Christians must not let their light be diffused in a dark and confused society,
becoming fifty shades of gray.
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The result of ‘Christians’ no longer being salt (a preservative) and light:
Christians must not let their light be diffused in a dark and confused society,
becoming fifty shades of gray.
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The result of ‘Christians’ no longer being salt (a preservative) and light:
I just posted these at ToBeFree. Important:
Also, please consider the rarely spoken of but huge demonic factor:
I know a power-over, pastor’s wife whom I’ve seen treat her husband this way, minus the fowl language.
Good insight and examples, but I don’t agree with the gung ho, neocon, post-9/11 war theme.
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“Manipulate, deceive & expose.”
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“I saw her vent on her husband many, many times. In one particular situation, we were at a fundraiser. As we entered the elevator to go to the top of this hotel, Mrs. Clinton lit into her husband with every profane, four-letter word you’ve ever heard in your life, and as a military guy, I’ve heard them all. The anger really took me by surprise: how vicious it was and how profane it was. And then of course, when we got to the top floor of the hotel, when the elevator opened they were holding hands and smiling and waiving, like they could turn it on and off in a heartbeat.”
– Buzz Patterson, Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton — carried the ‘nuclear football’
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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Buzz Patterson’s take at 1.00:45[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYW5nmS9ps]Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters Full Movie
Published on Sep 10, 2013
Related:
Joe shares key scriptures near the end — such as:
“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.” – Paul in Gal. 1:10
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrEMRDOL-4g]Rick Warren’s Forked Tongue
Uploaded on May 5, 2009
To watch the clip in it’s entirety go to http://theater.goodfight.org/?vdId=Ri…
Rick Warren, proclaimed as America’s pastor has been under much scrutiny regarding his voice on the issue of Gay marriage. Here we examine exactly what he says on the issue.
“I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.”
– Corey Feldman
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qWceLl65IM]The X-Men Movies and the Gay Agenda
Published on May 28, 2014
Is it true that X-Men directors and writers see the term “X-Men” as a code word for “gay” in the X-Men movies? Are they using diabolical subterfuge to shove gay propaganda down the throats of our children?
Find out how X-Men director Bryan Singer, who stands accused of pedophilia and child rape, has used the series to indoctrinate young boys into a gay life style.
To learn more about our ministry, please visit:
http://www.goodfight.org
Related:
(prophecy) The Homosexuals Will Arise — “Show them the way through your smile”
David worshiped God in song seven times a day!
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“Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.”
– David in Psalm 119:164
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4ASJ6DCKe8]The Importance Of Music
Published on Apr 19, 2015
Ray Hughes lives in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. He has traveled the world for over 40 years as an author, storyteller, songwriter, and poet. He is passionate about creativity and training creative people. He is also passionate about biscuits, old guitars, and looking gift horses in the mouth (but not necessarily in that order). He doesn’t trust people that good dogs don’t like.
www.rayhughes.org
“A voice said: ‘follow the compass headings that I give you’ …
and he was able to fly out [of the socked in canyon] and make it home.”
– Clint Walker on the Holy Spirit saving his brother, Jerry, flying a bush plane in Alaska
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Story at minute-9[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8alPaPIv1w]Clint Walker on the Mark Levin radio show 3-25-2011
Mark Levin interviews Clint Walker.
Related:
From: http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/seal.htm
Dan Corner
The issue of the seal of the Holy Spirit being an unconditional guarantee that such a person having experienced this will always enter heaven is very common among the once saved always saved (OSAS) people, but does this really mean as they teach it? The seal of the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the following verses:
The Whole Truth Explicitly Explains The Seal of the Spirit
And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession–to the praise of his glory. (Eph 1:13,14)
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (Eph 4:30)
First, nowhere does the Bible say here or anywhere else that the “seal” can’t be broken. Please make a note of this. In fact, the same Greek word translated “seal” (sphragizo) is found elsewhere and the context shows the seal can be broken:
So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard. (Mat 27:66)
Since that stone over Jesus’ tomb was latter moved, and the seal didn’t prevent that from happening, then we know such doesn’t absolutely assure it can’t occur, as OSAS teachers say. They assume something they can’t prove, but don’t teach it as an assumption.
Secondly, we know the seal of the Holy Spirit can be broken because people that were saved have afterwards lost their salvation either temporarily or permanently. Since they were previously saved, then they were sealed yet it didn’t prevent sin from bringing forth spiritual death, as many scriptures declare can occur (Gen. 2:17; Ezek. 33:13,18; Rom. 8:13; James 1:14-16; etc.). Some examples of people who lost their salvation are as follows. (Other examples are not cited here, but are in our book “The Believer’s Conditional Security“):
Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme. (1 Tim 1:18-20)
Paul, the true grace teacher, knew the same horrible fate that occurred to Hymenaeus and Alexander could also happen to Timothy (who was certainly sealed by the Holy Spirit). Paul consequently told him what he needed to do to prevent this from happening to himself. So, as Hymenaeus and Alexander shipwrecked their faith, Paul knew godly Timothy could also have this happen to him (just like any Christian can). Another example is also from 1 Tim.:
The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. (1 Tim 1:5,6)
Please be assured that the only way any person can ever come to a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith as Paul describes himself as having, is by a saving faith which contacts the blood of Christ. (Our hearts are purified by faith in Jesus, Acts 15:9.) Yet some people whom Paul knew (which he doesn’t mention by name) wandered away from these (a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith) and turned to meaningless talk. Since one must have a pure heart to see God, and be holy (Mt. 5:8; Heb. 12:14; Rom. 6:22; etc.) and such can change after the point of salvation, then the seal of the Holy Spirit doesn’t prevent this horrible thing from happening. Clearly then, Paul didn’t teach the seal of the Spirit as the once saved always saved people do.
Please note also that Paul never said because those unnamed people turned from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith that it was proof they were never saved. (Some OSAS people argue like this at times but at other times say saved people can turn to adultery and murder like King David did and still remain saved.) What a heresy.
So Paul, who wrote of the seal of the Holy Spirit in Eph. chapters 1 and 4, shows by these other scriptures what the seal meant to him. But one doesn’t have to go past the book of Ephesians to also get insight into this issue of the seal of the Spirit. Please ponder the following:
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a man is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.Therefore do not be partners with them. (Eph 5:5-7)
Paul wanted Christians, who were sealed with the Holy Spirit, to know that No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a man is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. In other words, he wanted them to know that the seal would not prevent those sins from nullifying their inheritance of the kingdom. Other Scriptures show that if one will not inherit the kingdom of God, he will go to the lake of fire (Rev. 21:1-8; Mt. 25:33-46; etc.). Hence, in the same breath that Paul wrote of the seal of the Holy Spirit he also warned Christians that sin could cause loss of salvation and the seal wouldn’t prevent this! To teach otherwise is nothing more than “empty words,” as Paul put it (Eph. 5:6). Don’t let the eternal security teachers, like Max Lucado deceive you about the seal of the Holy Spirit. GOD BLESS YOU.
John 10:28 Does NOT Teach Eternal Security
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Related:
The Believer’s Conditional Security : Eternal Security Refuted, by Dan Corner (801 page end-of-story book, but doesn’t cover who then does go to heaven, biblically)
This is a heavy album with some heavy language (some might even consider it blasphemy), but I’ve always liked it a lot. It contains powerful, profound truths — and is clearly meant to deliver hearts from the madness that is locking many into the Matrix!
I remember listening to it during one of my 2-hour, late night prayer walks while attending seminary the second time, north of Chicago.
He’s right about QSound too.
Roger clearly has a prophetic gift; though, isn’t yet a Christian.
