The Abortion Cruise Line

'Abortion ship' sails into Christian storm

Vessel that made waves by offering termination services in pro-life countries may be sunk by new Dutch law

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Seeds of destruction (Israel) ~Yael Mishai (Update Michael James Stone)

Seeds of destruction Despite what some religious Israelis believe, we’re nowhere close to salvation Yael Mishali Published: 07.29.09, 00:47 / Israel Opinion Forty years ago there was no problem convincing us that we were the generation that will bring the beginning of salvation. We had a young and still excited state, and a good atmosphere overall. During our trips in the Bnei Akiva religious youth movement we did not learn to identify different leaves, or the stars above during the night. We also didn’t learn the history of our early kibbutzim. During our trips, we were repeatedly presented with verses about salvations. Everything was about these verses, and it was as though the entire country was made up of followers of Bnei Akiva and Rabbi Kook (both father and son.) There was no shortage of harbingers. Things are crowded in Jerusalem now? Well, "Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with cane in hand because of his age. The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there." (Zechariah 8:4-5). The need for a light railway in Jerusalem is clear proof of the national-religious doctrine’s fortitude. Salvation is here. This is what salvation looks like. Indeed, the set is ready and we see signs; those who look for such indications can find them. But salvation? This is what salvation really looks like? And this precisely is the time to pull out of our other pocket the indications that salvation is all about pre-messianic pangs and suffering and chutzpa. But aren’t you embarrassed by the fact that this is what our salvation looks like? In recent years, some members of the national-religious camp looked at the present and said: “This is it. We are the Third Temple.” Here and now. We no longer need to mourn previous destructions, Ninth of Av is a needless day of fasting, and our mourning customs are no longer relevant. But I’m not there yet. The sense of salvation, or even the beginning of salvation, does not surge within me. The opposite is true. Indeed, I do not wish to see the Temple being built on Temple Mount or anywhere else, and I too can see a sovereign Jewish state as a sign, but not like this. I honor the previous destructions the way they are, because Jerusalem was justifiably razed. Twice. Who wishes to maintain a society whose agenda is about bloodshed, paganism, incest, and needless hatred? And isn’t it a sign that today bloodshed, idol worship, incest and needless hatred are the leading values in the State of Israel? Isn’t it a more significant harbinger than the backdrop of prosperity? The same is true for the complete loss of trust in the legal system, in public officials, in the executive, in the police, in the doctors, and in the teachers. We are precisely at the point where “without the fear of the government men would swallow each other alive.”(Pirkei Avot 2:3). This is the beginning of destruction, at least. This is why we have a lump in our throat, and why our heart aches.

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When I lived in Israel, I found the the same thing Yael writes about so eloquently. As Israel is today, I do not want a Temple nor am I fully supportive of the Actions of the people of Israel much less We Jews as we act in abject rejection of a Living God.

I know without Messiah, without Jesus, there is no hope for Israel. I also know that Christians gloss over the sins Jews do out of displaced application of Scripture. Frankly a Sinner is a Sinner Jewish or otherwise and need to be confronted.

Until the Church realizes the gospel is not about saving the Land but the people and it is a Mandate From Heaven, a commandment from Jesus, a direct order from God to Witness to and to Warn my people of Sin and tell of salvation .

Then the damnation that is occurring to Israeli now will fall upon the heads of those who should have known better when HE SAID, To the Jew first, then the Gentile.

How dare we deny anyone the message from the Prince of Peace that in a time of tribulation soon to come there is salvation for the Jew first then the Gentile.

How dare we not?

Do we stand with Blood on our hands as Israeli in rebellion to God, is pardoned by inaction and false security from a Church that refuses to go and do as Jesus Said.

The pathos of the land is obvious to those who live there, it is time those from afar came and offered something more than milk and cookies, meet and greet, and plant a tree or save a Family but DENY THE GOSPEL to every Jewish soul.

It is disgusting to God how the City of God had become the harlot of nations where tourist build altars to dead gods and lifeless saviours.

Isn't it time, YOU saved a Jew?

Michael James Stone

China pulling America's purse strings

Communist China Warns Obama On His Record Deficit

It's pretty sad when the Communist Chinese are lecturing our radical leaders on the free market system.

Barack Obama will quadruple the US deficit in his first year in office.

Communist China warned Obama and Democrats about printing money in May.
Communist China warned Obama and Democrats about their historic deficit in June.
Communist China laughed at tax-cheat Geithner when he said their assets were safe.
Today they warned Obama again.
My Way reported:

The United States and China are striking a conciliatory tone in their public comments during economic talks, although that hasn't stopped China from posing some pointed questions behind closed doors about such issues as America's soaring budget deficit.

