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The Pagan Origins of Christmas

2011-11-25T11:09:00.000-08:00

(My personal comments on this subject are at the end of this article.)

by Chris Huffman
12/31/10

Okay, I am sure there will be some hate comments or at least negative comments for this article, but that is fine! If you are anyone who has read my previous articles, you know I am very straight forward, outspoken and blunt! I don’t water down the gospel and I don’t teach/preach a health/wealth prosperity kind of gospel! Jesus is my example of how to preach and witness and testify to the truth of his gospel and not worry about offending anyone’s sensibilities. He told it like it was and if you could not handle it then too bad. God is not just a loving and merciful God, he is also a just God and WILL punish sinners in the lake of fire. After all, Satan will be cast into the lake of fire as described in Revelation 20:10 KJV Bible.

I upset some people a year or so ago with an article blowing up the myth and need for Santa in the born again Christian home. Well, now I am taking the subject of “Christmas” much, much further by exposing it for what it is…a Pagan/Catholic Church adopted holiday!

I am going to provide some web links in this article for you to investigate this subject for yourself. Then it will be a matter of conscience for you…do I completely stop celebrating a Pagan holiday and toss all the junky decorations that go with Christmas OR do I keep celebrating it simply because it is “tradition” and I just love tradition?

Let’s see what Jesus and Paul had to say about this:

“And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.” (Mark 7:9 KJV)

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and NOT after Christ.” (Colossians 2:8 KJV)

So, let’s jump right into this shall we!

There is a lot to cover so I will start with the whole “3 wise men” thing. For some reason we have gotten it into our heads that there were 3 wise men that sought out Jesus to worship him. WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!! Read Matthew 2:1-12 KJV Bible and this will solve the problem. Scripture never once tells us there were 3 wise men. There could have only been 2 or there could have been 5. The fact that they gave Jesus 3 different types of gifts (treasures) of gold, frankincense and myrrh means that they just gave him 3 different types of gifts…period (as found in Matt. 2:11 KJV). Next is the fact according to Scripture that the wise men saw Jesus AS A YOUNG CHILD NOT AS A BABY! Read verse 11 again. It says “young child.” Even wicked King Herod told the wise men when they talked with him in verses 2-7, to go to Bethlehem to search for the “young child.” A young child is NOT a baby!! From the time it took the wise men to come from the east to Jerusalem would have been around 2 years or so. Then from Jerusalem to Bethlehem it would have been 6 miles or a 2 hour walk before they reached Mary and Joseph’s house, because that was where they resided for they did not live in Nazareth until verse 23 of chapter 2.

Now, let’s cover the actual birth of Jesus as in WHERE and WHEN he was born! You see folks Scripture gives you these answers when you “search the scriptures” (John 5:39 KJV). First let’s establish where he was NOT born. Luke 2:7 KJV tells us, “And she brought forth her FIRSTBORN son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.” Ok, we learn actually two things there in just ONE verse. Jesus was NOT born in an inn and he WAS born in a stable BECAUSE that is the only place you would find mangers. Now, according to Noah Webster’s Dictionary 1828 AD, a manger is “1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.” Consider also his definition of swaddling clothes, “Binding in tight clothes.” A definition from Wikipedia says, “Swaddling clothes described in the Bible consisted of a cloth tied together by bandage-like strips. After an infant was born, the umbilical cord was cut and tied, and then the baby was washed, rubbed with salt and oil, and wrapped with strips of cloth. These strips kept the newborn child warm and also ensured that the child's limbs would grow straight.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaddling)

What a humble and simple place for our Lord, God and Saviour to come into the world huh. There is no indication he was born in a cave either like some people teach. But he was born IN Bethlehem and not outside the city like some teach. And even though a stable is not mentioned in Scripture it is safe to reason that Jesus was born in one since it is where horses and other animals were housed and that is where you would find mangers for the animals to feed from. Just Google Bethlehem, mangers in the First Century Israel or whatever combination of wording you want to use and you will find tons of helpful information.

Now, as for the “when” Jesus was born…well, that is fairly easy to discern as well. Any Jewish historian will tell you that Jesus WAS NOT born on December 25th based on numerous factors. The first being Luke 2:8, “And there were in the SAME country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock BY NIGHT.” In the winter time it is really cold there and rainy and the fields have already been harvested and are not producing any new growth. And secondly, the shepherds were watching their sheep, at night no less. They don’t do this in the winter because it is too cold. Hello? So those examples right there rule out Jesus being born in the winter. Now, even though Scripture does not say exactly when he was born, Scripture does give us some help in at least getting close, at least the month but not an exact date and month. The best way to figure this out is by knowing what the Jewish months are in their 12 month yearly cycle.

They begin with Nisan, which would be our March or April month and contains Passover.
Next is Iyar (pronounced ee-yar), which would be our April or May; then Sivan, which would be our May or June and contains Shavoot. Then comes Tammuz (yes that’s right Tammuz—the Jews named it that to serve as a reminder of the judgment that came for idolatry of Pagan Babylonian worship), which is our June or July. Next is Av, which would be our July or August; then Elul, which would be our August or September and is the introspection period for the New Year. Then comes Tishri, our September or October and is the Jewish New Year and contains Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Next comes Kheshvan, our October or November and contains Hanukah. Then comes Tevet, our December or January;
then Shevat, our January or February; and finally Adar, our February or March and contains Purim.

Now that we have an understanding of the Jewish months go to Luke 1:5-9 KJV. John the Baptist’s father was Zacharias and he was a Levi priest and held the office of burning incense in the temple of the Lord, meaning that he held the course of Abia, which was to burn incense in the temple. Zacharias belonged to a set lot of courses, two for each month and he belonged to the 8th lot, meaning he did his duty in the 4th month, (the course of Abia was in the 4th month). Now I have researched this as well as I can without my eyes crossing but I believe the 4th month would be Tammuz (June or July for us). In Luke 1:24 KJV says that Zacharias’ wife Elisabeth conceived John. Now move 6 months forward to Luke 1:36 KJV where the angel Gabriel tells Mary that Elisabeth is 6 months into her pregnancy. Well, if Elisabeth did conceive John in June then count 6 months later to December. If we just keep doing the math (and granted I was never that good at it in school) we come to John being born in March for a total of 9 months (since we know that is the length of pregnancy for a woman).

This would then tell us that Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost in December, causing the supernatural pregnancy where the Holy Ghost would be wrapped in flesh, blood and bone for 9 months which would mean that Jesus was born in September! Now…just to clear the air here. I am not trying to “set” any dates for Jesus’ “actual” birth or anything. I am just relaying to you my personal findings and this is what I came up with, which I do believe is a very plausible conclusion, but feel free to do your own research. I have checked my research though against many other sources and the same result comes up as September (or even October) as being the time when Jesus was born. I LOVE researching and digging into issues and whatnot, so I know not everyone is like that. Take this to heart my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus BY FAITH ALONE, IF God did want us to know and observe the birth date of Jesus he would have said so in Scripture…but he does NOT!! Just like he did not have any information pertaining to the period of time from the age of 12 to when Jesus appeared to John the Baptist to begin his ministry.

Alright, with that under our hats, I bet your wondering now just how we came to celebrate Jesus’ birth on December 25th aren’t you? Well, you can thank the Catholic Church and Paganism for it. First we know that there is NO Biblical authority for us to observe it (although we can remember his birth in our heart 24/7, 365), so we DO NOT need the Catholic Church to tell us to celebrate it on one particular day out of the year. No born again believers did this for the first 300 years of the early Bible believing church! So why did they establish December 25th as the birth date of Jesus? Well, December 25th was one of the biggest festivals or holidays for Pagans. The Roman world in Jesus’ time and for many hundreds of years after was Pagan, worshipping the unconquered Sun god, known by various names throughout history but in this time it was Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun), along with other deities such as Saturn. The Pagans had a greeting even for the revelry that went, “lo, Saturnalia” or praise to Saturn! During the winter solstice (December 17-23), many deities were honored under various names that came from Greek myth, since the Greek Empire had once consumed the world prior to the Roman Empire rising up to swallow the world.

There was even a Persian deity called Mithra, that became the religion of the Roman soldiers, hence Mithraism, that was honored at the same time, featuring numerous occultic celebrations. There were drunken orgies, men dressing like women and vice versa, gift giving and so on. December 25th marked the day when the Sun (sun) god would rise or be born anew in the Pagan world. The winter solstice was celebrated by Pagans around the world. In Ancient Rome, the priests of Saturn would carry wreaths of evergreen boughs in a procession. The evergreen tree was a mighty symbol of the essence of life and regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship. By the way, “phallic” means resembling a phallus and the variant of the word phallus means…an IMAGE of the male reproductive organ (penis) carried in processions in ancient festivals of Dionysus or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature. Coincidentally, obelisks (as found in Ancient Egypt and Rome) share a history with phallic symbology. And guess where you can find some of the biggest and most recognizable obelisks in the world today? In St. Peter’s Square in front of the Vatican (capital of the Roman Catholic Church) and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. Check it out for yourselves.

Evergreen trees played a role in winter solstice worship. For every Pagan act and celebration, we find it almost entirely housed in the “Christmas” celebrations of today. People hang a mistletoe over someone’s head to steal a kiss; we hang evergreen wreaths on doors, walls, even our car grills. We cut down or buy trees in tree farms around the country and fasten them down so they stand upright and deck them with gold and silver and various other decorations. We toss a Yule log on the fire. Give gifts to each other eat huge meals. NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH JESUS! It is all Pagan garbage that belongs with the Pagans!

But the Catholic Church could not leave well enough alone. First of all, “Christmas” is a conjunction of two words: Christ and Mass…shortened later on to Christmas. The word Mass means death and is a Roman Catholic term describing the death of Christ, distribution of the Host (Jesus as the wafer-god) which is a word taken from the Latin word hostia, meaning Victim. So clearly “Christmas” is a Catholic invention.

The tactics of the Catholic Church were simple: in order to advance the Romish Church, the hierarchy just adopted or absorbed all the Pagan practices and feasts and superstitions into the RCC in a vain effort to convert the Pagans to Catholicism (not Christianity). The Bishops simply changed the names of the feasts. Consider this quote from The Encyclopedia Americana, 1946 article, “CHRISTMAS, the 'Mass of Christ'... In the 5th century the Western Church ordered it to be celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the Birth of Sol (the Sun)... Among the German and Celtic tribes, the Winter Solstice was considered an important point of the year, and they held their chief festival of Yule to commemorate the return of the burning-wheel (the sun).

”The Catholic Encyclopedia (online) says this, “There is NO DOUBT that the original Christian nuclei attracted PAGAN accretions (additions).” And again the Encyclopedia Americana says, “At the commencement of this festival, a great number of candles were lighted in the temple of Saturn... no business was transacted, schools kept holiday, law courts were closed. Jests and freedom everywhere prevailed, and all ceased from their various occupations.”

