tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128411662024-03-13T14:18:25.670-05:00John Baptist HenryJohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-86738308834213623282018-05-04T06:41:00.000-05:002018-05-04T06:58:48.913-05:00
<b><big>PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO CREATE A FAITH-BASED OFFICE
IN THE WHITE HOUSE<br> TO 'PROTECT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM'</big></b><br>
By Germania Rodriguez for Dailymail.com<br>
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish a faith-based office with the goal of protecting religious freedom, he announced on Thursday.
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The White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative will ensure 'the faith-based and community organizations that form the bedrock of our society have strong advocates in the White House and throughout the federal government,' Trump said at the Rose Garden during the White House's annual National Day of Prayer ceremony.
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The president added: 'Prayer has always been at the center of the American life. America is a nation of believers, and together we are strengthened by the power of prayer.'
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One of Trump's top faith advisers said the office's aim was a culture shift to minimize conversations about church-state barriers 'without all of these arbitrary concerns as to what is appropriate,' according to the Washington Post.
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The office will make recommendations to the Trump administration and inform them of 'any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.'
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It will also expand government grants to make sure faith-based groups have 'equal access to government funding and equal right to exercise their deeply held beliefs.'
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Johnnie Moore, a spokesman for Trump's evangelical advisory group, said the office will have an emphasis on prison reform, education, mental health and 'strengthening families.'
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A newly-appointed White House adviser will lead the effort, which will be supported by religious leaders outside the government.
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'We take this step because we know that in solving the many many problems and our great challenges, faith is more powerful than government and nothing is more powerful than god,' the president said.
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Trump also told the crowd at the Rose Garden that he is to thank for people saying 'Merry Christmas' more and being more open about prayer.
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He said: 'Don't you notice a big difference between two or three years ago and now? Now it's straight up.'
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The Clinton administration had a similar office in the 1990s and faced legal challenges, with groups fighting to guard Constitutional protections against government-backed religion, as the Post points out. However, Trump is the first president to present such an office with such a homogeneously Christian group of advisers.
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During last year's National Day of Prayer Trump cited 'religious liberty' when he signed an executive order to allow the IRS to opt out of the Johnson Amendment, which bans nonprofit groups from engaging in political campaign.
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The 2017 executive order also allowed organizations to opt out Obamacare's requirement that they provide contraception care on religious grounds.
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<br><br> <b>Source</b>: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5688753/President-Trump-signs-order-create-faith-based-office-White-House.html" target="_blank"> DailyMail.co.uk</a>, May 3, 2018<br><br>JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-71986895990184426082017-08-29T09:09:00.001-05:002017-09-26T00:07:06.033-05:00CATHOLICISM<br>
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<b>Isaiah 14:9-15</b>: "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12 <u>How art thou fallen from heaven, O <b>Lucifer</b>, son of the morning!</u> how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
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<b>Galatians 1:6-9</b>: "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."
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<b>2 Corinthians 11:13-15</b>: "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."
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<center><b>ALSO SEE</b>: <a href="http://johnbaptisthenry.blogspot.com/2012/08/corrupt-bibles.html" target="_blank">The Mother of Corrupt Versions</a>
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<a href="https://johnbaptisthenry.blogspot.com/2010/12/hosius-on-anabaptists.html" target="_blank">Hosius on the Anabaptists</a>
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-61784553819027242132017-08-27T23:31:00.000-05:002017-08-28T05:49:34.116-05:00
<center><b><big>THERE SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN,<br>
AND IN THE MOON, AND IN THE STARS</b></big><br>
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<b>GOD'S WORD ON THE SIGNS IN HEAVEN</b>:
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"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so." (<b>Genesis 1:14-15</b>)
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"These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORDS passover. ... The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD." (<b>Leviticus 23:4-5, 34</b>)
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“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.” (<b>Psalm 19:1-6</b>)
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”Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?” (<b>Job 38:31-33</b>, cf. 9:9; Isaiah 13:10; Amos 5:8. Note: The Mazzaroth is the 12 major constellations from Leo to Virgo, and their 36 associated minor constellations.)
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“Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.” (<b>Jeremiah 10:2</b>; Note: The Hebrew word translated dismayed here is also translated afraid, affrighted, amazed, broken, confound, discouraged, scarest, terrify, etc.)
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"And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." (<b>Acts 2:19-21</b>; cf. Joel 2:30-31)
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"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. ... And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (<b>Luke 21:25, 28</b>)
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<b>INTRODUCTION</b>:
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I have been saying for several years now that since the 1949/50 and 1967/68 tetrads fell when Israel was reestablished and when Jerusalem was captured that the next piece of the puzzle required for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy would have to do with the 3rd Temple. With Israel having taken control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem this month it seems that we are one step closer to the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27.
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"A hundred years ago, a number of French skeptics, gathered together a collection of all the numerous ancient mythologies of various peoples of the world, and demonstrated that these showed a remarkable and astounding correspondence to the teachings concerning Christ and his salvation. They said that since these mythologies - which often involve interpretations of the constellations of the zodiac - very clearly long antedate the [Bible] and the coming of Christ into the world, it was obvious to them Christianity was … borrow[ed] from pagan mythology, dressed up in Hebrew dress and pawned off on a credulous world. … [However] none of the skeptics were able to tell whence came these ancient mythologies, and particularly this understanding of the zodiac - constellations of the sky. Where did these signs come from? These scholars discovered that their antiquity cannot be ascertained; no matter how far back we go, they are always still there! ... According to Arabic tradition, the signs came from Seth; and [Enos]. This tradition is interesting since it links these signs to the grandson of Adam and says that [Enos] and his father Seth (both men of faith) were the founders of this ancient understanding of the heavens. … Therefore, from the very beginning, God has given a story of salvation from which have come most of the ancient mythologies and ancient traditions. The signs [of the zodiac] are describing the salvation that would be wrought by Christ, and was given by God to Adam in the Garden of Eden." [Kennedy, James D., The Real Meaning of the Zodiac, CRM Publishing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1993, pp. 10, 11, 12.]
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Following are the names and meanings of some of the brightest stars, and of the twelve signs that mark the divisions of the year:
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<b>The names of some of the brightest stars with their meanings</b>:
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* Toliman - The Heretofore and the Hereafter (Revelation 1:8)<br>
* Sirius - The Prince (Isaiah 9:6)<br>
* Vega - He shall be exalted (Isaiah 52:13)<br>
* Arcturus - He comes (Job 9:9; Revelation 1:7)<br>
* Regel - The foot that crushes (Genesis 3:15)<br>
* Procyon - The Redeemer (Job 19:25)<br>
* Altair - The Wounded (Zechariah 13:6)<br>
* Pollux - He who comes to suffer (Psalm 22:14-16)<br>
* Deneb - The Judge (Psalm 9:8)<br>
* Regulus - Treading underfoot (Genesis 3:15)<br>
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<b>The 12 signs of the Mazzaroth (Job 38:32) with their meanings, and the true message they convey</b>:
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* Virgo - The Seed of the Woman. Speaks of the virgin birth of “the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:26-35; Matthew 1:18-25; Revelation 1:8)
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* Libra - The required price paid. Speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ’s blood sacrifice of His own self on the cross as the redemption price for sinful men (Isaiah 53; Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18-21).
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* Scorpio - The mortal conflict. Pictures the Lord Jesus Christ and Satan in battle. Satan bruises the Lord’s heel, but Christ wins by crushing his head (Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 2:14-15; Psalm 22:16; Revelation 12:2-9).
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* Sagittarius - The final triumph. Portrays the Lord Jesus Christ as the exalted victor over death, and Satan (1 John - 3:8; Ephesians 4:8-10; Revelation 20:10).
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* Capricornus - Life out of Death. Portrays the Lord Jesus Christ’s judgement against sin, His death for our sins, and His resurrection from the dead (1 John 3:5; Romans 4:25, 5:8, 6:23, 10:9-10; 1 Peter 3:18).
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* Aquarius - Blessing out of victory. Speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ sending the blessed Holy Spirit with all His benefits for His people (John 7:37-39, 1 Corinthians 12:13).
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* Pisces - Deliverance out of bondage. Pictures the saved. Winning others to Christ, and Christ, the King, coming to deliver the redeemed from their bondage (Matthew 4:18-20; Mark 1:15-17; Jude 14, 15, 22, 23; Revelation 3:11, 19:11-16, 22:12-17).
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* Aries - Glory out of humiliation. Portrays the humble Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, Slain for the sins of the world, and victorious over Satan (John 1:29; 1 John 2:1-2, 4:10; Revelation 20:1-3, 10).
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* Taurus - His glorious coming. Foretells the Lord Jesus Christ’s second coming in judgement upon a sinful world and upon Satan (Isaiah 34:1-8; Revelation 6:12-17, 12:7-9).
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* Gemini - The coming Prince and Saviour. Speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ’s duality as 100% God, and 100% man. The Lord is Ruler and Judge, and at the same time He is the wounded Seed who serves others (Philippians 2:5-8; Genesis 3:15; Acts 5:31).
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* Cancer - His possessions held secure. Assures us that God will protect those He has redeemed, and bring them safely home to Heaven (John 10:11-17, 27-30; Hebrews 12:22-24, 13:20-21; 1 Peter 2:25, 5:1-4; Jude 1; Romans 8:38-39).
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* Leo - His enemies destroyed. Prophetically assures us that the Lord Jesus Christ shall be victorious over sin, the world, Satan, and death (Genesis 49:8-12; 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 55-58; Hebrews 2:14-15; 2 Thessalonians 2:7-10; Revelation 1:13-16, 5:1-10, 14:14-20, 20:10).
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Almost seven years ago, in 2011, I heard about an astronomical phenomenon called a tetrad on the late <b>Dr. J. R. Church</b>'s Prophecy in the News program. A tetrad is when there are 4 total lunar eclipses in a row without partial eclipses in between them. There have been 56 tetrads since the time of Christ to the one that passed in 2014-2015. Tetrads consist of 2 eclipses a year for 2 years. However, this is not the only qualification for our purposes, but all 4 eclipses must also fall on the <u>first</u> and <u>last</u> of <b>the seven feasts of the LORD</b> during two consecutive years, namely Passover and Tabernacles. I researched it and found that there had been 7 tetrads since the time of Christ that fell on the feasts of the LORD of Leviticus 23. I checked it on the NASA website and against the Hebrew calendar, and found that it was absolutely true. Since that time an 8th Tetrad passed in 2014/2015. There will be no more tetrads on the feasts of the LORD for 549 years from that date.
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A very important fact to be noted here is that the basic meaning of the Hebrew word translated “<b><i>seasons</i></b>” in Genesis 1:14 and Leviticus 23:4 (above) is “<b><i>set time</i></b>” or “<b><i>time appointed</i></b>” and it is translated as such (Gen. 17:21, 18:14, 21:2; Ex. 9:5, 23:15; Josh. 8:14; 1 Sam. 13:8; 2 Sam. 20:5; Job 14:13; Ps. 102:13). In Leviticus 23:4 the Hebrew word is translated both as “<i>feasts</i>” and “<i>seasons</i>” in the same verse (see verses at top), and is translated “feast” 21 additional times in the Old Testament as the feasts of the LORD are held at appointed times.
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Two additional feasts were added after the days of Moses that are detailed in Daniel and Esther, namely, <b>Hanukkah</b> and <b>Purim</b>. Both of these feasts have to do with the Israelites defending themselves against evil men that would murder them, and <b>Hanukkah concerns the dedication of the Temple</b> after it had been defiled by a Greek prince that sat in it claiming to be God. It was on Hanukkah that the Lord Jesus Christ preached His great “I am the door” sermon (John 10:1-2, 7, 9). There it is called, “… the feast of the dedication, and it was winter” (John 10:22). Purim was instituted in Persia after the Jews’ victory over Haman and those throughout the provinces of the Persian Empire who would try to murder them (Esther 9:20-32). There are also the days of mourning for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in the Hebrew month of Av (July/August time frame).
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Since finding out about the tetrads on the Biblical feast days, I have discovered other astronomical phenomenon that have fallen on the feasts of the LORD. The most recent of which prompted this article. It has been dubbed the Revelation 12 Sign, because it follows the description of Revelation 12:1-2 exactly. There it says:
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“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: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”
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Brief review of recent signs in the heavens that fell on Biblical fast and feast days:
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1. August 1, 2008 had a total solar eclipse on the 1st of Av, during the days of mourning.<br>
2. July 22, 2009 had a total solar eclipse on the 1st of Av, during the days of mourning.<br>
3. July 11, 2010 had a total solar eclipse on the 1st of Av, during the days of mourning.<br>
4. October 8, 2011, the Feast of Atonement: Comets Elenin & Honda appeared together. There was also a meteor shower coming from the direction of the Constellation Draco (Latin for dragon) that day.<br>
5. 2012: This year had no astronomical phenomenon on the Biblical feasts. The Mayan calendar ended on December 21, 2012 without the fulfilment of the pop culture’s fantasies. People listen to whatever the media and Hollywood plants in their mind; and continue to say, "Where is the promise of His coming?” (2 Peter 3:4) <br>
6. November 28, 2013, Comet ISON made perihelion (closest point to the Sun) on Hanukkah<br>
7. 2014 saw the first 2 total lunar eclipses on the feasts of Passover and Tabernacles of this Tetrad.<br>
8. 2015 saw the last 2 total lunar eclipses of the last Tetrad on the feasts of the LORD for 549 years.<br>
9. December 31, 2016, Comet Honda made perihelion on Hanukkah. It was New Years eve.<br>
10. September 27, 2017 will be the sign of Revelation 12 in the Constellation Virgo.
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<b>SOLAR ECLIPSES ON THE 1ST OF AV IN 2008, 2009 & 2010</b>:
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"And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month [Av]." (Numbers 33:38)
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"And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month [Av], separating myself, as I have done these so many years? Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?" (Zechariah 7:3-7)
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The 9th of Av on the Jewish calendar is a day of fasting and mourning for the destruction of both Temples, first by the Babylonians in 586 B.C (9th of Av), and again by the Romans in 70 AD (9th of Av). The Jews still observe 21 days of mourning from 17 Tammuz to 9 Av in commemoration of the Roman General Titus' breach of the outer walls of Jerusalem on 17 Tammuz, and his order on the 9th of Av to levelled the Temple to the ground (4 Aug 70 AD). The Nine Days are the darkest days on the Jewish calendar. They are the final 9 days of the days of mourning.
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<b>Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began crashing into Jupiter on the 9th of Av</b>:
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It is interesting that on the 9th of Av 1994 (20:13 UTC, July 16, 1994) that the first of 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began striking Jupiter. Jupiter had captured the Comet into orbit around it. These fragments crashed into Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 and July 22, 1994 at a speed of approximately 134,000 mph. To me this seems to be a picture of a lost person who is broken in repentance and trusts in the Lord Jesus. He drew us to Himself (Isa. 45:22; Matt. 11:28), but it was our sins that scarred the Lord! (Psalm 22:16; Isa. 53:5; Mark 15:17, 19; John 19:34, 37, 20:27; Rev. 1:7)
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There were total solar eclipses for 3 years straight on the 1st of Av during 2008, 2009 and 2010:
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The NASA web site records that total solar eclipses occurred on the following dates:
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August 1, 2008 (1st of Av 5768 began at sunset on August 1st and ended at sunset on the 2nd)<br>
July 22, 2009 (1st of Av 5769 began at sundown on July 21st and ended at sunset on the 22nd)<br>
July 11, 2010 (1st of Av 5770 began at sunset on July 11th and ended at sundown on the 12th)<br>
<b>NOTE</b>: Biblical days observed by the Jews begin at sunset and end at sunset the following day.
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It was on the 1st of Av that Moses' brother, Aaron, the first Levitical Priest, died (Numbers 33:38-39)
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<b>Tragic events that have occurred on the 9th of Av (Tisha b'Av)</b>:
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1. Jewish tradition says that it was on Tisha b'Av (9 Av 1312 B.C.) that the Jewish fathers were not allowed to enter the Promised Land, because the people rebelled against the LORD, Moses, and the 2 true spies, Joshua and Caleb. They believed the 10 unbelieving spies. The sin of the 10 spies caused God to decree that the Children of Israel who left Egypt would not be permitted to enter the land of Israel and so they wandered for 40 years till they died (Numbers 13 & 14, 32:11-14).
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2. The Roman army plowed Jerusalem with salt on 25 July 71 AD (9 Av 3831).
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3. The destruction of Simeon Bar Cochba's army on 5 Aug 135 AD (9 Av 3895).
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4. The First Crusade was declared by Pope Urban II on July 20, 1095 (Av 9, 4855), killing 10,000 Jews in its first month and destroying Jewish communities in France and the Rhineland.
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5. Anti-Jewish rioters stormed a castle in York, England - 500 Jews died as a result on 14 July 1190. (9 Av 4950).
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6. England expelled all Jews on 18 July 1290 (9 Av 5050).
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7. During the Spanish Inquisition after centuries in Spain some 200,000 Jews were expelled on 11 August 1492 (9 Av 5252). The following 2 years, 1493 & 1494, experienced a series of 4 lunar eclipses (blood moons) on the first (Passover) and last (the Feast of Tabernacles) of the seven feasts of Israel (Leviticus 23; cf. Joel 2:30-31; Acts 2:19-20; Rev. 6:12).
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8. World War I was declared on 1 August 1914 (9 Av 5674). Russia launched persecutions against the Jews on the same day.
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9. Mass deportation of Jews at the rate of six to ten thousand per day from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka Death Camp began on July 23, 1942 (9 Av 5702).
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10. The 9th of Av was the day of the destruction of both Temples: first by the Babylonians in 586 B.C, and again by the Romans in 70 AD.
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<b>One of the names for the 7 year Tribulation in the Bible is, the time of Jacob’s trouble</b>:
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“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” (Jeremiah 30:7; Note: God also gave Jacob the name, Israel.)
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<b>2011 COMETS ELENIN & HONDA</b>:
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These comets that flew by in 2011 were interesting Biblically for the following reasons:
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1. Earth, Elenin, the Sun, and Mercury were in alignment on September 28 and 29. From the evening of 28 September to the evening of the 29th was the Biblical Feast of Trumpets, a foreshadowing of the Rapture (Leviticus 23:23-25; cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52). Furthermore, the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly was in session from September 28th to 30th. They discussed whether to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. The Bible gives this parting of the Land of Israel as a reason for God's judgment on the nations during the 7 year Tribulation. In the Book of the Prophet Joel God states:
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Joel 3:2: "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land."
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Revelation 11:3-4: "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth."
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Then on 8 October there was a Draconid meteor shower: “The International Meteor Organization reported an outburst of Draconid meteors on October 8, 2011 as predicted earlier this year by a Canadian astronomer. That outburst came despite a bright waxing gibbous moon. Preliminary counts suggest a peak rate of 660 meteors per hour at 20:10 UT; 3:10 pm CDT.” (October 8, 2011 Draconid meteor shower a winner! EarthSky.org by Deborah Byrd, October 9, 2011.)
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3. When Elenin was closest to the Earth on October 16, 17 & 18, at 22 million miles, it was right in the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles, a type of the Millennial reign of Christ, and the eternal state after that (Leviticus 23:33-43; cf. Revelation 20:1-6, 21:1-7).
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<b>THE TEMPLE & COMET ISON’S ARRIVAL ON HANUKKAH IN NOVEMBER 2013</b>:
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Comet ISON made its closes point to the Sun (perihelion) on Hanukkah, November 28, 2013. ISON was a sungrazing comet discovered on 21 September 2012 by Vitaly Nevsky and Artyom Novichonok using the 0.4-meter (16 in) reflector of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) near Kislovodsk, Russia.
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It was said a year earlier on October 8, 2012 by NASA that, “This inter-planetary visitor may be the brightest comet ever …” (NASA’s Facebook Page) ISON was a was very bright. Look at the length of ISON's tail as compared to the distance between the Sun and Venus as it passes Venus (above ISON) before it reaches the Sun (See animation to the right). This was a very large comet, but no match for the Sun. Due to it’s very close pass to the Sun it was a one time comet.
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Hanukkah is an eight-day festival commemorating the victory in 165 BC of the Maccabees over Antiochus IV Epiphanes (215-164 B.C.) and the cleansing and rededication of the Temple at Jerusalem. Antiochus had set an image of Zeus in the Temple, offered swine upon the altar, and proclaimed himself to be God. Antiochus was a forerunner, a type, of the Antichrist Beast who is to come (Revelation 13). The Prophet Daniel prophesied of Antiochus in Daniel 8, and the Prophet Haggai gave the date of the yet future feast (Haggai 2:10-22). Hanukkah is called the feast of the dedication in John 10:22.
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It is very interesting that near the end of WW I on November 2, 1917 the British issue the Balfour Declaration supporting a Jewish Homeland, and then on Hanukkah of that year (9 December) British General Edmund Allenby liberated Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks without firing a shot by dropping surrender leaflets on the city from biplanes never before seen by the Ottomans fulfilling Isaiah 31:5 to the letter. It has been said that WW I prepared the Land for the Israelites and WW II prepared the Israelites for the Land.
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Isaiah 31:5: As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
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"[In March of 2013, incoming Construction and Housing Minister,] Uri Ariel said, 'Is someone in this building already drawing construction plans for the Third Temple?' The response was a round of applause, and a quip from [outgoing Construction and Housing Minister Ariel] Attias. 'I think Obama would have to authorize that.' Uri Ariel responded, 'I think it's a higher power who is in charge.'" (Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2013; [Brackets] mine.)
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“The Israel Minister of Housing and Construction, Uri Ariel on Friday [January 24, 2014] expressed his wish to see the construction of a Third Temple in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Al-Quds (East Jerusalem). Uri Ariel said, The first Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE, the second Temple in 70 CE, and ever since the Jews have been mourning its loss. Al-Aqsa Mosque is currently in place of the temple, despite the temple being much holier than it. Al-Aqsa Mosque is only the third most holy mosque in Islam." (Worldbulletin News, Istanbul, January 27, 2014; [Brackets] mine.)
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Israel was re-established as a nation in 1948, and She regained Her Capitol in 1967 (both years under Tetrads) and now all that is left is the building of the third Temple. A key prophecy speaks of this in the Book of Daniel:
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"And he [the Antichrist Beast] shall confirm the covenant [to build the Temple] with many for one week [7 years]: and in the midst of the week [3 & ½ years later] he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [break the covenant and proclaim himself God as Antiochus did], and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." (Daniel 9:27; Brackets mine; cf. Matt. 24:15-21; Rev. 6:1-2, 13:1-9, 19:20; 2 Thess. 2:1-7)
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<b>THE 2014/2015 TETRAD ON THE FEASTS OF PASSOVER AND TABERNACLES</b>:
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Two very important events in the history of Israel occurred with the passing of the 2 prior tetrads to this one, namely the reestablishment of the Nation of Israel (May 14, 1948), and the capture of Jerusalem (June 7, 1967), Israel's ancient Capitol.
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Generally unknown to most there were also 2 partial lunar eclipses on Passover and Tabernacles in 1948 in addition to the 1949/1950 Tetrad.
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The 1967/1968 Lunar Tetrad fell during the capture of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount during the Six-Day-War of June 5-10, 1967. For the first time in nearly 1900 years Israel was in control of their Capitol. Six weeks before the war, the first eclipse occurred on Passover of 1967; and 666 days after the start of the Six-Day-War was Passover of 1969, plus the Knesset enacted the law to establish the Jewish Quarter Development Company (JQDC) to rebuild Jerusalem that day. The final eclipse of this Tetrad fell on the Feast of Tabernacles on October 6, 1968. This final eclipse was exactly 5 solar years before the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
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During the Lord Jesus’ last week before His crucifixion some of the apostles asked Him, “… Tell us, … what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matt. 24:3) The Lord Jesus’ answered in His great prophetic Olivet Discourse, he stated:
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“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matthew 24:32-36)
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The word of God explicitly gives the “fig tree” as a symbol for the Nation of Israel (Hosea 9:10; Joel 1:6-7; et. al.). With the “fig tree” standing for Israel, the reestablishment of Israel is a key factor pointing to Christ second coming. Another factor is “all these things” which include the things He enumerated in the preceding verses, namely false christs, wars and rumours of wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, iniquity and cold heartedness abounding, false prophets, and all nations hating believers for Jesus Christ's name sake (cf. Matt. 24:4-11). We are clearly in the “generation” that the Lord Jesus spoke of here!!!
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Speaking of false prophets: four days before the last blood moon of the 2014/2015 Tetrad of September 28, 2015 ABC News reported Pope Francis as saying, “The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds. God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.” (Excerpt from ABC News article, "Read What Pope Francis Said at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral" by Emily Shapiro quoting Pope Francis, Sept. 24, 2015, 8:37 PM ET)
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Humanly speaking, if one does not come to the spiritual realization that Jesus’ death on the cross was the greatest success of all history, without which that one; and all mankind, will burn in Hell fire for eternity! Jesus Christ ended His life on the cross with these words of triumph, “… It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.” (John 19:30) Shortly before this Jesus has said to one of the thieves crucified along side of Him who had just trusted in Him, "... Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43)
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With the last 2 tetrads (1949/1950 & 1967/1968) marking the reestablishment of Israel and the capture of Jerusalem, there is one significant element still lacking, namely the Temple Mount and it's Temple. Fifty days after it's capture in 1967 Israel gave control of the Temple Mount back to Jordan for peace. However, as I was writing this article there have been events on the Temple Mount that could lead to compromizes concerning the Temple. The building of the 3rd Temple and the Rapture, not necessarily in that order, are the next 2 major prophetic elements soon to come. This is what the 2014.2015 Tetrad and the Hanukkah comets (ISON & Honda) point to!
