By Michael Konkel
Didn’t Hitler have a youth corps? Didn’t Hitler also have a motto of “Forward”, in German of course? Didn’t Hitler also disarm the populace before murdering them?
In this 40th anniversary year of Roe V. Wade, shouldn’t liberals keep their mouths shut about murdering kids… I mean, 55,000,000 and counting is a lot of those little ones made in the image of God. Kind of puts Newtown in a proper perspective, huh? (Genesis 9:6 for the Christians among you… and Beckel says that includes him). Still cracks me up but we do know that liberals lie a lot too. By the way, Genesis 9:6 is also the verse that is the spiritual undergirding for our capital punishment system.
Regarding guns… nope, not any of mine… nope, not my hollow points… nope, not my magazines… what part of nope do you all think Hussein doesn’t understand? Fact is, even after my active duty Marine years (’64-’73), it wasn’t until Barack the Usurper-in-Chief came to power that I even decided to arm myself. I kind of figured that after 26 months in Vietnam (Marines did 13 month tours), I wasn’t going to mess with weapons anymore.
Barack changed all that for me. He is Smith & Wessons’ salesman of the year. Trouble with liberals who disdain human life to begin with… such as those who choose to join together with their own and then cannot procreate… or those who continue to vote democrat and stand on that abortion party platform plank… Beckel, is that they need to be slapped every now and then.
Barack Hussein Obama will/may be making the worst mistake of his life… and so will the sheriff’s, other law types that side with our Constitution violator. As a real Christian, Bob, I cannot kill anyone nor can I lead anyone to capture except of course, in defense of myself, my family and/or other innocents. War is not killing so never think I violated my well being but for the record, I was not a born again Christian either in the ’60s. Still, God used many countries throughout history as the ‘point of the spear’. America used to be willing to be used of God… now Obama wants Allah to save America and to use her to deal with the ‘apple of God’s eye’… his people, the Jew. Selling jets to Saudi Arabia and Egypt… arming the caliphate I’d say.
Bottom line here, is, America is probably on the brink of civil war and will be viewed as such by most involved which will be the whole damn country… martial law and the whole nine yards. We know Obama will be the one determining the mental health of some he would allow to have guns but for sure Obama believes veterans, Christians, anti-abortionists, anti-Islamists and so many others are disturbed and these are the ones he would seek to disarm first. Those mentally ill sickos who shot up the movie theater and then the school were both on drugs given to those who probably should be locked up instead. But… liberals began emptying asylums in the ’50s and now we all join their doctors in prayer… ”Oh my God, this I pray, let them take their three per day”.
In the very least, Obama is coming off as the tyrant even as he whispered he would to the Russians. In the middle, he is listening to demons and other evil principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places, at the far extreme, he is the anti-Christ… and considering the mutt he is, who knows, he may be a product of the revived Roman empire… does it matter… his days are numbered, the pit is open and waiting, whoever he is.
Continue to watch Israel as Obama continues to destroy America. America is not mentioned except as one of ‘all the nations of the world’ which will come against Israel… and it is when you see Israel, ‘compassed about by armies’ that you should know your redemption draweth nigh’.
Watch Damascus… she is going from city life to a ruinous heap over the course of a single evening… Isaiah 17:1 and 17:14.
After us Christians are gone, if Obama is the one who is instrumental in making that peace treaty with Israel, that 7 year pact, then you will know who he is. That evil man of perdition will also take a bullet to the head and be killed but resurrected by the false prophet… some say the next pope, Peter of Rome. In Revelations 16:2, if you haven’t obeyed our junior messiah-in-chief, and taken his ‘embeddable rfid chip’ as Obamacare dictates, then you will not incur the wrath of the angel spilling out his vial on on those who do take that mark. Those who do will be covered with ‘onerous sores’… yuk, and probably stinky too. You should be able to smell them coming. The angel was doing a test run and accidentally spilled some on George Soros… man that is one ugly dude.
I suppose this is a good as time as ever to nutshell a synopsis of what is to befall this nation in the near future and Revelations will clue everyone in to a whole lot more. Okay… I will post a meaningful blog or two so you can get some scripture references… then, I am saying good night.
This first blog will clue all as to my reasons for suggesting the next pope… Peter of Rome will be what St. Malachy describes as the ‘defective pontiff’, which I am sure includes Chrislam… trying to join Christians like Bob that are still here with Islamists who have to realize… that is one helluva big pit. Room for all 1.6 billion of them and their ancestors… one in particular… that Mohammed clown. It follows:
From Peter to Peter: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church
Religion… a word for which I hold great ambivalence. Fully aware that man made religions are man’s way of trying to reach God, often times stepping over and around God’s way of trying to reach man, Jesus Christ, It is relatively easy to find fault in man’s efforts.