So when was the winter solstice celebrated as the Catholic Church’s Christ Mass? According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, it was not recognized by the saints of the first 300 years. Ireneus and Tertullian don’t have it in their list of feasts. It was not until the middle 300’s AD that anyone began to “celebrate” Christ Mass. Consider the following from the great classic book by Alexander Hislop called “The Two Babylons” on pages 93 and 94: “Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honor of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven. It may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity, the Roman Church, giving it only the name of Christ adopted the same festival. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet Paganism halfway was very early developed; and we find Tertullian, even in his day, about the year 230, bitterly lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in this respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to their own superstition…That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival is beyond all doubt. The time of the year, and the ceremonies, with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, 'about the time of the winter solstice.' The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among us -- Yule-day -- proves at once its pagan and Babylonian origin. 'Yule' is the Chaldee name for an 'infant' or 'little child'; and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, 'Yule-day,' or the 'Child's-day,' and the night that preceded it, 'Mother-night,' long before they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far and wide, in the realms of Paganism, was this birthday observed.”

Even with the Catholic Church “declaring” that Jesus was born on December 25th, Christ Mass did not take off at first. It was not until the 400’s AD that it was officially recognized and celebrated. But even by absorbing Pagan celebrations and changing the names of their gods and feasts, Rome could not convert all the heathens to become Catholic! The Pagans were already celebrating December 25th as the birthday of their favored god, such as Tammuz, from Babylon; Horus, from Egypt; Mithra, from Persia; Dionysus, Hercules, Perseus, Helios, Bacchus, Apollo, Jupiter and Sol Invictus, of Greece and Rome.

Among the biggest icons of Christmas is the tree. Consider this quote again from Hislop’s book “The Two Babylons” page 97:

“The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm tree denoting the Pagan messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the sun-god and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognized as the 'Man the branch.' And this entirely accounts for the putting of the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas Eve, and the appearance of the Christmas tree the next morning.”

Check out this quote from Jeremiah 10:1-4 KJV, “Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, Learn NOT the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.”Are you getting the picture yet folks? Christmas is wicked Paganism and has nothing to do with Jesus and he has nothing to do with it! God hates all of this idolatrous celebrating of “Christmas” and Easter! Yes Easter my friends is a Pagan holiday and was celebrated long before Jesus came into the world in the flesh, unfortunately, modern corrupt Bibles by way of corrupt manuscripts, make Easter Passover thus confusing everyone. But I am working on a separate article about the Pagan origins of Easter that will be posted on Faith Writers by early March.

Sadly, who Christians think they are honoring as Jesus is actually them honoring the Pagan god Tammuz, who is mentioned in Ezekiel 8:14 KJV Bible, as is the fish god Dagon (Judges 16:23; 1 Samuel 5:2-5, 7; 1 Chronicles 10:10 KJV) and Baal. Everything that one can trace back to the Roman Catholic Church can in turn be traced back to Babylon. Anything in the Catholic Church came virtually from Babylon and in some cases from the Old Testament.

So what about the Nativity? Surely that is Christian? Nope! It was the brainchild of St. Francis of Assissi, a Catholic monk, in 1224 AD where he created a “living” Nativity scene where people dressed up in biblical clothing and the manger housed a life-sized doll of Jesus. Francis was the founder of the Catholic order known as the Franciscan Monks, who along with the Dominican Monks (founded by St. Dominic) led heavy papal persecutions against Bible believing born again Christians.

He (Francis) was the first to create “Christmas Carols” as well. Now, consider if you will the following quotes. The first one is from the covert double agent, John Henry Newman, a Vatican agent secretly encamped within Protestantism, who after outing himself in 1845, led hundreds of ministers, theologians, professors and Parliament members to Rome, made this amazing statement in his “Essay on the Development of the Christian Doctrine, page 373”:

“The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.”

That is fascinating, especially coming from this guy, who was made a Cardinal in 1879. Now check out this quote from Father John Sullivan, a Jesuit, who said, “It is interesting to note how our Church has availed herself of practices which were in common use among pagans…Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a reproduction of those pagan creeds.” (The Externals of the Catholic Church, Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals, Sacraments and Devotions, page 156, from P.J. Kennedy, NY, 1942)

I am going to end this here, but as I said I will provide websites for you to check to learn more.

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Other%20Pagan%20Mumbo-Jumbo/christmas.htm
http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/holidays2.htm
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract3.html
http://www.apostolicolivetree.com/pagan_holidays.html
http://www.acts1711.com/xmas2.htmhttp://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/xmas/celeb.htm

God Bless!

Fancypants' Comments:
I don't necessarily agree that the passage from Jeremiah is specifically speaking of a Christmas Tree, or of the bring in of any tree into the home and decorating it as the passage goes on to say, "They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Clearly, this passage would be referring to an idol that was carved from a tree, and not a Christmas tree itself as no one would ever suspect a Christmas tree might have the ability to walk, to do evil, or to do any good.

However, the fact that Jeremiah is not specifically speaking of a Christmas tree does not negate the fact that the evergreen tree was used as a means of idolatry, and God warns us in His word to not do as the heathen do.

The excuses I normally hear from Christians is, "Well, we're worshipping Jesus, not a tree, or any false god." Or "That's not what I mean when I celebrate Christmas." Or, "No, last year, some Christian publication put out an article explaining that the Christmas traditions came from Christianity." My own pastor used the information in that particular Christian publication to refute the pagan origins of Christmas traditions last year; and then just last Sunday referred back to last year's explanation as proof that it's "hogwash" to believe that Chistmas traditions come from paganism. There's no doubt in my mind that he's truly a Christian, and he's very sincere, but according to scripture, he's sincerely wrong. The problems I have with these excuses is that these are the ways that Christians try to justify their actions, in order to do what they want to do rather than keeping themselves in subjection to what the word of God says.

Beyond that Christian publications and most evangelical pastors will refer to "the Church", but what they fail to specify is that they are speaking of "the Catholic Church". Regardless of what Christians want to admit, what they believe, or what they preach; Catholicism is NOT Christianity. It's actually the exact opposite. I'm not Catholic-bashing here, I'm just stating a fact. Catholicism is religion, which is nothing more than man's attempt to reach God based on his own merits. So I'm going to automatically question anything that comes out of the Catholic Church. Catholicism doesn't reflect or represent Jesus Christ, it replaces Him. That's why the Pope is referred to as the "Vicar" [or replacement of] Christ. Catholicism nothing less than paganism in that it is a melding of true Christianity and paganism, united under Constantine. Remember that a little leven, leveneth the whole lump. So, I don't care what Christians say, what they think, or what they choose to do. I care only for what God's word says, and how it explains the laws that God wrote on my heart.

All through the bible God tells us to be separate from the world, to be in the world but not of the world, to be salt & light to the world, and to let your light so shine before men. God tells us not to touch the unclean thing, to not do as the heathen do, to not learn the way of the heathen, and to not worship me [God] the way the heathen do. God was pleased when the groves [trees used for idolatry] were destroyed, and angry whenever they were reinstituted. Don't we see any patterns here?

Say what you will about your intentions regarding participation in Christmas, but if what you say doesn't match up with what God says in his word, you have been deceived by the father of lies. I would NEVER suggest that anyone who participates in the traditions of Christmas isn't saved. Christians aren't perfect. In fact, a lot of the New Testament was written in order to correct Christian's wrong understanding. However, if the response of the incorrect Christian is to ignore the reproof from God's word - well, let's just say, "it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

My job is not to convince anyone I'm right. My job is to point out what the word of God says - to sound the alarm so to speak. And for those of you that will label me a legalist, God's laws have been written on all of our hearts; but often times we don't listen, or aren't listening to what those laws are. I include myself in that by the way. More frequently than I'd like to admit, different things are pointed out to me from scripture, and at that point, there's a decision that needs to be made. Do I do what I want to do (translate that to "what's right in my own eyes") or do I do what God's word says? Well, my response will always be "as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

If this blog post offends you, I’d strongly suggest you make it a matter of prayer. Nothing said here was of my own personal opinion. Maybe there’s a reason you’ve been offended. Maybe the Holy Spirit is using this blog post to get your attention. Ask Him, as it is ONLY He who can lead you into all truth.

Jesus in the Levites & Aaron

2011-03-08T05:30:00.000-08:00

The Lord showed me something yesterday while I was reading His Word. It's just a glimpse, but it's interesting, so I wanted to record what I learned. The verses are from Numbers chapter 8. I noticed this down in verses 21 & 22. Here they are...

The Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron lifted them up and presented them to the Lord as a special offering. He then offered a sacrifice to purify them and make them right with the Lord. After that the Levites went into the Tabernacle to perform their duties, assisting Aaron and his sons. So they carried out all the commands that the Lord gave Moses concerning the Levites. (NLT)

The passage says that "Aaron lifted them up". I find this phrase interesting. Aaron was the high priest. Jesus is our High Priest. Aaron "lifted up" the Levites. This term lifted up was used by Jesus in reference to being lifted up on the cross to be our perfect sacrifice. So in that phrase we have a reference to the Levites being a foreshadow of Jesus Christ in that they were "lifted up and presented to the Lord".

No one took Jesus' life. By His own divine plan, He laid down His life for us. It's also interesting that Aaron lifted them up. Remember that Aaron was the high priest, and that's similar to Jesus being our High Priest. So in this we have Jesus, as our High Priest (symbolized in Aaron), lifting up Himself (symbolized in the Levites) and presenting Himself to the Lord as a special offering.

After that, the Levites went into the Tabernacle to perform their duties. So what I see here is that after Jesus offered Himself to the Lord as a special offering He (symbolized by the Levites) then went into the Tabernacle. As Christians, our bodies are called the Temple of the Holy Spirit. I see a connection here. After Jesus offered Himself as a special offering to the Lord, His Spirit enters the Temple in each one of us who believes, and there, He performs His duties - guiding us to make wise decisions, growing us in Him, explaining His Word to us, etc., etc., etc.

Or if you want, you could view it as... After Jesus offered Himself as a special offering to the Lord, He went into the Temple in Heaven and performs His duties as intercessor between a good and righteous God, and sinful man. This is similar to the Levites who were intercessors between a good and righteous God and sinful man.

However, Jesus doesn't need to perform any more sacrifices. He needs to shed no more blood. He was a special sacrifice. He lived a perfect life. His blood is spotless and erases sin - once for all, for all time.

Go back and re-read Leviticus chapter 8. There are many others examples of Jesus Christ in Aaron and the Levites that I haven't listed. Like I said, verses 21 & 22 were just the verses I FIRST noticed the symbolism. Have fun letting the Lord show you where else you can find Him in Leviticus chapter 8 - and elsewhere as well.

Blinding Unbelief

2011-02-17T05:45:00.000-08:00

So, currently, during the day while I’m working, I’m listening to a guy teach a Sunday School class to a group of adults on the book of Hebrews. His insight is amazing. We’re somewhere around chapter 9, but I’m not exactly sure, as I said, I’m working while listening. The information sticks, but the details like where we’re reading from sometimes escape me. In any case, God made a connection in my mind in what he told me through this teacher and it’s so great, I wanted to post it so I could always have my thoughts written out, as well as if anyone else ever reads this, maybe they can be edified by it as I was.

The idea is this…

In the Old Testament the nation of Israel chose NOT to believe God when He promised He would give them the ‘Promised’ land. They had seen His power. They had tasted His blessings. They knew He was God. Yet, corporately as a nation as a whole, they chose to believe that they would die if they tried to take the land of Canaan. In fact, they actually complained that they didn’t understand why God would bring them out of slavery in Egypt just to watch them die and their children die in battle against the Canaanites. In essence, they didn’t believe God would keep His word and give them the land of Canaan (which is symbolic of being given salvation). As such, they planned to stone Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, and then return to Egypt (which is symbolic of being in bondage to sin).

