, it is the Spirit that gives you life. The words I am speaking to you are Spirit and life’. At the last supper [which was the symbolic end of the Passover and the beginning of a new celebratory meal centered on the final sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God] Jesus seems to be saying ‘from now on, as long as you do this, you are showing my death until I come again’ [we get this from Paul later on in Corinthians]. As you put all of this imagery together, you get the sense of the New Covenant being one of an ongoing continual New Covenant meal from which all believers daily eat from and ‘keep the feast with the new leaven of truth and sincerity, not the old leaven of sin and wickedness’. You clearly see a symbolic element in this language. Now, I do not discount the importance of the actual ordinance of the Lords Table. I recently defended the Catholic idea to an ex Catholic who is now Protestant. They said ‘how can people believe something so silly’ I had to say that many serious intellectual believers accept the Real Presence doctrine by faith in the literal reading of Jesus words. Luther himself believed it, he made no bones about it when he slammed his fist on the table in his dispute with Zwingli and said ‘this IS MY BODY!’ [I think he slammed his fist, he might have carved it in the table?] Standing for the literal interpretation of the sacrament. John Wesley, the founder of the great Methodist movement, wrote many hymns speaking of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. So make no mistake about it, many good believers hold to the literal belief. I just wanted you to see that it is also in keeping with the scripture to see the entire Christian walk as one huge ongoing ‘feast’ that is kept with spiritual sacrifices and symbolic language. Jesus is the bead that came down from heaven, those who would stay with ‘Moses bread’ [law] would die, those who would eat from this new table would live forever.

(957)1ST CORINTHIANS 5:9-13 Now Paul clarifies what he meant when he said ‘don’t associate with those who sin sexually’. He wants to be clear that his instructions on ‘not being with sinners’ is not misunderstood. After all we are called salt and light, Jesus himself was accused of spending too much time with the lost. So Paul says ‘what I meant was don’t keep ongoing fellowship with a brother who is practicing unrepentant sin’. He also says ‘if you thought I meant all sinners in general, then heck you wouldn’t be able to live in society this way’. Some believers have taken a stand on ‘separation from the world’ in such a way that they have no unbelieving friends. Others seem to view the unbeliever as the enemy. Sort of like we are in this culture war and the enemy is YOU! I can’t even watch the O’Reilly factor [Fox news] too long, he says he’s fighting this culture war and then in the ads for upcoming shows he shows the raciest pictures on any news show. What’s up with that? I feel we need to make the distinction between separating from a sinning brother [for his own good] and having friendships with unbelievers. People you can influence down the road. Paul also says if we judge our own [by shunning them for their own good] that this is a type of ‘present chastening’ that believers do experience. But those who are ‘outside the camp’ [unbelievers] are left to be judged by God. We see this same theme in chapter 11 ‘when we are judged we are disciplined by the Lord so we will not be condemned with the world’ [at the final judgment]. I believe that this idea is one of the best arguments for eternal security [once saved, always saved. Though I don’t like this language, you get the hint]. The concept of believers being presently dealt with for sin, even to the possible point of physical death, seems to indicate that they will not face a future judgment like the lost [eternal damnation]. When we recently did one of our Old Testament studies, I overlooked a verse that said to King David ‘I will raise up one of your sons [Solomon/Jesus- dual Messianic prophecy] and he will build this new temple/people. The way I will deal with the people under this new covenant is, if they commit sins, I will chasten them, but I will not utterly take my mercy from them’ [my paraphrasing- it is said to the actual son, Solomon/Jesus, but in the New Covenant revelation of the church actually being part of the Body of Christ, this is how you could apply it]. You can also read this idea in a few other places. I think Jeremiah uses it ‘I will give them a new heart and I will put my Spirit in them’ and he also speaks about not being totally rejected if they commit sin under this new covenant. So the point is, if there is a mechanism under this new covenant whereby sin is dealt with in the present time, and if this is compared to the other choice which is ‘judgment at a later time’. This would seem to indicate a type of ‘in house discipline’ that says ‘if you openly sin now, God will judge you now. He does this for your own good, so you won’t face the judgment of the unbeliever at the end’. So the fact that some were sinning, even pretty badly! Did not mean that they were expelled completely from the benefits of the covenant. As a matter of fact, temporal excommunication itself was one of the benefits! I don’t want to be too dogmatic on this, I just want you to see a repeated theme in scripture that says God will deal with his kids in the here and now [no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous- Hebrews] but this in itself is a blessing that is designed to ‘produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby’ Hebrews.

(958)1ST CORINTHIANS 6: 1-7 Paul rebukes them for taking each other to court. He tells them ‘don’t you have any wise people among you who could handle this? Why go before unbelievers!’ he also tells them ‘plus, why even fight for your rights, if you think you have been wronged in some way by your brother, then simply see it as part of the cost of carrying your cross’. Paul contradicts the prevalent mindset in much of Christianity today. He doesn’t teach ‘get what’s yours, know your rights!’ he teaches the ethos of self denial, of living with the expectation of giving up your rights and dreams. Of taking loss, if it glorifies the Father. Now we get into some ‘stuff’. Paul appeals to them by saying ‘don’t you realize that we shall judge angels some day, we shall judge the world’. A few years back there was a debate going on in theological circles. Some theologians popularized a new way to look at God’s sovereignty. This new system was called ‘Open Theism’. Scholars like Clark Pinnock and others held out the possibility that God doesn’t foreordain all future events, they actually went further and said ‘he doesn’t know all future events’. Well of course this sparked off a firestorm among the Calvinists. Does scripture teach that God is sovereign and does know all that will happen? To be honest about it, yes. But the idea of open theism was saying ‘because God has chosen to give man free will, he, by his own design, has chosen to limit his knowledge in the area of knowing all of mans future choices’. In essence that God purposely ‘does not know’ the future outcomes of decisions that have not been made by humans. If free will is real [of course the Calvinists say no] then God must limit himself to knowledge in these areas. I personally do not believe this, but I think I needed to share it to explain this section of scripture. Paul does tell them they will judge the world and angels. In second Peter 2, the apostle says the fallen angels are being held for a future day of judgment. In Matthew [19-?] Jesus says those who follow him will play a part in a future ruling over human government. These scriptures do indicate that believers will play a role in future judgment scenarios. So if we ‘judge angels and the world’ we should be able to arbitrate between ourselves! Now, in the world of theology you have sincere questions on ‘is it fair for God to judge people who have never heard the gospel’ or ‘if God is truly sovereign in all things, even in predestinating certain people to salvation, then this is unfair’. Many have turned to universalism, or a belief in ‘no hell’ in order to quell these questions. I want to simply float a scenario to you. Jesus says ‘whosoever sins you remit [forgive] they are forgiven. Those you retain [not forgive] will be retained’ while there are differing views on these verses, I want you to see how these scriptures, in keeping with all that I just showed you, might leave us room for another possible way out of all the so called questions on Gods ‘fairness’. Say if at the judgment, we are all gathered [Calvinists, Arminians, Catholics,…] and say if we are all waiting to see who’s right ‘I’ll show that Arminian…I’ll show that Catholic…’ and we are at the day where the future destinies of millions are at stake. What will God do? It’s possible that much of the final decision will rest in the hands of the church. I know it sounds heretical, but keep in mind all the verses I just quoted to you. Say if all of our pompous pontificating [wow!] amongst varying theories of the atonement and universalism and all the other stuff. Say if Jesus turns to us and says ‘You are now going to make the most important judgment of your lives, you shall judge the world and angels’ and all of a sudden all of our scrutiny of God’s fairness turns on us. We see in the crowd of masses, faces of people who we hate. People who have been demonized by history [Darwin, Hitler]. Those we always wondered about [eastern religions] and now much of their final destiny rides on us. Even the possibility of fallen angels being forgiven! [Hey, maybe Origen was right?] The whole point of this scenario is to simply say we might have been asking the wrong questions all along. Now for sure, no one gets in without Jesus and his blood! But there are also a few other verses [Peter] that seem to indicate a second hearing [or first!] of the gospel before the final day. The point being how willing are you to really carry out something like this? Are you really ready for the great responsibility of having someone’s destiny depend on how forgiving you are? I really don’t believe 100 % in this scenario I just floated. But Jesus does put us in positions of responsibility all thru out our lives. He does say ‘whoever’s sins we don’t forgive, these sins will be held against them by your own choice’ we keep people in ‘chains of bondage’ today! Never mind the future. God has committed to us great responsibility as believers, if we are still fighting each other over insignificant things [taking our brothers to court, if you will] then we are truly not ready to ‘Judge the world’.

