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�� For years the controversy has raged about whether Noah's flood was universal, or was it confined to a certain geographical location. This is a study to present our view about the flood as related in the Scriptures. We will use the Bible, and see if it has anything to say about it's scope.
�� The common claim, among most denominations, who still preach the Bible; and who more or less try to stay with the Scriptures as they read it and study it. Is that there was a world wide drowning of men, about 4300 to 4500 years ago. That there was a flood called Noah's flood that drowned all the men upon the earth at that time in the world's history, except for his wife, his sons and their families. This is the common teaching among most Protestant Denominations, the Catholic Church. Some Fundamentalists groups and some Pentecostal groups do not teach this. Then there are many people outside of the church who don't know one way or the other, and could really care less.
�� Some of them think this is nonsense, they think the Bible story is a myth. Some say that is not important anyway. Then there is the great, vast bulk of the population, know so little about the Bible, they don't know if there might have been a flood or not.
�� Those who do study the Bible, and are willing to go through the Scriptures and see what the Bible actually teaches about where was the flood in Noah's time. First of all let us look at the Book of Genesis.
�� It is amazing how people can read a verse of scripture, and think to themselves: Yes that's right. Then they put their brain in neutral and simply become brain dead. They will study no further; they have found the truth; and God help the person who disagrees with them. Such is the case when a discussion comes up concerning Noah's flood. Many read Genesis 6:13-17: "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth...And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."
�� These are the verses most generally used when defending the destruction of the entire earth by Noah's flood. Now first off we know that the earth was not destroyed. Yet, if one is to believe that the flood was universal, they must also believe that the entire world was destroyed at that time. Because that is what is says "I will destroy them with the earth."
�� By this one verse we know that the flood was not universal. But let's go on because those who believe in the entire world being flooded will not be content with this verse. But one can just see them beginning to foam at the mouth, and wish to destroy me, and accuse me of trying to destroy God's Word. And nothing could be further from the truth. I simply believe in reading and "understanding" all of God's Word and not present some stupid argument that the atheists and other non-believers can latch upon like a dog on a bone.
�� First. Let's look at what Strong's Concordance has to say about the word earth. I suppose you all will accept that Strong's is an authority. If you do not, then there is nothing which can be used as an authority for anything. Strong's relates:
�� In the Old Testament the following is used almost every time. #127: soil; country, earth, ground, husband, land. #776: a land; common, country, earth, field, ground, land, nations, way, wilderness, world. In the following one is used only once and the other only a few times. #2789: a piece of pottery; earth; sherd, stone. #6083: dust; clay, earth, mud: ashes; dust; earth; ground, mortar; powder; rubbish.
�� In the New Testament the following is used almost every time: #1093: soil; region; country; earth; ground; land; world. Once as #3625: Part of the globe; the Roman Empire; Once as #1919: worldly; in earth; terrestri�al. Once as
#2709: The ground; subterranean, under the earth. Once as #3749: eartern-ware; of earth; earthen.
� �Genesis 7:17-20: "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth: and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. {Well so far so good. Everything is going to die and everything is covered, but in the next verse it says} Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered."
�� There are two possibilities of this specific verse. First of all 15 cubits is believed by most Bible scholars to equal approx. 22 1/2 feet. In other words a foot and a half for each cubit. Now, if this means 22 1/2 feet above the
highest hill then the earth was covered. If it means 22 1/2 feet above the location of the Ark or where the Ark was built. Then you are in trouble, the water would not have been deep enough to cover the entire planet. But let's
go on and read some other verses: "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died." [1]
�� So far everything that we have read, is quite familiar to those who teach about the flood. And it does sound pretty complete. It sounds pretty complete as far as the destruction of everything outside of the Ark. And of course, we know, from the contents of the scriptures that all of the animals and people inside the Ark did not die. The real question is, after reading and studying God's Word and trying to find out about the flood. Which must be understood in order to understand history a little better.
�� When God said in His Word - The Earth - did He mean the planet earth? Or did He mean the Land? Did He mean the planet earth, which would mean the entire earth? Or did He actually mean the land which was being spoken about?
�� Turn to Genesis 4:11-14 where in speaking about Cain we read: "And now art thou cursed from the earth...And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth..."
�� It is clear that Cain was only being driven out from the place where he was, to another place. But Cain said to the Lord "thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth." If we used just that phrase one could easily say that Cain was removed off of the earth entirely.
�� Because it says from the face of the earth. But then the scriptures show that Cain clearly understood what had happened. "And from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth." Here we have two things pointed out to us.
�� One: That the scriptures are only concerned with a certain geographical area of the world. Cain knew this, otherwise he would not have made the proviso statement: "from thy face shall I be hid." This clearly shows that when Cain moved out of that specific geographical area, that God was no longer concerned with him, and he would be, in effect, hidden from God's eyes.
�� Second: That Cain clearly knew that he was being driven from one area of the earth to another. And not literally from off the earth entirely, the planet earth, but from the land wherein he had dwelt. And that he would sill be on the planet earth.
�� After The Flood: Genesis 11:1: "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech."
�� Now that's what it says. It says that "the whole earth was of one language and one speech." Trying to interpret this in the same manner as the previous verses to mean a world wide flood. We would have to assume that it meant that every person on the earth spoke one language. Because that is what it says. "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there."
�� Now the they must be the people of all the earth. So if we follow the same line of interpretation we would have to assume all of the living people on the face of the earth spoke one language and they all came and dwelt in the land of Shinar. Now archaeologists and sciences have no record of all the people of the earth living in the land of Shinar, about 2400 years before the birth of Christ. But let's go on and read some more.
�� This is the story of the angel bringing Lot out before the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah: "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." [2]
�� We know from the story that those who were inside these cities on the plain were wicked. God destroyed those two cities, Lot and his two daughters and his wife went out and his wife died and was turned into a pillar of salt. And as some translations say, turned into a pillar of ashes. Leaving Lot and his two daughters alive. When we read verses 30 and 31 listen to what is said: "And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him...And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth." There is not a man in the earth. When one interprets this in the same manor as he might interpret the others. You would have to assume, with the limited knowledge that we have hear, that what she means is that all the rest of humanity has died. That there are no other men alive.
�� Because she said "there is not a man in the earth" to come into us in like manner. And of course you know the rest of the story. That the girls went ahead and got pregnant by their father, because they "thought" all the rest of the men on earth had died. Yet in verse 30 we know there "were" others alive because Lot "feared to dwell in Zoar." If there were no others alive but him and his two daughters what did he have to fear. Of course those who don't want to accept what is being presented will cry out: "He was afraid of the animals." But the scriptures don't say that. And if one believes in a universal flood, then they have to believe that if there were animals that frightened Lot, the scriptures would say so. At any rate, here, the universal flood advocates will be forced to admit, all mankind was once again destroyed except Lot and his two daughters.
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Understand this one thing; as we go throuth these verses of Scripture, I am not poking fun or trying in anyway to discredit the Scriptures. I am simply trying to get you to think. To use your head, and turn away from the Jewish fables and false teachings and listen to what God says for a change! |
�� As we continue on to Genesis 41 we find that Joseph is in Egypt, and we are coming up to the time of the famine. "And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread."
�� Following the same line of reasoning that has been followed before. That would mean that all the rest of the world was suffering from a famine or a dearth or drought, whatever turns you on; except for the land of Egypt. Verses 55-57: "And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, God unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxes sore in the land of Egypt. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands."
�� We are arriving at a time when secular history is very specific, and we can study the ancient writings and get a pretty good idea of what was happening in those days. Of course, prior to the flood, we recognize that there are few actual written records available and thus are limited in our knowledge of that time in history.
�� But, if we follow the same reasoning as on the previous verses, the plain teaching of these scriptures, and if we interpret them in the same manner as the advocates of a universal flood do, this very definitely means that all of the rest of the world was having a famine. Right?
�� This would mean that the Americas, England, Australia, China, New Zealand and etc., were suffering from a famine or dearth. And that they all came to Egypt to purchase food. Which would have been impossible because the Scriptures does not even recognize China or the rest of the world at this point in time.
�� From the knowledge that we have gained from history and archeology in the last thousand years of this time, after the flood, does not indicate that we have any knowledge of people from Asia, the Americas, the Eskimos, or anybody else from the opposite side of the earth going to Egypt to buy food.
�� In fact, if one will study closely they will see that the only people involved in this famine was Egypt and the lands immediately surrounding Egypt.
�� If you will obtain a map of that portion of the earth, you will clearly see, that everything we have talked about so far, has been a relatively small geographic area in the Middle East.
�� But, yet many still teach that the flood was over all the earth. Now we have read that the famine at the time of Joseph was over all of the earth. Yet there is no record of it in our secular history, of people coming into Egypt from the other parts of the earth to buy food.
�� So far, to briefly relate what has transpired:
�� 1). We have a flood which has covered all the earth;
�� 2). We have had a fire which the survivors have stated specifically, that there were no other men left on the earth;
�� 3). We also have a famine which was, a famine over all the face of the earth.
�� Do we, have, in truth, three things which has either destroyed all of the populations of the earth or most of them. In fact, the last one leaves us to believe that all of the people on earth, who did not go to Egypt died. Therefore, everyone on earth died of the famine except for those in Egypt and the few fortunate enough to be able to get to Egypt to get food.
�� Now turn to the Tenth Chapter of Exodus where we will look at the plagues of Egypt, a story most know quite well. Exodus 10:14-15: "And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth..." Here, we have yet another plague which covered the face of the whole earth. "...so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, {where?} through all the land of Egypt." Yet the phraseology or terminolo�gy is identical to what we have read before. They covered all the face of the whole earth.
�� In Ezekiel 39 all of the Israelites were killed. Did you know that all of the Israelites were dead in Ezekiel's day? Well Ezekiel the prophet said so. Talking about this end of the age battle, he said: "And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword." Thus Ezekiel is telling us that all of the Israelites had fallen by the sword.
�� As I said earlier, I am not trying to be frivolous about this thing. I am simply trying to show you that when the Bible talks about something happening over all of an area or all of something or over all of the earth; that it does not necessarily mean that every single solitary person on every inch of the entire planet was involved. Because if it did we have already had more than four total destructions or almost total destructions.
�� Turn to Ezra we will show you, after we state the point, we will show you the location of the flood according to the Bible! "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth..."
�� Now we are arriving down to a point in history where we can easily verify the things that have happened in the scriptures according to secular written history. There is no way for us to know what Cyrus was thinking or what God Almighty was thinking when He put it in His Word. But we know from secular history that Cyrus's kingdom never extended more than a thousand miles from his capital city. He had a tremendous kingdom; But the Bible says that God had given him "all the kingdoms of the earth."
�� Yet we know, and no minister tries to prove to us, that Cyrus ruled over China or North America or South America, or even over Africa. They know better. They know just how foolish such teaching would be. Because it would not take long for their flock to realize that he was teaching a falsehood.
�� Turn to Daniel. You know that Daniel was a high official in the Babylonian Kingdom, and after he and the others has shown their protection and favor of God. Daniel 6:24: "And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den."
�� Darius was so pleased with the actions of God and His apparent protection of Daniel that this was what he did. Then, in verse 25: "Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth..."
�� That is what is says. God's Word says; "Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel."
�� What was he talking about? Of course, when Darius wrote to all the people on the earth, he was writing to all the people in his kingdom! And his kingdom, we know from secular history and from God's Word was rather limited compared to the entire planet. It covered an area contained in that small geographical area, where all of the Bible talks about. It did not exceed beyond it. Not a single bit of the previous history has gone outside that small geographical area of the Middle East.
�� Now turn to the New Testament to the book of Luke, where we read the reason that Joseph and Mary came to Bethlehem. Luke 2:1-3: "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city."
�� You see what happens if one interprets the scriptures the same way all the way through the Bible. Now we have Caesar Augustus ruling over all of the world. Which is absolutely not true. He never ruled over Germany. He never ruled over all of the British Isles. He never ruled over the Americas. He never ruled over Japan. He never ruled over Asia, nor any of the other countries of the world. Do you not see how silly those who would have us believe that the flood was universal?