Wait a second, Israel was supposed to be a light to the world. ALL nations were to be blessed through Israel. How would ALL nations (the Gentiles, the world, more specifically… me) be blessed if Israel didn’t believe God and was sentenced to not being accepted into Jesus’ salvation?

In my paraphrase, God said, “You’re worried about your kids? Ok, I’ll take care of them. I’ll let them into Canaan (the promised land, my rest, the rest from my works, my Sabbath, my salvation) and they will be cared for, but because you have not believed in Me, you will not enter. Because you have not believed Me, you will wander the wilderness (symbolic of “a lonely place” later on in the gospels) until every one of you dies.”

In other words, the excuse Israel gave was their kids. So, because they were unbelievers, they weren’t saved, and the choice to believe Jesus fell to their children. Their children did believe and were saved.

Parallel this with the nation of Israel not recognizing (believing) that Jesus was their Saviour. They were given EXACT information as to who their Saviour would be, and even an EXACT date that He would make Himself known back in the book of Daniel. Yet when He did, they didn’t believe Him. Beyond that, their response was “Crucify Him! Crucify Him! May his blood be upon us!” They didn’t believe Jesus was the One who created everything. They didn’t believe that Jesus was the One who made the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They didn’t believe Jesus was the I AM from the burning bush. They didn’t believe Jesus was the One who brought them out of their bondage in Egypt. They didn’t believe Jesus was the One that spoke to them from Mount Horeb. They didn’t believe Jesus was the One who wrote the 10 commandments with His own finger in stone. They didn’t believe Jesus would take them into the promised land. They didn’t believe Jesus was God. And why not? When you stop and think it through, it’s really understandable that Jesus is God – as Israel would’ve understood. Think about it. When God made His promise to Abram, did He say, I am God “the Father”? No. When God reiterated His promise to Isaac and later Jacob, did He say, I am God “the Father”? No. When God spoke to Moses from the burning bush did He say, I am God “the Father”? No. There is no mention of God “the Father” in the Old Testament. So when Jesus shows up in the New Testament why should there be any doubt that Jesus is God based on the miracles that everyone saw Him perform and the way in which He identified Himself? Yet, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him! May his blood be upon us!” And so it is.

Because they didn’t believe Jesus was God – because they didn’t believe Jesus was their Saviour, “…blindness, IN PART, was given to the Jews…” But wait, how will ALL nations (the Gentiles, the world, more specifically… me) be blessed if the nation of Israel is again blind? Jesus goes on to say, “…until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.”

While growing up, I’ve often wondered how the nation of Israel could be so stupid. How could they see God’s power, see Him, hear His voice, and still disbelieve Him; at times so blatantly as to make a golden calf and call it God. Why wouldn’t they call out to Him if they had doubts? How could they so easily forget the 10 plagues God used to spiritually dethrone all of Egypt’s false gods and bust them out? Now I think I know why. God had the nation do this so it would be recorded and He could show Christians like me the similarities between the nation of Israel who didn’t believe Jesus would keep His word by taking them into Canaan (saving them), and someone today not believing Jesus would keep His word by taking them into Eternal Life (saving them).

So the Jews are again blindly wandering in a lonely place of unbelief while others are being brought by into salvation by Jesus. And as soon as Jesus has every Gentile in that He has always known will choose to believe Him, He will take the blindfold off of Israel and they will recognize Him as their Saviour by the nail prints in His hands.

God is so good. God is so good. God is so good. He’s so good to me!

Jude, Gateway To Revelation … Conclusion

2011-02-10T18:07:00.000-08:00

Intending to write a letter to the Church on the subject of salvation, Jude was prompted instead to write about the false teachers that were already infecting the church with their lies. He was just getting nicely wound up as we finished our first installment. Let's rejoin him now as he releases the full force of his torrent against them. And as we saw last time, he wasn't just writing about his times, he was also writing about ours.

These men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. (Jude:12-13)

The phrase love feast refers to the early church's practice of eating together and sharing communion at their weekly gathering. It was an adaptation of the Passover Jesus celebrated with His disciples. Jude said the false teachers didn't belong there because unlike shepherds who understood their responsibility to feed their flock, these people are only interested in feeding themselves. Clouds with out rain fail to fulfill their promise of bringing relief from the drought. They get our hopes up but don't bring us comfort. Trees that don't bear fruit are uprooted. Jude called them twice dead because by bearing no fruit they produce no offspring and by being uprooted their own life is ended. The wild waves of the sea come from odd directions. They can knock a boat off course or even cause it to capsize. Wandering stars are unreliable and cannot be used for navigation. Anyone following them is in danger of becoming lost.

These four analogies show that false teachers are not just wrong, they're dangerous. And they're most dangerous to those who are least able to defend themselves. Like wolves, they feed off the weak and the stragglers. Jude said the darkest blackness has been reserved for them forever, indicating they're not saved. John confirmed this when he wrote the following about them: They went out from us but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. (1 John 2:19)

False teachers who deny the deity of Jesus or the sufficiency of His sacrifice, who blaspheme the creation and lend support to the murder of the preborn, who teach what they know to be false because it profits them, and who rebel against the authority of Scripture are not just mistaken. Jude and Paul say they know in their hearts they're wrong, and John said by their words and deeds they're proving that they never belonged to us.

Paul said, “such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.” (2 Cor. 11:13-15)

When you're masquerading you're pretending to be someone you know you're not. Just like Satan knows he's not an angel of light, his servants know they're not servants of righteousness. These men are not merely deluded, they are consciously deceptive. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. (Jude: 14-16)

Some commentators use this passage to support their view that the book of Enoch belongs in the Bible. But Jude was writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and would have known that the book of Enoch a) was not written by Enoch, and b) has a number of historical and theological errors. Jude was very specific in identifying Enoch as belonging to the seventh generation after Adam. The Book of Enoch wasn't written until several thousand years later.

Jude:14 is similar to 1 Enoch 1:9. But even if Jude was quoting it, that wouldn't indicate a blanket endorsement of the book. Jude could have had confirmation from the Holy Spirit that the original Enoch actually said what Jude had written. That would explain why Jude attributed the statement to Enoch rather than the book by that name. The important thing to remember here is that the Lord will come to judge the false teachers for the way they've twisted and distorted the truth of His word.

But you don't have to depend on Jude's quote from Enoch to verify the judgments that await the godless false teachers. Peter said the same thing. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:1-3)

In Old Testament times there were false prophets pretending to speak for the Lord. Now we have false teachers who twist His word into something it was never meant to be. What they teach denies the fact that the Lord died for all our sins and just by receiving His free gift we can live in eternity with Him. Instead they use their influence to introduce destructive heresies that lead their followers astray. Peter added his voice to Jude and John saying, These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. (2 peter 2:17) And Jesus will seal the fate of these pretenders saying, “I never knew you. Away from me you evil doers.” (Matt. 7:23)

A Call to Persevere
But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (Jude:17-19)

Here Jude referred us once again to Peter who warned that these scoffers would taunt us. “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” ( 2 Peter 3:4) These advocates of evolution contend that things always have been and always will be. They laugh when we talk about the 2nd Coming, as if we're being naive to think such thoughts. But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. (2 Peter 3:6) It's not that they never heard how things began; they've made a conscious decision to ignore what God said about creating the Heavens and the Earth, and how he destroyed it when men became evil. Against all the evidence they've decided to believe that God doesn't get involved in the workings of men and therefore won't be coming back, ever.

But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. (Jude:20-21) Building faith is like building our muscles. It takes practice. Jude's brother James said it this way. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. (James 1:2-3)

An athlete looks for chances to test himself and faces them joyfully because it's an opportunity to make himself bigger, faster, stronger. We should be the same, thinking of the trials we face as opportunities to build our faith. We know in advance that the outcome will be in our favor, so we can consider these tests pure joy. They bring us closer to the Lord and help us look to that day He's promised will come.

Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. (Jude:22-23)

Like the seasoned veteran encourages the rookie, we can reach out to those who doubt while we wait. I believe Jude had Zechariah 3:1-10 in mind here. It was a vision, one of eight Zechariah had in the same night. The Angel of the Lord was there, along with Joshua the High Priest and Satan. When Satan began to accuse the High Priest, God said, “The Lord rebuke you Satan. The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire? Joshua was dressed in filthy (literally excrement bespattered) clothing. The Angel of the Lord said, “Take off his filthy clothes”, and told Joshua He had taken away his sin. Then He had Joshua clothed in rich garments and said he was symbolic of things to come. He was referring to the day when the Lord would come to take away the filthy garments of our own righteousness and clothe us in rich garments of His righteousness. “I will remove the sin of the people in a single day,” the Angel said, thereby identifying Himself as Jesus. It's an incredible model I call the Gospel in Zechariah, and I think Jude was calling it to our attention for a reason. We need to remember what we were before and who we are now.

As we build our faith and wait for the Lord, we'll become so heavenly minded that our earthly clothes will remind us of the High Priest's filthy robes and we'll long to be clothed with our heavenly garments.

Doxology
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy — to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. (Jude:24-25) Jude's letter ends the way it began, with an assurance that Jesus will obey His father's will and not lose even one of us (John 6:38-40), but is able to keep us from falling and to present us to Himself without fault, as though we'd never sinned at all.

Summary
At the beginning I said the Epistle of Jude could be called the Acts of the Apostates. This is because of the author's focus on the false teachers. And remember they all claim to be part of the Church, even though their teachings are far from the Gospel.

Some of them say Jesus is not the way at all. They deny His deity, doubt the fact that He died for our sins and rose again, and dismiss His claim that you have to be born again. You have to find the way yourself, by living a good life, or learning secret knowledge, or joining their group.

Others say He's not the only way. There are many ways to God and as long as you're sincere in what you believe you'll find yours.

Still others say He's not all the way. He made it possible for you to begin your journey to God, but you have to complete it by your own efforts, living a righteous life according to their standards.

These are all branches of the broad road with its wide gate. They lead to destruction because in the final analysis they make you the author of your salvation. These are the acts of the apostates.

The Bible says Jesus is the way, the only way and He's all the way. Only by trusting exclusively in His completed work on the cross can we hope to see the Kingdom. Faith in His substitutionary death is the only thing we can do that isn't counted as work, and it alone is credited to us as righteousness (Romans 4:5) This is the narrow road with the small gate, because it makes Jesus the sole author of our salvation.

It's exciting to be part of a big crowd all praising God and caught up in the stimulation of a great musical production. There's a feeling of self satisfaction that comes from being seen by your peers as a shining example of what it means to live a victorious life. And there's an unparalleled sense of fulfillment to be found in expressing the love of the Lord to the less fortunate through missionary or social justice programs.But if you're not also a born again believer, none of that will get you even one step closer to the Kingdom. You'll just be one more victim of the acts of the apostates. It's what you believe in your heart that saves you, not how you behave in your life.

This was written by Jack Kelley on 02/05/11 and put up on the Rapture Ready website. Follow this link to go to the original message... http://www.raptureready.com/featured/kelley/jack159.html

Keep Your Laws Off My Body!

2011-02-08T18:18:00.000-08:00

Michelle Obama doesn’t want us to eat high calorie foods. To her I say, “Keep your laws off my body.” Hollywood doesn’t want us to smoke. To them I say, “Don’t impose your morals on me.” If I want to be a big fatty with lung cancer, who are they to tell me what to do with my body?