(959)1ST CORINTHIANS 6: 8-20 Paul paints a ‘canvas’ of those who will not inherit the Kingdom. The list not only includes the big ones, but also the ‘average Joe’. Homosexuals, covetous, straight people who commit sexual sin; just the whole gambit. I do want to stress that Paul is not politically correct, he does categorize homosexuality as sin. He is not simply saying ‘non monogamous homosexuality’ but all types. I know there is an honest effort being made to try as much as possible to be more inclusive of other people’s views and lifestyles. I am for this approach as much as possible, but we also need to be honest about sin, all sin. Now covetous is that strong desire to amass wealth, it is the daily longing and confessing and believing for more material abundance. Yes folks, it’s what many of us have been duped into thru wrong teaching. I had a homeless friend who used to tell me how his dad, who was retired, used to wake up every day and simply consume his day with the stock market and how his retirement was going, he didn’t realize that he made the funding of his retirement [an okay goal] the main thought pattern of his life. I also just saw a story similar to this on some business channel. We need to be ‘ware’ of covetousness. Now Paul makes special mention of the destructive nature of sexual sin, he says ‘it destroys you’. I have been reading Proverbs the last month or so and there are many warnings about sexual sin. It says ‘he that does this destroys his own soul’. A few years back I watched [or read?] a local story of a professor who came down with a disease called Dementia. As they shared his story they described the progressive nature of him slowly losing his mind, and how his family eventually brought him back home [he was not married, his parents took him in] as they shared the sad story, they kinda tactfully said ‘one of the possible signs of this disease is obsessive compulsive sexual behavior’. They basically were saying part of this mans history included obsessive sexual sin. I wonder if the dementia in some way is a result of the behavior, as opposed to a symptom. There was also a study done years ago that showed the difference in the brain scans of Homosexuals and Heterosexuals, they seemed to have found some real physical brain distinctions. But once again, is it possible that sexually engaging in certain sinful behaviors is actually ‘destroying the soul’, or causing a change in the brain? Paul singled out this sin [not just Homosexual behavior, but all sexual sin!] as causing actual damage to a person’s physical make up in a way that was more damaging than other sins. I think we all need to heed his warning. [note- sexual sin is a common struggle in life. Many believers do struggle and have fallen into this sin. Paul actually is addressing these sins because of the prevalence of the problem. I don’t want to condemn any one who reads this site and struggles this way, Paul is offering hope and forgiveness thru out this letter. He seems to be extra harsh with the Corinthians because of their lax attitude towards this sin].

1Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

1Corinthians 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

1Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

1Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

1Corinthians 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

1Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

1Corinthians 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

1Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

1Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

1Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

1Corinthians 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

1Corinthians 6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

1Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

1Corinthians 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

1Corinthians 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

1Corinthians 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

1Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

1Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1Corinthians 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

1Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

1Corinthians 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

1Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

1Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

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Why Don't You Recognize Your Own Story, Evangelicals?

By Chris Churchill Listen, I was raised in a relatively fundamentalist Christian Church. I understand a strict interpretation of the Bible but I also understand there are parts of the Bible, namely the prophetic parts that are (conveniently) highly metaphorical. So Christians listen to those who’ve studied the Bible, presumably their pastors, preachers, elders, ministers; whatever it is they call themselves. I’m certain that 99 percent of Bible believers don’t have any understanding of the symbolism in these prophetic books.

I tried to tackle them a couple times and it seemed about as arbitrary as reading tea leaves or finding shapes in the clouds. But over the centuries a lot of these meanings have become accepted by the authorities in our churches. Those leaders then pass those meanings onto the masses. So really, most well-meaning religious folk can only honestly report that “I’ve been told by a preacher that that Bible section means—”or really, as I’ll be saying for the rest of this piece: “This is what I heard.”

This is what I heard, growing up, in regards to “the end of the world” as predicted in the Bible. I heard that there would be a “Rapture” where all God’s chosen would be swept up to be with God “in the twinkling of an eye.” That “no one would know the time or the hour” of Jesus’ return. That there would be a great tribulation, lasting seven years, for those left behind. During that tribulation, people would only be able to do business if they had the mark of the beast, “666” on their “forehead” or their hand.

I’d always heard that Jesus would return in the same generation that saw Israel become its own nation once again. I’d always heard that the world would unite against Jerusalem.

I’d always heard that there would be an Anti-Christ, also know as the “Great Deceiver” and the “Prince Of The Power Of The Air,” or even the Whore of Babylon. This person would be so charismatic that he could fool legions of people. This stuff probably sounds familiar to anyone still involved in a fundamentalist church or still with vivid memories of a childhood raised in it. I know this digital magazine isn’t generally the forum for anything bordering on religion but I have found I have quite the talent for belaboring a metaphor. Allow me to do that several times more in this piece for the purpose of making a very large point. The point being, “When Did You Stop Believing Your Own Story, Evangelicals?” And “When don’t you recognize your own Beast?” Let’s look at these prophecies that the most devoted, self-proclaimed Christians have believed with their very beings since they first sobbed at the altar in front of a tithing audience. “The Rapture” is always portrayed as like a magic trick. One day, without warning, Jesus will come down out of the sky and, “in the twinkling of an eye,” the good people will be raised up to Heaven to be with God. Well, what if “in the twinkling of an eye” wasn’t in reference to a measure of time (i.e. an instant) but rather a way that the event was seen by all those watching. The twinkling of an eye that occurs when we are watching any of our chosen screens. All the stories we watch twinkle their lights in our eyes. Maybe we already watched it happen. That’s the only way that no one could have known the hour or the day for these events; we didn’t recognize it when it was actually happening. Come on, evangelicals. Sounds as true as anything, doesn’t it?

What about this 666 number? There are two ways to go here. If you like satisfying numerical conclusions in your prophecy, try this one on for size: 666+666+666+6+6+6=2016. That’s when the Rapture happened and no one recognized it. Good job, Jesus. What am I talking about? First: what have we always said the Rapture would be? All of God’s chosen going to join Him “in the twinkling of an eye.”

Go back and look at the sheer number and quality of celebrities and personal relations we lost that year. Also, think back to how you felt as story after story of this amazing artist, leader, thinker after another were gone too soon. They all disappeared to be “with God” (because “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”) in “the twinkling of an eye” (i.e.on tv). There are those of you that will try to call these conclusions based on technicalities and little known new information. You might be right but that would be irrelevant. If the point was just to make people perceive a thing then the perception of the thing is the point, not the facts. It’s a secret message to you, evangelicals, isn’t it?

Here’s the other thing about 666. People “in the church” are always looking for 666, “The Mark of the Beast” so they’ll be able to warn everyone about the end being near. I remember people saying it was Ronald Wilson Reagan just because of the number of letters in each of his names. I also saw a clip floating around the Internet where a woman was trying to show us that the logo for “Monster” energy drink was 666. Then it occurred to me that the Hebrew letters “www” have the numerical value of 666.

I’d always been taught that all of humanity would gladly accept the “mark of the beast” on their forehead or their hands because, without the mark, no one can participate in society. And, look, evangelicals, we can barely communicate, eat, do business without the internet either in our head or in our hands (computers, smartphones, etc.) Just like I always heard growing up in the church, we all participate and have taken this Mark of the Beast. In fact, I think Apple will tempt us with a new Mark of the Beast next spring.

So Jesus was supposed to return in the same generation that Israel was restored to its people. Of course, any good apocalyptic evangelical knows that happened in 1948 when modern Israel was established. So it’s been 70 years. Psalm 90 even says “The days of our years are threescore and 10”. That’s 70 years. So He should be back anytime. Only no one can know when, right? But like I said, it will happen and no one will recognize it. That’s how that will work.

Then Israel will have the whole world opposed to it. Well, recent news in Gaza has Israel doing things that have the world furious with them. Netanyahu would have us believe that we in the USA are their only ally. Maybe the USA is that “New Jerusalem” the Bible takes about? Maybe not.

So who would fit the bill as this Anti-Christ? Maybe, as I was always taught, he’d be someone who claimed to be Christian but served a different master. As Jesus said, “One cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God and money.” That one, evangelicals conveniently forget all the time.

God, as the Bible clearly states, is Love. It’s money or Love. So I’ve heard people say they voted for Trump because he was already rich and so he couldn’t be bought. To those people I’ll say, I agree that he can’t be bought...because he’s already owned...by money. He’s owned by the master of the thing that is the opposite of Love. The AntiChrist. Sure. I guess that could be any rich businessman but let’s keep going.

The Anti-Christ is to be “The Prince Of The Power Of The Air.” I remember as a kid truly wanting to understand what they could mean. What did it mean when they first wrote it? Maybe it didn’t mean anything when they first wrote it because it was meant to be understood by the people reading about it in the future time when it would all happen.

If that’s the case, then it would have to be a “Great Deceiver” (the best liar the world has ever known) that did the bulk of his deception through mediated channels, I.e. the airwaves. The air. That’s TV. That’s the internet. That’s the media. Someone who is a master manipulator of media would be “The Prince Of The Power Of The Air.” But if he’s the prince, then he wouldn’t be the AntiChrist I’d always been taught about, would he? Correct.

He’d be the “False Prophet” that serves the agenda of a more powerful King that stands against Love. Putin seems the obvious choice here, evangelicals. He rules a place that you have called Godless for the last 100 years. He’s never denied or renounced it’s atheism. But, suddenly, because Trump says it’s fine, you’re fine with it. (“Trump” or “Trump/Pence” by the way. Like the “Trump”s or “Trumpets” mentioned in Revelation.)

I feel like a lot of this stuff should seem pretty obvious to those who learned it in church. But why is it ignored when it so clearly matches your own prophecy? Because you want to ignore it. There’s a small, selfish, fearful spot inside you that blinds you to your own weaknesses. But seriously, maybe this piece can lift the veil for you.

I’ve seen a few focus group style interviews with “Christians” who blindly support our president even though they know he’s a vile human being. Some say it’s because “He’s ordained by God.” Doesn’t mean you have to be complicit with the Devil just because it’s supposed to happen. You’re supposed to resist evil, even when you think you might lose.

I’ve heard others say, “he fulfills our agenda”, in which case, you’re making a deal with the devil. Or don’t you recognize your own “Beast” as the “Beast”?

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A WARNING

A VERY IMPORTANT TIMELY MESSAGE FOR AMERICAN CHRISTIANS

By Col. Gordon "Jack" Mohr Army U.S. Ret. Evangelist, Author, and Lecturer

"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear," (Matt. 11:15)

Titus 1:16 - "They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."

Isaiah 65:15 - (Speaking to the Jews) - "And ye shall leave your name (JEW) for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call His servants by another name." (CHRISTIAN).