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<b>THE 2016 RETURN OF COMET HONDA ON HANUKKAH</b>:
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Comet Honda was first discovered by Minuru Honda on December 3, 1948. We saw above that it flew by in 2011 with Comet Elenin. Honda returns every 5 and 1/4 years and in 2016 it reached it's closes point to the Sun (perihelion) on Hanukkah which was also New Years Eve (December 31, 2016).
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Again, remember, Hanukkah speaks of the cleansing of the Temple after it had been desecrated by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (215-164 BC). Hanukkah is an eight-day festival commemorating the Israeli Maccabees’ victory over Antiochus in 165 BC. It is the rededication of the Temple. Antiochus had sat in the Temple proclaiming himself to be God and had set an image of Zeus much like the Antichrist will do at the mid-point of the Tribulation.
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Revelation 13:4-9, 15-18: “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? 5 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. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 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. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. … 15 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. 16 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: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 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.”
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<b>THE SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 SIGN OF REVELATION 12</b>:
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“<b><i>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: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. … 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.</i></b>” (<b>Revelation 12:1-2, 5</b>)
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This wonder in heaven will occur 2 months from this writing on September 23, 2017 in the Constellation Virgo. The Constellation Leo is above Virgo’s head and has 9 bright fixed stars. In additions to these 9, Venus, Mars and Mercury will also be above the Virgin’s head making 12 stars (v. 1). The Sun will be on her left shoulder, and the Moon under her left foot (v. 1). To complete the picture Jupiter will be positioned to the right of the fixed star named Spica in the belly of the virgin symbolizing the man child. (v.5).
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The Revelation 12 Wonder falls on the day after the Feast of Trumpets, which is a picture of the Rapture.
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This Revelation 12 sign comes 50 days short of 100 years after Jerusalem was liberated on Hanukkah in 1917 by General Edmund Allenby near the end of World War I after 400 years of Ottoman Turk control. Jerusalem was taken by Israel in the Six Day War in 1967, a few months short of 50 years after Allenby liberated it in 1917.
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Who are the Woman and the Man Child of Revelation 12?
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"And he [Joseph] dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? 11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying." (Genesis 37:9-11)
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Joseph’s dream was literally fulfilled in his own day, but it interprets Revelation 12 for us too. Here in Genesis 37 it clearly shows us that the sun, moon, 11 stars plus Joseph himself definitely symbolize the Nation of Israel. In Revelation 7 the 144,000 of the tribes of Israel take over the soul winning work where the Church Age saints left off at the Rapture. However, there work is accomplished by the mid-point of the 7 year Tribulation, and they are seen in heaven with the Lord directly after the middle of that terrible time (Rev. 14:1-5). The fact that they are Israel is also seen in Micah 5:
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“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.” (Micah 5:2-3; cf. Revelation 7:2-10, 14:1-5)
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We know that verse 2 of Micah 5 above speaks of the Lord Jesus’ birth. However, verse 3 says that the Lord will “... give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth.” After much of Israel rejected the Lord Jesus, God gave up on them for the most part, but He will again work through “the Woman” mightily during the Tribulation. Micah 5:3 interprets our Revelation 12:1-2 passage for us. When we compare it with Micah 5:3 we can see that the symbolic "Woman" "which travaileth" is Israel, and this fact is born out in the rest of Revelation 12 also. The “remnant of his [Jesus'] brethren” of Micah 5:3 are the 144,000 Israelites from the 12 tribes who are sealed for service in Revelation 7 and who are seen with Jesus directly after the middle of the Tribulation (Revelation 14:1-5, cf. Mid-Trib chapters 11, 12, & 13). This "remnant of his brethren" are the Man Child of Revelation 12:5. So all Israel is symbolized by the Woman, and the 144,000 are symbolized by her Man Child.
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Therefore, I believe this is the interpretation of the Revelation 12 Sign: Virgo is Israel, the 12 stars are the individual tribes of Israel, the Sun is Jacob, the Moon is Rachel, and Jupiter is the 144,000, 1,200 from each of the 12 tribes.
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The 144,000 will be rulers under Christ during His Millennial Reign and beyond (Rev. 12:5; Dan 7:22) as likewise the Church Age saints will be also (Rev. 2:26-27, 5:10; cf. 20:6, 22:3-5).
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“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” (Jeremiah 30:7)
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<b>CONCLUSION</b>:
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“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-57)
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“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; “PREVENT, v.t. [L. proevenio …] To go before; to precede.” -- Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)
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“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.” (Matthew 24:42-44)
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 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. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 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. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-10)
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“The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, … 1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.” (Zephaniah 1:14-15, 2:1-3; cf, 1 Peter 2:9)
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“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” (2 Peter 3:9-14; cf. Revelation 21:1-8)
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“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” (Matthew 25:13)
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“And he [Jesus] said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:7-8)
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“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:36)
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“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” (2 Timothy 4:8)
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-68414914221091093292017-08-07T23:39:00.000-05:002017-08-08T00:21:48.303-05:00<center><b><big>THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST,<br> AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH</b></big></big><br>
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"<i>... John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD. 30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.</i>" (<b>John 1:29-34</b>; <small>NOTE: According to the flesh John the Baptist was 6 months older than the Lord Jesus Christ. However, Jesus existed as God from eternity before taking upon Himself human flesh. The Lord is God without beginning or end {John 1:1-3; 1 John 5:7; Rev. 1:8}. He is called "<i>the Word</i>" and "<i>the Almighty</i>."</small>)
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"<i>In whom WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.</i>" (<b>Colossians 1:14-17</b>)
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"<i>For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath SET FORTH TO BE A PROPITIATION THROUGH FAITH IN HIS BLOOD, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.</i>" (<b>Romans 3:23-26</b>)
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"<i>Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.</i>" (<b>Ephesians 2:11-13</b>)
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"<i>If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN. ... 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.</i>" (<b>1 John 1:6-7, 2:2</b>)
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"<i>Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.</i>" (<b>1 Peter 1:18-21</b>)
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"<i>Much more then, being now JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.</i>" (<b>Romans 5:9-10</b>)
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"<i>Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing HE EVER LIVETH to make intercession for them.</i>" (<b>Hebrews 7:25</b>)
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"<i>Let this mind be in you, which was also in CHRIST JESUS: 6 WHO, BEING IN THE FORM OF GOD, THOUGHT IT NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD: 7 BUT MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, AND TOOK UPON HIM THE FORM OF A SERVANT, AND WAS MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH, EVEN THE DEATH OF THE CROSS. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.</i>" (<b>Philippians 2:5-11</b>)
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"<i>... Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD, 6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.</i>" (<b>Revelation 1:5-6</b>)
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-62145111542910975212015-10-29T04:30:00.000-05:002015-12-16T21:26:43.489-06:00Facts About Israel
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<center><big><b>40 SIGNIFICANT FACTS<br>ABOUT ISRAEL'S HISTORY</big><br>
By Clarence H. Wagner, Jr.</b></center>
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The Jewish people have had an inseparable relationship with the Land of Israel - the Land of the Bible, for the past 4,000 years since the days of Abraham.
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There have been ebbs and flows in Jewish habitation of the land.
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However, to be sure, at no period since the days of Joshua have all of the Jewish people been exiled from the Land of Israel. Some Jews have always remained in the Land, in greater or lesser numbers.
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While their exiles under the Assyrians and Babylonians were relatively short lived, the last greater exile by the Romans lasted almost 1,800 years. Nevertheless, God said He would restore His people Israel to their land in one final and great return and restoration. There are a multitude of biblical prophecies concerning the regathering of the Jewish people from around the world to a barren land that would be restored to its former glory. This began to unfold in the late 1800s. Events leading to the establishment of the modern State of Israel began during the period when the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire controlled the region, then called Palestine.
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The chronology of past invaders who ruled in the land of Israel reads like a Who's Who of World Empires. The Land of Israel was a choice fruit that everyone wanted to pluck for their own ends. Those characteristics that made this land desirable enough to be chosen by the Lord as "His Land," also made it the focus of empires who wanted to rule the world. In some cases, they just wanted to overrule the Jewish people, because they were the people of God and some of these world powers were opposed to the things of God. Israel and the Jewish people are some of those important "things" of God.
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In this Israel Teaching Letter, I want to traverse the significant facts of over 4,000 years of Israel's history so that we have a foundation to validate the Jewish claim to this land.
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Fact #1
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According to many scholars, the Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, were active in Canaan between 2100-1875 BC. The birthright to the covenant established with Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 was passed on from Abraham to Isaac (not Ishmael or the other sons of Abraham), to Jacob (not Esau), and through Jacob's twelve sons who became known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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The twelve sons of Jacob were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Napthtali, Joseph and Benjamin. God withdrew Levi from the list of tribes to use the Levites in the transport and care of the tabernacle and its service (Num. 1:47-53). Why Joseph was withdrawn from the list, we are not told, but his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh (two half tribes), were selected to make up the number of twelve. Some suggest it was an expression of the double portion of inheritance to a firstborn son, showing that Joseph's dream was, in fact, true.
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After Jacob's son, Joseph, was sold into slavery and eventually became the Prime Minister of Egypt, the rest of the family found refuge there from a regional famine. They remained in Egypt, and the Hebrews ultimately became slaves under a Pharaoh "that knew not Joseph."
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Fact #2
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As promised, about 400 years after Joseph first came to Egypt, a redeemer was raised up to bring the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in a great Exodus. His name was Moses. It was God's intention for the Children of Israel to move into the Promised Land directly, but they chose to stay in the desert after receiving the report of the twelve spies that the people of the land were powerful and their cities fortified. Despite the fact the Joshua and Caleb brought examples of the produce of the land - grapes, figs and pomegranates - the people chose not to enter. Not violating their freewill, God kept them in the desert for 40 years, so that the second generation was the one to move into and conquer the Promised Land.
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Even though the first generation of Hebrews who left Egypt in the Exodus showed a lack of faith in God, choosing not to enter the Promised Land immediately, God was still with them. He provided shelter, food (manna and quail), shoes that would not wear out, and showed Himself in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. He still loved them even though they disobeyed Him. He protected them so that their children could fulfill His calling to enter into His land.
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Fact #3
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After God brought Joshua and the Israelites into the Promised Land, it took hundreds of years to conquer the land, just as God had said:
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"And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God." (Deut. 7:22-25).
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The Bible is very specific as to where the Twelve Tribes of Israel were settled in the land, describing their territorial claims in great detail. With a Bible and current map of Israel, you can still trace the borders of these tribal regions. Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh were settled on the east side of the Jordan River (Num. 32:33). The other nine and one-half tribes were settled west of the Jordan as recorded in Joshua 15-19.
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Fact #4
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Saul became Israel's first king in about 1050 BC. However, only under Kings David and Solomon, Israel second and third kings, did the nation fully consolidate into the Davidic (1010-970 BC) and Solomonic (970-930 BC) empires. Solomon's empire incorporated all the land from the Sinai desert up to the Euphrates River, but not the totality of what God had promised to Israel. Prophetically, this will come to pass in a day to come.
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Fact #5
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In 1004 BC, Jerusalem became the capital of a United Israel, by God's choice. It was specially located to be the administrative and spiritual center of the kingdom, on the border between the tribal area of Judah and Benjamin. It was not located on any major trade route, nor a major waterway or seaport, or near an economic or agricultural resource. Jerusalem's only main attraction was the Temple of the Lord and His Presence, even in the past. Other empires and religions only wanted to conquer Jerusalem because of its spiritual identity and importance in the Bible.
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David conquered the city and bought the threshing floor of Araunah for fifty shekels of silver for the House of the Lord. Eventually Solomon built the Temple (II Chr. 3:1), and to this day, the only recorded deed for this land is in the Bible. However, instead of there being a Jewish Temple to the Lord there today, there are several Moslem mosques on this site and religious Jews and Christians are forbidden to pray on this Temple Mount. Yet, according to the Bible and history, it is a sacred area that does not belong to the Moslems, but to the Jews. It is also the site for the Third Temple that is yet to be built (Eze. 40-44), so one day its status will change.
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Fact #6
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After Solomon's death in 930 BC, the United Kingdom was divided into a northern kingdom (Israel), with its capital in Samaria, and a southern kingdom (Judah), with its capital in Jerusalem.
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The major kings of the northern kingdom (Israel) were: Jeroboam I (928-907 BC), Nadah (907-906), Baasha (906-883), Omri (882-871), Ahab (871-852), Joram (852-842), Jehu (842-814), Jehoahaz (814-800), Jehoash (800-784), Jeroboam II (784-748), Menahem (747-737), Pekahiah (737-735), Pekah (735-733), and Hoshea (733-724). The line ended with the Assyrian Captivity in 722 BC.
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The major kings of the southern kingdom (Judah) were: Rehoboam (928-911 BC), Abijah (911-908), Asa (908-867), Jehoshaphat (867-846), Jehoram (846-843), Athaliah (842-836), Joash (836-798), Amaziah (798-769), Uzziah (769-733), Jotham (750-735), Ahaz (733-727), Hezekiah (727-698), Manasseh (698-642), Joshiah (639-609), Jehoiakim (608-598) and Zedekiah (596-586). The line ended with the Babylonian Captivity in 586 BC.
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The major prophets of the northern kingdom (Israel) were: Elijah (875-848 BC), Elisha (848-797), Jonah (785-775), Amos (760-750), and Hosea (750-715).
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The major prophets of the southern kingdom (Judah) were: Obadiah (855- c.840), Isaiah (740-681), Jeremiah (626-585) and Ezekiel (593-571). After the exile, we find Daniel (605-530), Zechariah (520-480), and Malachi (440-430).
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Fact #7
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In 722 BC, judgment came upon the northern kingdom when Sennacherib, King of Assyria, conquered it, but unsuccessfully laid siege to Jerusalem. King Hezekiah built the underground water tunnel that emptied into the Pool of Siloam so that the people had water inside the city walls. The angel of God killed Sennacherib's army on the hills around Jerusalem and he went home in shame (II Kgs. 19). In the record of his life, Sennacherib recorded the event just as it is told in the Bible.
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In 586 BC, the southern kingdom of Judah eventually fell to Nebuchadnezzer, King of Babylon, who captured and destroyed Jerusalem, dismantling the First Temple of God. The Ark of the Covenant disappeared at this time. Many speculate on where it is, but no one has made such a discovery public. Judah was taken into captivity in Babylon (II Kgs. 25).
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Fact #8
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In 539-537 BC, following a decree by the Persian King Cyrus who had conquered Babylonia, some Jews returned to Israel. An estimated 50,000 embarked on their First Return, led by Zerubbabel, a descendant of the House of David. The first thing the people did was to reestablish the Temple of the Lord, as recorded in the book of Ezra. Less than a century later, in 454 BC, a Second Return was led by Ezra the Scribe and Nehemiah. They undertook a massive reconstruction and fortification of the city walls and the further development of the Temple of the Lord, as recorded in the Book of Nehemiah. The establishment of this Second Temple was ultimately enlarged and beautified by Herod the Great, 500 years later.
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The repatriation of the Jews, Ezra's inspired leadership, the building of the Second Temple, the refortification of Jerusalem's walls and the establishment of the Knesset HaGedolah (Great Assembly), which was the supreme religious and judicial body of the Jewish people, marked the beginning of the Second Commonwealth (Second Temple Period). Within the confines of the Persian Empire, Judah was a nation centered in Jerusalem, whose leadership was no longer under a king, but entrusted to the High Priest and the Council of Elders.
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Fact #9
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In 350 BC, the Persians captured Jerusalem. This was closely followed by the Greeks under the leadership of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. After Alexander died, the region was divided up among his three chief generals. In 313 BC, Ptolemy I of Egypt ruled Jerusalem. Then, in 170 BC, the Seleucid king, Antiochus Epiphanes IV, King of Syria, plundered Jerusalem and forced the Jews to stop worshipping the God of Israel, and to worship the pagan gods of the Greeks. During this time, many Jews followed Greek customs and became Hellenized.
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When Antiochus Epiphanes IV desecrated the Temple by sacrificing a pig on the altar of God and forced the Jewish people in the towns and villages to do the same, this was too much for some religious Jews. In 167-4 BC the Hasmoneans revolted, led at first by Mattathias of the priestly Hasmonean family, and upon his death by his son Judas, known as the Maccabee (hammer). The terms Hasmoneans or Maccabeans can be used interchangeably.
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On the 25th of Kislev, 165 BC, the Hasmoneans captured the Temple, which they purified for proper worship. However, they only had enough sacramental oil for the Temple lampstand for one day. Yet, God allowed it to burn for eight days until enough new oil could be prepared. From this miracle, we get the holiday of Hannukah that is still celebrated today. Jesus also celebrated this holiday, also known as the Feast of Dedication, "And it was at Jerusalem the Feast of the Dedication, and it was winter" (Jn. 10:22).
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The Hasmonean Empire was quite successful and achieved independence from the Seleucids. The Hasmonean rulers became hereditary kings and regained boundaries not far short of Solomon's kingdom. During the period of the Hasmonean dynasty, which lasted about 80 years (142-63 BC), political consolidation under Jewish rule was attained and Jewish life flourished again in Israel and Jerusalem.
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Fact #10
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In 63 BC, the Romans invaded the region, led by Pompeii. They granted the Hasmonean king, Hyrcanus II, limited authority under the Roman governor of Damascus. The Jews did not accept the Roman rule well, as evidenced by numerous insurrections. The last attempt to restore the former glory of the Hasmonean dynasty was made by Mattathias Antigonus in 40 BC. His defeat and death three years later at the hands of the Romans brought Hasmonean rule to an end, and the land became a vassal state of the Roman Empire.
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In 37 BC, Herod, son of an advisor to King Hyrcanus II and married to his daughter, was appointed King of Judea by the Romans. Although he had no authority in foreign policy, he was granted almost unlimited autonomy in the country's internal affairs and became one of the most powerful monarchs in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The main regional names for the area can be found in the New Testament, which are: Judea, Samaria, and Galilee west of the Jordan River, and the Decapolis and Perea east of the Jordan River. The name Palestine is not found anywhere in the Bible and is a name given to the land by the Romans 100 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus.
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Herod was known as a master builder and built a huge port city in Caesarea (named after Caesar), and fortifications: the Herodian (southeast of Bethlehem), Sabastia in the mountains of Samaria, and Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea.
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Jerusalem, however, was Herod's crown jewel where his building programs went on for decades as he made this city one of the wonders of the world. In 20 BC, Herod began the expansion and beautification of the Temple, which must have been a site to behold from the Mount of Olives, as the pilgrims came from the Jordan Valley up to Jerusalem.
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Fact #11
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Jesus was born approximately 3 BC and spent his entire life and ministry in the Land of Israel. The religious and political influences of this period greatly affected His ministry and ultimately resulted in His crucifixion in Jerusalem, which was then part of the Roman province of Judea.
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Herod was not a very popular king for two main reasons. First, he was a puppet of the Romans who were occupiers and made the people subject to Rome. More importantly, Herod was Idumean (from the line of Esau), making him illegitimate as a true king of Israel because he was from the wrong covenant/family line. This was good for the Romans, because Herod was acceptable enough to be king, but also unacceptable enough that they knew the people would never follow him into a revolt.
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In AD 6, Judea was brought under direct Roman administration, because the heirs of Herod who sat on the throne of Judea became progressively ineffective.
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Simultaneous with the introduction of direct Roman rule, a Jewish Resistance Movement, called the Zealots, began to organize and rebel against Rome. Eventually, a full-scale revolt against Roman rule took place in AD 66-73.
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Fact #12
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In AD 70, the Roman siege of Jerusalem lasted for 134 days, resulting in the sacking of Jerusalem by Titus and the destruction of the Second Temple of God.
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According to the first century historian, Flavius Josephus, an estimated one million Jews perished in the siege of Jerusalem alone, with many killed elsewhere in the country and tens of thousands sold into slavery.
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Nearly 1,000 Jewish men, women and children who had survived the fall of Jerusalem occupied and fortified King Herod's mountaintop palace complex of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea. For three years, they held out against repeated Roman attempts to dislodge them. When the Romans finally broke through the fortress, they found that the defenders and their families had chosen to die rather than be enslaved. Ten men were chosen by lot to kill everyone, then one killed the nine and only one killed himself. The ten lots, written on broken pottery shards, were discovered by archaeologists when Masada was excavated in the 1960-70s.
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After the fall of Jerusalem, the Sanhedrin (Supreme Jewish Council headed by the High Priest with religious, civil and criminal jurisdiction) was reconvened in Yavneh and later in Tiberias. With the Second Temple, the central focus of Judaism, destroyed, the Sanhedrin needed to interpret how Judaism would be practiced. The priests of the Temple were replaced by community rabbis and, in the absence of a central place of worship, the synagogue became the hub of each community. Judaism had to be reinterpreted so that it could survive without the Temple in Jerusalem. The beginnings of rabbinical Judaism were established here.
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Fact #13
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Meanwhile, Christianity was spreading throughout the world. According to the Book of Acts, Jerusalem was the seat of the first Church Council (Acts 15) and remained the center of the faith for centuries. Christianity spread from Jerusalem out to the provinces of the Roman Empire, yet encountered opposition, because new religions were forbidden under Roman Law. Christianity was considered a "religio ilicita," an illegal religion, and Christians were gravely persecuted and even put to death for their faith.
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There was a brief period of Jewish sovereignty at the turn of the first century, which was followed by a revolt of Shimon Bar Kochbah from AD 132-135. There was a large-scale slaughter of Jews. Jerusalem was razed and then rebuilt by Hadrian and renamed "Aelia Capitolina," after himself (his family name being Aelia). Jews were excluded from Jerusalem. To further blot out the connection between the Jews and the land of Judea, Samaria and Galilee, Hadrian renamed it Syria Palestina, a name that remains in opposition to the name "Israel" to this day.
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Fact #14
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Constantine, the Emperor of Rome, became a Christian in AD 306. No longer was Christianity persecuted in the Empire. Rather, it became the religion of the Empire, and Judaism and the Jewish people were persecuted.
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In AD 324, the Holy Roman army swept into Jerusalem to claim the origins of the faith and established Byzantine rule. In 326, Queen Helena (mother of Byzantine Emperor Constantine) visited Jerusalem and began building major churches including the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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Fact #15
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In the early 7th century at the dawn of Islam, Jerusalem changed hands several times. In 614, the Byzantine lost Jerusalem to the Persians, and then regained it in 629. However, in 638 Islamic forces swept in, under the Caliph Omar Ben Hatav, capturing Jerusalem and the land of the Bible and placing it under Arab Muslim rule. From 688-91, the Dome of the Rock was built by Abdal-Malik on the Temple Mount. Even though it is the most prominent feature on the Temple Mount, the more holy site to the Moslems is the Al Aksa Mosque, which was a Byzantine Church before being converted into a mosque. Supposedly, Mohammed stopped off on this site on his way to heaven, even though Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koranic texts.
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Life under Islamic rule continued uninterrupted for about 400 years, with caliphs ruling first from Damascus, then from Baghdad and Egypt. In the 11th century, conflict between Moslems and Christians began to increase. In 1009, the Moslem Caliph Hakim ordered the destruction of churches and synagogues.
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Fact #16
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In 1096, the First Crusades from Europe captured Jerusalem. This Crusader rule lasted until 1291. When the Crusaders entered the land, they slaughtered Moslems and Jews in their wake. They even killed many Christians because they "looked" Middle Eastern and were assumed to be Moslems. In Jerusalem, Jews were found praying in their synagogues for God's mercy when found by the Crusaders. By Crusader accounts, they put wood around the synagogues and burned the Jews alive while they sang the hymn, "Christ, We Adore Thee." Those who were not killed were sold into slavery.
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In 1099, the First Latin/Christian Kingdom was established by Godfrey of Bouillon. In 1187, the Moslem warrior, Saladin, captured Jerusalem from the Crusaders. In 1192, Richard the Lionhearted tried and failed to reconquer Jerusalem. Yet the Crusaders remained in the land until 1291, when Moslem Mameluks from Egypt put an end to Crusader domination of the Land, as they conquered the entire region.
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The Crusaders mainly concentrated on fortifying cities and building castles. They also opened up transportation routes from Europe that allowed for better trade and an onslaught of Christian pilgrimage. Although the Land was under Christian domination, it did not become a Christian country.
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Fact #17
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The Moslem Mameluks conquered the Christian Crusaders and ruled from 1291-1516 and the Land became a forgotten province ruled from Damascus. Akko, Jaffa, and other ports were destroyed for fear of new Crusades, and international commerce was interrupted. The urban centers were virtually in ruins, most of Jerusalem was abandoned, and the small Jewish community living there was poverty-stricken. The period of Mameluk decline was darkened by political and economic upheavals, plagues, locust invasions and devastating earthquakes.
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In 1517, Turkish Sultan Selim conquered Jerusalem and the Land of Israel for the Ottoman Empire. Turkish rule lasted until 1917, when World War I resulted in the breakup of this empire into multiple states within the Middle East.
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In 1535-8, the Turkish Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt the ramparts and wall around Jerusalem. In 1541, the Moslems sealed the Golden Gate to prevent Messiah's entrance (according to Jewish tradition).
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The Ottoman Turks divided the land into four districts and attached it administratively to Damascus.
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At the beginning of Ottoman rule, it is estimated that 1,000 Jewish families lived in the country, residing mainly in Jerusalem, Nablus, Hebron, Gaza, Safed and the villages of Galilee. The community was comprised of descendants of Jews who had never left the Land, as well as immigrants from North Africa and Europe.
