Bible Believers' Newsletter #605
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We especially welcome our new subscribers. Please study the links, "prove all things", and write us with your questions and suggestions. As I am trying to devote myself to study I may not be preparing a main article for the next few issues so if after searching our Website you have a question that remains unanswered we will seek to answer for the edification of all readers.
There are an extraordinary number of news items this week. The links on the article about the genocidal man-made swine flu hoax should not be neglected, because it concerns you personally, and your community, wherever you live.
Once again we welcome contributing author Professor Henry Makow, PhD, known to many of you through his own Website, www.henrymakow.com. His article exposes the objectives of the satanic minds behind Communism. God is the Creator full of grace whose perfect will that no one should perish, but He allows the natural and spiritual Serpent's seed to destroy evil and has made Communism His servant to destroy the false church as He made Nebuchadnezzar His servant to destroy His Temple and the kingdom of Judah, initiating Gentile dominion over Jerusalem unto the consummation.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Obama declares Swine Flu a National Emergency
October 24, 2009 – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.
The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever [sic] in the country and production delays undercutting the government's initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October. . .
The government now hopes to have about 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine out by mid-November and 150 million in December. The flu virus has to be grown in chicken eggs, and the yield hasn't been as high as was initially hoped, officials have said. Full story: charter.net. Cheerleader develops dystonia after receiving vaccine. Dr. Gary Null exposes the racketeering and greed of BigPharma, the ineffectiveness of swine 'flu vaccinations which have never been objectively and independently tested and peer-reviewed. Take the time to listen to these links.
Comment: If I understand the 'setup': Mr. Obama (whoever he may be) can now declare martial law, a giant step towards Lucifer's totalitarian one world government . . . . and it will be necessary if Los Angeles takes a swim come Nisan 14. Please listen to Dr. Rauni Kilde, Finnish Minister of Health expose swine flu black op. Then read the genocidal facts from the WHO website with the objective of global depopulation.
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Bunker Buster Bomb carries Goal of deterring Iran
October 23, 2009 – Even as Washington emphasizes walking softly to pry Iran away from its nuclear ambitions [sic], the Pentagon is speeding the manufacture of its own big stick.
This month, the Defense Department awarded $51.9 million to McDonnell Douglas to more quickly adapt a 30,000-pound bunker buster to the B-2 stealth bomber. The GBU-57 bomb and the fleet of B-2s—stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base with occasional deployments to Guam and an outpost in the Indian Ocean—are widely seen as the likeliest US military option for setting back Tehran's hopes for building nuclear weapons. . . Full story: mcclatchydc.com
Comment: Terrorist US is the Godless, bloodthirsty image of the beast of Imperial Rome whose goal is to provoke peaceful Iran to rash action. The Prophet said, God raised up Judaeo-Communism to destroy the Roman Catholic false church, and its apostate (once) Protestant image (Revelation 13; 17; 18).
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Are Israel & the US Cornered
Israel now faces war crimes charges at the Hague. Yes, the United States will veto the Goldstone Report in the Security Council, but the ringer in the deal is that the General assembly, under Resolution 377, can bypass the Security Council and send the Goldstone Report to the Hague, and the United States and Israel cannot stop it. Earlier this year, the General Assembly voted through a resolution requesting Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and submit to the exact same IAEA inspections that Iran (and every other NNPT signatory) submits to. Israel refused. The fact that Israel and the United States were not able to deflect this Resolution tell us that the General Assembly has lost all patience with Israel. The credibility of the UN as a world governing body is on the line. The probability that the General Assembly will bypass the Security Council is therefore very high. A war with Iran would have distracted the media from Israel's war crimes charges. That seems not likely to happen now. . .
Israel has to live with their war crimes charges. The US has to live with their ruined economy and failed wars, and public anger. Both Israel and the US are showing themselves as desperate to block Israel war crimes charges from progressing, and may have wasted that political capital in vain if the UN General; Assembly invokes Resolution 377.
So, in short, Israel and the US are cornered politically. Cornered animals are the most dangerous and desperate. Our future is in the hands of whichever leader is the least mentally stable, and ready to hit the panic button. That panic move; that striking out from the corner could be something subtle like a new false-flag "terror" attack, or something as straightforward as simply attacking Iran without provocation. . . Full story: barbaradiamond.blogspot.com
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Meanwhile, back in Cold Reality...
October 17, 2009 – 20 per cent of the entire United States was last week covered in snow, the greatest October snow cover the country had known for years (see this). Similarly unseasonable snowfalls blanketed central Europe and the Alps. Freak October snows caused traffic chaos in New Zealand. Hundreds of Tibetan herdsmen had to be rescued when blizzards swept their summer pastures weeks early.
This is now the third year running when there have been signs of an abnormally cold winter across large parts of the world. Last year's October snowfalls in the US broke records which in some cases had stood for over a century, prefacing one of America's coldest winters for decades. This summer's Arctic ice-melt stopped nearly 1 million square kilometres short of its record low in 2007. Around Antarctica this year's sea ice-melt was the lowest recorded since satellite data began in 1979, leaving the ice 30 per cent above its 30-year average. . . Full story: telegraph.co.uk
Comment: Senator Barnaby Joyce revealed: "The Australian Emissions Trading Scheme is merely a policy, a political statement, a gesture. The cost to the Australian citizen of this massive new tax associated with it, is very real however. If you are involved in the emission of carbon, which might be from anything as obscure as ironing your clothes, cooking dinner, putting fertiliser on your field or pouring a concrete slab for your house, you will pay the tax.
"You may not see it but you will definitely pay it. The removal of wealth from your life and transferred to the Treasury will be discernable, with the commission going to stock brokers and bankers on the way through.
"I have to query, is the purpose of the Emissions Trading Scheme to cool the planet, which clearly it will not do, or is it to prop up a parlous state of our Government finances? The more I hear, the more I am inclined to the latter. Australians will deliver tens of billions of dollars to the Treasury by reason of this tax in the near future.
"There is far more empirical evidence in what it will cost you, the resident of Australia, than any scientific evidence that an emissions scheme will do anything for the climate. . . Full story: alor.org
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Was Elvis Jewish?
October 24, 2009 – In 1998, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "All Shook Up in the Holy Land" exposing Elvis Presley's unlikely Jewish lineage. Apparently, Elvis' maternal great-great grandmother, Nancy Burdine, was a Jew. Her daughter gave birth to Doll Mansell who gave birth to Gladys Smith who gave birth to Elvis. . . according to Jewish law . . . that makes Elvis Presley Jewish. . .
Elvis grew up in "the Pinch"—the Jewish quarter of Memphis where his mother worked in the "shmata business," a predominantly Jewish enterprise at the time. As a teenager the future king was the "Shabbos goy" (i.e. performed tasks otherwise prohibited to Jews on the Sabbath) for his upstairs neighbors at 462 Alabama Ave., Rabbi Alfred and Jeannette Fruchter, who was the Rabbi at the local synagogue. The Presleys regularly came over for Friday night dinner, and Elvis had a penchant for the Rebbetzin's cooking. . . Full story: aish.com
Comment: Do you see how Brother Branham "gathered the loose ends"? "Judas got thirty pieces of silver; Elvis got a fleet of Cadillacs and a few million dollars for selling his birthright. . . Look at Elvis Presley, a 1947 version of Judas Iscariot, joins the Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, speaking in tongues for the Holy Ghost, and sent more souls to torment than all the bootleg joints there's been in the last fifty years. Perverted the mind of little teenage children all over the world, till little girls would grab off their underclothes and throw it on the platform, and him to autograph, so vulgar that they won't show him on the television from his waist down, the way he . . . his body. (The Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues for evidence). Oh, brother, if the Holy Ghost was there, It wouldn't act like that. You know better than that. Certainly not. God loves cleanness and purity and holy" (Hebrews p. 191:159; 225:369).
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Updates on Hardin, Montana, and China Flag on Whitehouse
October 27, 2009 – Brother Chuck Baldwin brings this update on the attempted takeover of the Hardin, Montana, jail facility by a private mercenary force and a Chinese story that the White House would fly the Communist Chinese flag in honor of the 60th anniversary of Mao's as reported in Newsletters #598 and #601. Full story: newswithviews.com
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Hunting banned in Parts of Austria after Hailstones kill 90pc of Wild Game
October 19, 2009 – Hundreds of deer were discovered either dead or so badly injured they had to be put down by wildlife experts. In the country's rural Salzburg province, 90 per cent of pheasants and 80 per cent of hares were killed in the hail storms.
Sepp Eder, the hunting chief, said: "Animals sought shelter in farms, in fields of grain but the hail was so heavy it smashed right into them. It may take five years for animal numbers to recover, if they ever do so". . . Full story: telegraph.co.uk
Comment: Imagine what a 100lb. hailstone will do (Revelation 16:21)? Or an asteroid!
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Leading Church of England Bishops move closer to Vatican Defection
October 25, 2009 – The Bishop of Chichester, the Rt. Rev John Hind and the former Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said they would consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church following the Pope's offer to disaffected Anglicans.
Bishop Hind said he would be 'happy' to accept the olive branch extended by Rome because issues such as the consecration of women bishops and acceptance of gay clergy had created an unbridgeable division in the Anglican church. . . Full story: dailymail.co.uk
Comment: While these decisions are extremely sinful and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams cares more about the Global Warming hoax and Sharia Law than for his own flock, the foolish defectors have insufficient unction of the Spirit to separate from Satan's organized religion (Amos 3:3; Matthew 25:12; II Corinthians 6:14-18; Revelation 18:4).
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Question from a Sister and a Brother
Sister: Since the Patriarch Israel was a man, why is it that the nation of Israel is referred to as "she" rather than "he"?
Answer: We know that God is male in designation, for when He manifest in virgin born flesh as the kinsman Redeemer for Adam's race, He was the Man Jesus Messiah. In the Old Testament God says, "backsliding Israel . . . and her treacherous sister Judah" have "played the harlot . . . turn, O backsliding children, for I am married unto you" (Isaiah 57; Jeremiah 3; Ezekiel 16; Hosea 1-2).
So if God were married to Israel and God is masculine, then His wife must be feminine just as the elect Church, the Wife of Jesus Messiah is a woman, but unlike Israel she is a virgin to the Word.
Brother: The prophet said physical serpent seeds do no exist TODAY, having been washed off by the flood. So Jesus died for ALL men and ALL men are born equal.
Answer: Brother Branham said, "I don't believe that. I believe this, that they were born there in Canaan, and they were born out of the group of Cain that was sent forth to the land of Nod. And he had a mark upon him and nobody would kill him, because of his murdering his [half-]brother. But if you notice, even the Israelites found some of those people when they went over there. They was so big, and he said they looked like grasshoppers up the side of them. Is that right? Hundreds and hundreds of years later there was great, burly men, big fellows. And sometimes they do dig up the carcass of them, and they find that they were great men" (COD, p. 77:Q10).
These amazing photographs vindicate the Scripture and the Prophet.
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Settlers cut His Arm off for Throwing Stones
The ISM (International Solitary Movement) plants foreign activists in Israel's worst areas, and their job is to protect, document, and photograph Israeli atrocities. The soldiers, and the settlers, hate them. Prof. Israel Shahak gives us a rabbi's answer to an Israeli soldier who has asked whether or not it is proper to kill Arab women and children. In his answer the rabbi quotes from the Talmud: "The best of the Gentiles—kill him; the best of snakes—dash out its brains" (Jewish History, Jewish Religion ; Soferim 15, Rule 10; 1907 Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 617). Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-1983): "Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves". Full story: judicial-inc.biz
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Complaints against Prof. Hiss Continue
October 26, 2009 – The former #2 in the National Institute for Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) says he can't understand why the director, found to have engaged in illegal harvesting of organs, is still the highest-paid person in the public sector. . . none other than Prof. Yehuda Hiss, who essentially heads the National Institute for Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir. . . Many complaints had been filed charging Hiss with unauthorized use of body parts . . . In July 2002, while Hiss was under police investigation for suspicions including the removal of organs from 81 deceased persons without familial consent. . .
In August 1999, for instance, Jerusalem District Court Judge Ruth Orr sharply criticized him for testifying that a 12-year-old Arab rock-thrower died as a result of a beating by Beitar security chief . . . Shimon Cohen of Arutz-7's Hebrew News Magazine made another suggestion: "There have been rumors for years that Hiss simply knows too much . . . for instance he knows about the Rabin murder. Perhaps there is a fear that if he is fired, he might open his mouth . . ."
Full story: israelnationalnews.com
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How Israel wages War in Plain Sight
August 23, 2009 – To "wage war by way of deception" (the motto of the Israeli intelligence service) requires the capacity to operate in plain sight yet without detection. To detect this duplicity in real time requires a grasp of how Israeli strategists rely on three key categories of operatives: agents, assets and sayanim (Hebrew for helpers or volunteers).
Agents are fully conscious of the intended goal of an operation. Intent is what distinguishes premeditated murder from involuntary manslaughter. Culpability is gauged by the state of mind. Agents operate with what the law calls extreme malice and an "evil mind." Thus the severity of the sanctions for premeditated capital crimes.
From 1981-1985, Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard stole 360 cubic feet of classified US intelligence documents on Soviet arms shipments, Pakistani nuclear weapons, Libyan air defense systems and other data sought by Tel Aviv. With oversight by only a few case officers (katsas), Israeli agents routinely manage sophisticated operations with the help of pre-staged assets and a network of sayanim.
Assets are people profiled such that—within an acceptable range of probabilities—they can be relied upon to behave consistent with their personality profile. Assets lack the state of mind required for traditional culpability due to their lack of intent. Assets contribute to an operation simply by pursuing their subconscious personal needs. Typically those needs are for recognition, influence, money, sex, drugs or the greatest drug of all: ideology.
Put a profiled asset in a pre-staged time, place and circumstance and Israeli psy-ops specialists can be confident that—within an acceptable range of probabilities—that person will perform consistent with their profile, much as Bill Clinton behaved with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Israelis are indifferent to political parties. Pro-Israeli assets include Christian Zionist presidents Harry Truman, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a Republican. Both were reliable and pliable advocates for a geopolitical agenda pursued by an enclave of Zionist extremists. Truman granted them nation-state recognition while Bush dispatched the US military to help pursue their expansionist goals for Greater Israel. . . Full story: aljazeera.com
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The New World Order is "Communism"
By Henry Makow, Ph.D.
Most people think Communism is an ideology dedicated to public ownership and championing workers and the poor. This was a simple but incredibly successful ruse which duped hundreds of millions. The ideology appealed to people who want something for nothing—rather a large segment.
Communism is a form of monopoly capitalism with the State fronting for the monopoly capitalists. It's no different from monopoly capitalism in the West except that the State is more totalitarian and more intrusive. This is what we can look forward to.
East or West, Communism is devoted to concentrating all wealth and power in the hands of the central banking cartel (the Rothschilds and their allies) by disguising it as State power. (The State is run by witting and unwitting agents of the Rothschilds. When the USSR dissolved, the national wealth was divided between mostly Jewish "oligarchs" who were fronts for the Rothschilds).
Any ideology that further concentrates wealth and power in the hands of the "State" is Communism in another guise. These ideologies—socialism, liberalism, fascism, zionism, neo-conservatism and feminism—are fronts for "Communism," and are organized and funded by the central banking cartel.
The essence of the New World Order is Communist. Current events are all designed to increase government power. For example, the viruses that the Protocols of Zion mentioned over a hundred years ago, and threaten us now, are designed to force people to vaccinate or quarantine. They are tests to see how much government control people will docilely accept. That's why it's very important to resist vigorously. My hunch is that this is not the big plague but could very well be a dry run. Amazing how the mainstream media is so certain this is going to be serious.
We must ask ourselves why, when America is teetering on financial collapse, Obama would focus his energies on expanding health care? This is like a bankrupt man buying a Mercedes instead of getting a job. My friends say it is a diversion. It certainly fits the pattern of increasing government control.