On May 14, 1948, following years of Zionist pressure on both Britain and the United States; pressure which resulted in both World Wars, the bastard State of Israeli was born in Palestine. The cost of this Jewish State to America and other nations of the Western Christian world have been incalculable in both money and lost prestige.

Palestine was literally stolen from its rightful owners by a money hungry, greedy, amoral group of International gangsters, calling themselves, Zionists.

The Palestinians, who had owned this land, had occupied it for almost 1800 years. They were murdered, driven from their homes and the land was raped and pillaged by Jewish terrorists, of which not the least, was the man who now leads the Israeli, Menachem Begin.

This unhappy land was stolen with the full consent of the American Government, and of a "brainwashed" people, who have poured billions of dollars into this unholy project in direct loans, food, war supplies and other forms of aid. It was the powerful Zionist Banking Cartels, using the power of the Jewish controlled media in the United States that pushed America into both World Wars -wars in which white Christian fought against white Christian, while the Jewish bankers sat back and grew fat on the suffering of the whole world. It has been well said, by Jews themselves: "Wars are the Jews harvests!" After World War I, Count Mensdorf, the Jewish Ambassador from Austria to London, publicly boasted that the Jews had caused that war, just as they had brought about the Communist Revolution in Russia. He topped his boasting by saying:

"World War I was our supreme revenge on the Christian World."

In spite of the billions of dollars of American aid. This Jewish State is now in a shambles. They have the highest tax rate and inflation rate in the world, and have admitted officially. That without American aid they would cease to exist. They are world parasites, who cannot exist without outside aid, and more Jews are leaving this "miserable sandbox" than are coming in!

Why is it that for forty years, the fundamental and conservative churches of America have backed this enemy of God and Christian its'? Why have they unleashed an unending flood of messages from their pulpits, trying to convince their people that the Jewish State of Israeli is indeed the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy? It is almost as though they believe God needs their help in order to prove His prophecy true! Today, every preacher of prominence, trumpets over the air waves, that the gathering of the Jews in Palestine is the fulfillment of prophecy, and that we are living in the Last Days, that this is the final generation proceeding Christ's return and that soon, very soon, Jesus Christ will return secretly, to Rapture His people out of this world, before the time of Jacob's Trouble descends on the Jews and this old sin sick world. So strong has this preaching become in fundamental circles, they will tell you, without batting an eye, that the "last generation" of Matthew 24:34, can be dated from the creation of the Israeli State on May 14, 1948.

According to their predictions, a generation is forty years, which means that Christ must come back before May. 14,1988. Then of course, we must take into consideration the Seven Years of World Tribulation which would mean that the secret Rapture of the Church should take place in May 1981.

Some radical fundamentalists even set dates, contrary to what Scripture teaches. I have before me, a letter written by Bill Maupin, President of the Lighthouse Tract Foundation of Tucson, Arizona, in which he says: "We originally thought that June 28th was the day of the Rapture, but the Lord showed us that we failed to see the 40 days after the flood came for Noah in which the ark was lifted up. It was not until the end of these 40 day's that the ark reached its destination in the clouds; but we did not see this as applying to the Church in these days... The Bible makes it clear, however, that we can know the day of Jesus Second Coming..."

He then goes on with his explanation of Matthew 24:3-32 and says: "...The Fig Tree is Israel being restored the second time as a nation. All the people who have responded to the national coverage we have received concerning the Rapture believe that the Fig Tree is the restoration of Israel, and that a generation is 40 years. So we will explain how we arrived at August 7th as the Rapture date..."

Matthew 24:36, Jesus Christ speaking, says: "But of that day and hour (Christ's return) knoweth no man, no, not the angels in heaven, BUT MY FATHER ONLY!" (Emphasis added.) Maupin then goes on to explain that this verse does not refer to the Second Coming, but to Israel's restoration as a nation, as it was fulfilled on May 14, 1948.

If his explanation on Israeli is as false as his explanation on the Rapture, then we know he is a false prophet. August 7th has come and gone and Bill Maupin and His "brainwashed" followers are still here!

Now I'm not telling you this to poke fun at these sad people, but to give you an up-to-date example of how 40 to 50 million Christians have been "propagandized," "brainwashed," and "misled," by the Jewish fables which Paul warns us about in Titus 1:14 - "Not giving heed to JEWISH FABLES, and commandments of men, THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH." (Emphasis added.)

The United States Congress, for the most part, and several Presidents going back as far as Woodrow Wilson, pressured by millions of misled Christians, and a generation of "con artists," who have become "prostitutes" of Zionism, standing behind the protection of their pulpits, have assured the "Synagogue of Satan. (Revelation 2:9), of the Jewish State in Palestine, of their unending support. Recently I sent a letter to all 100 Senators, deploring the Zionist pressure in Washington that has often led to practices which are not beneficial to this country. I received this answer from Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, one of the Zionaplites: "It is vital for you to understand that American security is integrally linked to that of Israel. We have a vested interest in Israel's stability... Politically Israel is a true democracy."

(Isn't this strange, when you must be a Jew in order to be a citizen?) He goes on to say: "Strategically, we cannot afford to abandon our national commitment to Israel."

But what about our commitment to the Arab countries of' the Middle East, who for many years, because of their religious belief, have been staunchly anti-Communist and friends of this nation? Are we to abandon them?

Why is it that intelligent, Christian leaders, such as Dr. Jerry Falwell are committed to a "no questions asked" support of Israeli policy, when they will not listen to any facts or arguments which may prove their stand to be wrong? Is it just intellectual dishonesty or something even more disturbing?

Recently, Dr. Falwell refused to meet with a group of Arab Christian leaders who wanted to tell him their side of the story. This hardly seems like the actions of a “man of God”.

This has been one of my "pet peeves," in dealing with fundamental preachers. (I was one for eighteen years. so I know whereof I speak): You will not find one out of a hundred who are intellectually honest enough to look at any facts which differ from what they teach. They will not even consider Scripture which proves they are "wrong. Recently one wrote to me: "The Bible is not hard to understand a Jew is a direct physical descendant of Abraham, and that is all there is to it. Nothing can change that, and any other interpretation is not of God." The Bible says nothing of the kind! Does this individual actually believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. is a physical descendant of Abraham? Yet he's a Jew! The great majority of people we know as Jews today have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Abraham. (Read Jack Mohr's article "Myth Information")

The purpose of this message is to tell you about "the other side." We have been so "brainwashed" by Pro-Zionist propaganda in this country that very few Americans know, or even care about the Arab side of the story. It is my purpose to tell you that. (And by the way, I am not being subsidized with Arab money for doing this; I'm financing it myself, because I believe you deserve to know the truth.)

Most American Christians, unfortunately, are anti-Arab in their feelings. To them the Jews are God's Chosen People; Jerusalem is God's Holy City, and Palestine is God's Holy Land! It was a sign of God's favor, these preachers will tell you, when Gen. Allenby entered Jerusalem during World War I and liberated it from the Turks, without firing a shot.

Most Christians inherit these ideas from their Sunday school training and are often shocked when they visit Israel, to see Sabra girls in short shorts and bikinis, water skiing on the sacred waters of the Sea of Galilee. Very few Christians realize that we are closer to the Arab Moslems in their religious teachings, than we are to the Jews. At least the Moslems recognize and teach that Jesus Christ was a great prophet; the Jews spit when His name is mentioned and call Him an "illegitimate bastard."

When you visit Israel on the Israeli side, as most Christian tour groups do, expect to be inundated with pro-Zionist propaganda. Recently, Dr. David Webber of the Southwest Radio Church, in Oklahoma City, a, leading Pro-Zionist preacher, advertised a trip to the Holy Land, in which the chief commentator was to be the Rabbi of the Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem. Come now, do you think he will tell the truth about Zionism, when he knows it would turn his Christian audience off? When you go to the Arab side, you will find things vastly different from what your pastor, the Jewish controlled newspapers or TV has told you.

So I challenge you as honest, fair-minded people, before you make up your minds, be honest enough to find out that the vast majority of people we call Jews today, have no part with Abraham and their ancestors never set foot in Palestine. This has been confirmed by many Jewish sources. I would like to call your attention to a startling book, THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE, written by the pro-Zionist, Jewish author Arthur Koestler. Then go a step farther and check with those people who have been to the other side of the Jordan. One thing you can be sure of. If you criticize a Jew about anything, you will immediately find yourself wearing an "Anti-Semite" label. You can speak out against most anything or anyone, but never a Jew. Horace Mann, the great American writer once said that truth never needs to hide itself if an issue is right. It does not seek to hide what it is doing. Zionism, yes Judaism itself, seeks to cloak its evil intentions behind a facade of deception, unfortunately often sponsored by Christians.

I am going to try and show you some of the "other side." Then as an intelligent person, you should be able to draw your own conclusions, without having to be coached by a "brainwashed" preacher.

Dr. A. C. Forrest, author of the Canadian Best seller, THE UNHOLY LAND, looking at the Arab side of the story, came under intense Jewish pressure when the book was first published. He was picketed and even physically threatened by the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Defense League. But there were a few courageous book reviewers, who incensed by Jewish pressure against the truth, gave Dr. Forrest a good review. A Winnipeg book salesman asked Dr. Forrest: "Do you know who is buying your book in Montreal?"

To which Dr. Forrest correctly replied: "Your Jewish customers!

This excellent book, published by The Devon-Adair Company of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, should be read by every honest Christian, especially the pastors, before they give their "total approval" to the Zionist Israeli.

Dr. Forrest is well-known in Canada as a Christian gentleman who has been outspoken on controversial issues concerning the Church. For fifteen years he was Editor of the UNITED CHURCH OBSERVER and wrote a syndicated news column for over 20 years. He was strongly pro-Israeli, until he visited the Arab side and found out the truth for himself. He proved the truth of Horace Mann's statement: "Truth does not need to hide itself!" I wish to thank him for many of the ideas I have tried to incorporate in this brief message.