I was born into a catholic family, baptized as a baby in the catholic religion, made my First Holy Communion in the catholic religion and was Confirmed in the catholic religion. I was an altar boy. I attended catholic grade school and a couple of years of the largest co-ed catholic high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin… Pius XI High School. I know something about this religion or would not feel qualified to discuss it’s merits or demerits. None of the above sharing of sacraments was by choice… I was indoctrinated into that religion as I am sure many of you are indoctrinated into varying protestant sects, Hinduism, Taoism, Islam and you name it… you wre dragged to a church, synagogue, mosque ever since you were in diapers. When I was a child, I thought and acted as a child… as an adult, I am all out of excuses.
When I was 17 I was quartered at a place in Milwaukee called Perpetual Help Boy’s Home after having previously been sheltered at the Milwaukee County Children’s Home and about 4 foster homes after the marriage of my parents (when I was about 8) dissolved as the marriage of two drunks often do. When we weren’t actually doing homework at the home quite often you could find us pushing cinder blocks on top of cut up army blankets on our hands and knees shining the linoleum floors in that place.
Nineteen days after my 17th birthday in January, 1964 Milwaukee County signed for me to join the United States Marine Corps where I stayed for the next 9 years. My dog tags during the entire period, including two 13 month tours in Vietnam (Marine’s did 13 month tours), stated ‘NO PREF’ in a place where one would normally expect to find a religion… I suppose so they knew how to bury you in case that was required.
At that time in my life I found no fault with any religion nor did I have any preference and I suppose I considered myself agnostic at the time or very certainly, disinterested. Five years after I was honorably discharged from the Marines I was attending a non-denominational full gospel church in Alexandria, Virginia with a girl friend and the Holy Spirit pricked my heart as the pastor of that church provided a message followed by an altar call asking those present who would turn their lives and hearts over to Jesus Christ. I was born again in the Spirit on that day… and then my ‘religious’ education began.
Unlike my catholic experience, wherein we had these little catechism books and nuns and priests told us what they thought we ought to know about God and His word, I began to carry and study the bible. Prior to this time I suppose it would not have done me much good to study the bible as ‘… the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ’. I Corinthians 2:14-16. The day I accepted Christ as my Saviour I unwittingly obeyed Jesus Christ, not knowing the scripture at the time, to be born again in the Spirit… even as Jesus told Nicodemus he must be in order to be saved in John 3:3 and emphasized again in John 3:7. From that day forward, I have been indwelt by God’s Holy Spirit who among other functions serves to give us that spiritual discernment necessary to understanding the Word of God.
Today, I am a member of a particular religion but as you might suspect, it is a religion in which I hear that altar call every time the church doors are open as the ministers obey the Great Commission of God which is to further the gospel of Jesus Christ. Which religion does not matter as all I care about is that they are true to God’s Word which I can now understand and if I am seated someplace where I hear lies, half-truths about social justice and/or collective salvation, I get up, kick the dust from my heels and depart that assemblage of dead men’s bones filling the pews.
Reading the bible, I have never been able to find that connection between the Apostle Peter, whom the catholic church claims as their first pope and the catholic church. I find where God instructs us to call no one Father but Him and I find where there is but ‘one God and one intermediate between God and men, the man Christ Jesus’ (1st Timothy 2:5) but no catholic connection. Nor connection to any religion for that matter.
Catholicisms’ St. Malachy went to Rome in 1139 and gave Pope Innocent II a prophetic manuscript detailing the prothetical announcements, in number 112, indicating some noticeable trait of all future popes from Celestine II, elected in 1130, until the end of the world. Malachy did this in an effort to cheer up Innocent II during his period of tribulations. Benedict XVI is listed and Malachy saw him as one who would be a peacemaker in the Chruch and in the World, and thus carry the olive branch. I know him as one who has come against the Obama administration pronouncements of collective salvation and social justice as a means to individual salvation.
St. Malachy concludes with Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman), also known as the defective pontiff who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable judge will judge his people.
Prophecy tells us about the soon to appear man of perdition, Mr. 666 otherwise known as the Anti-Christ and of his evil side kick the false prophet. Peter the Roman will likely be this false prophet as he seeks to join the major religions of the world into a ‘one world religion’ thereby quelling the murderous tendicies of the muslim and the ability of the Christians to continue to spread the ‘intolerant’ gospel of Jesus Christ which holds that there is only one way to heaven, through belief in Jesus Christ.
Far fetched you say… so was the idea of a one world government and the yuan world monetary system which by now, under Obama, we see right around the corner.