The Obama administration has questions it wants answered as well in such areas as China's long reliance on massive trade surpluses with the United States to bolster its domestic economy.

Both sides are expected to wrap up two days of high-level talks Tuesday with a joint communique that will lay out a work plan that both sides will tackle in upcoming meetings.

Posted by Gateway Pundit at 7/28/2009 05:47:00 PM

PHONY Missing Birth Certificate and Tabloid Terroist Jourmalism ~ Bible Prophecy Today

The Missing Birth Certificate Takes Center Stage at the White House ~ Bible Prophecy Today

Bill Wilson, eager to jump on the Slam a President bandwagon traded in his journalism degree for the lure or ratings and tabloid journalism.

If He were in the Marine Corp, He would be shot.

Why?

Questioning your commanding officer is one thing, aiding and participating with an enemy of the United States during a time of war used to be called treason.

We are at War with Terrorism.

I suppose we should roll out the red carpet and salute Jane Fonda for Vietnam and Tabloid Terrorist who choose to propagandize a lie and in effect become Holocaust deniers, Moonwalk deniers, and give a Pulitzer of denying facts in the face of all Truth.

Now it's just Tabloid Terrorism.

It divides the country over a false statement already proven false by almost all reputable news services and Intelligence Agencies. It even cast aspersions on all Vetting, all Peoples and frankly on everyone except those who agree with....Tabloid Terrorist.

The false is obvious as Scripture said would occur in these last days that they would believe a lie rather than the Truth. IF it suits there purpose.

Bill will get away with this one because in America now, unless you are "really" a Christian,

It is easier to lie than to tell the Truth.

Truth and Serving God honestly doesn't pay so well...,

But the tabloids do.

Michael James Stone

Geneva-based World Council of Churches, "Search for Truth?~Anav Silverman

In the Line of Verbal Fire

by Anav Silverman

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I knew this was not going to be an easy tour.

I recently had my second opportunity in Sderot to host a group from the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme
Left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups who previously visited with Sderot Media Center have always surprised me.
in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). EAPPI is a program supported and funded by the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, a major supporter of the anti-Israel divestment campaign.

According to NGO Monitor, EAPPI policies reflect a radically pro-Palestinian agenda, presenting a biased Palestinian narrative and failing to make any mention of Palestinian terror or the human rights of Israelis. In fact, the principal agenda of EAPPI includes the Ecumenical Campaign to End the Illegal Occupation of Palestine.

Since the EAPPI program was launched in August 2002, 198 activists have participated from more than 30 churches and ecumenical partners in 12 countries. According to NGO Monitor, most of these activists, upon returning to their home countries, become active in anti-Israel campaigns.

In other words, this was not going to be an easy tour. Usually, visitors to Sderot express sympathy, sometimes horror, at the plight of Sderot residents living under the terror of rocket fire for almost a decade. But left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups who previously visited with Sderot Media Center have always surprised me with their almost indifferent reactions to the suffering of Israelis in Sderot, and opinionated comments on why Sderot residents are targeted by rockets.

Therefore, the verbal line of fire that would follow from this EAPPI group did not catch me by surprise. In fact, I expected no less from this nice group of people, mostly Europeans, which included college students, journalists and senior citizens, all gathered together on a sweltering Tuesday afternoon to impart some of their wisdom to me.

The tour began at the Sderot police station, where hundreds of rockets are on display, including the May 19 rocket that struck in the heart of a Sderot residential neighborhood. That one damaged two homes, injured two people and sent eight others into shock.

The first question that was asked of me and repeated throughout the tour was: What percentage of Sderot residents were in favor of the war in Gaza?

Each time the question was asked, those in the group carrying pens and notebooks were poised to write down the answer. Other questions also followed: Do Sderot residents understand why they are in the line of fire? How do the people of Sderot feel about the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza? Do you feel the war was successful? And so on.

Keep in mind that these questions were asked as we were surrounded by visible signs of a city preparing for future rocket strikes. As we passed by Sderot homes with newly built bomb-shelters outside, and stood in Sderot's 'rocket-proof' playground, complete with concrete caterpillars that children run into when the siren blares, the aggressive questioning continued.

I emphasized that Sderot residents were in favor of stopping rockets from continuing to devastate their homes and community; that Sderot children did not hate Palestinian children; that no Israeli wanted innocent Palestinian civilians harmed in the war. And that if I was in Gaza, I would be telling the EAPPI group the human story there.

The group calmed down after I made the last statement. But I also told them to keep in mind that there was another narrative to the Middle East conflict and Sderot was at the center of it.