THE RED SYMPHONY
After The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Red Symphony is the best revelation of the real state of our world. "The Red Symphony" is a 1938 Stalinist Secret Police (NKVD) interrogation of Christian Rakovsky, a Soviet ambassador who was a close associate of Leon Trotsky, Rothschild's agent. The text is online or in Des Griffin, Fourth Reich of the Rich.
I introduced this explosive 50-page document to my readers in 2003. It strips the veil from modern history and explains the real meaning of Revolution, Communism, Freemasonry and War. It was not intended to become public knowledge. The translator, a Dr. J. Landowsky, made an unauthorized copy.
The human experiment is endangered by private interests who have usurped the function of money creation everywhere. Modern history reflects the gradual process by which they transfer all wealth and power to themselves, destroying Western Civilization and creating a world police state. In 1938, he could say the whole world is controlled by the Rothschild syndicate of Sabbatean (Illuminati, Masonic) Jewish bankers and their allies.
Rakovsky, whose real name was Chaim Rakover, was sentenced to death in Stalin's purge of the Trotskyite faction of the party. Leon Trotsky wrote in his autobiography, My Life, "Christian G. Rakovsky. . . played an active part in the inner workings of four Socialist parties—the Bulgarian, Russian, French, and Roumanian—to become eventually one of the leaders of the Soviet Federation, a founder of the Communist Internationale, President of the Iranian Soviet of People's Commissaries, and the diplomatic Soviet representative in England and France . . ."
Rakovsky tried to convince his interrogator that the bankers created the Communist state as a "machine of total power" unprecedented in history. In the past, due to many factors, "there was always room for individual freedom. Do you understand that those who already partially rule over nations and worldly governments have pretensions to absolute domination? Understand that this is the only thing which they have not yet reached." (emphasis mine)
A pernicious force paralyzes our national life. Rakovsky identifies it: "Imagine to yourself, if you can a small number of people having unlimited power through the possession of real wealth, and you will see they are the absolute dictators of the stock exchange and [economy]. . . If you have enough imagination then. . . you will see [their] anarchical, moral and social influence, i.e. a revolutionary one. . . Do you now understand?"
". . . They created credit money with a view to making its volume close to infinite. And to give it the speed of sound. . . it is an abstraction, a being of thought, a figure, number, credit, faith. . ." (pp.245-246)
Of course they need to protect their credit monopoly by translating it into a monopoly over all power and thought. World government is necessary to prevent any country from issuing their own credit (money) or repudiating their debt. This is the New World Order.
MARXISM
The Revolutionary Movement, which defines modern history, was a means to institutionalize banker power by destroying the old order. Marxism, "before being a philosophical, economic and political system, is a conspiracy for the revolution." Rakovsky scoffs at the "elementary Marxism. . . the demagogic popular one" that is used to dupe the intellectuals and the masses. (238) Marx was hired by Rothschild to dupe the masses. Rakovsky says Marx "laughs in his beard at all humanity" (Griffin, 240). Of course, Marx never mentioned the Rothschilds. (243)
As for Freemasonry: "Every Masonic organization tries to create all the required prerequisites for the triumph of the Communist revolution; this is the obvious aim of Freemasonry," says Rakovsky, a high-ranking Mason himself.
The aim of the Revolution is no less than to redefine reality in terms of the interests of the bankers. This involves the promotion of subjective truth over objective truth. If Lenin "feels something to be real" then it is real. "For him every reality, every truth was relative in the face of the sole and absolute one: the revolution."
In other words, white is black and up is down. This is the way it was in the Soviet Union and this is now happening to us. Truth and justice are being replaced by political diktat. "Political correctness," a Bolshevik term, is now in common usage. Physicists like Steven Jones who question September 11 are silenced. (The problem with not bringing the 9/11 perps to justice is that they will do it again). Homosexuality is normalized and promoted to increase arrested development and destroy the family.
Rakovsky marvels that "the benches on which sat the greasy usurers to trade in their moneys, have now been converted into temples, which stand magnificently at every corner of contemporary big towns with their heathen colonnades, and crowds go there . . . to bring assiduously their deposits of all their possessions to the god of money. . ."
He says the Soviet five-pointed star represents the five Rothschild brothers with their banks, who possess colossal accumulations of wealth, the greatest ever known."
Isn't it strange that Marx never mentions this fact? Rakovsky asks. Isn't it strange that during revolutions, the mobs never attack the bankers, their mansions or banks?
WAR
War is the means by which the central bankers advance their goal of totalitarian world government. Rakovsky says Trotsky was behind the murder of Arch Duke Ferdinand (which sparked WWI). He recalls the phrase used by the mother of the five Rothschild brothers: "'If my sons want it, then there will be no war.' This means that they were the arbiters, the masters of peace and war, but not emperors. Are you capable of visualizing the fact of such a cosmic importance? Is not war already a revolutionary function? War? The Commune. Since that time every war was a giant step towards Communism."
After the murder of [Illuminati member, Weimar Foreign Minister] Walter Rathenau in 1922, the Illuminati give political or financial positions only to intermediaries, Rakovsky says. "Obviously to persons who are trustworthy and loyal, which can be guaranteed a thousand ways: thus one can assert that those bankers and politicians [in the public eye]—are only men of straw . . . even though they occupy very high places and are made to appear to be the authors of the plans which are carried out." Think Barack Obama [and the Prime Minister, President and lawmakers of your nation].
In 1938, Rakovsky outlined three reasons for the upcoming Second World War. The first is that Hitler began to print his own money. "This is very serious. Much more than all the external and cruel factors in National-Socialism."
Secondly, the "fully developed nationalism of Western Europe is an obstacle to Marxism. . . the need for the destruction of nationalism is alone worth a war in Europe."
Finally, Communism cannot triumph unless it suppresses the "still living Christianity." Rakovsky refers to the "permanent revolution" as dating from the birth of Christ, and the reformation as "its first partial victory" because it split Christianity. This suggests that the "conspiracy" also contains a racial or religious factor.
"In reality, Christianity is our only real enemy since all the political and economic phenomena of the Bourgeois States are only its consequences. Christianity controlling the individual is capable of annulling the revolutionary projection of the neutral Soviet or Atheist State."
Now the Central Bankers are promoting World War Three as in "The Clash of Civilizations." Substitute Islam for Christianity above, and pit "Christians" against them.
NEW CONCLUSION
The New World Order does not only create a new power. It creates a new reality out of touch with the truth. It employs legions of pundits, professors and politicos to enforce its precepts. These are the agentur ("agents") referred to smugly in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. What kind of credibility do these people have knowing they will lose their jobs if they tell the truth? They are all accomplices in the 9/11 cover-up,
The truth is that society is totally subverted. Government, education, entertainment and the news media are totally in the hands of the central banking cartel. The private sector all sings from the same song book, indicating the central bankers control it. The same applies to think tanks, foundations, NGO's, professional associations and major charities. Intelligence agencies report to the central bankers. They and Masonic secret societies are a central part of the mechanism of control.
This article: "How the Fed Bought the Economics Profession" is the template for all professions.
As a result, society is helpless to address its real problem: the untenable concentration of wealth, power and cultural influence in the hands of Cabala-believing bankers secretly intent on culling, degrading and enslaving us. We are stymied by the bogus charge of "anti-Semitism" when most Jews are deceived and manipulated like everyone else, (although their role is vastly disproportionate). There is no shortage of lackeys from all ethnic backgrounds willing to serve these Satanist bankers. This service defines "success" today.
"History" is a lie. Wars are a fraud. Current events are largely orchestrated. Projects are ventured for different purposes than stated. All we can do is continue to throw a spanner in their works and alert our fellow citizens. I am not too concerned with catastrophe. I see continued gradual drift to one world order fascism. Mankind is being put into a coma, a state of arrested development based on a fixation with toys, sports, relationships, sex and money. The last thing the bankers want to do is awaken the cattle from their slumber.
Mankind is doomed as long as Cabalist central bankers control society. All that is needed is to nationalize the central banks, repudiate debts created from nothing by these bankers, break up cartels, especially Hollywood and the media, and institute strict public campaign financing.
But as long as the majority perceive their interests in terms of the status quo, our problems will remain systemic. They won't go away.
Comment: The title of friend Henry Makow's paper, The New World Order is "Communism," aptly describes the teaching of the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, history, and the prophet William Branham. Medieval and Modern History record the conflict between Rome, the last of four Gentile world empires, and Israel. However after John Hyrcanus defeated and forcibly assimilated the Edomites (Hittites and Canaanites) in about 130BC, they began to dominate the Judean population whose royal family was Edomite (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, xiii.9,1; xiii.25; Matthew 23:33-35). God set enmity between these children of Cain and Adam's race and the enmity is extant (Genesis 3:15; 27:39-41), hence Jesus lived in "Galilee of the Gentiles for He would not live in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him" (John 7:1).
Because Jewry crucified Israel's Messiah, and Christianity, which is Spiritual Israel, was begetting children from among the elect Israelites and proselytes of Adam's race, the priests and Pharisees who had perverted Yahwism into its antithesis (known as Judaism) were anxious lest their authority and prestigue be diminished, and allied with Rome against the faith. However in the days of emperor Constantine Roman power was in decline like the hegemony of America and the (once) Christian West today, so the wily sons of Cain devised a new deception. Surreptitiously aligned with the federal authority, they organized the Roman Catholic church from the remnants of the now apostate First Church of Rome pioneered by the apostles Junius and Andronicus, introducing the Babylonian trinity of gods of Imperial Rome and the Judeans who provoked the Lord to send Nebuchadnezzar to burn the Temple, exile the nation and commence the "times of Gentile dominion" over Jerusalem which will continue to the consummation (Daniel 9:27; Luke 21:24). The transformation of Imperial Rome into the present global empire of Papal Rome was initiated in AD325 at the Hegelian dialectic of the First Nicene Council.
Calling themselves Jews, the Edomites were now united with Rome against both natural and Spiritual Israel. But Rome, like Turkey, Spain, Holland, Germany, Britain, the united States, and as Dr. Makow observed out, socialism, liberalism, fascism, zionism, neo-conservatism and feminism, are merely tools and ideologies to be used and destroyed once they have served their purpose. As God raised His servant Nebuchadnezzar to destroy apostate Judah, He has allowed Judaeo-Communism to raise up for the purpose of destroying the Judaeo-Roman Catholic false church, the (once) Protestant united States and Rome's harlot daughters, ushering-in Armageddon to destroy all life.
As Dr. Makow has explained, Jewish sayanim live and work within every society and Judaeo-Jesuits operate worldwide as officers of a truly secret army containing in its ranks heads of political parties, high ranking officials, generals, magistrates, physicians, faculty professors, tradesmen, etc., all of them striving, to bring about in their own sphere, "Opus Dei," God's work in reality the plans of the papacy and its superiors behind the purple curtain. For both of these amoral Talmudic groups, "white is black, and up is down," for the ends justify the means. These two arms of the same golem are fulfilling "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as advised by the Grand Sanhedrin (elders of Zion) in Constantinople in response to a request from Chief Rabbi Chemor of Spain in 1492. A third arm is Islam: read the Koran you will recognize the influence of the Talmud—the motto of the Israeli intelligence organization: "By way of deception, thou shalt do war" is not new.
The sovereign mini-state known as the 'City of London,' whose masters devised Judaeo-Communism, deceived the Allies into war against Hitler, funded both sides to make the world a safe place for Judaeo-Communism. It is patiently obvious the Allies were duped to fight against their Christian kith and kin. Once again we fought on the wrong side and have been fighting and funding Judaeo-Communism ever since. Now the Judaeo-Banksters have bankrupted the once Christian West, which is overcome by Communism, and following the sinking of Los Angeles Russia will invade and occupy mainland USA. The Judaeo-Roman Catholic church will form a confederation of world religions, ostensibly against Communism, then her Devil-incarnate pope will restore peace and dispatch the Russian military. The world will implore the Devil-incarnate pope to rule as president one world government, not realizing that once again they are victims of the Hegelian dialectic in which either choice spelt doom.
Oblivious to the fact that the natural catastrophes that overtook the world signaled the end of the Gentile dispensation, and thinking they are doing God a service, they will enforce trinitarianism upon the world on pain of death, not realizing it is the mark of the beast they have themselves taken. Satan is the sum of wisdom and knowledge he is anxious to share, but he is without faith. Faith is the mind of God in you by a clear understanding of His unchanging Word, which you should read with care, proving all things.
Professor Makow has expounded the deception called Communism. Brother Branham said, "Communism is not Russia; communism is a spirit. We don't have to worry about Russia. Our own rottenness is what's killing us. Communism moving right among our churches and everything else. . . in our schools, in our homes, everywhere, in our nation. The whole thing is just worm-eaten. The robin pecking on the apple doesn't hurt it; it's the worm at the core that ruins the apple. That's what it is: it's just the rottenness among ourselves, going, calling ourself Christians, and acting like the world, and dressing like the world, and partaking of the world, and calling ourself. . ." (The Seal of God, p. 10:67-68).
Jesus called that spirit "Laodicea." Revelation 3:17, "You say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing. You don't see that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." Laodicea means people's rights. The spirit of Communism is egalitarianism to serve I, me, and myself.
As I write the spirit of Judaeo-Communism controlling our government and all political parties is running a psy-op against citizens, spewing propaganda from the taxpayer-funded alien-controlled national broadcasting network and commercial media intent on opening our borders to all-comers. The pawns in this game are seventy-eight Sri-Lankans seeking to enter the country illegally, and the public—treated like Pavlov's dogs salivating to emotional appeals against common sense. Last month saw a similar psy-op in which Indian students and citizens were their mark! The Banksters of 'the City of London' are further dividing and conquering the nation in fulfillment of the curse of Matthew 24:37 (Genesis 6:1-7) for which God allowed men to destroy the world by Flood, and the curse of Luke 17:28-30 (Genesis 18) wherewith He will shortly allow man to destroy all life by fire (II Peter 3:1-12). Those manipulating this clandestine activity do not believe the God of Israel who through His prophet Moses condemned miscegenation, which they encourage as multiculturalism (Genesis 1:11; 3; Deuteronomy 7:1-2; 32:8).
The banksters and the merchants and great men of the earth who consider "the Reformation as "its first partial victory" because it split Christianity" neither recall the history of the blasphemy they regard as Christianity, nor understand that faith cannot be "split" (Mark 10:9; I Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians 4:30). Their purpose in dividing families and communities, mixing cultures and races, religions and tongues and destroying the solidarity of nations, is to enforce collectivism, which is Communism under which Lucifer will rule a totalitarian one world government incarnate in the pope. Money and material wealth has purchased great power, but it will not match the power of the spoken Word of the 'third pull' that will change the saints in the atoms and transfer them into the sixth dimension as quick as a thought. nl605.htm
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Global Economic Chaos soon to Unfold
Bible Believers' Newsletter #604
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
God bless you for joining with us once again before the Presence of the our Lord Jesus Christ.
I would very much like to dedicate my time to study in the coming weeks and it will assist me if you ask questions to which you have been unable to find the answer after searching our Website. By the grace of God we will publish the answers for the blessing of all readers, and hopefully this will allow me to devote my time to study.
In this issue subscriber Brother Bruce Porteous warns of the impending world depression Brother Branham prophesied will be worse than the Great Depression, and notes the rise of the European Union to global hegemony foretold by Daniel and Jesus Christ. This is the revival of the Holy (sic) Roman Empire whose pope will rule Lucifer's coming totalitarian one world government (Daniel 2; 7 – 12; Revelation 13; 17 – 19:20).
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Obama poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen?