While the liberal left has no problem playing the “keep your laws off my body” card when we defend life and marriage, they have no compunction about imposing their values on us. Frustrating? Yes. Annoying? Certainly. But that does not rise to the level of danger that the seeker sensitive church possesses when it does the exact same thing.

By removing God’s laws, both church and state will inevitably replace God’s dictates with laws of their own. Here’s how it works. No society or organization can run for long without a leader and laws. This is true for two reasons: disorganization leads to disaster and inevitably some power hungry type-A personality will seize control. If we are not a nation under God, then whoever is in power will impose their values in lieu of God’s. The same thing is true for the church.

When a church determines that God’s laws are either out of date or just not working any more, then that church will quickly replace God’s laws with human legalism. No Law, no Gospel. No Gospel, no church. When you have no Gospel, you have no rallying cry and no reason to exist. Quickly the true Gospel must be replaced with another message; typically that message is a life-enhancement gospel.

Unfortunately, what sounds like good news is merely legalism. “If you want your marriage to be better, do this. If you want to be more successful, do that.” Because there is no Gospel to motivate this behavior, these so called life-enhancement messages are mere moralisms. How ironic! Those who claim that we are living under grace and therefore have no need for the law, end up acting like Michelle Obama and Hollywood. They become legalists who impose their values on us in place of God’s and ultimately rob us of grace.

Galatians 3:24-25 tells us that “the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.” Do not let an ostensibly nice church put you under their laws. If a church does not use the law as a schoolmaster to lead people to grace, grace, amazing grace, then look for the red sign that spells E-X-I-T and run.

This was sent to me in a newsletter from Wretched Radio on 02/08/11

Himself THE Lamb

2010-12-22T21:07:00.000-08:00

Note to Self:
In Genesis 22:8, Abraham says, "God will provide for Himself THE lamb..."

I like this. This verse subtly stresses that He/God/Jesus is THE Lamb that He Himself is providing that will eventually be sacrificed.

THE lamb, that God Himself provided, for Himself, was sacrificed in that same exact location 1000s of years later, in my place, as payment for my sins against Him, that He has always known I couldn’t pay. God Himself, gave up the glory of Heaven, packaged Himself in the physical confines of a human body and then came down to where I live and was born. He was born in order to be the perfect man, in order to fulfill the contract that He had made with mankind through Israel that could NEVER save me from the just punishment I so deserve as a law-breaker. He did all this so that He could legally write up a new contract that would save me. He loves me that much.

I like this a lot!

The Difference Between Islam and Christianity

2010-09-18T20:31:00.000-07:00

Jesus healed the sick.
Muhammed healed no one.

Jesus could make the blind see.
Muhammed could only make the seeing, blind.

Jesus made the crippled walk.
Muhammed could make the walking, crippled.

Jesus could take a dead man and make him alive.
Muhammed could take a live man and make him dead.

Jesus multiplied food to feed thousands.
Muhammed could divide the loot among his followers.

Jesus could walk on water.
Muhammed could ride a camel.

If you visit Medina, you can see the tomb where Muhammed is buried.
But if you visit Jerusalem you’ll find an empty tomb. The Lord Jesus Christ has risen.

He is the Way. He is the Truth. He is the Life. NO ONE comes to the Father, except through Him.

-Courtesy of Dr. Peter Hammond via Todd Friel of Wretched TV (09/10/10 Episode).

Walking with Dinosaurs at the Staples Center

2010-09-12T14:01:00.000-07:00

So a group of us, through Creation Science Evangelism, been going down to the Staples Center in Los Angeles to hand out tracts that give the biblical perspective on dinosaurs to people exiting the 'Walking with Dinosaurs' show. This show is done by the BBC and is on a world-wide tour presenting ONLY the evolution religion's point of view. I've learned a lot about taking a public stand for Christ. It's been amazing to connect with other Christians in order to represent our King to this fallen world.

Saturday morning I went out for the last showing I'd committed to, and my eight year old daughter went with me. It was great! We handed out tracts offering the exiting crowd the biblical perspective on dinosaurs. We were also able to hand out some $1M bills and explain to them that the reverse side of the bill explains how Jesus took the punishment we deserve for our crimes (sins) against God so that we could be pardoned. Some people stood behind us and laughed at us, some were disgusted and cursed at us, some said the bibilical perspective was trash. Most people we talked to said, "No thank you" courteously. But some people took the tracts. Of those, many thanked us. Some were reading the tracts while they walked to their cars. Some even came back and asked my daughter for another one to give away to other people. My daughter was REALLY surprised that people came back to ask her for another one.

As we were saying goodbye to the L.A. Coordinator, Garth; he knelt down to my daughter's level, hugged her, and with watering eyes, he said, "Just think, someday when we get to Heaven, someone might come up to you, hug you, and thank you for giving them a bible tract, because they were led to salvation through Jesus because you gave them a tract." God put us in the company of some of His most outstanding servants in this event. I look forward to someday working with them to expand God's kingdom again someday.

I'm so thankful that I was offered this opportunity to take a stand for Christ in a way that is more bold than I have thus far, and I can't wait to see what He leads me to do for His glory next. I'm thankful that my daughter got to see first-hand what it means to take the name of our Saviour, both the rewarding and the difficult, and I can't wait to see how He grows her in Him in the future.

Thank you Lord for the opportunity to serve you. Thank you for taking the punishment I deserve so I could go free and live forever with you. Until I can thank you face to face, please send me more opportunities to step out in boldness for your name's sake, so that you might save some from Hell.

For They Have Consulted Together with One Consent

2009-01-20T20:08:00.000-08:00

So I've been listening to different scholars speaking on prophecy and one man in particular has stood out to me. His name is Walid Shoebat. I originally heard him speak on a podcast called Salvation Revelation by Frank Lordi that I subscribed to via iTunes.

Mr. Shoebat was a former PLO terrorist who became a Christian while trying to convert his Christian wife to Islam. He has now become an advocate for Israel. Walid was born in Bethlehem and as a result of being raised Muslim, he has a different view of the bible than those of us Christians that were raised here in the West.

It was Mr. Shoebat that pointed out to me that all of the nations that are listed by name in the bible as being judged by Christ upon His 2nd coming just happen to be Muslim nations.

-Isaiah: Egypt, Lebanon, and Edom
-Habakuk: Midian
-Psalms: Ishmaelites, Syria, & Iraq, Moab, Hagarenes, Gebal, Ammon, Amelek, Philistia, Tyre, & Assur
-Ezekiel: Turkey

I find this VERY interesting.

Who is Like Yahweh?

2008-10-28T06:20:00.000-07:00

Wikipedia defines Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) as, a congenital heart defect which is classically understood to involve four anatomical abnormalities (although only three of them are always present). It is the most common cyanotic heart defect, representing 55-70%, and the most common cause of blue baby syndrome.

Micah Gower was born on October 18, 2007 with Tetralogy of Fallot.

Due to continuing medical complications, Micah's family is really struggling to make ends meet. Please pray that Micah's situation improves. Pray for strength and perseverance for Micah and his family. Pray that the doctors make wise decisions to care for Micah's daily needs in such a way as to be as comfortable as possible for Micah. Pray that Micah's family and friends will be able to see the hand of God at work in Micah's life and in the lives of his family. Pray that God will use this situation to somehow lead others to the knowledge that without God they are truly lost. Most importantly, pray that God's will be done in the day to day lives of this family.

A fund has been set up in Micah's name to help this family financially in this time of need as they don't have medical insurance and cannot afford to purchase any. I would like to encourage all who read this and have the means, to help by contributing to this family's needs. There is no pressure to give, nor is there any minimum or maximum amount you should give. Your choice to give and the amount you choose to give is based solely on whatever is in your heart to give. You can do so by either of the following means:

1. You can make a donation by visiting your local Wells Fargo Bank and making a deposit to the Micah Gower fund - Account #2884000288.

2. Anything purchased from this site (http://www.krymus.com/4627) will help out Micah's family as a percentage goes to Micah's fund.

Click the title of this blog to see the extended story on Micah and his family. Please pass this story on to anyone you can think of. The more people we have praying for this family the better off they will be.

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"But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me."

Is this Wisdom?

2008-09-03T21:26:00.000-07:00

Is this Wisdom?

This cartoon says it all. Sadly, this man stands a good chance at representing our nation. If we as a nation are willing to choose someone to represent us whose actions are literally a slap in the face of the One True God who gave us life and then had His Only Son pay our fine so we could live forever with Him even though we deserve eternal separation from Him as a result of our choice to sin against Him; we should surely be ashamed of ourselves. In fact, 'ashamed' doesn't even begin to express the truth of our wretchedness.

What is Truth? Obama brazenly shouting his commands at the face of God.

Is this Wisdom? No Mr. Obama - this is folly.

Source: http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/obama-links-to/

Israel to be Divided

2008-08-12T19:54:00.000-07:00

This is an article I read on World Net Daily today. I find that it's pretty important to stay on top of any news of Jerusalem being divided up as this will affect the whole world eschatologically whether non-Christians want to believe so or not.

Thus shall he [Antichrist] do in the most strong holds, with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. (Daniel 11:39 KJV+)

JERUSALEM – A detailed proposal for the creation of a Palestinian state that reportedly was presented by Israel to the Palestinian Authority in recent weeks was heavily influenced by the U.S. and is largely based on an American-drafted plan, World Net Daily (hereafter, WND) has learned.

Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported yesterday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert handed to PA President Mahmoud Abbas a plan for an Israeli withdrawal from most of the strategic West Bank and for parts of the Israeli Negev desert – Israeli territory undisputed by the international community – to become part of a Palestinian state.

WND last week quoted a top Palestinian official stating Olmert told the PA he intends to accelerate negotiations the next few weeks to reach a deal on paper outlining a Palestinian state before he steps down from office next month.

Olmert earlier this month announced he will resign from office after his Kadima party holds internal elections next month to choose a new leader. He said he is stepping down due to a criminal investigation, described by police officials as "serious," in which he is accused of corruption and financial improprieties.

The Haaretz report says the deal, confirmed by diplomatic sources speaking to WND, was rejected last night by the Palestinians unless certain key modifications were made.

The proposal calls for Israel to evacuate 93 percent of the West Bank, while the Palestinians would receive territory equivalent to 5.5 percent of the West Bank, located in the Israeli Negev desert.

The plan grants the Palestinians passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on territory that would be jointly patrolled by Israel and the PA. The passageway would give the Palestinians access to areas close to central Israeli population centers.

Much of the plan previously was published by WND in a series of articles in recent months.
According to the plan Olmert sent to the PA, land to be annexed to Israel would include the large West Bank Jewish community blocs of Ma'aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion and the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and some land in the northern West Bank adjacent to Israel. The rest of the West Bank would be handed to the Palestinians.

An area from the Israeli Negev nearly equivalent in land mass to the territory Israel would retain in the West Bank would be transferred to the West Bank – marking the first official Israeli plan that calls for pre-1967 land to be given to the Palestinians. Pre-1967 refers to Israeli territory that was not reconquered in the 1967 Six Day War.

The plan would be set out on paper and implemented on the Israeli side in stages, while the PA would need to first retake control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas before Israel would give them most of the West Bank.

Mark Regev, Olmert's spokesman, refused to confirm yesterday to WND the existence of the plan as reported by Haaretz.