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Under the Turks, Jews immigrated to the land, with as many as 10,000 settling in Safed.
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Fact #18
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The 19th century saw signs of Western progress with European powers jockeying for position, often through missionary activities. British, American and French scholars launched studies of biblical geography and archaeology, consulates were opened in Jerusalem, steamships began to bring travelers and trade from Europe, postal and telegraphic connections were installed, and the first road was built connecting Jerusalem and Jaffa. The Land's rebirth, as the crossroads of three continents, was accelerated by the opening of the Suez Canal.
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Of all the groups living in Jerusalem, since 1818 the Jewish population has been the religious majority. The first official census in 1844 confirms Jewish religious majority: 7,120 Jews, 5,760 Muslims, and 3,390 Christians.
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Up until 1860, everyone in Jerusalem lived inside the walls of the ancient city and the gates were secured at sunset each day. At this time, the population had grown to the point that there was no more room. The first Jewish suburb, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, was built near the Jaffa Gate outside the Old City walls in 1860 by Sir Moses Montefiore. Seven similar neighborhoods were also built outside the walls, e.g., Nahlat Shiva (1869), Mea Shearim (1873-75), and Yemin Moshe (1892), etc. These became the nucleus of the New City of Jerusalem. Some are the quaintest and most interesting neighborhoods of Jerusalem today.
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By 1880, the Jewish population was the absolute majority in Jerusalem.
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Fact #19
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In the 1880s, we begin to see major fulfillment of Bible prophecy, concerning the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.
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The modern State of Israel is directly connected to biblical Israel, as attested to by its history and the manner in which its modern rebirth has so closely coincided with Bible prophecy. Just as God arranged for Joshua to bring the Children of Israel into the Promised Land 3,500 years ago, in our day God arranged for the Jewish people to come back to their ancestral homeland.
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The Turkish Ottoman Empire ruled the entire Middle East region from 1516 - 1917.
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During these 400 years of harsh Turkish rule, the land of Palestine (Israel) was sparsely populated, mostly by nomadic peoples. By the end of the 18th century, much of the land was owned by absentee landlords and leased to impoverished tenant farmers. It was poorly cultivated and a widely-neglected expanse of eroded hills, sandy deserts, and malarial marshes encroached on what was left of agricultural land. Its ancient irrigation systems, terraces, towns and villages had crumbled. Taxation was crippling, with its forests being taxed. When the people could not pay the tax, the trees were cut down to fuel the steam engines carrying goods between Istanbul, Beirut, Damascus and Cairo. The great forests of the Galilee and the Carmel mountain range were denuded of trees; swamp and desert encroached on agricultural land. "Palestine" was truly a poor, neglected, no-man's land with no important cities.
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Mark Twain, who visited Palestine in 1867, described it as a "...desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We never saw a human being on the whole route ... There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."
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The report of the Palestine Royal Commission [British] quotes an account of the condition of the Coastal Plain along the Mediterranean Sea in 1913: "The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts... no orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one reached Yavne village... houses were all of mud. Schools did not exist... The western part, towards the sea was almost a desert... The villages in this area were few and thinly populated... many villages were deserted by their inhabitants."
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The French author, Voltaire, described Palestine as "a hopeless, dreary place." In short, under the Turks, the land suffered both from neglect and a low population.
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Fact #20
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Today, the Land of Israel is rejoicing with life, which has been restored to the country since the Jewish people began their return in the late 1800s. This process has not been without its difficulties. Remember, however, when we read the book of Joshua, we see that even though God said He was bringing the Israelites into their Promised Land, which He gave them, the movement into the land was not without its great problems. The enemies of the Bible and God's plans are always in opposition to it.
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In the 1880s, while still under Turkish rule, it is as though a giant electro-magnet were turned on in the Land of Israel. Jews began to immigrate to what was then called Palestine. They came from Yemen in the south and Russia in the north, Morocco in the west, and Iraq in the east. This move into Israel was the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophetic return to Zion, which has been taking place over the past 120 years in a series of Aliyot, or large moves of Jewish populations into the land of Israel. (Aliyah is a Hebrew term for "going up" or immigration.) Despite a myriad of difficulties, the Jewish people were not prevented from coming home to Zion by the millions.
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The First Aliyah (immigration) started in the 1880s when new Jewish communities began to spring up, including Petah Tikva, Rosh Pinna, Rishon le Zion, Gedera, and Zichron Ya'acov. Jews purchased land at high prices, 73% of it from absentee Arab landlords who lived in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut.
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About 80% of the Arabs living in Palestine came from different parts of the Ottoman Empire to work for these landlords and were debt-ridden peasants, semi-nomads and Bedouins. Most of the land purchased had not been cultivated previously because it was swampy, rocky, sandy, or for some other reason, regarded as uncultivable.
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According to the Peel Commission (British, 1937): "The Arab charge that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased."
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Moreover, the price the Jews paid for this barren land was exorbitant. In 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semi-arid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).
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Fact #21
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In 1897, Jewish leaders, moved by Theodore Herzl, formally organized the Zionist movement at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland. They called for the restoration of the Jewish National Home in Palestine where Jews could have sanctuary, self-determination and the renascence of their ancient civilization and culture.
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In 1898, Theodore Herzl met Kaiser Wilhelm just outside Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate.
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William Hechler, a Bible-believing Protestant and Christian Zionist, had a profound influence on Herzl, as he supported and motivated him to continue with his goal of establishing a Jewish State in Palestine. Hechler was motivated by his reading of the Bible prophets and his belief that the God of Israel was able to fulfill these prophecies for His people, Israel, in their ancient homeland.
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At the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Herzl predicted that in 50 years, the State of Israel would be a reality. Exactly fifty years later, in 1947, the United Nations voted for Israel to be a state (Nov. 29, 1947), and on May 14, 1948, the new flag of Israel was raised.
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Meanwhile, Jews began to come in waves from different parts of the world. What was called, "The Second Aliyah," or the second wave of Jewish immigration, took place in the early 1900s. They came from Russia as a result of the Pogroms against the Jewish citizens there. The movie, "Fiddler on the Roof," depicts Jewish life in Russia at this time, when many were forced to leave. Some Jews came to Palestine.
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As the Jews immigrated and began to develop the region, Arabs from many parts of the impoverished, decaying Ottoman Empire of the Middle East rushed into Palestine to get jobs. Many of today's "Palestinians" are descendants of these newcomers.
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Fact #22
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The Middle East became enveloped in World War I, which began in 1914. In 1916, even before Britain and France had conquered the Ottoman Empire, they set up an Anglo-French commission to submit an agreed plan for the postwar partition of the Ottoman Empire. The British representative was Sir Mark Sykes and the French representative was Charles Francois Georges-Picot. The agreement became known as the Tripartite (Sykes-Picot) Agreement of 1916, which effectively drew the borders of the new states of the Middle East. Their interests were more in favor of the strategic interests of Britain and France, not necessarily the people who would live in this region. Consequently, Kurdistan was apportioned to Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and to this day, the Kurds are disenfranchised.
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Most of the modern Arab states of the Middle East owe their borders to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, as does Israel.
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While many believe that Israel is a new state to the region, having only acquired its sovereignty in 1948, it needs to be remembered that the other Middle East states also acquired their independence in this century, e.g., Saudi Arabia (1913), Lebanon (1920), Iraq (1932), Syria (1941), Jordan (1946), and Kuwait (1961).
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Therefore, none can boast historical claims to this or that border, other than the very ancient claims, including those of the Jews in the Land of Israel with the Bible as their deed.
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After World War I, the Turks were defeated and the British began to rule what was known as the British Mandate of Palestine, which lasted from 1917-1948.
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This was the first time Christians had ruled Jerusalem since the days of the Crusaders. While there were three Jewish Legions fighting with the British forces, the British were considered a Christian nation by the Moslems of the Middle East. The General that led the forces was General Edmund Allenby. As part of his campaign, leaflets were dropped from a plane on the inhabitants of Jerusalem. These leaflets were printed in Arabic telling them to surrender, and they were signed by General Allenby. In Arabic, his name could be misread as "Allah Nebi" which means, a Prophet of Allah, which added great fear into the hearts of those who thought to defy this command.
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Allenby was a devout Christian and it is said he always kept the Bible at his bedside. Out of respect for the city, he dismounted his horse as he approached Jaffa Gate, entered Jerusalem on foot, and declared, "We have returned to you!" This was on December 11, 1917, and British rule lasted until 1948, when Israel became a sovereign nation.
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At the beginning of British rule, there was an effort to reinforce the national aspirations of both the Arabs and Jews of the region. As the Turkish Empire was being dissolved and redivided among various ethnic groups, the horizon looked bright for the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East along with numerous Arab Moslem states.
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Fact #23
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On October 31, 1917, the British War Cabinet accepted the Balfour Declaration, which was issued on November 2, 1917, as government policy. It stated:
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"His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
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The Balfour Declaration was the result of "circumstances" that brought the early Zionist leader, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a British scientist, into contact with the ex-prime minister of Britain, Arthur James Balfour. His scientific gifts enabled him to render important services to the Admiralty and the Ministry of Munitions. These gifts, including his invention of TNT, which helped win the war, brought him to the attention of Lloyd George, who became Minister of Munitions in the spring of 1915. All the while, Weizmann was spreading his message, to all those who would give him an ear, of the need for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews. These included Balfour and Lloyd George.
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In 1916, just before Britain conquered Palestine, there was a change of government in Britain, and Balfour became the Foreign Secretary and Lloyd George, the Prime Minister. Weizmann helped to draft the Balfour Declaration and it was accepted by the War Cabinet and became government policy.
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Was this "circumstance" or was it God moving the hand of history to His prophetic end?
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The Balfour Declaration won the approval of the United States and other Western powers. At first, there was hope that the Arabs would also accept it, as both the Arabs and the Jews were just breaking free from the yoke of the Ottoman Empire.
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Fact #24
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Emir Faisal, son of the acknowledged leader of the Arabs, Sherif Hussein, met with Dr. Chaim Weizmann and other Zionist leaders during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. They signed an agreement by which the Arabs stated that "mindful of the racial kinship and racial bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people," they declared that "the surest means of working out the consummation of their [Jewish] national aspiration is through the closest possible collaboration of the development of the Arab state AND Palestine." (In 1919, Palestine was considered that portion of the Middle East designated for the Jewish people.)
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The agreement between Faisal and Weizmann looked to the fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration and also called for "all necessary measures... to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants upon the land through closer settlement and extensive cultivation of the soil."
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On March 3rd, one day after Weizmann presented the Zionist case to the Peace Conference, Faisal wrote to Felix Frankfurter, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Zionist leader, declaring: "The Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement ... We will wish the Jews a hearty welcome home ... We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is nationalist and not imperialist. Our movement is nationalist and not imperialist. And there is room in Syria for us both. (Under Turkish rule, Syria included part of Palestine.) Indeed, I think that neither can be a real success without the other."
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Faisal had conditioned his acceptance on the fulfillment of British wartime promises to the Arabs, who had hoped for independence in a vast part of the Ottoman Empire.
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These hopes were temporarily dashed when the French took over the mandate for Syria, ejecting Faisal from Damascus, where he had been proclaimed King of Syria. As consolation, the British named Faisal King of Iraq. And in a further effort to please the Arabs, British Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, cut away 80% of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, some 35,000 sq. miles (90,565 sq. km.) and created a brand new Arab entity, called Transjordan. Churchill installed Faisal's brother, Abdullah, as Emir. (Abdullah is the great-grandfather of the present-day King Abdullah II of Jordan.) Britain administered Transjordan until 1946, when independence was granted, and the name of the area became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
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Fact #25
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This apportionment - the first partition of Palestine and of the promised Jewish National Home - was a blow to the Zionists. The Jewish people reluctantly accepted the partition because Britain simultaneously took over the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922, and they really had no one to which they could appeal.
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It should be emphasized that Arab hopes for a vast empire have since been realized. Today, the Arab League includes 21 separate Arab states spanning an area of more than 5,000,000 square miles (12.9 million sq. km.) However, there is only one Jewish state consisting of 8,000 square miles (20,715 sq. km.). It is called Israel.
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While the Arabs showed early signs of acceptance of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1919, later it would be seen that once the Arabs had a taste of independent power, they quickly lost interest in encouraging Jewish immigration and a Jewish state.
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Arab hopes for a vast empire have been realised. Today, the Arab League includes 21 separate Arab states spanning an area of more than 5,000,000 square miles. However, there is only one Jewish state, consisting of 8,000 square miles - Israel.
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Nevertheless, the Third Aliyah (Jewish immigration movement) began in 1919, motivated by the Balfour Declaration and an open window of opportunity to bring oppressed Jews from eastern Europe and those fleeing communism which was taking control of Russia and surrounding nations. Over 50,000 Jews immigrated at this time. However, during the 1920s, the Arabs had a change of heart and attacks on the Jews of Palestine began in earnest. The fight was on from the Arab side to negate any hope of a Jewish state.
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Fact #26
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As time went on, the British feared their relations with the Arabs would suffer and sought to protect British oil interests in the Middle East. As World War II loomed on the horizon and oil became a paramount concern, British appeasement to the Arab cause against the Jews of Palestine was obvious. They greatly limited Jewish immigration in the British Mandate. From 1936-1939, there was an Arab uprising in which 10,000 people were killed. The British showed leniency in the beginning, which resulted in a disaster - 1,000 British were killed, 500 Jews, and 8,500 Arabs (most of the Arabs were killed by other Arabs vying for control). In the end, the British had to use the iron-fist policy to stop the uprising. This event put greater fear into the British, who put further limits on Jewish immigration. The climax was the British White Paper in 1939, which ordered that future Jewish immigration be limited to 10,000 per year for five years and to an additional 25,000 refugees from Nazism - 75,000 in all. Hardly much help while Hitler was killing 6,000,000 Jews during this same period.
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At the end of a ten year period, the White Paper called for an independent state in the region - an Arab state!
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During WWII, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Moslem Mufti of Jerusalem (uncle of today's Palestinian Authority Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Faisal Husseini), met with Adolph Hitler to organize the extermination of the Jewish populations of the Middle East. Yasser Arafat is also related to this family by his mother.
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Fact #27
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As World War II came to an end, revealing the extent of the catastrophe that had befallen the Jewish people in Europe, there were demands everywhere for swift action to rehabilitate and resettle those who had survived the Holocaust through the establishment of a Jewish state. The British had also tired of their role as supervisors of the British Mandate, which had been maintained since World War I. In Palestine, they were looking for a way out, as well as a way to appease both the Arabs and the Jews of this region.
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The Holocaust, which claimed the lives of 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children, one-third of world Jewry, had a severe impact on the Jewish people which is still prevalent today. However, according to Ezekiel 37, the Valley of Dry Bones, representing the "whole house of Israel," would rise up out of their graves, come into their land of Israel and become an "exceeding great army." This occurred in 1948 as a fulfillment of prophecy. God made it happen.
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Prior to the founding of the State of Israel, the British tried, but failed, to work out an agreement acceptable to both Arabs and Jews on the issue of Palestine, so they turned the problem over to the UN early in 1947.
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The UN sent an 11-nation Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) to the region to investigate. UNSCOP found two people groups, Arabs and Jews, both claiming all the country. To satisfy the national aspirations of both peoples, UNSCOP proposed termination of the British Mandate and a partition of the area into an Arab state and a Jewish state based on population concentrations. Jerusalem would be an international zone.
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The Jewish state was already in de facto existence in all areas. So, eager for independence, the Jews of Palestine were ready to accept a compromise - partition. The Arabs boycotted the UNSCOP plan. World opinion strongly favored the UN resolution, and it was adopted by a vote of 33-13, with 10 abstentions, on Nov. 29, 1947.
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Throughout the 1947 UN debate, the Palestine Arab Higher Commission threatened war, while Jewish Agency spokesmen appealed for peace. Jamal Husseini, spokesman for the Arab committee, told the UN on Nov. 24, 1947: "The partition line proposed shall be nothing but a line of fire and blood."
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Five days later, the UN voted for the partition and the Arabs began their war to prevent implementation of the UN resolution. Roads were mined, Jewish settlements isolated, and Jewish convoys were ambushed. By the end of that week, 105 Jews had been killed. Later, apartments in Jerusalem were blown up and more than 50 men, women and children were killed. Thirty-five Hebrew University students were massacred on the road near Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency was bombed and took heavy casualties. A convoy was set afire on the road to Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus and 77 Jewish doctors, nurses and scientists died.
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Fact #28
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On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was declared to be independent and her Declaration of Independence was signed. Among its many clauses, it states: "Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel) was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here, their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books....
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Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland... they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community, controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself....
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The State of Israel... will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places for all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
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We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land."
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Fact #29
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The flag of the State of Israel is based on the design of the Jewish prayer shawl (the tallit), represented in the two blue stripes on a field of white. The blue represents the Holy Spirit of God and the white represents heaven.
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In the center, there is the Magen David, the Star of David, a symbol about which books have been written. One of the most meaningful interpretations of the Star of David comes from the noted Jewish scholar, Franz Rosensweig. He sees the Star of David as two triangles superimposed upon one another. One represents the nature of God, as Creator, Redeemer, and Teacher. The other triangle represents the relationships between God, man and others. Both of these interpretations are also consistent with a Christian understanding of the nature of God and man.
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What a meaningful flag to have flying over a nation that is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the continuation of a covenant established by God with the Jewish people 4,000 years ago. This is a testimony to God's faithfulness to His people, His land, and His Word.
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Fact #30
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The Arabs rejected the UN partition plan of 1947 and didn't accept their portion of land. Instead, five Arab armies (Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon and Iraq) immediately invaded Israel expecting to sweep the Israelis into the sea.
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On May 15, 1948, Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, said in Cairo: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."
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Fortunately, his words were not prophetic and Israel not only retained that which was given to her by the UN, but a bit more. Those areas designated for the Arab state in Palestine were occupied by other Arab countries: the West Bank (of the Jordan River) by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip by Egypt.
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After the establishment of the State of Israel, Jewish refugees of WWII and others from Moslem countries of the Middle East began to pour in. From 1948-1972, over 1,400,000 immigrants came into Israel. All had to be settled, trained, given Hebrew language classes, and many needed health care. All of this cost fell on the shoulders of the Israelis and the Jewish community worldwide.
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For the Palestinian Arabs of Western Palestine, their rejection of the 1947 Partition Plan and choosing war caused them to miss the first of many opportunities to obtain a national home - missed by their insistence on a policy of "all or nothing."
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The well-known Israeli diplomat, Abba Eban, often declared that "the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
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Arabs of the region also became refugees, when they were encouraged to leave the area by the Arab leadership who intended to "push the Jews into the sea." However, even greatly underarmed and outnumbered, the Jews were not pushed into the sea and actually added land to their original allocation.
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Refugees were created on both sides. However, an exchange of populations had actually taken place. By coincidence, the total number of Arabs who reportedly left Israel equaled the number of Jews who were forced out of the Arab countries. There was also a more than even tradeoff of property between the Jews of the Middle East and the Arabs. The Jews who fled Arab countries where they had lived for 2,500 years, left assets behind far greater than those the Arabs left in Israel. Jewish property that the Arabs confiscated in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt more than offset Arab claims of compensation from Israel.
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After the war in the negotiations for an Armistice Agreement in 1949, the Arabs, having lost, insisted that Israel then accept the 1947 partition lines as borders before they would negotiate. Actually, what they were demanding after defeat, was what they could have had before their invasion without firing a shot! The purpose of this declaration by the Arabs was to appear as the defenders of the UN and its resolutions, and to cast Israel as its violator. The opposite was true.
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This model created a novel concept, which the Arabs still use to this day: the doctrine of the limited liability war. Under this theory, an aggressor may reject a compromise settlement and may gamble on war to win everything in the comfortable knowledge that, even if he fails, he may insist on reinstating the original compromise and claim rights under it. This has been the pattern in each war of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and even in today's declarations by Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Authority.
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Fact #31
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Currently, the Palestinians define "Palestine" as the region west of the Jordan River, that land comprised of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. However, according to the PLO Covenant, Palestine was defined as all of the land of Israel and Jordan.
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The Arabs claim that Israel has usurped "all of Palestine," leaving the Palestinian people with nothing. This is simply not the case. Transjordan's independence, becoming Jordan in 1946, did force an artificial redefinition of "Palestine" to include only that area west of the Jordan River, thus restricting it to 20% of the original Palestine. What the 1947 UN partition did was to further partition the remaining 20% portion into yet another Arab state and a Jewish state. This, however, did not change the fact that Jordan is still part of historical Palestine, with over 70% of its population being Palestinian Arab. (Jordan's King Abdullah II is Saudi Arabian (father) and British (mother), his great-grandfather having been given this territory by the British after WWI of 80% of Palestine and called the Emir of Jordan under British protection.)
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With Jordan ignoring the UN partition and annexing the West Bank in 1949 (also known as Judea and Samaria), Palestinian Arabs under the Jordanian umbrella controlled 82.5% of the Palestine Mandate originally given to the Jews in 1917, while the Jewish State held a bare 17.5%.
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Even today, Jordan is still a Palestinian Arab state in territory and by population, on 80% of the original Palestine of the British Mandate. A portion of the land apportioned by God to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh is also in Jordan, east of the Jordan River.
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Despite what the Palestinians say, Israel did not usurp all of Palestine, nor are the Arabs left without a Palestinian state. All of Jordan is Palestine too. The current Peace Process, from Oslo to the Wye River agreements, is seeking to find a nation for the Palestinians. However, only Israel is expected to give anything into this new state under the auspices of the Palestinians.
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Jordan is giving nothing to the Palestinians. In fact, in Israel's peace treaty with Jordan, that country took land from Israel. Now, the Syrians are claiming the Golan Heights, which is home to 18,000 Israelis. This small region of 400 sq. miles (1035 sq. km.) also provides 1/3 of Israel's water supply, and production from its bountiful agriculture and innovative light industry.
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The use of the term "Palestine" and "Palestinian," in association with the Arab population of the region, is a late phenomenon. It developed in the 1970s to give identity to a people who were a collection of Arab immigrants who came to the region in the past 100 years to find work, once the Jews started to arrive and improve the economy.
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The noted Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission (1936): "There is no such country [as Palestine]! Palestine is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Palestine is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it."
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The Jerusalem Post newspaper, founded in 1932, was called the Palestine Post and the Jews of the region were called Palestinians.
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In 1946, Princeton professor, Philip Hitti, a distinguished Arab historian testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, stated, "There is no such thing as Palestine in (Arab) history, absolutely not." He also opposed using the word Palestine on maps, because it was "associated in the mind of the average American, and perhaps the Englishman too, with the Jews."
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The application of the term "Palestinian" to the Arab inhabitants of Palestine to the exclusion of Jews began to evolve in the early 1960s as the Arabs were trying to create a unified identity. However, neither the 1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242, nor the 1973 Resolution 338, mentioned Palestinians at all. It was only in the mid-seventies that the term first started being exploited by the PLO.
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Fact #32
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The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded in May 1964 by the Arab League, having been promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser. He saw it as a means to advance Egypt's goals of uniting the Arab world under Egyptian rule, by rallying the Arab states under the banner of destroying Israel. Since 1969 Yasser Arafat, the co-founder of the Fatah faction, has headed up the PLO.
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The PLO Covenant called for the destruction of Israel as well as Jordan, taking all of British Mandate Palestine as a Palestinian State. The Palestinian Authority has administered land and people in the West Bank and Gaza since they were turned over by Israel as part of the Peace Process. Arafat has lived in Gaza since 1994.
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To the right is the emblem of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
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Though the PLO/PA claims that it recognizes Israel's right to exist and wants to found a state only in Gaza and the West Bank, its official stationery betrays its true goals. The stationery, bearing its official emblem, shows all the land west of the Jordan River including all of Israel. These aims were part of the original charter and the organization's infamous Phased Program to gain the territory piece by piece until a pan-Arab war could be sparked for the final takeover of all of Israel.
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Remember that the PLO was founded before the 1967 Six Day War when Israel won the West Bank and Gaza from Jordanian and Egyptian sovereignty. Therefore, Arafat's claims to want only this small portion of his greater vision of all of Israel and Jordan rings hollow. The Arabs had this land before 1967 and still the organization was founded with its true aims of conquering all of Israel for Islam and the Arab world.
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A final note on Palestine: Palestine was never a sovereign state (Arab or Jewish) that was somehow eclipsed in war, and thus needs to be reinstated back into the family of nations. What the Palestinian Arabs are asking for would be the creation of a completely new national entity that has never before existed. Palestine was a regional name imposed on the area by the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, who came to quell the Second Jewish Revolt in AD 135.
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Fact #33
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Before the 1967 Six Day War, Israel was constantly bombarded by artillery fire from Syria on the Golan Heights, and from terrorist raids from Syria, Egypt and Jordan. There were massive military build-ups by the neighboring Arab states, especially Egypt. Egypt moved massive numbers of troops and equipment to the Israel-Egypt border in the Sinai, and ordered out the UN Peacekeeping Forces deployed there since the 1956 war with Egypt over the blockade of the Suez Canal. Egypt reimposed the blockade of the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea, effectively blocking Israeli shipping trade from the east via Eilat, and made a military alliance with Jordan.
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At this point, Israel invoked its inherent right of self-defense and launched a pre-emptive strike on Egypt, destroying her air force before it left the ground. There were counter-attacks from Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
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At the end of the Six Day War, the previous ceasefire lines were replaced by new ones, with the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Gaza, the Sinai peninsula, and the Golan Heights under Israeli control.