So are we going to get ‘ONE’ happening so the world will know, including Roger Waters?
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCz05uGi2I]Roger Waters – Roger Waters on Amused to Death
Published on Apr 15, 2015
Watch as Roger Waters discusses the 2015 edition of Amused to Death, completed by longtime Roger Waters and Pink Floyd collaborator and co-producer, James Guthrie.
Pre-Order Amused to Death (2015):
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About the album:
An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society, Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency over the past two decades. In 2015, television is just one option in an endless array of distractions available to us anytime, anywhere, courtesy of our laptops, tablets and smartphones. With eyes glued to our screens, the dilemmas and injustices of the real world can easily recede from view.
Watch as Roger Waters discusses the original Amused to Death album (1992): http://smarturl.it/ATD92?IQid=ytd.rw….
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“Jesus came to save us from our sins. … He came to make us perfect.”
“Did you know that there are over 80 passages in the New Testament that warn Christians not to lose what they’ve got in Christ?”
“If you stay in the Vine you go on having eternal life. But if you drift away you lose the life, because the branches don’t have life in themselves.”
– David Pawson
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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Once Saved Always Saved by David Pawson – Book Promo
David Pawson
Published on Aug 4, 2014
In this short video David Pawson introduces his book “Once Saved Always Saved”
Related:
Once Saved, Always Saved?: A Study in Perseverance and Inheritance Paperback – November 1, 1996, by
(video) David Pawson Interview on “Divorce & Remarriage” — Unbiblically married? What to do…
Ted Pike: “Prophesy is being fulfilled in an amazing way, yet not in the happy way that most of us would like to believe.”
Narrator: “Israel is not moving toward Christ. She is moving toward her false messiah, Antichrist.”
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OR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYW2mw0TCU
The Other Israel _ Ted Pike _ Full Video.
Related:
Ted Pike’s website: The National Prayer Network
Does Talmud Teach Pedophilia, Incest, Bestiality?
(video) How The Jews Mock Jesus Christ — Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Israeli TV…
Poll: American Jews Rate Evangelicals as Low as Muslims
(video) Miko Peled: Myths of 1967 (Israel’s Six Day War)
(video) ISRAELIS CHEER AS CIVILIANS ARE MURDERED IN GAZA
Israelis Who Cheered On Missile Strikes Threatened to Destroy CNN Reporter’s Car
Israeli General’s Daughter: How Israeli School Textbooks Teach Kids to Hate
(video) ABC Manipulates Truth to Fit Pro-Israel Bias | Weapons of Mass Distraction
(video!) Dead Palestinians Don’t Matter to Mainstream Media
(video) Israel Targeting Civilian with Banned Weapons
(video) 5 Reasons Why Israel is an Apartheid State
Wonderful Israelis Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza! — “We will not bomb children”
Pentecostals in Palestine – 6 minute trailer
Jesus: “HOW DARE YOU PROMOTE MASS MURDER IN MY NAME!!!” — WWJB?
Israel’s & U.S.’ Attrocities: May We No Longer Be Silent
Israel’s Deputy PM admits Iran DIDN’T threaten to wipe Israel out
Articles About Human Trafficking in Israel
Former Israeli Soldier Reveals Murder Squads
Israel Bombs Medical Supply Building — Ken O’Keefe in Gaza, Feb. 8, 2011
Specifics in how the media sides with Israel against the peace activists
US Media’s “Israel Can Do No Wrong” Bias
[media bias exposed!] Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC’s Defense of Israeli Attack
CNN, “The Most Trusted Parrot in News”: How they treat Iran verses how they treat Israel
Zionist Lobby Paid Off U.S. Journalists To Sell Israeli Foreign Policy
Secret jail torturer becomes police chief in Israel
Kucinich: WE ACCEPT the Slaughter of the Innocent BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY Slaughtered the Innocent
Kucinich: “U.S. Weapons Being Illegally Used to Kill Children”
One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children
Ron Paul: The Invasion of Gaza and its Implications for America — Blowback!
One Very Brave Palestinian Woman
How Come Israelis Can Criticize Israel, But Americans Can’t?
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sets the record straight on Israel’s aid flotilla massacre
Inhumane Israelis CELEBRATE attack on Turkish Aid Ship – in front of Turkish Embassy,Tel Aviv
Protesters assaulted and spit on by “Christians United for Israel” Summit Attendees
Pat Robertson Advocates Israel Bombing Iran Before 2008 Election
Pastor Baldwin: Ron Paul’s Israel Problem [Evangelicals Led Astray?]
When Billy Graham laughed to minimize Bill Clinton’s adultery
Billy Graham (a Freemason?) Praises the DeMolays – Masonic Youth Group
Brother Nathaniel is an orthodox Jew, telling the truth about today’s Judaism.
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..because Jews don’t follow the Bible. Why? They can’t, since their priesthood is gone forever, and without a priesthood the Old Testament makes Judaism null and void. So the rabbis threw out the Old Testament, and replaced it with the [Babylonian] Talmud. The Talmud’s Jewish messiah is NOT the Divine Messiah if the Bible. Theirs is the ‘rabbinic’ messiah….
That’s right, his [Jewish rabbi] ‘messiah’ must fulfill the Old Testament’s prophecies [which Jesus did]….
He means the Talmudic criteria that snubs Biblical criteria.
The rabbi’s ‘real thing’ will be the “anti-Christ.”
– Brother Nathaniel
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmAHyYSg68]Refuting Jews For Judaism
Published on Apr 6, 2015
Related:
Does Talmud Teach Pedophilia, Incest, Bestiality?
(video) How The Jews Mock Jesus Christ — Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Israeli TV…
Poll: American Jews Rate Evangelicals as Low as Muslims
(video) Miko Peled: Myths of 1967 (Israel’s Six Day War)
(video) ISRAELIS CHEER AS CIVILIANS ARE MURDERED IN GAZA
Israelis Who Cheered On Missile Strikes Threatened to Destroy CNN Reporter’s Car
Israeli General’s Daughter: How Israeli School Textbooks Teach Kids to Hate
(video) ABC Manipulates Truth to Fit Pro-Israel Bias | Weapons of Mass Distraction
(video!) Dead Palestinians Don’t Matter to Mainstream Media
(video) Israel Targeting Civilian with Banned Weapons
(video) 5 Reasons Why Israel is an Apartheid State
Wonderful Israelis Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza! — “We will not bomb children”
Pentecostals in Palestine – 6 minute trailer
Jesus: “HOW DARE YOU PROMOTE MASS MURDER IN MY NAME!!!” — WWJB?
Israel’s & U.S.’ Attrocities: May We No Longer Be Silent
Israel’s Deputy PM admits Iran DIDN’T threaten to wipe Israel out
Articles About Human Trafficking in Israel
Former Israeli Soldier Reveals Murder Squads
Israel Bombs Medical Supply Building — Ken O’Keefe in Gaza, Feb. 8, 2011
Specifics in how the media sides with Israel against the peace activists
US Media’s “Israel Can Do No Wrong” Bias
[media bias exposed!] Glenn Greenwald Destroys MSNBC’s Defense of Israeli Attack
CNN, “The Most Trusted Parrot in News”: How they treat Iran verses how they treat Israel
Zionist Lobby Paid Off U.S. Journalists To Sell Israeli Foreign Policy
Secret jail torturer becomes police chief in Israel
Kucinich: WE ACCEPT the Slaughter of the Innocent BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY Slaughtered the Innocent
Kucinich: “U.S. Weapons Being Illegally Used to Kill Children”
One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children
Ron Paul: The Invasion of Gaza and its Implications for America — Blowback!
One Very Brave Palestinian Woman
How Come Israelis Can Criticize Israel, But Americans Can’t?