�� Because according to the way they interpret the scriptures they would have all the indians in North and South America going into their cities to be taxed. They would have all the Chinese going into their cities to be taxed. They would have all the Japanese going into their cities. Countries that never new Rome existed for hundreds or thousands of years later. They would have you believe that. Because right here in the scriptures it says "All went to be taxed, every one to his own city." It is clear that this scripture is not talking about the entire planet earth, it is talking, once again, about a certain geographical location in the Middle East.
�� For another point turn to the book of Acts. Did you know that if all of the people did not die in the famine in Egypt, that they are going to die in another famine, which is related in Acts.
�� Acts 11:27-28: "And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar."
�� Now we are down to about 1900 years ago, where we have excellent written secular history, and no one; not even the most ardent universal flood advocates would dare to declare that all the world had a great dearth or famine. Yet if one interprets these scriptures in the same way, then there must have been a famine over all the world, the entire planet 1900 years ago. And secular history failed to mention such a catastrophe.
�� To not park your brains at the door when you enter church. To think for yourselves and not to believe everything that someone tells you. Search out the scriptures, think and reason, not just pat your self on the back and think what wonderful knowledge you have. That you have all the truth, and no one else has any. That is false. No one, not me, not you - no one has all the truth except Almighty God.
�� We are laying a foundation, so that you will fully understand what we are presenting, that it the interpretation is not true, that when the Bible says all the earth, it is talking about the entire planet. The entire Bible only encompasses one small Geographical area of the Scriptures when it is speaking historically. It is only when it is speaking prophetically that it is speaking about other parts of the world, and then it is only concerned with the Children of Israel. And we don't mean the Jews when we say that for they are no part of Israel. They are mostly of Japheth, Esau, and Khazars.
�� Turn to the Second Book of Peter. For we will now look at verses which are quite often referred to when the universal flood advocates talk of the flood again. And remember as we read these verses also, that so far, that the history written down in the Word of God still has not moved outside of the area of one small geographical portion of the Middle East.
�� All the way from the Book of Genesis to 2 Peter we have been talking about one geographical location. Peter is referring to the flood: "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly." [3]
�� God brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. And we would state that this doesn't necessarily mean all the world, the entire planet. First of all you must remember and understand the principle that God operates upon. Which is, that sin is the transgression of the Law. And where there is no Law there is no transgression.
�� God does not destroy even peoples unless they have the Law and violate it. And you can read this far in the Holy Scriptures and you will not find definite and conclusive evidence that God's Law was ever preached beyond the confines of that small geographical area of the world. God's Law, as far as the scriptures relates had not gone out to the other parts of the planet. So the flood was brought in upon the ungodly. Again this does not necessarily mean all the world - the entire planet. As we have already shown quite clearly, we believe. Of course there will be skeptics, such as one of the thieves which was crucified next to Christ. Who railed and mocked Him as they died.
�� 2 Peter 3:5-6: "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old {notice he was talking about people being destroyed who were 'willingly' ignorant, and definitely disobeying the Word of the Lord}, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
�� But this does not necessarily prove a world or planet wide flood. Now make no misunderstanding, we know these can not be used to preach or teach a limited flood, but the universal flood advocates almost always use them and so we must recognize they are there.
�� Turn to Joshua, who we believe will show you the bounds of Noah's flood. You must understand that this was happening to Joshua approx. 500 years after Shem. So we are talking about a period of time which was 500 years after one of Noah's sons who was actually in the Ark during the flood. We are not talking about Joshua doing something a 1000 or 2000 years after the flood.
�� But only about 500 years after it. He has called all the people of Israel together. He's old and knows he is going to die. "Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem {a city between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River - this is where this event took place}, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods." [4]
�� Now I have read, in part, the Bible through several times and never realized what is being presented here. Every time I read it I always thought in terms of time. Your fathers dwelt before the flood. But that is not what it is saying, is it? It says "Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood." And then it gives the names of their fathers. "Terah, the father of Abraham." If you think about it for a minute it will dawn upon you that Terah didn't live before the flood. Terah lived just before Abraham, long after the flood.
�� Yet the scriptures says that Terah lived "on the other side of the flood." Now if you will read this several times and "think" use your heads you will realize that Joshua is not talking about "time." He is talking about Geography! He is telling them "WHERE THEY LIVED," not when they lived! Now listen carefully to what he says: "...and I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac."
�� Turn to Genesis 11 and we will show you where Terah, Nachor and Abraham lived. Genesis 11:10: "These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood."
�� Then it goes down and gives all of the descendants of Shem. And two hundred and twelve years after the flood we read in verse 24: "And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah."
�� Yet in Joshua 24, Joshua says, "your fathers even Terah," which Genesis 11 said was born two hundred and twelve years after the flood, "lived on the other side of the flood." And then it talks about bringing Abraham.
�� Genesis 11:31-32: "And Terah took Abram {Abraham} his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran."
�� Joshua said in Joshua 24:3: "And I {Almighty God} took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood..."
�� Now it is very apparent that Abraham did not live before the flood. So if God brought Abraham from the other side of the flood, what is He talking about. Well he is telling us that he, Joshua, standing at Shechem is on one side of where the flood was; and Abraham living in Ur of the Chaldees was living on the other side of the flood. And there is no doubt that he is talking about the flood of Noah. So if you wish to know where the Flood of Noah was, then get you a good map of that part of the world in old times and look between Ur of Chaldees and Shechem and you will see the geographical area of the flood. Now the scriptures tell us to have a second witness. So we will turn to a well known verse for this second witness. I believe that God has laughed at those who espouse a universal flood, and has revealed its location in one of the best known verses in the Bible, as a jest. To see if we would search out the truth for ourselves. Or would we grope in blindness.
�� Joshua 24:15: "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord,choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood {Not 'before' the flood, but 'on the other side of the flood'}, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Most ministers will read this and say "Well I don't know what you people are going to do, but I am going to serve the Lord."
�� Yet right here in that very commonly used verse is the double or second witness that Joshua knew he stood on one side of the flood, and that Abraham was born and raised on the other side of the flood. I realize this is a futile effort for most Christians because they do not want to know the truth. Because they would rather believe a lie than the truth. God said this was so: "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so..." [5]
�� This is one of the reasons that Hosea declared: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: {why?}: Because thou Hast rejected knowledge..." [6]
�� And if you will read the scriptures carefully and honestly you will see God destroyed the old world because the people were mixing with other races.
������������������������������������������ The Doctrine of Christ
�� Whenever anyone mentions "Doctrine" today, it brings up a negative image to the mind, because of the manipulation of the media and its never ending drive to destroy Christianity. But Christians Must ask themselves the question: "Is Doctrine Important?"
�� "How important is doctrine?" If you ask that question of most Christians, they will emphatically say, "It is very important!" However, they will, then, go on to say, "Well, it depends." And then they justify their answer to some extent by saying, "We shouldn't be so dogmatic in our doctrines that we break or intrude on Christian fellowship among other Christians and people."
�� We have what we call an "ecumenical" movement in the United States, which has been going on for some time, where a number of professing Christians are attempting to unite all of the different churches and faiths into some sort of a fellowship. They are trying to convince the people that the only important thing is that they use the Bible and profess Jesus Christ. That any other differences should be subdued or forgotten because we must get together for fellowship! This carries down all the way to individual Christian families saying, "I don't agree with the doctrines preached in this church, but it's the only one in my neighborhood, so I'm going to go there anyway."
�� This is strictly unscriptural and is, in fact, a direct violation of the Lord's instructions; where He said:
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" [7]
�� Then we are told: "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines..." [8] So to attempt to unite with Buddhism, Muslims, Judaism and etc., is strictly unscriptural.
�� Otherwise the "Doctrine of Christ" will be compromised at all levels. Some of the argument is, "Doctrine is not important if you have disagreement with others, because after all we are all Christians! We are all brothers and sisters, etc." And we, as "Identity Christians," do get criticism from people who say, "You emphasize doctrinal differences too much and antagonize people by insisting that certain doctrines are true and that certain other doctrines are false. Doctrines should not be made that important. The important thing is to keep from antagonizing others. Be nice to them and get them to listen, and we especially need cooperation among the members."
�� Well, all of that sounds very good, but let us read what Webster's Dictionary and the Bible have to say about "Doctrine." In Webster's Dictionary there is about four inches of very fine print about doctrine, so we will just briefly summarize what it says. Webster says that doctrine is "that which is taught. The body of principle in any branch of knowledge." Then Webster gives some other words: "Tenet, dogma in relation to religion, principle of faith, learning, knowledge." Mr. Webster also uses the following phrase: "a dogma is a doctrine laid down with authority." Remember that, because we will repeat it later on.
�� Doctrine is used 45 times in the New Testament: 28 times as #1322; 15 times as #1819 and 1 time as #1319.
�� Doctrine:
�� Greek #1322: didache, did-akh-as'-ko; from 1321 {to teach}; instruction (the act or the matter):-doctrine, hath been taught.
�� #1819: exapina, ex-ap'-ee-nah; from 1537 {origin} and a der. of the same as 160; of a sudden, i.e. unexpectedly:-suddenly. Comp. 1810.
��� #1319: didaskalia, did-as-kal-ee'-ah; from 1320 {teacher}; instruction (the function or the information):-doctrine, learning, teaching.
�� Matthew five is the first place that the word "doctrine" is used in the New Testament. So let's begin reading in the first two verses which is the introduction of this long teaching by Jesus Christ:
"And seeing the multitudes, he went up unto a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven." [9]
�� Then follows the teaching of Christ, sometimes, called the sermon on the Mount in Chapters five, six and seven. And at the very end it closes:
"And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at His doctrine: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." [10]
�� This was foretold in the Old Testament:
"My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." [11]; "For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes." [12]; "For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law." [13]; "Whom shall he (Christ) teach knowledge? and whom shall he (Christ) make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts." [14]; "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." [15]
�� Not only do we have the word "doctrine" here, but we have other verses which, in effect, says He taught with "authority." According to Webster and Strong's, Matthew 5, 6 and 7 would be Dogma - Doctrine taught with authority.
�� Verse 28 of Matthew seven says, "the people were astonished at his doctrine." This indicates that it apparently was new and/or different than they had heard before; yet they did recognize that He spoke with authority.
�� Now let's turn to John 7:
"Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" [16]
�� In other words, how can Christ know all these things if He had never gone to the Jews schools? The Jews were surprised at His wisdom. Some thinking Christians have problems when they try to point out an unpopular truth from a particular Scripture passage to some Judeo-Christian minister or Judeo-Christian lay person; the minister will not specifically address the issue brought up, but instead, comes back and attacks with, "Well, I graduated from the seminary after studying 4 or 7 years and I've been studying the Scriptures for 25 or 30 years and therefore I have more authority to interpret this than you do."
�� If you ever encounter such a minister, you might point out that these verses in John seven, where the scribes and the Pharisees admitted that Jesus taught with "Doctrine" and truth; but they could not figure out why; because He had never gone to their schools. He had not gone to the accepted schools which they had set up for teaching the teachers in their religion, which today is known as Judaism.
�� Jesus answered in the next verse as to where He got His "Doctrine":
"Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me." [17]
�� Thus, we have it from Jesus Christ, Himself, that what He taught that astonished the scribes and Pharisees was "God's Doctrine." This is the same word translated "doctrine" in other places, as we have shown. It is the Doctrine of God:
"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." [18]
�� Christ is, in effect, saying that if a man will obey God, he will know whether the "Doctrine" is true or not. Now think about that for awhile. We are sure you know of many people who read the same verses and the same chapters out of the same translations that you do and yet you have a disagreement with them over what it actually means. They do not understand it the way you do; and here, Jesus is saying that if a man will do God's will, he shall know whether the "Doctrine" is of God or not. In some way, he will have a verification from God that this is Bible Truth; but it is predicated upon him doing God's will first. It is not predicated upon his reading the Bible ten hours a day, or going to certain schools, or attending a certain church or churches. It is predicated on obedience: "If you will obey God, He will reveal His truth to you!"