But Nabil Abu Rdainah, Abbas' spokesman, told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA the plan presented by Olmert showed a "lack of seriousness" since it did not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Israeli diplomatic sources said Olmert will now offer a new draft plan in the immediate future.
The plan Olmert already presented was adapted from a detailed American proposal sent earlier this year to the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating delegations, diplomatic sources said.

The U.S. plan also called for peripheral eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem to become part of a future Palestinian state, but those sections of the plan seemed to have been placed on hold for now.

Olmert is considered a lame duck prime minister and according to polls has little standing with the Israeli population, but he has vowed to forge ahead with Israeli-Palestinian negotiations started at last November's U.S.-backed Annapolis summit, which seeks to create a Palestinian state by the end of the year.

Last week a top PA negotiator told WND Olmert has stated he plans to grant the Palestinians a state on paper before he steps down from office next month.

"Papers are very important. It puts limits on the new prime minister," said the PA negotiator, speaking to WND on condition of anonymity. "For example, the weak point of Israeli-Syrian negotiations are papers signed by former prime ministers that now must be abided by, during current negotiations.

"Olmert told us his goal is to reach an agreement on paper," the negotiator said.
He said the agreement will likely encompass understandings regarding the transfer of much of the West Bank to the Palestinians. He said he "hopes" the issue of Jerusalem is broached but that it might not be mentioned on paper beyond a declaration of agreement to negotiate further.

Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72178

There Is No Star of David

2008-08-07T20:18:00.000-07:00

The first mention of the six-pointed star in Israelite literature was in Amos 5:26, when YAWEH angrily tells His people that " I hate and despise your feast days…. You shall take up Siccuth, your king and Chiun your images, the star of your God…." Siccuth (Sakkuth) and Chiun (Kaiwan) means "star" and refers to Saturn as a star, and was objects of idolatrous worship, as they were considered to be Assyrian gods. The mixed multitude that went out of Egypt with the children of Israel took the star with them. Like the obelisk, the six-pointed star was an Egyptian idol used in idolatrous worship. In 922 B.C. when Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh, he became involved in Egyptian idol worship and went into magic, and witchcraft. Solomon built an altar to Ashtoreth and Moloch, and the six-pointed star, the chief symbol of human sacrifices in magic and witchcraft circles, came to be called the Seal of Solomon.

Strangely enough, this link between the hexagon and the planet Saturn may very well reveal some ancient knowledge handed down to those that might have conjured demons. Here is a picture of the planet Saturn which showcases the following.

"Astronomers using infrared imaging have shown that Saturn has a warm polar vortex and that it is the only such feature known in the solar system. This, they say, is the warmest spot on Saturn. Whereas temperatures on Saturn are normally -185 °C, temperatures on the vortex often reach as high as -122 °C.

A persisting hexagonal wave pattern around the north polar vortex in the atmosphere at about 78°N was first noted in the Voyager images. Unlike the north pole, HST imaging of the south polar region indicates the presence of a jet stream, but no strong polar vortex nor any hexagonal standing wave."

Also note the occult Talisman of Saturn (image at the top of this posting). The front of the talisman bears the Satanic pentagram and the back of the Talisman contains none other than the hexagonal "Star of David".

M. Hirsch Goldberg in his book The Jewish Connection states: "The Star of David is not of Jewish origin - and the ancient Israelites never used it as their religious symbol." (they used the Menorah or Seven Candlestick). So, why did the six-pointed star become known as the Jewish star? This symbol was widely adopted, not because the Jewish people chose it, but ironically because Adolph Hitler forced all Jews to wear a yellow six-pointed star during the holocaust. The word holocaust means burnt offering, and the six-pointed star was used in the past when burnt human sacrifices were offered to Moloch and Ashtoreth in Baal worship. The few Jews who had anything to do with the Six-Pointed star (hexagram) were those who were involved in occult practices. Back to Hitler, would he put anything good on a Jew? Hitler meant to insult and destroy the Jews, and being wrapped up in the occult (read the book, The Nazis and the Occult ), he may have meant the Jews to be his burnt offering for power. Today, most Jews wear this star by choice, and without thinking or checking out its origin and usage through time. Wearing the six-pointed star became a fashion.

Comments on Saturn's Hexagram from the New Agers:

Hexagram as heart chakra:---two interlacing triangles, symbolizing union of Shiva and Shakti - male and female principles. The hexagram is an ancient Hindu symbol = nara-narayana yantra, symbolizing union/balance of human and the Divine. The Talisman of Saturn is a hexagram. In Ritual Magick, the Seal of Solomon, warning of violent death, poison, secret plotting, and deceit. Saturn in astrology is the planet of restrictions, duties, responsibilities and knowing one’s limits. Saturn is the Planet of Destiny, Lord of Karma, Keeper of records. It’s a BIG message!!! Saturn is telling us that we need to get our act together and assume our responsibilities in terms of caring for the planet. This is a time for the union of male and female energies. They need to work together and NOW. Our connection to the Divine (however we see it), must be restored and re-vitalized. If this is not done, we are in for trouble. Peace to all, and Blessed Be.

I would highly suggest that before we adopt symbols of meaning to ourselves, as representatives of Jesus Christ, we should first contemplate whether or not the symbol is pleasing to God. Just because we attach a particular meaning to an publically displayed symbol doesn't mean God is glorified in it.

This posting was MOSTLY a reposting of Frank Lordi's works that can be referenced at http://www.wiseasserpents.com/. I thank God for the truth He is showing me through Frank Lordi's podcasts and websites.

Gasoline Could be $1.50 per Gallon at the Pumps

2008-08-02T17:43:00.000-07:00

This is an 84 minute must see video clip of Lindsey Williams speaking on the topic of our "Oil Non-Crisis". I've included a copy of the endorsement of Lindsey Williams' book by Hugh Chance (Former Senator of Colorado).

Gasoline should be [and could be] $1.50 at the pumps in California within one year if we were to extract oil from a particular pool discovered in the early 1970's during the construction of the Trans-Atlantic Oil Pipeline. Follow the link below and find out what & more importantly, who, is preventing this from happening.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=rocefeller&hl=en&sitesearch=#q=Lindsey%20Williams&hl=en

Lindsey Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary. The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase in 1974, and because of Mr. Williams' love for his country and concern for the spiritual welfare of the "pipeliners," he volunteered to serve as Chaplain on the pipeline, with the subsequent full support of the Alyeska Pipeline Company.Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to the information that is documented in this book.After numerous public speaking engagements in the western states, certain government officials and concerned individuals urged Mr. Williams to put into print what he saw and heard, stating that they felt this information was vital to national security. Mr. Williams firmly believes that whoever controls energy controls the economy. Thus, The Energy Non-Crisis.Because of the outstanding public response that has been generated by this book, Lindsey Williams is in great demand for speaking engagements, radio, and TV shows.

(Addition to the fourth printing of the second edition.)

Please keep in mind when you read this eye-opening book that BAPTIST John D. Rockefeller BOUGHT the U.S. government after the Supreme Court decision to outlaw his monopoly in 1911.

The content of this manuscript is only as valuable and useful to the reader as the credibility of the authors.The honesty, integrity, and therefore the credibility, of the authors of this book is unquestionable to the limit of their combined facts and knowledge.

I can personally attest to many of the facts, and certainly many of the conversations quoted in the book, as I spent a week with Chaplain Lindsey on the North Slope of Alaska during the construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. I was privileged to talk with high officials of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. For reasons unknown to me, I was given access to private information that apparently very few outsiders were ever given. I moved among the men at work and in the baracks. My week on the North Slope was a liberal education.The motivation for this book is to bring facts to the American people as the authors know them. They do not have a political ax to grind nor any personal advantage by bringing forth these facts.Our President has stated that our energy problem is the equivalent of war. Yet he has embraced policies that have continually discouraged and hampered the development of our oil industry.Nearly ten years ago President Nixon warned of a pending energy shortage unless our domestic production be drastically increased, but Congress insisted on restrictive price controls.

Congress has been urged—and sometimes threatened—by special interest groups to take a negative stance on energy production, but they have miserably failed to take proper action to increase our domestic production. In fact, as you read this book you must come to the realization that energy production has been fiercely stifled by "Government Bureaucracy, " and Congress has sat on its collective hands.You, the reader, will be left to make your own conclusions as to why this set of facts and circumstances conflict many times with what we have been told by the news media—which is fed its information by Government Agencies and Departments.

It is with great pride and pleasure that I endorse this manuscript and compliment the authors for taking time to do the research and make it available to all of us.

March 19, 1980
Hugh M. Chance

Former Senator of The State of Colorado

Chapter I The Great Oil Deception
Chapter 2 Establishing Credibility
Chapter 3 Shut Down That Pipeline
Chapter 4 An Important Visit by Senator Hugh Chance
Chapter 5 Amazing Facts About the Oil Fields
Chapter 6 The Workings of An Oil Field
Chapter 7 Toilet Paper Holder for Sale Cheap—Only $375.00!
Chapter 8 Want Some Falcons? just Two Million Dollars... A Pair!
Chapter 9 How About An Outhouse for $10,000 (Extra for the Mercedes Engine, Of Course!)
Chapter I0 One Law for the Rich, Another for the Poor
Chapter 11 The Barges Froze and Cracked and Popped
Chapter 12 Those Welds Are Not Faulty!
Chapter 13 Why Are These Arabs Here?
Chapter 14 The Plan to Nationalize the Oil Companies
Chapter 15 Waiting for a Huge New Oil Field
Chapter 16 Gull Island Will Blow Your Mind!
Chapter 17 If Gull Island Didn't Blow Your Mind—This Will!
Chapter 18 The Oil Flows—Now the Tactics Change
Chapter 19 The Energy Non-Crisis of Natural Gas: A StartlingPrediction Comes True
Chapter 20 A Scandal Greater Than Watergate?

The Energy Non-Crisis is available for sale here

David Rockefeller Sr. - Admitted Member of Secret Cabal Working Against the U.S.

2008-08-02T17:03:00.000-07:00

In David Rockefeller's book "Memoirs" he admits that he is part of a secret cabal working to destroy the United States and create a new world order.

Here is the direct quote from his book pg. 405...
For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

-David Rockefeller

Reposted from: http://saynototyranny.blogspot.com/2007/10/david-rockefellers-book-memoirs-treason.html. Thanks.

Indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Mass Murder on 09/11/01

2008-08-02T16:06:00.001-07:00

David Rockefeller, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and others are indicted by San Diego Citizen's Grand Jury on the crimes of September 11, 2001, in New York City.

The Charge: Conspiracy To Commit Mass Murder

CONVENING on Saturday, April 14, 2007, the 23-member San Diego Citizens Grand Jury on the Crimes of September 11, 2001 in New York City heard more than six hours of presentations by Chief Prosecutor Don Paul, Chief Investigator Jim Hoffman, and Expert Witnesses Richard Gage, Ted Muga, Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan at the Student Council Chambers in the Aztec Center of San Diego State University.