Bottom line people, it is still all about God’s chosen people Israel… as this 7 year revamped Oslo Accord finally gets inked and we see Israel encompassed about by her enemies with Syria gaining the Golan Heights and edomites in a clear position to finally eradicate their life long enemy, the Jew, then shall the end come. Clear thinking fellow Americans will not wish to be part of that scenario. Before that man of perdition can even be revealed the born again in the Spirit Christians will be taken up (raptured if you will) not to be seen again until after the 7 year great tribulation period.
My source for the prophecies of Malachy is http://www.catholic-pages.com/ so this you can read for yourselves and after you are born again, you can read the bible yourself and understand.
Being born again in the Spirit is as simple as what you will find and can understand in Romans 10:8-10. You have no excuse for dying in your sin. Like they say, be born once and you will die twice but if you are born twice, you will only die once.
This is by no means to be taken as trashing the catholic as there truly is no christian religion, no christian nation, no christian church… Christians only come in individual sizes… as we are born again.
Considering Barack Hussein Obama is more than like a stealthy jihadist as one gets muslimhood from pops. If you walk away from that mess, you become a target. Muslims do not target Obama. So, like father, like son… it is appropriate to provide some background regarding that apostasy known as Islam. It follows:
Let’s Be Sensitive Toward that ‘Religion of Peace’
There certainly seems to be a degree of confusion surrounding the detail of that which actually took place when our Navy SEALS captured Osama bin Laden. Hearsay says Osama bin Laden was officially identified by the SEALS before he was asked to surrender and then he was surrendered.
Recognizing that within Islam and particularly emphasized by Al-Qaeda like groups there is an almost imbred hatred of Israel… which does not wish to share land with Israel but rather seeks to eradicate this ‘Little Satan’ and finish the job that Hitler only started.
This hatred, this age-old hatred, stems from the fact that Abraham, the patriarch of the all those in the region, disobeyed God. God told Abraham to take his wife Sarah (Sarai) and have a son, an heir to the promised land… Sarah pleaded with Abraham explaining that “By now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her… ”. Abraham, to our chagrin as we understand now, did as Sarah suggested, took her maid Hagar, and had a son named Ishmael. This event to some degree upset Sarah when she learned Hagar was pregnant and there grew a bit of enmity between the two… and I am reading in Genesis, chapter 16 which describes this relationship.
One day when Hagar, who was fleeing from Sarah, stopped at a fountain of water and at that place an angel of the Lord told her to return to Sarah and submit herself under her hands… . ”… . And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael (that is, father of a great multitude)(and this is certainly fact); because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren… (Genesis 16:10-12). . And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ish’ma-el. Abraham was 86 at the time.
Later, when Abram was 99, God told Abram that He is the Almighty God and said to Abram, walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly… Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations… and from now on thy name shall be called ‘Abraham’ and then it gets more interesting…
“And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of all nations; kings of people shall be of her” (Genesis 17:15-16).
After Abraham and Sarah got done yucking it up at God’s expense, arguing with God that at their age of nearly 100 years, this was not possible… God explained a couple more things… particularly when Abraham expressed concern for the welfare of Ishmael. “And Abraham said unto God, O that Ish’ma-el might live before thee! And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him (Genesis 17:18-19).
God then explained his provision for our wild man, Ishmael… ”And as for Ish’ma-el, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year”. (Genesis 17:20-21)
‘Twelve princes’… does Iran’s Mahmoud Amadinejad’s call for the return of the 12th Imam ring a bell for anyone… apparently the wild people roaming the earth have gone through eleven of these princes and even as the Jew looks for the return of their Messiah and the Christian looks forward to return of their Messiah… and won’t the Jew be surprised at the coming of Jesus Christ… we all seem to be looking for something… except for those suffering under ‘a strong delusion sent by God to those who would rather believe a lie than believe the truth, and these same take pleasure in unrighteousness. II Thessalonians 2:7-12.
I had a fairly well known conservative voice in the blogosphere ask that I submit samples of my thoughts and study and then he asked me to submit work in his arena… omitting of course, religious references. I declined. I cannot ignore world events, the fulfilling of prophesy before our eyes and if the fiscal conservatives among us do not care to consider the ramifications of our moral character, then they are as much dhimmitude to mammon as our politcians, and talking heads of the lame stream media are to the wild ravings and outright domination demands of our muslim brothers and sisters already under the sway of Sharia Law.
My sensitivities lay with Israel… I understand Jerusalem to be a ‘burdensome stone’ which will cut ‘many to pieces’… I understand after 40 years wandering following Moses/Aaron in the desert and then being scattered to the ends of the earth for being a recalicitrant, headstrong and disobedient people, that Israel is now back in her covenanted land… miraculously! And no… God will not leave it up to the wild people to continue the holocaust started by Hitler… . it ends now!