�� Here is a warning on how to listen to the MAN who is preaching the "Doctrine" to see whether his "Doctrine" is true:
"He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him." [19]
�� In other words, if one seeks God's Glory, he is true and righteous. To put it another way, a man who preaches the true "Doctrines" of God will not preach anything that glorifies himself. When he gets all through preaching, if you, having listened to him, glorify and praise God, then he is preaching the truth. But if, after listening to him, you glorify and praise the speaker, then be careful; be careful if he builds up some sort of an emotional feeling in you that makes you think, "Boy, isn't he a great preacher! Boy, he is something!" Be careful if you go out praising the man, because then he is NOT preaching the truth!
�� Most of the television evangelists create a tremendous loyalty among their listeners, and the people really believe that their favorite evangelist is some great man; they will continually shower him with money and praise him something like: "Oh, I heard Oral Roberts (or Rex Humbard, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, Mike Evans, Jack van Impte, V.C. Grant, James Haggard, Richard Copeland, Pat Robertson and etc.), and he was terrific and he was wonderful!" Never giving God and the Lord Jesus Christ any praise and glory.
�� If you want to give them an interesting thought, ask them just an hour or a day after they have heard his latest sermon, what their favorite preacher said; and do you know, nine times out of ten they do not know what he said!
�� One person did this using Robert Schuller as the television evangelist, and they wrote a letter about what happened. A friend of his who worked with him was a tremendous fan of Robert Schuller, and had often made the remark that Schuller was probably the greatest preacher that he had ever heard.
�� The man's friend said: "Well, I'd be interested in knowing more about Bob Schuller, when you listen to him the next time, would you write down the verses out of the Bible that he uses in his sermon and then show them to me?" The friend said he would and the next Monday at work the fellow said, "He never read the Bible!"
�� His friend had discovered for the first time, after listening to this man, he thought was such a great preacher, that Schuller did not use any Bible passages! That he said exactly what the audience was wanting him to say; by praising them and raising them up and not Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
�� And if you have ever listened to him, you know he very seldom uses the Bible at all. Many television evangelists are the same way; they preach in such a way that when they are through, the glory goes to the speaker, not to God Almighty.
�� Remember Christ told us:
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." [20]; "And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many." [21]; "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." [22]
�� There was a book, published some years ago, titled "How To Be A Bishop Without Being Religious." If you were to read this book, you would realize that the title really meant "How to be a Minister without being a Christian." And one of the things in the instructions was what kind of sermons to preach to build a large ministry. This book was an instruction to men either going into the ministry or who had already been in the ministry. The author of that book, in one chapter, stated at least three times in three different ways: Do not exalt God; exalt the people! Praise the people; make them feel good; but do not exalt God Almighty! And he made it very plain in the book that if you exalted God Almighty, or the Lord Jesus Christ, you would Not have this thousand or two thousand or five thousand people in your church, because people like to come and hear themselves praised. They like to be make to feel emotional about themselves and about the church. That is why they keep coming back in great numbers.
�� But Christ teaches the very opposite! If, after you hear the minister preach, you praise the minister, then there is something wrong about the man's preaching. There is something wrong because what he should preach is that which praises and exalts God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ. And if some vehemently attack him, and not his teaching that is clear evidence he is probably preaching true "Doctrine."
�� Many television evangelists claim to be healers, but we are told in the Scriptures:
"For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect." [23]
�� Therefore, we would advise to be very careful when dealing with these so-called Judeo-Christian ministers who appear to heal. For most have been found to be fakes, yet the media will not say much about them, because they are out to destroy Christianity not to build it up. Peter told us:
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." [24]
�� Try the spirits and see if the minister, television evangelist and etc., is telling the truth.
"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." [25]
�� And you can bet that so-called Judeo-Christian ministers who are Jews preach to you, then you are being preached to by a deceiver. Among these are those like Mike Evans, Billy Graham and many others.
�� Now, let's look at the passages in the Old Testament where the word "Doctrine" is used. One passage is found in the Song of Moses and it is introduced in the last verse of Deuteronomy 31:
"And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended." [26]
And then it goes on into the Song of Moses:
"Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My Doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass." [27]
�� This "Doctrine" that he was going to preach was going to do something good for the people. By the way, the word "Doctrine" in the Hebrew, according to Strong's Concordance, means the same as it does in the Greek; and means "Instruction received." Doctrine is instruction received or learning.
�� In the very next verse, he says:
"Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." [28]
�� Why would doctrines or the instructions that Moses taught the people be as the rain? Why would his speech distill as the dew - as the small rain on the tender herb? In other words, why would Moses' doctrine make the people grow and bless them and instruct them and teach them? Because he praised God immediately.
�� He said, "He is the Rock," "ascribe ye greatness unto our God," "I will publish the name of the Lord." Whatever it was that he was going to teach the people would be a benefit to them because it came to them with the praise and glorification of God - not of Moses.
�� You should read all of the Song of Moses, which is 43 verses long. Many Christians do not even know there is such a thing in the Bible in spite of the fact that in Revelation 16 it tells of the saints who have "over come the beast and his mark" who sing the Song of Moses.
�� There has been a world full of preaching about the mark of the beast, but there is never heard a minister talk about the mark of the beast and the Song of Moses in the same breath. Yet they are tied together in the book of Revelation.
�� There are five places in Proverbs where Solomon used this same word, as we have already shown, but let's review them. The Hebrew word is "legach" (Strong's #3948) and is translated "doctrine" or "learning," meaning instruction received. In Proverbs, it is translated "doctrine" once, and "learning" four times.
"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion." [29]
�� After giving the reason why he is writing this book of Proverbs, he says in verse five:
"A wise man will hear, and will increase learning (legach); and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels." [30]
�� The Hebrew word for "learning" is also translated "doctrine" in other places. In effect, he is saying that a wise man will hear these instructions or proverbs, which were from God through Solomon, of course, and he will increase in Doctrine. The emphasis is on a wise man wanting more doctrine and increasing in wisdom.
�� Proverbs four beginning in verse one:
"Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good Doctrine, forsake ye not my law." [31]
�� This is Solomon speaking, of course, through the Spirit of God, so Solomon is not referring to his own law; he is referring to God's Law. Therefore, good doctrine has something to do with hearing God's Law. Remember, Jesus said if you attempt to do His will, then He will reveal to you whether the doctrine is the truth or not.
"Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning." [32]
�� The word "just" also means "righteous." The last phrase could just as well have read "teach a RIGHTEOUS man and he will increase in DOCTRINE." Notice again, he is righteous; THEN he increases in Doctrine (learning). This is the same pattern that Jesus taught. Remember, Jesus said:
"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." [33]
�� If a man does God's will, that makes him a righteous man. In Proverbs, Solomon correctly put the horse before the cart, instead of the other way around. The implication is that obedience is rewarded with learning, whereas we may have incorrectly thought that learning was rewarded with obedience. To illustrate this, many Christians have run across a person who knows the Bible probably a lot better than he; and yet, he is a very vicious, wicked person and may even use the Bible to his own personal advantage while he teaches it wrongly.
�� Jack van Impe, by the way, is one of those who can quote the entire Bible from memory! But, if you will investigate Jack van Impe's doctrine, it does not fit what the Bible teaches.
�� Another example was a man who was on the radio some years ago, whose nickname was "The Walking Bible." He would preach at various churches around California, Arizona and other places in the country demonstrating his memory of the Bible by having members of the audience give the chapter and the verse and then he would quote it for them. Or they would quote the verse and he would give the chapter and the verse. You see, he had memorized the entire Bible - all 66 books! And yet he taught that the Jews were Israel; that we (the White Race) were Gentiles; that the rapture was going to come soon; that there were seven years of tribulation coming before Jesus Christ would return. He taught all the false doctrines of the Pentecostals, Evangelists, and Fundamentalists, and yet he knew every work in the Bible by heart and could tell you chapter and verse where it was!
�� Thus, it is not a case of simply knowing, and then the obedience coming later. Solomon said [34] obey God and Then He will open up His treasures to you. He will open up His wisdom and His learning to you.
"The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning (Doctrine)." [35]
�� Those who are wise against related doctrine.
"The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning (Doctrine) to his lips." [36]
�� The only time you would say FALSE doctrine is when you put the word "false" in front of the word. When it says "Doctrines" it means God's True Doctrines.
�� Let us look at one more passage in the Old Testament. Isaiah 29 and 30 are end-of-the-age prophecies - some of which have not yet come to pass, and some of which are just now coming to pass. But anyway, he is summing up an end-of-this-age prophecy.
"Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale." [37]
�� This is after Jacob/Israel's deliverance in the end of the age. He is not going to be frightened or ashamed of his God.
"But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and THEY that murmured SHALL LEARN DOCTRINE." [38]
�� Now think about that; he sums up the correcting, the turning, the redeeming and the saving of Israel in the end of the age by saying that even those who are in error will get understanding and LEARN DOCTRINE.
�� They will come to the correct understanding of God's Word as He saves them in the end of the age. Evidently, it means, very simply, that teaching correct doctrine will be done to those who are in error. They will have to be taught by God, or by someone, to correct their error.
�� Now, here are three questions; think upon them very carefully and we will find the answers to our study:
�� 1). If a man or a nation is in error (that means in sin and in disobedience to the true doctrines of God), which of the following will tend to correct the man or nation?
���� A). An agreement among ministers not to contend about differences so����������� they can have fellowship.
���� B). A knock-down drag-out fight as to which doctrine is true, forcing�������������� the people to listen to both sides of the question.
�� As Elijah the prophet spoke:
"And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken." [39]
�� In other words, should we speak out and preach what we know to be the truth, or should we simply be quiet and attempt to have fellowship? Which will teach them true doctrine? Which will convert them from error?
�� You think about that when you hear the false Judeo-Christian ministers say, "Well, let's just keep things quiet here. We know we have a lot of disagreements, but we shouldn't fight because, after all, we're all brothers."
�� 2). Would the people even hear the true doctrine of God if the ministers who knew it backed off from preaching it for fear of offending the other ministers or Christians?
�� 3). How many of you have ever heard of a minister who preaches false doctrine backing off from the True Doctrine for fellowship?
�� You see, The compromise is always expected to come from the side that has truth! And make no mistake about that.
�� We have had some specific, definite criticism by people who say "Oh, you keep preaching against the Rapture and all you're doing is antagonizing all of these wonderful pro-rapture ministers, preachers and Christians out there who don't know any better. And who made you an expert anyway?" The implication is that we should not show people it is a false doctrine because we might hurt their feelings and then they will not cooperate with, or listen to us. No one ever suggests that they quit preaching the rapture doctrine and the false Judeo-Christian doctrine so they do not antagonize us! Now you think about that.
�� We think it is done in ignorance by Christian people who know it is the truth, but they have been trained to think by the false Judeo-Christian ministers to think that fellowship is more important than Christ's Doctrine.
�� There are many isolated families, and we feel for them, and understand their situation who will say, "Well, we know the church is teaching false doctrine, but our children need fellowship." And so they will go to some false Judeo-Christian church where the ministers preaches false doctrine, because they want their children to have fellowship with other Christians. And what happens as a result? Their children grow up believing false doctrine because they compromised with falsehood, attempting to get fellowship instead of true doctrine and disobeying God's instructions in the process.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" [40]
�� You can begin to see the possibility that True Doctrine is much more important than fellowship; and you will see this more as we go back to the New Testament again.
�� Acts two; this is The chapter perhaps best known, especially among the Pentecostal people and among most fundamentalists, or people who have been in churches for some time. It is generally taught that this was the beginning of "the church age" or "the Christian era" when the Spirit was poured out at Pentecost. And the people were converted, becoming, eventually, Christians, beginning what we call the Christian era or the era of the Christian church.