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Fact #34
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In 1973 on Yom Kippur (October 6), the Syrians and Egyptians coordinated a surprise attack against Israel. Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It is a 25-hour period of total fasting from food and water, while praying at the synagogue to ask God to forgive one's sins. On this day, there is no work, no vehicles are on the roads, there is no television or radio, and no equipment operates.
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The Egyptians crossed the Suez Canal, while the Syrian troops penetrated the Golan Heights. This lightning attack could have been fatal to Israel. However, God truly intervened. On the Golan Heights, Avigdor Kalahani, the commander of the tank corps, and one other tank managed to hold off the Syrian army until reinforcements could help.
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During the next three weeks, the Israel Defense Forces turned the tide of battle and repulsed the attackers, crossing the Suez Canal into Egypt and advancing to within 20 miles (32 km) of the Syrian capital, Damascus. On October 22, the war was over.
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In November, 1977, the cycle of constant Arab rejections of Israel's appeals for peace was broken with the visit of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem. An accord was negotiated at Camp David in the USA in September 1978, and a formal peace treaty was signed on the lawn of the White House on March 26, 1979. This made Egypt the first Arab country to accept Israel's hand in peace extended since 1948.
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Fact #35
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In 1980, a special law was enacted by the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, re-affirming that united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Jerusalem has been the capital of no other nation or people in history except the Jewish people. Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia declared a jihad (a holy war) "to protect the Holy City against Zionist aggression."
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In reaction to this declaration, foreign embassies in the city, including the US Embassy, moved to Tel Aviv. However, in 1990 the US Congress affirmed the need to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which was ignored by successive US presidents. So, on November 8, 1995, the US Congress recognized united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the Jerusalem Embassy Act (public law 104-45), and demanded that the US Embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The US Senate unanimously voted for this move; however, Bill Clinton has stopped the US embassy move from occurring. Once the US embassy moves, however, most other countries will follow suit.
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Currently, US citizens born in Jerusalem have no country ascribed to their place of birth. It only says, "Jerusalem" on their birth certificates, not "Jerusalem, Israel." The State Department needs to change their policy on this issue to comply with Congress. Both US presidential candidates are now calling for a move of the Embassy building to Jerusalem.
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Fact #36
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For over a decade after the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) had been forced out of Jordan by King Hussein in 1970, Israel underwent repeated shelling and terror attacks from PLO bases in Lebanon. The PLO had all but taken over parts of Lebanon, and their actions killed and wounded thousands of Israeli civilians who never knew when another attack was coming.
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In June 1982, Israel launched the "Operation Peace for Galilee" campaign to rout the PLO out of Lebanon and bring peace and safety to her citizens.
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In the first days of the war, approximately 100 Israeli US-made jets faced off over Lebanon's Beka'a Valley with an equal number of Syrian, Russian-made MiGs. Israel also faced Syrian ground-to-air SAM missiles, which had taken a heavy toll on Israeli planes in 1973. At the end of one day, the Israel Air Force shot down 90 of the Syrian MiGs, while not one Israeli jet was lost. An Israeli government minister commented at the time that this had to be a miracle of God in the face of such odds. "Surely," he said, "Israel should have lost one plane due to mechanical or human failure."
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The operation achieved its objective within a few weeks, but a weak Lebanese central government kept Israeli troops there until 1985.
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In December 1987, a Palestinian uprising called the Intifada erupted and swept throughout the Palestinian communities of the West Bank and Gaza. What had been a relatively benign relationship since 1967 between Israel and the Palestinians in the territories, became a near war. Death and injuries on both sides were high, with great distress filling the hearts of Israelis and Palestinians alike. The Intifada continued for six years, until the current Peace Process began with the Oslo Accords in 1993.
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Fact #37
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In 1989, the Iron Curtain began to fall and Jews began to be liberated from the lands of the north - the provinces of the former Soviet Union where they had been prevented from emigrating to Israel for decades. Since that time, over one million new immigrants have arrived in Israel, including nearly 20,000 Ethiopian Jews from the lands of the south. Together, they fulfill Isaiah 43:5,6.
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Meanwhile, in 1991, the Gulf War, which was initiated to restore sovereignty to Kuwait after it was invaded by Iraq, also affected Israel. While Israel was completely out of this war, 39 Scud missiles were fired upon Israel by Saddam Hussein's forces. He had hoped to draw Israel into the war because of his great hatred of her, but also to split up the Allied coalition that not only had American and European forces, but participants from numerous Moslem Arab countries who have no ties with Israel.
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During these dark days and weeks, fearing chemical and biological weapons, Israel prayed Psalm 91: "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.' ... He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday" (Ps. 91:1-2, 4-6).
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No chemical or biological weapons were used against Israel. Eleven thousand apartments were destroyed, but only one person died as a direct result of the destruction.
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Truly, Israel was protected under the wings of the Lord, in whose shadow she dwells.
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Fact #38
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In 1992, the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin began negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PLO) in an effort to make peace for Israel with the Palestinians and other Arab nations. Only Egypt had signed a peace treaty with Israel in March 1979. Rabin and Arafat concluded an initial agreement in 1993, called the Oslo Accords, which was the first of many accords in the quest for peace in the region. To date, Israel has turned over all major centers in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza, while the Palestinians have done little to fulfill their side of the agreements.
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In a violation of the Oslo Accords, Yasser Arafat has declared over and over again his intentions to unilaterally declare a sovereign Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital. He says he will raise the Palestinian flag on the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem and on the tops of the mosques and churches. In January 2000, Arafat declared, "This year is the year for declaring an independent Palestinian State...It is a fundamental thing that this year is the year of the State." Israel has already made united Jerusalem its undivided capital and will not compromise on this. Therefore, if Yasser persists in pursuing his declared plan, then a conflict and even war is inevitable.
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In 1994, Israel signed a peace treaty with King Hussein of Jordan. This has proved to be the warmest of the treaties, thus far. Considerable trade, tourism and other bilateral initiatives have prospered both countries.
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Today, "off and on" negotiations continue between Israel and Syria to hopefully secure a real peace with Syria and with Lebanon which is controlled by Syria. The Syrian border has been quiet since 1973, but there are no relations between the countries and only a "ceasefire" exists.
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Fact #39
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Israel today is a modern-day miracle that has emerged because of hard work on the part of the Jewish people and God's prophetic blessing.
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The only true democracy in the Middle East, Israel boasts a vibrant electoral system with dozens of political parties representing a variety of political views, from conservative to liberal Arab, secular to ultra-Orthodox Jewish.
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Israel boasts an educational system that has given her citizens the highest literacy rate in the world; a medical system that provides guaranteed health care for all citizens and is sought after even by her enemies who arrive via neutral countries for treatment; a welfare system that provides goods and services to all in need - Jew and Arab alike; an agricultural system that changed a barren, deforested land of desert and swamp into a lush and prosperous region that has made Israel one of the world's food exporting nations; an army which is a defense force that has been evaluated as the fourth most efficient army in the world.
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Its main industries are still tourism and agriculture. However, high technology is now the largest revenue industry, creating everything from new computer designs and development of hardware and software, to advanced medical and agricultural technology. Israel has now surpassed the US's Silicon Valley for high tech development.
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The influx of immigrants into Israel from over 100 nations has given her a research and development (R&D) edge, since each nation has a different way of looking at a problem. With R&D teams made up of scientists and researchers from such varied locales as the former Soviet Union, the USA, India, S. America, S. Africa, and Europe, all working on a problem, innovative products are being brought to the market almost daily.
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Israel is known as an innovative nation. Just tell an Israeli something can't be done, and he will figure out how to do it.
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Fact #40
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God is in control and His Word will be fulfilled regarding Israel, the Jewish people, His Church and the anticipated soon arrival of Messiah. As in the days of the Old Testament, even when it looks like all hope is lost and Israel will be vanquished, God has made a way, and showed forth His glory.
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It is said of the Lord, "He that keeps Israel will not slumber nor sleep" (Ps. 121:4). Let us be participants with God in this prophetic move. Let us pray for Israel and for the peace of Jerusalem. Only God's peace will be a lasting peace.
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Let us also give gifts to help those returning to Zion and bless the restoration of the land of Israel. Let us volunteer our time, if we are able.
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And let us travel to Zion ourselves to see what God is doing TODAY! In this series, we have covered the entirety of Israel's history from the days of Abraham to date. I hope this information has helped you to realize the importance of this land to God and His Covenant people, the Jewish people. While other religions, including Christianity, place significance to this land, it is because of the covenants God made with His People Israel so many thousands of years ago. He is faithful to fulfill His promises recorded in His Word, the Bible.
JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-52691947118099430092015-10-28T08:45:00.000-05:002015-10-28T09:30:40.160-05:00Blood Moon?mark3210 said:<br>
"Sean, On top of everything else, the 4th and final blood moon will arrive before the month is over. ..." -- September 19, 2015
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Sean Osborne said:<br>
"Mark3210, Blood moon? Once again I have to say, there is zero, nada, nothing in Scripture about a series of blood moons having any prophetic significance. [Joel 2:31; Acts 2:20; Revelation 6:12] ..." -- September 19, 2015
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Greetings Bro. Osborne:
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A little over a year ago while researching Joel Richardson and Walid Shoebat I found your article refuting Richardson's Islamic Antichrist, February 14, 2012, entitled, "Response to 'Joel Richardson's' Prophecy Problems." I am in agreement with you on this.
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When I first heard Walid Shoebat he sounded good, but last year. I read an article by him that strongly condemned ancient believers such as Waldensians, Albigensians, Lollards, etc., and endorsed heretical <a href="http://johnbaptisthenry.blogspot.com/2010/12/hosius-on-anabaptists.html" target="_blank">Roman Catholicism</a>. My study of the Bible and Church History had long before verified these groups as true believers and Catholicism as the "whore" of Revelation 17. I am also with you on WND, Carl Gallups and Leo Hohmann in your SITREP A12-15.
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Anyway, that is how I ran across your Blog.
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But I am now writing you about the 8 tetrads that have occurred since the days of Christ.
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I have been researching scientific astronomical phenomenon as it relates to God's word since 2011. I saw Mark Bitz on the late J.R. Church's YouTube channel and it sparked my interest. About that time comets Elenin and Honda flew by in 2011. Amazingly significant things occur with these comets on all 3 of the Fall "feast of the LORD," Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles.
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<b>1. Earth, Elenin, the Sun, and Mercury were in vertical alignment on the Biblical Feast of Trumpets (September 28 and 29) which it a type of the Rapture</b> (Lev. 23:23-25; cf. 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:51-52). Furthermore, the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly was in session from September 28th to 30th. They discussed whether to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. The Bible gives this parting of the Land of Israel as a reason for God's judgment on the nations during the 7 year Tribulation. In the Book of the Prophet Joel God states:
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Joel 3:2: "<i>I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and <b>for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land</b>.</i>"
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<b>2. When Elenin and Honda became visible together on the night of 7 October it was the beginning of the Feast of Atonement, a picture of the 7 year Tribulation</b> (Leviticus 23:26-32; cf. Daniel 9:27, 12:1; Matthew 24:21). Could these 2 comets have been a picture of God's 2 Hebrew witnesses during the first half of the Tribulation? God had the Apostle John to write:
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Revelation 11:3-4: "<i>And I will give power unto <b>my two witnesses</b>, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.</i>"
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<b>3. Elenin was closest to the Earth at 21 million miles (7 + 7 + 7 = 21) on on October 16, 17 & 18 during the Feast of Tabernacles, a type of the Millennial reign of Christ, and the eternal state after that</b> (Leviticus 23:33-43; cf. Revelation 20:1-6, 21:1-7).
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<b>4. Furthermore, in 2013 Comet ISON made its closes point to the Sun (perihelion) during Hanukkah on November 28, 2013</b>. I believe that this points to the soon rebuilding of the Temple. An Israeli Government official began speaking of this very thing in 2014.
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It was at the end of WW I on Hanukkah, 9 December 1917, that British General Edmund Allenby liberated Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks without firing a shot by dropping surrender leaflets on the city from biplanes never before seen by the Ottoman’s fulfilling Isaiah 31:5 to the letter.
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Isaiah 31:5: “<i>As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it</i>.”
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<b>So, as you can see, I am a believer in astronomical phenomenon as signs, and not without Biblical backing. You, as most I have seen, who attempt to refute the astronomical signs, cite only Joel 2:31; Acts 2:20; Revelation 6:12 to do so</b>.
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Genesis 1:14-19: "<i>And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and <b>let them be for SIGNS, and for SEASONS</b>, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day</i>."
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Here in this passage we see that "<i>the lights in the firmament of the heaven</i>" are for "<i><b>signs</i></b>" as well as "<i><b>for seasons</b>, and for days, and years</i>." Especially note that "<i>the lights</i>" are for "<i><b><u>seasons</i></b></u>" also. That word "<i><u>seasons</i></u>" in Hebrew is "moawdaw." It's basic meaning is "<b>set</b>" or "<b>appointed times</b>" as in the following verse:
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Leviticus 23:4: "<i>These are the FEASTS of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their SEASONS</i>."
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Both the words "seasons" and "feasts" in Leviticus 23:4 above are translated from the same Hebrew word "moawdaw." It is translated "<i><b><u>seasons</i></b></u>" 13 times and "<i><b><u>feast</i></b></u>" 23 times in God's word. It's basic meaning is "<b>set time</b>" for various things (cf. Gen. 17:21, 18:14, 21:2; Ex. 9:5, 23:15; Num. 9:2,3, 7, 13: Josh. 8:14; 1 Sam. 13:8; 2 Sam. 20:5; Ps. 102:13; Jer. 8:7, 46:17; Daniel 8:19, 11:27, 29, 35; Hab. 2:3). All the "feasts of the LORD" (Lev. 23:2, 4, 37, 44; 2 Chron. 2:4; Ezra 3:5) are at set times:
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The 7 feasts of the Lord and 2 added later are all "<b>set times</b>" marked by seasons:<br>
1. Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits = Spring<br>
2. Pentecost = Summer<br>
3. Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles = Fall<br>
4. Two feasts were added later = Hanukkah (Winter) & Purim (Spring)
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The first and last of the 7 feasts of Leviticus 23, Passover and Tabernacles, have been punctuated with 8 tetrads as of September 2015. There will be no more tetrads on "<i>the feasts of the LORD</i>" for 549 years. Significant historical events have accompanied all 8 tetrads. Events concerning early Christians (i.e. Polycarp burned in the greatest of the 7 Roman persecutions; William Tyndale born in 1494), the demise of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam, the word of God (discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls that further validate the KJV), and the reestablishment of Israel and the capture of her Capital, Jerusalem. During the 8th Tetrad an Israeli Government official has called for rebuilding the Temple; and during the month of the last lunar eclipse of this tetrad Russia entered the fray in Syria and disturbances were instigated on the Temple Mount by Moslems creating tensions between Israel and Jordan.
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Therefore, it is apparent that it is not necessary for the Biblical text to state that there would be several series of 4 lunar eclipses since it was stated from the beginning that they are for "<i><b>signs</i></b>."
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These passages clearly speak of pre-tribulation SIGNS "<i>in the firmament of the heaven</i>" as is their stated purpose from the beginning.
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Luke 21:11, 25-28: "<i>... And ... great signs shall there be from heaven. ... 25 And there shall be <b><u>signs</u> in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars</b>; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 <b>And when these things <u>begin</u> to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh</b>.</i>"
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Acts 2:16-21: "<i>But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And <b>it shall come to pass in the last days</b>, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 <b>The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood</b>, <u>before that great and notable day of the Lord come</u>: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved</i>." (cf. Joel 2:28-32)
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In the last days it shall come to pass <b>1)</b> there will be revelation gifts given (this was early in the Church Age), and <b>2)</b> there will be wonders in heaven above. "<i>The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood</i>. This is toward the end of the 2nd millennium "<i>before that great and notable day of the Lord come</i>." Joel 2:28-32 and Acts 2:16-21 are pre-tribulation verses. The last days are the last 3 days of the week of 1000 year days. In that it is "<i>before that great and notable day of the Lord</i>," it is before the Millennial reign of Christ.
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The signs in heaven in the Book of Revelation during the Tribulation do not negate the fact of these Biblical signs in the sun, moon and stars that I have pointed out.
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In that I endorse these tetrad and comet signs does not mean that I endorse the discoverer of the tetrads, Mark Bitz, not their prime promoter, John Hagee. I renounce both as heretics. Biltz, because of his Hebrew Roots heresy, and Hagee because of his dual salvation heresy.
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He was in <u>the world</u>, and <u>the world</u> was made by him, and <u>the world</u> knew him not. -- John 1:10
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore <u>the world</u> knoweth us not, because it knew him not. -- 1 John 3:1
Love not <u>the world</u>, neither the things that are in <u>the world</u>. If any man love <u>the world</u>, the love of the Father is not in him. -- 1 John 2:15
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in <u>this world</u>. -- 1 John 4:17
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, <u>Redeeming the time</u>, because the days are evil. -- Ephesians 5:15-16
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, <u>redeeming the time</u>. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. -- Colossians 4:5-6
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give <u>an answer</u> to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. -- 1 Peter 3:15-16
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In <u>the world</u> ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome <u>the world</u>. -- John 16:33
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<b>TARSHISH - EZEKIEL 38:13</b>:
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"Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee [the invaders of Israel lead by Gog], Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?" (Ezekiel 38:13)
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"Sheba, and Dedan" were both great-grandsons of Noah's son Ham thuough Raamah the son of Cush (Genesis 10:5-7). The Sabeans or Sheba was a nation in southern Arabia and Dedan is likewise in southern Arabia. In Ezekiel 38:13 "Sheba, and Dedan" signifies the area of the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states which are primarially economic and military allies of the United States.
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Tarshish was the great-grandson of Noah and the son of Javan, one of the 7 sons of Japheth. Javan corresponds to Greece and Tarshish corresponds to the Phoenicians.
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The Phoenicians established the city of Carthage on Africa's northern coast in what is now Tunisia, and it was these Carthaginians who from there colonized Spain in 654 BC, and began to explored the Atlantic coastline from western Africa to Britain. The area of Tartessus just outside Straits of Hercules (now Gibraltar) and to the north is associated with Tarshish. This area is located in the Guadalquivir Valley in southwestern Spain, where the Phoenicians founded colonies to capitalize on the wealth of minerals found there.
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Phoenicia was located at the uttermost eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea occupying the area of modern Lebanon
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The Richards Topical Encyclopaedia states, "Phoenician traders sailed out through the straits of Gibraltar and discovered the English tin mines, long before the Egyptians or the Babylonians even knew that there was such a place as Britain. England comes into the light of history much earlier than many of the modern European countries, such as Germany. This is because the British had valuable tin mines. Phoenician traders, used to visit England to get tin, many centuries before Christ. They tried to keep the location of the tin mines a great secret in order that no other nation should discover the deposits of the useful and costly metal. But other people did find out about the island, and a Greek geographer mentioned it in his writings as early as BC 350."
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Archaeological evidence proves that they possessed sailing capabilities far beyond what was originally known. An inscription discovered in 1780 on a cliff above Mount Hope Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island, which was written in Tartessian Punic, reads: "Voyagers from Tarshish this stone proclaims." It is believed that this inscription was made about 533 BC. Howard University's Deptartment of Archaeology has found five other areas in the United States where Tarshish had colonies 2500 years ago.
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Ezekiel 27:13 indicates that Tarshish was a source of tin, and the word "Britain" means "land of tin." It is also interesting that the symbol of Great Britin is the Lion.
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It is certain that the descendants of Tarshish migrated to the areas which became Spain and Great Britain. Both Spain and England eventually became major naval powers, likely due to their very early contact with the sea going Phoenicians.
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An analysis of these facts indicate that Tarshish may refer to all of western Europe, perhaps the entire modern European Union, but certinly to England and "the young lions thereof." We contend, therefore, that "all the young lions of Ezekel 38:13 "refer to the spin-off nations from the British Empire, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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ALSO SEE:
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1. <a href="http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/fellview.htm" target="_blank">Some Revelations About American Colonization -- Dr. Barry Fell</a>
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2. <a href="http://www.ensignmessage.com/stonesecrets.html" target="_blank">Stone Secrets Of The First Americans -- Thomas Fleming</a>
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3. <a href="http://www.hope-of-israel.org/tarshish.html" target="_blank">Who Were the Merchants of Tarshish?</a>
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4. <a href="http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/11/columns/guest/bronze/index.htm" target="_blank">The Early Voyagers</a>
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-42873910559851041422014-11-22T04:59:00.001-06:002014-11-28T02:35:06.530-06:00Salvation Video
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<center><big><big><b>Repentance & Faith</b></big></big></center>
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Most people likely don't realize the below facts when they receive Christ Jesus as Lord and Saviour and are born again into the family of God, but this is what instantly occurred in your heart when you got saved. If not then please follow these verses and receive Jesus as your Saviour.
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<b>Repentance and faith</b> go hand in hand and occur in an instant in the heart virtually simultaneously. No good deeds, righteous works or any such thing is involved whatsoever. It is a realization in one's heart that he is exceedingly sinful before the Almighty and unable to save himself from eternal damnation in Hell; but at the same time we realize that God loves us and sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place, and we RECEIVE the Lord Jesus through hearing the word of God. No sinner is to sinful to be pardoned by God. <b>There is only one sin that can not be forgiven</b>: It is NOT receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour.
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<b>Mark 1:14-15</b>: "<i>... Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: <b>repent</b> ye, and <b>believe</b> the gospel</i>."
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<b><font color="#ff0000">REPENTANCE</font></b>
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<b><font color="#0000ff">Repentance begins with the fear of the Lord</b>:</font>
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<b>Proverbs 14:26-27</b>: "<i>In the fear of the LORD is <b>strong confidence</b>: and <b>his children</b> shall have a place of <b>refuge</b>. The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death</i>."
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<b>Luke 12:4-5</b>: "<i>And I </i>[Jesus]<i> say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him</i>."
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<b>Revelation 1:18:</b> "<i>I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 16:6</b>: "<i>By <b>mercy and truth</b> iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil</i>." (cf. <b>Mercy and Truth</b>: Psalms 57:10, 69:13, 86:15, 100:5, 108:4, 115:1. <b>Mercy</b>: Daniel 9:9; Psalms 86:5, 103:8. <b>Truth</b>: Psalm 138:2; John 17:17; Ephesians 1:13; Colossians 1:5)
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<b>Proverbs 1:24-33</b>: "<i><font color="#ff0000">Because I have called, and <b><u>ye refused</b></u>; I have stretched out my hand, and </font><font color="#0000ff"><b>no <u>man</u> regarded</b></u></font/><font color="#ff0000">; <b>But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof</b>: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. <u>Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer</u>; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they <b>hated knowledge</b>, and did not <b><u>choose</u> the fear of the LORD</b>: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. <b>For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</font></b> <b>But <u>whoso hearkeneth</u> unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil</b></i>." (Concerning Proverbs 1:28 above, "<i>Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer</i> ..." see <b>Revelation 20:11-15</b>)
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<b>Note</b> the above phrase, <font color="#0000ff">"<b><i>no <u>man</u> regarded</i></b>"</font> and compare it with <b>Matthew 18:3-4</b> which says, "<i>... Except ye be converted, and become as <b>little children</b>, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall <u>humble</u> himself as this <b>little child</b>, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven</i>." (cf. Mark 10:15; Luke 14:11, 18:17; 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:10; Psalms 34:18, 51:17; Isaiah 57:15, 66:2; 2 Corinthians 7:10)
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<b>Proverbs 15:33</b>: "<i>The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is <b><u>humility</u></b></i>."
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<b>Psalms 19:9</b>: "<i>The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are <b>true and righteous</b> altogether</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 9:10:</b> "<i>The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of <b>the holy</b> is understanding</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 8:13:</b> "<i>The fear of the LORD is to <b>hate evil</b>: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 2:3-6</b>: "<i>Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding</i>."
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<b>Job 28:28</b>: "<i>And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to <b>depart from evil</b> is understanding</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 10:27</b>: "<i>The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 19:23</b>: "<i>The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil</i>."
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<b><font color="#0000ff">Repentance Is A Change Of Heart In Recognition Of God's Holiness & Justice</font></b>:
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<b>Ezekiel 33:11</b>: "... <i>As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: <b>turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways</b>; for why will ye die ...?</i>"
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<b>Isaiah 6:3</b>: "... <i>Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory</i>."
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<b>Revelation 4:8</b>: "... <i>Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come</i>."
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<b>Jeremiah 17:10</b>: "<i>I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings</i>." (cf. Rev. 2:23; Jer. 11:20, 20:12)
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<b>Psalms 89:14</b>: "<i>Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face</i>."
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<b>Jeremiah 23:5</b>: "<i>Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch </i>[<b>JESUS</b>]<i>, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth</i>."
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<b>Revelation 6:10</b>: "<i>... How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth</i>?"
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<b>Revelation 19:11</b>: "<i>And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and <b>in righteousness he doth judge and make war</b></i>."
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<b>Acts 10:38, 42</b>: "<i>... God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power... And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was <b>ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead</b></i>."
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<b><font color="#0000ff">Repentance Comes When One Acknowledges His Sinfulness & Accepts God's Love & Mercy Which Produces Godly Sorrow In His Heart</b>:</font>
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<b>2 Corinthians 7:10</b>: "<i>For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death</i>."
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<b>Isaiah 57:15</b>: "<i>For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones</i>".
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<b>1 John 4:9-10, 19</b>: "<i>In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ... We love him, because he first loved us</i>."
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<b>Luke 18:10-14</b>: "<i>Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. <b>I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted</b></i>."
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<b>Ezekiel 18:27-28</b>: "<i>Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die</i>."