Netanyahu: ‘America is easily moved’ (unaware camera) | Lies about Iran – history
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sets the record straight on Israel’s aid flotilla massacre
Inhumane Israelis CELEBRATE attack on Turkish Aid Ship – in front of Turkish Embassy,Tel Aviv
Protesters assaulted and spit on by “Christians United for Israel” Summit Attendees
Pat Robertson Advocates Israel Bombing Iran Before 2008 Election
Pastor Baldwin: Ron Paul’s Israel Problem [Evangelicals Led Astray?]
When Billy Graham laughed to minimize Bill Clinton’s adultery
Billy Graham (a Freemason?) Praises the DeMolays – Masonic Youth Group
From: Henry Makow
March 16, 2015
If pornography is an Illuminati plot,
does that apply to
masturbation as well?
“MGo,” a reader, thinks so. …
Henry, you have covered the social aspects of our hyper-sexualized society. But there’s another layer that is undermining people’s health and explains why the Illuminati bombard us with sex. …
What I am suggesting is that through indulgence in sex people, degrade their health to a significant degree. In the ancient Vedic texts of India, the Toaists, Christianity, and even Judaism say that a man’s semen contains vital energy that should be conserved and not recklessly frittered away through masturbation. …
Masturbation is also detrimental to a female’s health, but more in males. When this energy is conserved, men become much sharper intellectually, their memory is better, their willpower is much strong and their health is very good. I can personally attest that this is 100% true from ceasing masturbation or sex for several months…it is astounding how much more clear mentally….
The ruling elite know that if they can get the majority of men hooked on pornography, then they will not only be perverting their sexual tastes but they will be hooking them into a habit of daily masturbation that will gradually undermine their health and leave them weak minded and fickle.
I know that the majority of people masturbate, but that doesn’t make it a healthy habit…it is not. It is a degrading habit practiced by fallen man. While it is seen in some cases in the animal kingdom, it certainly isn’t abused to the extent that humans do, especially when some men masturbate 3-4 times per day. This is simply an abuse of Gods natural order, and an abuse of the genitals.
Furthermore the pleasure that you get from orgasm is heart-breakingly brief, and afterwards you feel lethargic because you have wasted a lot of your energy in the act. This is energy that could be used for higher pursuits in life, but the Illuminati know that if they can get the majority of men to channel their energy into mindless selfish things such as pornography, then they have that man in a mental straight jacket. It is foolish to think that semen is a useless substance that has no value. It has the power to create a human being. …
People need to wake up and realize that there are utterly evil forces in this world who simply want to destroy humanity. Unfortunately pornography, sodomy, masturbation, are currently considered as normal and healthy by a lot of people. I assure you that this is 100% false. This is having a profound effect on this country and is gradually undermining the health of the nation.
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First Comment from Rixon (Webmaster of The Truthseeker.co.uk)
It’s not only religious teachers who have warned against the harmful effects of masturbation. Traditional Chinese Medicine has long warned about the dangers, particularly if it becomes habitual.
By way of an introduction I’m going to quote from a great guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity by Daniel Reid. According to Reid:
“For men, masturbation represents an irretrievable and uncompensated loss of Yang semen-essence. …
“Men who continue masturbating habitually into their 30s, 40s and 50s rob themselves of the very essence and energy that fuel their lives and protect their health.”
Moreover this is more than just an ‘old wives tale’, given that 20 percent of male semen is cerebrospinal fluid. So even in the limited terms of scientific materialism, ejaculation depletes a man’s reservoir of vital life-giving essence.
However although he may ejaculate, when a man has intercourse with a woman the two will exchange vital hormones, or as the ancient Chinese called it precious essence, which in part compensates for the depletion of his chi or life force during intercourse. …
Related:
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God? — “There is therefore now *no condemnation* to those who are IN CHRIST Jesus, who don’t WALK according to the flesh, but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT” — Includes my dream of being in danger of going to hell just for lusting while watching TV
2014 Pornography Survey of ‘Christian’ Men: MAJORITY not only lusting, but into porn!!
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy
[ video ] Jessica Rey: The Evolution of the Swimsuit — Can Modesty Make a Comeback?
Lust: Another Name For Adultery – Dan Corner
I’ve finally shared much of what I know about and what can be done through the TREMENDOUS and mostly misunderstood and underused gift of tongues. A reader thankfully put me over the edge : ) I need to re-write this someday so it’s not written mostly in a comment. But it’s all there.
Can a Christian Have a Demon? Absolutely! Most Have Many!
A Gift that Will Set Many Free! (A Death Warrant is Out for Your Souls)
Let Us Be ONE, Part 13 of 33
A Gift that Will Set Many Free!
There is another day, a day that will happen if you let it.
I want you to be free, free from anxiety. A death warrant is out for your souls. It will get you if you let it. You must pray.
Many die from unknown causes. They are weak from attacks from the Devil who never gives up—curse after curse—toward My people. Many have given in, unable to walk.
Tongues, I’ve given you the gift of tongues from My heart to you. It is a gift that will set many free if you use it regularly. It is for you to walk holy, set free in forgiveness while you pray.
The two work together. One attacks the Devil, while you release those who have hurt you deeply, wounded your soul.
Pray for them. You can focus; you don’t have to pray in general all the time. I will give you the gift of life as you pray.
This is how it works. Believe in your heart you are praying for one another; though, it will come from the Holy Ghost, the words you emit that I give you to speak. Focus on these people, and pray until your tongues cease. I will tell you who to pray for, but this isn’t necessary. You can pray for anyone that way.
Believe in your heart; direct your tongues. I will fill your mouth as you speak and set people free. I will pray perfectly, as you obey, giving your life to others through prayer.
Amazing things will result! Your heart will be glad!
Watch Me do it. Prove My point. Try it now. Focus on someone who needs prayer. Believe in your heart you are praying for them as you speak words from above that fill your mouth. Pray it out, and watch them change, for I will release them from anger and all kinds of oppressions as you pray. You will see it, and it will amaze your intelligence. Many will be set free. Do it now. This is an important point.
And as you pray, forgive, release them from all kinds of cares and bondages. The two work hand in hand. You forgive and I pray through your words that I give you.
This is freedom! Set them free. Do it now; why wait when you can have the chance to move mountains, have an impact on society that many will see and feel. Your heart will be glad. Many will walk holy.
Pray for your elders. Many are not in the ministry to give life. Many are sucking you dry. They need to give up the ghost of unforgiveness and get on the bandwagon of love.
The seal of approval, you all want it. You can have it now. Why wait? You can be in Me as we speak. You can know for sure that you are sons of God, that I am in you and you are in Me. You will feel it. Your heart will be glad, and you will pray.
I will take you to heights unknown. Miracles will take place all around you as you obey. Many will be glad that you took the step of faith to lead. When all looked hopeless, you got up from your seat and prayed.
Pray. Let your heart be glad, and don’t give up. Pray until your tongues stop. This is an amazing gift that has much power to change.
Anyone can pray in tongues. It is a gift for all who obey, all who call on Me for Mercy.
Drink deeply, and let it give you life, freeing you, while you relax and find peace in a home here on earth.
We are together. Let us pray.
1942 Minnesota: Bathing beaches prior to the low-cut top epidemic
All of my Lust Freedom! posts [latest appear first, 10 posts per page]
I like the first part, where she talks about why many women, in particular, like the idea of worshiping Mary instead of Jesus. Of course, Mary is just a person who can’t really be prayed to, so demons can impersonate Mary, to be the ‘familiar spirit’ that many then follow.