�� We who understand that we are the Israel people recognize it as the beginning of the calling out of Israel from paganism. Israel was being turned away from the false religions into the true doctrines of Jesus Christ. Peter finished preaching the sermon about Jesus to these men:
"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." [41]
�� The summing up of the very first sermon preached by this disciple to those people at Pentecost at what we call the beginning of the Christian era was that God had made Jesus both Lord and Christ. Therefore, we must accept that a basic doctrine of our Christian faith is that Jesus is the Lord, or the Redeemer, or the Savior or the Messiah.
�� You cannot turn away from that or you will throw out Peter's whole sermon in Acts two! Now read Acts 2:37-41; the pouring out of the Spirit on this day of Pentecost was a marvelous thing in the history of Christendom. Along with it came the preaching of the doctrine establishing the basis that Jesus Christ was Lord and Christ over the House of Israel, and it began this new era of the turning of the hearts of the people back to the fathers. The people received the doctrine gladly and many of them were added to the group.
"And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." [42]
�� Did they abandon doctrine for fellowship or did they fellowship under the doctrine? Do you see the difference here? It says "they continued steadfastly in the Apostles' Doctrine and fellowship." The Doctrine "Was" The basis of the fellowship; not the other way around.
�� We do not think that the people who try to convince us that we should nullify or cancel our doctrinal teachings so we can have "fellowship" are all evil or wicked people. It is simply that they have heard this theme of "fellowship" and it sounds good to them. After all, we are not a loner type of people to any great extent.
�� We love other people; we enjoy other families and children, and we are a gregarious and generous people. It would seem that fellowship is a great goal. Therefore, many people think, that we should compromise on our Christian Doctrines a little bit. And ask, "What does that hurt?"
�� The answer to that question is that it hurts Doctrine! As we have so often seen, if we insist on having fellowship with other churches that do not agree with all of our doctrines, pretty soon the same thing happens there that we see in the denominations. The ministers avoid preaching some of the Doctrines because those Doctrines offend members of the Fellowship! And those members are most often Jews. So it is clearly obvious, that fellowship can destroy Doctrine, whereas doctrine will build true fellowship.
�� Here, in Acts two, is the beginning of our Christian faith. This is the day when it all began. It follows up by saying that they then had both doctrine and fellowship. What happened when they continued steadfast in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship?
"And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles." [43]
�� You see, they stayed true to the doctrine of Christ and Then God blessed what they did. We would say that very few churches or ministers who compromise with their doctrines, on the basis of needing fellowship, ever have any great work other than gathering a lot of people around them, and a big bank account.
�� And they probably consider that a great work. But, you see, that does not get the doctrine of God and Christ preached to Israel!
�� In Acts five, the apostles have been out preaching for a while and some miracles have happened. Then we read:
"Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, Saying, Did not we straightly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your Doctrine (Christs' doctrine), and intend to bring this man's blood upon us." [44]
�� What happened in a matter of a very short time with these people who remained steadfast in the doctrine? They filled the city with Christs' Doctrine! And they brought upon themselves the anger and the ire of the Pharisaic religious and political leaders of their day; just as the True Preachers of Christs' Doctrine do today. These leaders said, "We told you not to preach in Jesus Christ's name, and here you have filled the whole city with your doctrine."
"Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." [45]
�� Many Christians watched three preachers, during the fall of 1982, interview Menahem Begin (then Israeli Prime Minister) in Israel during the height of the slaughter in Lebanon. Those preachers fawned over him, telling him what a wonderful man he was and how wonderful his people were and so on. This has been repeated many times with different Israelis since that time, until it is sickening, watching Christian, followers of Christ fawn over those that hate Him with everything in their being. This went on for about an hour with talk back and forth between he and these three Judeo-Christian preachers.
�� At the very end of the interview one of the ministers asked Begin, very apologetically, if he could close in prayer and pray for Begin and for his people; and of course Begin nodded his head affirmatively and the three Judeo-Christian ministers bowed their heads in prayer. While the minister prayed, Begin sat on the couch and just looked at him.
�� He never bowed his head or closed his eyes or anything. He just watched them during the prayer; and the minister prayed a very long prayer, asking for God's blessing upon his people, the Jews, and for Begin, and son on. When he ended the prayer, he ended it without the name of Jesus Christ being mentioned. He simply said, "Amen."
�� Now what did that man do? He obeyed men instead of God. In Acts five the Pharisees told Peter and the rest of the apostles in verse 28, "Did not we straightly command you that ye should not teach in this name?" In other words, "You're not to use the name of Jesus Christ. We told you that and here you've been using it right here in Jerusalem among this people."
�� And Peter did not just answer, "We ought to obey God rather than men." Do you realize what he did? He did much more; he preached a sermon about Jesus Christ to those Jewish Pharisees! He did not tell his other fellow ministers and disciples that they should obey men instead of God. He preached a sermon TO the Jewish Pharisees. It is only three or four verses long, but he preached to them about Jesus Christ.
�� Now if these three ministers in that interview with Menahem Begin had wanted to do what God intended them to do, when they finished their conversation about the situation over in Lebanon and Israel, regardless what they thought about Begin and the people, they should have given a witness and a sermon about Jesus Christ to those people. But, when they showed complicity to the anti-Christs they demonstrated that they fear men more than they exalt and fear God, that is evidence that there must be something wrong with their preaching.
�� Do you wonder what one of the reasons these men acted in this way? And why evangelists never conduct a crusade in Israel? It is because of a law used frequently in the Zionist country known as Israel, which became common with the passage on December 25, 1977, of Israel's infamous "Anti-Missionary Law," which the Knesset passed on Christmas Day so it would be perfectly clear against whom it was directed.
�� It is a statute which decrees a prison term of up to five years for "Anyone" attempting to proselytize a Jew away from his faith.
���� Anti-Missionary Law 5738‑1977: Strictly speaking, "proselytizing" under this law involves a gift, no matter how small (such as a tract) given to a Jew by a Christian. Under Israeli law it is a crime to "give or promise to give money, the equivalent of money or any other material benefit in order to entice a person to change his religion."
�� Yet realistically, the word "proselytize" is much more loosely interpreted. As a case in point, evangelical Christians showed a film about the second coming of Christ in Jerusalem's largest hotel, the Shalom. This outraged Israel's chief rabbi, Yitzhak Kolitz, who forbade them to further "proselytize." However, the manager reassured the Christians that "they are welcome if they do not violate the law." [46] Such ambiguity keeps Christians in Israel on edge, vulnerable to accusations that they violate the law.
�� Speaking in defense of evangelicals, Charles Kopp, Chairman of the United Christian Council in Israel, said such Christians "do not engage in proselytizing... we do not give out leaflets in the streets or witness at our job [in Israel]." [47] The government remains suspicious, and Anti-Christian! Daniel Rossing, head of the Department of Christian Churches for the Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs, summarized his government's position: "The government, by all available means, discourages missionary activity." [48]
�� Proponents say this law is vital to the survival of Israel because so many young Jews are being seduced away from the fold, largely by Christianity. The severity of the sentence, they argue, is warranted because such a theft of a Jewish soul is tantamount to genocide, or the extinction of a (sic) race.
�� Yet Judaism resents the encroachment of Christianity not just in Israel, but throughout the world. With 40% of American Jewish boys marrying Christian girls, and the Jewish birth rate not keeping up with the rest of humanity, Jewish leaders are desperate that the physical and spiritual unity of Jews be preserved.
�� They are concerned that apathy, secularism, and materialism, coupled with intermarriage and conversion to other religions, could do more to threaten Judaism than all the pogroms of history.
�� Considering such a mind set against Christianity, we may understand why Christian evangelists have NEVER held a crusade in the State of Israel. They have held many meetings throughout the Soviet bloc and even in Russia, yet not in Israel.
�� Despite the feinted friendliness, and appearance of almost worship of such Christian leaders and the Israeli tourist industry, the fact remains that all religious affairs of the state of Israel are controlled by the chief rabbinate in Jerusalem, who enforces the strictly orthodox Jewish point of view. The result: Although Israel proclaims itself the only real Democracy in the Middle East, in matters of Religious Liberty it is more Inflexibly Anti-Christian than even hardened Communist Countries! Is it not probable that their followers will do the same thing? Will not their followers also fear men above the fear of God?
�� Peter and the apostles, of course, preached about Jesus. They said "the God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye (Jews) slew and hanged on a tree." In other words, they preached the resurrection. "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a savior." They preached that Jesus was the Savior and the Redeemer through His death and resurrection. They also told the reason for it:
"Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them." [49]
�� The apostles knew these doctrines to be true and they would risk their lives to preach them right tot he people who had threatened them with death for preaching such doctrines.
�� This is a very short sermon, but everything is in there. It is a composite of the whole story of Jesus Christ and Israel in just three or four verses.
�� Acts 17 beginning in verse 16:
"Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean." [50]
�� There is quite a lot in that passage. First of all, Paul saw the city given over to paganism; to the worship of false gods. Did Paul compromise with this in any way? He did not just acquiesce to them and say, "Oh, it sure is wonderful to have fellowship with you people!" NO! A thousand times NO! It says that he "Disputed" in the synagogues with them. He actually got into arguments with them to show them they were wrong according to the true doctrine.
�� Secondly, the philosophers of the Epicureans and Stoics recognized that the doctrine Paul taught was new. It certainly was not like what they had been hearing from the Jews. Why was it new? Because Paul preached to them Jesus and the resurrection! That is a new doctrine to any religion; no other religion except the Christian faith teaches Jesus and the resurrection.
�� Paul did not try to fellowship with these people. If you try to fellowship with the Jews and the pagans and get along with them, one of the things you would have to leave out would be the doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. You might even have to do that with some of the modernist so-called Judeo-Christian churches. We understand that some percentage of even the United Methodist, Unitarians and etc., church ministers have that they not only Do Not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin; they DO NOT believe in His resurrection either.
�� Can you think of the ultimate compromise between those who preach Jesus and the resurrection and those that they might fellowship with, if it is not fellowshipping with the people who follow the religion of Judaism? Most Jews absolutely, totally deny that Jesus was resurrected from the dead. In fact, they even write books to claim that there was deceit and trickery surrounding Jesus' resurrection. They contend that the disciples stole the body of Jesus and hid it in order to trick the people into believing that Jesus was resurrected from the dead.
�� And yet we have, in America, a tremendous number of ministers who say they believe in Jesus Christ and the resurrection, but they turn right around and tell their flock that if they did not applaud, obey and help those people who deny Christ and the resurrection, then one way or another God is going to curse them. How insane can one get in relation to Doctrine?
�� These Judeo-Christians go to the ultimate to have fellowship in absolute, total opposition to the true doctrines that are in the Bible!
�� The question is, of course, should we have fellowship at all in any way, with those who deny Christ and His Resurrection? Turn to Romans 15, Paul is beginning to close his letter to Roman Christians:
"And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints." [51]
�� Paul is really saying, "You pray not that I will fellowship with these people who do not believe, but that I be delivered from them."
"That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen." [52]
�� Think of this; How important was this fellowship with the unbelievers to Paul? He actually asked to be delivered "from them that do not believe in Judea." Now, we have a lot of people over the ancient land of "Judea" who do not believe! Should we not, as Paul did, pray that we be "delivered from them that do not believe in the land of Judea?"
�� Instead we have Judeo-Christian ministers who say, "Oh, those people who do not believe in the land of Judea are the most important people on the face of the earth. They're special. They are the apple of God's eye. And if you don't do everything you can to help them, God will curse you."
�� That is the exact opposite of what Paul prayed for, and what we just read in the New Testament.
�� Whom did Paul want to fellowship and be refreshed with? He said "with you," referring to the people he was writing to. And who were they? Well, let us read Paul's own definition at the beginning of the letter to the Romans, as he addressed them and described what kind of people he believed they were that he was writing to:
"Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ"
�� And then he addresses the letter:
"To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world." [53]
�� Paul wanted to be delivered from those who did not believe and he wanted to come to Rome to be refreshed in fellowship with those whose faith was spoken of throughout the whole world.