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<b>John 3:16</b>: "<i>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life</i>."
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<b>Habakkuk 2:4</b>: "<i>Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith</i>."
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<b><font color="#0000ff">Don't Despise God's Goodness & Forbearance That Are Leading You To Repentance</b>:</font>
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<b>2 Peter 3:9</b>: "<i>The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should COME TO REPENTANCE</i>."
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<b>Romans 2:4-11</b>: "<i>Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God</i>."
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<b><font color="#ff0000">FAITH</font></b>
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<b>Hebrews 11:6</b>: "<i>But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him</i>."
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<b><font color="#0000ff">Believe What & How?</b>:</font>
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We are to have faith in Jesus Christ, namely, who He is (<b>The Almighty Creator & Judge of all</b>), His personality (<b>loving & merciful</b> and at the same time <b>holy & just</b>), and what He did for all Mankind (<b>Became a man to die, the just for the unjust</b>).
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<b>1 John 1:7</b>: "<i>For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</i>"
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<b>John 1:1-3, 14</b>: "<i>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. ... 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</i>"
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<b>Philippians 2:6-8</b>: "<i>Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.</i>"
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<b>Hebrews 1:1-3</b>: "<i>God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.</i>"
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<b>Romans 5:8-10</b>: "<i>But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.</i>"
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<b>Luke 23:39-43</b>: "<i>And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. 40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. 42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.</i>"
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What do we learn here in Luke 23:39-43 about salvation as Christ hung on the cross between two sinners, one repentant and the other not? Note the following:
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1. The repentant malefactor <b>feared God</b> (v. 40).
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2. The repentant malefactor knew that <b>he was justly condemned</b> (v. 41).
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3. The repentant one knew that <b>Jesus had done nothing amiss</b> (v. 42).
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4. The repentant one did not one good work to earn his salvation.
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5. He knew that <b>Jesus was Lord and King</b> and could help him after death (v. 41).
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6. The saved sinner <b>trusted in Jesus</b> and asked Him to remember him (v. 42).
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7. Jesus promised the sinner that they would be together in paradise that very day (v.43)
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<b><font color="#0000ff">The Faith Of God Is The Word Of God</b>:</font>
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<b>Galatians 3:2</b>: "<i>This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</i>"
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<b>Romans 3:1-3</b>: "<i>What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed <b>the oracles of God</b>. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make <b>the faith of God</b> without effect?</i>"
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<b>Galatians 2:16</b>: "<i>Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by <b>the faith of Jesus Christ</b>, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by <b>the faith of Christ</b>, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified</i>."
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<b>Philippians 3:9</b>: "<i>And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through <b>the faith of Christ</b>, the righteousness which is of God by faith</i>."
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<b>Romans 10:17</b>: "<i>So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God</i>."
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<b>Galatians 3:22</b>: "<i>But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe</i>."
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<b>Romans 3:19-26</b>: "<i>Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by <b>faith of Jesus Christ</b> unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus</i>."
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<b>1 John 5:10-12</b>: "<i>He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life</i>."
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<b>Romans 1:17</b>: "<i>For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith</i>."
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<b>Galatians 3:11</b>: "<i>But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith</i>."
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<b>Hebrews 10:38</b>: "<i>Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him</i>."
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<b><font color="#ff0000">REGENERATION</font></b>
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<b>Repentance and faith</b> is our part, <b>regeneration and salvation</b> is God's part! God freely gives salvation to all who receive it by repentance of their sin and faith in Jesus Christ to save them from hell. When God saves someone He regenerates the dead spirit of the believer and receives him or her as His Child.
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<b>Romans 6:23</b>: "<i>For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord</i>."
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<b>Ephesians 2:8-10</b>: "<i>For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For <b>we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works</b>, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.</i>"
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<b>James 1:17-18, 21</b>: "<i>Every good <b>gift</b> and every perfect <b>gift</b> is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with <b>the word of truth</b>, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. ... 21 <b>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and <u>receive with meekness the engrafted word</u>, which is able to save your souls</b></i>."
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<b>Titus 3:5</b>: "<i>Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but <b>according to his mercy he saved us, by <u>the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost</u></b>; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men</i>."
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<b>John 3:5-8, 17:17</b>: "<i>Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, <b>Except a man be born of <u>water and of the Spirit</u>, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God</b>. <font color="#0000ff"><b>That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</b></font> Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. ... <b><u>Sanctify</b></u> them through thy truth: thy word is truth</i>."
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<b>Ephesians 5:25-26</b>: "<i>... Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might <b>sanctify and cleanse it with <u>the washing of water by the word</u></b>.</i>"
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<b><font color="#ff0000">CONCLUSION</font></b>
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God's word instructs us of God's love for us and His hatred of sin. Jesus died to keep us out of eternal hell! Don't make His death in vain in your life! If you do you will eternally regret it!
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<b>1 John 5:4-5, 7, 10</b>: "<i>For whatsoever is born of God <u><b>overcometh</u></b> the world: and this is the victory that <u><b>overcometh</u></b> the world, even our faith. <b>Who is he that <u>overcometh</u> the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God</b>? ... <b>For there are three that bear record in heaven, <u>the Father</u>, <u>the Word</u>, and <u>the Holy Ghost</u>: and these three are one</b>. ... <b>He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself</b>: <u>he that believeth not God hath made him a liar</u>; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.</i>" (<b>Note</b>: Making God a liar by not trusting in Jesus Christ is the only sin that can never be forgiven.)
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<b>Revelation 21:7-8</b>: "<i>He that <u><b>overcometh</u></b> shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and <u><b>he shall be my son</u></b>. But <b>the fearful, and unbelieving</b>, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in <u><b>the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death</u></b>.</i>" (cf. The Fearful: Ps. 27:1, 56:4, 11, 118:6; Prov. 29:25; Rev. 2:10; Matt. 10:28; Luke 12:4-5. The fear of man prevents the trust of God.)
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<b>Revelation 20:11-15</b>: "<i>And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire</i>."
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<b>Matthew 25:41, 46</b>: "<i>Then shall he say also unto them ..., Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: And these shall go away into <b>everlasting punishment: but <u>the righteous into life eternal</u></b></i>."
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<b>John 3:36</b>: "<i>He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him</i>."
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<b>Psalms 16:11</b>: "<i>Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore</i>."
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-74683190561923191392014-10-06T10:23:00.003-05:002014-11-11T04:58:38.659-06:00Antichrist<center><big><big><big>TREATISE ON ANTICHRIST</big></big><br>
<small>By the ancient Waldenses and Albigenses of Southern France</small><br>
12th Century</center>
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Antichrist is a falsehood, worthy of eternal damnation, covered with an outward appearance of the truth, and the righteousness of Christ and his spouse, but opposite to the way of truth, righteousness, faith, hope and charity, as likewise to the moral life; and also the ministerial verity of the church, administered by the false apostles, and obstinately defended by both powers, ecclesiastical and secular.
Or antichrist is a delusion, which hides the truths necessary to salvation, both in things substantial and ministerial.
Or it is a fraudulent contradiction to Christ and his spouse, and every faithful member thereof. It is not any special person ordained in any degree, or office, or ministry; but it is that falsehood itself, which opposeth itself against the truth, which covereth and adorneth itself with a pretence of beauty and piety, not suitable to the church of Christ, as by the names, and offices, and scriptures and, and divers other things, may appear. That iniquity which is after this manner, with all the ministers thereof, great and small, with all those that follow them with a wicked heart, and hoodwinked eyes; this congregation I say, thus taken all together, is <b>called antichrist, or Babylon, or the fourth beast, or the whore, or the man of sin, or son of perdition</b>.
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His ministers are called false prophets, lying teachers, the ministers of darkness, the spirit of error, the apocalyptic whore, the mother of fornication, clouds without water, trees without leaves, dead, and twice rooted up, waves of a troublesome sea, wandering stars, Balaamites and Egyptians.
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He is called antichrist, because being covered and adorned under the colour of Christ, and of the Church, and the faithful members thereof, he oppugneth (contradicts) the salvation purchased by Christ,and truly administered in the church of Christ, whereof the faithful are partakers by faith, hope and charity. Thus he contradicteth the truth by the wisdom of the world, by false religion, by counterfeited holiness, by ecclesiastical power, secular tyranny, riches, honours, dignities and the delights and delicacies.
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And therefore let every one take notice thereof, that antichrist could not come in any wise, but by all these things above mentioned that must needs meet together, to make a complete hypocrisy and falsehood; that is to say, the worldly wise, the religious orders, pharisees, ministers, doctors, the secular power, with the people of the world joined together. And thus all of them together make up the man of sin and error complete.
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For notwithstanding antichrist was long since conceived in the apostles' times, yet he was then in his infancy, and wanted members both inward and outward. And therefore he was the more easily known and destroyed, and excommunicated, as being but rude and raw, and as yet wanting utterance. For he was then destitute of rational, definitive, decretive, or determinative wisdom; he wanted as yet those hypocritical ministers, and human ordinances, and the outward show of those religious orders. And therefore, though he were fallen away into that error and sin, yet he had then that with which to cover his villainy, or the shame of his errors, or of that sin, yet having none of those riches nor endowments, whereby to allure to himself any minister for his service to be enabled to multiply, preserve, or defend his adherents; for he wanted the secular strength and power, and could not force, nor compel any from the truth unto falsehood. And because he wanted many things yet, therefore he could not defile nor scandalize any by his deceits; and thus being so weak and tender, he could obtain no place in the church.
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But growing up in his members, that is to say, in his blind and dissembling members, and in worldly subjects, he at length became a complete man, grew up to his full age, to wit, then when the lovers of the world, both in church and state, blind in faith, did multiply in the church, and get all the power into their hands. And so it came to pass, that as evil as they were, they would be sought unto, and honored in spiritual matters,covering their authority, malice and sins; for which end they made use of the worldly wise, and of their pharisees, in manner aforesaid.
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For it is a great wickedness to cover and colour iniquity worthy of excommunication, and go about to establish one's self by such means, as cannot be attributed to men, but belongs to God alone, and to Jesus Christ as mediator. And for men to deprive God of such and such things, by fraud and usurpation, and to arrogate the same unto themselves, and their works, appears to be the greatest felony; as when one doth attribute to himself the power of regeneration, of pardoning sins, of dispensing the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and to represent Christ (as 'Vicar'), and such like matters. And in all these things, to cover themselves with the cloak of authority, and the word, thereby deceiving silly people, who follow the world in such things that are of the world, separating themselves from God and the true faith, and from the reformation of the Holy Spirit, withdrawing themselves from true repentance, pious practice, and perseverance in goodness, and turning their backs upon charity, patience, poverty, and humility; and that which is worst of all, they forsake the true hope, and rely on all evil, and on the vain hope of the world, serving all those ceremonies instrumental hereunto, and deceitfully causing the people to commit idolatry with all the idols of the world, under the name of saints and relics and their worship. The people perniciously err from the way of truth, being persuaded they serve God, and do well.
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Stirred up to hate and to be enraged against those that love the truth, even to murder so many of them; so that according to the apostle, we may truly say, this is that man of sin complete, that lifts up himself against all that is called God, or worshipped, and that setteth himself in opposition against all truth, sitting down in the temple of God; that is his church, and showing forth himself as if he were God, being come with all manner of deceivableness for those that perish. And since he is truly come, he must no longer be looked for, for he is grown old already by God's permission.
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Nay, he begins even to decay, and his power and authority is abated; for the Lord doth already kill the wicked one, by the spirit of his mouth; by divers persons of good dispositions, sending abroad a power contrary to (antichrist), and those that love him, and which disturbeth his place and his possessions, and puts division into that city of Babylon, wherein the whole generation of iniquity doth prevail and reign.
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<b>The first work of antichrist is to take away the truth, and to change it into falsehood, error, and heresy</b>.
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<b>The second work of antichrist is to cover falsehood over with the semblance of truth</b>, and to assert and maintain lies by the name of faith and graces, and to dispense falsehood intermingled with spiritual things unto the people under his subjection, either by the means of his ministers, or by the ministry, or any other ways relating to the church.
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Now it is certain these two ways of proceeding do contain so perfect and so complete a wickedness, the likes no tyrant and no power in the world were ever able to compass (attain to) since the creation, until the time of antichrist. And Christ had never any enemy like this, so able to pervert the way of truth into falsehood, and falsehood into truth, and who in like manner did pervert the professors of the one or the other, viz. of truth and of falsehood. For holy mother the church, with her true children, is altogether trodden under foot, especially in the truth, and in what concerneth the true worship, in the truthful exercise of the ministry, and the children who partake thereof; causing her to weep bitterly, in the language and complaint of Jeremiah, saying, Ah! How desolate art thou, O city of the heathen people, and uncircumcised! She is become a widow. Being destitute of the truth of her bridegroom; lady of people by reason of their subjection to errors and to sin; princess of provinces by partaking with the world and the things that are in the world.
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Weep and look but abroad a little, and thou shalt find those things now accomplished at this time; for the holy church is accounted a synagogue of miscreants (infidels or heretics), and the congregation of the wicked is esteemed the mother of them that rightly believe in the word. Falsehood is preached up for truth, iniquity for righteousness; injustice passeth for justice, error for faith, sin for virtue, and lies for verity.
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<b>THE WORKS OF ANTICHRIST</b>:
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<b>The first work of antichrist</b> is that it perverts the service of Latreia; that is, the worship properly due to God alone, by giving it to antichrist himself, his works, and to the poor creature, reasonable and unreasonable, sensible and senseless. To the reasonable, man, male or female, the deceased saints. To the senseless, images, carcasses and relics. The works of antichrist are the sacraments, especially the sacrament of the eucharist, which he adoreth as God, and as Jesus Christ, together with the things blessed and consecrated by him, prohibiting the worship of God alone.
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<b>The second work of antichrist</b> is that he robs and bereaves Christ of his merits, together with all the sufficiency of grace, of justification, of regeneration, remission of sins, sanctification, confirmation, and spiritual nourishment; and imputes and attributes the same to his own authority, <!-- John 5:43--> to a form of words, to his own works; unto saints, and their intercession, and unto the fire of purgatory. He separates the people from Christ, leading them away to those things aforesaid, that they may not seek those of Christ, by Christ, but only in the works of their hands, not by a living faith in God, nor in Jesus Christ, nor in the Holy Spirit, but by the will, pleasure and works of antichrist, according to he preacheth, all salvation consists in his works.
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<b>The third work of antichrist</b> consists in this: attributing regeneration of the Holy Spirit unto the dead outward work, baptizing children in that faith, and teaching that baptism, regeneration must occur. He confers and bestows orders and other sacraments. His Christianity is grounded on such, and is against the Holy Spirit.
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<b>The fourth work of antichrist</b> is that he hath constituted and placed all religion and holiness in going to the mass, and hath patched together all manner of ceremonies, some Jewish, some heathenish, and some Christian. By leading the congregations of people to hear this, he deprives them of the ordinances and spiritual, seducing them from the true religion and from the commandments of God. He withdraws them from the works of compassion by his offerings; and by such a mass he has established the people in vain hopes.
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<b>The fifth work of antichrist</b> is that he doth all his works so as to be seen, that he may glut himself with his insatiable avarice (covetousness), that he may set all things to sale, and do nothing without simony (selling pardons, offices, etc).
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<b>The sixth work of antichrist</b> is that he allows of manifest sins, without any ecclesiastical censure, and doth not excommunicate the impenitent.
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<b>The seventh work of antichrist</b> is that he doth not govern nor maintain his unity by the Holy Spirit, but by secular power, and maketh use thereof to effect spiritual matters.
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<b>The eighth work of antichrist</b> is that he hates and persecutes and searches after and despoils (robs) and destroys the members of Christ.
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<b>CONCEALED WORKS AGAINST THE TRUTH</b>:
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These things are, in a manner, the principal works which he commits against the truth, they being otherwise numberless, and past writing down. It sufficeth for the present to have observed the most general, and those whereby this iniquity lies most covered and concealed.
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<b>First</b> and chiefly, he makes use of an outward confession of the faith; and it is that whereof the apostle speaketh, "For they confess in words that they have known God,but by their deeds they deny him." (<b>1 John 2:4</b>)
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<b>Secondly</b>, he covers his iniquity by the length or succession of time, and allegeth that he is maintained by certain wise and learned men, and by religious orders of certain votaries of single life (vows of celibacy), men and women, virgins and widows; and besides, by numberless people, of whom it is said in the Revelation that "Power is given him over every tribe, language, and nation, and all that dwell on the earth shall worship him." (<b>Revelation 13:7-8</b>)
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<b>In the third place</b>, he covers his iniquity by the spiritual authority of the apostles; against which the apostle speaketh expressly, "We are able to do nothing against the truth, and there is no power given us for destruction." (<b>2 Corinthians 13:8-10</b>)
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<b>Fourthly</b>, by many miracles here and there, according to that of the apostle, "Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, by all manner of miracles,
and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness." (<b>2 Thessalonians 2:9-10</b>)
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<b>Fifthly</b>, by an outward holiness, by prayers, fastings, watchings, and alms-deeds; against which the apostle testifies, saying, "Having a show of godliness, but having denied the power thereof." (<b>2 Timothy 3:5</b>)
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<b>Sixthly</b>, he covers his iniquity by certain sayings of Christ, and by the writings of the ancients, and by councils. These they observe only so far as they do not destroy and overthrow their wicked life and pleasures.
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<b>Seventhly</b>, by the administration of the sacraments in which they lay open the universality of their errors.
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<b>Eighthly</b>, by correction or discipline and mere verbal preachings against vices; for they say and do not. (<b>Matthew 23:3</b>)
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<b>Ninthly</b>, by the virtuous lives of some, who seemingly live so, but especially of such as really live so among them. For the elect of God, which desire and do that which is good, are detained there, as in Babylon; and are like unto gold, wherewith the wicked antichrist doth cover his vanity, not suffering them to serve God alone, nor to put all their hope in Christ alone, nor to embrace the true religion. These things, and many others, are, as it were, a cloak and garment wherewith antichrist doth cover his lying wickedness, that he may not be rejected as a pagan, or infidel, and under which he can go on to act his villainies boldly, and likethe whore. the whore of Babylon.
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<b>SEPARATION FROM ANTICHRIST</b>:
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Now it is evident, as well in the Old, as in the New Testament, that a Christian stands bound, by express command given him, toseparate himself from antichrist.
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For the Lord saith, <b>Isaiah 52:11-12</b>, "<i>Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing,go ye out of the midst of her, be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight,</i>" etc. '
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And <b>Jeremiah 1:8</b>, "<i>Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks. For lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and they shall set themselves in array against her, from thence she shall be taken</i>."
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<b>In the 16th chapter of Numbers, verse 21</b>, "<i>Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment</i>."
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And again <b>verse 6</b>, "<i>Depart, I pray you, from the tabernacle from the tabernacle of the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins</i>."
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In <b>Leviticus 20:24, 25, 27</b>, "<i>I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make yourselves abominable by beast,or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean</i>."
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Again, in <b>Exodus, chapter 34:12</b>, "<i>Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land wither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee</i>."
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And a little further, <b>verse 15</b>, "<i>Make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice. Nor shalt thou take thee a wife from among their daughters, lest they having played the harlot;</i>"
That is to say, committed idolatry.
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<b>Leviticus 15:31</b>, "<i>And therefore ye shall teach your children and bid them beware of their uncleanness, and that they may not die in them, having polluted my sanctuary</i>."
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<b>Ezekiel 11:21</b>, "<i>But the heart that walks on offending and in its offences, I will render their way upon their head, saith the Lord</i>."
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<b>Deuteronomy 20</b>, "<i>When thou shalt enter into the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, take heed thou do not according to the abominations of those people; forthe Lord abhorreth all those things: and by reason of such sins, he will blot them out. When thou shalt enter their land, thou shalt be clean, and without spot with thy God. Those people whose land thou goest to possess, hearken to the soothsayers and diviners; but thy God hath disposed otherwise in thy behalf</i>."
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Now it is manifest in the New Testament, John 12, that the Lord is come and hath suffered death, that he might gather together the children of God; and by reason of this truth of unity and separation from others, it is that he saith in <b>St. Matthew 10:35-36</b>, "<i>For I am come to separate a man from his father, and set the daughter against the mother, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law; and they of a man's household shall be his enemies</i>."
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And he hath commanded this separation, saying, "<i>Whosoever doth not forsake his father and his mother</i>," etc.
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And again, "<i>Beware of false prophets which come unto you in sheep's clothing</i>."
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Again, "<i>Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees</i>."
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"<i>Take heed lest any seduce you; for many shall come in my name, and seduce many. And then if any tell you, behold, Christ is here or there, believe them not, and walk not after them</i>."
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And in the Revelation, he warneth by his own voice, and chargeth his to go out of Babylon, saying, "<i>And I heard a voice from heaven saying, O my people, come forth out of her, and be not partakers of her sins, that ye receive none of the plagues: for her sins are come up into heaven, and the Lord remembereth her iniquity</i>." (<b>Revelation 18:4</b>)
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The apostle saith the same, "<i>Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple ofthe living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty</i>." (<b>2 Corinthians 6:14-18</b>)
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Again, <b>Ephesians 5:7-8</b>, "<i>Do not partake with them, for ye were in the way of darkness, but now ye are in the light of the Lord</i>."
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Again, <b>1 Corinthians 10:20-21</b>, "<i>I would not have you become the companions of the devil. Ye can not participate of the Lord's table and of the table of devils</i>."
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So <b>2 Thessalonians 3:6-7</b>, "<i>O brethren, we declare unto you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,that you beware of every brother walking dishonestly, and not according to the customs which you received from us. For ye know after what manner ye ought to be followers of us</i>."
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And again, a little after he saith, "<i>If there be any that obey not our word, set down in this Epistle, haveye nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed</i>."
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Again, <b>Ephesians 5:11</b>, "<i>Have no communion with the works of darkness, which are unfruitful</i>."
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And <b>2 Timothy 3:1</b>, "<i>Be it known unto you that in the latter day, there will be troublesome times</i>."
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And afterwards, "<i>Having a show of piety, but denying the power thereof, turn thyself away from such</i>."
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By what hath been said hitherto, it appears clearly what is the wickedness of antichrist, and his perverseness. Also the Lord commands our separating from him, and joining ourselves with the holy city Jerusalem. Therefore,knowing such things, the Lord having revealed them to us by his servants, and believing this revelation, according to the holy Scriptures, and being admonished by the commandments of the Lord, we do both inwardly and outwardly depart from antichrist; because we know him to be the same: and we keep company and unity with another, freely and uprightly, having no other intent or purpose, but purely and singly to please the Lord, and be saved. And by the Lord's help, we join ourselves to the truth of Christ, and his spouse, how small soever she appear, as far forth as our understanding is able to comprehend. And therefore we thought good to set down here for what causes we departed, and what kind of congregation we have, to the end that if the Lord be pleased to impart the knowledge of the same truth unto others, those that receive it may love it altogether with us.
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<b>CAUSES OF SEPERATION FROM ANTICHRIST</b>:
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Now then the causes of our separation are these ensuing. Be it known to everyone in general, and in particular, that the cause of our separation is this: namely, for the real truth's sake of our faith, and by reason of our inward knowledge of the only true God, and the unity of the divine essence in three persons; which knowledge flesh and blood doth not afford; and for the befitting service due only God; for the love of him above all things; for sanctification; and for his honour above all things and above every name; for the living hope through Christ in God; for regeneration and the inward renewing by faith, hope and charity; for the merit of Jesus Christ, with all the sufficiency of his grace and righteousness. for the communion of saints; for the remission of sins; for a holy conversation; and for a faithful accomplishment of all the commandments in the faith of Christ; for true repentance; for final perseverance and life everlasting.
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The ministerial truths are these: the outward congregating of the pastors with the people in convenient place and time, to instruct them in the truth by the ministry; leading, establishing and maintaining the church in the truth aforesaid. The said ministers press faith and a good life, and are exemplary for manners and obedience, and watchfully follow the example and work of the Lord towards the flock.
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The things which the ministers are obliged to do for the service of the people are these; the preaching of the word of the gospel; the sacraments joined to the word, which do certify what the intent and meaning thereof is, and confirm the hope in Christ, unto the faithful; the ministerial communion hath all things by the essential truth. And all other ministerial things may be reduced to the aforesaid. But as to the particular truths, some of them are essentially necessary to man's salvation, other some conditionally. They are contained in <b>the twelve articles of the Christian faith</b>. As for Antichrist, he hath reigned a good while already in the church by God's permission.
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A various and endless idolatry, against the express command of God and Christ.
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Divine worship offered not to the Creator, but to the creature, visible and invisible, corporal and spiritual, rational and sensible, natural and artificial, under the name of Christ, or saints, male and female, and of relics and authorities. Unto creatures they offer the service of worship of faith, hope, works, prayers, pilgrimages, alms, oblations and sacrifices of great price.
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And those creatures they serve, honour, and adore several ways: by songs and hymns, speeches, solemnities, and celebration of masses, vespers fitted unto the same, by certain hours, vigils, feast-days, thereby to obtain grace, which is essentially in God alone, and meritoriously in Christ, and is to be obtained by faith alone through the Holy Spirit.
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And indeed there nothing else that causeth idolatry, but the false opinions of grace, truth, authority, invocation, intercession, which this antichrist hath deprived God of, to attribute the same to these ceremonies, authorities, the works of a man's own hands, to saints, and to purgatory. And this iniquity is directly against <b>the first article of faith</b>, and against the first commandment of the law.