October 14, 2009 – In this hour and a half video Lord Christopher Monckton exposes the Climate Change/Carbon Trading racket explains how the US and other developed Western nations are likely to cede sovereignty over their economies at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference December 7 – 18, 2009. Agreements proposed by treacherous politicians will add famine to the coming worldwide depression. Full story: prisonplanet.com
Comment: To illustrate the egregious "Global Warming" HOAX our elected LIARS are employing to kill "useless eaters" and imprison recalcitrants to Lucifer's one world government, on July 15, 1942, a squadron of six P-38s and two B-17 bombers made a harrowing and life-threatening landing on a remote ice cap in Greenland. Recovery of one plane began in 1992, all planes were buried under 268 feet of ice. Follow the links p38assn.org
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Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
June 27, 2004 – Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative. . . Full story: web.archive.org
Comment: Finally evidence the usurping Jewish President Obama is not a "natural-born" American but a liar and deceiver like his Congressmen and Senators; the Constitution will not be applied since they are also servants of 'the City of London.' Google "Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate" and you will find 37,000 records which escaped "the Department of Truth" when they were relegating similar records to the "memory hole".
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Historic 9/11 Debate with Bigard, Laurent, Kassovitz and Harrit on French TV
This is also a victory for the 9/11 truth movement because the official US government conspiracy theory is supposedly not debatable. That's what Bush said. That's also what Obama said many times. The very fact of having a real open public debate, wherever that is, proves that the subject is debatable. And it needs to be debatable. The day we stop debating important topics is the day we surrender freedom. Not only is it debatable, but the 9/11 truth movement is growing faster than ever—worldwide—and nothing will stop it. . . Full story: world911truth.org
Comment: Next, the fair debate on the Holocaust—all of them, in particular the three claimed for the twentieth century, in each of which it is claimed six million Jews were killed. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901-1906, the world Jewish population was about 11,206,849 in 1900. Yet after a holocaust of six million Jews by Germany claimed in World War I, and the extermination of a further six million Jews by the Jewish-controlled USSR claimed between the wars, statistics provided by the American Jewish Committee and published in the World Almanac, 1933, p. 419 state the number of Jews worldwide had increased to 15,316,359. Simple arithmetic would seem to indicate the world Jewish population had been exterminated well before Jewry declared war on Germany in 1933.
Statistics published in The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1934 and 1948 indicate that over that period world Christian population diminished by - 89,993,458, while world Jewish population increased by + 438,648. Should we debate figures provided by Jewish statisticians?
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Roman Catholic Church to receive Anglicans
October 20 2009 – Thousands of Anglicans could defect to the Roman Catholic church after the pope today approved a new global institution to receive them.
It will be the first time since the Reformation in the 16th century that entire Protestant communities have reunited with Rome. The first group likely to take advantage of the new rules is the Traditional Anglican Community (TAC), which broke off from the rest of the community in 1991 and claims to have more than 500,000 members worldwide.
Other groups unhappy with developments in the Anglican Communion are also expected to accept the invitation from the Vatican. Traditionalists, including thousands in the Church of England, have long threatened to defect to Rome over issues such as the ordination of women and gay people. . .
Benedict's chief theological adviser, the US cardinal William Levada, who heads one of the most important Vatican departments, said the decree had been drawn up "to respond to the numerous requests that have been submitted to the Holy See by groups of Anglican clerics and believers from various parts of the world who wish to enter into full and visible communion" with Rome.
He said that, under the new arrangements, Anglican communities that joined the Catholic church would be able to keep their own liturgy while remaining outside the existing dioceses. Their pastoral care would be entrusted instead to their own senior prelates, who would not necessarily become Catholic bishops. This is a way around the problem that in the Catholic church, as in the Orthodox churches, married men are not allowed to become bishops. Full story: guardian.co.uk
Comment: I Timothy 3:2-5, "A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife. . . One that rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God)? But some do not wish to be confused with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions and prejudice and "By their traditions they make the Word of God of no effect to themselves" (Matthew 15:6, 9).
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Global Economic Chaos soon to Unfold
October 18, 2009 – The world is entering a period of economic upheaval that has never before been experienced in history. While many economists proclaim that the world economy is recovering from the near global economic collapse of 2008, the reality is that like a tsunami following an earthquake, an economic tsunami will soon arrive following the economic earthquake of last year.
In an attempt to prevent the global economic system from collapsing, the printing of currency by central banks around the world has been like pouring oil on an out of control fire. Injecting so much liquidity into the world's banking system may have temporally prevented a global economic collapse last year, but it has failed to correct the fundamental problems that caused the crisis in the first place. Rather, central banks have just created the environment for a global economic collapse on a scale the world has never experienced. They have created the perfect economic storm.
As a result of injecting trillions of dollars into the world's banking system, this newly created fiat money is now beginning to flow into the global economy. There is a general feeling that the recession is over and that the good times will soon be here again. This false sense of optimism is based on the assumption that the banking system once again lending to consumers financing their consumption lifestyles, will jump start a new era of prosperity. Many advanced nations have taken that it is their right to exploit the planet's resources to maintain their living standards. Yet nothing has been done to correct the fiscal problems that caused to economic crisis in the first place.
The stage is now set for hyperinflation. According to investor Marc Faber in a recent Bloomberg interview, the US will experience inflation rates similar to those which took place in Zimbabwe rising to 231 million percent in July. Inflation at this level means the currency will become worthless, as Germany experienced in 1923 during the economic chaos of the Weimar Republic. Just as Germany experienced at that time, the current, impending economic disaster will bring great hardship to those people on fixed incomes, and to the nation as a whole.
The economic crisis of 2008 was primarily caused by excessive credit in the global banking system, and the large current account and budget deficits of the English speaking world, especially for the USA and UK. Large surpluses in US dollars used to pay for consumer goods from Asia were recycled back into the US and British banks; encouraging them to create new financial products to develop consumer markets to recycle money. This has resulted in an unsustainable property boom, encouraging extravagant consumer spending habits, and debt. This has enabled the banks to enslave the people of the Anglo-Saxon nations in bondage under a mountain of debt, earning for themselves excessive profits and bonuses on the money lent by foreign investors. Due to very lax lending rules, it was inevitable that eventually the inability of many bank customers to repay their loans emerged as one of the key causes of the current crisis.
Central banks injecting money into the their domestic banks may have saved the banking system from a total melt-down last year, but this capital injection has not corrected the cause of the original problem. The Anglo-Saxon nations' growing current account and budget deficits continue to mount, and they depend on the inflow of Asian capital to finance these deficits. Their budget deficits have blown out of control following the bail-outs and can only be financed through printing even more fiat money or borrowing at ever increasing interest rates. The stage has been set for the dramatic and sudden collapse of the English-speaking nations.
America's creditors have become increasingly alarmed about the sustainability of the US being able to finance its budget and current account deficits. There is now discussion amongst world financial leaders of replacing the US dollar as the world's reserve currency with a basket of currencies, to finance international trade. However this is unlikely to be effective as it will mean the establishment of an organisation such as the IMF which would also have the power to regulate the member countries' money supply. Nations will be unlikely to give up their national sovereignty to allow this to happen.
We are now seeing the downward spiral in the value of the US dollar against the Euro and some other currencies. The dollar will continue to fall in value unless the USA can correct its current account and budget deficits. There is little chance of this happening with rising oil prices, the maintenance of an unaffordable global military establishment bogged down with unwinnable wars, and the large amount of money required to support the economy collapsing last year. The Federal Reserve may soon be forced to increase interest rates in an attempt to support the dollar, but this will only bring about more corporate collapses, defaults on home mortgages, and a lack of confidence in the US economy. Either way the US cannot save its economy from collapse.
The collapse of the $US will trigger economic turmoil around the world. Those nations with reserves in US dollars will suffer massive losses as their foreign reserves are wiped out with the collapse of the dollar. In particular this will have a major impact on China and Japan, as both nations have large holdings in US dollar reserves not to mention massive holdings in Treasury Certificates and other Federal Vouchers. The losses the Asian economies will suffer will bring wide-spread economic depression in Asia. These nations will blame the Anglo-Saxon nations for their plight, and for good reason. Japan, already burden with a national debt almost the same size at that of America could well face bankruptcy along with other heavily indebted nations in the region.
There is only one economic region that will withstand the fall-out of the economic collapse of the Anglo-Saxon nations, and that is the EU. In spite of many skeptics predicting that the Euro would not survive as a single currency, it has proved to have been remarkably successful. The model adopted by the Euro zone nations can also be adopted globally, creating a single world currency. The European Central Bank which imposes financial disciplines on the member states of the Euro zone, has created fiscal stability in the region. While unemployment has increased in the EU following the crisis, member states are making adjustments to the management of their economies to lay the foundations for solid economic growth in the future. This will eventually be a stimulus to world trade, stop currency speculation and restore global prosperity. It would remove tariff barriers, trade protectionism, and stimulate world trade between Asia and Europe.
The recent acceptance by the EU member states of the Treaty of Lisbon will enable the EU to have a single President, Foreign Minister and defense policy. The actual shape of this new Europe is yet to take place, but no doubt the sudden economic collapse of the Anglo-Saxon nations will trigger off a political and economic crisis in Europe, to where the Europeans will be willing to accept a single strong leader to restore economic prosperity and social order, even if it means giving up some individual freedoms.
The outcome of this chaos will result in the end of democracy, and free market Anglo-Saxon capitalism. A desperate world will be willing to give up many individual freedoms to support a strong leader in order to have prosperity and economic order. The international banking system will become strictly regulated—no longer will bankers be able to enrich themselves at the expense of savers. New technology will enable a global central bank to control the currency supply, and implement controls to prevent taxation avoidance, money laundering, and unfair balance of trade deficits.
Such a new world order can only be brought about by a strong European leader with dictatorial powers that would allow him or her to have the authority to bring about the controls to reform the global economy and restore prosperity to the world. This leader will be looked upon as the savior of the world's economy, and will be given the power to not only regulate the global economy, but also the way people live and trade.
The coming collapse of the Anglo-Saxon nations will see their people soon slide into total poverty—there money will be worthless, their people facing starvation, diseases, and internal conflict. They will receive little sympathy or support from the rest of the world. These nations will enter a period of total collapse, and their skilled workers used to provide the labor force for advanced nations in Europe and Asia requiring skilled workers to maintain their aging populations.
The stage is now set for these events to unfold quickly and suddenly. It will catch many by surprise to see the dollar and British pound collapse and loose or value—once creditor's loose confidence in these currencies there will be panic selling, hyper-inflation and economic collapse. It will create a new world economic order where the world will prosper under the authority of this new global leader, with the exception of the Anglo-Saxon nations. It will be the end result of a perfect economic tsunami brought on by the self-destructive, thunderous collapse of Anglo-American capitalistic greed.
Bruce Porteous
Comment: Brother Porteous has pointed to the rise of the European Union to global hegemony. This is the revival of the Holy Roman Empire prophesied by Daniel and Jesus Christ, whose pope will rule Lucifer's totalitarian one world government (Daniel 2; 7 – 12; Revelation 13; 17:1 – 19:20). As foretold by Daniel and Jesus Christ, the EU—that is the Roman Catholic false church—has drawn up plans to establish itself as a 'world power.' The economic earthquake and economic tsunami will follow the prophesied natural earthquakes and tsunamis marking the end of the Gentile dispensation. US$1.5 quadrillion in derivatives obligations are outstanding in the US—more than a hundred times the total money in the world, and A$14 trillion are outstanding in little Australia.
The "Anglo-Saxon nations" are all colonies of 'the City of London,' and because they do not hold to the Absolute of God's unchanging Word,their laws are impermanent and overruled by alien precedents via the Talmudic BAR. Like occupied Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Germany and Japan, we (their aggressors) have made ourselves cowardly prey to the enemy of God and man.
Financial guru Jim Willie comments on Economic disintegration, systemic failure, and dollar collapse. Assets denominated in US dollars, including US treasuries, will soon be dumped. In a replay of the Rothschild scam during the Battle of Waterloo, they will be purchased at a fractional cents in the dollar. Once the international banksters and the Roman Catholic church have refinanced the US dollar with gold backing, they will resell those assets for your "pound of flesh".
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Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you know
Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
For Further Information Contact:
Bible Believers' Church
Currabubula, NSW 2342, Australia e-mail URL
Order Bible Believers' video & web site on CD.
Subscribe to Newsletter
Unsubscribe from Newsletter
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
God bless you for joining with us once again before the Presence of the our Lord Jesus Christ.
I would very much like to dedicate my time to study in the coming weeks and it will assist me if you ask questions to which you have been unable to find the answer after searching our Website. By the grace of God we will publish the answers for the blessing of all readers, and hopefully this will allow me to devote my time to study.
In this issue subscriber Brother Bruce Porteous warns of the impending world depression Brother Branham prophesied will be worse than the Great Depression, and notes the rise of the European Union to global hegemony foretold by Daniel and Jesus Christ. This is the revival of the Holy (sic) Roman Empire whose pope will rule Lucifer's coming totalitarian one world government (Daniel 2; 7 – 12; Revelation 13; 17 – 19:20).
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Obama poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen?
October 14, 2009 – In this hour and a half video Lord Christopher Monckton exposes the Climate Change/Carbon Trading racket explains how the US and other developed Western nations are likely to cede sovereignty over their economies at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference December 7 – 18, 2009. Agreements proposed by treacherous politicians will add famine to the coming worldwide depression. Full story: prisonplanet.com
Comment: To illustrate the egregious "Global Warming" HOAX our elected LIARS are employing to kill "useless eaters" and imprison recalcitrants to Lucifer's one world government, on July 15, 1942, a squadron of six P-38s and two B-17 bombers made a harrowing and life-threatening landing on a remote ice cap in Greenland. Recovery of one plane began in 1992, all planes were buried under 268 feet of ice. Follow the links p38assn.org
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Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
June 27, 2004 – Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative. . . Full story: web.archive.org
Comment: Finally evidence the usurping Jewish President Obama is not a "natural-born" American but a liar and deceiver like his Congressmen and Senators; the Constitution will not be applied since they are also servants of 'the City of London.' Google "Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate" and you will find 37,000 records which escaped "the Department of Truth" when they were relegating similar records to the "memory hole".
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Historic 9/11 Debate with Bigard, Laurent, Kassovitz and Harrit on French TV
This is also a victory for the 9/11 truth movement because the official US government conspiracy theory is supposedly not debatable. That's what Bush said. That's also what Obama said many times. The very fact of having a real open public debate, wherever that is, proves that the subject is debatable. And it needs to be debatable. The day we stop debating important topics is the day we surrender freedom. Not only is it debatable, but the 9/11 truth movement is growing faster than ever—worldwide—and nothing will stop it. . . Full story: world911truth.org
Comment: Next, the fair debate on the Holocaust—all of them, in particular the three claimed for the twentieth century, in each of which it is claimed six million Jews were killed. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901-1906, the world Jewish population was about 11,206,849 in 1900. Yet after a holocaust of six million Jews by Germany claimed in World War I, and the extermination of a further six million Jews by the Jewish-controlled USSR claimed between the wars, statistics provided by the American Jewish Committee and published in the World Almanac, 1933, p. 419 state the number of Jews worldwide had increased to 15,316,359. Simple arithmetic would seem to indicate the world Jewish population had been exterminated well before Jewry declared war on Germany in 1933.
Statistics published in The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1934 and 1948 indicate that over that period world Christian population diminished by - 89,993,458, while world Jewish population increased by + 438,648. Should we debate figures provided by Jewish statisticians?
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Roman Catholic Church to receive Anglicans
October 20 2009 – Thousands of Anglicans could defect to the Roman Catholic church after the pope today approved a new global institution to receive them.
It will be the first time since the Reformation in the 16th century that entire Protestant communities have reunited with Rome. The first group likely to take advantage of the new rules is the Traditional Anglican Community (TAC), which broke off from the rest of the community in 1991 and claims to have more than 500,000 members worldwide.
Other groups unhappy with developments in the Anglican Communion are also expected to accept the invitation from the Vatican. Traditionalists, including thousands in the Church of England, have long threatened to defect to Rome over issues such as the ordination of women and gay people. . .
