Be Born Again in the Spirit

'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: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.""
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Clapper's Egyptian Crapper

How indescribably and breathtakingly stupid were the comments made by National Intelligence Director, James Clapper when he described the Muslim Brotherhood as a secular organization mostly concerned with peaceful humanitarian projects......?  Or, and which is far more likely, how deeply complicit is Clapper involved with the Obama scheme to create a New World Order?

James Clapper aside...Barack Hussein Obama aside...this crazy coalition of socialists, union organizers, young (and old I imagine) communist organizations, George Soros funded groups as well as Code Pink...another enemy of the state, has been behind this supposed uprising of the people in Egypt...as they try to create the perfect storm to take advantage of....I mean, why waste an emergency??? 

I find it horrifying that Clapper and most of the lame stream media in America downplay and in fact, downright lie about the goals and aspiration of the Muslim Brotherhood.  This Islamic group that wishes to dominate and place the entire globe under the banner of Islam and ruled by Sharia Law is flat out dangerous....dangerous to Israel and by the way, because of that fact, dangerous to America.  America of course is in danger because officially, only in Obama's government, but officially we back the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood including the extermination of Israel.  Clapper and the lsm apparently draw their information, willingly, from Obama's crapper.  Aah, those talking points!

Today, Muslims worldwide are filling out that 10-40 window with Islam and Sharia Law....that space between the lattitudes of 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north...this geographical area just north  of the equator with Mecca as its center is Islams' starting point...only blocked by the nation, the covenanted people of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Israel.  Starting point because Islam has world domination as it's goal with of course death to the infidel which is anyone not Muslim and in particular to the people of the book (the bible..Jew and Gentile alike).

Sadly...those dhimmitude to Islam...so damn politically correct,  will not say boo just prior to the sword swishing through the air and lopping their heads.....unless of course, you are a Steve Centanni from Fox News, who when faced with that option chose to convert to Islam......I wonder if Steve has concerned himself with certain scripture such as "If you confess me before men, I will confess you before my Father but if you deny me before men, I will deny you before my Father which is in heaven"......or that he should not fear the one who can only take his life but rather the one who can take his life and his soul....

Islam does not play around,  people, nor does God....We know the game plan....we know their goals and we know God's stated opposition to them and yet we will watch it play out as it is written.  Islamists (otherwise known as Edomites), Russians and some of their former satellite countries, China, Egypt as the King of the South which includes a Islamic confederation of states (57 I believe...funny when Obama thinks 57 is the number of  American states) will all come against Israel....King of the West also which includes the revived Roman Empire we know as the EU and the United States....will be there too.

I wonder why New World Order types like George Soros, Van Jones, and even Barack Hussein Obama think they will fare well under an Islamic regime?  I have given much thought to the question of why Obama is not considered an apostate for leaving Islam, which is the case,  and you are marked for death when you do, unless you have special dispensation to operate in a stealthy jihad mode. Jihad is a duty of all Muslims, young and old, male and female...some are overt like terrorists.   All are free to make up their own minds on that one.  Obama could be a devout Muslim or he could simply wish to rule everyone in the world including the Muslims.  I am not sure and I really could care less.  I believe his reign will be short lived and another New World Order will be established under the King of Kings.  An appropriate response from Christians in this matter is like I said below..."Even so, Come Lord Jesus" as found in the second last verse of the bible. 

So apparently the significance of Mubarak now making it offical and stepping down is that a true King of the South will arise and lead Egypt into the glorious Khalifa.....wonder which blind imam that will be......and since this is true...Saudi Arabia will tremble and Israel will prepare....I always trust that God and Mossad know the intentions of the enemy of the chosen people, Israel.....my eyes stay focused on her.  As do my prayers for both Israel and the peace of Jerusalem....

Like they said back in the day...."Tomorrow, Jerusalem!"....."Even so, Come, Lord Jesus".

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Muslim Caliphate Forms

Once, when Jesus was sitting with some of his disciples, specifically Peter, James, John and Andrew, upon the mount of Olives, they asked Jesus what would be the sign of the fulfillment of time after the Jewish temple in place at the time, was to be, as Jesus put it, 'not one stone left upon another, that shall not be thrown down'.  All those things you have always heard about and which false prophets have glomped onto for centuries are among the signs of course....wars, rumours of wars...but the end is not yet, nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginning of sorrows. Mark 13:...2-8.