I further understand that God will bless all of us who bless Israel and curse those of us who do curse Israel and that we must pray for the ‘peace of Jerusalem’. I also understand, that unfortunately, President Obama will, in the coming weeks, use his new found best friend , the ‘Responsibility to Protect’, against Israel in so-called defense of the people lobbing rockets into Israel… Ishmael’s kin… these wild assed people…
First used in Libya, at the suggestion of the socialist wife of Obama’s Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein, this ‘responsibility to protect’ was adopted by the UN and joyfully agreed to by the U. S… … nope, it will not be used in Syria, forget Yemen or any other muslim country already willing to eradicate Israel, but it will be used against Israel.
So, let us not talk about religion… let us not talk about those who either hate God, do not believe He exists or that He is the God of someone other than Abraham, Isaac and Jacob… He is not and He is not like man, he is certainly not like President Obama who does not stick to his word and He will see to his covenants with those same three… and their descendents.
Let us continue to believe that this is all about America… even our globalist leader, President Obama knows better than that… Jerusalem is center stage and America is but one of ‘all nations in the world’ who will come against Israel in that day and all hell breaks loose as Israel’s enemies surround her… Read Luke, chapter 21 and understand what is (or who is) behind the ever increasing pounding of the earth. Officially, America has turned her back on Israel. Spiritually and humanly, many U. S. citizens have not… and again… our current administration is working against the will of God fearing people in our nation… and this is as prophesied also, as it is the ‘revived Roman Empire’ from which rises to power in these days and from which arises that one to make the signing of that 1993 Oslo Accord a reality… that 7 year deal will be foisted on Israel at the point of a Muslim caliphate sword…
Christians will tell the truth… and as always, when I say Christian… unless I use a little ‘c’… I am talking about those ‘born again in the Spirit’ just as Jesus commanded Nicodemus to be as we read in John 3:3 and emphasized by Jesus in John 3:7 when He said… ’Marvel not, that I tell ye, ye must be born again in the Spirit… ”. But when those real peace-makers in the world, those followers of Jesus Christ, are taken out of the way by Christ, and their indwelling Holy Spirit goes with them, then all hell will be permitted to be loosed upon the earth as ‘He who restrains, is no longer restraining’.
America can handle pictures and video of a mass murderer, Osama bin Laden, and should revel in the fact that Genesis 9:6 has been followed to a ‘t’… ”Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man”. Be sure of the esteem which God holds for his favorite creation, mankind… and the recompense He will pay, that He reserves for Himself, who take life so cheaply as does Islam… that phony ‘religion of peace’. It is God’s will that ‘none should perish that all should come to everlasting life but He gave us free will, our choice determines our outcome. Sounds fair to me. Choose Christ and live or deny Christ and be condemned already.
A one-eyed Osama bin Laden as fish food is considered a slam by some muslims, apparently, yet that whole scheme was purportedly hatched with the blessing of a Muslim cleric who just happened to be aboard the U. S. S. Carl Vinson, and I bet, as a Navy Muslim Chaplain who saw to Osama getting cleaned up, wrapped in white linen, prayed muslim prayers over, and then released to the fishes of the North Arabian Sea.
I understand President Obama’s dhimmitude stance in this regard but I do question whether his stated fears of inflaming the muslim world was greater than his personal fear of failing to complete the ritual so that Osama bin Laden could indeed, achieve martyrdom.
We know, in the past 2 plus years, since before Joe Miller yelled “You Lie” to our illustrious president, that Obama has lied, used half truths, uses socialist groups to influence our citizens and our kids, and basically is transforming America in a manner to which more and more of us are awakening. How about that hope and change? America… like those gas prices… food prices… jobs… expect more of the same in your broken down future in your broken down Amerikan Republik… you indeed do reap what you sow.
President Obama has long ago lost street cred (credibility) with the American people… understandably so… he believes he passed the birth certificate test… give me an old Underwood, a worn ribbon and I could do the same… now the real test is whether or not both his parents were native born Americans as this is part of the same law which states he must be naturally born in America. Daddy was born in Kenya… of this there is no dispute. Those who want Obama president ignore this fact… those who understand he is selling us out to a global governance, with the price being a broken down Republic, see it clear as a bell and want an issue made of it… I want to be on the winning side… God and Israel’s side.
Islam will continue to hate the ‘Great Satan’ America as we used to befriend Israel and we do not much care for their throwing homosexuals off of high buildings and stoning their women to death for crimes that fester in their own hearts… ’he that is without sin, cast the first stone’… kind of thing.