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“I think, deep down, everybody knows that if you come to God, if you come to Christ, you’re going to have to give yourself up, and He is going to change you. I think that’s possibly something that everybody knows at some instinctive level. The thing about mothers is that they’re much more tolerant than fathers. The father won’t tolerate the same level of disobedience in his sons than the mother will, typically.
I think it’s because people just sort of see Mary as sort of embracing, loving, forgiving, etc. etc.. And she doesn’t judge. We know that Jesus, when He comes again, He’s going to come as judge. The first time, He didn’t come to judge the world. He came to save. But we know that whenever we stand in front of His thrown, whether He comes first or whether we die, we’re all going to stand in front of Him. And when that happens, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. He will judge us. And people are scared of that. So they would sooner have a pseudo-Jesus. I think that’s why Mary is popular.”
– Mary
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1osngox9y4]A Conversation With A Former Witch
James talks to a former witch and how her spells almost damned her to eternity in Hell, before Jesus saved her.
Her late husband also repented and got saved on his deathbed!
Related:
Father of Calvinism, Augustine’s Prayer To Mary For His Salvation
Can a Christian Have a Demon? Absolutely! Most Have Many!
All of my The Catholic Deception articles (10 posts per page, latest appear first)
Most evangelicals in America voted for this man instead of Ron Paul in 2008. Perhaps it’s time to find out the truth about John McCain, since I’m finding out in my discussions online that most still don’t know. Many watch FOX News, instead of listening to the HOLY Spirit, Who really is ‘Fair and Balanced,’ and Who will lead them sources of real truth, instead.
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From: antiwar
John McCain: War Hero or Something Less?
..McCain’s own tale of his torture and the confession he recorded for the North Vietnamese comes largely from his book Faith of My Fathers, in which he describes his shame at cooperating with the enemy. But some of McCain’s fellow prisoners, who were tortured and did not collaborate, have challenged his narrative, expressing their belief that McCain was not physically abused at all and that he was well treated. Others who were also in the prison camp dispute that claim. But by McCain’s own account he may have begun cooperating with the North Vietnamese within three days of his capture and was fully on board within two weeks, providing specific intelligence on his aircraft carrier, its aircraft, and the support vessels attached to it, information that was later featured in North Vietnamese radio broadcasts. One account that appeared on a wire service entitled “PW Songbird is Pilot Son of Admiral” reported that McCain may have gone beyond an acceptable level of collaboration in assisting the psychological warfare offensives aimed at American servicemen: “The broadcast was beamed to American servicemen in South Vietnam as a part of a propaganda series attempting to counter charges by U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that American prisoners are being mistreated in North Vietnam.” …
It has also been claimed by retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, admittedly without any corroborating evidence apart from what might be contained in inaccessible Pentagon files, that “McCain told his North Vietnamese captors, highly classified information, the most important of which was the package routes, which were routes used to bomb North Vietnam. He gave in detail the altitude they were flying, the direction, if they made a turn… he gave them what primary targets the United States was interested in…the information McCain provided allowed the North Vietnamese to adjust their air-defenses. As result…the US lost sixty percent more aircraft and in 1968 [and] called off the bombing of North Vietnam, because of the information McCain had given to them.” …
Schanberg makes two key points: first that a number of American prisoners of war were left behind in Indochina in 1973 with the connivance of top levels in the U.S. government and second that John McCain has worked assiduously to obstruct any efforts to open Pentagon files and follow up on leads to determine the status of the POWs and the “missing in action.” Admittedly, the prisoner of war issue is considerably more complicated than Schanberg represents it to be with many of the sightings and other evidence subject to challenge while his assumption that the Vietnamese were interested in exchanging their remaining prisoners for U.S. financial assistance is also somewhat speculative. But it appears undeniable based on the statements of senior U.S. government officials cited in the article and accompanying commentary that at least some prisoners were left behind with the full knowledge of and even enablement by the White House and Congress. Numerous elected and appointed officials subsequently lied to cover up their mendacity. It was a national disgrace, compounded through the fully documented case Schanberg makes for subsequent obstructionism by McCain and a number of other Senators who followed his lead, including current Secretary of State John Kerry, to impede any serious search for the missing in action and POWs.
One might reasonably infer that McCain’s cover up of Vietnam era POW sightings could well have been driven by fear that some released prisoners might have unpleasant things to say about his activities while at Hoa Lo prison. …
..McCain has consistently and irrationally advocated an undeviating hard line against Russia, the only country with the military capability to confront and destroy much of the United States through its nuclear armed ballistic missile forces. McCain supports untouchable defense budgets, American Exceptionalism, and a proactive “defense” policy that is a holdover from the George W. Bush years. He constantly flouts his patriotism and war record, which have become essential parts of his political persona, and he might well be reasonably described as the leading advocate of militarism in the United States Senate.
Much of McCain’s chauvinistic bluster might indeed be explained by guilt over his long ago confession to the North Vietnamese, a failing for which he might be making atonement through doubling down to demonstrate his unwavering support of the military. And there is also a darker side to him, possibly fed by guilt, evident in his frequently observed volcanic temper, which has been sometimes been directed against families of former prisoners who have raised the POW issue.
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(video) Ron Paul Booed by Reverse-Christian Debate Audience for Endorsing the Golden Rule
Most evangelicals in America voted for this man instead of Ron Paul in 2008. Perhaps it’s time to find out the truth about John McCain, since I’m finding out in my discussions online that most still don’t know. Many watch FOX News, instead of listening to the HOLY Spirit, Who really is ‘Fair and Balanced,’ and Who will lead them sources of real truth, instead.
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From: thedailybanter.com
8 Facts That Prove John McCain is an Unhinged Warmonger
Ben Cohen on June 03, 2013
1. McCain is trying to up American involvement in the civil war raging in Syria. One of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy, McCain secretly made a trip across the Turkey-Syria border with Gen. Salem Idris, the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). He stayed in the country for several hours before returning to Turkey. According to The Daily Beast, “Both in Syria and Turkey, McCain and Idris met with assembled leaders of Free Syrian Army units that traveled from around the country to see the U.S. senator. Inside those meetings, rebel leaders called on the United States to step up its support to the Syrian armed opposition and provide them with heavy weapons, a no-fly zone, and airstrikes on the Syrian regime….
2. He helped the Bush Administration build a case for war in Iraq, despite any evidence of WMDs or Saddam’s links to Al-Qaeda. McCain was one of the most vocal supporters of the war in Iraq and helped Bush and Cheney build a fictitious case against Saddam that led to one of the greatest strategic disaster in US military history. McCain is the only veteran in the Senate who has not turned against the war and still maintains it was a great idea.
3. Unwilling to accept that America’s role in Iraq was increasingly pointless and counterproductive, McCain was a huge supporter of the ‘Surge’ in 2007. …
4. McCain believes in America’s divine right to occupy a country for as long as it likes in order to achieve its objectives. During a at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in 2008, McCain was asked about the Bush administration’s willingness to keep troops in Iraq for 50 years. McCain cut the questionner off and said “Make it a hundred.”
5. McCain has long been a proponent of attacking Iran. Despite Iran not threatening anyone, not having nuclear weapons and not building any, …
An example: During a campaign appearance in South Carolina in 2007, McCain was asked by an audience member about potential U.S. military action in Iran. “How many times do we have to prove that these people are blowing up people now, never mind if they get a nuclear weapon. When do we send them an airmail message to Tehran?” a man asked. McCain replied, “That old, eh, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran — “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah ….”.
Hilarious.
6. Regardless of its illegality, McCain has advocated bombing the infrastructure of enemy countries. Under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions, it states that:
It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive
And here was McCain on the bombing of Serbia during the Balklans crisis in 1999:
No infrastructure targets should have been off limits. And while we all grieve over civilian casualties as well as our own losses, they are unavoidable.