Benedict's chief theological adviser, the US cardinal William Levada, who heads one of the most important Vatican departments, said the decree had been drawn up "to respond to the numerous requests that have been submitted to the Holy See by groups of Anglican clerics and believers from various parts of the world who wish to enter into full and visible communion" with Rome.
He said that, under the new arrangements, Anglican communities that joined the Catholic church would be able to keep their own liturgy while remaining outside the existing dioceses. Their pastoral care would be entrusted instead to their own senior prelates, who would not necessarily become Catholic bishops. This is a way around the problem that in the Catholic church, as in the Orthodox churches, married men are not allowed to become bishops. Full story: guardian.co.uk
Comment: I Timothy 3:2-5, "A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife. . . One that rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God)? But some do not wish to be confused with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions and prejudice and "By their traditions they make the Word of God of no effect to themselves" (Matthew 15:6, 9).
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Global Economic Chaos soon to Unfold
October 18, 2009 – The world is entering a period of economic upheaval that has never before been experienced in history. While many economists proclaim that the world economy is recovering from the near global economic collapse of 2008, the reality is that like a tsunami following an earthquake, an economic tsunami will soon arrive following the economic earthquake of last year.
In an attempt to prevent the global economic system from collapsing, the printing of currency by central banks around the world has been like pouring oil on an out of control fire. Injecting so much liquidity into the world's banking system may have temporally prevented a global economic collapse last year, but it has failed to correct the fundamental problems that caused the crisis in the first place. Rather, central banks have just created the environment for a global economic collapse on a scale the world has never experienced. They have created the perfect economic storm.
As a result of injecting trillions of dollars into the world's banking system, this newly created fiat money is now beginning to flow into the global economy. There is a general feeling that the recession is over and that the good times will soon be here again. This false sense of optimism is based on the assumption that the banking system once again lending to consumers financing their consumption lifestyles, will jump start a new era of prosperity. Many advanced nations have taken that it is their right to exploit the planet's resources to maintain their living standards. Yet nothing has been done to correct the fiscal problems that caused to economic crisis in the first place.
The stage is now set for hyperinflation. According to investor Marc Faber in a recent Bloomberg interview, the US will experience inflation rates similar to those which took place in Zimbabwe rising to 231 million percent in July. Inflation at this level means the currency will become worthless, as Germany experienced in 1923 during the economic chaos of the Weimar Republic. Just as Germany experienced at that time, the current, impending economic disaster will bring great hardship to those people on fixed incomes, and to the nation as a whole.
The economic crisis of 2008 was primarily caused by excessive credit in the global banking system, and the large current account and budget deficits of the English speaking world, especially for the USA and UK. Large surpluses in US dollars used to pay for consumer goods from Asia were recycled back into the US and British banks; encouraging them to create new financial products to develop consumer markets to recycle money. This has resulted in an unsustainable property boom, encouraging extravagant consumer spending habits, and debt. This has enabled the banks to enslave the people of the Anglo-Saxon nations in bondage under a mountain of debt, earning for themselves excessive profits and bonuses on the money lent by foreign investors. Due to very lax lending rules, it was inevitable that eventually the inability of many bank customers to repay their loans emerged as one of the key causes of the current crisis.
Central banks injecting money into the their domestic banks may have saved the banking system from a total melt-down last year, but this capital injection has not corrected the cause of the original problem. The Anglo-Saxon nations' growing current account and budget deficits continue to mount, and they depend on the inflow of Asian capital to finance these deficits. Their budget deficits have blown out of control following the bail-outs and can only be financed through printing even more fiat money or borrowing at ever increasing interest rates. The stage has been set for the dramatic and sudden collapse of the English-speaking nations.
America's creditors have become increasingly alarmed about the sustainability of the US being able to finance its budget and current account deficits. There is now discussion amongst world financial leaders of replacing the US dollar as the world's reserve currency with a basket of currencies, to finance international trade. However this is unlikely to be effective as it will mean the establishment of an organisation such as the IMF which would also have the power to regulate the member countries' money supply. Nations will be unlikely to give up their national sovereignty to allow this to happen.
We are now seeing the downward spiral in the value of the US dollar against the Euro and some other currencies. The dollar will continue to fall in value unless the USA can correct its current account and budget deficits. There is little chance of this happening with rising oil prices, the maintenance of an unaffordable global military establishment bogged down with unwinnable wars, and the large amount of money required to support the economy collapsing last year. The Federal Reserve may soon be forced to increase interest rates in an attempt to support the dollar, but this will only bring about more corporate collapses, defaults on home mortgages, and a lack of confidence in the US economy. Either way the US cannot save its economy from collapse.
The collapse of the $US will trigger economic turmoil around the world. Those nations with reserves in US dollars will suffer massive losses as their foreign reserves are wiped out with the collapse of the dollar. In particular this will have a major impact on China and Japan, as both nations have large holdings in US dollar reserves not to mention massive holdings in Treasury Certificates and other Federal Vouchers. The losses the Asian economies will suffer will bring wide-spread economic depression in Asia. These nations will blame the Anglo-Saxon nations for their plight, and for good reason. Japan, already burden with a national debt almost the same size at that of America could well face bankruptcy along with other heavily indebted nations in the region.
There is only one economic region that will withstand the fall-out of the economic collapse of the Anglo-Saxon nations, and that is the EU. In spite of many skeptics predicting that the Euro would not survive as a single currency, it has proved to have been remarkably successful. The model adopted by the Euro zone nations can also be adopted globally, creating a single world currency. The European Central Bank which imposes financial disciplines on the member states of the Euro zone, has created fiscal stability in the region. While unemployment has increased in the EU following the crisis, member states are making adjustments to the management of their economies to lay the foundations for solid economic growth in the future. This will eventually be a stimulus to world trade, stop currency speculation and restore global prosperity. It would remove tariff barriers, trade protectionism, and stimulate world trade between Asia and Europe.
The recent acceptance by the EU member states of the Treaty of Lisbon will enable the EU to have a single President, Foreign Minister and defense policy. The actual shape of this new Europe is yet to take place, but no doubt the sudden economic collapse of the Anglo-Saxon nations will trigger off a political and economic crisis in Europe, to where the Europeans will be willing to accept a single strong leader to restore economic prosperity and social order, even if it means giving up some individual freedoms.
The outcome of this chaos will result in the end of democracy, and free market Anglo-Saxon capitalism. A desperate world will be willing to give up many individual freedoms to support a strong leader in order to have prosperity and economic order. The international banking system will become strictly regulated—no longer will bankers be able to enrich themselves at the expense of savers. New technology will enable a global central bank to control the currency supply, and implement controls to prevent taxation avoidance, money laundering, and unfair balance of trade deficits.
Such a new world order can only be brought about by a strong European leader with dictatorial powers that would allow him or her to have the authority to bring about the controls to reform the global economy and restore prosperity to the world. This leader will be looked upon as the savior of the world's economy, and will be given the power to not only regulate the global economy, but also the way people live and trade.
The coming collapse of the Anglo-Saxon nations will see their people soon slide into total poverty—there money will be worthless, their people facing starvation, diseases, and internal conflict. They will receive little sympathy or support from the rest of the world. These nations will enter a period of total collapse, and their skilled workers used to provide the labor force for advanced nations in Europe and Asia requiring skilled workers to maintain their aging populations.
The stage is now set for these events to unfold quickly and suddenly. It will catch many by surprise to see the dollar and British pound collapse and loose or value—once creditor's loose confidence in these currencies there will be panic selling, hyper-inflation and economic collapse. It will create a new world economic order where the world will prosper under the authority of this new global leader, with the exception of the Anglo-Saxon nations. It will be the end result of a perfect economic tsunami brought on by the self-destructive, thunderous collapse of Anglo-American capitalistic greed.
Bruce Porteous
Comment: Brother Porteous has pointed to the rise of the European Union to global hegemony. This is the revival of the Holy Roman Empire prophesied by Daniel and Jesus Christ, whose pope will rule Lucifer's totalitarian one world government (Daniel 2; 7 – 12; Revelation 13; 17:1 – 19:20). As foretold by Daniel and Jesus Christ, the EU—that is the Roman Catholic false church—has drawn up plans to establish itself as a 'world power.' The economic earthquake and economic tsunami will follow the prophesied natural earthquakes and tsunamis marking the end of the Gentile dispensation. US$1.5 quadrillion in derivatives obligations are outstanding in the US—more than a hundred times the total money in the world, and A$14 trillion are outstanding in little Australia.
The "Anglo-Saxon nations" are all colonies of 'the City of London,' and because they do not hold to the Absolute of God's unchanging Word,their laws are impermanent and overruled by alien precedents via the Talmudic BAR. Like occupied Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Germany and Japan, we (their aggressors) have made ourselves cowardly prey to the enemy of God and man.
Financial guru Jim Willie comments on Economic disintegration, systemic failure, and dollar collapse. Assets denominated in US dollars, including US treasuries, will soon be dumped. In a replay of the Rothschild scam during the Battle of Waterloo, they will be purchased at a fractional cents in the dollar. Once the international banksters and the Roman Catholic church have refinanced the US dollar with gold backing, they will resell those assets for your "pound of flesh".
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Easter - When Was Jesus Crucified?
Bible Believers' Newsletter #603
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
A Brother has made enquiries concerning the days leading to Christ's crucifixion and other brethren have raised different questions, all of which are addressed in our main article. I do hope you find it edifying. This is difficult to follow from the Bible and there is considerable disagreement among the most eminent theologians, even with respect to the day and year of the crucifixion, and I thank the Lord for sending us a prophet. Brother Branham's teaching has provided certainty.
God bless you.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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'Anti-terror' Work for American Consumption
This shows how Pakistan's army treats fellow Muslims to demonstrate to their US/Israeli puppet masters they are fighting 'terror.' The video shows dreadful scenes as Pakistan soldiers beat several (obviously Muslim) civilians close to death in order to extract information. Like the US and all other proxy armies of 'the City of London' it appears Pakistan military are the real terrorists. Full story: youtube.com
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Nobel Prize for Promises?
October 10, 2009 – I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel Peace Prizes. The Nobel Committee is famous for its superficial estimates and for its susceptibility to rhetoric and empty gestures, while ignoring blatant violations of world peace. . .
The Nobel Peace Committee should retire, and turn over its huge funds to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom and rhetoric, and which has some understanding of history. Full story: truthout.org
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Easter—When Was Jesus Crucified?
When purchasing a house or acreage one always takes the precaution of having it surveyed to insure against the unpleasant surprise of finding that half your new home has been built on your neighbor's property, or the dam is not on your land. To prove the accuracy of the map or plan of your purchase, the surveyor will first locate a government "trig" station or absolute, then fix one corner of your property from this constant as his datum post, and from this known fixed point accurately measure and confirm all the other boundaries of the site.
Ancient masons who built the great cathedrals first established the precise location of one point. Here they laid the cornerstone from which the whole structure was measured. In a recent teaching we learned that Christ is the head of the corner or capstone, from which the temple of the living God or Church is measured (Ephesians 4:15-16).
Tonight we're going to revisit the last supper and crucifixion and drive in a few datum posts, or establish some constants, measured from the Absolute "trig" station of God's Word to ensure the story we are believing is the mind of God, and not Roman Catholic traditions from our denominational past.
Scripture has provided a series of FIXED days and FIXED dates we can plot on the calendar to place the events that occupied the last week of our Lord's life on earth, and establish the precise day of His crucifixion. There remains considerable confusion among even the most eminent scholars, concerning the date, day and year, however Brother Branham has provided definite dates and days thus resolving the debate.
Throughout this lesson I ask you to bear in mind that the Hebrews reckoned their day from sunset to sunset (arbitrarily 6.00 pm) instead of from midnight. We will set forth Jesus' activities as they might have happened in the week before Calvary. I am not teaching this as doctrine and some details may be out of order, but this will help to organize our thinking and paint an ordered picture in our own mind.
After the resurrection of Lazarus was reported, the chief priests and Pharisees became concerned that with so many following and believing on Jesus and witnessing His Supernatural vindication the exalted standing of their nicolaitane hierarchy over Israel and their status with the Roman rulers was under threat. Caiaphas interposed with the solution: "It is expedient for the hierarchy, that one man should die for the people, to preserve [the religious status quo of] our nation" (John 11:47-57).
To these Hebrews, any utterance of the high priest was regarded as inspired so when Caiaphas announced a conspiracy to have Jesus put to death by Rome God used his tongue to prophesy. Thereafter Jesus hid himself from the Jews who were ordered to report any sightings of Him.
The Passover was approaching. This year Jesus was to be the Lamb (John 1:29-34), so He began making His way back towards Bethany which lies on the side of the mount of Olives, eastward from Jerusalem. He had to be there by Nisan 10 as the Law required the lamb should be separated from the flock on that day and kept in the home for the next four days to be examined for and protected from any blemishes (Exodus 12:3-6).
Jesus was separated and taken into the home of his friends, Mary, Martha and Lazarus from where He was presented to the people and their denominational religious leaders for examination, but even Pilate declared, "I find no fault in Him".
Jesus spent our Thursday night near Jericho at the home of Zacchaeus the businessman (Luke 19:1-10). On Friday morning He preached the "parable of the pounds" and set off towards Jerusalem (Luke 19:11-28).
Nisan 8, our Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, April 1, AD30
Six days before the Passover Jesus reached Bethany before sundown on Friday afternoon, Nisan 7, and the sabbath of Nisan 8 began after 6.00pm. He spent the sabbath in Bethany. These days are as momentous to the new creation as were the six days of Genesis 1 to the original creation. Bethany rests on the Eastern side of the Mount of Olives less than two miles walk from Jerusalem. Here Jesus spent His last sabbath as a guest in the house of Simon the leper, with Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary.
A multitude en-route to Jerusalem for the Passover assembled at Bethany, not only to see Jesus but also Lazarus whom He had raised from the dead, hence the chief priests who had conspired to kill Jesus consider killing Lazarus also (John 11:47-54; 12:9-11).
Nisan 9, our Saturday sunset to Sunday sunset, April 2, AD30
On Saturday evening after the sabbath the sisters prepared a feast in Jesus' honour and Mary anointed His feet with precious ointment (Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; John 12:2-8). Judas Iscariot feigned indignation at this extravagance, saying the money might have been given to the poor, however his intention was to sell the precious oils and steal the proceeds.
On Sunday morning, Jesus set off for Jerusalem. On coming by Bethphage, which was separated from His route by a narrow valley, He sent His disciples to fetch an ass and a colt (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19). On coming in sight of Zion from the ridge of the Southern slope of the mount of Olives, the multitude from the villages raised loud hosannas. "Blessed be the King who comes in the Name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." And they cast their garments on the colt, and spread palm branches on the road, not realizing they were fulfilling Zechariah 9:9, "Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."
Neither did His disciples understand, but after He was glorified they realized that all these prophecies had been fulfilled before their eyes. The remaining Words of the prophecy will be fulfilled when the 144,000 recognize His 'parousia' Coming after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week (Matthew 23:39; Zechariah 9:10-17).
Luke 19:41-44, "When Jesus saw Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives He wept over it saying, If only you had recognized the revelation for your day that brings eternal rest from all of the distress you suffer through sin! Now It is hid from your eyes. Soon your enemies shall cast a trench about you and shut you in on every side, crushing you and your children within and leaving not one stone upon another, because you rejected your day and its Message."
The people of Jerusalem were not expecting this Kinsman to come in peace as a ransom for their souls, "and some of the Pharisees among the multitude said, Master, rebuke Your disciples. But Jesus replied, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out." He went at once to the Temple where He saw at a glance the money-making monopoly conducted by the priests selling animals for sacrifice at exorbitant prices and selling the Temple half shekel as they did at each Passover season, for every adult male must pay the annual ransom that furnished the continual burnt offering. Thus the priests desecrated the Court of the Gentiles. However, as it was already evening Jesus departed and returned to Bethany where He spent the night.