Those who continue to shout “Death to the Infidel” as they lop off their victim’s heads do not need anyone feed their eternal hatred… show us the pictures, show us the videos… I promise… . it will not gross me out.
Too many American religionists believe somehow that because the Jews played a hand in Jesus’ death, God has disfavored the Jew and assigned ‘apple of God’s eye’ status to them. Nothing could be further from the truth but that is why so many so called Americans are ready to deliver Israel up to new enemies of Israel such as Libya and especially Egypt which Obama is arming and using our military to train with. A cursory glance at Romans 11 should warn Christians but some have a way of parsing scripture… never knowing what it all means. My thoughts on that follows:
American Religions and Israel
Did you know that a good number of American religions and Roman ones believe that God is done with the Jew… that He has sealed their fate… that He has no intention of honoring his land covenants with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? By the was, Islamists feel the same way… they believe it is their job to finish off the Jew, as Hitler started. Today, 34 of 192 countries do not recognize Israel’s right to exist at all… Palestinians included. Notably!
They call this ‘replacement theology’… catholics are guilty of it… mormons are guilty of it… Jehovah Witnesses are guilty of it… and who knows how many more… It is estimated that 100 million Americans believe this nonsense. This immoral stance opens them up to envy of the Jew, a willingness to exact what has always been God’s judgement on the Jew. Does anyone think, honestly, that everything that has befallen the Jew was not permitted by God? Doesn’t a loving father discipline his children? The miracle of a reborn Israel in 1948 in face of this eternal hatred in the region of the Jew… is jus that a miracle but one foretold by the prophet Ezekiel and job well done as confirmed by Benjamin Netanyahu when he declared Ezekiel, chapter 36 fulfilled. For sure!
At this point in our history, when all eyes are the economy and the lack of jobs it would be rather simple for me to lay out the folly of Obama’s socialistic thrust and to convince those not already convinced that the liberal/progessive push for big government, big brother knows best etc… is flat out wrong.
It is difficult for me to do this again today… and I have been blogging on Agenda 21, Islam, Green and Black Victim theologies for about two years now… difficult now because Israel and the UN simply have to take center stage. God blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse Israel… even today… the Alpha and the Omega does not have to change His mind on these matters since he has seen the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end… He is not a man whose wisdom is but foolishness…
President Obama is a tad bit upset that, apparently, Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Liberation party is pushing for full UN membership… Palestinian statehood, borders that would push Israel back to before the 6 day war borders in 1967 and East Jerusalem that is home to the most sacred of Jewish and Christian shrines in the world. All of this and still the Palestinians have no intention of changing their charter which states they will always seek the eradication of the Jew from Israel and from the world, if they could.
Obama is upset, or seemingly so, because if Abbas simply pushed for general UN membership, the U. S. could vote nay and for sure over 2/3rds of the corrupt UN would vote yea and the Palestinians would be in, on a par with say… the vatican. On the other hand, if they push for full membership as they have suggested they will do then Obama would have to veto it in the security council and therein lies the rub… and Obama has already promised the Palestinians a state by this past September (2011) .
In my opinion, it is time the Palestinians learn what most awake Americans already know. You cannot trust anything Obama promises as he is quite the ambidexterous prevaricator… able to lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. Obama had hoped to put in place most of his marxist agenda in one term… now it looks like he will need two terms for some of it… thanks to my fellow American patriots and fellow tea party members which are one and the same. So the rub comes in as Obama tries to get the Palestinians a state while at the same time trying to curry favor with Jewish voters in America.
Sadly, those religions that actually believe this ‘replacement theology’ stuff… suggesting that God is done with Israel and has displaced them with Christians do not even know their bible. In layman’s terms, God’s attitude toward Israel and the Jew is akin to the prodigal son story in the new testament. The prodigal son went off on his own, wasted away all he had, was wallowing with the pigs and finally figured out that it was better to be home, seek forgiveness and to work is his father’s fields like one owing a debt which would be better than his present wallowing ways.
That father… saw his son returning from far off and instructed all to prepare a feast because that ‘which was lost is now found’. This upset the prodigal’s brother who was obviously jealous and upset as this seemed so unfair… this brother could not understand the love of a son by the father.
Religions are that way too
Religions are guilty in this vein… the Apostle Paul tells us regarding the Jew… ”I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are of the flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. ” Romans 11:11-28.
Until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in… which is after the rapture… which is nearing as near as President Obama is to nearing the destruction of America for cursing Israel.