ON the evening of that Saturday the Jurors voted by majority for two Indictments and fourteen Presentments on the most consequential Charge offered them, that of 'Conspiracy to Commit Mass Murder'. The 'Mass Murder' in question pertains to the death of more than 2300 people due to the destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1 and 2 (the Twin Towers) on the morning of September 11, 2001. Jurors had seen much evidence that internal explosives must have caused the two 110--story skyscrapers to disintegrate into their footprints. They'd also seen records that more than incompetence had caused American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 to escape interception by U. S. Military on 9/11/01. Jurors called for a "heavier" Charge than any originally offered by Chief Prosecutor Paul. Their own initiative, based on their knowledge from and before the day's many hours of proceedings, produced a far greater number of individuals wanted through Presentment, fourteen, than the two posed by the Prosecutor as deserving further investigation through Indictment for the "heavier" or "stronger" Charge. A Presentment, acccording to the Columbia University Press Encyclopedia, is 'an accusation issued by the grand jury on its own knowledge, without any bill of indictment having been previously drawn up by the prosecutor.'

PER the Chief Prosecutor's request for Indictment, the two persons named by San Diego Citizens Grand Jury as showing probable cause for further investigation on the Charge of 'Conspiracy to Commit Mass Murder', are:

RUDOLPH GIULIANI, Mayor of New York City on 9/11/01

JEROME HAUER, Managing Director of Kroll, Inc. and Senior Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for National Security and Emergency Management on 9/11/01; former Director of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management (1996-2000).

PER Presentment, based on Jurors' knowledge without any bill having been previously drawn up by the Chief Prosecutor, the fourteen persons named by the San Diego Citizens Grand Jury as showing probable cause for further investigation on the Charge of 'Conspiracy to Commit Mass Murder', are:

THOMAS PICKARD, Acting Director of the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation from June 25, 2001 to September 4, 2001

MICHAEL CHERKASKY, Chief Executive Officer of Kroll, Inc. on 9/11/01; former investigator in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office from 1978 to 1994; current C.E.O. of the Marsh & McClennan insurance firm

GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States on 9/11/01

LARRY SILVERSTEIN, C.E.O. of Silverstein Properties, primary leaseholder of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, and developer of the third skyscraper that disintegrated into its own footprint in lower Manhattan on 9/11/01, World Trade Building 7

RICHARD CHENEY, Vice-President of the U. S. on 9/11/01

DONALD RUMSFELD, Secretary of Defense of the U. S. on 9/11/01
MARVIN BUSH, member of Board of Directors of Securacom, a firm entrusted with security for the Twin Towers, from 1996 to 2000

WIRT WALKER, C.E.O. of Securacom (later Stratasec) from 1999 to 2003

RICHARD MYERS, Acting Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11/01

RALPH EBERHART, Commander of North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) on 9/11/01

L. PAUL BREMER, Executive with Marsh & McClennan on 9/11/01; Chairman of the U. S. Congress' National Commission on Terrorism from 1999 to 2000; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism from 1986 to 1989; Presidential Envoy to Irag and Adminstrator of the Coaltion Provisional Authority from May 2003 to December 2004

PETER G. PETERSON, C.E.O. of the Blackstone Group, parent corporation of one of three lease-holdersfor WTC 7 on 9/11/01; also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ban New York and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations on 9/11/01

DAVID ROCKEFELLER, prime builder of the Twin Towers and all of the World Trade Center complex as Chairman of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association from 1958 to 1975; President or C.E.O. of the Chase Manhattan Bank from 1961 to 1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985

MAURICE GREENBERG, C.E.O. of the American International Group (A.I.G.) on 9/11/01; A.I.G. the 'leading U. S.-based insurance organization and the largest underwriter of commercial and industrial insurance in the United States', according to its website in February 2000; A.I.G. also a major share-holder in Marsh & McClennan (whose C.E.O. on 9/11/01 was Maurice Greenberg's son Jeffrey; a major investor (7%) in the Blackstone Group; and the leading investor in Kroll, Inc., which became a subsidiary of Marsh & McClennan in 2002.

More information on the historic and heroic breadth and depth of this Grand Jury's reach toward answers and justice for the crimes of 9/11/01 can be had from Chief Prosecutor Don Paul at 504-861-5017 and from the Grand Jury's Convenor, Michael Copass, at 619-665-9415.

The accompanying Endnotes (below) with their 54 URLs provide supporting evidence that those sixteen who are charged deserve further investigation for the Conspiracy that killed thousands on 9/11/01.

Endnotes For The Charge Of'Conspiracy To Commit Mass Murder'
Delivered On April 14, 2007 By The San Diego Citizens' Grand Jury On The Crimes Of September 11, 2001 In New York City

These ENDNOTES--a total of 54 urls that link to evidence about one or more of the sixteen individuals named below--support the San Diego Citizens' Grand Jury's conclusion that each of the said individuals should be further investigated for the Charge of 'Conspiracy to Commit Mass Murder'.
My only regret from our procedings on April 14, 2007 is that the Jurors did not receive from me information which might have moved them to direct the further investigation of at least two other individuals, MICHAEL CHERTOFF and BERNARD KERIK, on one or more Charges. Congratulations to the Jurors for their splendid courage, deep backgrounds of knowledge, acute questions, and thoroughgoing determination. Their initiative, using the Grand Jury's means of Presentment (a Presentment 'is an accusation issued by the grand jury on its own knowledge, without any bill of indictment having been previously drawn up by the prosecutor'--Columbia University Press Encyclopedia) led to the charging of fourteen individuals listed below.

Congratulations to the Jurors for their big step toward truly countering terrorism.
May their courageous step further Grand Juries and more by concerned citizens around the world. May it further an unstoppable movement.

May we all--all truth-seeking citizens of the world now and the world to come--reach answers about the crimes of 9/11/01 that prevent more of such crimes-more of such atrocities against civilian populations--in our futures.

Submitted by Don Paul, Chief Prosecutor for the San Diego Citizens' Grand Jury, on April 26, 2007.)
ENDNOTES TO INDICTMENTS FOR THE CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MASS MURDER

RUDOLPH GIULIANI (bio) PrisonPlanet.com/articles/september2004/080904wargamescover.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/giulianis-deadly-impact_b_18564.html?...911Research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/giuliani.html

JEROME HAUER (bio) WinterPatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html 9-11Commission.gov/hearings/hearing11/hauer_statement.pdf CooperativeResearch.org/context.jsp?item=a96oemtrains Time.com/time/covers/1101020527/safe.html

THOMAS PICKARD (bio) ProjectCensored.org/newsflash/unanswered_questions_911.html DemocraticUnderground.com/articles/02/09/26_failed.html

MICHAEL CHERKASKY (bio) Ratical.org/ratville/CAH/VonBuelow.html GlobalResearch.ca/articles/KUP311A.html Demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Kroll
GEORGE W. BUSH (bio) InfoImagination.org/ps/911/index.html BuzzFlash.com/perspectives/911bush.html MedicalNewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=51498 VillageVoice.com/news/0648,lombardi,75156,2.html

LARRY SILVERSTEIN (bio) Panynj.gov/pr/68-01.html InfoWars.net/articles/march2007/140307Silverstein.htm RealEstateJournal.com/regionalnews/20060428-frangos.html 911Research.wtc7.net/wtc/background/owners.html

RICHARD CHENEY (bio) Members.Shaw.ca/truth914/mineta.html Geocities.com/kidhistory/bcr911.htm

DONALD RUMSFELD (bio) Portland.Indymedia.org/en/2004/03/284651.shtml

MARVIN BUSH (bio) CommonDreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm InformationClearinghouse.info/article3336.htm Sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marvin_Bush

WIRT WALKER (bio) InformationClearinghouse.info/article3336.htm MargieBurns.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/26/1784217.html
RICHARD MYERS (bio) 911IndependentCommission.org/questions.html BenFrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=245

RALPH EBERHART (bio) CooperativeResearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=ralph_eberhart NY911Truth.org/articles/dayton.htm

L. PAUL BREMER (bio) InTheNationalInterest.com/Articles/Vol1issue5/Vol1issue5Bremer.html RightWeb.irc-online.org/profile/1053 Transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/05/ltm.02.html FindArticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_360/ai_108648125 FAS.org/irp/congress/2004_cr/s091004.html Demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Paul_Bremer
PETER G. PETERSON (bio) GlobalResearch.ca/articles/CHO403B.html Demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Peter_J._Peterson Bookstore.petersoninstitute.org/book-store/3837.html JustAnotherBlowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/911-revolution-in-military-affairs.html

DAVID ROCKEFELLER (bio) People.HowStuffWorks.com/wtc.htm EricDarton.net/html/tallstories.html City-Journal.org/html/11_4_the_twin_towers.html Amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005VW2O/lewrockwell/911Research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/asbestos.html GarlicAndGrass.org/issue8/Don_Paul.cfm
MAURICE GREENBERG (bio) SourceWatch.org/index.php?title=Maurice_R._Greenberg CSMonitor.com/2005/0401/p03s01-usju.html OnlineJournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml OnlineJournal.com/artman/publish/article_1291.shtml FromTheWilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/part_2.html

The Grand Jury is continuing deliberations on the exact content of its Findings on other, lesser Charges.

U.N. Weather Weapons Treaty of 1976??

2008-07-31T20:02:00.000-07:00

For all of you that believe the world (USA included) can't control the weather, what you have to ask yourself is, why would the U.N. feel it necessary to create a weather weapons treaty? Pay special attention to the definition listed in Article II.

UN 1976 Weather Weapon Treaty - Upload a Document to Scribd

Our 'Space Brothers' ...Really??

2008-06-01T09:35:00.000-07:00

The Catholic church made a statement a couple of weeks ago that we can believe in both aliens and God. They called them our 'space brothers' and suggested that we might even be able to learn from them.

The the UK admitted the existence of aliens by producing evidence. Mind you, this was not exactly the kind of evidence we all were wanting to see. It was the most presumably speculative, non-threatening type of evidence possible.

The USA not wanting to be outdone has now released it's own evidence for the existence of alien beings from www.rockymountainnews.com.

Why is the existence of alien beings important to the Christian Community you ask? Because Matthew 24 tells us that the 2nd coming (not the rapture) will take place when the occurrences here on Earth are as they were in the days of Noah before the flood.

Ancient civilizations (Sumerians, Mayans, Chaldeans, etc.) all recorded seeing 'their gods' coming down to Earth from the Heavens. Some even mention they came in 'fiery chariots'. Genesis, Peter, and Jude all validate these recordings from the ancient civilizations.

The bible tells us that the Nephilim ('the fallen ones') were on the Earth in the days of Noah [and also afterward]. The Nephilim were a hybrid race of giants that had angelic ability and knowledge. They genetically modified their crops and their animals so they would grow large. Once they depleted their resources, they began to eat the humans.

Only Noah's bloodline was pure 100% human. So God saved Noah and his family and wiped out civilization with water.

What are we doing in the field of science for the past few years? Genetic research. Monsanto has been producing genetically modified seed for human/animal consumption. We have been trying to combine human and cow DNA. We have been trying to bring extinct animals out of extinction by filling in the DNA gaps with DNA of other animals. Stem cell research, cloning, and now SR 1858 making it mandatory for all newborns born after October 31, 2008 to be subject to DNA sampling that becomes the property of the US government for use in genetic research as well as to assist in the creation of a national DNA database.

What are the UFOs doing to the abductees? They started out probing them and taking tissue samples from them from the 50s-90s. Now, they're taking eggs from human women and fertilizing them in-vitro with alien sperm, implanting the fertilized egg back in the human woman and then in a future abduction, removing the fetus. These women have gone to doctors to see if what they think happened is actually real and then freak out when the doctor congratulates them on getting pregnant.