7. McCain was vehemently anti the use of torture as an interrogation method by the military, then suddenly announced that the CIA shouldn’t be held to the same standards. …
8. There is good evidence that John McCain’s thirst for war is almost entirely down to political ambition.
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(video) McCain Laughs, Sings “Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran”
(video) McCain Laughing About Killing Iranians Again
(video) Ron Paul Booed by Reverse-Christian Debate Audience for Endorsing the Golden Rule
Jittery video, but only 4 minutes. Fascinating exposé!
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO2Mg_NBL5Y]Jehovah Witness’s Gravesite of Charles Taze Russell
Uploaded on Aug 15, 2009
This is Charles Taze Russel’s tombstone and memorial. It seems like this 7 foot tall pyramid was put here by the Watchtower. One of the things that I found interesting that I didn’t know was that each side had a “Holy Bible” with names on them. Like they were the book of Life.
Another thing that struck me was that it said “Dead with Christ” and “Risen with Christ”.
God Bless everyone.
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“I believe Satan is destroying male and female quite deliberately.”
“We’re living in a funny world, a world in which people don’t want to accept what God has made them. … Most of the [homosexual] men I’ve counseled … have been men who wanted to be looked after, rather than the responsibility of looking after anyone else. … They want to be a woman, and have a man to look after them, rather than face up to the responsibilities of being a man under God.”
“Christian men ought to be leading society uphill, rather than following society downhill. But it seems to me that the church follows the world, only 15 years later. So we get a reputation for being old fashioned and behind the times, because we are reluctant to go down the road. The world accepted homosexuality 20 years ago; the church is just now beginning to accept it. … Christians just slowly follow the world downhill.”
The trend to remove gender from even God in Bibles (1:08:30):
“It is all part of a mood in which the church is accepting the spirit of the age, rather than asking the Holy Spirit to be the leader.”
– David Pawson, transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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Clint’s heart stopped after a skiing accident when his ski pole punctured his heart. The still, small Voice had warned him….
“I should have paid attention to the warning. And I can tell you right now that when the Voice says something to me now, I listen. I pay attention.”
– Clint Walker
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYwX12B9GPQ]US actor Clint Walker Interview
Uploaded on Jul 11, 2009
Clint Walker is interviewed for the Extraordinary TV series, which includes an inspirational true life event. Clint has always been one of my favourite US actors. I particularly enjoyed his performance as Samson Posey in The Dirty Dozen, alongside Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, and Sam Whiskey with Burt Reynolds. I am so pleased posting this interview with Clint has been enjoyed and been so inspirational for many of you.
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The Paluxy fossil human footprints – Genesis Week, special episode #33, season 2 Ian Juby Wazooloo
Published on Apr 26, 2013
http://genesisweek.com
http://christianima.com
In this special edition of Genesis Week, we examine the Paluxy fossil human footprints and interview Dr. Carl Baugh, founder of Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas, whose life was radically changed when he discovered fossil human footprints among dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy.
Complete transcript available here: http://ianjuby.org/newsletter/?p=657
Random References:
Creation Evidence Museum:
http://creationevidence.org
And David Lines’ YouTube channel which hosts CEM’s videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RJG…
“In quest of the African Dinosaur,” Dr. Louis Jacobs, page 261
Dr. Don Patton’s exhaustive page on his research on the Paluxy tracks:
http://bible.ca/tracks
CT scans of the “Delk Track”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDBX9…
http://wazooloo.com
http://ianjuby.org
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The Physical Ashen Remains of Sodom & Gomorrah – Discovered by Ron Wyatt
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Louie Giglio: How GREAT Is Our GOD — The Heavens Proclaim the GLORY of GOD!
From: truthtellers.org…
National Prayer Network
TALMUD ENCOURAGES JEWS TO DECEIVE
By Rev. Ted Pike
11 Oct 10
What kind of religion sanctions deception and immorality for the sake of political goals? Orthodox Talmudic Judaism. The Babylonian Talmud encourages Jews to cheat and deceive Gentiles whenever necessary! In fact, “by way of deception” is the motto of Israel’s spy agency Mossad. Official license to deceive and even commit sexual immorality was seen in Israel this week.
Eminent Orthodox Rabbi Ari Shvat responded to a female student’s question about the morality of seducing and sleeping with an enemy. “ I was asked a question by a student of mine who was a religious girl that had been recruited by the Mossad. She wanted to know if a woman was allowed to do this kind of work.” Shvat ruled yes and published an essay in Tehumin, an annual collection of articles on law and modernity. The Jewish Worldsummarizes: “A new Halachic study ruled that seducing an enemy for the sake of national security is an important mitzvah…” It is, in fact, an “utmost mitzvah” (legal command). Shvat’s work was published by the Tzomet Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to “seamlessly merging Judaism with modern Israeli life.”
In the ruling, Shvat says women can be “used to seduce enemy agents in order to cajole information out of them or see them captured.” Jewish World says such women were used to capture nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and to assassinate a senior Hamas operative in Dubai last January. Such deception, says the rabbi, is “Halacha,” or binding Talmudic law. Even with homicidal intent, he writes, “sexual intercourse with a Gentile for the sake of a national cause is not only sanctioned, but is a highly important mitzvah…Our Sages of Blessed Memory elevate such acts of dedication to the top of the Halacha’s mitzvahs pyramid.”
Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, head of Tzomet Institute and editor-in-chief of Tehumin, called the study “daring and important…Although it is highly unlikely that Mossad agents will seek rabbinical advice, this essay is very important and courageous. The author is versed in religious discourse and even conservative rabbis would surely agree with his thesis.”
Shvat’s ruling, reported by a major Jewish news agency, is presented without criticism. It reveals a disturbing, even ominous fact: Talmudic Judaism encourages Jews to ensnare and deceive Gentiles in order to advance Jews and Jewish causes, as long as they can get away with it. If they are caught and Israel is embarrassed, the “holy name of God” (synonymous with Israel’s good reputation) may be blasphemed. If that is a real possibility, the Talmud tells Jews to back off. But in order to save the Jewish nation it is even morally permitted to murder and commit adultery.
God “Outlawed” the GentilesThe Talmudic position concerning deception of Gentiles is embodied in the Halachic dictum, “It is permitted to deceive a goy (Gentile).” [1] In legal and business matters, the Talmud says Gentiles are beneath equality with Jews. As the 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia explains [2], the Gentiles were “outlawed” by God from the beginning.
The passage in Moses’ farewell address: ‘The Lord came form Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran’. . . indicates that the Almighty offered the Torah to the Gentile nations also, but, since they refused to accept it, He withdrew His ‘shining’ legal protection form them, and transferred their property rights to Israel, who observed His law. A passage in Habakkuk is quoted as confirming this claim: ‘God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. . .He stood and measured the earth he beheld, and drove asunder [“outlawed”] the nations.’ . . .the Talmud adds that He had observed how the Gentile nations steadfastly refused to obey the seven moral Noachian precepts, and hence He decided to outlaw them.” (Baba Kama 38a).
The rabbis believed Gentiles demonstrated their stupidity by thinking their own laws were worthy of obeying. The Talmud denies the Gentile status as a “man,” so they are also excluded from being the Jews’ neighbor.
Another reason for discrimination was the vile and vicious character of the Gentiles… With such a character… it would naturally be quite unsafe to trust a Gentile as a witness… He could not be depended upon to keep his promise or word of honor like a Jew.” (Bek. 13b) A Gentile. . . is not a ‘neighbor’ in the sense of reciprocating and being responsible for damages caused by his negligence; nor does he watch over his cattle. Even the best Gentile laws were too crude to admit of reciprocity.