"But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.  And it shall turn to you for a testimony.  Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what you will answer: For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.  And ye shall be betrayed by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.  But there shall not an hair of your head perish.  In your patience possess ye your souls.  And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh".  Luke 21:12-20.

President Obama has been extraordinarily glib before and very often proving that we really need to pay more attention to his actions than his words and this time is no exception.  America has supported Kings, Sultans, Emirs, Imams, Princes and who knows how many titles of middle eastern potentates.  No, these potentates are not good for their own people.  Yes, most are repressive and downright deadly to anyone who thinks having their own opinions on matters of state should be important to them.  For decades the United States has been supporting these, supposedly to keep peace with Israel but in reality for good oil relations.

President Mubarak is such a character and America should certainly stop backing him and all of these other bad actors in the middle east or wherever they may be found.  Yes, there needs to be a transition of power from Mubarak to those with the interests of the majority of all Egyptians at heart and yes, this should happen as soon as reasonably practical. 

Perhaps we need to consider just how it is that we will replace the 20% of all the oil we consume that comes to us via the middle-east.....Obama can talk and blow as much climategate smoke as he wishes and that will not give us the energy we need and he can use more mirrors to reflect a phony message that somehow the sun will be our salvation...and even these crappy jobs go to China....  American and Israel combined resources of oil and natural gas would allow the free world independence from the desert dwellers and petro dollars will be a thing of the past...and yet we know Obama will not let America drill in Anwar, in deep water nor in shallow water, nor anywhere really......It is as if Obama was purposely trying to destroy the fabric of the American Republic by destroying her industries and jobs....How about that Prez?  Any truth to that?

President Obama does not speak for me when he and his seek to impose a time line for Mubarak to depart and yet I agree, September is too long from now.  President Obama knows that if Mubarak is forced out now that the only one with enough appartus in place to begin a functioning government is that fact led by ElBaradei and backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, of course.....I do not know if there is a moderate enough muslim around to guide Egypt during this transistion and perhaps as it's newly elected president but I do honestly believe ElBaradei who has never known a terrorist he doesn't like, is not the right ally for America and certainly not good for the peace of Israel.

All of this is horrendous...the fact that Obama has been able to drag us into this quagmire and yet it has been foretold that 'all nations will come against Israel'....and 'all' includes the United States who according to prophesy must fall anyway....Obama is apparently, an evil, useful facilitator of God's will as God lets.

Assuming Egypt does fall to the Islamic Brotherhood, peace with Israel is over....Gaza will be flooded with Russian arms transferred there via Iran and Syria and more and more we have to ask ourselves; "Is it in our best interest to have Israel 'compassed about by her enemies?'  I suppose that all depends on how much you are looking forward to the end of the world 'as we know it'.

I do not know about you but in recent days and weeks we have seen change for the worse come to Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordon, and more than likely Egypt....and still you say you don't believe we are on the eve of destruction.....Damascus is the home headquarters of both Hamas and Hezbollah...cowardly leaders hideout here....besides being joined at the hip with Tehran, why is it that Damascus is the one slated for transformation into a 'ruinous heap' from evening of one night until the next dawn...from being a pain in the butt to Israel one day, and gone the next?....Isaiah, chapter 17 describes this exciting (I suppose that depends on how you view the beginning of end times events and prophesy fulfillment) turn of events....

That Islamic Caliphate now forming in a Middle-eastern region near you is deadly to civilized life on the planet Earth...today the middle east, tomorrow Europe.....My french wife fears for her family that resides in various parts of France and with the country undertrod by Algerians that cannot find jobs and cannot wear burqas in public, France should concern herself with the spread of Islamic domination goals.  Indeed all of Europe needs to be concerned.

Never my house and never my country....but then that means we are in for one hell of a fight because Islam will try to dominate America and the lies of Hillary Clinton and Barak Hussein Obama will only prove to convince more and more of the American populace, some are still asleep, that there is a new world order conspiracy shaping up in our government...actually, flourishing.....Islam and Communism are two choices America faces....and then there is that New Jerusalem to be ruled by Jesus Christ, King of Kings....now that is something to aspire to.....Bye losers...Soros, Mohammed, Obama and soooo many others....your days are numbered.