Nisan 10, our Sunday sunset to Monday sunset, April 3, AD30
Early Monday morning on his way to Jerusalem and feeling hungry, Jesus went to pick some figs. Although it was not yet summer, the tree was in leaf, and early figs often appear with the leaves. Finding no fruit, Jesus cursed the fig tree, emblematic of the fruitless Israel nation, saying, "You will bear no fruit until the end of the Gentile dispensation." The absence of individual fruit shows that God will deal with Israel as a nation in one day at end of summer, not in Spring time (Isaiah 66:8). Jesus' curse fulfills Isaiah's prophecy that the nation should be blind until the Gentile dispensation is fulfilled (Matthew 21:18-20; Mark 11:12-14). Whereas Israel was to be a "Light to the Gentiles," having failed to fulfill its commission, "No man will eat fruit of it for ever." Israel will never again feed or instruct a people in righteousness, for when the Lord turns to Israel He will be dealing exclusively with 144,000 elect Israelites who are typed as eunuchs who will be incapable of passing the Life to another soul. When they are born-again "it will no longer be necessary to admonish one another to know the Lord, for everyone, from the least to the greatest of them shall know Me, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more" (Jeremiah 31:34).
Next Jesus purged the temple at the close of His ministry even as He had done at its beginning (John 2:13-14). His former cleansing had not prevented the resumption of the usurious and thievish gains (Jeremiah 7:11) in exchanging secular for Temple coinage. Mark 11:15-17 (Matthew 21:12-13; Luke 19:45-46), "He went into the temple for a further cleansing, and expelled those who sold and bought in the temple. He overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold doves; and forbade anyone to carry any profane vessel through the temple. And He taught, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? you have made it a den of thieves" (Isaiah 56:7).
He was not armed with a lash of three cords as on His first encounter; the awe of His majestic presence checked all opposition as He overthrew the tables and cast out the sellers interrupting all devotion in the Court of the Gentiles, and works of mercy followed. Matthew 21:14-16, "The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple; and He healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things He did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" [Fearful lest their own influence be supplanted, and envious], they were indignant, and remonstrated, Do You hear what they are saying? And Jesus said, Yes. Did you never read, "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings You have perfected praise?" And He returned again to Bethany.
Nisan 11, our Monday sunset to Tuesday sunset, April 4, AD30
Going to Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, Nisan 11, "His disciples noticed the fig tree Jesus had cursed was withered from its roots, [which was miraculous as a tree normally withers from its leaves]. Remembering what Jesus had said on Monday, Peter exclaimed, Lord, see the fig tree you cursed? It's withered away! Jesus replied, [That signifies what will become of Israel. But] have faith in God [for He is able also to restore it to life]".
Jesus processed to illustrate the certainty of energized faith in God's Word. "Truly I tell you, if you have faith, you can command this Mount of Olives: Rise up and fall into the Mediterranean, and it will come to pass. All things are possible, only believe. Whatever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive it, and you shall have it. And when you persevere in prayer, first forgive those against whom you bear ill-will: so that your Father who is in heaven may forgive you your shortcomings. But if you do not forgive others, neither will God forgive you your trespasses" (Mark 11:20-26; Matthew 21:19b-22).
In the Temple hypocritical Pharisees, Herodian political fawns and unbelieving Sadducees sought to trap Jesus in His Words, that He might compromise Himself with the Law of Moses, or with the Roman government, but He confounded them with questions and began teaching in parables (Matthew 21:23-46; Mark 11:27 – 12:44; Luke 20:1 – 21:4). Despite the prophecy of Psalm 110:1, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool" they could not or would not see that as Man He was David's Son, and as God He was David's Lord. (See Acts 2:34-36 and Revelation 22:16). Finally He denounced them as "devouring widow's houses" and as physical Serpent's seed (Matthew 23:14, 33-35).
Luke 21:37-38, "And in the day time He was teaching in the Temple; and at night He went out, and abode in the mount of Olives. And all the people came to the temple early in the morning to hear Him".
John 12:20-26, "Some Greeks, [not Greek-speaking Jews (Hellenists) but uncircumcised proselytes of the gate still regarded as Gentiles (Acts 10), half-Jews or Judaizing pagans like the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:17] who had come to worship at the feast, [forerunners of the Gentile converts to Christ], approached Philip, (perhaps because his name was Greek or because they thought he might emphathise with their desire to see "the Light to enlighten the Gentiles"), as they too were from Galilee, and asked, Sir, we would see Jesus."
"Philip told Andrew and together they told Jesus who answered, [If the Gentiles are beginning to recognize Me already], it is time for the Son of man to be glorified" [and to gather "a people for His Name"]. And taking the metaphor of a grain of wheat falling into the ground and dying in order to reproduce its life manifold, He expounded upon the necessity of His death and Israel's blindness in the hearing of the Greeks and the people, seeking to persuade them that by believing on Him they were not believing on Him as a man, but on God Who sent Him and was in Him."
"Among the chief rulers many believed on Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God." The Jewish leaders having rejected the Spirit, Tuesday was the last day on which Jesus entered the Temple to teach. He hid Himself from His foes and the unbelieving people, who despite His Supernatural vindication were blinded according to the prophecy of Isaiah 6:1, 9-10 (John 12:20-50).
Before leaving the temple a disciple remembering His former words, "Now your house is left forsaken" (Matthew 23:38), and incredulous that it could speedily be cast down remarked on its massive stones (Mark 13:1; Luke 21:5) whereupon Jesus confirmed His prophecy, adding "there shall not be one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down" (Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6). Before going to Bethany that night Jesus stopped by the Mount of Olives (Mark 11:19) as became his custom (Luke 21:37), and as they sat facing Jerusalem and the temple on the West He was asked, "When will the temple be destroyed, what shall be the sign of your 'parousia' Coming, and what shall be the sign of the consummation of the world order" (Matthew 24:3; Mark 13:3-4; Luke 21:7)? Jesus responded by outlining the Seven Seals of Revelation 6 in each of the three synoptic Gospels. Then He taught the parable of the ten virgins, the parable of the ten talents, and the White Throne Judgment (Matthew 24:1-51; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-36).
Nisan 12, our Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset, April 5
Jesus and His disciples were still on the Mount of Olives at 6.00pm when Tuesday evening became (their) Wednesday. "And when He had finished all His teaching, Jesus said to His disciples, As you know, the feast of Passover is in TWO DAYS, (a FIXED date, confirming our calculations thus far) and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified" (Matthew 26:2). And as Jesus and his disciples retired from the mount "the chief priests and elders of the people gathered in the court of the palace of Caiaphas, the high priest, to discuss how they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill Him. But not during the feast lest there be a riot among the people," and Satan now having entered into Judas, "the son of perdition" stole away to betray his Master (Matthew 26:1-5; Mark 14:1-2; Luke 22:1-6).
It is of interest to observe that this title, "son of perdition," is restricted to Judas, the treasurer and most trusted among the disciples and so-called friend of our Lord (John 17:12), and to the pope, who as "vicar—deputy or substitute for Christ," claims to be His closest friend and most trusted confidant among all disciples of every generation (II Thessalonians 2:3; Revelation 17:8, 12). This is blasphemy, for in His bodily absence our Lord Jesus Christ is present in us as the Holy Spirit:
John 14:18-20, 26, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. In a little while I will be gone from the world, but I will be present with you: for I will live again, and you, too, will live. From the day on which you are born-again you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me and I in you . . . But the Comforter, who is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, shall teach you everything and remind you of all that I have told you." Jesus came from Spirit to flesh, in which form He was "with" the disciples, and has returned to Spirit, in which form He is "with us" and even "in us to the end of the ages" (John 13:3; Matthew 28:20).
Judas' apostolic successor as "the son of perdition" is the pope of Rome, whose blasphemous claims include:
Gregory IX (1227 – 1242) stated, "Wherefore, if those things that I do, be said to be done not of man, but of God; what can you make me but God?"
Boniface VIII decreed in 1303, "Temporal authority [of kings] must be subject to spiritual power [of the pope]".
Pope John XXII (1316 – 1328) stated, "To believe that our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical" (The Gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, Cum. Inter, title 14, chapter 4, "Ad Callem Sexti Decretalium," Column 140, Paris, 1685. (In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, the words, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" (i.e. "Our Lord God the Pope") can be found in column 153).
Pius IV (1566-1572) stated, "He that reigneth on high made him [the pope] alone prince over all people and all kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, consume, plant and build" (Bull published against Queen Elizabeth I).
Pius V said, "The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth" (Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, 'Cities Petrus Bertanous').
Leo XIII asserted, "There is No Allegiance to Christ Without Submission to the Pope" (Michael Malone, Apostolic Digest, Book 4: "The Book of Christians," Chapter 4). And,
"We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty" (Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894). And,
"Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ" (Satis Cognitum, quoted in "Acts of Leo XIII: Supreme Pontiff," Rome: Vatican Press, 1896).
In 1662 when "Peter's chair" was being cleaned in order to set it up in some conspicuous place of the Vatican, the twelve labours of Hercules appeared on it (Bower's History of the Popes, Vol. i. p. 7), it had been borrowed from the Pagans and so it had to be laid aside. The next chair appears to have been purloined from Muslims; for when the French soldiers under General Bonaparte took possession of Rome in 1795, they found on the back of it, in Arabic, this well-known sentence of the Koran, "There is no God but God, and Mahomet is His Prophet" (Lady Morgan's Italy, Vol. iii. p. 81; Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons).
Pius X stated, "The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under the veil of the flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus Christ who speaks. Does the Pope accord a favor or pronounce an anathema? It is Jesus Christ who pronounces the anathema or accords the favor. So, when the Pope speaks we have no business to examine. We have only to obey" (Catholic National, July 1895).
"The Pope is the spiritual father of all Christians . . . The Pope is the Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians" (A Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, Revised edition, 1985).
Here are but some of the papal titles which confirm his identity as "the" antichrist throughout modern history:
"Most divine of all Heads." "Holy Father of Fathers." Pontiff Supreme Over Prelates." "Overseer of the Christian Religion." "Pastor of Pastors." "Christ by Unction." "Abraham by Patriachate." "Melchisedec in Order." "Moses in Authority." "Samuel in the Judicial Office." "High Priest, Supreme Bishop." "Heir to the Apostles; Peter in Power." "Key-bearer of the Kingdom of Heaven." "Pontiff Appointed with Plenitude of Power." "Vicar of Christ." "Vicar of the Son of God." "Sovereign Priest." "Head of all the Holy Churches." "Chief of the Universal Church." "Bishop of Bishops." "Ruler of the House of the Lord." "Apostolic Lord and Father of Fathers." "Chief Pastor and Teacher." "Physician of Souls." "Rock against which the proud gates of hell prevail not." "Infallible Pope." "Head of All the Holy Priests of God".
In speaking of the identification of antichrist who will become "the beast," Jesus said, "This calls for [Spiritual] wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, his number is 666" (Revelation 13:18). We "count the number of the beast" by adding the Roman numerals that constitute the papal title, VICARIVS FILII DEI: "vicar—deputy or substitute for Christ" or substitute for the Holy Spirit. Thus: 5 + 1 + 100 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 1 + 1 + 500 + 1 = 666.
The seven heads of Rome mentioned in Revelation 17 were seven emperors who deified themselves, "And the beast that was, and is not, (the pope "is," and when he dies he "is not," but when his replacement is elected he "is"), even he is the eighth (the Devil-incarnate beast), and is of the seven (in that he makes himself god), and goes into perdition. And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast" to establish Lucifer's totalitarian one world government (Revelation 17:11-13).
Many are claiming that the mark of the beast will be a micro-chip, but Jesus said it will be identified with one man in whom Satan will rule Rome's one world government to the consummation (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 17). Paul prophesied, "That man of sin, the son of perdition will be revealed by opposing and exalting himself above every so-called God and what is worshipped, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God" (II Thessalonians 2:3-4; Isaiah 14). Christ's Adversary demands obeisance, the absolute submission of your mind to his will, so his mark is not a micro-chip but absolute dominion of your will through mind control by propaganda, fanatical religion, fear and superstition, with physical violence and death to recalcitrants. Here is a secular illustration of mind control enforced global today.
Revelation 13:4, "And the whole world [vicariously] worshipped the dragon (Satan) who gave his authority to the beast (of Rome in the person of the Devil-incarnate pope): and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? who is able to make war with him? Because after the sinking of Los Angeles, the "hot stage" of World War III, the collapse of the US dollar and world economy, and Russia's successful invasion of mainland USA, the pope will restore peace under one world government, repatriate Russia's occupying armies, and by his covenant with the self-styled Jewish banksters he will refinance the US dollar and restore the world economy. Revelation 17:1-6 portrays Papal Rome seated on or controlling the fourth Gentile world empire, and Revelation 18:1-20 like Daniel 2:40-45, describes Rome's wealth, her hubris, and her utter destruction.
Revelation 13:5-8, "And the beast (the "little horn" of Daniel 7:20) was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and he was allowed to control the Earth for forty-two months (the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week), throughout which he blasphemed God's Name [changing Lord Jesus Christ to three Titles], and His abode and the resurrected and translated saints [at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb] in heaven. And he was permitted to make war with 144,000 Israelites and their two Hebrew prophets, and to kill them: and authority was given him over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. And all inhabitants of Earth whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world will worship him".
The mark of the beast is the mark of Cain; it is not a microchip but carnal wisdom, reasoning against the faith or revealed Word of God, which is the vicarious worship of Satan. Brother Branham said, "Anything contrary to the precepts of God, the Word of God, is not God. What is it? What is sin? Righteousness perverted. What is death? Life perverted. What is the kingdom of Satan? Anything that's setting something to take the place of the Word, anything, any teaching. One word, just one word. You might believe every bit. Eve believed every bit of It to that one Word. That one Word's all she needed to disbelieve. That one Word is all you need to disbelieve" (Oneness, p. 11:55).
In his dream Nebuchadnezzar saw an image representing four Gentile world powers that will rule from Judah's defeat in 606BC to the consummation. Its head of gold represented Babylon, while its feet of iron mixed with clay represents "mystery, Babylon the great [Papal Rome], the mother of [once Protestant] harlot [churches] and abominations of the earth" (Daniel 2; Revelation 17:5). The king commanded his world empire worship to this image of Daniel, the holy man who had interpreted his dream to save the righteous from being cast into "a furnace heated seven times hotter than usual" (Daniel 3). And when Satan is cast down into the earth at the end of this dispensation and incarnates the pope, Rome's image, the brutal (once) Protestant united States of America will force the whole world to receive his mark "and cause all to do obeisance to the image of the beast or be killed" (Revelation 13:15). So the Gentile dispensation that began with the forced worship of a holy man will terminate with the forced worship of a self-proclaimed holy man, "that man of sin, the son of perdition," and all who worship him or his image will be cast into the Lake of Fire following the White Throne Judgment after man's seven thousand years on Earth (Revelation 20:14). The Stone Kingdom Nebuchadnezzar saw was cut out of the mountain by faith in the spoken Word without hands and will soon smite the image in its feet of iron and clay. "And in the days of these kingdoms the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever" (Daniel 2:44).
In Revelation 17:16 – 18:20 Jesus states ever so plainly that this last Gentile world empire will be the revived Holy (sic) Roman Empire constituted by the ten kingdoms into which it divided between AD351 and 476. Right now this European Union is preparing to elect its first permanent president for a five-year term. "Without the slightest reference to this prophecy, the historian Machiavelli, gives the following list of the nations which occupied the territory of the Western Empire at the time of the fall of Romulus Augustulus in AD476, the last emperor of Rome: The Lombards, the Franks, the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Heruli, the Suevi, the Alemanni, and the Saxons: ten in all."