The meaning of these passages is obvious: As animals cannot be “neighbors” to men and as the behavior and laws of the animal world do not require observance by humans, so the Gentile world is beneath the Jewish. This source confirms: “The Torah outlawed the issue of a Gentile as that of a beast.”
In a Jewish CourtroomJewish contempt for Gentile law was best illustrated in the courtroom. Imagine a Jewish court in Babylon in 350 A.D. as the Jewish Encyclopedia describes:
It sometimes happened that the Gentile, wishing to take advantage of the liberal Jewish laws, summoned his Jewish opponent to a Jewish court. In such cases the Gentile would gain little benefit, as he would be dealt with by the Jewish or Gentile laws, as might be least advantageous to him. The judge would say: ‘This is in accordance with our law’ or ‘with your law’ as the case might be. If this was not satisfactory to the Gentile, legal quibbles and circumventions might be employed against him.
The primary source for the above quote, Baba Kama 113a (Soncino edition), elaborates:
Where a suit arises between an Israelite and a heathen, if you can satisfy the former according to the laws of Israel, justify him and say: ‘this is our law’; so also if you can justify him by the laws of the heathens justify him and say (to the other party): ‘This is your law; but if this cannot be done, we use subterfuges to circumvent them [‘subterfuge’ = deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal – editor]. This is the view of R. Ishmael, but R. Akiba said that we could not attempt to circumvent them on account of the sanctification of the Name.
However, the same source comments: “but were there no infringement of the sanctification of the Name, we could circumvent him.”
By “sanctification of the Name,” Rabbi Akiba refers to the dignity and reputation of God’s name in the eyes of the world. If lying in the court may bring disrespect to Israel and thus to the God of the Hebrews will, then it had better not be done. The real question about perverting justice against a Gentile is whether a Jew can get away with it. The Jewish Encyclopedia summarizes the majority opinion, stating: “The Mishnah. . .declares that if a Gentile sue an Israelite, the verdict is the for defendant; if the Israelite is the plaintiff, he obtains full damages.” [3]
The Divine Right of CheatingOutright robbery of a Gentile is not endorsed, but the Talmud makes broad provision for indirect thievery; a Jew doesn’t need to return a lost article to a Gentile. Baba Kama 113b continues: “And with all lost things of thy brother’s: it is to your brother that you make restoration, but you need not make restoration to a heathen.”
As Rabbi Akiba warned, the Jew must avoid bringing God’s name into dishonor by cheating Gentiles. Yet, as a passage in B.K. 113b, 114a reveals, Rabbi Samuel was not above cheating a Gentile out of the full price of a gold bowl, while Rabbi Kahana cheated a Gentile out of both the number and price of a quantity of barrels.
A passage from the Talmud describes with praise how the head of a famous Talmudic academy cheated a Gentile out of a gold bowl for less than even a copper one was worth. This passage continues with examples of cheating from the likes of Rabina and Ashi, sages from the academy at Sura in Babylonia, and the two most important figures in the final editing of the Talmud.
“Public Property”Despite the fear that defrauding Gentiles might bring dishonor God’s name, the Talmud generally upholds the right of Jews to Gentiles’ property. God “outlawed” Gentiles at Mt. Sinai and their property rights were now Israel’s. The Rabbis by their own decree could at least theoretically declare the property of Gentiles to be ownerless. The Jewish Encyclopedia (p. 621) summarizes:
All retaliation or measures of reprisal are based on the Jewish legal maxim of eminent domain, ‘the judicial authority can annul the right to the possession of property and declare such property ownerless.’
Pharisees: The Original RacistsPerhaps the most remarkable feature of Rabbinic bias against the Gentile was that, in most cases, there is no mention of the possibility that the “goy” is doing his best or is the rightful owner of his property. He is viewed as a member of a class with known characteristics: The Jew is good, the Gentile bad; the Jew must be acquitted, the Gentile convicted. An essentially racist view of human nature was assumed. Indeed, the Pharisees were the original racists. Few religions possess such racist undertones as rabbinic Judaism.
The bad example of the most respected sages of Israel had a widespread and corrosive effect on the relations of Jews with their neighbors. One wonders if the Gentiles were aware of their position as fair game to predatory Jews. Choschen Ham spells out some of the ground rules for exploiting Gentiles:
If a Jew is doing good business with an Akum [Gentile] it is not allowed to other Jews in other places to come and do business with the same Akum. In other places, however, it is different, where another Jew is allowed to go to the same Akum, lead him in, do business with him and to deceive him and take his money. For the wealth of the Akum is to be regarded as common property and belongs to the first who can get it.
And again:
If a Jew is doing business with an Akum and a fellow Israelite comes along and defrauds the Akum, either by false measure, weight, or number, he must divide his profit with his fellow Israelite, since both had a part in the deal, and also to help him along. [4]
Secret HatredJust as the Talmud gives Jews the right to cheat Gentiles, so any inquiry into its true teachings by Gentiles is answered deceptively. This continues today. Jews must maintain a well-meaning appearance in order to dwell and trade among Gentiles. A commentary in Abodah Zarah (I, 2, fol. 7b) laments: “Since we are in captivity, we cannot live without trading with them, and we depend upon them for our food, and we must fear them. . . .” (Pranaitis, p. 65) For this reason, Jews were encouraged to practice philanthropy, even toward Gentiles. “Needy Gentiles may be helped as well as needy Jews,” for the sake of peace. [5] Yet such expedients are to be employed only when there is no alternative. “Therefore,” the Talmud says,
If you enter a town and find them celebrating a feast, you may pretend to rejoice with them in order to hide your hatred. Those, however, who care about the salvation of their souls, should keep away from such celebrations. You should make it known that it is a hateful thing to rejoice with them, if you can do it without incurring their enmity. [6]
Also:
No one is allowed to praise them or say how good an Akum is. How much less to praise what they do or to recount anything about them which would redound to their glory. If, however, while praising them you intend to give glory to God, namely, because he has created comely creatures, then it is allowed to do so. [7]
Gentiles: Keep Out
Separatism between Jew and the corrupting Canaanites had a divinely sanctioned purpose in the time of Joshua. But the Pharisees nourished and intensified racism long after its usefulness was done. Gentiles were forbidden from becoming acquainted with the Jewish religion—an instruction never given by God. The Pharisees considered a Gentile so far beneath a Jew that hospitality or religious instruction were forbidden to him. In Sanh. 104a, “Hezekiah b. Hiyya deduces from II Kings XX.18 that he who shows hospitality to a heathen brings the penalty of exile upon his children.” The Jewish Encyclopedia article on “Gentiles” (p. 621) heartily agrees:
The Talmud comments on the untruthfulness of Gentiles (a band of strange children whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right [in raising it to take an oath] is a right hand of falsehood) and contrasts it with the reputation of a Jew: The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. (Zeph. iii. 13) [8]
Such holiness may be facilitated by following this suggestion from the Talmud as related by the Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 617, “Judah ben Illai recommends the daily recital of the benediction ‘Blessed be thou… who hast not made me a goy.’”
Why Have Jews Been So Persecuted?
What if these passages from the Talmud weren’t written in the Talmud by authority of the Pharisees but in the New Testament by authority of Jesus? If they were, Jesus’ followers would have become the most despised and mistrusted of men. Christians (if any survived) would have faced discrimination and even banishment from civilized society. People today would laugh at any Christian reply that their sufferings were caused by bigoted nations.
Yet history books in our educational system describe the long saga of Jewish suffering as primarily caused byChristian “anti-semitic” bigotry against “innocent” Jews.