God fearing people will now, more than ever before, pray for the peace of Jerusalem....which is the capital of Israel and not some kind of settlement that Obama thinks he can rule.....Pretty many of us will also rise from our knees to face the enemies of WE THE PEOPLE, all of them...inside and out...at least those oath keepers among us will.

Democrats, progressives and liberals really need to decide how bad they want to continue down this path toward America's eventual demise....no one will be happy as your rule will be soooo tenuous and soooo short lived...think smart now and desert President Obama...let him stand alone with the "The Dreams From His Father"...who was a communist afterall.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Fly Over Country Opinion of Obama

   There is still that vast majority of what once was hard working Americans living between our elitist coasts clinging to their bibles and their guns....things which our great nation's founders intended for her.  It is the Word of truth, unchanging and inerrant, that cuts men's quick to their souls.  It is this Word and our faith in Him that ensures these people their eternal security and many truly understand that.   And those guns....well, they keep you from visiting unwanted and uninvited into their castles and they may be just the thing that will save the lives of our families and selves as we go about our daily lives.  Our legal carrying may even save a police officer who suddenly have become fair game to progressives and anarchists alike.....162 police killed in 2010 up 40% since 2009 and already in January, with a week to go, we have 15 dead police officers.....I stop for gas, if I see a police officer also gassing up or in the convenience store, I watch their back...they do not have to know that.

  I imagine that the average Christian will not carry a gun in the New Jerusalem....first and foremost is because there will not be bad guys with their own guns there that today's anti-gun politicians always forget about.....it is as if they want Americans to be prisoners in their own homes and home towns.....hmmmm!

   I mentioned once we had hard working Americans because there are these same ones who still want to be but Obama has found that their particular industry is not to his liking. Must we move somewhere and get a job with Obama's winners like GE or Google (coupled with NSA....spooky, huh?)...?.Every good communist regime these days needs a few state controlled manufacturing enterprises and their noses in every other business.

   Obama's state of the union address was a joke and yet he still manages to be somewhat straight forward with his spending (investing) agenda and Cloward & Piven love him for it.....spend us into oblivion Obama....  We do not need bullet trains as we subsidize Amtrac on 41 of 44 routes today and our government has shown a particular ineptness and actually running a business such as Amtrac, the Post Office....or anything for that matter. 

   We do not want your targeted investments in green jobs that will only float to China or to the free enterprise zones our country's mayors are establishing in their cities for that purpose....apparently, China has too many people with too much idle time on their hands....since China has been killing her nation's daugters once it is determined that is what the unborn will be for some time now....perhaps those Chinese youths will find American women to their liking.....

   Finally people, and I really hate to say this, Barack Hussein Obama is no Bill Clinton....Obama's seeming move to a point of moderation is one of those 'don't listen to what I say moments but watch what I do' in the future.....as Obama cannot and has no intention of actually changing his stripes....communists do not behave that way.  He may want re-election for himself and his because his nasty work on our Republic isn't done yet but this we must deny him and now is not the time to be the 'kumbaya' party.  Obama and the democratic party have chosen a low road in America's history and our only choice is to drag them back to a state of high ethical value with a populace that knows the value of individual accountability and responsibility to the tenets of the American constitution.  Our new congress needs to be questioning the authority exercised by the executive branch as they use their Regulatory Cass Sunstein to create new opportunities to crack down on the liberties of normal Americans....the federal government has usurped their authority is declaring all the mineral rights under our western states belong to them and that the water in anything bigger that a finch bird bath can be regulated by them also.......Say what????  Is that what Americans want...?  We would have to call you Amerikans......

   Like the flags say and some liberals, even to the detriment and probable destruction of their democratic party, ignore.....'Don't tread on me....'  Take that to heart progressives and take that to heart Mr. President....your attempt at moderaton is a ploy and WE THE PEOPLE see through it.....

   Save us from the day when we get locked up for availing ourselves of our 1st Amendment Rights and yet that is where Obama and his agenda is trying to take us....Such a short note......"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibing the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."   Because...Mr. Obama...America has a list of grievances and you have shattered out belief that you are the one to provide adequate redress....sorry, and like the good book says...."Me'Ne, Me'Ne Te'kel....the meaning of the thing is that you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting and that the days of your rule are numbered......."