�� Should it not be true that we, as Christians, would also want to fellowship with those who believe in Jesus Christ, His resurrection, and the truths of the Holy Scripture instead of trying to fellowship with those who compromise and justify all sorts of evil that is in opposition to the Word of God?
�� It is for you to decide. Not anyone else, but give Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ all the glory and blessings.
������������������������������������ The Mark of the Beast
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��� Mark of the Beast: This study, and a few of the following ones, are going to be longer than most people would like, but the time is short and we must present you with as much information as possible; as fast as possible so that you will be prepared when the antichrists make their move to take over our beloved country.
� From watching and listening to some of the Judeo‑Christian preachers, ministers, priests and etc., talk about the "Mark of The Beast," we have come to the conclusion that they are lying deliberately to deceive the people who listen to or watch them.
� So we are going to try to the very best of our ability to show you that there are two beasts in Revelation 13. We are going to try and cover that in depth and understand exactly what this mark consists of.
� First let's ask our Father for a word of Wisdom.
"Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time that we can come together and study your Word, that precious living letter that you have given unto us; the very history of our race which many are trying to change so as to hide it from your Israel people; so that we will not know that you have given unto us this wonderful book whereby we can both know you and understand your plan from the beginning. Father we turn this time over to you. We ask that you anoint our minds. Give us wisdom to understand the deep things, those mysteries that have been kept hidden, even from the beginning of this earth age. Father, we give you the praise and the honor and glory and thanksgiving in the name of Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Lamb of God. Amen."
�� Now understand this one thing, we were created in God's image as it declares even from the beginning in Genesis. We are natural, our Father is Supernatural. Supernatural means he is more natural than we are, Okay.
� Understand that God does not deal in fairy tales, comic book stories, or multi‑headed monsters right out of the twilight zone, but rather He deals in things that, with a little study, those that would discipline themselves (which is where we get the word disciple), will understand what God has brought forth. Keep in mind that most of your pastors, ministers/teachers and so forth would tell you:
"Ah, don't worry about understanding the book of Revelation. I mean, you're going to fly out of here from chapter 4 on, and you don't re‑appear until Revelations 19."
� God did not give us this book to glaze over, to simply shine on. The very word itself, revelation, means to reveal or unveil, to uncover.
� Our Father means for us to know what the end time events are, what transpires, and what to watch for. We should learn those signs and be sealed with those seals spoken of in Matthew 24 and Mark 13.
� It is our goal to bring forth with understanding from God's word, line upon line, what he means for us to know about these end times and this study relative to the Mark of the Beast!
� Revelation chapter 13, begins with verse one.
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." [54]
� Now this "I stood," that is John, this revelation is being given to John. I, John, stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns.
� This is not some multi‑headed monster as they would like to teach you, but rather indicative of one worldism. Remember, the number seven represents spiritual completeness, meaning all encompassing, around the world. The seven heads are seven continents if you will. This beast also has ten horns, horns are always indicative of rulers. So what you have here are seven continents ten horns, ten rulers, and upon his horns ten crowns. In other words, crowns being indicative of rulership, authority, and upon these heads the name of blasphemy.
� We want to understand there are two beasts in Revelation 13, and by the way, remember the number 13 is the number of rebellion. Rebellion, understand!
�� 1). So what do we have here?
������ We have seven continents.
�� 2). What are we talking about?
������ We are talking about that first beast of Revelation 13 Which is a��������������� Political System!
� Again, the seven heads are those continents around the world. The ten horns are ten rulers, ten people who come together in rulership, for they are given ten crowns, a crown a piece.
� 3). What is this sea that John sees the beast rise out of?
����� The seas are the people.
� Seas or waters are indicative of people. We are not talking about H2O here, but people. How do we know this? Let's document it. Turn to Revelation chapter 17, where it says:
"And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me (John), saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." [55]
� In other words, what happens when you get drunk? You're thrown into a stupor. Make a note of Romans chapter 11, the word slumber:
"(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day." [56]
� God Himself saying He brought a slumber upon them, but in the Greek if you will go back in your Strong's Concordance and your King James Bible and check out that word slumber, you will find it better translated as stupor.
� slumber...
� Greek #2659: katanuxis. kat-an'-oox-is. from Greek 2660 (katanusso); a prickling (sensation, as of the limbs asleep), i.e., (by implication [perhaps by some confusion with Greek 3506 (neuo) or even with Greek 3571 (nux)]} STUPOR (LETHARGY) slumber.
� It is that same intoxication that is brought upon the waters. Now let's find out what these waters are. Go a little further in Revelation 17:
"And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." [57]
� The waters are the peoples of this world. Now do you under-stand that we're not talking about H2O. Revelation 17:15: these waters or the sea are indicative of people. Alright, let's go back to Revelation 13.
"And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat, and great authority." [58]
� We know who the bear is, that's good old Russia, Rosh. And the dragon gave him power, that's that same old dragon of Revelation 20:1-2. That old serpent, the dragon, Satan. Understand we are not talking about a flesh and blood man possessed by Satan, we are talking about the old dragon himself, he gave him his power. Who did he give his power to?
� The seven heads and ten horns. Keep your subject and your object straight in the Greek and understand. Alright, and his seat, and great authority. In other words, God allows this. The feet of the bear means to travel, to carry this, put it forth. Also, while we are here, let's touch on as much as we can. Make a note of Daniel 7:1-7 in connection with this Revelation 13:2. You will see this same leopard, bear, lion, and dragon involved here.
"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." [59]
� One of his heads, that is of this first beast, the one with seven heads, ten horns. I saw one of his heads as if it were wounded it death. That's one of the seven continents. Keep in mind that the number seven is spiritual completeness. That means it's around the world, one-worldism, or a one world government system. That is what is being talked about here. So understand that this one worldism, this one world government system, suffers what is called a deadly wound.
� Let's go on with this verse: And his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Not some of the world, all of the world.
� In other words, this has sucked in or brought in all nations, honoring this one world system. Again, as we are going to find in other Scriptures, they are going to cry "peace, peace" when there is no peace. Even to the fact that they teach us from the pulpit. God never said that He was going to bring peace to the world in the end times, but rather a sword [60].
� It's time to start understanding what God's Word has been declaring all along rather than the traditions of men. Remember, Christ said "just when they cry peace, peace, then sudden destruction commeth upon them." You see, there is no peace, it is false. Because the whole world yearns and� craves for this peace, that is going to be the method by which the one worldism sells its philosophy to the world.
� Christians to boot, for almost all Christians., except those who know and understand that have eyes to see and ears to hear who know that there will be no peace until Jesus Christ the Messiah, the King of kings is actually present on earth, there will be no peace.
� There will be a false peace brought in by Satan and this one world government system.
"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" [61]
� And they (who?) the world as well as this one world system, worshipped the dragon. Who is this dragon? He is that serpent, the devil, Satan:
"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." [62]
� This dragon is not a flesh and blood man, therefore antichrist is not a flesh and blood man. It is Satan, the son of perdition. Perdition, from the Greek word Apollumi, meaning to be utterly destroyed.
� perdition...
� Greek #684: apoleia, ap-o'-li-a; from a presumed der. of 622 (apollumi); ruin or loss (phys., spiritual or eternal):-damnable (-nation), DESTRUCTION, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
� There is only one that has been sentenced to death, to be consumed or turned to ashes from within which is what the Hebrew says, speaking of Lucifer in Ezekiel chapter 28.
"Thou has defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more." [63]
� A description of that time when God has Satan cast into the lake of fire and how he will be destroyed. He will be turned into ashes from within.
� Only one has been sentenced so far and that is Satan. It is time to come out of Babylon, to come out of confusion and find out what the Spirit says according to God's living Word.
"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"
� They worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast. What beast? That Political System. What is this telling us? Who gives the actual power or the ability to go forth in the world as a reckoning power to the beast? Satan is the one who brings one worldism into being, all in the name of peace, not war.
� And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is like that seven headed, ten horned political system, that multi-headed system or organization. Who is able to make war with him?
� If you remember, not very long ago Saddam Hussein found out, even though it was touted he had the fourth largest army in the world, he was not able to make war with the beast. Does that give you any idea who the beast is? Put on your thinking caps, let's reason together.
� God is making the signs plain if you just have "eyes to see and ears to hear" and will stop listening to the traditions of men that will tell you to watch out for the European Economic Market. The European Economic Market couldn't wage war with anybody. Nor will they ever.
� Oh, they may be a reckoning force in the world economy scene relative to Europe, but that is not the seven headed ten horned organization spoken of in Revelation 13.
� There is only one that fits the description of that beast, that political system, and with just a little bit of thinking you can figure it out. And its not the United States.
"And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months." [64]
� Months and nights always refer to Satan and his working, the negative part of God's plan. Days and years are always indicative of God and His working, the positive part of His plan. Alright, forty and two months, that is three and a half years.
� This is speaking of specifically the back half of Daniel's 70th week. That time has been shortened to five months, the time of the locust. This is documented in Revelation chapter 9.
"And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented FIVE MONTHS; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man." [65]
� They were given power to torment five months, the time of the locust. The same locust spoken of by Joel the prophet. You can read the book of Joel, and it will fit right in with chapter 9 of the book of Revelation as well as in Revelation 17. So hear and understand what the Spirit is saying through this Living Word. Come out of that confusion, come out of Babylon.
"And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven." [66]
� In other words, the true many membered body of Christ, all inclusive. Why? Because it declares in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 that the "abomination of desolation," properly translated from the Hebrew in Daniel 9:27, it says he comes in on the wings of the desolator.
� Singular, masculine entity and not a situation or condition, but rather an individual and it is said that old dragon, Satan, antichrist from the Greek meaning instead of Christ, he stands in the temple declaring himself to be God. Naturally, blaspheming the true things of God and His tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven, the saints. Verse 7 of Revelation 13:
"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindred, and tongues, and nations." [67]
� Who are the saints? They are the set aside ones; those that God has set aside, that seed. Make a note of Psalm 22:30:
"A seed shall serve Him; it shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation." [68]
� He has reserved a seed for that end generation, the generation since the planting of the two fig trees in Jerusalem. That happened May 15, 1948 when Israel became a nation. There were two fig trees planted.
� If you aren't familiar with that we will try to present it some time in the future. Again, it is one of those seals you must be sealed with in your mind, if you are to stand in these end days. For you will either be sealed with the seals of God [69] or you will be sealed with the mark of the beast [70].
� You see, it isn't this ludicrous, stupid notion of a tattoo on the back of the hand, or a stamp on your forehead read with ultraviolet light or something put under your skin. Satan is not that stupid.
� The "mark" is something totally different as we will get to. This mark is in your forehead, your mind: use it! Hear and under-stand what the Spirit says and come out of the traditions of men for they will confuse you and lead you ever further into Babylon, into captivity, mystery Babylon, mother of harlots. Have you not read?
� Well who is that? It is the deceived church, it is deceived Christianity, called Judeo-Christianity today, who has been more than happy to listen to the traditions of men and to be deceived than to come out of that and find out what GOD has to say.
� Don't take for gospel the words of this man or any other man. Weigh all things according to the Word of God and not according to what men tell you, or you will not stand in these end-times. One more comment on Revelation 13:7: It was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. That means they should be delivered up. Make a not of Luke 21.
"And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death." [71]
� When you are delivered up unto "death." Who is death? Satan, Hebrews 2:14; he is the only one that has been sentenced to die, sentenced to perish.
� perish....
� Greek #622: apollumi, ap-ol'-loo'mee; from Grk 575 and the base of Greek 3639; to destroy fully (reflex. to perish, or lose), lit. or fig.-destroy, die, lose, mar, perish.
� When he stands in that temple declaring himself to be God, if you are one of those elect, then at that time you will be delivered up. Why? To bear a testimony or witness against them. That is when the Holy Spirit will speak through you. Satan is already standing in most of the pulpits of America, in the person of the Judeo-Christian preachers, ministers, priests, pastors and etc.
"But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost." [72]
� Satan can not harm a hair on your head. In Revelation 9 God says only those who don't have the seal of God in their forehead will be harmed, "tormented."