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Also, the excessive love of the world that is in antichrist is that from which springs such a world of sin and mischief in the church, as well in them that govern, as in them that officiate in the same; who sin without control. They are against the truth of faith, and against the knowledge of God the Father. Witness St. John saying, "He that sinneth, knoweth not, nor seeth God: for if any love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (<b>1 John 2:15</b>)
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<b>THE INIQUITY OF ANTICHRIST</b>:
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The iniquity of antichrist lies in the hope which he giveth of pardon, grace, justification, truth and life everlasting, as things not to be sought and had in Christ, nor in God by Christ, but in men, either living or already deceased; in human authorities, in ecclesiastical ceremonies,in benedictions, sacrifices, prayers, and such other things as were before mentioned; not by a true and lively faith, which worketh repentance by love, and causeth one to depart from evil, and give himself up to God. Again, antichrist teacheth not to settle a firm hope in regeneration, spiritual confirmation, communion, remission of sins, sanctification of eternal life; but to hope through the sacraments, or by means of his wretched simony (sale of indulgences), wherewith the people are greatly abused; insomuch, that putting all things to sale, he invented a number of ordinances, old and new, to get monies; that if any do such and such a thing, he shall get grace and life. And this two-fold iniquity is properly called in the Scriptures, adultery and fornication; and therefore such ministers as lead the simple people into these errors are called the whore of the Revelation. And this iniquity is against <b>the second article</b>, and again, against the second and third commandment of the law.
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The iniquity of antichrist consists in this: that he hath invented besides the matters aforesaid, certain false religious orders and rules of monasteries, putting men in hope of acquiring grace, by building certain churches; and also because they do therein often and devoutly hear mass, receive the sacraments, make confession to the priest, though seldom with contrition, observe his fasts, and empty their purse for him, and be a professed member of the church of Rome. Or if he hath dedicated or vowed himself to be of such an order, cap, or frock, all that he does press as duties contrary to all truth. And this iniquity of antichrist is directly against <b>the eighth article of the creed, "<i>I believe in the Holy Ghost</i></b>."
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The iniquity of antichrist is, notwithstanding his being <b>the fourth beast described by Daniel</b>, and <b>the whore of the Revelation</b>, he nevertheless adorns himself with the authority, power, dignity, ministry, offices, and the Scripture, and makes himself equal with the true and holy mother the church, wherein salvation is to be had ministerially, and nowhere else; wherein is found the truth of life, and doctrine, and of the sacraments,and subjects. For if he should not cover himself in this manner, his ministers being such notorious sinners, he would soon be abandoned by all: for kings and princes supposing him to be like, or equal to the true and holy mother the church, they loved him, and endued him against the commandment of God. And this iniquity of the ministers, subjects and ordained persons, given up to error and sin, is against <b>the ninth article, "<i>I believe a holy church</b></i>."
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In the second place, those that being partakers of the outward ceremonies, instituted only by human inventions, do believe and hope to partake of the reality of pastoral cures and offices, if they be shaved or shorn like lambs, and anointed or daubed like walls, and made holy by touching the mass book; and by taking the chalice into their hands, they proclaim and publish, that they are ordained lawful priests to all intents. In like manner, as is said before, the people subject to them, communicating with them by words, signs, andother outward exercises, they conceive that they partake of the truth. And this is against the other part of <b>the ninth article</b>, "<b><i>I believe the communion of saints</i></b>." But it behooves us to depart from the wicked communion of the monks, by whom carnal men were easily drawn away. Through covetousness, make men trust in things of naught, riotous and wretched, provided give liberally unto them, such men are made partakers of their poverty and chastity.
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The iniquity of antichrist consists in this: that he doth feign and promise remission of sins unto sinners, not unto the truly contrite, but such as are wilfully persevering in their evil practices: in the first place,he doth promise them forgiveness of their sins for their auricular confessions' sake, and human absolution, and through their pilgrimages. This he does out of covetousness. And this iniquity is against <b>the eleventh article</b>, "<i><b>I believe the remission of sins</b></i>." For this is in God authoritatively, and in Christ ministerially, through faith, repentance and charity, and obedience to the word, and in man by participation.
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The iniquity lies herein, that to the very end of their lives they goon, hoping and trusting thus in the forementioned iniquities and coverings, especially till they come to the extreme unction, and their invented purgatory; insomuch, that the ignorant and rude multitude do persevere in their error, they being taught and made to believe, that they are absolved of their sins, though they never really depart from them, so as to hope for <i><b>forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting</b></i>. And this iniquity is directly against <b>the eleventh and twelfth articles of the faith</b>.
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<b>SOURCE</b>:<br>
Perrin, Jean Paul, <u>History of the Old Albigenses Anterior to the Reformation</u>, originally published in 1618. Book III: Precious Remains of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Old Waldenses and Albigenses, and their Noble Testimony Against the Roman Antichrist.
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Waldenses Confession of 1120</big></b></CENTER></big>
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1. We believe and firmly maintain all that is contained in
the twelve articles of the symbol, commonly called the apostles'
creed, and we regard as heretical whatever is inconsistent with
the said twelve articles.
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2. We believe that there is one God - the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit.
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3. We acknowledge for sacred canonical scriptures the books
of the Holy Bible. <I>(Here follows the title of each, exactly
conformable to our received canon, but which it is deemed, on
that account, quite unnecessary to particularize.)</I>
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4. The books above-mentioned teach us: That there is one GOD,
almighty, unbounded in wisdom, and infinite in goodness, and who,
in His goodness, has made all things. For He created Adam after
His own image and likeness. But through the enmity of the Devil,
and his own disobedience, Adam fell, sin entered into the world,
and we became transgressors in and by Adam.
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5. That Christ had been promised to the fathers who received
the law, to the end that, knowing their sin by the law, and their
unrighteousness and insufficiency, they might desire the coming
of Christ to make satisfaction for their sins, and to accomplish
the law by Himself.
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6. That at the time appointed of the Father, Christ was born
- a time when iniquity everywhere abounded, to make it manifest
that it was not for the sake of any good in ourselves, for all
were sinners, but that He, who is true, might display His
grace and mercy towards us.
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7. That Christ is our life, and truth, and peace, and righteousness
- our shepherd and advocate, our sacrifice and priest, who died
for the salvation of all who should believe, and rose again for
their justification.
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8. And we also firmly believe, that there is no other mediator,
or advocate with God the Father, but Jesus Christ. And as to
the Virgin Mary, she was holy, humble, and full of grace; and
this we also believe concerning all other saints, namely, that
they are waiting in heaven for the resurrection of
their bodies at the day of judgment.
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9. We also believe, that, after this life, there are but two
places - one for those that are saved, the other for the damned,
which [two] we call paradise and hell, wholly denying that imaginary
purgatory of Antichrist, invented in opposition to the truth.
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10. Moreover, we have ever regarded all the inventions of
men [in the affairs of religion] as an unspeakable abomination
before God; such as the festival days and vigils of saints, and
what is called holy-water, the abstaining from flesh on certain
days, and such like things, but above all, the masses.
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11. We hold in abhorrence all human inventions, as proceeding
from Antichrist, which produce distress <I>(Alluding probably
to the voluntary penances and mortification imposed by
the Catholics on themselves)</I>, and are prejudicial to the liberty
of the mind.
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12 We consider the Sacraments as signs of holy things, or
as the visible emblems of invisible blessings. We regard it as
proper and even necessary that believers use these symbols or
visible forms when it can be done. Notwithstanding which, we
maintain that believers may be saved without these signs, when
they have neither place nor opportunity of observing them.
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13. We acknowledge no sacraments [as of divine appointment]
but baptism and the Lord's supper.
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14. We honour the secular powers, with subjection, obedience,
promptitude, and payment.
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The Apostles' Creed</b>
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I believe in God the Father Almighty <br>
And in Christ Jesus, his only Son, our Lord<br>
Who was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary<br>
Who was crucified under Pontius Pilate and was buried<br>
And the third day rose from the dead<br>
Who ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father<br>
Whence he cometh to judge the living and the dead.<br>
And in the Holy Spirit,<br>
The holy church,<br>
The resurrection of the flesh,<br>
The remission of sins,<br>
The life everlasting.
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A similar statement of faith was used during baptism by <b>Hippolytus</b> (170–235 AD), Pastor of the Church of Portus near Rome. Hippolytus wrote:
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<small><i>When the person being baptized goes down into the water, he who baptizes him, putting his hand on him, shall say: "<b>Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty?</b>" And the person being baptized shall say: "I believe." Then holding his hand on his head, he shall baptize him once. And then he shall say: "<b>Do you believe in Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and was dead and buried, and rose again the third day, alive from the dead, and ascended into heaven, and sat at the right hand of the Father, and will come to judge the living and the dead?</b>" And when he says: "I believe," he is baptized again. And again he shall say: "<b>Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, in the holy church, and the resurrection of the body?</b>" The person being baptized shall say: "I believe," and then he is baptized a third time.</i>"</small>
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Hippolytus was a disciple of Irenaeus, Pastor at Lyons, who was a disciple of Polycarp, the pastor at Smyrna, who was a disciple of the Apostl John, who was a disciple of Christ Jesus, the only Son of God.
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Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution states:
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"<b>No person except <u>a natural born Citizen</u>, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President</b>."
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<i><b>John Jay</i></b>, the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95), helps us see the danger of anyone other than a "<b>natural born Citizen</b>" holding the highest office of our Nation. It is to prevent dual loyalties. In Jay’s 25 July 1787 letter to <i><b>George Washington</i></b>, President of the Constitutional Convention (May 14 to September 17, 1787), he addressed the "<b>natural born citizen</b>" issue in these words:
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"Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government; and <b>to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but <u>a natural born citizen</u></b>."
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The meaning of this term is not set forth in The Constitution or in The Federalist Papers. What this means is that the framers of the Constitution knew exactly what it meant so there was no discussion on its definition. Jay as well as the majority, if not all, of the 53 Constitutional Delegates, 33 of whom were attorneys, knew right well the definition of "<b>natural born Citizen</b>," for they were versed in the writings of the Swiss legal expert, <i><b>Emer de Vattel</i></b> (1714-1767), who wrote, <u>The Law of Nations and Principles of Natural Law</u>. <i><b>Vattel</i></b> defines the phrase, "<b>natural born Citizen</b>" as understood by the framers of the Constitution in these words:
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"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. ... in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country." (Emer de Vattel, <u>The Law of Nations and Principles of Natural Law</u>, Vol. 1, Chap. 19, Sec. 212; 1758; Emphasis mine.)
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The preamble of the Declaration of Independence issued by Congress on July 4, 1776 made reference to <i>Natural Law</i> and was based on the <i>Natural Law</i> concepts as set forth by <i><b>Emer de Vattel</i></b>, <i><b>John Locke</i></b> and others. Given the fact of the framers of the Constitution's familiarity with <i>Natural Law</i>, there can be no doubt that the words "<b>natural born Citizen</b>," were selected by the drafting committee because the words indicate to any legally informed person that this is a special type of citizenship which is recognized in <i>Natural Law</i> and in <i><b>Vattel</b></i>’s <u>Law of Nations</u>. <i><b>Vattel</i></b> laid the foundation of modern international law, and was very influential on the American founders.
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In 1775 Swiss editor <i><b>Charles W. F. Dumas</i></b> sent <i><b>Benjamin Franklin</i></b> three copies of Vattel's <u>The Law of Nations and Principles of Natural Law</u>. <i><b>Franklin</i></b> presented one copy to the Library Company of Philadelphia, which was where the Constitutional Convention was later held. On December 9, 1775, <i><b>Franklin</i></b> thanked Dumas saying:
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"I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when <b>the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the law of nations</b>. Accordingly that copy, which I kept, ... has been <b>continually in the hands of the members of our Congress, now sitting</b>, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author. ..."
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Over two centuries after <i><b>George Washington</i></b>'s death it was found that he had an overdue library book. It was <b><i>Vattel</b></i>'s <u>Law of Nations</u>.
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Washington, Jay, Franklin and the other framers of the Constitution knew what a "<b>natural born citizen</b>" was! It was not as much that one was born in America, as it was that both parents, especially the father, were U. S. citizens.
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It is not as much if one was born in the USA as it is that both parents must be citizens of the USA. This is an attempt to prevent conflict of interest (dual loyalties). The only US law that has ever employed the exact term "<b>natural born citizen</b>" bears this fact out. The Naturalization Act of 1790 states:
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"And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered <b>natural born citizens</b> ..."
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Barack Hussein Obama by his own admission is the son of a Kenyan citizen. At the time of his birth Kenya was a British colony, meaning that his father held British citizenship, and passed it on to his son. When Kenya gained independence in December 1963, both lost British citizenship and gained Kenyan. Barack Hussein Obama was a dual citizen of the United States and Kenya until his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired in 1984, because he did not renounce U.S. nationality and swear loyalty to Kenya. Barack Hussein Obama does not meet the Constitutional requirement of being a <b>natural born Citizen</b> in that he had only one U.S. citizen parent. He was born with dual nationality, and is therefore Constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of President of the United States of America.
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Barack Hussein Obama's father was NOT even a naturalized American citizen. He was a Kenyan Socialist, and like father, like son. This is the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid.
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In reality Obama is not the President of the United States of America, and all the unConstitutional laws enacted by him should be nullified.
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<center><b><big><big><big><font color="#ff0000">PROPHECIES & SIGNS<br>OF ISRAEL'S 1948 RETURN<br>TO HER ANCIENT HOMELAND</font></center></b></big></big></big>
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<center><b><big><font color="#0000ff">THE EZEKIEL 4 PROPHECY<br>OF ISRAEL'S 1948 RETURN</font></center></b></big>
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<b>GOD CALLED CYRUS TO BUILD JERUSALEM & THE TEMPLE</b>:
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<b>Isaiah 44:28</b>: "<i>That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid</i>."
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King Cyrus of Persia was named twice by the Prophet Isaiah (44:28, 45:1) 400 years before he was born. Cyrus was the one who would free the Jews from Babylonian captivity to return to Israel. Cyrus freed the Jews exactly 70 years after Nebuchadnezzar took them into Babylonian Captivity as prophesied by the Prophet Jeremiah (25:11-12, 29:10). Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews into captivity in 606 BC and King Cyrus' decree allowing the Jews to return was issued in 536 BC.
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<b>WHILE IN THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY THE PROPHET EZEKIEL GAVE THIS STRANGE PROPHECY</b>:
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<b>Ezekiel 4:3-8</b>: "<i>Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I HAVE LAID UPON THEE THE YEARS OF THEIR INIQUITY, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS, THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS: SO SHALT THOU BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, LIE AGAIN ON THY RIGHT SIDE, AND THOU SHALT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FORTY DAYS: I have appointed thee EACH DAY FOR A YEAR. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.</i>"
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390 (Ezekiel 4:5)<br>
+40 (Ezekiel 4:6)<br>
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430
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<b>THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WOULD LAST 70 YEARS</b>:
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When Daniel received the Prophecy of 70 Weeks (Daniel 9), he had just been praying in repentance and reading Jeremiah below:
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<b>Jeremiah 25:11-12</b>: "<i>And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon SEVENTY YEARS. And it shall come to pass, when SEVENTY YEARS are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations</i>."
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<b>Jeremiah 29:10</b>: "<i>For thus saith the LORD, That AFTER SEVENTY YEARS be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to RETURN TO THIS PLACE</i>."
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390 (Ezekiel 4:5)<br>
+40 (Ezekiel 4:6)<br>
-----<br>
430<br>
-70 (Jeremiah 29:10)<br>
-----<br>
360 (360 years of captivity remaining.)
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<b>IF LESSONS FOR SINNING ARE NOT LEARNED AFTER THE FIRST LESSON; THEN PUNISHMENT WILL BE MULTIPLIED 7 TIMES</b>:
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The vast majority of the Jews were not repentant like Daniel. Ezra and Nehemiah record that only about 42,000 in fact did returned to the land of Israel. Most Jews remained in the Persian Empire, and the ones that did return did not do so in repentance. It was a similar situation again after the days of the Lord Jesus, and in 70 AD, the Romans again killed and disbursed the Jews throughout the nations.
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<b>Leviticus 26:18-28</b>: "<i>And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you SEVEN TIMES more FOR YOUR SINS. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring SEVEN TIMES more plagues upon you ACCORDING TO YOUR SINS. 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet SEVEN TIMES FOR YOUR SINS. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you SEVEN TIMES FOR YOUR SINS.</i>"
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390 (Ezekiel 4:5)<br>
+40 (Ezekiel 4:6)<br>
-----<br>
430<br>
-70 (Jeremiah 29:10)<br>
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360 (Years of captivity left, but there was no repentance.)<br>
x 7 (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24. 28)<br>
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2520 Years
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<b>THE BIBLICAL MONTH IS 30 DAYS SO THE YEAR IS 360 DAYS (12 MONTHS X 30 DAYS = 360 DAYS)</b>:
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<b>Genesis 7:11, 8:3-4</b>: "<i>In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, IN THE SECOND MONTH, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ... And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and AFTER THE END OF THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS the waters were abated. And the ark rested IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, upon the mountains of Ararat.</i>"
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From these verses we see that from the 2nd month to the 7th month is a total of 5 months, and that they totaled 150 days [5 months x 30 days each = 150 days]. Therefore each month consist of 30 days.
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390 (Ezekiel 4:5)<br>
+40 (Ezekiel 4:6)<br>
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430<br>
-70 (Jeremiah 29:10)<br>
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360 (Years of captivity left, but there was no repentance.)<br>
x 7 (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24. 28)<br>
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2520 Years<br>
x360 Days of a Biblical year.<br>
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907,200 Days in 360 Biblical years.<br>
/ 365.25 Days: as in the solar year.<br>
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2,483 Solar years.
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<b>THE LAST GENERATION IDENTIFIED</b>:
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<b>Matthew 24:3, 32-34</b>: "<i>And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING, and of the end of the world? ... 32 Now learn a parable of THE FIG TREE; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled</i>." (cf. Hosea 9:10; Joel 1:7)
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390 (Ezekiel 4:5)<br>
+40 (Ezekiel 4:6)<br>
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430<br>
- 70 (Jeremiah 29:10)<br>
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360 (Years of captivity left, but there was no repentance.)<br>
x 7 (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24. 28)<br>
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2520 Years<br>
x 360 Days of a Biblical year.<br>
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907,200 Days in 360 Biblical years.<br>
/ 365.25 Days: as in the solar year.<br>
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2,483 Solar years.
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1948 AD years till the reestablishment of Israel.<br>
+536 BC years after Cyrus' decreed for Jews to return.<br>
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2484<br>
- 1 Because there is no year zero between BC & AD.<br>
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2483
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AN AMAZING FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY!!! AND LIKEWISE THE FOLLOWING SIGN!
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<center><b><big><font color="#0000ff">BLOOD MOONS ON THE FEASTS DAYS<br>POINT TO ISRAEL'S 1948 RETURN</font></center></b></big>
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<b>TETRADS (4 BLOOD MOONS) FALLING ON THE FIRST & LAST OF THE FEASTS OF THE LORD POINT TO 1948</b>:
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SEASONS = SET TIMES:
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<b>Genesis 1:14-16</b>: "<i>And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for SIGNS, and for SEASONS, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also</i>."
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<b>Psalms 104:19</b>: "<i>He appointed the moon for SEASONS: the sun knoweth his going down</i>."
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<b>Leviticus 23:4</b>: "<i>These are the FEASTS of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their SEASONS</i>."
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The words "seasons" and "feasts" above are both translated from the same Hebrew word "moawdaw." It is translated "season" 13 times and "feast" 23 times. It's basic meaning is "set time" or "appointed times" for various things (Genesis 18:14; Exodus 9:5, 23:15; Numbers 9:2, 3, 7, 13; Joshua 8:14; 1 Samuel 13:18, 20:35; 2 Samuel 20:5; Jeremiah 8:7, 46:17; Daniel 8:19, 11:27, 29, 35; Habakkuk 2:3)
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God clearly said: "... <i>Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven ... for SIGNS, and for SEASONS</i> (Genesis 1:14). These are 2 of the purposes of "lights in the firmament of the heaven." The moon without an eclipse is to point out the time fore the set FEASTS. With an eclipse it may signify something special. With 4 total eclipses [blood moons] in a row without partial eclipses in between (tetrads) falling on the feast days, it signifies something very special.
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I can confidently say that by looking at the Bible, astronomy, history and math:
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<b>1. THE BIBLE</b>: "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED." Here in "the time of the end" we don't even have to see the eclipses because scientific knowledge has increased so greatly.
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<b>2. ASTRONOMY</b>: NASA has calculated all of the eclipses for the past 4,000 years, and listed them on their website. Since the time of Christ there have been 55 tetrads (4 total eclipses in a row without partial eclipses in between them). Of those 55 tetrads to this point only 7 of them have all fallen on the feasts (always on the 1st and 7th feasts, Passover & Tabernacles). An 8th tetrad will begin this year on Passover and end on Tabernacles in 2015. After that there will be no more tetrads on the feast days for 549 years.
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<b>3. HISTORY</b>: The very 1st tetrad after Christ's day fell on the feasts in 162-163 AD during the days of the great persecution when Polycarp was martyred (Polycarp was a famous disciple of the Apostle John). Three other early tetrads that fell on the feasts were in 795-796, 842-843 and 860-861 during the Islamic persecutions of Jews and Christian. Then there was one in 1493-1494 when Columbus was on his way to discover a land that would become a place of refuge for the Jews and become the greatest nation the earth has ever seen. But the 2 most significant tetrads have been in recent history, in our day. On Passover, April 13, 1949, a tetrad began. It was 35 days after Israel won her War of Independence and became a full fledged nation after having declared independence on May 14, 1948. The last tetrad to date began in 1967 just 45 days before Israel regained her capital, Jerusalem, on June 7, 1967 during the Six Day War. These last 2 tetrads were clearly of prophetic significance!<br>
In addition to the tetrad that began in <b>1949</b> there were 2 additional <b>partial lunar eclipses</b> that fell on <b>Passover and Tabernacles</b> in <b>1948</b>. The 1st one was on 23 April, 21 days (7 + 7 + 7 = 21) before Israel declared independence.
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<b>4. MATH</b>: Note the interesting patterns in the dates of the last 3 tetrads of the 2 sets of 4 tetrads each:
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First 4 tetrads :
1) 162 / 163 AD,<br>
2) 795 / 796 AD, 3) 842 / 843 AD, 4) 860 / 861 AD.
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843 - 795 = 48<br>
861 - 842 = 19
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Last 4 tetrads :
1) 1493 / 1494,<br>
2) 1949 / 1950, 3) 1967 / 1968, 4) 2014 / 2015.
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1968 - 1949 = 19<br>
2015 - 1967 = 48
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The last 3 tetrads of the 1st set : 48 & 19<br>
The last 3 tetrads of the 2nd set : 19 & 48
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48 19 --> ISRAEL <-- 19 48
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The 1st set looks forward to 1948 and the 2nd set looks back to it. Of course 1948 is the year Israel was reborn.
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Also, there were 632 years between the last year of the 1st tetrad after Christ and the first year of the 2nd tetrad (<b>163 AD to 795 AD</b>). The year of the death of the founder of Islam, Israel's mortal enemy, the false prophet <b>Muḥammad died on June 8, 632 AD</b>. The same number, 632, also occurs between the last year of the 4th tetrad and the first year of the 5th tetrad (<b>861 AD to 1493</b>).
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795 - 163 = 632<br>
1493 - 861 = 632
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<b>Psalm 83:1-8</b>: "<i>Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah</i>."
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Finally, note the 1st year of the 2nd tetrad and the last year of the 4th tetrad in both sets (795 & 861 and 1949 & 2015) of the 2nd and 4th tetrads that point to 1948:
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2) 795 / 796 AD<br>
4) 860 / 861 AD
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2) 1949 / 1950<br>
4) 2014 / 2015
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This year (2014), the start year of the 8th tetrad, is Israel's 66 year since reestablishment, and next year (2015) is the 66 year since the 1949 tetrad. There are also 66 books in the Bible.
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861 - 795 = 66<br>
2015 - 1949 = 66
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<b>Matthew 24:32-34</b>: "<i>Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled</i>."
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<b>Psalm 90:10</b>: "<i>The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away</i>."
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<b>Matthew 28:20</b>: "... <i>observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen</i>."
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The first thing one needs to know to be saved is that all mankind is lost in sin until they turn to Jesus Christ for salvation. God's word says:
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<b>Luke 19:10</b>: "<i>For the Son of man </i>[<b>Jesus Christ</b>]<i> is come to seek and to save that which was lost</i>."
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<u><u><b>Why</u></b> <font color="#808080">and</font> <u><b><font color="#ff0000">h</font><font color="#0000ff">o</font><font color="#ff0000">w</font></u></u></b>?