"Sderot residents place full responsibility on the Hamas regime," I said. "Since the radical Islamic organization came into power, over 7, 000 rockets have been fired at southern Israel, injuring and psychologically traumatizing thousands."

That was a little too much. "It's not Hamas' fault," one elderly lady from England angrily told me.

"Then are you simply blaming Israel for all this?" I asked her.

The blame game is an easy game to play for those who are led to believe that Israel lies at the root of the conflict and remains the primary reason for Palestinian suffering.

When I led the EAPPI group around Sderot, I understood that I was speaking to average, everyday people who
"It's not Hamas' fault," one elderly lady from England angrily told me.
have been presented with a very one-sided view of the Arab-Israeli conflict - so one-sided that it was difficult for most of them to recognize Israel's right to exist and defend itself, even when standing right in the heart of a city targeted by unrelenting rocket terror.

I knew what this group believed - that the rockets fired on Israeli civilians were a primitive means of resisting Israeli occupation - although there is no Israeli presence in Gaza. The EAPPI personnel constantly compared the number of Gazans killed to the number of Israelis killed in the war. But this comparison did not faze me.

As a part-time resident of Sderot, I know that the suffering that Israelis here have been forced to endure under the terror of rocket explosions and siren alarms is cruel and intolerable - and that it had to end.

When one young Swedish student came up to me at the end and told me frankly that in his college studies he had always been taught the Palestinian side, and then thanked me for sharing Sderot's story, I knew that the tour had made some kind of impact on the group.

Still, the greater point of dispute lies in the goal behind EAPPI and the World Council of Churches. According to the EAPPI website, the NGO was launched to end the illegal occupation of Palestine and support a just peace in the Middle East.

Does EAPPI believe that a just peace entails a Jewish state of Israel with every democratic right to protect and defend her citizens?

It appears not.

Av 7, 5769 / 28 July 09

Could Earth Be Hit, Like Jupiter Just Was?

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AP – This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken with it's Wide Field Camera 3 on Thursday …

Charles Q. Choi
Special to SPACE.com
SPACE.com – Tue Jul 28, 10:45 am ET

The recent bruising Jupiter received from a cosmic impact is a violent reminder that our solar system is a shooting gallery that sometimes blasts Earth.

Still, what are the odds of a cosmic impact threatening our planet?

So far 784 near-Earth objects (NEOs) more than a half-mile wide (1 km) have been found.

"If an object of about the same size that just hit Jupiter also hit Earth — it was probably a typical cometary object of a kilometer or so in size (0.6 miles) — it would have been fairly catastrophic," explained astronomer Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Scientists have ruled out the chances of an Earth impact for all of these 784 large NEOs. Still, lesser objects also pose a risk, and researchers estimate more than 100 large NEOS remain to be found.

Small risk

Billions of years ago, impacts were far more common. Our moon retains a record of the pummeling it and Earth took: the moon's craters remain, while on Earth, most scars of ancient impacts have been folded back into the planet or weathered away.

Today's solar system is far less crowded, and in fact Jupiter, having more mass and gravity, scoops up a lot of the dangerous objects, as does the sun.

Currently just one NEO of all the objects scientists are tracking poses any significant chance of hitting the Earth — 2007 VK184. If this roughly 425-foot-wide (130 meters) asteroid hit our planet, it would strike with an energy of roughly 150 million tons of TNT, or more than 10,000 times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Roughly 100 telescopic observations made so far suggest that 2007 VK184 has a 1-in-2,940 chance of hitting Earth 40 to 50 years from now. However, if the past is any guide, further observations to refine computations of its orbit very likely will downgrade its probability of hitting Earth to virtually nothing, Yeomans said.

Of remaining concern are the NEOs that we do not see. Researchers suspect about 156 large NEOs 1 kilometer in diameter or larger remain to be found, and when it comes to dangerous NEOs in general, "when we get down to 140 meters (460 feet) or larger diameter objects, we think we've discovered about 15 percent of them, and with 50 meters (164 feet) or larger diameter, we've discovered less than 5 percent of them," Yeomans explained.

On average, an NEO roughly a half-mile wide or larger hits the Earth roughly every 500,000 years, "so we're not expecting one anytime soon," Yeomans explained.

"For 500 meters (1,640 feet), we're talking a mean interval of about 100,000 years," he added. "When you get down to 50 meters, the mean interval is about 700 years, and for 30 meters (98 feet), about 140 years or so, but by then you're getting down to a size where you won't expect any ground damage, as they burn up in the atmosphere at about 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and smaller, probably for an impressive fireball event."