"And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." [73]
� Also, see 1 Chronicles 16:
"Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." [74]
� Power was given over all kindred and tongues and nations. Again that's one-worldism having drawn in all peoples and nations into this common one-world government system. Put on your thinking cap, realize there is only one organization today that is capable of this.
� Realize that it began about the same time the two figs were planted in Jerusalem. You also want to know that this is the system of deception that Satan brings upon the world through this one world political system and through the church. For what purpose? To deceive people into believing that they are serving God, that they are serving Christ when in fact they are serving antichrist, the one that is first to come. They teach you falsely that you are going to "fly" away.
� Nobody gets a free ride into the first resurrection. You earn it. Faith without works is dead. No one flies out of here or escapes. Make a note of Ezekiel chapter 13. God says I hate those who teach my children to fly to save their souls.
"Have ye (Judeo-Christian preachers, ministers, etc.) not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye (Judeo-Christian ministers, etc.) say, the LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?... Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly... Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not by promising him life." [75]
� Now lets continue on with verse 8 of Revelation 13:
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." [76]
� The old dragon is the one, who is the "him" they will worship, in the guise of a false Christ, which is being presented from most of the pulpits of America today; those whose names are not written in the book of life.
� What is it that is translated as foundation? From the Greek it is not a foundation as something that is built upon, but rather a destruction or overthrow from the Greek word kataballo.
� foundation...
� Greek #2598: kataballo, kat-ab-al'-lo; from Greek 2596 and Greek 9906; TO THROWDOWN:-CAST DOWN, lay.
� Greek #2596: kata, kat-ah'; a prim. particle; (prep.) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case [gen., dat., or acc.,] with which it is joined):-about, according as (to), after, against, (when they were) X alone, among, and, X apart, (even, like) as (concerning, pertaining to,� touching), X aside, at before, beyond, by, to the charge of [charity] bly, concerning, + covered, [dai-] ly, from...to, godly, in (-asmuch, divers, every, -to, respect of) measure, X mightily, more, X natural, of (up-) on (X part), out (of every), over against (+ your) X own, + particularly, so, through (-oughout, -oughout every), thus, (un-) to (-gather, -ward), X uttermost, where (-by), with, in composition it retains many of these applications, and frequently denotes opposition, distribution or intensity.
� Greek #906: ballo, bal'-lo; a prim. verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense):-arise, cast (out), X dung, lay, lie, pour, put (up), send, strike, throw (down),� thrust. Comp. Greek 4498.
�Properly translated, this word means casting down or overthrow. Satan was sentenced to being erased from the book of life as a result of his activities that led to the overthrow of the first earth age.
� Looking back to that first earth age. What old dragon was in the first earth age, the one before this one. His method of operation to deceive God's children was the same in the first earth age as it is here in this second earth age.
"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." [77]
� Note that this wonder is "in heaven," not on earth. Those 12 stars are the twelve tribes of Israel. It is also indicative of the 12 signs of the zodiac of the constellations.
� From the beginning, you have Virgo the virgin, the one who brings forth the birthing of people. In one day, Moses's mother birthed a million through one birth. Hear and understand what is being talked about here.
� You have those 12 tribes of Israel through whom the Messiah, Jesus, would come. This is also an indication of the virgin Mary bringing forth the Christ child, the one who would redeem man through the shedding of His Blood.
"And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born." [78]
� Seven heads and ten horns, Satan was in the first earth age using the same seven headed, ten horned organization in heaven that he is using now on earth in this earth age, the second earth age. According to Ecclesiastes chapter 1, there is nothing new under the sun. What has gone around for man in heaven will go around again here on earth.
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." [79]
� Satan is a great imitator of God. He uses God's number 7 which means spiritual completeness to deceive the people of the earth.
"If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints." [80]
� Again, the sword of the Lord [81] is His truth: that two edged sword.
"And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." [82]
� Then we are told to:
"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." [83]
� Back to Revelation 13.
"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." [84]
� He looked like a lamb. Why? He is imitating Christ because he is antichrist, meaning instead of Christ from the Greek. He is Satan, that old dragon, the serpent, the devil. Satan is one of the most beautiful creatures that God ever created. As it is written in Ezekiel 28, he was the finished pattern and full sum, and perfect in beauty.
"Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty." [85]
� He will come in apparent peace and prosperity as it is written in Daniel 8:25, saying:
"Come unto me, I love you. Bring your children unto me that I might save them and take them home."
� Is this not what the Judeo-Christian churches do today, come down to the altar and accept Christ and you will be saved! They teach that is all that must be done.
� However, the Scriptures teach a different story. For even the devils believe in Christ and confess that He is Christ, but they are not saved because of that. No if a person who supposedly accepts Christ does not do any works to prove that he/she is truly repentant and is working for God Almighty is not saved, even though they might think so. Because they have listened to liars teaching false doctrines).
� Do you not see how he used this same method in the first earth age? Remember that Satan is the first supernatural entity that will come to the earth claiming to be Christ. If you believe him, you will not be fit for the kingdom. Why? You will no longer be a "chaste virgin" [86]
"Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealously: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." [87]
� This word beguiled is number 1818 in the Greek.
� beguiled...
� Greek #1818: exapatao, ex-ap-at-ah'-o; from Greek 1537 and Greek 538; TO SEDUCE WHOLLY:-beguile, deceive.
� Greek #1537: ek, ek; or ex, ex; a prim. prep. denoting origin (the point whence motion or action proceeds), from, out (of place, time or cause; lit. or fig.; direct or remote):-after, among, X are, at, betwixt (-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above), for (-th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in...ly, (because, by reason) of, off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth, through, X unto, X vehemently, with (-out). Often used in composition, with the same general import; often of completion.
� Greek #538: apatao, ap-at-ah'-o; of uncert. der.; to cheat, i.e., delude:-deceive.
� This wholly seduced includes spiritual seduction with is the "fornication" referred to in Revelation. See Matthew 24:19.
"And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed." [88]
� The beast that was healed is The One World Political System. The deadly wound is the fourth trump. The fifth trump is when Satan presents, himself having been cast out of heaven to the earth by Michael and the angels [89].
"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." [90]
� He shows supernatural acts in order to deceive people into believing he is Jesus, or he will do so with advanced technology and make it appear to be supernatural.
"And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." [91]
� The second beast tells them to make an image (statue, profile, representation, or resemblance) of his one world political system. Already in the news, almost daily you see this image being thrown before you.
� There is only one multi-headed organization that no one, when it wants to exercise its power, can make war with it. Who do you suppose that is? Figure it out: There is only one, The United Nations.
"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." [92]
� The deception that the political beast will use is one of Words. To be killed here is to be delivered up to death, Satan himself. God says touch not my anointed. He also says not a hair of your head will be harmed.
� You will be delivered up to death, to councils and synagogues for a testimony (to bear witness). You will bear witness to the truth.
� Those of you who know you have a destiny, who have known for a long time that there is more to God's word than you have been taught by the Judeo-Christian preachers who have sold out to Judaism and Zionism.
Those of you who love God's word and are willing to study and ferret out the truth, you will be delivered up. Take no thought or premeditation regarding what you will say in that day for God will speak through you. That is the true "tongues" spoken of that will be spoken where every ear will hear in its own dialect, its own language, clearly and distinctly with understanding. This happens when you are delivered up to bear witness.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads." [93]
� Nobody is going to put a stamp on your forehead or on your right hand. What do you do with your right hand? You serve or work for. That is why Jesus said woe unto them who give suck in those days. And what is in your forehead? Your mind, use it! This mark is referring to the deception of your mind, deception assisted by traditions of men, for most have loved teachers rather than the word of God.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears." [94]
� This is listening to those who would tell you what you want to hear, rather than teach the Word of God. For example, "flying" away to escape all the trouble when the Word says that "he that endures unto the end shall be saved."
� Jesus Himself even Prayed that we be not taken out of the World, but Rather Preserved In The World.
"But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." [95]
� For a second witness:
"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." [96]
� Okay, this "mark" isn't going to be bar codes or any other obvious mark. Satan is very crafty and would not try to deceive us with something so blatant. How crafty is he?
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" [97]
� He is more wise and crafty than any other beast of the world. It is through lies that he will deceive the people. We are searching for wisdom. Where is the one place that wisdom comes from?
"For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding." [98]
� We are further told:
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." [99]
� Many people ignorantly believe that just because it says, "of a man," that this means some flesh and blood man. They lose sight of what the� rest of the words say. It is that old dragon. He comes in like a lamb, and speaks like a dragon. It is also written in Isaiah 14:16, dealing with Lucifer, Satan, the old dragon:
"is this the man that made the earth to tremble..."
� Again, Satan is not of flesh and blood, yet is called a man. Six hundred three score and six, six being the number of man. Man always falls short of the spiritual perfection, which is seven. The best Satan can do is imitation.
Okay, let's take a look at the word count from "count the number of the beast."
� count...
� Greek #5585: psephizo, psay-fid'-zo; from Greek 5586; To use Pebbles in enumeration, i.e. (gen.) to compute:-count.
� Greek #5586: psephos, psay'-fos; from the same as Greek 5584; A Pebble (As worn smooth by handling), i.e. by impl. of use as a counter or ballot) a verdict (of acquittal) or ticket (of admission); a vote:-stone, voice.
� This "count" means to enumerate stone worn smooth in service over a long period of time. What are these stones? They are children, and count them all the way back to where? All the way back to the garden, all the way back to Cain and the other seed line planted in the garden, back to that mark that was put upon Cain in Genesis 4:15.
� Even those familiar with the Strong's Concordance are likely to have trouble finding six hundred three score and six. It is called "Stigma" from an obsolete Greek letter that is not used in modern Greek.
� stigma....
� Greek #5516: chi xi STIGMA. khee xee stig'-ma; the twenty- second, fourteenth and an obsol. letter (Greek 4742 as a cross of the Greek alphabet (intermediate between the fifth and sixth), used as numbers; denoting respectively six hundred, sixty and six; six hundred sidty-six as a numeral:-six hundred threescore and six.
� Greek #4742: stigma, stig'-mah; from a prim. stizo (to "stick," i.e. prick); a mark incised or punched (for recognition of Ownership), i.e. (fig.) scar of Service:-mark.
� Quite Simply it Means a Mark that Looks Like A Cross! Hear and understand that the mystery Babylon, mother of harlots, is the greater population of Christianity today. They have been deceived.
� The Kenites (or Pharisees, the Jews - sons of Cain, Christ said so in John 8:44) have worked their way into Christianity and mis-translated God's Word and mistaught it from the seminaries right on through.
� It is the time of the calling out of God's children from Revelations chapter 7. Do not be deceived by this mark. Let's go to Ezekiel for more documentation.
"Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar." [100]
� They coated the wall with untempered mortar or white-wash. Those who claim to be men of God build up a weak wall and paint it with white-wash. They deceive God's children. Not only do they prevent themselves from entering the kingdom, they also would prevent God's children from entering in.
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed� appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." [101]
� Hear and understand the picture that God is trying to bring forth to your understanding. It is time to come out of Babylon.
"To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God." [102]
� How plain does God have to make it? They all cry peace, peace when there is no peace. This peace is the false peace of the one-world government system. Even our most illustrious leader of this great nation himself, pushing as strongly as possible for a one world system where by peace can supposedly be brought into the world. God says there is no peace!
"But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation." [103]
� Why? It is because they have whored after antichrist believing him to be Jesus. They have been taught by Judeo-Christian ministers, preachers and etc., that he is the first one to show up, their bride groom. They, like that old Jezebel, will jump into that sack and whore after him, thinking he is Christ.
"And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him." [104]
� Again:
"Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures." [105]
� This wind is Hebrew 7307:
� wind...
� Hebrew #7307: ruwach, roo'-akh; from Heb. 7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; fig. life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extens. a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being includ. its expression and functions):-air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, X vain, ([whiirl-]) wind (-y).