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<b>Romans 3:10-24</b>: "<i>As it is written, <b><u>There is none righteous, no, not one</b></u>: There is none that understandeth, there is <u><b>none that seeketh after God</u></b>. </i><small>["<i>We love him, because he first loved us.</i>" -- <b>1 John 4:19</b>]</small> <i> They are all gone out of <u><b><font color="#ff0000">the way</u></b></font>, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And <u><b><font color="#ff0000">the way</u></b></font> of peace have they not known </i><small>["<i>Jesus saith unto him, I am <u><b><font color="#ff0000">the way</u></b></font>, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me</i>." -- <b>John 14:6</b>]</small>: <i> <b>There is <u>no fear of God</u> before their eyes</b> </i><small>["<i><b>The fear of the LORD</b> is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.</i>" -- Proverbs 14:27</b>]</small>. <i><b>Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that <u>every mouth may be stopped</u>, and <u>all the world may become guilty before God</u></b>.</i>
<i>Therefore <b><u>by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight</u>: for by the law is the knowledge of sin</b>.</i>
<i><font color="#FF0000">But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;</i></font>
<i><font color="#FF0000">Even the righteousness of God which is <u><b><font color="#0000ff">by faith of Jesus Christ</font> unto all and <font color="#0000ff">upon all them that believe</font></u></b></font>: for there is no difference:</i>
<i><u>For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God</u>;</i>
<i><font color="#FF0000"><b>Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus</b>:</i></font>
<i><font color="#FF0000">Whom God hath set forth to be <u><b>a propitiation <font color="#0000FF"><b>through faith in his blood</font></b></u>, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins</b> that are past, <u>through the forbearance of God</u>;</font></i>
<i><font color="#FF0000">To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: <u><b>that he might be just, and the justifier of <font color="#0000FF">him which believeth in Jesus</u></b>.</i>"</font></font>
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<u><b>Who is Jesus Christ? Where does He get His Authority?</u></b>
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<b>1 John 5:7</b>: "<i>For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one</i>."
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<b>John 1:1-4, 14</b>: "<i>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ... 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth</i>."
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<b>Philippians 2:5-8</b>: "... <i>Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross</i>."
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<b>Hebrews 1:1-3</b>: "<i>God, ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high</i>."
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<b><u>Receive Jesus Through Repentance and Faith</b></u>.
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Jesus is righteous just and holy, and at the same time merciful, full of grace and loving. He extends a pardon of sins to all who will receive it, not by good deeds or works, but by repentance and faith. Repentance is the fear of the Lord and sorrow for one's sins. Faith is fully trusting Jesus for salvation. The Lord Jesus said:
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<b>Revelation 1:18</b>: "<i>I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death</i>."
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<b>Luke 12:4-5</b>: "<i>And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him</i>."
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<b>Proverbs 8:13, 9:10, 10:27, 14:26-27, 15:33, 16:6, 19:23, 22:4</b>:<br>
"<i>The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. ... The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. ... The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. ... In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. ... The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility. ... By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. ... The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. ... By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life</i>."
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<b>James 1:21</b>: "<i>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and RECEIVE with meekness THE ENGRAFTED WORD, which is able to save your souls</i>."
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<b>Romans 10:8-10, 12, 17</b>: "<i>But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ... 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ... 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God</i>."
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<b>Romans 6:23</b>: "<i>For THE WAGES OF SIN is death; but THE GIFT OF GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord</i>."
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<b>Ephesians 2:8-9</b>: "<i>For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is THE GIFT OF GOD: Not of works, lest any man should boast</i>."
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<b>Titus 3:5-7</b>: "<i>Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life</i>."
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Won't you receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord? Just ask Him to save you, right now. Silently bow your head right where you are and tell Him you are sorry for your sins, and need His free gift of salvation.
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<b>1 John 5:4-5</b>: "<i>For whatsoever is born of God <b>OVERCOMETH</b> the world: and this is the <b>VICTORY</b> that <b>OVERCOMETH</b> the world, even our faith. Who is he that <b>OVERCOMETH</b> the world, but <b>he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God</b></i>?"
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<b>1 Corinthians 15:56-57</b>: "<i>The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the <b>VICTORY</b> through our Lord Jesus Christ</i>."
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<b>Acts 4:12</b>: "<i>Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved</i>."
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<b>1 Timothy 2:5-6</b>: "<i>For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time</i>."
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<b>Revelation 21:7-8</b>: "<i>He that OVERCOMETH shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But <u>the fearful</u> </i><small>[<i>"The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?</i>" -- <b>Psalms 118:6</b>]<i></small>, and <u>unbelieving</u> </i><small>[<i>"The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.</i>" -- <b>Proverbs 29:25</b>]<i></small>, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death</i>."
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<b>Revelation 20:14-15</b>: "<i>And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was <b>cast into the lake of fire</b>.</i>"
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<b>John 3:16, 36</b>: "<i>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ... He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him</i>."
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<b>John 1:12-13</b>: "<i>But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God</i>."
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Receive Him as your Saviour right now. You may not have a tomorrow! It is the most important decision of your life. Where you spend eternity depends upon your decision to receive or reject Jesus Christ!
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An investigative report of the September 2008 global economic crisis. A look at the world of greed and recklessness that led to financial collapse.
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First we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.
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The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned back the clock to 1929.
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But how did it all go so wrong? Lack of government regulation; easy lending in the US housing market meant anyone could qualify for a home loan with no government regulations in place. Additionally, London was competing with New York as the banking capital of the world. Gordon Brown, the British finance minister at the time, introduced 'light touch regulation' - giving bankers a free hand in the marketplace.
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All this, and with key players making the wrong financial decisions, saw the world's biggest financial collapse.
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<center><b><big><big><big>T</big>HE <big>B</big>IBLICAL <big>C</big>ONNECTION</big><br>The Shamittah</b></big></center>
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The Shamittah which occurred just after 9/11 on the Feast of Trumpets:
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<b>Deuteronomy 15:1-2</b> says:
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"<i>At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release [shamittah], And this is the manner of the release [shamittah]: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release [shamat] it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’S release</i> [<b>shamittah</b>]."
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The Hebrew "shamita" or "shamittah" (literally: "release") begins on the first day of the new Sabbatical Year or seven year cycle. Personal debts are considered forgiven as of the end of this 7th year. This day also ends the year long rest of the land which was mandated in the Law of Moses for the Land of Israel (Ex. 23:10-11; Lev. 25:1-7; Deut. 15:1-9, 31:10-11). The land rests during the seventh year, just as no work was to be done on the seventh day.
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The Hebrew Calendar has two different New Years: One for the Biblical Feast Days which begins on the first of the seven feasts, Passover (during the March / April time frame; The Biblical month of Nisan, also called Abib). The other is the Civil Calendar that begins during the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah, which means "the head of the year") on the first day of the Jewish month of Tishrei (September / October time frame). The first of Tishrei is when the numbered year changes, and this date is most significant for determining the Shemittah (release) and Yovel (Jubilee) years. Jubilee's come after 7 Shemittahs (49 years), at the beginning of the 50th year on the 10th of Tishrei which is the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).
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Today the Jubilee is not observed, because all 12 tribes must be present in the land, but all of the 12 cannot be identified at this time. In my research I have not yet been able to pen down the lateset and next Jubilee. Some believe the last Jubilee was on September 27, 2001, and some believe it will be on September 23, 2015, just after the next Shemittah.
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The Shemittah is still observed in contemporary Judaism. Since the reestablishment of Israel in 1948 the Shamittah years have been observed in 1950-1951 (The Hebrew calendar year of 5712), 1958-1959 (5719), 1965-1966 (5726), 1972-1973 (5733), 1979-1980 (5740), 1986-1987 (5747), 1993-1994 (5754), 2000-2001 (5761), 2007-2008 (5768), and the next Shamittah will be 2014-2015 (5775).
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It is very interesting that when the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) reopened on Monday, September 17, 2001, just 6 days after 9/11, that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed down 7%, having fallen 684 points by the end of trading. It was the biggest-ever one-day point decline up until that time. By the end of the week, the DJIA had fallen 1369.7 points (14.3%), its largest one-week point drop in history. It cannot be a coincidence that by the time the NYSE closed on September 17, 2001 it was Tishrei 1, 5762 in Israel on the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashana) which was also the Shemittah, the day of the release of debts. (See September 2001 Calendar with Biblical months, days and feast days)
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But that's not all! Seven years later and on the next Shemittah on September 30, 2008, in Israel, the 29th in New York the same thing happened again. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 7% again, this time having dropped 777 points. Approximately $1.2 trillion of the market value was lost. (See September 2008 Calendar with Biblical months, days and feast days)
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Here is a list of the top 10 largest one-day point declines of Dow Jones Industrial Average [DJIA] ever:
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"><b><big> CHANGE </big></b></td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font color="#ff0000">9/29/2008</font> </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 10,365.45 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -777.68 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -6.98% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font align="right"><font color="#ff0000">10/15/2008</font> </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 8,577.91 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -733.08 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -7.87% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font color="#ff0000">9/17/2001 </font></font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 8,920.70 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -684.81 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -7.13% </td> </font>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 12/1/2008 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 8,149.09 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -679.95 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -7.70% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font color="#ff0000">10/9/2008 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 8,579.19 </font></font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -678.91 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -7.33% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font color="#ff0000">8/8/2011</font> </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font align="right">10,809.85 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -634.76 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -5.55% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 4/14/2000 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font align="right">10,305.77 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -617.78 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -5.66% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 7,161.14 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -554.27 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -7.18% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 10/22/2008 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 8,519.21 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -514.45 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -5.69% </td>
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<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> 8/4/2011 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> <font align="right">11,383.68 </font></td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -512.76 </td>
<td style='border: 0px solid #bbb;' valign="top"> -4.31% </td>
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</table> <b>SOURCE</b>: <A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3047-djia_alltime.html?mod=mdc_uss_pglnk" TARGET="_blank"><i>WSJ Market Data Group</i></a></center>
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The top 3 losses in <font color="#ff0000">red</font> on the above chart fell on 2 of the 7 <A HREF="http://bible.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/feasts.html" TARGET="_blank">Biblical feast days</a>, <b>Trumpets</b> (a picture of the Rapture of the saved) and <b>Tabernacles</b> (a picture of the Millennial reign of Christ). Two other <b>top loss days</b> also in <font color="#ff0000">red</font> fell on the <b>Day of Atonement</b> (a picture of the Tribulation), and on "<i><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B%27Av" TARGET="_blank">the saddest day in Jewish history</a></i>," <b>the 9th of Av</b>:
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1. <font color="#ff0000"><b>September 29, 2008</b></font> was <b>the Feast of Trumpets</b> (Rosh Hashana) when the market lost 777 points (<u>Sabbatical or Shamittah Year</u>).<br>
2. <font color="#ff0000"><b>October 15, 2008</b></font> was on <b>the Feast of Tabernacles</b> (Sukkot) when the market lost 733 points.<br>
3. <font color="#ff0000"><b>September 17, 2001</b></font> was <b>the Feast of Trumpets</b> (Rosh Hashana) when the market lost 684 points <u>Sabbatical or Shamittah Year</u>.<br>
4. <font color="#ff0000"><b>October 9, 2008</b></font> was on <b>the Day of Atonement</b> (Yom Kippur) when the market lost 678 points (the 5th greatest one day loss ever).<br>
5. <font color="#ff0000"><b>August 8, 2011</b></font> saw a loss of 634 points. It was the day of fasting and mourning the destruction of both Temples first by the Babylonians in 586 B.C on <b>the 9th of Av</b>, and again in 70 AD by the Romans again on <b>the 9th of Av</b>.
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<b>The Buttonwood Agreement</b>:
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A very interesting side note at this point is that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) can be traced back to the signing of <b>the Buttonwood Agreement</b> on May 17th, 1792, <img src="http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/9-11-2001pics/buttonwood-agreement.jpg" border="10" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10" style="width: 275px; height: 275px;">just 3 years after the founding of the United States. The Buttonwood Agreement was struck by a group of 24 stockbrokers, bankers and merchants at 68 Wall Street, under a <u>buttonwood tree</u>. The first company to be listed was the Bank of New York. The most interesting thing for our purpose is the fact that a <i>buttonwood tree</i> is just another name for a <i>sycamore tree</i>. The Buttonwood Agreement was signed just 2 or 3 blocks from where a bronze sculpture of the root system of the Sycamore Tree that was struck down during the 9/11 attack stands. This is the tree that protected St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest standing structure in NYC, where President Washington, the House and Senate went to pray after Washington's inauguration which is also just a few blocks from the NYSE. Read more about this <a href="http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/9-11-2001Signs.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>.
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It appears that the LORD is using the <i>New York Stock Exchange</i> as a point of reference in His warning of the people of the United States of America of His impending Judgement!
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<b>The Shemittah of 2015 will Coincide with Signs in the Heavens</b>:
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On the 4th day of Creation "... <i>God said, LET THERE BE <u><b>LIGHTS IN THE FIRMAMENT</u></b> OF THE HEAVEN to divide the day from the night; and LET THEM BE <u><b>FOR SIGNS</u></b>, and for seasons, and for days, and years</i>." (<b>Genesis 1:14</b>)
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Again the Bible says, "<i>And I will shew <b>wonders in heaven above</b>, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: <b>The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood<u> <big>BEFORE</big> that great and notable day of the Lord come</b></u>: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.</i>." (<b>Acts 2:19-21</b>)
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And again in the New Testament, the Lord Jesus said, "<i>And there shall be <b><u>SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON</u>, and in the stars</b>; and upon the earth <b>distress of nations</b>, with perplexity; the sea and <b>the waves roaring</b>; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And WHEN THESE THINGS <b><u>BEGIN TO COME TO PASS</b></u>, THEN LOOK UP, AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS; FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH</i>." (<b>Luke 21:25-28</b>)
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There have been 7 special Lunar Tetrads since the Lord Jesus Christ walked the earth, and there is an 8th coming up in the 2014 / 2015 time frame. The word <i><b>tetrad</b></i> is synonymous with the words <i>quadruplet</i> and <i>four</i>. It is defined as "a group or arrangement of four." So a Lunar Tetrad is an arranged grouping of four total lunar eclipses. The arrangement of tetrads we are referring to is as follows: Total eclipses during 2 consecutive years on the first and last of the 7 "<A HREF="http://bible.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/feasts.html" TARGET="_blank"><i>feasts of the LORD</i></a>" (<b>Leveticus 23:4</b>). The first and last of the 7 feasts are Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles. A total eclipse is also called a "<i><b><font color="#ff0000">Blood Moon</font></b></i>" (See the time accelerated animation of a Blood Moon to the right). The Blood Moon is mentioned in both the Old and New testaments (cf. Joel 2:31, Acts 2:20, Rev. 6:12).
<br><br>.JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-25917213805167751342013-12-28T01:11:00.004-06:002013-12-28T08:50:27.165-06:00The NWO
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The Bible speaks of "<i>the mystery of iniquity</i>" (<b>2 Thess. 2:7</b>), "<i>the synagogue of Satan</i>" (<b>Rev. 2:9, 3:9</b>) and "<i>the depths of Satan</i>" (<b>Rev. 2:24</b>). In modern vanacular we call these the New World Order, the Illuminati, and Luciferianism.
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I do NOT subscribe to the late William Guy Carr's theology, but he documents well the plans of "<i>the synagogue of Satan</i>" in his book, <u>Satan, Prince of This World</u>. Below are a few excerpts from Carr's book to familiarize you with the plans of "<i>the mystery of iniquity</i>."
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"Very few historians seem to realized that early in the 1700s, long before [Adam] Weishaupt was retained, by the newly formed House of Rothschild, to revise and modernize the age old conspiracy to bring about a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, the so-called Internationalists had infiltrated into America. The works of those historians who do mention this fact have been suppressed. There is documentary evidence which proves these subversives were active as early as 1746. They celebrated May 1, 1776 as the day on which Weishaupt finished the revision of the age old conspiracy and gave the name Illuminati to those selected to direct the conspiracy, and put his revised plans into effect. Millions upon millions of people have celebrated May Day ever since ..." [p. 50]
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"As the Illuminatis courier rode through the town of Ratisbon, on his way to Paris to deliver Mirabeau his copy of Weishaupts revised plans, the courier was killed by a stroke of lightning. This event occurred in 1784. The police turned the documents found on the body over to Bavarian government authorities. Examination revealed them to be the 'Protocols of the order and sect of the Illuminati. The word Protocol' means: 'A copy of the original draft of a plan to achieve a definite purpose and reach a clearly defined goal'" [p. 51]
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"The Bavarian government had got hold of the Protocols of the Luciferian conspiracy as revised by Adam Weishaupt between 1770 and 1776. They knew how Weishaupt intended to use The Order and Sect of the Illuminati to put his modernized plans into effect. The documents further disclosed that the Lodges of the Grand Orient were to be used as the secret headquarters of those who directed the conspiracy, to destroy all remaining governments and religions, throughout the world. They also revealed that the Illuminati intended to infiltrate into all other secret societies, but particularly into Continental (Blue) Freemasonry, for the purpose of contacting wealthy and influential people over whom they wished to obtain control so they could be used to further the Illuminatis secret plans to bring about a One World Government." [p. 51]
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"Copies of the conspiracy were sent by the Bavarian government to ALL heads of Church and state in Europe. History proves these warnings were ignored because Weishaupts Illuminati had already been placed in key positions behind the scenes of government, both secular and religious, as Experts and Advisers. They denounced the evidence as a forgery. They claimed it was part of a huge practical joke being perpetrated by those who wished to ridicule the heads of Church and state. But the French revolution broke out on schedule, and history proves that the conspiracy has been developed since 1776 EXACTLY as Weishaupt intended. Today, it is in its semi-final stage." [p. 51]
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"Two Italians, the Marquis Constanza, and the Marquis Savioli joined Weishaupt in Switzerland. This explains why the Italian Guiseppe Mazzini was selected to direct the World Revolutionary programme in 1834; and was succeeded by another Italian, Adriano Lemmi, in 1872 when Mazzini died. With devilish cunning Weishaupt and his fellow conspirators made those in authority believe that the Illuminati had died a natural death in 1786. The truth is the plot to bring what remains of the human race under a totalitarian dictatorship has never ended. It blossomed forth under new names and disguises in all parts of the world." [p. 51]
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Guiseppe Mazzini was initiated into the Carbonari and Grand Orient Masonry, in 1827. Weishaupt ordered him to go to America and secretly develop the part America was to play in the final stages of the Luciferian conspiracy." [p. 61]
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Documentary evidence proves that [Albert] Pike was ... the High Priest of the Luciferian ideology on this earth, and as such, controlled the Synagogue of Satan. His military blueprint called for THREE WORLD WARS, and three major revolutions, to bring Weishaupts revised version of the age-old Luciferian conspiracy to its final stage. In the 1860s he is recorded as saying his military programme might take one hundred years or a little longer to reach the day when those who direct the conspiracy AT THE TOP will crown their leader King-despot of the entire world, and impose a Luciferian totalitarian dictatorship upon what is left of the human race." [p. 65]
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"According to Pikes military blueprint, drawn up between 1859 and 1871, three global wars and three major revolutions were to place the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed in position to usurp world powers. Two World Wars have been fought according to schedule. The Russian and Chinese revolutions have achieved success. Communism has been built up in strength and Christendom weakened. World War Three is now in the making. If it is allowed to break out, all remaining nations will be further weakened, and Islam and political Zionism will be destroyed as world powers." [p. 29]
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"The Third World War was planned by Pike nearly a century ago. It is now in the making. The final social cataclysm as he explained it to Mazzini August 15, 1871, and as it has been explained to members of the Palladian Rite and Grand Orient Lodges by lecturers ever since 1885, is to be made to involve not only Roman Catholicism but the whole of the so-called Christian world, and the masses who are now controlled by Communism in Russia and China. Freemasonry and Judaism are also to be destroyed in order that the Luciferian ideology, The New Order, may be established on the ruins of ALL the old orders. Gentiles and Jews, Communists and Freemasons should not fool themselves. They and their beliefs are ALL marked down for complete liquidation, as are all other political, religious, social service, and similar organizations." [p. 59]
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<b>Revelation 13:11, 14-18:</b> "<i>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. ... </i><b>14 </b><i>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 <u><b>MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST</b></u>, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. </i><b>15</b><i> 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. </i><b>16</b><i> And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to<b> receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads</b>: </i><b>17</b><i> And that NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK, OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST, or the number of his name. </i><b>18</b><i> 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</i>." ("Six hundred threescore and six" = 666)
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<b>Daniel 9:27: </b>"<i>And he</i> [the Beast] <i>shall confirm the covenant with many for one week </i>[7 years]<i>: and in the midst of the week </i>[after 3 & 1/2 years]<i> he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and FOR THE <u><b>OVERSPREADING OF ABOMINATIONS</b></u> HE SHALL MAKE IT DESOLATE, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." </i>("Overspreading" as with a net.)<b>Daniel 11:31-36:</b><i> "And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and THEY SHALL<b> <u>PLACE</u> THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKETH DESOLATE</b>. </i><b>32 </b><i>And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. </i><b>33</b><i> And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. </i><b>34</b><i> Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. </i><b>35</b><i> And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. </i><b>36</b><i> And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done."</i> (cf. 2 Thess. 2:3-4)
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<b>Revelation 14:9-12:</b><i> "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, <u><b>IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD</b></u><b><u>, OR IN HIS HAND,</u> </b></i><u><b>10</b></u><i><u><b> THE SAME SHALL DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD</b></u>, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: </i><b>11</b><i> <b>And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name</b>. </i><b>12</b><i> Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
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</i><b>Daniel 12:11-12:</b><i> "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKETH DESOLATE <b><u>SET UP</u></b>, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. </i><b>12</b><i> Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days."
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</i><div align="left"><b>Matthew 24:15-16, 21:</b><i> "WHEN YE THEREFORE SHALL SEE <b>THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,</b> SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET, <b>STAND IN THE HOLY PLACE</b>, (whoso readeth, let him understand) </i><b>16 </b><i>Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: ... </i><b>21</b><i> For THEN SHALL BE <u><b>GREAT TRIBULATION</b></u>, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."</i>
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<font color="Blue"><b><font size="4">English Gamatria</font></b></font>
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Below are words totaling 666 using English Gematria use the following formula:</font>
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<b><b><font color="Blue">A = 6, B = 12, C = 18, D = 24, E = 30, F = 36, G = 42, H = 48, I = 54, J = 60, K = 66, L = 72, M = 78, N = 84, O = 90, P = 96, Q = 102, R = 108, S = 114, T = 120, <br /> U = 126, V = 132, W = 138, X = 144, Y = 150, Z = 156</font></b>
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</b><font size="2"><font color="Blue">To learn more about English Gamatria click here > </font></font><b><a href="http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/6=AGematria.html" target="_blank"><font size="2"><font color="#ff0000">CALCULATOR</font></font></a></b>
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<font size="2"><b>MARK OF BEAST = 666
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BEAST TEST = 666
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THE DATA BEAST = 666
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CAUSES MARK = 666
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A SATANIC MARK = 666
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SATAN'S SEAL = 666
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A SATANIC PLAN = 666
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FOREHEAD SIGN = 666</b>
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<b>THE HAND OR HEAD = 666</b> ("... <i>he causeth all ... to receive a mark in their <b>right hand</b>, or in their <b>foreheads</b></i>." -- </font><font size="2"><b><font size="2">Rev 13:16</font></b>)
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<font size="2"><b><font size="2"><b><font size="2"><b><font size="2"><b>WORLD NET = 666</b> </font></b></font></b></font></b><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2">("... [The Beast] <i>shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for<b> the overspreading of abominations</b> he shall make it desolate</i> ..." -- <b>Dan 9:27</b>)<br />
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</b></font></b></font></b></font></b></font> </font></b></font><font size="2"><b><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><b>AI SYSTEM = 666</b> </font></font></font></b><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2">(Artificial Intelligence or AI. "<i>And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth ... saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast .... And he had power to <b>give life unto the image of the beast</b>, 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</i>." -- </font></font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><b>Rev 13:14-15</b></font></font></font></font>) <br />
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ANTIMONY = 666</b> (Antimony is a metallic element used in the manufacture <b>semiconductor devices</b>, etc. It's chemical element symbol is <a href="http://chemistry.wikia.com/wiki/Antimony" target="_blank">Sb</a> which is for the Latin word, "<a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Latin_meaning_of_%27antimony%27" target="_blank">stibium</a>" which means "<b>mark</b>.")<br />
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<b>BIO-IMPLANT = 666</b> ("... he causeth all ... to receive a mark <b>IN</b> their right hand, or <b>IN</b> their foreheads." --</font><font size="2"><b><font size="2">Rev 13:16</font>)<br />
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<b>A CHIP SCANNER = 666<br />
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DIGITAL ID CHIP = 666<br />
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CRYSTAL ID = 666<br />
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SATAN'S <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Implanted-ID-chip-finds-way-into-ERs,-bars/2100-1041_3-5545802.html" target="_blank">RFID</a> = 666 <br />
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<a href="http://news.cnet.com/Human-chips-more-than-skin-deep/2009-1008_3-5318076.html" target="_blank">RFID EMBEDDED MEN</a> = 666 </b><br />
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<b>A RFID NUMBER = 666</b><br />
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<b>A RFID MARKING = 666</b><br />
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<b>RFID BODYTAG = 666</b><br />
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<b>RFID SCANNER = 666</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.mondexusa.com/" target="_blank">MONDEX</a> CHIP = 666</b></font><font size="2"> (Mondex is a compound of the words Monetary and Dexter. Monetary means: pertaining to money; Dexter means: right hand)<br />
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<b><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ALU" target="_blank">LUCENT TECH</a> = 666</b> (Some say Lucent stands for Lucifer Enterprises. They had an office at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Lucent merged with Alcatel, a French company, and became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent" target="_blank">Alcatel-Lucent</a> in December of 2006.)</font>
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<b><font size="2">A ADSX BIO CHIP = 666 </font></b>(Rev 13:16-17; ADSX was the old NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Applied Digital Solutions.)
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<b><font size="2"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=DIGA" target="_blank">DIGA</a> E-IMPLANT = 666</font></b> (DIGA was the new NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Applied Digital Solutions till they changed their name.)
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<b><font size="2"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VTEQ" target="_blank">VTEQ</a> BEAST = 666</font></b> (Applied Digital Solutions changed their name to VeriTeQ Corp., and their new NASDAQ stock ticker symbol to VTEQ.)