Strangely enough, there have been Jewish intellectuals who have gone to the Arab side to learn the truth. We Christians need to recognize the courage of these men who have been outspoken in their condemnation of the Israeli rape of Palestine. They are men like Berger, Menuhin, and Alfred Lilienthal. In Lilienthal's monumental book THE ZIONIST CONNECTION, he states: "I would not be surprised to find that some of my Christian readers have more claims to Palestine than Menachem Begin." This is certainly true, for Begin is not a Jew by race, but his ancestry centers in the heathen Turco-Mongolian Khazars who were converted to Judaism in the 8th Century.

When you cross over the Allenby Bridge from East Jordan into Israeli occupied Palestine, you immediately move into a world of terror and brutality. There are thousands of frightened refugees living in this area. Often, when Jewish authorities feel they have given aid or comfort to the feydeen, the "Freedom fighters" of the Arab cause, they will give the inhabitants ten minutes to pack up and get out, then dynamite all the houses in the area.

Today, the rotting carcasses of domestic animals, furniture and personal belongings lie buried beneath the rubble.

The Israeli police exhibit the same brutal, inhuman characteristics of the Soviet KGB. Well they might, since the KGB was organized by Russian Jewry and was staffed by them in its beginning, during their persecution of Russian Christians. The shores of Galilee, a Gentile area during Jesus' days on earth are now occupied by Jews. The original Arab inhabitants were driven out in 1947 - 48. Many of these refugees lived on the Golan Heights, until they were driven eastward again during the 1967 war. These people are two-time losers to Jewish greed; no wonder they hate the Jews.

This is a strange land. The Jewish authorities call it a democracy, and Jews from anywhere in the world can come here and become instant citizens; but the Arabs, whose ancestors have lived here for thousands of years, are not permitted to return to their own homes. As I mentioned earlier, another strange phenomenon, is that a vast majority of the Jews living in Palestine, have no Jewish blood flowing in their veins.

Many American Christians have been misled by Jewish propaganda into believing that the refugee problem has been taken care of by the United Nations and that the Israeli authorities have allowed the Arab refugees to return to their homes. But North Americans, and Europeans to a lesser extent, have not been getting the facts from their news media and their pastors. This makes sense when you realize the strong Jewish control over all news media in the United States. In addition, many of our churches have become "propaganda belts" for Zionism. If you don't believe this, try and get an ANTI-ZIONIST LETTER TO THE EDITOR, published in any of our major newspapers.

It is not that the truth is unavailable, for Arab Christian refugees have come to America with pitiful stories. But they are not accepted by our clergy, who will accept nothing but the Jewish side of the issue. Even when shown how un-Scriptural their stand is, they will not budge from their pro-Zionist stance. The Zionists are extremely clever in presenting their side of the story. A documentary will appear on NBC or CBS (both Jewish owned), showing Arabs returning to their old homes under the benevolent protection of the Israeli police and Army. But the American audience is not told that the hundred or so Arabs seen moving into Israel, are paid performers, while at the same time 600 Arabs have been evacuated. Whenever you become honest enough to face the facts, you must admit that the Israeli are thumbing their nose at the United States and the rest of the civilized world. They cannot be trusted as an ally, as Sen. Hart said, for you can always expect a Zionist, including their Congressional stooges, to put Zionist interests before the interests of the United States.

The Jews are the only people in America who can legally have "dual citizenship" in both Israeli and the United States. It has been proven, over and over again, that when the "chips are down," a Zionist will always put Israeli first. Many of these Jews have become wealthy in the United States. They have risen to places of importance; they have no intention of moving to Israeli. Yet their first loyalty is to the Israeli State. I say these people should be deported to Palestine. If they do not want to give support to the State which is providing for them, then they should be sent elsewhere.

In the NEW' YORK REVIEW for July 1967, the Jewish intellectual, I. F. Stone wrote: "The path to safety and greatness lies in reconciliation. The other route ... leads to new perils. The Arab population no" in the conquered territories makes guerrilla war possible within Israel's own border's and externally, it deepens the enmity and tensions arise ... both sides, will by one means or another obtain nuclear weapons for the next round." Remember, this was written 14 years ago. We know the Israelis have nuclear weapons and on the basis of past actions, we can be sure Mr. Begin will use them if he believes they will benefit Israeli. He would rather see the Israeli destroyed and the world devastated by nuclear war, than to give an inch to the Arabs he hates with a fanatical hatred. Yet in spite of this danger, our foolish Christian leaders continue to back him.

What will it take to wake America to the dangers we face? Especially, what "'ill it take to wake Christians up? We know that plans have already been made to put American troops in the Sinai. This means, in case of war, we will be involved from the first.

If the little Hitler of the Israeli is the first to use nuclear weapons, we as her allies could expect to be hit in retaliation. What would happen then?

Can you visualize the scenario as millions of homeless, starving, half-mad hordes who have survived the holocaust will be roaming over America in search of food, loot and someone to blame for the pitiful state they are in. Who do you think they will blame? It will not be the politicians who are safe in their hideouts in Washington of this you can be sure. It will be the American Jew and his Christian counterpart, who prostituted themselves for a foreign, anti-God country and who gave the Israeli their full support and cooperation. The wrath of the angry mob will fall on those who have backed our enemies and called them God's People. The sad thing, preacher, is your congregations, whom you have led astray by your false teachings, will suffer too. As for the American Jews - if this should happen; then they will pray for some strong "anti-Semite" leader who can control the angry mobs! But alas! There will be none! For the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish controlled American Civil Liberties Union have been busy for forty years, destroying these men, as fast as they have hit the American scene. The Jews in America will be subject to things which will make Nazi Germany look like a picnic by comparison.

You see, the entire Fundamentalist "fairy tale" is built on the false foundation that the present Zionist State in Palestine, born May 14, 1948, is the rebirth of Biblical Israel and that the anti-Christ Jews who are now gathering there, are the Israelites of the Bible.

But let me reiterate. The Jews are NOT God's Chosen People. They are NOT Israelites. They are NOT the seed of Abraham through Isaac and they have no legitimate claim on the land of Palestine. This Israeli State in Palestine is NOT the Promised Land of the Bible. Once you understand this, then you will understand why the Jews act as they do.

If there was only one verse of Scripture available to prove this, it could be found in John 8:33. In verse 32, Christ has told the Jewish leaders: "If you would know the truth, the truth shall make you free." In verse 33, these Sanhedrin leaders boastingly say: "...We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man..." In other words, they publicly admit they are not Israelites.

Any Sunday school teacher will tell you that the Israelites were in bondage in Egypt. Yet in this passage, the Jewish leaders are telling our Lord they have never been slaves. This should tell any honest Bible student that they could not have been Israelites. Our Lord went on to tell them in verse 39 of this same chapter: "If ye were Abraham's children ye would do the works of Abraham..." (vs. 41) "Ye dothe deeds of your father..." (vs 44) "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it." Then in John 10:27, listen carefully now: "But ye BELIEVE NOT, because you are NOT MY SHEEP." (Emphasis added.) Now who are you going to believe, your pastor who calls these "devil worshipers" God's Chosen People, or our Lord who plainly says they are "chilan. of Satan?" With this scathing denunciation of the Jewish leaders, it's no wonder that modern Jewish Rabbis have said: "There will be Anti-Semitism in the Christian world, as long as the Gospel of John remains in the New Testament. You can just bet your life on that!

Yes, the Israeli (not Israel) is the "fig tree" your pastor tells you about all right, but it is a barren tree with leaves, but no fruit (Matthew 21:19). This is confirmed in Luke 21:29-33. The Bandit State of Zionist Israeli has never borne fruit and it never will. The "false Jews" who are gathered there will be destroyed in fulfillment of Luke 19:27, where our Lord said that in that day, the day of His wrath upon this earth, He will say: "But those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them hither and slay them before Me.

Many of the Russian Jews, who went to Israeli, have left there for the "good life" in the United States, yet they have never embraced Christ and they hate Christianity. I had a Jewish man tell me: "Don't feel so smug about Jewish people being converted to your religion. Many of us become Christians in name only, so that we can spy on you. Your Christian churches are loaded with Jewish undercover agents. We know everything you do."

These Jews, who have come to America from Russia via Israeli, have often proven themselves to be Communist agents. Look at the names of those who have proven traitors to this country in the past sixty years. They exhibit none of the characteristics of "true Israel." Their Bible is the satanically inspired Babylonian Talmud, not the Laws of Moses; their God is their money and Satan. Their temple is the synagogue, which came into being while they were in Babylon. It was never given by God. Their self-admitted ambition is to rule the world and to destroy the Christian Church and State.

A well-known Jewish writer once admitted: "The Jewish plan for International Economic control is nothing less than the Sovietization of the entire United States by stealth. Its whole trend is toward the dictatorship of Trusts and Combines: towards regimentation and standardization.

Godwin Smith, Jewish Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, stated a hundred years ago (1881) - "We regard our race as superior to humanity, and look forward. Not to the union with other races, but to our triumph over them." They would like to see white Christians destroyed by mongrelization that they so ardently push everywhere, except in the State of Israeli.

The Jews as a race have used their considerable influence to bring about divisions between kindred people. Today, on every front, International Jewry is pressing towards their goal of exterminating white Christian civilization. If you are a Christian, remember, you are their number one enemy, no matter how friendly they may appear.