Why have the Jews been exiled from 60 countries since they began to follow the leadership of the Pharisees nearly two millennia ago? It’s because of something toxic within the religion of the Pharisees.
Jesus put it most directly: Rabbinic Judaism is the “synagogue of Satan” (Rev 3:9)—the church that Satan goes to, the religion he inspired and owns.
(Adapted from Israel: Our Duty…Our Dilemma by Rev Ted Pike. This 345-page book is available for $24.90, post-paid, online at www.truthtellers.org or from National Prayer Network, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR, 97015.)
Footnotes:
1. Baba Kama 113b, quoted in “The Talmud Unmasked,” by Rev. I. B. Pranaitis. This volatile passage is paraphrased or omitted in Jewish translations of the Talmud meant for modern audiences. However scholars of Hebrew and Aramaic have translated passages by Pranaitis for me and found them more accurate than Jewish translations for the public.
2. “Gentile,” p. 620.
3. Ibid. Pg. 620.
4. Choschen Ham 156, 5 Hagah, 183 Hagah, Pranaitis, pp. 72-73. Choschen Ham is a rabbinic treatise not part of the Talmud proper, but of comparable authority. Since the Pranaitis translation is consistent with views expressed in the Talmud and Jewish Encyclopedia, I have included it.
5. Gittin 61a, quoted from the Jewish Encyclopedia article, “Gentile,” p. 623.
6. Iore Deah 147, 12 Hagah, Pranaitis, p. 69. Iore Deah is part of a compendium of Jewish law first formulated by Maimonides. Again, I feel that the Pranaitis translation from the Krakow edition is trustworthy.
7. Ibid. 151, 14 Hagah.
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Netanyahu’s Nuclear Deceptions
A Response to Netanyahu From Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N.
By GHOLAMALI KHOSHROOMARCH 3, 2015
UNITED NATIONS — In the address on Tuesday to the United States Congress by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, we witnessed a new peak in the long-running hype over Iran’s nuclear energy program. Yet all his predictions about how close Iran was to acquiring a nuclear bomb have proved baseless.
Despite that, alarmist rhetoric on the theme has been a staple of Mr. Netanyahu’s career. In an interview with the BBC in 1997, he accused Iran of secretly “building a formidable arsenal of ballistic missiles,” predicting that eventually Manhattan would be within range. In 1996, he stood before Congress and urged other nations to join him to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear capability, stressing that “time is running out.” Earlier, as a member of Parliament, in 1992, he predicted that Iran would be able to produce a nuclear weapon within three to five years.
In front of world leaders at the United Nations in September 2012, Mr. Netanyahu escalated his warnings by declaring that Iran could acquire the bomb within a year. It is ironic that in doing so, he apparently disregarded the assessment of his own secret service: A recently revealed document showed that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, had advised that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons.” The United States intelligence community had reached the same conclusion in its National Intelligence Estimate.
Despite extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, no evidence has ever been presented to contradict the clear commitment by Iran’s leaders that they would under no circumstances engage in manufacturing, stockpiling and using nuclear weapons.
From: firstlook.org…
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU’S LONG HISTORY OF CRYING WOLF ABOUT IRAN’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address the U.S. Congress tomorrow about the perils of striking a nuclear deal with Iran. …
It is worth remembering, however, that Netanyahu has said much of this before. Almost two decades ago, in 1996, Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress where he darkly warned, “If Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, this could presage catastrophic consequences, not only for my country, and not only for the Middle East, but for all mankind,” adding that, “the deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely close.”
Almost 20 years later that deadline has apparently still not passed, but Netanyahu is still making dire predictions about an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon. Four years before that Congressional speech, in 1992, then-parliamentarian Netanyahu advised the Israeli Knesset that Iran was “three to five years” away from reaching nuclear weapons capability, and that this threat had to be “uprooted by an international front headed by the U.S.”
In his 1995 book, “Fighting Terrorism,” Netanyahu once again asserted that Iran would have a nuclear weapon in “three to five years,” apparently forgetting about the expiration of his old deadline.
For a considerable time thereafter, Netanyahu switched his focus to hyping the purported nuclear threat posed by another country, Iraq, about which he claimed there was “no question” that it was “advancing towards to the development of nuclear weapons.” Testifying again in front of Congress in 2002, Netanyahu claimed that Iraq’s nonexistent nuclear program was in fact so advanced that the country was now operating “centrifuges the size of washing machines.”
Needless to say, these claims turned out to be disastrously false. Despite this, Netanyahu, apparently unchastened by the havoc his previous false charges helped create, immediately went back to ringing the alarm bells about Iran.
A 2009 U.S. State Department diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks described then-prime ministerial candidate Netanyahu informing a visiting Congressional delegation that Iran was “probably one or two years away” from developing weapons capability. Another cable later the same year showed Netanyahu, now back in office as prime minister, telling a separate delegation of American politicians in Jerusalem that “Iran has the capability now to make one bomb,” adding that alternatively, “they could wait and make several bombs in a year or two.” …
Despite this heady rhetoric, Netanyahu’s estimates of an imminent Iranian nuclear bomb have consistently been at odds with analyses made by his own intelligence agency. In 2011, departing Mossad intelligence chief Meir Dagan said in his final intelligence summary that, contrary to Netanyahu’s repeated statements at the time, an Iranian nuclear weapon is in fact not imminent, and that any military action against the country could end up spurring the development of such a weapon.
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Cmptx4EAM]She’s so happy with the Tsunami
Een christelijk meisje die God bedankt voor de Tsunami omdat volgens haar Japanners atheïsten zijn en God zou om die reden wraak hebben genomen.
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From: southernnationalist.com
Fox: Not quite porn… or news
RT America has an article out (complete with pictures) about the revealing dress of the Fox News ‘info-babes,’ the audience this is aimed towards and the lack of actual news that Fox produces:
…Low décolleté and a miniskirt leaving not that much to the imagination is regular business attire for Fox News’ female pundits. In recent years, media mogul Rupert Murdoch has taken the British tabloid style of, for lack of a better word, news, and introduced it to his American entities under his own News Corporation umbrella. [This is how Murdoch got his start and the money to buy FOX – editor] …
Fox’s audience is composed mainly of middle aged men — and it’s not surprising that many of them watch the channel on mute. Who cares what that girl is talking about as long as she wears that blue dress? What’s also not surprising, though, is how much and what kind of information Fox’s viewers receive. According to a poll published by Fairleigh Dickinson University, people who get their information from Fox News know significantly less about news both in the US and the world than people who watch no news at all.
Sex sells and the US is buying. … It’s the dumbing down of news for absent-minded Americans and it is being swallowed up by swarms of viewers who are only interested in one thing.
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From: gotquestions.org
Question: “What does the Bible mean that we are not to judge others?”
Answer: This is an issue that has confused many people. On one hand, we are commanded by the Lord Jesus, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged” (Matthew 7:1). On the other hand, the Bible also exhorts us to beware of evildoers and false prophets and to avoid those who practice all kinds of evil. How are we to discern who these people are if we do not make some kind of judgment about them?
Christians are often accused of “judging” whenever they speak out against a sinful activity. However, that is not the meaning of the Scripture verses that state, “Do not judge.” There is a righteous kind of judgment we are supposed to exercise—with careful discernment [“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment” NASB] (John 7:24). When Jesus told us not to judge (Matthew 7:1), He was telling us not to judge hypocritically. Matthew 7:2-5 declares, “For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” What Jesus was condemning here was hypocritical, self-righteous judgments of others.