When it comes to truly monstrous NEOs some 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) or larger, of the size thought to have helped kill off the dinosaurs, "that's a 100 million year event, and in fact, I don't think there is anything like that we see right now," Yeomans said. "The largest near-Earth object that can actually cross the Earth's path, Sisyphus, has a diameter of 8 kilometers (5 miles), and the largest that is termed a potential hazard is Toutatis, which has a diameter of approximately 5.4 km (3.35 miles)."

Keeping watch

There are currently four teams worldwide actively looking for both large and small NEOs, Yeomans said. "We're concentrating on the large ones for now, but hopefully with the next generation of search, we'll be more efficient in finding the smaller objects, to find 90 percent of the total population of potential hazards larger than 140 meters," he added.

Keeping an eye on NEOs might not just be healthy for humanity, but also help lead us out into space.

"They're easy objectives to get to, and asteroids have significant metal resources that can be mined, while comets have significant water resources for space habitats or travel," Yeomans said. "If you want to build a habitat in space, you're not going to build it all on the ground and launch it up, since that's too expensive — you want to go up and look for resources instead."

Furthermore, asteroids and comets are among the objects that have changed the least since the birth of the solar system roughly 4.6 billion years ago, and might reveal vital clues behind the mysterious process.

"They may well have delivered the water and carbon-based molecules to Earth that allowed life to form, so they're extremely important for study in that direction," Yeomans added.

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Are we Next? Gay soldier becomes Armed Forces' magazine's first homosexual pin-up

Gay soldier becomes Armed Forces'

magazine's first homosexual pin-up

A gay serviceman has become the first homosexual soldier to appear on the front cover of the Armed Forces' magazine.

James Wharton, a trooper in The Household Calvary Regiment, is featured in the monthly Soldier publication.

The move to celebrate diversity in the Army comes nine years after it lifted its ban on homosexuality within the ranks.
Gay pin-up: Trooper James Wharton is the first homosexual soldier to appear on the front of Soldier, nine years after the Army lifted its ban on gay recruits

Trooper Wharton, 22, who has been in the forces for six years, told colleagues about his sexuality shortly after his initial training was over when he was aged only 16.

'I came out to the Army before I told my parents, so that says a lot for the Armed Forces,' he said.


Cover boy: Trooper Wharton's debut front cover for the army mag

'I have always known I was gay but it wasn't until then that I told anyone.'

Based at Combermere Barracks in Windsor, he is soon to be promoted to lance corporal and has already proved himself as a soldier, having served in Iraq on dangerous long-range desert patrols in 2007.

Trooper Wharton, who met his boyfriend Ryan at last year's London Gay Pride march, admits he is occasionally a target for teasing from fellow soldiers, particularly for going to Britney Spears and Pink pop concerts. But he insists his unit has no problem with his sexuality.

He does confess that while attitudes have changed in the Army, there are some who are still unhappy with the idea of homosexuals in the Armed Forces, and potential recruits are sometimes put off signing up by uneducated recruiters.

During his six-year career, he says he has experienced just two uncomfortable moments, but neither was serious enough to make him quit.

He added: 'A lot of people express their worries about being gay at recruitment and some awful things have been said to them, like "you're not allowed to be gay in Army time" or "you shouldn't be gay".

'Considering some people have general problems every week I'm not complaining. I haven't got any personal problems. My problems are like every other soldier's – bombs and bullets.'
Both the Royal Air Force and Navy have joined the Army in actively encouraging recruitment from the homosexual community by taking part in gay pride events where members marched in their uniforms.

The fight to allow homosexuality in the British Armed Forces started with a legal battle.

Three gay men and a lesbian, who had been discharged from the Royal Navy and RAF after being found to be homosexual, spent two years engaged in court proceedings that reached the European Court of Human Rights.

The Government had claimed that the military should be let off equality laws because of the 'close physical and shared living conditions together with external pressures such as grave danger and war', but the ECHR ruled that policy was not sustainable in 2000.

Until that year, around 200 servicemen and women a year were dismissed from the Armed Forces for homosexuality. Some have since won compensation.

Former Coldstream Guard Lieutenant Mark Wakeling, 37, who resigned his commission for fear of being unmasked as homosexual, described the change in the UK Armed Forces as 'immense'.

He said: "I can't express how fantastic it is to know they are able to be themselves.

'I regret that I lost out. I felt I didn't really fulfil my ambition in the army. It was tragic. I was a good soldier. I could have been useful to the army.'