   We will return fiscal sanity to our government and we will return the balance of power to the three brances of government, equally, as our founders intended..you know, those old checks and balances......and Republicans and Democrats and Independents alike will assist in our battle to reclaim our Republic or there will be another big spate of lay-offs in the government sector in 2012....simple as that....WE THE PEOPLE have spoken.....!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Ampin' It and Rampin' It Up In 2011

That ampin' and rampin' I mention is a two way street.  We are already seeing the pressure cooker tactics employed under Cloward and Piven's 'Upside Down, Bottom Up, Inside Out' as we question whether or not Jared Loughner had any direction offered for his evil play.  The name one associates with this in your face tactic which is supposed to end up with the American people calling for the government to save them, is George Soros and/or Van Jones...avowed communists.

The other direction on this ampin' and rampin' street finds the earth being assaulted by  God who is probably more than a little pissed at men and women in power, abusing the sacred trusts of their positions, by trying to convince the populace all is fine while they are themselves pillaging the treasury.  The thought that Obama, Soros, the Chinese or any other of their friends can establish a lasting peace among nations without God is but a joke only deranged minds could come up with. Can America be good enough without God...nope!

Jesus mentioned that some of the signs of his return included the increasing number of weather/geographical phenomena; incidents that would take place prior to his return for his church.  He likened the idea to a woman in labor whose pains increased in number and severity the closer she got to the hour of the delivery of her baby.  Expect more of what you know to be true....

Weather is controlled by God. Earthquakes and volcanoes are controlled by God.  Be aware of the ring of volcanoes that are located in the Pacific also in what is known as the Pacific Rim or 'Ring of Fire'.  Etna went or is going off as of yesterday so already Europe should be wondering...be your own witness to history in the making...God's history. Be aware of the fault lines in this country...one called the New Madred (?) fault runs, more or less,  west to east through our midsection...expect this one to split the country in two when Obama becomes a signatoree to that bogus peace treaty with Israel...that revamped 7 year Oslo accord. On the other hand, who really believes God needs a fault line to split the earth He created by speaking it in existence.

The age of gentile will close soon and when it does it does so with the rapture of the saints.  These saints are indwelt by God's Holy Spirit and we know that "The mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness". II Thessalonians 2:7-12.  In their delusion, libiots will blame George Bush for the storms, earthquakes, volcanoes etc....and then finally, get mad and shake their fists at God Himself.....Ummm, Ummm, Ummm!

Point is that Obama will continue to push his Marxist agenda in 2011 and his czardom, his unelected policy makers who have rendered congress impotent as well as his abuse of his executive position will be there right along with him. 

While he and his fellow progressives like Soros and Van Jones and quite a few others lug nuts including the Ayers continue to destroy the fabric of our Republic, we will vow to push back and my prayers are that my brothers and sisters among WE THE PEOPLE are delivered safely from those calamities which will befall our country and the world in the months ahead....Obama's arms are way too short to box with God.  And he should be quite the busy young man, what with all the running to and fro.....

Thursday, January 6, 2011

A Curse or a Promise; You Call It!

It seems like America is home to a nation of whiners.  Specific whines that I detest are so-called protected classes of people who feel somehow affronted by someone else's words.  Some of these include being told one is a homophobe or Islamaphobe as we espouse the truth to these types out of a sense of love for our fellow human beings.    I mean, it is the truth that will set one free.  Islamists ought not pretend their feelings are hurt when the civilized world does know of their domination ambitions and their goals to force Sharia Law on America are stymied.  While Islamists view Jesus Christ as a lesser prophet than even Mohammed, they are unwittingly closing the door to salvation that is open to all of us thanks to the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the atonement of our sins.

Homosexuals or abortionists (doctors and female patients alike), ought to know there is forgiveness for their particular brand of sin...that Christ died for us all while we were yet sinners.  It is this truth and the willingness to ask Christ to come into our lives that finally gives us the strength to stand up to the temptations of the flesh, the devil and those who would continue to prey upon the innocent.  "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (Satan)".