Today, there are very few Christians who are walking with the "historic Christian church; "who have their faith anchored on the solid Rock, Christ Jesus. Why this terrible accusation? Because we have allowed our seminaries to become subverted by Jewish teachings; our translations of the Bible have been influenced by Jewish Bible scholars and the vast majority of our pastors have become "Zionist prostitutes," who have accepted the Jewish fables of Titus 1:14, which "turn from the truth!"

But let's get back to the Arabs and look at some of the popular misconceptions which have been planted in Christian minds by the Zionist propagandists.

1 - "Israeli is a poor little nation surrounded by hostile Arabs " This myth has been enlarged to where we have been told: "There are only 3-million Jews and100-million Arabs; all of whom want to drive Israeli in-to the sea." But do you remember "little Japan," in the 1930's and what she did to giant China? Do you remember your history of the Nineteenth Century, when a little Island Kingdom called the British Empire, controlled most of the world?

When the "Six Days War" began in 1967, the Israeli were in much better position to fight than their Arab neighbors. They had more trained soldiers and better equipment; furnished by the United States, at the expense of our own military structure. As in World War II, when Lend Lease aid went to Russia on a priority basis, while Americans died on the atolls of the Pacific for lack of equipment; so in 1967, military equipment went to Israeli which was needed for our own armed forces. It was not God who helped the Israeli win in 1967 against overwhelming odds. It was superior training, leadership and above all the all-out effort of the American people who were backing their own enemies. If the United States were to withdraw all our aid to Israeli, she would collapse within six months.

"Oh," but you say: "My pastor has told me that since the Jews are God's Chosen People we must help them or receive the curse of God. He said the reason God has blessed America is because we have been kind to the Jews." That's the kind of "hogwash" I used to preach! But you don't have to be very brilliant to realize that God has not blessed America, since we have helped the Jews. Since we recognized the Zionist Israelis in 1948, we have seen the period of greatest decline, economically, militarily, politically, morally and spiritually. We have seen the truth of another curse, which can be found in 2 Chronicles 19:2b, it says: "...Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord. Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord." Christian, you better ponder on that verse for a while. The crime and moral pollution which is literally swamping America in this decade comes from Jewish sources. Don't bother to argue with me about it, just look at the names behind Secular Humanism; Sex Education in the Schools; prostitution; the dope trade; see who runs the abortion clinics, the alcohol trade. See who runs the immoral filth mills of Hollywood and the American stage; see who controls the propaganda mills of the media, radio and TV ... I dare you to look. If you do, you will find Jewish names in the preponderance.

2 - The second myth is that all the Arabs are Mohammedans and are therefore anti-Christian. Did you know that Christianity is closer to Mohammedanism than it is to Talmudic Judaism? The Mohammedans believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. They believe that Jesus Christ was a great prophet. The Jews, on the other hand say they believe in God. Jesus said they were liars. In John 8:19, our Lord said to the Jewish leaders, "...Ye neither know me, NOR MY FATHER; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also ... I shall go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins; whither I go, ye cannot come. "While most of the Arab world is Moslem, about half of Lebanon is Christian and there are over 6-million Coptic Christians in the United Arab Republic. About one-tenth of the Arabs in Palestine were Christians, before the Jews took over that country, as were the Syrians. It has been the Arab Christians who have suffered most under Israeli brutality, just as their Christian brethren suffered under Jewish cruelty during the Communist takeover of Russia and China. The same ungodly crew was in charge in both places.

3 - The third myth is "The Israeli want peace and " the Arabs want war. " This is one of the strongest arguments used by the Zionists. When Arab terrorists kill two or three Israeli school children in an attack on a bus, they scream about the dastardly terrorists; but when Israeli planes strafe and bomb Beirut and kill over 300 children and their mothers, this is an act of war. Never ever call any of Israeli's acts "terrorism," or you will be tarred with the label of "anti-Semitism." (There are no people in the world, who are more anti-Semite, than the Jews in their treatment of the Arabs.)

This same kind of falsehood is prevalent in the United States. A Christian organization, such as the Christian Patriot's Defense League, will be quickly investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, because some newspaper reporter, who has been given full access to the C.P.D.F. camp grounds and has been treated with courtesy, has written a slanted news article. The Jewish Defense League can train teenagers in the use of "fully automatic weapons," in direct violation of the law and the law enforcement agencies will do nothing about it.

Not long ago, the church of a militant, right-wing Christian group was bombed by the Jewish Defense League. A local law enforcement official had said shortly before this incident: "The JDL will take care of them all right!" "When the bombing took place, it was like pulling teeth to get the law to do anything. But let a Jewish synagogue be blown up and see what happens.

The chances are, someone from the "right wing" will be blamed; the case will be tried before a Jewish Judge, with a Jewish Prosecuting Attorney and we wonder why our system of Justice has "gone to hell."

With the exception of a few of the Arab extremist organizations, most of the Arab countries want peace with Israeli. All they ask for is a just settlement of the refugee problem. Under Menachem Begin, this will never happen. He has proven over and over, that he is not interested in a just settlement. Israeli leaders say loudly in the news’s media that she wants peace, while all her actions are aimed at warlike aggression. In fact her actions speak so loud, you can't hear what she says. There is no terrorism anywhere in the world worse than that which has been practiced by the Israeli against the Arabs. The Arabs want peace on just terms, while the Israeli want peace on the terms of a conqueror.

4 - The fourth myth is "The Arabs could have stayed in Israeli, but the Arab countries urged them to leave "This falsehood has been adequately proven over and over again by many reliable people. The Commissioner General of UNRWA, John Davis was quoted as saying: "'The extent to which the refugees were savagely driver out by the Israeli was a deliberate master plan."

5 - The fifth myth is - "It would he national Suicide for the Israeli to allow these Arab refugees to remain within the country. No other authority than the Israeli General Mayan said: "Economically, we can let them return, but it is not in accord with our national aims. It would turn Israeli into a bi-national, rather than a Jewish State and we want a pure Jewish State."

Doesn't it seem strange to you, that while in the United States, it is the Jews who push for integration, inter-marriage, open immigration, and all its attendant evils, in Israeli they are probably the most segregated people in the world? Ask yourself why?

6 - The sixth myth is - "While the Arabs are terrorists, the Israeli are freedom fighters, trying to protect their people."

In the many letters to the Editor, which followed the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear plant, American Jews followed one set pattern: "We had to do it to protect ourselves from those nasty Arabs who want to kill all the Jews." Of course it is almost impossible to get a letter published which shows the other side of the story. But what is the truth about terrorism in Palestine? Without a doubt, extremists on the Arab side have attacked Israeli villages (on land which once was theirs, don't forget) and innocent civilians have been killed. But the story doesn't stop here and most American Christians haven't been told the story of what the people they support have done. So let's look at some facts that the Zionists can't cover up. Back at the beginning, in April 1948, two Jewish terrorist gangs attacked the Arab village of Deir Yassim, east of Jerusalem. According to International Red Cross accounts, 254 men, women and children were brutally murdered and many of their bodies were stuffed down a well. This was done by a band of disciplined Israeli soldiers, acting under orders. Begin later boasted that this act did more to frighten the Arabs than anything else they could have done. There are many more since then.

In the December 22, 1980 issue of SPOTLIGHT, the story is told of a young woman diplomat, Alexandra Johnson, who was fired from her post as an intelligence expert in the State Department, working in Israel. She was fired because she refused to doctor up reports about Israeli torture of Arabs. In an interview with SPOTLIGHT, she revealed that she was stunned when she first arrived in Israeli, to find that MOSSAD, the dread Israeli secret service, had penetrated and subverted the American government in certain key areas of strategic concern - especially in the area of foreign relations and that Israeli and Zionist spokesmen wielded more power over United States foreign policy than American officialdom.

Miss Johnson's job was to review applications of Arabs who wanted visas to come to the U.S. She interviewed a number of them who had been in Israeli prisons, for what we would have called "misdemeanors" in this country. What emerged from her reports, was that Arabs in Israeli control, were often tortured by the Israeli, not merely to mete out extra punishment, or to elicit information, but as an instrument of official terror, to intimidate and frighten all Palestinians. She found that the Israeli used three levels of torture, from beatings, to assault on sexual organs, to the third level, where prisoners were stripped naked, hung up by the heels for long periods in refrigerated rooms, while they were subjected to sexual tortures too horrible to mention.

Alexandra analyzed and classified all this information with the meticulous precision of a trained intelligence analyst. On May 31, 1978, she sent to Washington a detailed analysis of 15 visa cases she had been investigating, in which "human rights" violations had occurred. Her dispatch was given the code name "Jerusalem 1500."

It proved to be a bombshell and immediately Miss Johnson was warned by her superior, Consul General Newlin, that this report had been leaked to Israeli intelligence sources and she could expect trouble. He told her that under Israeli law, such unfavorable information was considered to be a crime and that if the MOSSAD tried to grab her, there was very little the U.S. could do for her. She was urged to do no more "human rights" reporting. However, she followed up "Jerusalem 1500" with other cables, confirming her earlier report.

MOSSAD's reprisal was not long in coming. In February 1979, she was recalled to Washington, where under the pretext that she failed to get along with her colleagues, she was fired from a promising diplomatic career. "It is a shocking but inescapable conclusion," Miss Johnson said, "that Israeli intelligence has access to confidential and U.S. diplomatic files - including sensitive cable traffic between the State Department and its embassies abroad. It is equally evident that in matters affecting their interests, the Israelis have the behind the scenes influence to manipulate American foreign policy - even such internal affairs as the rating and firing of career foreign service officers."

In recent months, the Zionist propaganda machine has changed its stance, and instead of denying reports of torture and terror, it is brazenly acknowledging the vicious crimes which have been perpetrated by the Zionist "war machine" which will allow nothing to stand in its way of rise to world power.