Posted by amazingfacts at 3:04 AM

Is there a difference about being a Christian?~Chris Bennett

Persecution in the West

There is a great persecution coming to the Western Church. A short while ago I gave a word that mentions persecution coming to the West. Since that time, I believe the Lord has been showing me more about this fast approaching end-time event – in fact its upon us now!

The (Western) world has finally got so sick and tired of the Church’s hypocrisy, its political meddling, its greed, and quite frankly its own sin, that they have turned on us. As Steve Gray spoke in his book, “Strike the Match” (p53)

“When the followers of God are not all that different from those who don’t follow Him, what is there attract the non-believer? When we are a powerless, unethical people in opposition to the standards of God, how do we hope to spur anyone to salvation? It is hard to convey the hypocrisy, self-indulgence, and greed that are engulfing our churches as worthwhile adverts for Jesus.”

That is not quite an exact quote as I have changed a word here and there for clarity. What truth and wisdom in those words. Steve Gray has not been alone in revealing this but, like all the rest, he has been roundly shunned and ignored by the great majority. Alas, the Church has not heeded these words in the slightest and the world has finally said “Enough is enough – the church has had its say, and yet the Church has never once followed its own preaching.” Why do you think so many people turned towards other religions or no religion at all. Why do you think those other religions, Islam in particular, have grown at such an alarming rate. Why do you think that their, still very much minority, voices are being given so much freedom? Could it be – could it just possibly be, that the Lord has allowed this so as to start the shaking He has promised??

I believe that the Lord has been showing me that there is coming a persecution to the Church of Europe and America, and to individual Christians. It will be of such magnitude that we will discover first hand what it was like to live under a repressive regime like the old Stalinism or Mao-ism. Christians in Europe and, particularly, America will be imprisoned for their faith. They will be publicly reviled for their religion and for their support of Israel. Many many thousands will flee Christianity as it becomes, to them, a stumbling block. As it was said by Paul in scripture :-

Romans 9:31-33 (NIV)” Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone." As it is written: "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

These statements referred to the prophecy in Isaiah

Isaiah 8:14; “... but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”

Yet there is hope for later in Isaiah it says -

Isaiah 28:16 “So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.”

It is my belief that there is a truth here that we have long tried to ignore simply because we don’t like the sound of it. Jesus Christ is not only the Son of God, He is not only our Lord and Saviour, He is not only the one who died for our sins that if we believe in Him we might have eternal life. Like it or not, Jesus Christ is also the stumbling block that will cause us to be persecuted , beaten, put in prison, humiliated, humbled before all men – in almost exactly the same way as the first church did 2000 years ago.

So why does scripture also say that the one who trusts in Him will never be shamed nor dismayed? We will never be shamed nor dismayed before God !! His Grace always was, still is, and always will be sufficient for us. He always was, still is, and always will be the way the truth and the life. No matter what persecution we may suffer in the days ahead, we will, like many before us, bear it with faith intact, we will bear it with dignity, and we will bear it for His sake and we will NOT be shamed nor dismayed before the throne of God. He will acknowledge us and be our fortress, our strong tower, our peace, and our all in all.

And this is our hope, that in whatever the coming persecution throws at us we may :- “Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13 NKJV

One last thing for you to consider – I believe the Lord is saying that this is NOT the great tribulation spoken of in the Bible – this is going to happen before those days.

CGB 25 July 2009

Posted by CGBROFMI at 07:30

Very good post by a blogger on Doctrine-MjS

Doctrine

It occurred to me that as a Christian blogger, posting the doctrine I adhere to would be a good starting point. I am no theologian. This blog is nothing more than a record of how God is working in my life, and my thoughts on various matters. I am not called to preach or teach. So this doctrine is copied verbatim from my church website, because at any time when my beliefs are not in accordance with this doctrine, the adjustment needs to be made on my side.

DISCLAIMER: Anything posted not in accordance with this doctrine is my fault, not my church’s. Anything I post here that is incorrect, offensive, whatever, is my fault, not my church’s. Neither my church nor its pastors are responsible for what is written in this blog. (Although they do get credit for anything good written as a result of my growth as a Christian, which they greatly facilitate.)

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The illustration is intended to express our desire to focus our emphasis as a local church on the cross of Christ.

All that we share and practice flows out of
the work of God’s grace, God’s wisdom and God’s power that is clearly displayed through the cross. For that reason, we will make our boast in the cross of Christ and seek through our practice as church to display its wondrous glory. The four points around the cross are arranged to show our desire to be both full and balanced in our practice and experience. All of us are tempted to live an imbalanced Christian life, where we emphasize one aspect of Christianity to the neglect of another. Some Christians may have experiences but not much understanding of Biblical teachings. Others may embrace the concept of grace but not be walking in holiness. Still others may emphasize the importance of the written Word but not be very concerned about whether that Word is being experienced.