Do not get me wrong… while I recognize that all religions are man’s way of trying to reach God, and that Jesus Christ is God’s way of trying to reach man, some, a few religions and independent full gospel churches still do preach salvation as found only in the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the atonement of our sins… and we all have sinned and if we think not then we simply deceive ourselves. It is in these good places with your brothers and sisters in Christ with whom you should ‘assemble yourselves together’.
So many other religions, on the other hand, far beyond this replacement theology declare the “Lordship of Jesus Christ” and yet in practice deny the authority of the bible, His Word. There are at least 4 major religions, the Presbyterian Church USA, United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that accept homosexuals and immoral persons in general as candidates for pastoral ministry. When the gleaning begins… as the good book says, many will hear “… Go away from me, I never knew you”.
Still think you are a Christian or that there is such a thing as a Christian religion? Like Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:7… ”Marvel not that I tell ye, ye must be born again in the Spirit”. Salvation comes to individuals alone so I suggest that you not be highminded as God has so eloquently stated but fear for you should know that “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; and likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind (a mind void of judgment), to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. ” Romans 1:26-32.
The state of American religions is terrible… many are neither cold nor hot but merely lukewarm and because this is true, they will be ‘spued from the mouth’ of God. As an individual… understand that you are a sinner as all have sinned and fall short of the glory that is God… understand you need a sacrifical lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world… understand and believe in your heart that God has raised Jesus from the dead and then confess Jesus as your Savior with your mouth… because and afterall… ’it is with the heart than man believes unto righteousness and it is with the mouth that confession is made unto salvation”. Romans 10:10.
All of this because the Five (a Fox News program airing at 5 EST), brought up the fact that crazy uncle Joe Biden’s backdrop as he spells out his recommendations on gun control to our Narcissist-in-Chief, will be kids and I am sure we will hear plenty about Newtown… after all, like Rahm Emmanuel says, an emergency is too good to waste.
From Peter to Peter: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church
Religion… a word for which I hold great ambivalence. Fully aware that man made religions are man’s way of trying to reach God, often times stepping over and around God’s way of trying to reach man, Jesus Christ, It is relatively easy to find fault in man’s efforts.
I was born into a catholic family, baptized as a baby in the catholic religion, made my First Holy Communion in the catholic religion and was Confirmed in the catholic religion. I was an altar boy. I attended catholic grade school and a couple of years of the largest co-ed catholic high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin… Pius XI High School. I know something about this religion or would not feel qualified to discuss it’s merits or demerits. None of the above sharing of sacraments was by choice… I was indoctrinated into that religion as I am sure many of you are indoctrinated into varying protestant sects, Hinduism, Taoism, Islam and you name it… you wre dragged to a church, synagogue, mosque ever since you were in diapers. When I was a child, I thought and acted as a child… as an adult, I am all out of excuses.
When I was 17 I was quartered at a place in Milwaukee called Perpetual Help Boy’s Home after having previously been sheltered at the Milwaukee County Children’s Home and about 4 foster homes after the marriage of my parents (when I was about 8) dissolved as the marriage of two drunks often do. When we weren’t actually doing homework at the home quite often you could find us pushing cinder blocks on top of cut up army blankets on our hands and knees shining the linoleum floors in that place.
Nineteen days after my 17th birthday in January, 1964 Milwaukee County signed for me to join the United States Marine Corps where I stayed for the next 9 years. My dog tags during the entire period, including two 13 month tours in Vietnam (Marine’s did 13 month tours), stated ‘NO PREF’ in a place where one would normally expect to find a religion… I suppose so they knew how to bury you in case that was required.
At that time in my life I found no fault with any religion nor did I have any preference and I suppose I considered myself agnostic at the time or very certainly, disinterested. Five years after I was honorably discharged from the Marines I was attending a non-denominational full gospel church in Alexandria, Virginia with a girl friend and the Holy Spirit pricked my heart as the pastor of that church provided a message followed by an altar call asking those present who would turn their lives and hearts over to Jesus Christ. I was born again in the Spirit on that day… and then my ‘religious’ education began.
Unlike my catholic experience, wherein we had these little catechism books and nuns and priests told us what they thought we ought to know about God and His word, I began to carry and study the bible. Prior to this time I suppose it would not have done me much good to study the bible as ‘… the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ’. I Corinthians 2:14-16. The day I accepted Christ as my Saviour I unwittingly obeyed Jesus Christ, not knowing the scripture at the time, to be born again in the Spirit… even as Jesus told Nicodemus he must be in order to be saved in John 3:3 and emphasized again in John 3:7. From that day forward, I have been indwelt by God’s Holy Spirit who among other functions serves to give us that spiritual discernment necessary to understanding the Word of God.