Just a few more examples of Israeli terrorist tactics. June 14, 1980, Professor Yaha el Meshada prestigious Egyptian physicist, who had been appointed scientific director of Iraq's national nuclear research project, was bludgeoned to death in his Paris hotel suite. Zionist propagandists, writing in such American papers as the New York "Post" admit that the killing was done by a "special action" team from MOSSAD, to warn the world against helping any Arab country build a nuclear plant.

A week later, an attractive French model and party girl was lured into a limousine in Paris, only to be thrown out of the car at high speed, directly into the path of another car which swerved in order to hit her. Police called it a mystery slaying, but she was to have testified about the murder of Dr. Mershad two days later. Draw your own conclusions!

Two weeks later, in Toulon, a cab driver named Jean-Batiste Murad was found with his throat slashed. The police wrote it off as a crime of passion. But French intelligence services said that he had too much information about MOSSAD, having served with them and the Israeli terrorists were afraid he would give information to the French investigators. At that time, French President Giscard d'Estaing, called MOSSAD "a filthy criminal gang" and vowed to prosecute any Zionist agents arrested in terrorist acts in France.

But enough about Zionist terrorism!

7 - The seventh myth is that Arabs neglected the land the Israeli now have and that under Zionist care, the desert has blossomed like a rose. This of course is one of the major arguments used by fundamental preachers to prove that this is the Promised Land.

The Israeli have worked hard; they are efficient and industrious, there is no question about this. But many of the beautiful orchards now in Israeli hands were planted and cared for by the Arabs and confiscated by the Israeli.

8 - Probably one of the most dastardly and false statements made concerning the Israeli is "Israeli is a bastion of western democracy in an undemocratic world." But let's see what an eminent Zionist leader has to say about this. I'm quoting from Golda Meir, as she appeared in an NBC radio program on June I, 1969, over a Jewish program called THE ETERNAL LIGHT, she said: "The world will ultimately have to choose between Moscow's and Jerusalem's brand of socialism. By this I mean socialism of coercion as represented in Russia or the cooperative type as represented in Israeli.

You should understand that the Israeli are the only people in the world who have voluntarily joined Marxist communes. Millions of Russian Christians were murdered for resisting collective farming in the Ukraine. But the Israeli Kibbutz collective is a totally Jewish Marxist concept and the Jew's are the only people in the world who have voluntarily subjected themselves to this lifestyle. Mrs. Meir admitted that the Marxist Kibbutz was a uniquely Jewish concept. To any objective foreigner who has ever traveled in Palestine and has observed the Israeli in an objective manner, they can only come to one conclusion. This is that Israeli is following the same imperialistic, expansionist, military blueprint which they used in their revolution in Russia. How many of you know that Menachem Begin was a Communist member of the Polish Army before coming to Israeli? The Jewish writer, I. F. Stone, writing about the Zionist State said: "Israeli is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry. In the outside world (like the U.S.) the welfare of Jewry depends on the maintenance of secular. Non racial, pluralistic societies. In Israeli, Jewry defends a society in which mixed marriages cannot be legalized; in which non-Jews have a lesser status than Jews, and in which the ideal is racial and exclusionist." This hardly sounds "democratic," now does it? It might interest the reader to know that Israeli Jews who are Arab or Oriental, find themselves discriminated against by Jews who have no claim to the blood of Abraham. I'm speaking of the 90% or more of Jewry who are Russian Khazars. While the Jew in America is behind most of the efforts towards race mixing and against discrimination of any sort, in Palestine, they practice the most rigid discrimination.

9 - Myth number nine: "The Arabs are against the Jews! But many Arabs will angrily reply to this by saying: "We are not against the Jews, but against the Zionists." Then they will point out how Arab and Jew lived together in peace for many centuries before the Zionist bandits came on the scene.

What has happened in the United States that has caused our political and Christian leaders to back an aggressive, anti-Christian government such as that of Zionist Israeli? A 38-page booklet, published in 1951 by the American Jewish Committee will give a partial answer, it states: "We supply Christian religious publications with prepared materials, articles, and stories depicting Jewish life. Through the newly created Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League will jointly have an unprecedented opportunity to aid in the preparation of lesson materials, study guides, audio-visual aids, etc., for use in the educational activities sponsored by Protestant churches."

Often Jewish professors are invited to lecture in Christian seminaries and Jewish scholars have been on the consulting committees of every recent translation of the Bible. Recently, a young Jewish woman, who claims to have been a victim of the "holocaust," has been stirring American audiences with a heart wrenching account of life in a Nazi prison camp. Apparently no one has been smart enough to realize she isn't old enough to have been there.

Zionists for at least thirty years, have pressured American Christians into sharing a one-sided partner-ship responsibility with them in their imperialist adventures. They always play heavily on the fundamentalist reliance on Bible Prophecy. They have also been most successful in installing a "guilt complex" in most Christians, by heavy play on so-called Jewish persecution by Christians.

Israeli's Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Eban, speaking at Notre Dame University in 1955, was quoted as saying: "The homelessness, and martyrdom of the Jewish people was not only a source of international political tension; it was also a heavy burden on the Christian conscience."

Recently at a big gathering in Jerusalem, to celebrate the "holocaust," (this has practically become a Jewish holiday), Menachem Begin said: "All people of German descent share in the responsibility for the six million Jews who were murdered in Germany." I happen to be of German descent and I am angered by false statements such as this. In the first place, a little objective study will show you that it was impossible for 6-million Jews to have been killed in Germany, since there were never this many in all Europe, and millions escaped to the West. If you take Jewish eye witness accounts of the prison camps, you will find that 12-million were killed at Auschwitz alone. It seems as though at least five million of those gassed in Germany, are now in New York, drawing reparations from the German people. Maybe we Christians should ask the Jews to pay reparations for the 34-million or more Christians, who were liquidated by the Jewish-Communist revolution in Russia. Can you imagine the hue and cry that would rise from Jewish sources, if our pastors had the guts to stand up and accuse the Jews of these murders?

Jesus Christ wasn't afraid of the Zionists of His day, the Talmudic Pharisees. He accused them in Matthew 23:35, of being guilty of ALL the righteous men who had been slain from the time of Abel's murder at the dawn of civilization.

If the Jew's want to blame all Christians for the persecutions they brought on themselves by their filthy, unrighteous actions, maybe they should be called to account and asked to explain the deaths of hundreds of thousands of First Century Christians who were killed in Jewish persecutions.

People like Dr. Jerry Falwell, says that Satan hates the Jews and is trying to wipe them out. Jesus Christ called them "children of the devil," (John 8:44). Does it make sense to you that Satan would want to wipe out his own people?

No one can accurately speculate how much support for Zionism has cost the United States, in wealth, prestige, suffering and bloodshed. Yet they have shown their appreciation, by being foremost in their effort to destroy us, by destroying our youth. They have said: "'We will destroy Christian youth through drugs, alcohol and sex. We will get them away from God, we will destroy their ruggedness. If we can do this to one generation, we will be able to control the country."

They have come a long way in the United States in these fields, for the Jews are the driving forces behind alcohol, drugs, pornography, prostitution and their handmaiden, the "rock and roll" industry. I don't expect you to believe me, but I dare you to be honest enough to look at the names that head these industries. 90% or more will be Jewish names.

Probably the most damage to America has come from our pulpits, where tens of thousands of "brainwashed" "Zionist prostitutes" thunder in the ears of their parishioners the falsehood that the "Jews are God's Chosen People." During the Six Days War in 1967, they pointed to the Jewish victory and said: "Once again, God has protected His people, the Jews." I don't know of a one, in a major denomination, who was honest enough to say: "The Jews won because of the superior equipment America gave to them."

There was a tremendous silence from America's pulpits when the Israeli attacked our naval ship, the USS Liberty and killed 34 American sailors and wounded 76 more. The Israeli gave us a simple apology and our government bent over backwards trying to cover up this shameful incident. As intelligent people, ask yourself what would have happened, if it had been Egypt, or Syria, who had launched this attack? You know the answer to this as well as I do!

There is much conjecture as to why Israeli planes strafed and rocketed this plainly marked American ship on six strafing runs, then attacked with two torpedo boats. The Israeli version was that they mistook us for an Egyptian boat. But this is preposterous. There are many who believe the Israelis were afraid that the Liberty had recorded the fact that it was they who were the aggressors in the Six Days War and they did not want the world to know this.

But Israeli has always been protected by the Zionist prostitutes in our Congress. When Begin launched the recent unprovoked attack against Bagdad, using American equipment after he had promised never to use it for aggressive action, religious backers of the "Zionist bandits" like Jerry Falwell said: "You have the aid and cooperation of all our fundamental Christians, no matter what you do. Because we know you are God's People and can do no wrong." Let me tell you, I'm one fundamentalist who hasn't been taken in by these lying people. I neither back them, nor condone any of their actions, because they are enemies of God and everything I stand for as a Christian. Will America have to go through the terrible days of a Jewish anti-Christ persecution as our Christian brethren in Russia did, because our pastors don't have the guts to tell our people the truth? Very possibly! Oh, I know that some of you who read this have been told by your pastors not to worry. You see, Jesus is coming back to rescue you before things get too tough. Would you like to discuss this with the martyrs who died in the first three centuries, or those who suffered behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains?

No, my Christian friend. God is not going to protect you when you hide like a coward in your spiritual fox hole, folding your holy hands while you pray for God to do the job He has given you to do. He told you: "Ocupy until I come!" Not until you think he might be back; not until your pastor tells you he will be back, but until you see Him with your own eyes. Occupation is a "military duty," it can't be performed in a foxhole; you must be out on the "front lines."