As a Christian, of the born again in the Spirit (John 3:3) variety, I have no choice but to continue, as I draw breath above ground, to espouse the gospel of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins.  Because this is true I can share God's promises with you.  Here is a good one: "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:...."Deuteronomy 30:19.  Includes family provision, and considering fathers are to be held accountable for the spiritual well being of their young children, it is a great promise.

Christians will be around until the rapture and I know the word 'rapture' is not to be found in the bible while the theme is prominent in I Thessalonians 4:13-18 and I Corinthians 15:51-57.  While we are around, we will keep on preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, we will keep on defending our nation against the usurpers trying to destroy the fabric of our Republic.  We will resist President Obama, his czardom and all the elitists/progressives, on both coasts, trying to turn us into a socialist nation.

Something some of you Christians who have not come out of the closet yet....have not been intitiated into sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ ought to know is that we do come with a promise and for those who would do us harm, we also come with a curse.    In Matthew18:2-6 Jesus tells us: "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.  Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

Let us quit being ashamed of the only good gift we could possibly ever give one another.  For you macho types, obviously it is becoming less and less wussy-ish to express belief in something greater than ourselves.  Soon, Christians will be into serious battles in America very much like the assaults that are ongoing throughout the world.

Who noticed that Jesus said 'convert or else'?  Christians know that God said "Vengeance is mine, I will repay" and therefore, I will not cut off your head if you fail to convert...this indeed is between you and God and I am not a muslim.  Now don't get me wrong, I know how to pray and I know the 'prayers of a righteous man availeth much', and I know how to 'bind and loose' and that not one single word of God returns 'void'.  The sword I wield is not for cutting off the head of a non-believer, it is the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God.  "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places".  Ephesians 6:12. Washington, D.C. is one such 'high place'.  We know the influences of our enemy and these, for those who would believe, have been defeated over 2,000 years ago.  Don't get sucked in by Satan at this late hour by taking the law into  your own hands and endangering your soul.  His time is short and he knows it.

This I will do as Jesus tarries....keep on, keeping on, as they say.  What will it be, a curse or a promise?

Monday, December 20, 2010

Christmas...What if?

To begin, I love the traditional idea of Christmas including the tree, presents, good food, merriment, children and the opportunity to say a prayer of thanksgiving.  This we would do as a matter of fact. Thanking the good Lord for our daily sustenance, for the particular meal  in which we are about to partake.  Never forgetting to include a blessing for that meal as well as the hands that prepared it.   Usually gains me some points...unintendedly...ladies.

I love the carols, the music unique to Christmas and some, if you are older like me, often do take you back to some previous 'white Christmas' place or time in your life usually when times were simpler. I am not crazy about snow even though I was raised on ice skates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Yet around Christmas time, I make concessions to my wife that some snow will be allowed during the Christmas season...and I really wish I had such control.

This year, my 63rd Christmas, finds me in great health, partially retired and working an average of 20 hours per week  The good book says that God's will for us is to prosper and be in good health, even as our soul's prosper.  No problem you say.  As a student of God's Word, I can only tell you that your soul will prosper in your obedience first to be born again in the Spirit, then by allowing the newly indwelling Holy Spirit of God begin His work in you.  It was imperative for Jesus Christ to be ascended after His resurrection from the grave which He did after seeing and talking to numerous witnesses including our friend Thomas...that 'doubting Thomas'.  The orginial. 

Jumping to the place where we already have Christ crucified, died and resurrected after doing battle with Lucifer, during which He was victorious over sin, death, and then the grave itself means that I still have to go further back to the place and time where Christ was born.  It is easier for me to go from where we are today to that place when God looked down on a world full of sinners, whose self-righteousness was as 'filthy rags' and where all have sinned and fallen short of the glory that is God. 

There was that tradition the Jews have in which the sacrifice of an unblemished, unspotted lamb must be offered up on the altar for the atonement of sin.  Jesus Christ played the role of the "Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sins of the World" when He died on Calvary's cross over 2,000 years ago.

And the most important thing you should take from my foregoing is that as I spoke of Jesus, His birth, His death and His resurrection, I spoke in the past tense.  Those things are done.  I could go on and on about the foretelling of those events from the Old Testament and compare them to their fulfillment, found in Christ, in the New.   But, what if.....?