Today, I am a member of a particular religion but as you might suspect, it is a religion in which I hear that altar call every time the church doors are open as the ministers obey the Great Commission of God which is to further the gospel of Jesus Christ. Which religion does not matter as all I care about is that they are true to God’s Word which I can now understand and if I am seated someplace where I hear lies, half-truths about social justice and/or collective salvation, I get up, kick the dust from my heels and depart that assemblage of dead men’s bones filling the pews.
Reading the bible, I have never been able to find that connection between the Apostle Peter, whom the catholic church claims as their first pope and the catholic church. I find where God instructs us to call no one Father but Him and I find where there is but ‘one God and one intermediate between God and men, the man Christ Jesus’ (1st Timothy 2:5) but no catholic connection. Nor connection to any religion for that matter.
Catholicisms’ St. Malachy went to Rome in 1139 and gave Pope Innocent II a prophetic manuscript detailing the prothetical announcements, in number 112, indicating some noticeable trait of all future popes from Celestine II, elected in 1130, until the end of the world. Malachy did this in an effort to cheer up Innocent II during his period of tribulations. Benedict XVI is listed and Malachy saw him as one who would be a peacemaker in the Chruch and in the World, and thus carry the olive branch. I know him as one who has come against the Obama administration pronouncements of collective salvation and social justice as a means to individual salvation.
St. Malachy concludes with Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman), also known as the defective pontiff who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable judge will judge his people.
Prophecy tells us about the soon to appear man of perdition, Mr. 666 otherwise known as the Anti-Christ and of his evil side kick the false prophet. Peter the Roman will likely be this false prophet as he seeks to join the major religions of the world into a ‘one world religion’ thereby quelling the murderous tendicies of the muslim and the ability of the Christians to continue to spread the ‘intolerant’ gospel of Jesus Christ which holds that there is only one way to heaven, through belief in Jesus Christ.
Far fetched you say… so was the idea of a one world government and the yuan world monetary system which by now, under Obama, we see right around the corner.
Bottom line people, it is still all about God’s chosen people Israel… as this 7 year revamped Oslo Accord finally gets inked and we see Israel encompassed about by her enemies with Syria gaining the Golan Heights and edomites in a clear position to finally eradicate their life long enemy, the Jew, then shall the end come. Clear thinking fellow Americans will not wish to be part of that scenario. Before that man of perdition can even be revealed the born again in the Spirit Christians will be taken up (raptured if you will) not to be seen again until after the 7 year great tribulation period.
My source for the prophecies of Malachy is http://www.catholic-pages.com/ so this you can read for yourselves and after you are born again, you can read the bible yourself and understand.
Being born again in the Spirit is as simple as what you will find and can understand in Romans 10:8-10. You have no excuse for dying in your sin. Like they say, be born once and you will die twice but if you are born twice, you will only die once.
This is by no means to be taken as trashing the catholic as there truly is no christian religion, no christian nation, no christian church… Christians only come in individual sizes… as we are born again.
For the "rapture" part, An End-Time Myth
ReplyDelete[Hello Tulisan. Here is what I discovered on the amazing web. Any reply from you?]
ReplyDeletePretrib Rapture Pride
by Bruce Rockwell
Pretrib rapture promoters like Thomas Ice give the impression they know more than the early Church Fathers, the Reformers, the greatest Greek New Testament scholars including those who produced the KJV Bible, the founders of their favorite Bible schools, and even their own mentors!
Ice's mentor, Dallas Sem. president John Walvoord, couldn't find anyone holding to pretrib before 1830 - and Walvoord called John Darby and his Brethren followers "the early pretribulationists" (RQ, pp. 160-62). Ice belittles Walvoord and claims that several pre-1830 persons, including "Pseudo-Ephraem" and a "Rev. Morgan Edwards," taught a pretrib rapture. Even though the first one viewed Antichrist's arrival as the only "imminent" event, Ice (and Grant Jeffrey) audaciously claim he expected an "imminent" pretrib rapture! And Ice (and John Bray) have covered up Edwards' historicism which made a pretrib rapture impossible! Google historian Dave MacPherson's "Deceiving and Being Deceived" for documentation on these and similar historical distortions.
The same pretrib defenders, when combing ancient books, deviously read "pretrib" into phrases like "before Armageddon," "before the final conflagration," and "escape all these things"!
BTW, the KJV translators' other writings found in London's famed British Library (where MacPherson has researched) don't have even a hint of pretrib rapturism. Is it possible that Ice etc. have found pretrib "proof" in the KJV that its translators never found?
Pretrib merchandisers like Ice claim that nothing is better pretrib proof than Rev. 3:10. They also cover up "Famous Rapture Watchers" (on Google) which shows how the greatest Greek NT scholars of all time interpreted it.