Do you have the "spiritual guts" to confront your pastor and ask him why he has lied to you about the Rapture and the Jews? He will probably tell you that he is "ashamed by your anti-Semitism." But I want you to remember that he is speaking in defense of those who killed your Lord and who according to their own teachings, are usurpers and not the Chosen People. He is defending those who hate your Lord, and you and who according to their own teachings, are against everything you stand for as a Christian. What are you going to do about it?

You can be like those Christians in Russia and China who believed the Lord would be back to rescue them. Millions have died martyr's deaths. Or you can be like the Christians who were in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. when the Roman General Titus attacked that city. They believed the words of our Lord in Matthew 24 were written for them and they fled to the city of Petra. Not one Christian was killed, but over a million unbelieving Jews perished.

I dare you to read John 8 and then still say the Jews are God's Chosen people, for if you do, you will be calling our Lord a liar. Somehow, I believe this might be dangerous!

Stop being a fool! Open your eyes to the truth! Help us spread the truth! This is not a message of hatred against "sorry race of people like the Jews," it is a message of warning, concerning the Satanic plot to destroy white Christian civilization and the freedom it has brought to the world.

The future of this country, of your children and grandchildren rests in the hands of God and you. Your freedom was not "Bought and paid for at Valley Forge," that was only the "down payment!" You have been warned! I have been the watchman on the walls of Israel. You now know the truth. You will never be able to say: "I didn't know!"

Remember:

"Must I be carried to the skies, on flowry beds of ease; while others fought to win the prize? And sailed through bloody seas No I must fight! If I would reign; Increase my courage, Lord, To bear the toil. Endure the pain, Supported by Thy Word!

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"The Christians" show #603

When I walked into San Francisco Playhouse’s theater to take in their current run of The Christians, written by Lucas Hnath, I was ready for an evening of biblical references and compelling performances. What I got was a step beyond that--an experience where I forgot I was in a theatre within the first ten minutes of the 80-minute, intermission-less play. Bill English’s rapturous and stunning scenic design puts the audience in a completely believable mega-church, being part of the 6,000 member congregation of this very successful, no-longer-in-debt church body. Mr. English’s efforts as director are flawless, carefully pacing and crafting each scene between the five-member cast with precision and sensitivity to the Bible, the religious material in Mr. Hnath’s script, and the themes of doubt, standing up for one’s beliefs, and challenging authority when that authority may even be your husband. The Christians is a blessing to the San Francisco theatre scene, a play that must be seen.

(Center: Anthony Fusco (Pastor) with Cast and Choir seated behind; Photo Credit: Jessica Palopoli)

When the head Pastor, played by Anthony Fusco, gives a four-titled topical sermon regarding the separation between the congregation and the receiving of the true message of God, division begins to occur. The final blow to the theological unification between Fusco’s Pastoral role and Lance Gardner’s role as Associate Pastor is when the head Pastor infers there may not be an actual Hell. Scripture and experience are used as grounds for proof as both Pastors strive to prove and persuade why their thoughts are correct. Mr. Fusco is a dominating presence with meek attributes, a perfect balance of authoritative, but caring Pastor (his delivery of the opening sermon and prayer are part of the “I forgot I was watching a play” experience). Having grown up in church since I was a wee lad, the warmth and jargon pastors use in their services are spot-on in Mr. Hnath’s writing and Mr. Fusco’s delivery. Mr. Gardner’s strength comes with his youthful presence and timid yet steadfast approach to challenging the Pastor. The ending scene is a devastating showdown between Gardner and Fusco, one where Gardner delivers a perfectly-timed and inflected monologue about when his mother passed away. It is one of the only times the Pastor simply stands and listens, and one of the only notable times a microphone isn’t used when conversing with the Pastor, lending more meaning than you might think possible for such a theatrical device.

(Millie Brooks (Congregant) and Anthony Fusco (Pastor); Photo Credit: Jessica Palopoli)

Warren David Keith’s performance as the Elder of the Church’s Board is filled with eagerness to do the right thing, with underlying tones of insecurity and his struggle to honor what the “right” thing is regarding the pastoral rivalry. His literal turn of face away from the Pastor when the Congregant gives her testimony, denying the Pastor support Mr. Fusco is striving to hold on to, puts the stamp on just how effective Mr. Keith’s performance is. Millie Brooks’ turn as the Congregant, a member of the choir whose boyfriend left the Pastor’s church to join the Associate’s new church, is stirring. She astutely delivers the emotional highs and lows of a church member who blindly follows her Pastor until doubts and contradictions are brought up, when traditional views and beliefs are called into question, when the Pastor’s intentions and timing are directly criticized.

(Anthony Fusco (Pastor) and Stephanie Prentice (Wife); Photo Credit: Jessica Palopoli)

Rounding out this cast of five is Stephanie Prentice, who gives an excellent performance as the Pastor’s Wife. In one of the more dramatic, emotionally-charged scenes, Prentice and Fusco go back and forth discussing the Wife’s belief in Hell, her leadership and teaching of the Women’s Bible Study group, and how her beliefs contradict what the Pastor has preached. This is when the use of the microphones really makes an impact. Except for a few key moments, everyone is always speaking on a microphone; the Elder, the Associate, and even the Congregant when on and off the podium, must all speak to the Pastor on mic, while the Pastor is on mic as well. So, when he sets the scene with his Wife being in bed at night, then hands her a microphone, which she uses speaks to him and takes with her when later exiting the stage, it is a haunting representation that the only way the Pastor can be reached is with amplification; not with one’s natural voice and volume, but a tool that amplifies and makes one louder. It shows that the Pastor can only be talked to and heard when behind the microphone, a barrier, a handheld device that separates him from the speaker and the voice. It is at the very end, when Mr. Gardner discusses how his new church has its few shortcomings, including the microphones giving some feedback, but explains how he makes it work, “…I use my voice. It carries.” It’s, literally, a verbal mic drop that leaves the audience, and the Pastor, stunned and silent.

(Lance Gardner (Associate) and Anthony Fusco (Pastor); Photo Credit: Jessica Palopoli)

The structure and characterizations in Mr. Hnath’s script give substantial levels to the cast, and Mr. English’s direction completely complements it. The script shows respect to Christianity, and each character accurately represents those who most would see and interact with in a “typical” Christian church body. Having no intermission is vital, as it would be an uphill battle to try to wrap the audience back in after 15 minutes of drinks and cell phone use. In addition, the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco choir is in excellent sound, singing some beautiful hymns and upbeat Gospel tunes that add a heavenly dose of Church-going nostalgia and context to the play.

(Anthony Fusco (Pastor) and Warren David Keith (Elder) with Choir seated behind; Photo Credit: Jessica Palopoli)

As is typical, San Francisco Playhouse has chosen to produce a play that has a challenging script, a compelling look at a group of people who largely populate this country, and tackles it in such a way that does not make fun of, disrespect, or wrongly depict that group, but strives to secure empathy and make audiences think and question their views and beliefs. The Christians will keep on preaching through March 11th, so make your way to Pastor Paul’s church and take in the message being taught, it may affect you in ways you never thought possible.

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CHRISTIANS ARE LIKE SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER

STUPID DUMB CHRISTIANS ARE LIKE SHEEP TO THE SLAUGHTER By Pastor Del Wray Something is wrong with America! What was it that destroyed the Roman Empire? Let me suggest three things that caused Rome to collapse. First Rome “Rotted from Within Morally”. Second, she made too much of “Sporting Events” with her large coliseums and third, she “Over Taxed” her citizens. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Today's newspapers are full of stories about the rampant rise in divorce rates; the increasing abuse of children by some parents; increases in the incidence of rape; pornography being read by an increasing number of people; more crimes against property; demands for world government; urgings for national borders to fall; Christian churches being closed because they will not seek licensing by the state; etc. But why are these things happening? Why are all of the legacies of the past, the family, national borders, the right to practice any chosen religion, the right to private property, amongst other things, under such attack? Is it possible that there are actually people and organizations who really want to change the basic order of things? Clues to the answers to these questions can be gleaned from some comments made by people and organizations that are talking about these wide-reaching changes in the nature of our lifestyle. Could it be that American Christians have turned from their Creator? Yes all of the above, but there is an unseen hand at work behind the scenes seeking to destroy American Democracy and rid America of Christianity. American Christians are blindly relishing in their materialism having become lazy and apathetic about this unseen enemy that is out to tear down and obliterate its freedom. They’re like sheep hell-bent to the slaughter, stupid and dumb, blind and deceived, unbelieving and refusing to obey God just as the Jews in ancient times. Any student of the Bible who has studied Holy Scripture for any length of time knows the Church Age ends in apostasy followed by 7 years of Tribulation, 31/2 years of Jewish domination of the world under their false messiah, the Jewish anti-Christ, when tens of millions of Christians will be killed for refusing to follow after this satanic One World leader. It’s estimated that over 200,000,000 Americans will be slaughtered by way of the guillotine and decapitation. After which, begins the second 31/2 years of trumpet and viol judgments known as the Great Tribulation, upon the Jewish nation for rejecting their true Messiah and becoming the instruments of death and slaughter of all those who have been martyred in the name of Jesus Christ and Christianity down through the centuries. Jesus Christ returns in His glory destroying His enemies and reins over the earth for one thousand years, called the Age of Righteousness or the Millennial Kingdom. Then God’s people will be removed from the earth and a New Havens and New Earth is spoken into existence. The Holy Spirit then cries out to John, there on the Isle of Patmos… "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new..." Rev. 21:3-5 What is wrong with America? The Jews are what is wrong with America. "The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees."— Universal Jewish Encyclopedia The very people Jesus spoke vilest about. Today, the Christian church stands at a crossroads. The divine and sacred mission of the Christian faith faces a danger at this juncture in history which is greater than any it has faced in 2,000 years. If the day ever comes when Christians cannot profess their faith as they do today in America, then we will see the beginning of the end. The history of the world, for the past several Centuries and current events at home and abroad, confirm to the intelligent person that there is indeed something wrong with America, a conspiracy is afoot to destroy Christian civilization. The world-wide plot of these diabolical conspirators has been instituted while most Christians have been asleep in front of their pulpits and their TV's. For the most part, the Christian clergy, who should have been in the forefront of exposing this danger, have been indifferent or ignorant and have been the ones who assisted the enemies of Christ in their efforts to destroy us. This ignorance and indifference have dealt a blow to the Christian faith from which many will never recover. Christian fundamentalist believes in The End Times, the Rapture, the physical return of Jesus Christ, Armageddon and the Millennium. I have no argument with those who do just as long as they aren't aiding and abetting the New World Order, as exemplified by the so-called Christian Zionist John Hagee ministries out of Texas. Our shamefully dumbed-down American public refuses to take these warnings seriously, like sheep to the slaughter because they cannot imagine that the betrayal is as huge as it actually is and they are so utterly dependent on what they witness locally, meaning that since they don't see the 20 foot high barb wire fences around FEMA concentration camps in their neighborhoods, they must not exist. Well, just 8 miles from our church is Camp Somerset, an X-WW2 German POW camp being prepared right now by FEMA to be used as a Concentration Camp. I have observed myself FEMA vehicles/trucks coming and going from this camp. Why? Woe to you foolish Americans when they come for you and your family... There should be no confusion in the minds of Christians when it comes to the fundamentals of the faith. The mindlessness and confusion in this country would not exist if it were not for those of the preachers who are allies with the enemy who seeks to destroy them. There are countless Christians who are standing on the sidelines watching as their faith withers on the vine, and their freedom is about to drop into the laps of their enemies like overripe fruit. This cup will become bitterer when they realize that it is the ignorance and indifference of their spiritual leaders which has caused the deplorable condition of Christianity today. When Christians see their leaders in defeat on every front, they too will become confused and afraid. To stop this surrender, the clergy MUST make an about-face, no matter how painful it may be. They must take a stand against the invisible and intangible ideological war which is being waged against Christianity. How stupid can we be? As one preacher said, “we ought to sue our brains for non-support”. Let me say to those who read here, don’t be stupid all your life. America is deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to their spiritual well being, reaping the consequences of our sin. I do not utilize the aforementioned terms in a derisive or derogatory manner to those who may be physically handicapped, but rather I am referring to those millions of Christian in this land of ours who are mentally and spiritually deaf, dumb, and or blind. Before considering these conditions, it would be wise to look at the definitions of these terms so that we may have a better understanding. DEAF: unable to hear; refusing to listen. DUMB: without the power of speech; bereft of the power of speech temporarily; that which does not speak or is little addicted to speaking. BLIND: lacking the sense of sight; unable or unwilling to try to understand; not controlled by reason; not possessing or proceeding from intelligence; lacking all awareness. I fully understand that the "remnant" reading this article is cognizant of the matters which I will present herein, but this message very likely is applicable to your friends and family who may appear blissfully unaware of the coming judgment of the Almighty. Are you fulfilling your role as a Christian watchman in accordance with Ezekiel 33:6? Over the years, since Roe vs. Wade, we have witnessed more than fifty million babies being murdered under the guise of abortion. Sadly the vast majority of these have been babies. We don't see foreigners and strangers having a great number of abortions. After all, more babies mean more public assistance. Our people whether we like to acknowledge it or not, are under the Law. Those who say the Law was "nailed to the cross" are in serious error. The only thing nailed to the cross were the "ordinances," mostly pertaining to the animal sacrifices, since the Lamb of God was slain for us, there is no need for further blood sacrifices, And our people are deaf dumb and blind. Violent crime, murder, rape, physical assault, armed robbery, etc. continues to escalate throughout the country and the U.S. Justice Department statistics indicate one such type of crime occurs every four minutes somewhere in the nation. The growth of Hispanic and Oriental gangs in the past decade had been epidemic with senseless initiation-type murders, car-jacking, home-invasions, drive-by shootings, etc. It has reached the point where those who are supposed to protect us are in fear for their own lives. And while our people may appear to be concerned, they are in truth, deaf dumb, and blind. While the Scriptures are very clear on homosexuality, Lev. 18:22, 20:13, Rom. 1:24-28, et al. We have in the past two decades witnessed an explosion in the open flaunting of such decadent behavior. Prior to that time, these sodomizers dared not parade their disgusting acts in public. Today they have parades in our major cities and special "queer" weekends at "theme parks," and "resorts" and they openly demand "their rights" to do so. In addition, we have elected politicians who openly admit that they are "gay" and who continue to be re-elected by their mainly ungodly constituents. And our people, while they may disapprove, are deaf dumb, and blind. Our God is not mocked! Judgment cometh! Have you noticed the tremendous growth in pornography, in all forms: print, movies, television, etc. that is sweeping the country? And it is not all "adult" in nature but it is expanding into the area of intimate acts of child porn. Notice if you will the heavy involvement of the Jewish Talmudists in these endeavors. And our people, some of whom subscribe to this filth are deaf dumb and blind. We are literally being invaded today by tens of millions of aliens and strangers from all of the third world countries of the world. These illegals bring into our nation sickness, filth and disease, and non-Christian traits and living conditions. We have been informed in Scripture that we shall not "put a stranger over thee," and yet today we don't seem to understand this admonition. If our political leaders would listen to, and abide by the Word of God, illegal immigration would cease immediately. Miscegenation/race-mixing is on the increase and why would we expect anything else? Read the history of our people! And yet, most of our people are deaf dumb and blind to what our God states with regard to this. Our so-called "excellent" system of public education is costing hundreds of billions of dollars every year to achieve nothing better than mediocre or failing grades and dumbed-down graduates. According to the U. S. Dept. of Education, almost 46% of the students who graduate from high school are considered "semi-literate." We have allowed the humanists, the AFT, and the NEA, and dare I say, the "Satanists" to take over our schools. We have "outlawed" school prayer, and removed God from our schools. Yet, even though parents clamor for more educational resources, they are deaf dumb and blind to the many shortfalls. Is it any wonder that many of our people have commenced "homeschooling"? From about 1,000 children twenty-five years ago, home-schooling now numbers almost 8 million children. As a nation, we have expended huge sums in the "wars," the war on poverty, the war on drugs, etc., and we have obviously LOST all of these. Drugs and Poverty are still with us, and more so than ever. We have exported our manufacturing and industry in the name of corporate greed. Our manufacturing is now done in Thailand, Japan, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nigeria, Cambodia, Peru, India, Pakistan, China, and other nations in Africa and South America. Just look at the labels on most all of the products you buy. We have become an "information" and "service" society! We are a destitute nation who has given our God-given resources to third-world nations that despise us. And our people and our leaders are deaf dumb and blind to the consequences. We have no morality and ethical levels of conduct left. We see the corruption and greed running rampant among our leaders. We have more lawyers in this nation than all the rest of the world combined. Contrary to Scripture, we have become a "suing" people. And our people, for the most part, are deaf dumb, and blind as to what the Word of God says. We have expended hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and support to the ungodly Jewish Talmudists. We are even now involved in the war in Iraq at a cost of 2,000+ of our sons, fathers, husbands, mothers, sisters, and brothers. I would like to pose to President Trump, the question asked by Jehu, son of Hanani, of King Jehoshaphat of Judah long ago: "Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord." 2 Chron. 19:2. And the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals and many from Protestantism are deaf dumb and blind. The Zionists reject Jesus Christ, and such conduct was unheard of fifty years ago. Our churches, for the most part, have become hollow, empty and Godless buildings. Many of the pastors, ministers, and priests follow the traditions of men over the Word of God. Materialism governs the established church. The pastors, ministers, and priests are supposed to be teaching the Word of God, but many have no idea of what the Gospel message is. There are some who deny the "virgin birth" of our Saviour as mere fiction. There are others who question the truth of the resurrection without which there is no salvation for Jew or Gentile. There are others who see nothing wrong with same-sex marriage. There are some who are practicing homosexuals and lesbians. For many of the clergy, it is a career, and not a heartfelt commitment to work for the LORD our God. And our people follow these blind leaders and are deaf dumb, and blind to what the Scriptures say. We are a sick and troubled nation! We are sick and troubled people! We are deaf. We don't want to hear about such unpleasant things as I have mentioned in this article. We are mentally and spiritually unwilling to hear. We are dumb. We don't want to use the power of speech to speak out on the critical and important issues that we face as a people and a nation. We prefer not to get involved. Some may think that we are religious extremists or kooks, or at best religious intolerants. Remember, whatever the issue, if it conflicts with the Word of God, we have both the duty and the responsibility, and the right to speak out. Use the power of speech! We are blind. We don't want to see what is going on all around us. Many do not want to search the Scriptures to find out what God has to say about some issue. When you know the truth, you have to react in accordance with the Word, or pay the price of disobedience, and isn't that price SIN? You cannot merely pay lip service to God. God is not mocked! We have had the "blessings" as stated in Deuteronomy 28:1-14, and now we have progressed to the "curses" section of verses for disobedience. Read this chapter of Scripture and compare what we have been and what we are today. There does appear to be somewhat of an "awakening" on the part of our people today as they question some of the concerns that I have enumerated herein. And surely, the ultimate solution to all of our problems is to follow the instructions contained in that famous verse of 2 Chronicles 7:14.

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