Why are the aliens doing this? They tell their abductees that they are trying to breed a race of hybrids that have alien ability and knowledge, but look human enough to be able to move about unnoticed on our planet.

Is any of this sinking in?!? Does any of this sound familiar?!? Can't you see the similarities between present day humanity and humanity in the days of Noah?!? Open your eyes people!!

It's high time we wake up and see what's going on all around us. God does not want us to be unaware of Satan's schemes. If we are unaware, we won't be able to see the Satanic lie. Part of your spiritual armor is a sword. This is not for defense. How are you going to know when to take it out of it's sheath and swing it if you don't see Satan standing right in front of your face shooting his flaming arrows at you?

When Satan tempted Christ in the wilderness, Christ was aware of what Satan was trying to do. Christ didn't sit back and just take it - he reached back into the book of Deuteronomy and hit him with the scriptures (with TRUTH). When Satan messes with us we need to be able to recognize it and furthermore, we don't need to take his mess. Hit him!!

Just like Christ did, we need to hit Satan with the TRUTH (the forever unchanging word of God).

Open your eyes. Take notice that the battle going on is not just all around you, it's all for you. Satan is fighting against God for the destruction of your soul.

It's time to stand up and be counted for God to honor Him and Him ALONE!

Something Smells Fishy Here

2008-06-01T08:27:00.000-07:00

1. The Patriot Act was written and approved so that our government didn’t have to give rights to captured terrorists.
2. Then our government decided that the President can declare martial law as he deems necessary, uncontested by the Senate or Congress.
3. Then our government decided that waterboarding wasn’t torture and subsequently used it on captured terrorists as a standard means of interrogation.
4. Then HR1955 was issued allowing our government to consider U.S. citizens who speak out against our government's agenda or who talk about there ONLY being one way to Heaven [which is through Christ alone] to be identified as ‘Homegrown Terrorists’. They see this as 'intolerance'.
5. Then our government began inserting RFID chips into the new passports so the government could monitor/prevent terrorism.
6. Then the Real ID w/ biometric data was to begin 05/08 (but was postponed) to create a national registry to monitor/prevent terrorism.
7. Then it was DNA being collected from every newborn (beginning 6 mos. from 05/08) for genetic research as well as to create a national registry.
8. Then the UK announced it was combining Human and Animal (Cow) DNA.
9. Then it was the UK inserting DNA from preserved extinct tiger flesh into a mouse to try to bring the tiger out of extinction.
10. Then our government wants our health records to allow us easier access of our records, while allowing the creation of a national registry.
11. Now Congress wants our fingerprints in order for home loans to be approved to create a national registry and for the government to create a national registry.

What is our government trying to do? Something smells fishy here.

Jurrasic Park for Real????

2008-05-21T18:27:00.000-07:00

Extinct 'tiger' DNA implanted in mouse cells
Last Updated: 1:01am BST 20/05/2008

Scientists have taken a gene from an extinct creature, the Tasmanian tiger, and made it work in a mouse embryo, writes Science Editor Roger Highfield.

The pioneering work shows how researchers can investigate the biology of an extinct species by putting its genes in a living organism.

DNA from a Tasmanian tiger, which was hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 1900s, has been made to work in a mouse. They say that the prospect of cloning the tiger, the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times, remains distant.

The last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in Hobart Zoo in 1936 after being hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 1900s. Fortunately, young and adult tissues were preserved in alcohol in several museum collections. Using century-old specimens from Museum Victoria in Melbourne, researchers from the University of Melbourne and the University of Texas extracted a gene from the creature, isolated DNA, and inserted it into mouse embryos. The DNA showed a biological function in the developing mouse cartilage, which will later form the bone.

"This is the first time that DNA from an extinct species has been used to induce a functional response in another living organism," said Dr Andrew Pask at the University of Melbourne, who led the research.
"As more and more species of animals become extinct, we are continuing to lose critical knowledge.
"Up until now, we have only been able to examine gene sequences from extinct animals. This re-search was developed to go one step further to examine extinct gene function in a whole organism."
Prof Richard Behringer, of the University of Texas, added: "This research has enormous potential for many applications including gaining a better understanding of the biology of extinct animals." "At a time when extinction rates are increasing at an alarming rate, especially of mammals, this research discovery is critical," says Professor Marilyn Renfree, the University of Melbourne's senior author on the paper. "For those species that have already become extinct, our method shows that access to their genetic biodiversity may not be completely lost."

Some have hoped that modern biology methods could help revive a thylacine, perhaps by cloning. But she says it is "probably an impossible dream. Our study was aimed at developing methods for examining the function and evolution of genes from extinct mammals. "We chose the thylacine because it is such an icon in Australia as well as giving us some new information on the function of the thylacine genome."

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/05/20/scitiger120.xml

Koinonia Institute's Strategic Perspective Conference 2008

2008-05-18T00:41:00.000-07:00

It's about midnight and I just got home after dropping my brother off at his place. We went to Chuck Missler's Strategic Perspectives Conference 2008 on Friday evening and all day today. It was incredible!

It was kicked off by Dennis Agajanian simply put, attacking his guitar. Chick introduced the first speaker, Joseph Farah just after 7pm on Friday night. He talked about the history of sun worship from the tower of Babel days and how this 'Humanism' is destroying us today. He talked about how he feels that homeschooling our children is the first step in reclaiming our nation.

Then Chuck Missler spoke on technology in the bible. He went way over most people's heads, but it made sense at the time. He talked a lot about quantum physics and how atom structure and function is discussed in the bible even though it was written a few thousand years ago.

This morning's lectures began at 9:30 with Joel Rosenberg. His career is very interesting. He prayed for the promise mentioned in Jeremiah 33:3 and decided to start writing fictional novels. God made his stories come true. His first book was about the events that took place on 9/11. Joel's second book was about the U.S. fighting a war with Iraq to get Sadaam. The books were written PRIOR to the events taking place.

Then we listened to Paul McGuire. He's a radio host on KBRT. He talked about how today's clergy likes to dance all around the bible without touching it, instead of standing on it's promises.

Dr. Tim LaHaye was up next discussing why it's important to study prophecy. He stated that God is the ONLY one who knows the end from the beginning and His fulfillment of scripture is proof He exists. I ended up buying one of his books called, "Charting the End Times" and can't wait to take some real time to sit down & go through it.

Ray Comfort was up next. He comes from Way of the Master Radio and empowered all in the evangelizing arena. Ray started out stalling for time because people were coming in late. So He made a whole bunch of lame jokes to grab people's attention. He was actually very funny. He told the same time of lame jokes that anyone's grandfather would tell. I really enjoyed Mr, Comfort's lecture.

Dr. Bob Cornuke told us and showed video of his explorations in search of Noah's Ark, the ark of the covenant, Paul's shipwreck, the rock at Mount Hebron, and the real Mount Sinai. He touted himself as a real life Indiana Jones. The moral of his talk was you might think you're ready to tackle the mountain, but it's the pebbles that will trip you up every time.

General Shimon Erem returned from Israel today, just in time for his lecture of the "Way it Is" in Israel yesterday and today.

And we wrapped up with Walid Shoebat discussing the many differences between the One True God, and Allah. This was fascinating.

I ended up buying the materials for Koinonia Institue's Bronze Medal course. I have to complete four classes to get my Bronze. They are the Old Testament (Berean), the New Testament (Berean), Prophecy 101 (Issachar), and the Spiritual Disciplines (Koinonos). Then I might try to move on to the Silver after that. But we'll just see how this one goes for now.

If it wasn't for God moving in the hearts of my in-laws to invite my girls to the SASCO picnic again this year, I would not have been able to attend.

Thank you God. I pray that you will use what I've got, for your glory!

Christian's Soap

2008-02-21T18:38:00.000-08:00

We have this menatality that Christ died for all our sins up until now, but from this point on we're gonna get our act together. WRONG! That's just an invitation to take a big spill. That's not a license to sin, it's just an incorrect thought. You need to ask yourself, how many of your sins were future when Christ hung on the cross? The answer is ALL of them were. Christ died for ALL your sins - past, present, and future. What you do when you sin (and the time will occur), is say - Praise God, the flesh is just what you said it was and you quoted it. Then you get on your knees and grab the Christian's bar of soap (Chuck Missler said this in one of his recent podcasts and I thought it was pretty great).

If you abide in Him you can clean up your life when you muck it up with sin. I John 1:9 is the Christian's bar of soap. It reads, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness." That's not a figure of speech, that's a promise. Being cleansed from all unrighteous makes you righteous in God's eyes once again. Randy Alcorn made a statement in his book titled Heaven, that "God is in the restoration business." He will do just that.

There will be consequences for your sin, but we can and should be thankful for those consequences because His discipline is yet more proof that He loves us.

A New Leaf

2008-02-20T20:47:00.000-08:00

He came to my desk with a quivering lip,
The lesson was done.
"Have you a new sheet for me, dear teacher?
I've spoiled this one."
I took his sheet, all soiled and blotted
And gave him a new one all unspotted.
And into his tired heart I cried,
"Do better now, my child."

I went to the throne with a trembling heart;
The day was done.
"Have you a new day for me, dear Master?
I've spoiled this one."He took my day, all soiled and blotted
And gave me a new one all unspotted.
And into my tired heart he cried,
"Do better now, my child."

(Anonymous, “A New Leaf,” James G. Lawson, compiler, The Best Loved Religious Poems (Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1961).)

Former Atheist Quotes a Former Agnostic

2007-10-02T18:23:00.000-07:00

As another put it, this is a quote from a former agnostic writer (Malcolm Muggeridge), quoted by a former atheist turned Christian apologist (Ravi Zacharias). I hadn't ever put those two together before. That makes this quote all the more powerful to me.

"We look back upon history and what do we see? Empires rising and falling, revolutions and counter-revolutions, wealth accumulated and wealth dispersed. Shakespeare has spoken of the rise and fall of great ones that ebb and flow over the moon.

I look back upon my own fellow countrymen of England, once upon a time dominating a quarter of the world. Most of them convinced in the words of what is still a popular song that the God who made the mighty, shall make them mightier yet. I’ve heard a crazed, cracked Austrian announce to the world the establishment of a German Reich that would last a thousand years. I’ve seen an Italian clown saying he was going to stop and restart the calendar with his own ascension to power. I’ve seen a murderous Georgian brigand in the Kremlin acclaimed by the intellectual elite of the world as wiser than Solomon, more humane than Marcus Aurelius, more enlightened than a shokah. I have seen America more wealthy and in terms of military weaponry more powerful than the rest of the world put together. So that had the American people so desired, they could have outdone a Caesar or an Alexander in the range and scale of their conquest.

All in one lifetime. All in one lifetime. All gone - gone with the wind.

England, part of a tiny island off the coast of Europe threatened with dismemberment and even bankruptcy. Hitler and Mussolini dead, remembered only in infamy. Stalin is a forbidden name in the regime he helped form and dominate for over 3 decades. America is haunted by fears of running out of the precious fluids that keep her motorways roaring and the smog settling, and the victory of the Don Quixotes of the media as they charge the windmills of Watergate.

All in one lifetime. All in one lifetime. All gone - gone with the wind.

Behind the debris of the fallings of our solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists, lies the gigantic figure of one person; because of Whom, by Whom, in Whom, and through Whom mankind may still survive. The person of Jesus Christ.