� Hebrew #7306: ruwach, roo'-akh; a prim. root; prop. to blow, i.e. breathe; only (lit.) to smell or (by 'impl. perceive (fig. to anticipate, enjoy)):-accept, smell, X touch, make of quick understanding.
"Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confronted by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them." [106]
��� Brutish is Hebrew 1197:
� brutish...
� Hebrew #1197: ba'ar, baw-ar'; a prim. root; to kindle, i.e., consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denom. from Heb. 1198) to be (-come) brutish:-be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set ([on fire]), waste.
� Hebrew #1198: ba'ar, bah'-ar; from Heb. 1197; prop. food (as consumed): i.e. (by exten.) of cattle brutishness; (concr.) stupid:-brutish (person), foolish.
� Every man is stupid in his knowledge. Every person who casts a graven image is confused by it because it is a falsehood. There is no life in them. The word breath is ruach, spirit, Hebrew 7307.
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." [107]
� We are close to the birthing of a new "age." This age, and the sixth day, is almost over. Just like as described in Matthew 24 and Mark 13.
� Read them. As labor pains grow closer and closer together, so do the signs of the approaching tribulation. When antichrist arrives, the world, the Christian world, is going to buy it hook, line, and sinker because the false men of God today teach God's children to pray for peace.
� The true prince of peace will come after that. Those who are deceived will not be "fit" to enter the kingdom. Don't be one of those.
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep,k as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." [108]
� This false peace comesin the midst of Daniel's 70th week.
"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the mdist of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." [109]
� The true sacrifice is the true Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, and none other. Here is more from the book of Daniel dealing with Satan, many believe to be the antichrist.
"And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people (is this not what the Judeo-Christian preachers doing?). And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand." [110]
� Remember, he (Satan) will come bringing peace and pros-perity, not warfare. Put on the Gospel armor of Ephesians 6.
"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickeness in high places." [111]
� Don't be one of the five virgins that run out of the oil, which is the Word of God. Have enough oil in your lamp that you can continue to shine forth and hear, with udnerstanding, God's Word and not the "traditions of men."
� Satan will destroy wonderfully, with loving, prosperous works rather than with a pitch fork and red underwear. He will cause craft to prosper and false peace.
��� Support The Troops Madness: "Choose Peace, Clinton says" was the headline in numerous newspapers across America on November 28, 1995 after the President announced in a nationally-televised speech the sending of U.S. troops to Bosnia. Consider the mind manipulation behind those headlines, and behind the President's statement, "In the choice between peace and war, America must act to choose peace." [112] He and his political advisors knew that because people want peace and not war, Americans did not want to send troops to Bosnia. So he and the anti-Christ Jewish-controlled media in America worked to make people think that not sending armed troops was an act of war and sending armed troops and weapons was an act of peace!
� As these words are written, America has peace, and none of her servicemen are in harm's way. Yet the American people have been told that casualties are inevitable if troops are sent to Bosnia and their president has stated that if any U.S. casualties occur, there will be retribution. This sounds like the opposite of peace, yet the people are made to believe that if troops are not sent to where casualties are inevitable and where retaliation will occur, then there will not be peace!
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Now, let's see...How can I seem to support this and oppose it at the same time? |
� Next comes the role of the alleged opposition, which is not real but simply the appearance of opposition. For example, consider Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Newsweek Magazine quoted him, "I think it's a mistake to send troops,' he said. 'I think it's Wrong.'" [113] It's politically expedient to say that it's wrong because most people feel it's wrong. After having appeared in opposition to the President, his next role is to determine how to support the wrong action of the President. The day after Clinton's address, Dole admitted: "I want to find a way, if it's possible, to support the president." [114] But no news commentators ask the question:
"If Dole, who opposes the President, believes the President is taking the wrong action, why does he want to find a way to support the President in this wrong?"
� So how does one find a way to support the President in doing wrong? Simple! Just say we should support the troops. To understand the game, let's analyze the following front-page newspaper article:
"Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole will support President Clinton's plan to send U.S. troops to Bosnia-Herzegovina, despite strong opposition from some fellow Republicans. We should find a way, if possible, to support the American men and women in uniform," Dole said Thursday. "Dole, a GOP presidential candidate, said he's drafting a resolution of approval with provisions to get the 20,000 U.S. troops home within one year. Dole's support virtually assures that the Senate will go along with Clinton's plan." [115]
� Notice Mr. Dole's patriotic, humanitarian intention to "support the American men and women in uniform," which actually supports the President whom he's supposed to oppose, and guarantees the sending of troops to war after all! Notice that he says, "We should...support the American men and women in uniform."
� Then he says that he is figuring out a way to get the troops back home in one year (that is, back to where the people wanted them all along), but no one seems to be aware that there would be no need to bring them back if men like Dole didn't virtually assure their being sent off in the first place! It's that same old support the troops mentality that worked so well for the propagandists in the Gulf War: and it's being used on the people again. However, you can rest assured that neither Congress nor the President gives one tinkers damn about what happens to the troops, only about what their masters tell them to do!
��� If an action is wrong, then it's wrong to take that action; hence, most people oppose President Clinton's action of sending troops to Bosnia. The people of God sense, from the law on our hearts [116], that it's wrong. We need no degree in Political Science to know the Biblical principles taught in Proverbs 26:17 and Proverbs 3:30. "Like one who takes a dog by the ears is he who passes by and meddles with strife not belonging to him."; "Do not contend with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm."
� These verses teach us that actions such as meddling with strife that is not ours is wrong, and we know the strife in Bosnia is not ours. They tell us not to contend with one who has done us no harm, and we know that neither Serbs nor Croats have done us harm. Thus we know that the action of sending troops to Bosnia is wrong, and many loudly condemn the President for taking it. What people do not seem to know, however, is that:
��� If the action is wrong, then those who carry out the action are also wrong. In fact, wrong actions would not occur if there were none to carry them out. For example, it was wrong for Pilate to resort to the action of scourging Jesus Christ [117], but that wrong would never have occurred if Pilate had not had dutiful men to carry it out. Or consider the course of action King Herod set upon: "Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the Magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the coasts, from two years old and under..." [118] No one can honestly deny that this action was wrong, nor can one deny that it was wrong for the soldiers to carry it out; indeed, this evil would never have occurred without dutiful, willing men.
� The simple truth is:
"If an action is wrong, then it's wrong to take that action; and those who carry it out are wrong; and there would be no wrong action but for those who wrongly carry it out. Our common sense then tells us that it's wrong to support those who carry out wrong action."
� What kind of person in the days of King Herod would have said, "Well, I don't support Herod sending troops into Bethlehem to kill the children, but now that the troops have been sent, I feel we must support them?" What kind of man? A man as wrong as King Herod and his dutiful soldiers who carried out the wrong! Such a man that did in fact support those troops was as guilty of the bloodshed as Herod and his troops were.
� The truth is: There would be no wrong action if there were no troops to carry it out, and there would be no troops to carry out the wrong if there were none to support the troops. It's simply wrong to support troops who do wrong in obedience to their king (or Commander-in-Chief) who is doing wrong.
��� "We support the troops but not the action" is like Pilate washing his hands. "And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the multitude, saying, 'I am innocent of this Man's blood...'"
� So the people who support the troops but not the action likewise proclaim their innocence. Theirs is a twisted, perverted thought process. They reason that the action is wrong and that the President is wrong, but that they are innocent of any wrong: when, in fact, they support those who carry out the wrong, and thereby make it happen! Such thinking is a form of insanity, one which the Bible calls "double-mindedness." It occurs when the people are sinful and their hearts are impure and they deceive themselves into believing their hands are clean.
"Cleanse your hands you sinner, purify your hearts, you double-minded." [119]
� In their minds, they reason that it's wrong and that they have no business sending troops to Bosnia; yet, in their hearts, they feel it's right to support the leaders and troops doing the wrong! The Bible tells us that double minded people are "unstable in all their ways" [120]; so it is in America. With the slightest propaganda effort, people can be lead overnight to be at war with a people with whom the night before they were at peace (as in President Bush's Gulf War).
��� The instability and insanity is obvious. When their president sends soldiers, planes, tanks, bombs, etc., into another country, they are made to believe that it's an act of peace. Yet, were Russian leaders to send planes, tanks, bombs, etc., into their country, they would call it an invasion and an act of war, even if the Russian leaders might call the action "peace." Perhaps World War II could have been avoided by simply calling the action at Pearl Harbor "an act of peace," a pre-emptory strike for the sake of peace in the Pacific (which was probably the propaganda pitch the Japanese government gave to its own people). History shows that when Hitler sent troops and tanks into Poland, the result was a world war; yet today, President Clinton and the media call such an action peace - and our people believe it!
��� The Propagandists are casting spells over the minds of the people in Sorcery fashion. The result is schizophrenia, a form of insanity. Websters 7th Collegiate Dictionary defines it as "psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment," which is another way of saying loss of contact with reality; again, the Biblical term is double-mindedness [121]. George Orwell, author of the novel "1984" called it "double-think." He wrote:
"Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. The party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered, therefore he knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of double think, he also satisfies himself that reality is not violate."
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When Hitler sent troops into Poland, it was an act of war. |
When Clinton sends troops and tanks into Bosnia, it's an act of Peace |
Clinton is taking a wrong action; therefore, he is wrong. |
I support those who take a wrong action; but, I am innocent of any wrong-doing. |
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Peaceful well-armed men with weapons and ammunition in a country insure peace. |
Peaceful, well armed citizens forming militias in a country is a threat to peace and safety. |
� "Double-think" is simply dialectical materialism, a forced combining of opposites.
��� Support the Troops?: Is it a virtue, or a necessity, to blindly support our troops? Those troops, and their cult-like devotion to their employer, could ultimately bring much harm to the very people supporting them unquestioningly. Would you support the troops if Clinton were to turn them on our own people, like when he turned the ATF against Randy Weaver and his family; David Koresh and his people at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas!
� History shows that true support of the troops sent to Vietnam would have been to not send them; likewise with Korea. Likewise today, true support of the troops going to Bosnia would be to not put them in harm's way, to not support them in doing wrong.
� Is supporting troops as Mr. Dole or President Clinton would have them supported, a virtue, or even necessary? Such troops were not drafted, but rather volunteered, meaning that for pay, education, health care benefits, etc., they sold themselves into servitude.
� They agreed to go where they were told, and to kill whom they were told to kill. Why is it a virtue to support such people? Would it be a virtue to support them if they were sent to surround a group of innocent and harmless men, women and children in Waco, Texas and kill them? They would do it if they were so ordered, and without so much as a qualm; it's called "being a good soldier" and "just doing your job." Are such troops "our" troops at all?
��� The Real Problem: The real problem is a spiritual problem. The prophet Isaiah said, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil" [122]. Today, the prophet would say "woe to those who call war peace and peace war." Such deception is the very double-mindedness the Bible condemns [123]; it occurs when the people become sinful and estranged from their God. The only solution is repentance, a thorough change of thought and action. Failure to repent brings down the wrath of their God upon them.
� Isaiah said of the people who called good evil and evil good, "For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts...On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down." [124] Failure to repent of the sin of supporting troops who carry out the wrong actions of their commander-in-chief can actually put those troops in harm's way. True love and support would be to pray for them as sheep being led by "wolves in sheep's clothing," and to expose the wolves (and their insane propaganda), and to oppose sending the sheep-troops off to war.