It is our desire to have both fullness and balance in our emphasis as a local church. You may click on each of these points around the cross to get a fuller explanation.
Grounded in the Word

We believe the Bible to be God’s all-sufficient revelation to man as it pertains to the doctrines and practices of the kingdom of God. We seek to model the local church after the example given in the New Testament as well as the revelation contained in the Old Testament. Our emphasis is on encouraging our people to fully embrace the doctrines, wisdom and experiences that are shown to us in scripture.

The local church is given to teach the truth and to protect the truth, which is of vital importance since it is God’s truth that sets us free from sin and God’s eventual judgment of sin.
” I write so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.” 1 Tim 3:15
” If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?” Ps 11:3

Throughout the New Testament, the most common threat to the church is that of heresies and false teachers. The Bible warns us about keeping a number of different things from polluting the truth. When we consider a few of these examples, we can see how necessary these warnings are for us today:

* Philosophy (Col 2:8)
* Traditions of Men (Col 2:8)
* Subjective Revelations & Experiences (Col 2:18)
* Demonstrations of Power (2Thes 2:9-10)
* Convincing Arguments (Rom 16:18, 1Tim 4:1)

Being “grounded in the Word” means that we want to embrace only those doctrines and practices that are in agreement with the Scriptures, but it also means that we want to embrace all of the doctrines and practices that are supported by the Scriptures. We would agree with the thoughts expressed by author and pastor Terry Virgo when he says,

“It has been a source of great sadness to me to see two schools of thought within the evangelical church over many decades now. Those who come glorying in manifestations of power sometimes seem dismissive of those whom they regard as “cold theologians’”. I heard a man speaking at a large conference saying that theology was the enemy of the church and that if only we could abandon doctrinal perspectives the church would be a happier place. What tragic nonsense!

We also see and hear those who love theological insight and savour the doctrines of Scripture expressing equally dismissive remarks about Christians who are enjoying God’s power as though they were mere children preoccupied with experience. How I long for a recovery of true biblical Christianity where the apostle Paul, who wrote the book of Romans, also raised the dead!”
Desiring the Fullness of the Spirit

And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 1 Cor 2:4

…while Thou dost extend Thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Thy holy servant Jesus. Acts 4:30

Then he said to Him, “If Thy presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. 16 For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Thy sight, I and Thy people? Is it not by Thy going with us, so that we, I and Thy people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”
Ex 33:15-16

A distinguishing mark of God’s people is the supernatural. We believe that the supernatural experiences of the New Testament are still for the church today and that we should be open and desiring to experience the fullness of the Spirit. An example of Biblical experiences include:

* Salvation & Sanctification (Jn 1:12-13, Rom 12:2)
* Filling by the Holy Spirit for the Empowerment of Service and Transformation (Acts 1:8, 4:31, Eph 5:8)
* The Fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23)
* The Gifts of the Spirit (Rom 12, Eph 4:11, 1Co 12)
* Miracles (Jn 14:12, Acts 2:43)
* Awe & Proper Fear of God (Ex 20:18-20, Acts 5:11)
* Conviction & Revelation of God’s Holiness (Is 6:1-5, 1Co 14:24-25, Heb 4:12-13)

Motivated by Grace

Understanding that we are saved and maintained by God’s grace releases us from works for the sake of gaining God’s acceptance into works as an act of worship and gratitude. We don’t work in order to be saved; we work because we are saved, and the new life in us now compels us to live in agreement with God’s nature. Our confidence is completely in the finished work of the cross. Being motivated by grace means avoiding the tendency toward legalism which occurs when we confuse our own effort or righteousness as part of justification rather than the result of our having been justified.
Pursuing Holiness

When biblically understood, grace should not release us into a “freedom to sin,” but rather it should release us into the power of God to be transformed into the image of His Son. If your salvation experience is not making you more and more like God (HOLY), then you probably haven’t really experienced salvation. The New Testament Christian is called to aggressively pursue the mortification of sin and the putting on of Godly attitudes and actions.

“In justification our own works have no place at all and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification our own works are of vast importance, and God bids us fight and watch and pray and strive and take pains and labour.” J.C. Ryle

It is out of our pursuit of holiness that comes our emphasis on application of truth and not mere knowledge of truth. The schedule and variety of ministries of the church are designed to create the opportunity to both learn and apply the truths of God. Our goal is not merely to attend meetings and acquire knowledge but to place our lives in a context where genuine transformation can be experienced and the character of holiness can emerge.