"Amidst unceasing and almost countless fluctuations, the kingdoms of modern Europe have from their birth to the present day averaged ten in number. They have never since the breaking up of old Rome been united into one single empire; they have never formed one whole even like the United States. No scheme of proud ambition seeking to reunite the broken fragments has ever succeeded; when such have arisen, they have been invariably dashed to pieces."
"And the division is as apparent now as ever. Plainly and palpably inscribed on the map of Europe this day, it confronts the skeptic with its silent but conclusive testimony to the fulfillment of this great prophecy. Who can alter or add to this tenfold list of the kingdoms now occupying the sphere of old Rome? Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal—ten, and no more; ten, and no less" (H. Grattan Guinness, The Divine Program of the World's History, pp. 318-321).
Daniel 7:19-20, "Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast [Papal Rome], which was different from all the others [demanding and exercising spiritual power over the other kingdoms], exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; and of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell (the Heruli, Vandals and Ostrogoths); even of that [little] horn [the pope] who had eyes, and a mouth that demanded absolute obedience [as it claimed dominion over heaven, earth and a mythical purgatory], whose appearance was more authoritarian than his fellows" (Revelation 13:4-8).
According to history the Heruli (AD493), the Vandals (AD534) and the Ostrogoths (AD538)—Germanic tribes that adhered to Arianism in opposition to Trinitarianism—were all "plucked up" for their rejection of the Pope. This was their penalty for refusing to take "the mark of the beast" which is to worship the Trinity.
"In AD538, the year when the Ostrogoths collapsed, it was out of the smoking ruins of the western Roman Empire and after the overthrow of the three Arian kingdoms that the pope of Rome emerged as the most important single individual in the West, the head of a closely organized church with a carefully defined creed and with vast potential for political influence. Dozens of writers have pointed out that the real survivor of the ancient Roman Empire was the Church of Rome" (E.G. McKenzie, "Catholic Church" p. 14).
History testifies that shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire a new and diverse civil power arose and soon it forced most of Europe to bow down in reverent obedience to it precisely as its once Protestant united States image is doing today. That entity is the Papacy of Rome. Consider the following historical quotes:
"Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, in this simple manner, the best title of all to kingly right, commenced the temporal sovereignty of the popes . . . And meekly stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence throughout so many ages" (American Catholic Quarterly Review, April 1911).
This is precisely the pattern and type for what is to take place following the sinking of Los Angeles and the worldwide devastation of earthquakes, volcanoes and Tsunamis accompanied by the cleaving of the mount of Olives, the rape of Jerusalem, collapse of the US dollar and global economy, World War III, Russia's invasion and occupation of the USA, the Papal peace and inauguration of Satan incarnate in the pope as president by universal acclamation of one totalitarian world government.
"Another consequence of the fall of the Roman power in the West was the development of the Papacy. In the absence of an emperor in the West, the popes rapidly gained influence and power, and soon built up an ecclesiastical empire that in some respects took the place of the old empire and carried on its civilizing work" (Philip Van Ness Myers, Rome: Its Rise and Fall, General History for Colleges, p. 316).
"In a few centuries the pope had become in theory, and to a certain extent in practice, the high priest, censor, judge and divine monarch of Christiandom" (Well's Outline of History, p. 526).
In its great pride and arrogance the Papacy soon exalted itself above the kings of the earth. The Pope claimed to hold the seat of Caesar and the place of Christ on earth. He also claimed the power to enthrone kings and to dethrone kings. And the Monarchs of the nations of Europe trembled under the heavy hand of the Pope.
"The Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no Protestant who has a complete knowledge of history" (William E. H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, Vol. II, pp. 35-37).
The conservative estimates of those killed by the Roman Catholic Church is 50 million, but some reckon that it is closer to 150 million. Who with any knowledge of the persecutions of the Waldenses, the ravages of the Duke of Alva, the fires of Smithfield; the tortures of Goa, the crusades, the massacres, and the inquisitions could doubt that Papal Rome "made war with the saints and prevailed against them?" I would urge everyone to read Foxes' Book of Martyrs which contains much information concerning the persecutions of Rome in its pursuit of absolute mind control.
Satan wants to rule your head whereas Jesus desires to be the Lover of your heart, but the Spirit of God will only go where the Word of God is welcome. Those who refused "to receive the mark [of the beast] in their right hand, or in their forehead" were martyred in their millions (Revelation 13:16). Brother Branham said, "This mark in the head means that they will have to take the doctrine of the world church system which is trinitarianism, etc., and the mark in the hand which means to do the will of the world church. With this great power the church systems will persecute the true Bride. This image will try to keep the Bride from preaching and teaching, etc. Her ministers will be forbidden to give comfort and truth to the people who need it. But before the antichrist (in person) takes over this complete world system of churches the true Church will be taken away from this world to be with the Lord. God will catch away His Bride for the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 377).
Do you see the type and antitype? Just as we have the first and the last Adam, we have the first and the last Judas; the first Babylon and its image, Mystery Babylon; Christ and antichrist; the wise and foolish virgins, and the Great Whore and her (once) Protestant daughter churches. Imperial Rome and Papal Rome, the beast and its image. The Trinitarian religion of ancient Babylon that has overcame the world and is the basis of all religion has overcome the world church system as it overcame Israel and Judah, and for the past 46 years Christ has been calling His people our of Trinitarian religion into the unity of the faith and the glorious liberty of Christ.
Let us now return to our teaching on the betrayal of Jesus Christ on Wednesday night "two days before the feast of Passover." At this time "One of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, and said to them, What will you give me if I deliver Him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time Judas sought an opportunity to betray Him" (Matthew 26:14-16; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:1-6).
Nisan 13, our Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset, April 6
Jesus sent Peter and John to find a place to eat the Passover meal. "Where do you want us to go? they asked. [Jesus must have seen a vision, for] He replied, As soon as you have entered Jerusalem, you will see a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house he enters, and say to the householder, The Master says you are to show us to the guest-chamber where He can eat the Passover with His disciples? He will show you upstairs to a large room strewn with cushions, and divans. Prepare the meal there. And they went and found everything as Jesus had said: and prepared the Passover supper" (Luke 22:7-13; Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16).
Nisan 14, Thursday sunset our time to Friday sunset, April 7
In the evening of Thursday Nisan 13, Jesus came with the twelve to the guest-chamber for the Supper. John 13:1-4, "Now [one day] before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end of His life." As proven by His readiness to descend to the humblest death in their behalf.
We read in John 7 how Jesus went to the feast of Tabernacles secretly because the Jews wanted to kill Him. In verses 6 and 30, He said, "My time is not yet." So we see His life was in His Own hands and that His death was accomplished by Himself. Until that precise time came, He was immune to death, and I believe His end-time Bride is immune to death. Now we're going to witness Jesus lay down His life voluntarily, knowing that He has been betrayed.
It is important to note that Jesus and His disciples did not eat the Passover meal, but a common meal after which He instituted the Lord's Supper (Matthew 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:14-20), for the Passover meal was not eaten until the sundown after he was crucified, which would be a whole day after He instituted the Lord's Supper. John 13:1-2 expressly says the Last Supper was "before" the Passover feast on Nisan 15, and Nisan 14 AD30, was a Friday, which accords with this view. Further, Paul says nothing of the last supper having been a Passover night, merely that Jesus "took bread." It is quite evident that Jesus died before the Passover meal for He does not "eat" the Passover as He is the Passover. This was a special "farewell" meal or "last" supper.
The customary Paschal Supper itself commenced by the head of the company taking the first cup of wine and giving thanks. The cup was then drunk, and each washed his hands. John 13:2-5, "And supper having begun, the Devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him; Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God, and was going to God; He rose from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel, and girded Himself"—in His self-humiliation to perform the footwashing normally done by slaves before to the commencement of the meal, but in the absence of a slave the duty naturally devolved on the humblest of the circle, and the footwashing that was anticipated was left undone in default of a disciple willing to submit himself in humility (John 13:12-14; Luke 22:24-30). This transpired after Thursday evening had become Friday night Nisan 14, the first day of Unleavened Bread, in which all leaven is expelled from the home as it was the preparation day for the Passover whose lamb would be killed "between the evenings" of Nisan 14 and Nisan 15; that is, before the close of the Nisan 14.
"Jesus poured water into a bason and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the loin cloth He had about Him. When He came to Simon Peter, he said to Him, Lord, is it right for You to wash my feet? Jesus replied, You don't understand now why I am doing it; but you will soon know. Peter protested, You shall never wash my feet! Jesus replied, But if I don't, you have no part with Me. Simon Peter exclaimed, Then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. Jesus replied, He that has bathed all over needs only to have his feet washed to be entirely clean (or free from impurity). But He spoke this Word only of the eleven, and not of Judas, into whose heart Satan had planted an impure thought. So He said, Not all of you are clean. For He knew who had betrayed Him."
"After washing their feet, He put His robe back on, and everyone returned to their places around the table. Then He asked, Do you understand what I was doing? You call me Teacher and Lord: and you say well; for that is what I am. Therefore if I then, your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet; you should wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example to emulate: do as I have done to you. Truly, a servant is not greater than his master; neither is the messenger greater than the one who sends him. You know these things. Obey them and you will be blessed."
"I am not saying this to all of you: I know whom I have chosen: but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats My bread will betray Me (Psalm 41:9). I tell you now, before it happens, so when it comes to pass, you may believe on Me." Jesus had washed the feet of Judas, His betrayer who would also partake of that first Lord's Supper, the bread of which symbolized the manifested Word of the Lord's body broken for him.
The institution of the Lord's Supper was a special act introduced into the customary tradition of the Pascal celebration, which commemorated an event which pointed to and merged in another event—the offering of the better Lamb, and the better freedom connected with that Sacrifice. Hence, after the night of His betrayal, the Paschal lamb could have no further meaning, and it was right that the commemorative bread of Christ's Body should take its place. The symbolical cord had stretched to its goal—the offering up of the Lamb of God; and though it would continue from that point onwards till His second 'erchomai' coming, it was a new beginning.
Next bitter herbs were dipped in salt water and eaten and after a second cup was drunk; hands were washed a second time, thanks given, and one of the two unleavened cakes was broken as Jesus did at a later part of the service (Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19; I Corinthians 11:24). Next the Paschal lamb itself, after which nothing more was to be eaten, but since the cessation of the Paschal sacrifice after AD70 the Jews conclude the supper with a piece of unleavened bread. Then, having again washed their hands, the third cup is filled, and grace after meat said. Now, it is prescient that our Lord seems to have anticipated the present Jewish practice in that He broke the bread "when He had given thanks," instead of adhering to the old injunction of not eating anything after the Passover lamb. And yet in so doing He only carried out the spirit of the Paschal feast. For He was "that bread from heaven, which if a man eat, he will live forever," and as we have already explained, it was commemorative and typical.
Immediately after the meal was finished the third cup was drunk, a special blessing having been spoken over it. This was the cup which Jesus connected with His own Supper—to symbolize His blood. It is called in Jewish writings as in I Corinthians 10:16, "the cup of blessing. . . And when they had sung a hymn (Psalms 115 – 118) they went out into the mount of Olives" (Matthew 26:30). The service would normally conclude with the fourth cup, over which the second portion of the "Hallel" was sung.
As indicated by Matthew 26:22, 25; Luke 22:23 and John 13:22, the giving of the "sop" to Judas must have been after both the last Supper and the Lord's Supper because it was "after supper" that Jesus took the cup and made it the sacrament in His Blood, and after this that Jesus said, "the hand that betrays Me is with Me on the table" (Luke 22:19-23; I Corinthians 11:25, 27-30). He is already submitting to what He knows to be the will of the Father in voluntarily laying down His life. "Truly I assure you, he who receives whomsoever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives the Holy Spirit that sent Me" (John 13:4-20, 26).
Picture this in your mind as we follow the dialogue in John 13:21-30. "Having spoken of His betrayer, Jesus was in great anguish, and exclaimed, Truly, one of you shall betray Me. Then the disciples looked one toward another, wondering whom He could mean." John reclined at Jesus' right hand with his head towards His bosom with Judas next behind on his divan, for Jesus had seated Judas to His left side as an honored guest at the head of the table. Jesus had appealed to Judas' conscience, when without naming names, He foretold that one of those present would betray Him. Now He will appeal to Judas' heart by honoring him with the sop (Titus 3:9-11). As Simon Peter faced John, he was able to "beckon unto him." Understanding his meaning, and "leaning back with his head on Jesus' chest, John whispered, Pssst: who is it? Jesus whispered, It is the one I will honor by giving this morsel of bread dipped in sauce. When Jesus had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon." And like Pharaoh and Esau who rejected grace when it was offered, Judas "found no place of repentance".
"Knowing the spiritual transaction that had taken place, and that further appeal was useless, Jesus dismissed Judas saying, Hurry and do what you must. None of the others knew what Jesus meant. Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer, He had told him to buy seven day's provisions needed for the feast of Unleavened Bread that would commence the following afternoon, or that he should give something to the poor. Judas, having received the sop, left immediately: and it was night".
Jesus sealed the contract of the New Covenant spoken of in Jeremiah 31:31 by drinking the cup. He will pay the Bride price or "mohar" on Calvary in His Own blood (Israelite Marriage). Let's turn to Matthew 26:26-29 and read how Jesus instituted the memorial we know as the Lord's Supper.
"As they were eating, Jesus took a piece of hard unleavened bread which required to be broken, blessed, broke, and gave it to the disciples, saying, Take, eat; this represents My body." Of course it was not His body, it was wheat flour and water symbolizing His body which was that corn of wheat that must fall to the ground and die, in order that it could reproduce His Life in the many-membered Body of His Church.
From this we see that we are to observe the Lord's Supper in the evening, not in the morning. It is the Lord's Supper, not His breakfast or His lunch. The unleavened bread is to be prepared by the holy hands of a saint from wheat flour sifted fine so that every grain, like Jesus Christ, is "the same." Water is added to make the dough which is rolled wafer-thin and cut square, not round like bread baked for Astarte the Babylonian queen of heaven, worshipped by the Catholics as the virgin Mary. Then it is baked in an oven, or over a hot pan.
"And Jesus took the cup of wine and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Each of you drink of it; for this is My blood sealing the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark My Words, I will not drink this wine again, until the day I drink it in a higher sense with you in My Father's kingdom." Jesus was pointing to "the Marriage Supper of the Lamb" (Matthew 26:29; I Corinthians 11:26; Revelation 19:9).
The wine we take at the Lord's Supper is not grape juice but fermented wine made by holy hands, or feet. Juice sours whilst wine has a spirit, which like the Holy Spirit it preserves and improves with age.
The type for Calvary and the Lord's Supper was the first Passover in Egypt. As only those under the blood of the lamb and prepared for the journey were allowed to partake of the Passover, so only those under the Blood of Christ or truly born-again and living sanctified lives, in communion with the Lord and His saints through the unity of the faith, and rapture-ready, are qualified to partake the Lord's Supper.
Judas partook of the first Lord's Supper with iniquity in his heart and was accursed. Paul warned, "Whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. That's why a man should examine himself beforehand (and if he needs to ask forgiveness, he should first make things right with those he's wronged. Or if he feels someone has wronged him, he should go to that person and inform him before taking Communion), because if he eats and drinks unworthily, not discerning the Lord's Body (which is the individual members of the Church, then like Judas) he eats and drinks his own damnation."
"Such careless and unworthy participation is the reason so many of your number are spiritually weak and sickly; some are spiritually dead. For if we would examine our own lives we would recognize and correct our shortcomings, so we should not be judged. But when we fall short and are judged by the Word, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. Therefore when you gather together for the Lord's Supper, wait upon those who are making things right" (I Corinthians 11:27-33).
During the last supper Jesus prophesied Peter's denials, told them of the necessity of His separation, the Coming of the Holy Spirit, the true evidence of the new birth, the commandment to follow the example of His life and to propagate the faith. Jesus then prayed and they departed for Gethsemane (John 14:1-17:26).