��� The Illuminati - A World Conspiracy Forged by the Super Rich? The reason for Bosnia today, is the orders of a secret group of men who desire to control the world. "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast." [125] Is there a World Conspiracy forged by the super rich? Is this powerful group of wealthy conspirators the mysterious men often chillingly described as the Illuminati? Do these unseen men, our controllers, have a hidden agenda which dramatically endangers our homes, our families, our very lives? The answer is:
"The results of our investigations into the many secret and occult societies both of yesterday and today, as published in the Patriot from 1930 to 1935. Everything seems to point to the Cabalistic and revolutionary Jew as the Master-mind working behind them, using them as pawns in his great gamble and world-wide conspiracy, which would disintegrate and destroy, not only the Christian Faith, but the entire traditions of Western civilization. His weapon of control and attack being the Triangle of Fire, these magnetic-forces of Life which can both slay and make alive, and by which he professes to free and enlighten the peoples, only the more surely to bind, unify, and enslave them under some unknown and alien Ruler. Moreover, to forward this sinister gamble he entraps and blinds them with the ancient catch-words: 'Know Thyself' and 'Ye shall be as Gods.' That is Illuminism or so-called Liberation of Man, Free not to use his freedom for himself, but to fulfill the Plans of the Great Conspiracy and its Supreme Pontiff!" [126]
� The ruling Inner Circle of the global Illuminati conspiracy. Comprised of ten "Wise Men," the Inner Circle meets privately at palatial estates, luxurious resorts, and secluded sites around the glob, plotting the future of the world. Who are these men? Why do they collude and conspire together? Why do they hide behind different disguises?
"The matter of President Truman's unwillingness to move against Communism came to a head with the passage of the Internal Security Act of 1950. Under the title, 'Necessity for Legislation,' the two House of Congress found as follows:
� (1) There exists a world Communist movement which, in its origins, its development, and its present practice, is a world-wide revolutionary movement whose purpose it is, by treachery, deceit, infiltration into other groups (governmental and otherwise), espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and any other means deemed necessary, to establish a Communist totalitarian dictatorship in the countries throughout the world through the medium of a world-wide Communist organization...
� (12) The Communist network in the United States is inspired and control in large part by foreign agents who are sent into the United States� ostensibly as attach�s of foreign legations, affiliates of international organizations, members of trading commissions, and in similar capacities, but who use their diplomatic or semi-diplomatic status as a shield behind which to engage in activities prejudicial to the public security.
� (13) There are, under our present immigration laws, numerous aliens who have been found to be deportable, many of whom are in the subversive, criminal, or immoral classes who are free to roam the country at will without supervision or control...
� (15) The Communist organization in the United States, pursuing its stated objectives, the recent success of Communist methods in other countries, and the nature and control of the world Communist movement itself, present a clear and present danger to the security of the United States and to the existence of free American institutions, and make it necessary that Congress, in order to provide for the common defense, to preserve the sovereignty of the United States as an independent nation, and to guarantee to each State a republican form of government, enact appropriate legislation recognizing the existence of such world-wide conspiracy and designed to prevent it from accomplishing its purpose in the Unites States." [127]
"Wars are the Jews harvest, for with them we wipe out the Christians and get control of their gold. We have already killed 100‑million of them, and the end is not yet." [128]
�� Sir Douglas Haig, English Field Marshal, strictly under the thumb of his Cahilla‑agent secretary, Philip Sassoon of the family of Baghdad Jews, gave it out that the English were to "humane" to bomb cities holding innocent women and children.
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Small wonder with the whole Christian world hoodwinked into an International War, killing each other's nationals off by the hundreds of thousands. The Jews celebrated Der Tag, the day of Judah coming into its own when the Christian Corpses were buried and that many odoriferous Christians, removed from Terra Firma. |
That suited gullible Christians, and heaped full odium on the "Germans" who ordered such atrocities from Berlin to be perpetrated on London. The Cahilla officials had perfected their power over Germany and the Germans long before the outbreak of the war.
� In fact, their ascendancy dates back to Bismarck, the half‑Jew (Bismarck's mother was the Jewess Louisa Menken) who saw to it that Germany was turned over to the PRINCES of Jewry back in 1870 exactly as America is being turned over to the PRINCES of Jewry in 1934...The Youth Movement of Germany, smashing this oligarchy, will be viewed in the proper perspective as one of the great social phenomena of our times. Consider the war situation and its aftermath in Germany.
��� A Network of Power: The Illuminati's (Cahilla) network of power is a mosaic of the world's most famous personalities, financiers, corporate chairmen, and political figures. At the top we find the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Habsburgs and other "bloody dynasties." Through lower-level servants and subordinates, the Inner Circle secretly dominates and controls America's political process.
� President Bill Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole; these men and hundreds of others slavishly serve the haughty elitists of the Inner Circle. They carry out the elitist agenda for World Government, Luciferian worship, and a global financial order.
� They obey the lawless instructions of the Illuminai, the men who lay claim to supernatural origins and have developed an occult strategy - Aorta A Chad (Order Out of Chaos), designed to mold the world into a totalitarian New Age Kingdom by the magical year 2000. There can be little doubt that the diabolical leader of the Inner Circle is possessed by Satan and raised to become the world leader from birth.
� This man, the "little horn" of the Book of Daniel, will complete the work of the tyrants of bygone ages. All these past dictators served the same occult system, and the very same master. Like today's Illuminati leadership, they knelt before the altar of the great solar deity, whose heinous symbol is the so-called Star of David. We are now caught up in an epic, heart-stopping, and climatic struggle between good and evil; a frightening and ominous picture of the ten kings prophesied to reign over the Earth. These ten men, the Inner Circle, guided by the AKAD HA'AM are prophesied to "have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast." [129]
��� We Must Expose This Colossal Plot: As Christians and true patriots, it is both our duty and our obligation to expose this colossal plot, no matter who it angers, no matter who disbelieves it. We must shine the inspirational light of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Truth on the gross darkness which now encompasses our nation and the world.
� In tragic obedience to their hellish master, the Illuminati unscrupulously plot to harm and destroy God's elect, and they foolishly make war against the One who sits on the Throne. In rejecting the Truth of God and embracing the Lie, these deceived men are bringing to pass the striking, end-times prophecy foretold in the Book of Revelation:
"These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." [130]
� In the Bible, the prophets of old were often accused of being insane, or crazy. But ask yourself, what does a society of crazy people call the sane? Today, men who expose the people's sin and those who would control us, the sin and the resultant madness, or double-mindedness, are called something besides crazy; they are called a "Cult."
"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government." [131]
In the minds of the people, a "cult leader" is equivalent to a "crazy man." No one wants to be called a "cult leader" and no one wants to think differently, lest they be considered "in a cult." So, the people, like dumb "goyim" (Yiddish for cattle), follow a multitude to do evil.
"You shall not follow a multitude in doing evil..." [132]
And madness it is: God-ordained madness besetting them as a result of their sin.
"The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart" [133]
��� The Good News: Very large numbers of people are beginning to realize what their politicians and their Jewish-controlled media are dong to them [134]. A growing number of serious Christians are fervently praying for national repentance and revival. Truth is getting out, and the wicked antichrists are becoming fearful as they lose their sorcerer-like influence over our captive nation, a nation unmistakably stirring from its stupor. People are coming to their senses; and as prayer continues and grows greater, victory grows nearer. "This is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith." [135]
[1] Genesis 7:21-22.
[2] Genesis 19:23.
[3] 2 Peter 2:4-6.
[4] Joshua 24:1-2.
[5] Jeremiah 5:31-32.
[6] Hosea 6:4.
[7] 2 Corinthians 6:14.
[8] Hebrews 13:9.
[9] Matthew 5:1-3.
[10] Matthew 7:28-29.
[11] Deuteronomy 32:2.
[12] Job 11:4.
[13] Proverbs 4:2.
[14] Isaiah 28:9.
[15] Isaiah 29:24.
[16] John 7:14-15.
[17] John 7:16.
[18] John 7:17.
[19] John 7:18.
[20] Matthew 7:15.
[21] Matthew 24:11.
[22] Matthew 24:24.
[23] Mark 13:22.
[24] 2 Peter 2:1.
[25] 1 John 4:1.
[26] Deuteronomy 31:30.
[27] Deuteronomy 32:1-2.
[28] Deuteronomy 32:3-4.
[29] Proverbs 1:1-4.
[30] Proverbs 1:5.
[31] Proverbs 4:1-2.
[32] Proverbs 9:9.
[33] John 7:17.
[34] Proverbs 9:9.
[35]� Proverbs 16:21.
[36] Proverbs 16:23.
[37] Isaiah 29:22.
[38] Isaiah 29:23-24.
[39] 1 Kings 18:24.
[40] 2 Corinthians 6:14.
[41] Acts 2:36.
[42] Acts 2:42.
[43] Acts 2:43.
[44] Acts 5:24-28.
[45] Acts 5:29-32.
[46] "Jesus Film Stirs Hotel Row," Jerusalem Post, International ed., Oct. 16‑22, 1983, p. 5.
[47] "Friendly 'Strangers' in Our Midst," Jerusalem Post, International Ed., May 25, 1991, p. 2.
[48] "Christians: Missionary Activity in Israel Under Fire," Los Angeles Times, Part I, Mar. 8, 1984, p. 8.
[49] Acts 5:31-33.
[50] Acts 17:16-20.
[51] Romans 15:29-31.
[52] Romans 15:32-33.
[53] Romans 1:6-8.
[54] Revelation 13:1.
[55] Revelation 17:1-2.
[56] Romans 11:8.
[57] Revelation 17:15.
[58] Revelation 13:2.
[59] Revelation 13:3.
[60] Revelation 6:4.
[61] Revelation 13:4.
[62] Revelation 20:1-2.
[63] Ezekiel 28:18-19.
[64] Revelation 13:5
[65] Revelation 9:3-5.
[66] Revelation 13:6.
[67] Revelation 13:7.
[68] Psalm 22:30.
[69] Revelation chapter 7 & 9:4.
[70] Revelation 13.
[71] Luke 21:16.
[72] Mark 13:9, 11.
[73] Revelation 9:4.
[74] 1 Chronicles 16:22.
[75] Ezekiel 13:7, 20, 22.
[76] Revelation 13:8.
[77] Revelation 12:1.
[78] Revelation 12:2-4.
[79] Ecclesiastes 1:9.
[80] Revelation 13:9-10.
[81] Revelation 1:16.
[82] Revelation 1:16.
[83] Ephesians 6:17.
[84] Revelation 13:11.
[85] Ezekiel 28:12.
[86] 2 Corinthians 11:1-3.
[87] 2 Corinthians 11:1-3.
[88] Revelation 13:12.
[89] Revelation 12:7-9.
[90] Revelation 13:13.
[91] Revelation 13:14.
[92] Revelation 13:15.
[93] Revelation 13:16.
[94] 2 Timothy 4:3.
[95] Matthew 24:13.
[96] John 17:15.
[97] Genesis 3:1.
[98] Proverbs 2:6.
[99] Revelation 13:18.
[100] Ezekiel 13:10.
[101] Matthew 23:27.
[102] Ezekiel 13:16.
[103] Jeremiah 10:10.
[104] 1 Kings 16:31.
[105] Jeremiah 10:11-13.
[106] Jeremiah 10:14.
[107] 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
[108] 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8.
[109] Daniel 9:27.
[110] Daniel 8:24-25.
[111] Ephesians 6:11-12.
[112] Excerpt from President Clinton's nationally-televised address to the nation, November 27, 1995.
[113] Newsweek Magazine, December 11, 1995, Indisputable Imponderables (Dole's reluctant support of Clinton's Bosnia policy may lead to a stronger peace), p. 35.
[114] Rocky Mountain News, Tuesday, November 28, 1995, Choose Peace; Clinton Says.
[115] USA Today, p. 1, House Told Politically Risky Mission Needed.
[116] Hebrews 8:10.
[117] John 19:1-3.
[118] Matthew 2:16.
[119] James 4:8.
[120] James 1:8.
[121] James 1:8.
[122] Isaiah 5:20.
[123] James 4:8.
[124] Isaiah 5:24-25.
[125] Revelation 17:12.
[126] The Trail of the Serpent, Miss Stoddard, p. 318.
[127] The Iron Curtain Over America, John Beaty, pp. 181-182.
[128] Chief Rabbi in France, Rabbi Reichorn.
[129] Revelation 17:13.
[130] Revelation 17:14.
[131] Janet Reno, in a speech before an ATF luncheon, Washington, D.C.
[132] Exodus 32:2.
[133] Deuteronomy 28:28.
[134] Isaiah 52:1-2.
[135] 1 John 5:4.