In Matthew 7:2-5, Jesus warns against judging someone else for his sin when you yourself are sinning even worse. That is the kind of judging Jesus commanded us not to do. If a believer sees another believer sinning, it is his Christian duty to lovingly and respectfully confront the person with his sin (Matthew 18:15-17). This is not judging, but rather pointing out the truth in hope—and with the ultimate goal—of bringing repentance in the other person (James 5:20) and restoration to the fellowship. We are to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). We are to proclaim what God’s Word says about sin. 2 Timothy 4:2 instructs us, “Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction.” We are to “judge” sin, but always with the goal of presenting the solution for sin and its consequences—the Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6).
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From: eaec.org
Roman Catholicism
Founder: Emperor Constantine
Overview:
The Roman Catholic church, headquartered in Rome, Italy, has its own powerful City-State, the Vatican. The Roman Catholic church unofficially came into being in 312 A.D., at the time of the so-called “miraculous conversion” to Christianity of the Roman Emperor Constantine but he still worshipped the sun god. Although Christianity was not made the official religion of the Roman Empire until the edicts of Theodosius I in 380 and 381 A.D., Constantine, from 312 A.D. until his death in 337, was engaged in the process of simultaneously building pagan temples and Christian churches, and was slowly turning over the reins of his pagan priesthood to the Bishop of Rome. …
Prior to the time of Constantine’s “conversion,” Christians were persecuted not so much for their profession of faith in Christ, but because they would not include pagan deities in their faith as well. Then, with Constantine’s emphasis on making his new-found Christianity palatable to the heathen in the Empire, the “Christianization” of these pagan deities was facilitated. For example, pagan rituals and idols gradually took on Christian meanings and names and were incorporated into “Christian” worship (e.g., “saints” replaced the cult of pagan gods in both worship and as patrons of cities; mother/son statues were renamed Mary and Jesus; etc.), and pagan holidays were reclassified as Christian holy days (e.g., the Roman Lupercalia and the feast of purification of Isis became the Feast of the Nativity; the Saturnalia celebrations were replaced by Christmas celebrations; an ancient festival of the dead was replaced by All Souls Day, rededicated to Christian heroes [now Halloween]; etc.). …
When Rome went from being pagan to Christian under Constantine, they had to find a replacement for the great mother of paganism. It was not until the time of Constantine that anyone began to look at Mary as a goddess. Since Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ, she was the most logical person to replace the pagan mother goddess. The pagans could continue their prayers and devotion to the mother goddess, only they would call her Mary. The pagans worshipped the mother as much or more than her son and this is exactly what the Roman Catholicism does. True Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is to be worshipped – not his mother. The fact remains that Jesus never hinted at the idea of Mary worship nor did any of the apostles. Worshipping the mother goddess along with her child took place centuries before Jesus Christ was ever born in many different parts of the world. In 431 A.D. Mary worship became an official doctrine of the church in at the Council of Ephesus.
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Dating the Sub Tuum Praesidium – Is Marian Veneration Apostolic?
Posted on January 9, 2015
Despite the eagerness of Roman Catholic apologists to establish that their veneration of Mary has ancient precedent, marian veneration is a merely human tradition, one that begin to flourish in the fourth century and expanded significantly after the term “Theotokos” was used at the Council of Ephesus to describe Mary as the “God-Bearer,” which she really was in the sense of carrying in her womb one who is both God and man in two distinct natures and one person.
To try to push the date of marian veneration back into the third century, some Roman Catholic apologists (some examples appear below) have appealed to the Sub Tuum Praesidium. That’s an early prayer to Mary. A few scholars have dated this prayer to the mid third century, based on the handwriting. Other scholars have noted that there are two major problems with this idea: (1) the prayer uses the term “Theotokos,” which became popular after the Council of Ephesus (A.D. 431) and wasn’t very popular before then; and (2) the idea of praying to Mary is unknown amongst orthodox Christians in the 3rd century.
Depending on the source, one can find this issue identified in scholarly works that cite this papyrus. For example, The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images, Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham editors, “Melkite Syriac Hymns to the Mother of God (9th-11th centuries): Manuscripts, Language and Imagery,” by Nataliaa Smelova (section author), p. 118:
Arguably the earliest and certainly one of the most famous Marian hymns, ‘Υπὁ τἡν σἠν εὐσπλαγχνίαν’ is found in the fourth century (?) papyrus 470 from the John Rylands Library (University of Manchester) as well as in the papyrus P. Vindobon. G 17944, dated to the sixth or seventh century, from the Austrian National Library in Vienna.[fn 3]
[3 C.H. Roberts, Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester (4 vols, Manchester, 1911-52), vol. 3 (1938): Theological and Literary texts(nos. 457-551), 46-7, pl. 1; K. Treu and J.M. Diethart, Griechische literarische Papyri Christlichen Inhaltes, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrusssammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, n.s. 2 (Vienna, 1993), 56, pl. 16.]
Similarly, Empress and Handmaid: On Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary, by Sarah Jane Boss, Note 1 at page 41:
1. The prayer is written in Greek on a fragment of Egyptian papyrus which is now in the possession of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. (C.H. Roberts (ed.), Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester vol. III, Theological and Literary texts (Nos. 457-551) (1938) no. 470. It is a Greek version of the prayer which occurs in Latin as the Sub tuum praesidium. The papyrus dates from the fourth or fifth century, and may be reconstructed to yield the following translation: ‘Beneath your compassion we take refuge, Mother of God. Do not ignore our supplications in our necessities, but deliver us from danger: alone chaste, alone blessed.’
See Th. Koehler, ‘Maternité spirituelle, maternité mystique’ in Hubert du Manoir (ed.), Maria tom. VI (1961), pp. 571-2, n. 77; Michael O’Carroll,Theotokos: A Theological Encyclopedia of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1982), p. 336.
As you can see from these examples C.H. Roberts’ work is the primary reference. He was a lecturer in papyrology in the University of Oxford and fellow of St. John’s college, and is the one who published this papyrus. The entry for papyrus 470 in his catalog is as follows:
470. CHRISTIAN PRAYER.
Aquired in 1917. 18 x 9.4 cm. ? Fourth century.
PLATE I.
This prayer, written in brown ink on a small sheet of papyrus (the verso is blank), is probably a private copy ; there are no indications that it was intended for liturgical use. The hand, tall, upright, and pointed, with small blobs at the top and bottom of vertical strokes, is of a peculiar type to which I know no exact parallel. The α is of a kind more common in inscriptions than in papyri, and Dr. Bell suggests that the peculiarity of the script might be explained on the ground that it was a model for an engraver.
Mr. Lobel has pointed out to me that the hand resembles somewhat that of the letter of Subatianus Aquila (Schubart, Papyri Graecae Berolinenses, 35; cf. id. Paeleographie, p. 73) with its large and narrow characters; the ο, ι, and to a less extent the ε, are similar in both texts, but the peculiar [hand drawing of character] found in 470 is missing in the other, which on the whole is less decorative. Lobel would be unwilling to place 470 later than the third century. But such individual hands are hard to date, and it is almost incredible that a prayer addressed directly to the Virgin in these terms could be written in the third century. The Virgin was spoken of as Θεοτόκος by Athanasius ; but there is no evidence even for private prayer addressed to her (cf. Greg. Naz. Orat. xxiv. II) before the latter part of the fourth century, and I find it difficult to think that our text was written earlier than that (cf. art. ‘Mary’ in Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics).
(Rylands Library Catologue of Greek and Latin Papyri – Entry 470, including the text transcription, a photo of the manuscript, and some notes on the text)
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..regardless of whether it is third or fourth century, it is the first such example of prayer to Mary. From this, we can reasonable infer that prayer to Mary is not an apostolic tradition – it is a human tradition that arose centuries after Christ’s resurrection.
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