"In agony of spirit [in the garden named for its oil presses where the pure Olive was beaten to give Light to the world] He broke into a sweat of blood, great drops falling to the ground as He prayed more earnestly" (Luke 22:44; Exodus 27:20), beseeching the Father if there be some other way to atone for Adam and his fallen race. There in His agony He overcame the frailties of flesh and mortal spirit: "Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done" (Matthew 26:42). Then Judas arrived with a mob of thugs organized by the religious leaders to arrest Jesus. The eleven disciples fled and Jesus was led to Caiaphas' palace where He was interrogated throughout the night until the early hours of the day of preparation for the Passover—Friday Nisan 14 (John 18:28; Matthew 27:2; Mark 15:1).
The Jewish leaders were desperate to be rid of Jesus, but the Law forbad them to try a prisoner at night (Talmud Sanhedrin 32a, chapter 4). So "they led Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's hall of judgment: it was early (in the day of preparation, between 11:00pm and midnight Thursday our time but already the sixth day, Friday, in Hebrew time). They did not personally enter the judgment hall in case they became defiled and unable to eat the Passover (John 18:28).
Here is a FIXED time: morning is any time before sunrise when it is yet dark. The Sanhedrin found Jesus guilty of blasphemy and before sunrise they delivered Him to Governor Pilate, to pronounce the death penalty. There the entire Council began at once accusing Jesus, "This Man has been telling our nation not to pay taxes to the Roman government, claiming He is our Messiah and King"!
"Pilate found no fault in Jesus, and learning He was of Galilee and therefore under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod who was in Jerusalem for the Passover. When Jesus declined to amuse Herod with a miraculous demonstration, he had his troops dress Jesus in royal purple and then sent Him back to Pilate for a joke."
"Knowing Jesus' innocence, "Pilate sought to release Him: but the Jews cried, If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend: whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."
"When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat. It was the preparation day of the Passover, and already about the sixth hour (after midnight, or about 6:00am on Nisan 14, according to Roman reckoning and the trial was still in progress. Another FIXED time).
"With irony Pilate said to the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him! Pilate said sarcastically, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. (Prophesying the fact their nation will be under Roman dominion unto the consummation of life). Then Pilate gave Jesus to them to be crucified" (Matthew 26:30 – 27:2; Luke 22:54-23:25; John 19:12-16).
The purple robe was taken, and Jesus wore only His own clothes to Calvary, which, before He was crucified, were stripped from Him and sold in a sweep while He looked down naked from the Cross about three hours after Pilate had delivered Him to be crucified (John 19:15-18).
Mark 15:25 says, "It was about the third hour [of the day or 9:00am] when they crucified Him." The time of the Temple morning sacrifice.
The synoptic gospels declare that "from about the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour" or from noon until 3:00pm when Jesus died. This could not have been an eclipse because it was the middle of the month when the moon is full. The darkness signified God had rejected the regular evening sacrifice, and light returned once the true and accepted sacrifice was fulfilled (Matthew 27:45-50; Mark 15:33-37; Luke 23:44-46).
Time was drawing-on. (Less than three hours remained to 6:00pm and the High Day or holy convocation of Nisan 15, and the first day of Unleavened Bread. As their days were not actually regulated by the clock, but like the months and religious festivals, by observation of the sun and harvest, daytime may have been several hours longer at this time of year). John 19:31, "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation of the Passover, so that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was a high day, asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, (causing almost instant suffocation), so that they might be taken away".
The Jew's first concern after the crucifixion was obeying the letter of the Law. Jesus had to be buried in haste for Jewish Law commands: "If a man committed a sin worthy of death, and is hanged on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him that day" (Deuteronomy 21:22-23).
The Jewish day begins at sunset, the Passover meal will be served on the evening of Nisan 15, less than three hours away. According to John 19:14 and 16, and John is emphatic about this: "It was the day of preparation of the Passover . . . then Pilate handed Jesus over to the Jews to be crucified".
On the day of preparation, the evening sacrifice was killed at the sixth hour and offered at the seventh (1:00pm). The killing of the Passover lambs began immediately after and finished at the ninth hour (3:00pm) when our Lord "Gave up the ghost." And all four gospels state emphatically that Jesus was buried before sunset on Nisan 14.
The new day beginning at 6:00pm was the HIGH DAY of Nisan 15, the FIRST day of the feast (John 19:31) when the Passover meal was eaten. Nisan 15 is a FIXED date and was always a sabbath no matter on which day of the week it fell. That year it fell on a Saturday, (our Friday sunset to Saturday sunset).
Let us read Leviticus 23:4-8, "These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed times. On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no customary work therein. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no customary work therein".
The first day of each of the three compulsory pilgrim feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles was a "holy convocation." It was called by the Hebrews "Good day," which is still the customary greeting throughout Jewry to the present time.
The special sabbaths were fixed DATES, not fixed DAYS: they could fall on any day of the week. To illustrate, if the sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread were a Saturday, the sabbath of the seventh day could not be a Saturday.
The first and seventh days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread were not the only special sabbaths or holy convocations. The Feast of Trumpets on Tishri 1, Day of Atonement on Tishri 10, the first and eighth days of the Feast of Tabernacles that same month were also special sabbaths. If the first day of this Feast was a Saturday, the eighth must also be a Saturday. But were the first day to fall on any other day of the week, neither special sabbath would be a Saturday (Leviticus 23:23-32; 33-36).
Before closing, I will quote Leviticus 23:10-11 so we can prove what day Jesus was crucified. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it."
This sabbath is the high day or holy convocation of Nisan 15, the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread—commanded by verse 7. As the sheaf was always waved on Nisan 16 which always follows the sabbath of Nisan 15, it should be clear that it is not the regular weekly sabbath that is here spoken of. However we know that in the year of Christ's crucifixion, the sabbath of Nisan 15 fell upon a Saturday, because Christ was the sheaf, and He was waved after His resurrection on the first day of the week, which was the day after the regular Saturday sabbath.
We will pause our narrative after 3:00pm, Friday Nisan 14.
We have discovered the necessity of thinking according to the Hebrew reckoning of time. We've received some fresh understanding on the sequence of events regarding the last days of our Lord on earth, and by calculating forward, recognized that His crucifixion had to be on a Friday.
We now know that having been crucified on the day of Preparation of the Passover, Jesus could not have eaten the Passover lamb with His disciples (John 18:28; 19:14). And we've received valuable new insight on the institution of the ordinances of the Lord's Supper and foot washing.
This is what Brother Branham said, and it is what he meant. If we can't take his teachings to God's Word from Genesis to Revelation, then we, not "he," have the wrong revelation. And I had the wrong revelation but God caused a Brother to tap me on the shoulder with a little e-mail; the Holy Spirit did the rest.
Critics may say, "What has this got to do with the Rapture"?
These are a few of the "missing clues" in the jig-saw puzzle. If we can get the "little foxes out of the vine," we'll gain a more perfect understanding of the "big picture," that is Christ the fullness of the Word. God bless you all.
(I was asked this question recently: "Why are Jesus' disciples coming to Him on the First Day of Unleavened Bread according to Matthew 26:17, asking where they should prepare the meal? How can they be doing this on the First Day of Unleavened Bread if we are to believe that Jesus was killed for Passover and was in the grave on the First Day of Unleavened Bread?"
I responded, "If we look at John 13:1, "Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." This was, the preparation day, or Nisan 14, (our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset), one day before the Passover and feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15 was a Saturday this particular year, making it a sabbath or holy convocation, and as Nisan 15, the first day of Unleavened Bread is always a sabbath or holy convocation—regardless which day of the week it falls, this was a "double sabbath" or "high day."
Now read John 18:28, "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover." (This was probably very late Thursday night our time or Friday, Nisan 14, Hebrew time—still 18-19 hours before the Passover meal was to be eaten on Friday evening our time which was Saturday evening Nisan 15 in Hebrew time).
Next we come to John 19:14, "And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and Pilate said unto the Jews, Behold your King!" This is about midnight (the sixth hour) Thursday night our time or Friday Nisan 14, Hebrew time—about 18 hours before the Passover meal, and the Pascal lambs would not be killed until between 1:00 – 3:00pm that day—3 to 16 hours hence. The "day of preparation" was Nisan 14 when the Hebrew people cleaned their homes from top to bottom to ensure there was no leaven in the house.
This brings us back to Matthew 26:17, "Now the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto Him, Where wilt You that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?" (This is saying, "Now the first day of Unleavened Bread was APPROACHING which was a sabbath and on which work like "preparing for the Passover" was forbidden under the Law").
Mark 14:12, "And the first day of [having no] Unleavened Bread [in the house WAS AT HAND AND], when they killed the Passover, His disciples said unto Him, Where wilt Thou that we go and prepare that You may eat the Passover?"
And Luke 22:7-9, "Then came the day of [having no] Unleavened Bread [in the house], when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the Passover, that we may eat. And they said unto Him, Where wilt You that we prepare?"
This should be understood as THEN THE DAY FOR REMOVING ALL LEAVEN AND LEAVENED BREAD FROM THE HOME WAS AT HAND, or day of PREPARATION FOR the Day of Unleavened Bread and the Passover Meal was at hand. It cannot be the first day of Unleavened Bread because the Passover was killed BEFORE the day of Unleavened Bread. Had this been the first day of Unleavened Bread they could prepare nothing, for it was a holy convocation and NO work could be performed on that day). bb980527.htm
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A Brother has made enquiries concerning the days leading to Christ's crucifixion and other brethren have raised different questions, all of which are addressed in our main article. I do hope you find it edifying. This is difficult to follow from the Bible and there is considerable disagreement among the most eminent theologians, even with respect to the day and year of the crucifixion, and I thank the Lord for sending us a prophet. Brother Branham's teaching has provided certainty.
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'Anti-terror' Work for American Consumption
This shows how Pakistan's army treats fellow Muslims to demonstrate to their US/Israeli puppet masters they are fighting 'terror.' The video shows dreadful scenes as Pakistan soldiers beat several (obviously Muslim) civilians close to death in order to extract information. Like the US and all other proxy armies of 'the City of London' it appears Pakistan military are the real terrorists. Full story: youtube.com
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Nobel Prize for Promises?
October 10, 2009 – I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel Peace Prizes. The Nobel Committee is famous for its superficial estimates and for its susceptibility to rhetoric and empty gestures, while ignoring blatant violations of world peace. . .
The Nobel Peace Committee should retire, and turn over its huge funds to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom and rhetoric, and which has some understanding of history. Full story: truthout.org
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Easter—When Was Jesus Crucified?
When purchasing a house or acreage one always takes the precaution of having it surveyed to insure against the unpleasant surprise of finding that half your new home has been built on your neighbor's property, or the dam is not on your land. To prove the accuracy of the map or plan of your purchase, the surveyor will first locate a government "trig" station or absolute, then fix one corner of your property from this constant as his datum post, and from this known fixed point accurately measure and confirm all the other boundaries of the site.
Ancient masons who built the great cathedrals first established the precise location of one point. Here they laid the cornerstone from which the whole structure was measured. In a recent teaching we learned that Christ is the head of the corner or capstone, from which the temple of the living God or Church is measured (Ephesians 4:15-16).
Tonight we're going to revisit the last supper and crucifixion and drive in a few datum posts, or establish some constants, measured from the Absolute "trig" station of God's Word to ensure the story we are believing is the mind of God, and not Roman Catholic traditions from our denominational past.
Scripture has provided a series of FIXED days and FIXED dates we can plot on the calendar to place the events that occupied the last week of our Lord's life on earth, and establish the precise day of His crucifixion. There remains considerable confusion among even the most eminent scholars, concerning the date, day and year, however Brother Branham has provided definite dates and days thus resolving the debate.
Throughout this lesson I ask you to bear in mind that the Hebrews reckoned their day from sunset to sunset (arbitrarily 6.00 pm) instead of from midnight. We will set forth Jesus' activities as they might have happened in the week before Calvary. I am not teaching this as doctrine and some details may be out of order, but this will help to organize our thinking and paint an ordered picture in our own mind.
After the resurrection of Lazarus was reported, the chief priests and Pharisees became concerned that with so many following and believing on Jesus and witnessing His Supernatural vindication the exalted standing of their nicolaitane hierarchy over Israel and their status with the Roman rulers was under threat. Caiaphas interposed with the solution: "It is expedient for the hierarchy, that one man should die for the people, to preserve [the religious status quo of] our nation" (John 11:47-57).
To these Hebrews, any utterance of the high priest was regarded as inspired so when Caiaphas announced a conspiracy to have Jesus put to death by Rome God used his tongue to prophesy. Thereafter Jesus hid himself from the Jews who were ordered to report any sightings of Him.
The Passover was approaching. This year Jesus was to be the Lamb (John 1:29-34), so He began making His way back towards Bethany which lies on the side of the mount of Olives, eastward from Jerusalem. He had to be there by Nisan 10 as the Law required the lamb should be separated from the flock on that day and kept in the home for the next four days to be examined for and protected from any blemishes (Exodus 12:3-6).
Jesus was separated and taken into the home of his friends, Mary, Martha and Lazarus from where He was presented to the people and their denominational religious leaders for examination, but even Pilate declared, "I find no fault in Him".
Jesus spent our Thursday night near Jericho at the home of Zacchaeus the businessman (Luke 19:1-10). On Friday morning He preached the "parable of the pounds" and set off towards Jerusalem (Luke 19:11-28).
Nisan 8, our Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, April 1, AD30
Six days before the Passover Jesus reached Bethany before sundown on Friday afternoon, Nisan 7, and the sabbath of Nisan 8 began after 6.00pm. He spent the sabbath in Bethany. These days are as momentous to the new creation as were the six days of Genesis 1 to the original creation. Bethany rests on the Eastern side of the Mount of Olives less than two miles walk from Jerusalem. Here Jesus spent His last sabbath as a guest in the house of Simon the leper, with Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary.
A multitude en-route to Jerusalem for the Passover assembled at Bethany, not only to see Jesus but also Lazarus whom He had raised from the dead, hence the chief priests who had conspired to kill Jesus consider killing Lazarus also (John 11:47-54; 12:9-11).
Nisan 9, our Saturday sunset to Sunday sunset, April 2, AD30
On Saturday evening after the sabbath the sisters prepared a feast in Jesus' honour and Mary anointed His feet with precious ointment (Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; John 12:2-8). Judas Iscariot feigned indignation at this extravagance, saying the money might have been given to the poor, however his intention was to sell the precious oils and steal the proceeds.
On Sunday morning, Jesus set off for Jerusalem. On coming by Bethphage, which was separated from His route by a narrow valley, He sent His disciples to fetch an ass and a colt (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19). On coming in sight of Zion from the ridge of the Southern slope of the mount of Olives, the multitude from the villages raised loud hosannas. "Blessed be the King who comes in the Name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." And they cast their garments on the colt, and spread palm branches on the road, not realizing they were fulfilling Zechariah 9:9, "Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."
Neither did His disciples understand, but after He was glorified they realized that all these prophecies had been fulfilled before their eyes. The remaining Words of the prophecy will be fulfilled when the 144,000 recognize His 'parousia' Coming after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week (Matthew 23:39; Zechariah 9:10-17).
Luke 19:41-44, "When Jesus saw Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives He wept over it saying, If only you had recognized the revelation for your day that brings eternal rest from all of the distress you suffer through sin! Now It is hid from your eyes. Soon your enemies shall cast a trench about you and shut you in on every side, crushing you and your children within and leaving not one stone upon another, because you rejected your day and its Message."