Gerald Celente : Lincoln quote about money and power and Obama

Gerald Celente Lincoln quote about money and power

Gerald Celente likes to mention This Abraham Lincoln quotation about money and power , it is also in his book "Trends 2000".

In these two clips one of which is from the Obama Deception of Alex Jones Gerald Celente reads this beautiful quotation from former president Abraham Lincoln which many believe including Gerald himself was the cause behind his assassination ....


"The money power preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed. "

Lincoln continued to fight against the central bank, and some now believe that it was his anticipated success in influencing Congress to limit the life of the Bank of the United States to just the war years that was the motivating factor behind his assassination.

Red Light District America - The Dominating and Oppressing Sexual Culture in America

Red Light District America - The Dominating and Oppressing Sexual Culture in America

It is nearly impossible to go anywhere in the United States of America today and not sense the oppressive sexual culture in which we live. It is a subliminal, hypnotic barrage of immoral images, lewd language and erotic enticements that consciously and subconsciously affects our entire nation. It has gone so far that we have become a base and morally callous people. Where can anyone go today without being continuously bombarded by the “24/ 7” decadent drumbeat of this licentious orchestra? We have indeed become a “Red Light District” nation!

This hypnotic drum beat comes from all different sources of media: TV, radio, the internet, billboards, advertising, the music industry, the fashion world, Hollywood, the sports world, newspapers, magazines, tabloids, classrooms, college campuses, government,….and on and on. Every facet of life has been affected. Every nook and cranny of American culture has been permeated and contaminated with this sickening vice. Teaching and preaching the moral values and virtues that are vital to preserve a healthy society brings only hate and slander from the vast secular faction here in the United States.

The Devastation

The withering attacks and devastating fallout from this tyrannical oppressor is formidable. These include 50 million abortions since 1973 (representing a generation of Americans annihilated!), a ravished and wasted society, numberless unwed mothers and fatherless children, broken homes, psychological (mental) and physiological problems, a “red-lining” national guilty conscience (yet a nation unable to blush), a divorce rate higher than 50%, HIV/ AIDS and its related devastation, countless STD’s, rampant teen and college age promiscuity and unwanted pregnancies, increasing rapes, violence and murders, sex-trafficking, child porn and porn addiction (i.e., 70% of the total internet given over to porn in support of a 4 billion dollar-a-year porn industry), drug addictions, alcoholism, mass poverty, trillions of dollars spent for unaccountable social programs, rampant adultery, prostitution, approved red light districts, increased acceptance and approval of the mental and physiological disorder known as sodomy (homosexuality),….and on and on! Sexual addiction is the master oppressor today of Adam’s fallen race (see Romans 1:18-32, 5:12-19). Drug addiction, alcoholism and barbiturate addiction pales in comparison to this reigning despot. No nation has ever recovered from this self-indulging and self-gratifying addiction. How will ours be any different?

The Victims of the Sexual Revelation

Unfortunately, the greatest victims of this oppressive tyrant are children. These are absolutely ravished by the horrific consequences that followed in the wake of this super tsunami called the Sexual Revolution of the 60’s.

Women have also been shackled and enslaved in the repercussions from this decadent “Revolution.” There is nothing truly “liberating” about it at all. How could it be that the mothers (i.e., women) are the leading killing genocidal machines since 1973? A great number of women today in the U.S. are given over to reprobate practices of licentiousness, and have prostituted their bodies - and their humanity - to any individual in a vain attempt to satisfy their famished souls.

Women have always been a good moral barometer in a given society. When they are degraded to base lewdness and licentious practices, a society suffers greatly. When women are at their lowest estate so also is the nation.

The Master Panderer and His Game Plan

Lucifer is the despotic tyrant and oppressor of Adam’s fallen race. He fully understands his unregenerate human slaves (Eph 2:1-3; Heb 2:14-15). He is the “supreme hunter” of souls (Isa. 14:16-17; Ezek. 28:19; Luke 4:5-6; 2 Cor. 4:34; 1 Peter 5:8). He fully comprehends the fallen nature of humanity and our sensual desires, which are governed and dominated by our 5 physical senses. He knows how to manipulate, entice, bait, snare and catch his prey for his twisted will (Eph 6:11-12). He has been an “active observer” of the sins of humanity for ~ 6000 years (see Gal 5:19-21), and he knows that once immoral lusts and sexual vices have taken hold and snared his prey, he’s accomplished his task.

What other way to destroy a nation that was founded on Godly and Biblical principles - both natural and spiritual - but from within?

One of the Founding Fathers of our country, John Adams stated, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious (Christian) people.”