"But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.  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.  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:  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.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words". I Thessalonians 4:13-18.

What if that rapture (the word rapture is not in the bible...I know) was to take place on December 21st or 22nd coming?  It would be really cool if it happened on the Druids and Wiccans big winter solstice (21st) night...they would celebrate even harder totally unaware of what awaits them over the very next several years.  The Apostle Paul said to comfort one another with these words, but for you, knowing you missed the train to the coast, and your bravado has just burst, do you know what you will have to do to get back what was offered freely once for all?

I hear that after we are gone, an evil person known as the Anti-Christ, Mr. 666....that nasty man of perdition is to be revealed and he will impress many of you.  All will be required to swear loyalty to this nasty man and prove this by taking his mark (666)either on your forehead or the back of your right hand.  Without this mark, you will not be able to affect commerce....buy and sell, etc...plus you will probably, ultimately be hunted if you do not show up for your chip (RFID)  implantation day. If you choose Christ instead of that loyalty to the Anti-Christ, you will be beheaded and martyred for your belief.  I had a minister friend tell me recently that you can't scare people to Christ and that is not my intention.  I am redeeming the hour, as we speak, there is no prophesy that still needs to be fulfilled prior to that rapture and I like to spread the gospel every time I blog in case that is the last time I get to.

That Holy Spirit I referred to earlier is the reason why Christ had to ascend because as He does, He promises to send this Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is part of the triune nature of God and because this is true, as He indwells us, he comforts us, he gives us the right words to pray when we do not know how we should be praying sometimes, and very importantly, He enables us to begin to discern the mysteries hidden in plain sight in God's Word.  That is why He tells us to 'study to show ourselves approved'.  He is knowable.

As far as evil is concerned....the world ought to know the Holy Spirit as the "Restainer".  When the Holy Spirit leaves your neighborhood because His dwelling place has relocated, and very much evil restraining is missing....guess what!

If we are all still here on the morning of December 25th, I will shout out loud, "Merry Christmas!".  And I will turn up my Christmas caroles and turn the news of the atheist pranks off!  Oh yeah!  I will also continue to watch the Eastern sky because that is the direction from which Jesus is returning.  Do not be deceived if someone tells you there is someone performing miracles and calls himself the christ, here or there....or even in DC for that matter. Remember, Lucifer can appear as 'an angel of light'.

So What If people?  What if Christians left your presence?  Wouldn't be much need for anyone to celebrate Christmas now would there?  Oh yeah, the Great tribulation would have just begun.

Friday, November 26, 2010

From Peter to Peter: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church

Religion....a word for which I hold great ambivalence.  Fully aware that man made religions are man's way of trying to reach God, often times stepping over and around God's way of trying to reach man, Jesus Christ, It is relatively easy to find fault in man's efforts.

I was born into a catholic family, baptized as a baby in the catholic religion, made my First Holy Communion in the catholic religion and was Confirmed in the catholic religion.  I was an altar boy.  I attended catholic grade school and a couple of years of the largest co-ed catholic high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin....Pius XI High School.  I know something about this religion or would not feel qualified to discuss it's merits or demerits.  None of the above sharing of sacraments was by choice...I was indoctrinated into that religion as I am sure many of you are indoctrinated into varying protestant sects, Hinduism, Taoism, Islam and you name it....you wre dragged to a church, synagogue, mosque ever since you were in diapers.  When I was a child, I thought and acted as a child....as an adult, I am all out of excuses.

When I was 17 I was quartered at a place in Milwaukee called Perpetual Help Boy's Home after having previously been sheltered at the Milwaukee County Children's Home and about 4 foster homes after the marriage of my parents (when I was about 8) dissolved as the marriage of two drunks often do.  When we weren't actually doing homework at the home quite often you could find us pushing cinder blocks on top of cut up army blankets on our hands and knees shining the linoleum floors in that place.

Nineteen days after my 17th birthday in January, 1964 Milwaukee County signed for me to join the United States Marine Corps where I stayed for the next 9 years.  My dog tags during the entire period, including two 13 month tours in Vietnam (Marine's did 13 month tours), stated 'NO PREF' in a place where one would normally expect to find a religion....I suppose so they knew how to bury you in case that was required.