Pretrib didn't flourish in America much before the 1909 Scofield Bible which has pretribby "explanatory notes" in its margins. Not seen in the margins was jailed forger Scofield's criminal record throughout his life that David Lutzweiler has documented in his recent book "The Praise of Folly" which is available online.
Biola University's doctrinal statement says Christ's return is "premillennial" and "before the Tribulation." Although universities stand for "academic freedom," Biola has added these narrow, restrictive phrases - non-essentials the founders purposely didn't include in their original doctrinal statement when Biola was just a small Bible institute! And other Christian schools have also belittled their founders.
Ice, BTW, has a "Ph.D" issued by a tiny Texas school that wasn't authorized to issue degrees! Ice now says that he's working on another "Ph.D" via the University of Wales in Britain. For light on the degrees of Ice's scholarliness, Google "Bogus degree scandal prompts calls to wind up University of Wales," "Thomas Ice (Bloopers)," "be careful in polemics - Peripatetic Learning," and "Walvoord Melts Ice."
Other fascinating Google articles include "The Unoriginal John Darby," "X-raying Margaret," "Edward Irving in Unnerving," "Pretrib Rapture Politics," "Pretrib Rapture Secrets," "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty," "Pretrib Hypocrisy," "Pretrib Rapture Secrecy," and "Roots of Warlike Christian Zionism" - most from the author of "The Rapture Plot," the most accurate documentation on pretrib rapture history.
Can anyone guess who the last proud pretrib rapture holdout will be?
(Postscript: For another jolt or two Google "The Background Obama Can't Cover Up.")
[Hi again, Tulisan. Here's something else I found on the web.]
ReplyDeleteThe Real Morgan Edwards
by George Wilson
In 1995, in a 24-page booklet on 18th century pastor Morgan Edwards, evangelist John Bray claimed that Edwards taught a pretrib rapture in his 1788 book titled "Two Academical Exercises...."
Those echoing Bray include Thomas Ice who wrote "Morgan Edwards: Another Pre-Darby Rapturist." Edwards' 1788 work can be found on the internet.
In order to claim that Edwards held to pretrib, candidates for the I-can-find-pretrib-earlier-in-church-history-than-you-can medal - including Bray, Ice, LaHaye, Frank Marotta etc. - have intentionally covered up Edwards' "historicism," his belief that the tribulation had already been going on for hundreds of years. (How can anyone in the tribulation go back in time and look for a pretrib rapture?)
Here's proof of Edwards' historicism and its companion "day-year" theory which can view the 1260 tribulation "days" as "years."
On p. 14 Edwards described the Ottoman Empire (which was then already 400 years old) as the Rev. 13:11 "beast." On p. 20 he defined "Antichrist" as the already 1000-year-old "popery" and the "succession of persons" known as "Popes" - his other Rev. 13 "beast." He necessarily viewed Rev. 13's 1260-day period as 1260 literal years in order to provide enough time for his two "beasts."
On p. 19, while discussing "the ministry of the witnesses" of Rev. 11, he allotted "about 204 years" for their "years to perform" - years impossible to fit into a 3.5-year period!
What about Edwards' rapture? On pp. 21-23 he wrote about "the appearing of the son of man in the clouds, coming to raise the dead saints and change the living, and to catch them up to himself....The signs of Christ's appearing in the clouds will be extraordinary 'wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes and famines,' &. (Matth. xxiv. 6-8.)....The signs of his coming, in the heavens will be 'the trump of God [I Thess. 4:16], vapor and smoke, which will darken the sun and moon [Matt. 24:29],'...and also cause those meteors called 'falling stars'....
Right after his combined rapture/advent (!), Edwards said: "And therefore, now, Antichrist...will...counterfeit the preceding wonders in heaven...causing 'fire to come down from heaven'....And that godhead he will now assume, after killing the two witnesses....Now the great persecution of the Jews will begin...for time, times, and half a time...."
Thomas Ice's article on Edwards (see first par. above) quoted only the first 27 words in the above quotation, ending with "to himself." This sort of unethical revisionism is constantly employed by many pretrib defenders.
Not only had most of Edwards' historicist tribulation occurred before his combined rapture/advent, but his Antichrist kept raging for 3.5 years even after the Matt. 24 signs! No wonder his tutor advised him to correct his thesis!
To read Edwards' complete work, Google "[PDF] Two Academical Exercises...www.breadoflifebiblestudy.com."
For more info on Edwards, Google "McPherson Page" (click on a reproduction of "Cover-Ups"). Also Google "Deceiving and Being Deceived" by historian Dave MacPherson.