This is the master tactic in the Luciferian play book, i.e., to initiate subtle suggestions via the world’s media and to cause a vast “dumbing down” of the people and nation to a base (immoral) and relativistic, unbelieving state (Rom 1:18-32). This serves to further his evil agenda of causing people to unknowingly join his ongoing rebellion against his Creator and Lord, Almighty God (Luke 4:5-6; Eph. 2:1-9, 6:12).

This tactic was used first in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1-7), then as a catalyst to bring about the divine judgment and removal of the millions in the pre-flood world (Gen. 3:22, 6:1-2). Lucifer (or Satan) corrupted and sought to destroy God’s chosen nation of Israel and thus prevent them from displaying Almighty God’s glory to the unsaved nations of the world, and from being a vessel for God’s great redemptive plan and propose for all humanity (Num. 25:1-3, 31:16; 2 Samuel 11:1-5, 14, 18:20-21; 1 Kings 11:1-13; Ezra 9:1-2; 1 Cor. 10:8). This tactic also corrupted the “heart soil” of the people of Israel for receiving their Messiah at His first coming (Matt. 12:39, 16:4). Even now this same tactic is being applied globally - as is evident in today’s current global licentious climate - to bring about the reception of Lucifer’s ultimate minion and tool, The Man of Lawlessness or the Anti-Christ (2 Thess. 2:3-12; Rev. 13). When this godless secularist and lawless (non-absolutist) individual is revealed, the whole world – now given over to total wickedness - will be ready to receive and worship the Lie of all Lies, the Abomination of Desolation (Matt. 24:11-12, 15; 2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev.13:12).

With his entire being Lucifer hates and despises Adam’s race created in the image of Almighty God . He oppresses, exploits and uses them (Eph. 2:1-3; Heb 2:14-15) until his doom is sealed (Matt. 25:41; Rev. 20:10). It is because of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is “The Seed of the Woman” (Gen. 3:15; Matt. 1:20-23; Luke 1:30-35; John 1:14, Heb. 2:14-15, 10:4-12) that his doom is sure and his judgment final. That might be the reason for his intense hatred of the female population. In his fall and rebellion against Almighty God, the archangel Lucifer became known as the Devil (adversary) and “the accuser of our brethren,” Satan (Rev. 12:9-10).

Almighty God - Sobering Conclusion and Remedy

Just before Christ’s glorious second coming to earth to establish His 1000-year kingdom reign in righteousness, a massive global evangelization of the whole world will take place. Almighty God wants no one to perish but all to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ His Son (John 3:16-17; 1 Tim. 2:3-4).

God’s Word states, Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (Rom. 2:4)

In His great mass-global evangelization effort to reach humanity, Almighty God uses His Two Witnesses, 144,000 Jewish missionaries and angelic decrees, pleading for man to repent and be delivered from the wrath to come (Matt. 24:14; Rev. 7:1-17, 11:1-13, 14:6-7)! The unrepentant attitude of the hard-hearted people during this time will only continue to worsen until their hearts attain a “diamond-like” (i.e., very hard) consistency. These will not repent to give Almighty God the glory (2 Thess. 2:10-12; Rev. 9:20-21, 16:9-11)! This will be the catalyst to lead the rebellious, demonically-controlled multitudes in the great climactic battle of all the ages, The Battle of Armageddon (Psalm 2; Isa. 10:27-34; Rev. 16:13-16, 19:11-21).

When all options have been exhausted, God in His great wrath will send His Son from Heaven to destroy this global mutiny against the sovereignty of Almighty God and His Christ (Psalm 2; Zech. 14:3-4, 12; 2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 19:11-21).

After this global blood bath and purge of all rebellious humanity (Mal. 4:2-3; Matt. 25:31-46; Rev. 19:11-21), Almighty God will set up His righteous kingdom on earth in Jerusalem (Isaiah 11:1-10; Daniel 2:44-45, 7:13-14; Rev. 11:15).

It will take the absolute decimation of rebellious mankind to usher in God’s Kingdom and end Satan’s tyrannical reign and outworking of the lawless practices of man in this present evil world (Gal. 1:4).

God Calls Out To You

In these increasingly debauched and licentious days, Almighty God calls for all to be saved and delivered from the wrath to come (1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9). Have you received into your heart and life the Savior of the world - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your personal Savior from your transgressions against Almighty God and His righteousness?

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:16-17)

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. (John 1:12)

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Rev. 3:20)

The only solution to the depraved and ever-growing lawlessness of the world we are living in today is found in the Person of Jesus Christ. He is the ONLY ONE who can rescue humanity from the end result of sin and lawlessness. May you place your trust and hope in Him today. You will never be the same!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.