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<b>DIGA VERICHIP = 666</b><br />
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<a href="http://global.verifone.com/solutions-services/security/verishield-retain/" target="_blank"><b>VERISHIELD</a> = 666</b>
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<b><font size="2"><a href="https://www.paypal.com" target="_blank">PAYPAL.COM</a> = 666</font></b><br />
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Dr. Jerry R. Church: Called to Eternal Glory on March 22, 2011
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J. R. Church left us on March 22, 2011 and is now in the presence of Jesus. Like the Apostle Paul, he can now say, “<i>Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing</i>." (<b>2 Timothy 4:8</b>) He influenced many lives and will be greatly missed.
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J. R. was a true prophetic visionary who founded this ground-breaking ministry in 1979. His system of prophetic interpretation has led the way in understanding the astonishing growth and influence of latter day Israel and the things that lie just ahead.
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Since many churches are now abandoning the study of eschatology, there is more need than ever for people to hear J.R.’s clear message of end-time prophecy. This is the reason Prophecy in the News exists. It was the desire of J.R. and his wife Linda that this ministry continue on, and with your help and support it will.
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J.R. is now experiencing all the joys of heaven. He’s met Jesus face to face and has seen Him in all His glory. In Peter’s 1st letter, Chapter 5:10-11, there’s a thought that carried J.R. through his last difficult days. “But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
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Before his passing, J.R. was tremendously excited about the nearness of the Rapture. He’ll be coming back soon to greet us in the air with the Lord!
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<b>EXCELLENT BOOKS ON MY SHELF BY BROTHER CHURCH</b>:<br>
<u>Daniel Reveals the Bloodline of the Antichrist</u>, 2010<br>
<small>Commentary on the Book of Daniel</small>
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<u>They Pierced the Veil and Saw the Future</u>, 1993<br>
<small>Brief commentary on the Minor Prophets</small>
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<u>Mystery of the Menorah</u>, with Gary Stearman, 1993<br>
<small>The Menorah and the Hebrew Alphabet</small>
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<u>Guardians of the Grail</u>, 1989<br>
<small>Concerns the coming world government</small>
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<u>Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms</u>, 1986<br>
<small>Correlation of Historical Dates with the Chapters of Psalms</small>
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<u>The Armageddon Syndrome</u>, 1985<br>
<small>The reestablishment of Israel & other end time prophecies</small>
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<br>.JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-83240333769794740972013-11-22T11:05:00.001-06:002013-11-22T11:09:06.005-06:00Salvation From Hell<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>OW TO BE <span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>AVED FROM <span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>ELL</b></span></span></div>
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The first thing one needs to know to be saved is that all mankind is
lost in sin until they turn to Jesus Christ for salvation. God's word
says: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Luke 19:10</b>: "<i>For the Son of man </i>[Jesus Christ]<i> is come to seek and to <b><u>save</u></b> that which was <b><u>lost</u></b></i>." <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><u><b>Why</b></u> <span style="color: dimgrey;">and</span> <u><b><span style="color: red;">h</span><span style="color: blue;">o</span><span style="color: red;">w</span></b></u>? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Romans 3:10-24</b>: "<i>As it is written, <b><u>There is none righteous, no, not one</u></b>: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. </i>["<i>We love him, because he first loved us.</i>" -- 1 John 4:19] 12 <i>They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; <b><u>there is none that doeth good, no, not one</u></b>.</i> 13 <i>Their throat is an open sepulchre; <b><u>with their tongues they have used deceit</u></b>; the poison of asps is under their lips:</i> 14 <i>Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:</i> 15 <i>Their feet are swift to shed blood:</i> 16 <i>Destruction and misery are in their ways:</i> 17 <i>And <b><u><span style="color: red;">the way</span></u> of peace have they not known</b> </i>["<i>Jesus saith unto him, <b><u>I am the way</u></b>, the truth, and the life: <u>no man</u> cometh unto the Father, but by me.</i>" -- John 14:6]: 18 <i><b>There is <u>no fear of God</u> before their eyes</b>.</i> 19 <i><b>Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that <u>every mouth may be stopped</u>, and <u>all the world may become guilty before God</u></b>.</i> 20 <i>Therefore <b><u>by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight</u>: for by the law is the knowledge of sin</b>.</i> 21 <i><span style="color: red;">But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;</span></i> 22 <i><span style="color: red;">Even the righteousness of God which is <u><b><span style="color: blue;">by faith of Jesus Christ</span> unto all and <span style="color: blue;">upon all them that believe</span></b></u></span></i><i>: for there is no difference:</i> 23 <i><u>For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God</u>;</i> 24 <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus</b>:</span></i> 25 <i><span style="color: red;">Whom God hath set forth to be <u><b>a propitiation <span style="color: blue;"><b>through faith in his blood</b></span></b></u><b>, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins</b> that are past, <u>through the forbearance of God</u>;</span></i> 26 <i><span style="color: red;">To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: <u><b>that he might be just, and the justifier of <span style="color: blue;">him which believeth in Jesus</span></b></u><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span></i><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: blue;">"</span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">Who is Jesus Christ? Where does He get His authority? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>1 John 5:7</b>: "<i>For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, <b><u>the Word</u></b>, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>John 1:1-4, 14</b>: "<i>In the beginning was <b><u>the Word</u></b>, and <b><u>the Word</u></b> was with God, and <b><u>the Word</u></b> was God.</i> <i>The same was in the beginning with God.</i> <i>All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.</i> <i>In him was life; and the life was the light of men.</i> ... <i>And <b><u>the Word was made flesh</u></b>, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Philippians 2:5-8</b>: "... <i>Christ Jesus:</i> <i>Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be <b><u>equal with God</u></b>:</i> <i>But <b><u>made himself of no reputation</u></b>, and <b><u>took upon him the form of a servant</u></b>, and was <b><u>made in the likeness of men</u></b>:</i> <i>And being found in fashion as a man, <b><u>he humbled himself</u>, and became <u>obedient unto death</u>, even <u>the death of the cross</u></b></i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Hebrews 1:1-3</b>: "<i>God, ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by <b><u>his Son</u></b>, whom he hath appointed <b><u>heir of all things</u></b>, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and <b><u>the express image of his person</u></b>, and upholding all things by the word of his power, <b><u>when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high</u></b></i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">Jesus is righteous just and
holy, and at the same time merciful, full of grace and loving. He
extends a pardon of sins to all who will receive it, not by good deeds
or works, but by repentance and faith. <u><b>Repentance</b></u> is the fear of the Lord and sorrow for one's sins. <u><b>Faith</b></u> is fully trusting Jesus for salvation. The Lord Jesus said: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Luke 12:4-5</b>: "<i>And I say unto you my
friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have
no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear:
<b><u>Fear him, which</u> after he hath killed <u>hath power to cast into hell</u>; yea, I say unto you, <u>Fear him</u></b></i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>James 1:21</b>: "<i>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and <span style="color: blue;">RECEIVE</span> with meekness <span style="color: blue;">THE ENGRAFTED WORD</span>, which is able to save your souls.</i>" </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Romans 10:8-10, 12, 17</b>: "<i>But what saith it? <span style="color: blue;">The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart</span>: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;</i> <i>That <b><u>if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved</u></b>.</i> <i><b><u>For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness</u></b>; and with the mouth confession is made <b><u>unto</u></b> salvation.</i> ... <i>For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ... </i> <i><b>So then faith cometh by hearing, and <span style="color: blue;">hearing by <u>the word of God</u></span></b>.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Romans 6:23</b>: "<i>For THE WAGES OF SIN is <b><u>death</u></b>; but THE GIFT OF GOD is <b><u>eternal life</u></b> <span style="color: red;">through Jesus Christ our Lord</span></i><span style="color: red;">."</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Ephesians 2:8-9</b>: "<i>For <b>by grace</b> are ye <span style="color: red;">saved</span> <b>through faith</b>; and that not of yourselves: it is THE GIFT OF GOD: Not of works, lest any man should boast</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Titus 3:5-7</b>: "<i><b>Not by works of righteousness which we have done</b>, but <span style="color: red;"><b>according to his mercy he saved us</b></span>,
by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which
he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being
<b><span style="color: red;">justified by his grace</span></b>, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">Won't you receive Jesus
Christ as your Saviour and Lord? Just ask Him to save you, right now.
Silently bow your head right where you are and tell Him you are sorry
for your sins, and need His free gift of salvation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>1 John 5:4-5</b>: "<i>For whatsoever is born of
God OVERCOMETH the world: and this is the VICTORY that OVERCOMETH the
world, even our faith. Who is he that OVERCOMETH the world, but he
that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>1 Corinthians 15:56-57</b>: "<i>The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to
God, which giveth us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Acts 4:12</b>: "<i><b><span style="color: red;">Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.</span></b></i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>1 Timothy 2:5-6</b>: "<b><i><span style="color: red;">For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
time.</span></i></b>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Revelation 21:7-8</b>: "<i><span style="color: blue;">He that <b>OVERCOMETH</b></span> shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he <span style="color: blue;">shall be my son</span>. But <b><span style="color: red;">the fearful</span></b> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">["<i>The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?</i>" -- <b>Psalms 118:6</b>]</span><i>, and <span style="color: red;"><b>unbelieving</b></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">["The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe." -- <b>Proverbs 29:25</b>]</span></span><i>, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in <b><span style="color: red;"> the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone</span></b>: which is <b><span style="color: red;">the second death</span></b>.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: dimgrey;">The first 2 of the sins listed above, <b><u>fear</u></b> and <b><u>unbelief</u></b>,
are the main one's that cause people to go to hell. Unbelief is the
only sin that can never be forgiven, and fear of what people will think
and say are one of the main things that prevent people from believing in
Jesus Christ! </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Revelation 1:18</b>: "<i>I am he that <b>liveth</b>, and <b>was dead</b>; and, behold, I am <b>alive for evermore</b>, Amen; and <b><u>have the keys of hell and of death</u></b>.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Proverbs 8:13, 9:10, 10:27, 14:26-27, 15:33, 16:6, 19:23, 22:4</b>: "<i>T<b>he fear of the LORD</b> is to <span style="color: red;">hate evil</span>: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. ... <b>The fear of the LORD</b> is the beginning of wisdom: and <span style="color: red;">the knowledge of the holy</span> is understanding. ... <b>The fear of the LORD</b> <span style="color: blue;">prolongeth days</span>: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. ... In <b>the fear of the LORD</b> is <b><span style="color: blue;">strong confidence</span></b>: and his children shall have <span style="color: blue;">a place of refuge</span>. <b>The fear of the LORD</b> is <span style="color: blue;">a fountain of <b>life</b></span>, to depart from the snares of death. ... <b>The fear of the LORD</b> is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is <span style="color: blue;">humility</span>. ... By <b><span style="color: blue;">mercy and</span></b> <span style="color: blue;"><b>truth</b></span> iniquity is purged: and by <b>the fear of the LORD</b> men <span style="color: red;">depart from evil</span>. ... <b>The fear of the LORD</b> tendeth to <span style="color: blue;"><b>life</b></span>: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. ... By humility and <b>the fear of the LORD</b> are riches, and honour, and <b> <span style="color: blue;">life</span></b></i>." <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><span style="color: dimgrey;">This is the only <u>unpardonable sin</u> there is:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>1 John 5:9-12</b>: "<i>If we receive the
witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness
of God which he hath testified of his Son. <b><span style="color: blue;">He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:</span> <span style="color: red;">he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son</span></b><span style="color: red;">.</span>
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that
hath not the Son of God hath not life</i>."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>John 3:16, 36</b>: "<i>For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ... He that believeth
on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son
shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.</i>" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>John 1:12-13</b>: "<i>But as many as received
him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.</i>" <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: dimgrey;"><b>Receive Him as your Saviour right now! <u>You may not have a tomorrow</u>! It is the most important decision of your life. <u>Where you spend eternity depends upon your decision to receive or reject Jesus Christ</u>!</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>1 John 5:13</b>: "<i>These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may <b><span style="color: red;">KNOW that ye have eternal life</span></b>, and that ye may <span style="color: red;"><b>BELIEVE on the name of the Son of God</b></span></i>."<br />
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<big><big><b>Scripture is Truth!!!</b></big></big>
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</center>JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-28620663207750643552013-09-24T11:42:00.000-05:002013-09-24T13:32:13.516-05:00MOLON LABE<a href="http://www.molon.us/single.htm">How the Second Amendment Guarantees America's Freedom</a>
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Just Released on Constitution Day, 2013
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<b>The Second Amendment</b>: "<i>A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.</i>"
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Watch this trailers of the movie, MOLON LABE featuring Chuck Baldwin, Stewart Rhodes, Larry Pratt, Ron Paul, G. Edward Griffin, David R. Gillie, Edwin Vieira, Jr., and others.
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MOLON LABE is a film inspired by the book, The Sword and Sovereignty by Edwin Vieira, Jr. The book and the film explore the "power of the sword" and how it guarantees American's freedom. The book is available at Amazon.
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History has demonstrated time and again that, to the degree citizens are unarmed or disarmed, government suppression and tyranny are inevitable.
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The Founders of the United States knew these lessons well. This is why the U.S. Constitution not only acknowledges and guarantees the "right to keep and bear arms -- but the DUTY to be well-organized as state militias reporting to their respective governors.
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But this duty, as well as the militia, are often misunderstood. As a result, a "gun-control lobby" has been steadily eroding the original intent of the Founders by passing illegal gun control "laws", funding a standing global army, and destroying the 300-year old militia system established by WE THE PEOPLE.
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Help us get word out about this important film, and the real purposes of the Second Amendment. It is available here:
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In the word of the Founders, we did NOT Shoot at the "British" Government! In "THEIR WORDS" we shot at OUR Government. Back then, they were all British subjects and Colonialists. The vast majority of us COLONIALISTS the Founding Fathers wanted to REMAIN British subjects.
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It was not until OVER A YEAR into the Revolutionary War, from April 19th, 1775 until the Declaration of Independence, that the Founders and Colonial population wanted to be Independent from the "British" Government. OVER A YEAR of War. They only wanted to have the Government of that time to respect our individual Rights as British citizens!
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That is why it took "Three Strikes of the Match" three murders of numbers of our citizens by our Government for our people to actually engage against our Government on April 19th, 1775. It takes a lot of anger and super indignant people to arouse them to shoot at Government usurpers, tyrants and oppressors.
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Please understand these facts. When the Militia shot and killed our Policemen and Soldiers in "Red Coats", they KNEW that they were shooting at our own Government and our own Police and our own soldiers.
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-2195412345141428652013-08-03T02:37:00.003-05:002013-08-19T02:26:20.481-05:00Bloc Heads
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<b>Preface</b>
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In this outstanding series of 9 short videos Tim Porter looks at the 10 regional trading blocs being set up to control the world. -- John Henry
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<b>Introduction</b> (Part 1)
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In January of 2010, in the year before the violent deposing of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, fellow leaders of member nations within the African Union gave Gaddafi a foreboding message: They voted not to renew his chairmanship of their continental league of nations, and they also rejected his push to establish a grandiose "United States of Africa."
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Gaddafi's comments during the introduction of his successor were not optimistic: "The political elite of our continent lacks political awareness and political determination," he said. "The world is changing into 7 or 10 countries, and we are not even aware of it."
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Apparently, it was Gaddafi himself who lacked political awareness. For since his demise, African leaders have shown a renewed interest toward continental integration.
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In one sense, however, Muammar Gaddafi was correct in his in his post-election assertion to his African Union comrades. One of the most significant geopolitical events in world history is indeed occurring today. As Gaddafi observed, the African Union is not alone in its pursuit of regional integration. Gaddafi's assessment that 7 to 10 super-nations are now emerging on the world scene is proving to be quite accurate.
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<b>Daniel 7:1-7</b>: "<i>In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon THE GREAT SEA. 3 And FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, diverse one from another. 4 THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. 5 And behold another beast, A SECOND, LIKE TO A BEAR, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I beheld, and lo ANOTHER, LIKE A LEOPARD, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold A FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, AND STRONG EXCEEDINGLY; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and IT HAD TEN HORNS.</i>"
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<b>The European Union</b> (Part 2)
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Today, the European Union remains the extolled prototype and the consensus model by which all the world's other regional blocs are being developed and measured. For the past several years, reports of the EU's demise have been greatly exaggerated -- but there has been a method to the madness. It's called the "Monnet method."
Jean Monnet, the so-called "father of the European Union" led the drive for European integration after World War II. The Monnet method took only limited, incremental steps that would not trigger alarm from any member nation. Inherent in this limited scope was a Machiavellian, end-justifies-the-means process of crisis creation.
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A prime example of this process is the recent European monetary crisis, which has now resulted in the nations of Europe having to submit their national budgets to the EU for approval before they can be implemented. This has resulted in EU central control that is even more powerful than the federal government of the United States, which has no authority to order the states to submit their budgets for approval. The recent financial "crisis has actually resulted in the deeper integration of the European Union.
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<b>Daniel 7:7, 24</b>: "<i>After this I saw in the night visions, and behold A FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, AND STRONG EXCEEDINGLY; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and IT HAD TEN HORNS. ... And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.</i>"
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<b>Revelation 13:1-2</b>: "<i>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. 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.</i>"
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<b>Revelation 17:1, 15</b>: "<i>And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: ... THE WATERS which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, ARE PEOPLES, AND MULTITUDES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES.</i>"
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<b>The Eurasian Union</b> (Part 3)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly denied allegations that he is attempting to revive a semblance of the old Soviet Union. However, he is using a carrot and stick approach in an attempt to corral all of the former Soviet nations into a Eurasian Union, promising reduced rates to access Russia's vast energy reserves, and other incentives offered only to those nations that join.
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However, Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine and Moldova have balked at the plan, and continue to hold talks with the EU on possible membership. These nations seem to be searching for any possible way to escape the reach of the Russian bear, but it seems inevitable that most will not. The urge of East Europeans to avoid another Soviet-style subjugation to Russia is understandable, but they will find no flight to freedom in the new EU.
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<b>Ezekiel 38:1-13</b>: "<i>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?</i>"
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<b>Asia & Pacific Unions</b> (Part 4)
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Obama's Asia Pivot is meant to bring American umbrella security into Southeast Asia as all of the various regional arrangements there are sorted out, just as US umbrella security has remained in Europe throughout the decades of building the European Union.
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It is not accurate to say that American military and foreign aid policy since World War II has turned into mere "nation-building." It is more than that. For decades, it has been -- and remains to this day -- "region-building."
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Region-building is the ultimate in big-government/big-business central planning, but the benefits being presented for region-building are illusory. Some would argue that it brings "security" among the nations within each of the world's regions, and that less distinct borders bring "efficiency" to multinational business and trade initiatives. However, the efficiency so desired by these big government/big business interests smacks of Mussolini fascism.
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<b>Revelation 16:12</b>: "<i>And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.</i>"
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<b>South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation</b> (Part 5)
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There is no greater illustration of US military and foreign-aid "region-building" than the operation over the past decade in Afghanistan, Pakistan and their regional bloc, SAARC, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. As infrastructure in US cities is crumbling, American lives and billions of US dollars are being spent to connect these countries into the infrastructure, commerce and regulatory mind-set of SAARC. The region-building infrastructure objective there is being called "The New Silk Road."
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Once Americans discover that region-building is the real objective of US policy in Afghanistan and Central Asia, as well as in Africa and the Middle East, it also becomes apparent that globalism is not the inevitable process that has been portrayed in business and academic circles. Globalism is being forced upon the populations of the world, as it is drains the resources of the United States.
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Another prime example of US region-building is with the Arab nations of the Persian Gulf -- or, as those nations like to say, the Arab Gulf region. Their regional bloc is named the Gulf Cooperation Council, and it may well be the bloc furthest along the path to a regional political union, second only to the European Union.
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<b>Daniel 2:40-44</b>: "<i>And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.</i>
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<b>Arab League, African Union & Union of South American Nations</b> (Part 6)
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Grassroots Islam abhors the notion of compromising into the current globalist system, but does allow for a united Arab region as a means to launch a global Islamic empire. The globalist elite will not consider that scenario, but they will manipulate religious sentiment to strengthen the Arab League under Islamic law.
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The globalist objective is to allow a manipulated Arab Spring chaos to run its course to change the political landscape of the Middle East completely. This regime change reflects a systematic policy to allow, in some governments, more Islamic sentiment to unify the region, and in others, to replace leaders who are not "team players" in the new regional structure with more cooperative successors.
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In Africa, it is Western colonialism that plays the role of the antagonist that spurs continental union. But the irony is that Western nations and financial institutions, ostensibly in competition with China, are the main organizations providing the resources for African Union integration, under the same globalist loan-shark conditions that were described by Economic Hit Man John Perkins.
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<b>Psalms 83:1-8</b>: "<i>Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.</i>
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<b>North America</b> (Part 7)
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As corroborating, irrefutable evidence continues to mount documenting region-building efforts throughout the world, it dispels any notion that the accounts of region-building in North America should be dismissed as a "conspiracy theory."
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Evidence of the intent to integrate North America is also irrefutable, and is supported by comparing the objectives of North American integration with the objectives found in other regions. This comparison reveals that, at varying stages, all of these geopolitical regions, including North America, are pursuing the same "region-building" objectives, including:
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1. "Harmonization" of trade, customs and industry regulations among the nations within each region.<br>
2. Integrated regional infrastructure, including regional power grids, pipelines and highways.<br>
3. Integrated regional courts, tribunals, parliaments and regulatory agencies that supersede national jurisdictions.<br>
4. Integrated military and law enforcement, with intelligence information-sharing, ostensibly to fight terrorism and crime "that transcends national borders."<br>
5. "Outer security perimeters" modeled after the European Union's "Schengen zone," within which there is to be a "free flow of cargo, services and people" among the nations within each regional perimeter.
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Economic and monetary integration, up to and including a common currency in each region, in accordance with the Five Stages of Economic Integration.
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<b>Revelation 12:1-3, 5-6, 13-14, 17</b>: "<i>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: 2 And she being WITH CHILD cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 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. ... 5 And SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MAN CHILD, WHO WAS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. ... 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the woman were given TWO WINGS OF A GREAT EAGLE, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. ... 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</i>"
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<b>Origins of World Government</b> (Part 8)
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Although rulers throughout the ages have dreamed of a global empire, the quest for a global federation did not begin in earnest until Victorian Britain's Round Table Groups proposed a Commonwealth of Nations. Today the Commonwealth is known merely as a forum of nations formerly administered by the British Empire, but originally it was meant to be something far greater, as it started the drive toward today's regional framework.
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<b>Revelation 11:18</b>: "<i>And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.</i>"
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<b>2 Thessalonians 2:3-3</b>: "<i>Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.</i>"
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<b>Revelation 13:4, 6-8, 11, 14-17</b>: "<i>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? ... 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 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. ... 11 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. ... 14 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. 15 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. 16 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: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</i>"
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<b>Origins of World Government</b> (Part 9)
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In the 1930s, an influential segment of high society in both Britain and America actually admired and supported Hitler's National-Socialist transformation of Germany. Their perception of Hitler before the war paralleled the favor among occultists for the pre-Hitler swastika, as a beneficial symbol for those who would utilize its power.
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One of those admirers of Hitler in America was Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of International Business Machines (IBM). Watson was an advocate of eugenics and population control, not unlike modern "philanthropists" Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who have supported China's brutal "one child" policy and other population control measures throughout the world.
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Whether or not the present regional structure reflects the exact, final alignment for the Bible's "ten kings" does not diminish the reality of what we see developing today. But it does raise an important question: Why ten? Why, after all these centuries since the "ten kings" prophecies were put down in Scripture, would not random chance today allow any other number of major geopolitical regions to span the globe?
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More to the point: Despite their open disdain for what they consider the "myths" of the Bible, why is there such a blatant drive by its leaders to associate this movement with the great rebellion against the God of the Bible? Wouldn't normal people go out of their way to distance themselves from anything perceived as so authoritarian and nefarious? The answer is obvious: These are not normal people.
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<b>1 John 5:5-6, 12</b>: "<i>Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. ... He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.</i>"
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<b>2 Peter 3:8-14</b>: "<i>The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.</i>"
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<b>Revelation 21:7-8</b>: "<i>He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.</i>"
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<b>John 3:36</b>: "<i>He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.</i>"
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<b>Revelation 22:7</b>: "<i>And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely</i>."
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JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12841166.post-15201319054422105952013-05-27T06:31:00.004-05:002013-08-19T02:26:48.080-05:00Ahmadinejad<center><big><big><big>Ahmadinejad Expresses Desire to Annihilate Israel Again!</big></big></big><br /><br />2 August 2006<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FckLO8HcNyo?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FckLO8HcNyo?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />3 June 2008<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5hLDjGdJC0Q?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5hLDjGdJC0Q?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></center><br /><br />Ahmadinejad: Israel Will Disappear From Map (June 3, 2008, Associated Press): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated his call for the destruction of Israel. He first made the comments in 2005, fueling international outrage. Taking aim once again at Israel and the United States, Iranian president Ahmadinejad repeated inflammatory comments that he'd made three years ago, fueling international outrage and speculation that he was threatening the Jewish state with a nuclear weapon ... But while speaking at a ceremony honoring the late founder of Iran's Islamic Republic --- Ahmadinejad told an audience that --- quote --- "this origin of corruption will soon be wiped off of the Earth's face." Ahmadinejad also called the U-S a satanic power ... that with -- God's will -- would be annihilated. Iran cut ties with Israel and the United States in 1979 after their revolution toppled the nation's government. JohnBaptistHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02868801750545362821noreply@blogger.com0