The nature of sin… the nature of suffering… the nature of salvation… the nature of reality…
The person of Jesus Christ.

I have bent my knee to Him and I found in Him, everything."

The American's Creed

2007-10-02T17:31:00.000-07:00

This quote is from Steve Turner who brilliantly summarizes North America's position on Religion. I originally heard this quoted by Ravi Zacharias in his Podcasts ("Let My People Think" and "Just Thinking"). Ravi also uses this quote in his book entitled, "Can Man Live Without God?"

Creed
by Steve Turner

This is the creed I have written on behalf of all us.

We believe in Marx, Freud, and Darwin.
We believe everything is OK
As long as you don't hurt anyone,
To the best of your definition of hurt,
And to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy is OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything is getting better,
Despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there's something in
Horoscopes, UFOs and bent spoons;
Jesus was a good man
Just like Buddha, Mohamed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher.
Although we think His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same
At least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of
Creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens, they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
Then it's compulsory heaven for all
Excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan.

We believe in Masters and Johnson.
What's selected is average.
What's average is normal.
What's normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It's only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.

We believe that there is no absolute truth
Excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.
We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

P.S.
If chance be the Father of all flesh,
Disaster is his rainbow in the sky.
And when you hear:

"State of Emergency!"
"Sniper Kills Ten!"
"Troops on Rampage!"
"Whites go Looting!"
"Bomb Blasts School!"

It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.

The News is Both Bad and Good

2007-09-10T21:53:00.000-07:00

The Bad News - We're All Sick
When God created the world one specification of His design was that all living things reproduce each after their own kind. Before the fall of man if Adam & Eve had reproduced they would have produced sinless children. However, they didn't have children until after they sinned and were cursed. Therefore, since they had a sin nature prior to reproducing, Adam & Eve's "own kind" was a human with a sin nature - a sinner.

The bible says that if anyone says they are without sin, the truth is not in him. Since God is just and cannot dwell with us due to our sin, He must deal with us justly and hand down the punishment for sin. The bible says that the wages of sin is death... This is speaking not only of a physical death, but also a spiritual death - or to be eternally removed from God. The absence of God exists only in Hell.
Fortunately for all of us, it doesn't end there. That same verse goes on to say ...BUT, the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Eternal life is living forever with God (just as He intended when He created us). This is the exact opposite of eternal death (the absence of God in Hell).
So if you now find yourself asking "What gift is the bible talking about?" The answer is simple. We have established that God is a just judge and therefore must deal with our sin justly by handing down the punishment for sin. We deserve Hell, as we choose to reject God and continue to be "Children of Wrath" who are at war with God. The required price (eternal death) is impossible for us to pay.

The Good News - There's a Cure
God's free gift to us is that He sent his son who knew no sin to step down off his throne in Heaven, come down to Earth as a man, live a sinless life and therefore not being deserving of Hell as we are, and then to pay our fine for us. Jesus did that for us. The bible says that God loved the world so much that He sent his only Son to die in our place and pay the required price for our sin, so that WHOEVER believes in Him will not have eternal death, but will have eternal life (Paraphrased by FP - Ref. John 3:16). This act of Jesus paying our price satisfied the just nature of the God in that the price required to be paid for our sin was paid in full at the death of God's son.
But Jesus didn't just die. He went on and overcame the power of death once for all by not allowing death to be his end. Just as He said he would before He died, He rose again on the 3rd day. The price for our sin was paid in full by His Son's undeserved death and acceptable by God as proper and complete payment for our sin. All we have to do is to receive Him (accept His free gift) and He comes into us and makes us a new creature. At the split second that this happens, we are justified, and all of Heaven begins to rejoice as the new Christian's name is written down in the Book of Life.
The bible says, it says to as many as receive Him, to them He gave the power to be called the sons of God. Once we have received Him, we are joint heirs with Christ. That makes us sons of God. When each of us dies, we will face God (the just judge) on judgement day. God will look at the Christian, and He will see His Son in us, because we have been justified which means God looks at us "just-as-if-I'd" never sinned at all. He will open the Book of Life and find the Christian's name written in it.

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

Sin and Consequences

2007-09-08T13:29:00.000-07:00

Sin is the opposite of righteousness, just as evil is the opposite of good, just as darkness is the opposite of light. Without sin, one wouldn't know what righteousness was. An example of this is the handicapped child who doesn't know they're handicapped until they see someone who isn't handicapped. Before they see someone who isn't handicapped they see being handicapped as being normal. To put it simply, the existence of sin & evil allow mankind to recognize it as such by contrasting it against the righteousness and goodness of God. Does this mean that we should try to sin as much as possible so that God is shown as all the more righteous? The Apostle Paul would say, "May it never be!" One reason is because light and darkness (evil and righteousness) cannot occupy the same place at the same time. God cannot abide where sin is present which is why he created a place to send the sinful so as to be separate from God. That place is called Hell.

A Child Was Born, But The Son Was Given

2007-08-10T21:42:00.000-07:00

Who was Jesus Christ?
People often wonder why the Bible presents the life of Christ four separate times in the gospel books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John). If you ask this same question I want to challenge you to re-read them with the following in mind:
1. Matthew was a Jewish tax collector for the Romans prior to becoming a follower of Christ. Tax collectors weren't liked by the Jews, because they would over-tax the people and keep the extra money in order to become wealthy and live like Kings. God inspired the author to write the book of Matthew in such a way as to portray Jesus as a King.
2. John Mark served with his cousin Barnabas & the Apostle Paul for the first part of Paul's missionary journey. God inspired John Mark (probably through Paul) to write the book of Mark in such a way as to portray Jesus as a servant. Personally, I think John Mark saw Jesus as a servant because John Mark would have been striving to see those attributes that he had in common with Jesus.
3. Luke was a physician. God inspired Luke to see Jesus as a man. From His birth, through His life, to His death Dr. Luke was given the ability to give a completely new perspective on the life of Jesus, based on his profession.
4. John was self-titled "the disciple that Jesus loved". John was inspired to see Jesus as God.

Who is Jesus Christ?
The prophet Isaiah said, "unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given..." Look at that closely. The child wasn't given, nor was the son born. The Son of God wasn't a created being that needed to be born to exist. A child needs to be born to exist. Isaiah was saying that the Messiah would be fully God and at the same time, fully man.
Who is He? He is the King of the Jews, He is the King of Israel, He is the King of righteousness, He is the King of the ages, He is the King of Heaven, He is the King of glory, He is the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. He is the single most powerful being that has ever existed, or will ever exist. He is my King, my Savior, my Redeemer, my Rock, my Shelter, my Father, and my Friend.

Why do I care?
Because Jesus took the punishment I rightly deserve, which satisfied His Father who is just, and then beat it by overcoming it, the bible says I am now joint heirs with Jesus. His righteousness is accounted to me & therefore my sins are not counted against me. On judgement day, there won't be any charges brought up against me. It will be just as if I'd never sinned because when God looks at me, He will see His Son in me. He will see that His Son has already paid in full the consequence for my sin back at Calvary. He will see His Son's redeeming blood on the lentils and doorposts of my heart, soul, mind, & strength and His judgement will pass over me. Therefore, I don't need to fear death. I don't need to worry about my earthly reputation or what other people think about me. I don't need to worry about trying to become successful. My reward is that one day, I will get to meet Jesus Christ face to face and I'll have all of eternity to fall at His feet and thank Him for what He did for me. There is NOTHING that this world has to offer that makes me more successful than that.

Where did God Come From?

2007-08-07T19:56:00.000-07:00

In our everyday experience, just about everything seems to have a beginning. In fact, the laws of science show that even things which look the same through our lifetime, like the sun and other stars, are running down. The sun is using up its fuel at millions of tonnes each second since, therefore, it cannot last forever, it had to have a beginning. The same can be shown to be true for the entire universe.

So when Christians claim that the God of the Bible created the entire universe, some will ask what seems a logical question, namely ‘Where did God come from?’ The Bible makes it clear in many places that God is outside of time. He is eternal, with no beginning or end He is infinite! He also knows all things, being infinitely intelligent. Is this logical? Can modern science allow for such a notion? And how could you recognize the evidence for an intelligent Creator?

By definition, an infinite, eternal being has always existed no one created God. He is the self-existing one the great ‘I am’ of the Bible. He is outside of time in fact, He created time. You might say, ‘But that means I have to accept this by faith, as I can’t understand it.’ We read in the book of Hebrews, ‘But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him’ (Heb. 11:6).

But this is not blind faith, as some think. In fact, the evolutionists who deny God have a blind faith. They have to believe something that is against real science namely, that information can arise from disorder by chance. The Christian faith is not a blind faith it is a logically defensible faith. This is why the Bible makes it clear that anyone who does not believe in God is without excuse: ‘For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse’ (Rom. 1:20).

(exerpt taken from Ken Ham's Blog entitled, "Is there really a God? How would you know?" First published:Creation 20>(3):32–34June 1998)

The Genesis

2007-08-06T23:34:00.000-07:00

Noun: Genesis (geneses, jinises) - A coming into being.
I submit, the beginning or the foundation upon which a thing is built. All questions in life can be answered by looking to their genesis, their beginning, the time at which they came to be - their foundation. For that reason I want to make sure my first blog entry (my test run if you will) will lay a proper foundation, so that what I write, will be true and structurally sound.

What I believe:
I'm a Christian and as such, I believe that God exists. I believe the existence of God can be proven. I believe that God is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (able to be everywhere at one time). Since I believe that God is omniscient, I believe that He knows the beginning from the end and therefore we have no reason to doubt ANYthing he says. I believe that every word He has given to us was given for a reason. I believe that the Bible is His inerrant Word, written by men who were inspired by Him. I believe that before anything was, God was. I believe that God created the world in six 24-hour days. I believe in one triune God consisting of three equal parts (Father, Son, & Spirit) that make up one being. I believe that salvation is a free gift given to all, but rejected by most. I believe that we don't deserve salvation, nor is there ANYthing either in whole or in part that we could do to earn it ourselves. I believe in both the sovereignty of God as well as His creating mankind with free will. I believe in the existence of angels & demons, good & evil, Heaven & Hell. I believe we are all created equally, but have different roles that human nature has falsely dictated as some being superior to others. I trust in God's promise because Jesus paid the price for my sin by conquering death, a price I couldn't pay on my own, I'm going to Heaven when He says it's my time. I believe I can't wait to see Him face to face.

What I don't believe:
I don't believe in evolution. I don't believe God is unknowable. I don't believe in purgatory, valhalla, or nirvana. I don't believe that Satan was the brother of Jesus. I don't believe that any part of the triune God is a created being. I don't believe ANY good person has ever existed outside of Jesus Christ. Outside of God and his promises, I don't believe in absolutes. I don't believe in the infallibility of the Pope. I don't believe there is any human without sin. I don't believe God and Allah are the same being. I don't believe there is no afterlife. I don't believe Buddha, Joseph Smith, or Mohammad were prophets nor do I believe they are in Heaven today. I don't believe that yoga exists without Hinduism, nor Hinduism without yoga. I don't believe in reincarnation, transcendental meditation, or the New Age Movement. I don't believe in Postmodernism and/or the need for seeker churches. I don't believe it is the Christian's responsibility to convert ANYone. I don't believe people are born gay. I don't believe that life starts only at or after birth.

This will be my first blog entry attempt and will be left on this page whether archived or not to represent who I am and my position on anything.