At that time in my life I found no fault with any religion nor did I have any preference and I suppose I considered myself agnostic at the time or very certainly, disinterested.  Five years after I was honorably discharged from the Marines I was attending a non-denominational full gospel church in Alexandria, Virginia with a girl friend and the Holy Spirit pricked my heart as the pastor of that church provided a message followed by an altar call asking those present who would turn their lives and hearts over to Jesus Christ.  I was born again in the Spirit on that day....and then my 'religious' education began.

Unlike my catholic experience, wherein we had these little catechism books and nuns and priests told us what they thought we ought to know about God and His word, I began to carry and study the bible.  Prior to this time I suppose it would not have done me much good to study the bible as '...the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?  But we have the mind of Christ'.  I Corinthians 2:14-16.  The day I accepted Christ as my Saviour I unwittingly obeyed Jesus Christ, not knowing the scripture at the time, to be born again in the Spirit....even as Jesus told Nicodemus he must be in order to be saved in John 3:3 and emphasized again in John 3:7.  From that day forward, I have been indwelt by God's Holy Spirit who among other functions serves to give us that spiritual discernment necessary to understanding the Word of God.

Today, I am a member of a particular religion but as you might suspect, it is a religion in which I hear that altar call every time the church doors are open as the ministers obey the Great Commission of God which is to further the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Which religion does not matter as all I care about is that they are true to God's Word which I can now understand and if I am seated someplace where I hear lies, half-truths about social justice and/or collective salvation, I get up, kick the dust from my heels and depart that assemblage of dead men's bones filling the pews.

Reading the bible, I have never been able to find that connection between the Apostle Peter, whom the catholic church claims as their first pope and the catholic church.  I find where God instructs us to call no one Father but Him and I find where there is but 'one God and one intermediate between God and men, the man Christ Jesus' (1st Timothy 2:5) but no catholic connection.  Nor connection to any religion for that matter.

Catholicisms' St. Malachy went to Rome in 1139 and gave Pope Innocent II a prophetic manuscript detailing the prothetical announcements, in number 112, indicating some noticeable trait of all future popes from Celestine II, elected in 1130, until the end of the world. Malachy did this in an effort to cheer up Innocent II during his period of tribulations.  Benedict XVI is listed and Malachy saw him as one who would be a peacemaker in the Chruch and in the World, and thus carry the olive branch.  I know him as one who has come against the Obama administration pronouncements of collective salvation and social justice as a means to individual salvation. 

St. Malachy concludes with Petrus Romanus (Peter the Roman), also known as the defective pontiff who will feed the sheep through many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the formidable judge will judge his people. 

Prophecy tells us about the soon to appear man of perdition, Mr. 666 otherwise known as the Anti-Christ and of his evil side kick the false prophet.  Peter the Roman will likely be this false prophet as he seeks to join the major religions of the world into a 'one world religion' thereby quelling the murderous tendicies of the muslim and the ability of the Christians to continue to spread the 'intolerant' gospel of Jesus Christ which holds that there is only one way to heaven, through belief in Jesus Christ. 

Far fetched you say....so was the idea of a one world government and the yuan world monetary system which by now, under Obama, we see right around the corner.

Bottom line people, it is still all about God's chosen people Israel....as this 7 year revamped Oslo Accord finally gets inked and we see Israel encompassed about by her enemies with Syria gaining the Golan Heights and edomites in a clear position to finally eradicate their life long enemy, the Jew, then shall the end come.  Clear thinking fellow Americans will not wish to be part of that scenario.  Before that man of perdition can even be revealed the born again in the Spirit Christians will be taken up (raptured if you will) not to be seen again  until after the 7 year great tribulation period.

My source for the prophecies of Malachy is http://www.catholic-pages.com/ so this you can read for yourselves and after you are born again, you can read the bible yourself and understand.

Being born again in the Spirit is as simple as what you will find and can understand in Romans 10:8-10.  You have no excuse for dying in your sin.  Like they say, be born once and you will die twice but if you are born twice, you will only die once.

This is by no means to be taken as trashing the catholic as there truly is no christian religion, no christian nation, no christian church....Christians only come in individual sizes.... as we are born again.