The people of Jerusalem were not expecting this Kinsman to come in peace as a ransom for their souls, "and some of the Pharisees among the multitude said, Master, rebuke Your disciples. But Jesus replied, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out." He went at once to the Temple where He saw at a glance the money-making monopoly conducted by the priests selling animals for sacrifice at exorbitant prices and selling the Temple half shekel as they did at each Passover season, for every adult male must pay the annual ransom that furnished the continual burnt offering. Thus the priests desecrated the Court of the Gentiles. However, as it was already evening Jesus departed and returned to Bethany where He spent the night.
Nisan 10, our Sunday sunset to Monday sunset, April 3, AD30
Early Monday morning on his way to Jerusalem and feeling hungry, Jesus went to pick some figs. Although it was not yet summer, the tree was in leaf, and early figs often appear with the leaves. Finding no fruit, Jesus cursed the fig tree, emblematic of the fruitless Israel nation, saying, "You will bear no fruit until the end of the Gentile dispensation." The absence of individual fruit shows that God will deal with Israel as a nation in one day at end of summer, not in Spring time (Isaiah 66:8). Jesus' curse fulfills Isaiah's prophecy that the nation should be blind until the Gentile dispensation is fulfilled (Matthew 21:18-20; Mark 11:12-14). Whereas Israel was to be a "Light to the Gentiles," having failed to fulfill its commission, "No man will eat fruit of it for ever." Israel will never again feed or instruct a people in righteousness, for when the Lord turns to Israel He will be dealing exclusively with 144,000 elect Israelites who are typed as eunuchs who will be incapable of passing the Life to another soul. When they are born-again "it will no longer be necessary to admonish one another to know the Lord, for everyone, from the least to the greatest of them shall know Me, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more" (Jeremiah 31:34).
Next Jesus purged the temple at the close of His ministry even as He had done at its beginning (John 2:13-14). His former cleansing had not prevented the resumption of the usurious and thievish gains (Jeremiah 7:11) in exchanging secular for Temple coinage. Mark 11:15-17 (Matthew 21:12-13; Luke 19:45-46), "He went into the temple for a further cleansing, and expelled those who sold and bought in the temple. He overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold doves; and forbade anyone to carry any profane vessel through the temple. And He taught, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? you have made it a den of thieves" (Isaiah 56:7).
He was not armed with a lash of three cords as on His first encounter; the awe of His majestic presence checked all opposition as He overthrew the tables and cast out the sellers interrupting all devotion in the Court of the Gentiles, and works of mercy followed. Matthew 21:14-16, "The blind and the lame came to Him in the temple; and He healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things He did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" [Fearful lest their own influence be supplanted, and envious], they were indignant, and remonstrated, Do You hear what they are saying? And Jesus said, Yes. Did you never read, "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings You have perfected praise?" And He returned again to Bethany.
Nisan 11, our Monday sunset to Tuesday sunset, April 4, AD30
Going to Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, Nisan 11, "His disciples noticed the fig tree Jesus had cursed was withered from its roots, [which was miraculous as a tree normally withers from its leaves]. Remembering what Jesus had said on Monday, Peter exclaimed, Lord, see the fig tree you cursed? It's withered away! Jesus replied, [That signifies what will become of Israel. But] have faith in God [for He is able also to restore it to life]".
Jesus processed to illustrate the certainty of energized faith in God's Word. "Truly I tell you, if you have faith, you can command this Mount of Olives: Rise up and fall into the Mediterranean, and it will come to pass. All things are possible, only believe. Whatever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive it, and you shall have it. And when you persevere in prayer, first forgive those against whom you bear ill-will: so that your Father who is in heaven may forgive you your shortcomings. But if you do not forgive others, neither will God forgive you your trespasses" (Mark 11:20-26; Matthew 21:19b-22).
In the Temple hypocritical Pharisees, Herodian political fawns and unbelieving Sadducees sought to trap Jesus in His Words, that He might compromise Himself with the Law of Moses, or with the Roman government, but He confounded them with questions and began teaching in parables (Matthew 21:23-46; Mark 11:27 – 12:44; Luke 20:1 – 21:4). Despite the prophecy of Psalm 110:1, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool" they could not or would not see that as Man He was David's Son, and as God He was David's Lord. (See Acts 2:34-36 and Revelation 22:16). Finally He denounced them as "devouring widow's houses" and as physical Serpent's seed (Matthew 23:14, 33-35).
Luke 21:37-38, "And in the day time He was teaching in the Temple; and at night He went out, and abode in the mount of Olives. And all the people came to the temple early in the morning to hear Him".
John 12:20-26, "Some Greeks, [not Greek-speaking Jews (Hellenists) but uncircumcised proselytes of the gate still regarded as Gentiles (Acts 10), half-Jews or Judaizing pagans like the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:17] who had come to worship at the feast, [forerunners of the Gentile converts to Christ], approached Philip, (perhaps because his name was Greek or because they thought he might emphathise with their desire to see "the Light to enlighten the Gentiles"), as they too were from Galilee, and asked, Sir, we would see Jesus."
"Philip told Andrew and together they told Jesus who answered, [If the Gentiles are beginning to recognize Me already], it is time for the Son of man to be glorified" [and to gather "a people for His Name"]. And taking the metaphor of a grain of wheat falling into the ground and dying in order to reproduce its life manifold, He expounded upon the necessity of His death and Israel's blindness in the hearing of the Greeks and the people, seeking to persuade them that by believing on Him they were not believing on Him as a man, but on God Who sent Him and was in Him."
"Among the chief rulers many believed on Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God." The Jewish leaders having rejected the Spirit, Tuesday was the last day on which Jesus entered the Temple to teach. He hid Himself from His foes and the unbelieving people, who despite His Supernatural vindication were blinded according to the prophecy of Isaiah 6:1, 9-10 (John 12:20-50).
Before leaving the temple a disciple remembering His former words, "Now your house is left forsaken" (Matthew 23:38), and incredulous that it could speedily be cast down remarked on its massive stones (Mark 13:1; Luke 21:5) whereupon Jesus confirmed His prophecy, adding "there shall not be one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down" (Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6). Before going to Bethany that night Jesus stopped by the Mount of Olives (Mark 11:19) as became his custom (Luke 21:37), and as they sat facing Jerusalem and the temple on the West He was asked, "When will the temple be destroyed, what shall be the sign of your 'parousia' Coming, and what shall be the sign of the consummation of the world order" (Matthew 24:3; Mark 13:3-4; Luke 21:7)? Jesus responded by outlining the Seven Seals of Revelation 6 in each of the three synoptic Gospels. Then He taught the parable of the ten virgins, the parable of the ten talents, and the White Throne Judgment (Matthew 24:1-51; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-36).
Nisan 12, our Tuesday sunset to Wednesday sunset, April 5
Jesus and His disciples were still on the Mount of Olives at 6.00pm when Tuesday evening became (their) Wednesday. "And when He had finished all His teaching, Jesus said to His disciples, As you know, the feast of Passover is in TWO DAYS, (a FIXED date, confirming our calculations thus far) and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified" (Matthew 26:2). And as Jesus and his disciples retired from the mount "the chief priests and elders of the people gathered in the court of the palace of Caiaphas, the high priest, to discuss how they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill Him. But not during the feast lest there be a riot among the people," and Satan now having entered into Judas, "the son of perdition" stole away to betray his Master (Matthew 26:1-5; Mark 14:1-2; Luke 22:1-6).
It is of interest to observe that this title, "son of perdition," is restricted to Judas, the treasurer and most trusted among the disciples and so-called friend of our Lord (John 17:12), and to the pope, who as "vicar—deputy or substitute for Christ," claims to be His closest friend and most trusted confidant among all disciples of every generation (II Thessalonians 2:3; Revelation 17:8, 12). This is blasphemy, for in His bodily absence our Lord Jesus Christ is present in us as the Holy Spirit:
John 14:18-20, 26, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. In a little while I will be gone from the world, but I will be present with you: for I will live again, and you, too, will live. From the day on which you are born-again you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me and I in you . . . But the Comforter, who is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, shall teach you everything and remind you of all that I have told you." Jesus came from Spirit to flesh, in which form He was "with" the disciples, and has returned to Spirit, in which form He is "with us" and even "in us to the end of the ages" (John 13:3; Matthew 28:20).
Judas' apostolic successor as "the son of perdition" is the pope of Rome, whose blasphemous claims include:
Gregory IX (1227 – 1242) stated, "Wherefore, if those things that I do, be said to be done not of man, but of God; what can you make me but God?"
Boniface VIII decreed in 1303, "Temporal authority [of kings] must be subject to spiritual power [of the pope]".
Pope John XXII (1316 – 1328) stated, "To believe that our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical" (The Gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, Cum. Inter, title 14, chapter 4, "Ad Callem Sexti Decretalium," Column 140, Paris, 1685. (In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, the words, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" (i.e. "Our Lord God the Pope") can be found in column 153).
Pius IV (1566-1572) stated, "He that reigneth on high made him [the pope] alone prince over all people and all kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, consume, plant and build" (Bull published against Queen Elizabeth I).
Pius V said, "The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth" (Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, 'Cities Petrus Bertanous').
Leo XIII asserted, "There is No Allegiance to Christ Without Submission to the Pope" (Michael Malone, Apostolic Digest, Book 4: "The Book of Christians," Chapter 4). And,
"We hold upon this earth the place of God almighty" (Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894). And,
"Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ" (Satis Cognitum, quoted in "Acts of Leo XIII: Supreme Pontiff," Rome: Vatican Press, 1896).
In 1662 when "Peter's chair" was being cleaned in order to set it up in some conspicuous place of the Vatican, the twelve labours of Hercules appeared on it (Bower's History of the Popes, Vol. i. p. 7), it had been borrowed from the Pagans and so it had to be laid aside. The next chair appears to have been purloined from Muslims; for when the French soldiers under General Bonaparte took possession of Rome in 1795, they found on the back of it, in Arabic, this well-known sentence of the Koran, "There is no God but God, and Mahomet is His Prophet" (Lady Morgan's Italy, Vol. iii. p. 81; Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons).
Pius X stated, "The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under the veil of the flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus Christ who speaks. Does the Pope accord a favor or pronounce an anathema? It is Jesus Christ who pronounces the anathema or accords the favor. So, when the Pope speaks we have no business to examine. We have only to obey" (Catholic National, July 1895).
"The Pope is the spiritual father of all Christians . . . The Pope is the Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians" (A Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, Revised edition, 1985).
Here are but some of the papal titles which confirm his identity as "the" antichrist throughout modern history:
"Most divine of all Heads." "Holy Father of Fathers." Pontiff Supreme Over Prelates." "Overseer of the Christian Religion." "Pastor of Pastors." "Christ by Unction." "Abraham by Patriachate." "Melchisedec in Order." "Moses in Authority." "Samuel in the Judicial Office." "High Priest, Supreme Bishop." "Heir to the Apostles; Peter in Power." "Key-bearer of the Kingdom of Heaven." "Pontiff Appointed with Plenitude of Power." "Vicar of Christ." "Vicar of the Son of God." "Sovereign Priest." "Head of all the Holy Churches." "Chief of the Universal Church." "Bishop of Bishops." "Ruler of the House of the Lord." "Apostolic Lord and Father of Fathers." "Chief Pastor and Teacher." "Physician of Souls." "Rock against which the proud gates of hell prevail not." "Infallible Pope." "Head of All the Holy Priests of God".
In speaking of the identification of antichrist who will become "the beast," Jesus said, "This calls for [Spiritual] wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, his number is 666" (Revelation 13:18). We "count the number of the beast" by adding the Roman numerals that constitute the papal title, VICARIVS FILII DEI: "vicar—deputy or substitute for Christ" or substitute for the Holy Spirit. Thus: 5 + 1 + 100 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 1 + 1 + 500 + 1 = 666.
The seven heads of Rome mentioned in Revelation 17 were seven emperors who deified themselves, "And the beast that was, and is not, (the pope "is," and when he dies he "is not," but when his replacement is elected he "is"), even he is the eighth (the Devil-incarnate beast), and is of the seven (in that he makes himself god), and goes into perdition. And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast" to establish Lucifer's totalitarian one world government (Revelation 17:11-13).
Many are claiming that the mark of the beast will be a micro-chip, but Jesus said it will be identified with one man in whom Satan will rule Rome's one world government to the consummation (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 17). Paul prophesied, "That man of sin, the son of perdition will be revealed by opposing and exalting himself above every so-called God and what is worshipped, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God" (II Thessalonians 2:3-4; Isaiah 14). Christ's Adversary demands obeisance, the absolute submission of your mind to his will, so his mark is not a micro-chip but absolute dominion of your will through mind control by propaganda, fanatical religion, fear and superstition, with physical violence and death to recalcitrants. Here is a secular illustration of mind control enforced global today.
Revelation 13:4, "And the whole world [vicariously] worshipped the dragon (Satan) who gave his authority to the beast (of Rome in the person of the Devil-incarnate pope): and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? who is able to make war with him? Because after the sinking of Los Angeles, the "hot stage" of World War III, the collapse of the US dollar and world economy, and Russia's successful invasion of mainland USA, the pope will restore peace under one world government, repatriate Russia's occupying armies, and by his covenant with the self-styled Jewish banksters he will refinance the US dollar and restore the world economy. Revelation 17:1-6 portrays Papal Rome seated on or controlling the fourth Gentile world empire, and Revelation 18:1-20 like Daniel 2:40-45, describes Rome's wealth, her hubris, and her utter destruction.
Revelation 13:5-8, "And the beast (the "little horn" of Daniel 7:20) was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and he was allowed to control the Earth for forty-two months (the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week), throughout which he blasphemed God's Name [changing Lord Jesus Christ to three Titles], and His abode and the resurrected and translated saints [at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb] in heaven. And he was permitted to make war with 144,000 Israelites and their two Hebrew prophets, and to kill them: and authority was given him over every tribe, and tongue, and nation. And all inhabitants of Earth whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world will worship him".
The mark of the beast is the mark of Cain; it is not a microchip but carnal wisdom, reasoning against the faith or revealed Word of God, which is the vicarious worship of Satan. Brother Branham said, "Anything contrary to the precepts of God, the Word of God, is not God. What is it? What is sin? Righteousness perverted. What is death? Life perverted. What is the kingdom of Satan? Anything that's setting something to take the place of the Word, anything, any teaching. One word, just one word. You might believe every bit. Eve believed every bit of It to that one Word. That one Word's all she needed to disbelieve. That one Word is all you need to disbelieve" (Oneness, p. 11:55).
In his dream Nebuchadnezzar saw an image representing four Gentile world powers that will rule from Judah's defeat in 606BC to the consummation. Its head of gold represented Babylon, while its feet of iron mixed with clay represents "mystery, Babylon the great [Papal Rome], the mother of [once Protestant] harlot [churches] and abominations of the earth" (Daniel 2; Revelation 17:5). The king commanded his world empire worship to this image of Daniel, the holy man who had interpreted his dream to save the righteous from being cast into "a furnace heated seven times hotter than usual" (Daniel 3). And when Satan is cast down into the earth at the end of this dispensation and incarnates the pope, Rome's image, the brutal (once) Protestant united States of America will force the whole world to receive his mark "and cause all to do obeisance to the image of the beast or be killed" (Revelation 13:15). So the Gentile dispensation that began with the forced worship of a holy man will terminate with the forced worship of a self-proclaimed holy man, "that man of sin, the son of perdition," and all who worship him or his image will be cast into the Lake of Fire following the White Throne Judgment after man's seven thousand years on Earth (Revelation 20:14). The Stone Kingdom Nebuchadnezzar saw was cut out of the mountain by faith in the spoken Word without hands and will soon smite the image in its feet of iron and clay. "And in the days of these kingdoms the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever" (Daniel 2:44).
In Revelation 17:16 – 18:20 Jesus states ever so plainly that this last Gentile world empire will be the revived Holy (sic) Roman Empire constituted by the ten kingdoms into which it divided between AD351 and 476. Right now this European Union is preparing to elect its first permanent president for a five-year term. "Without the slightest reference to this prophecy, the historian Machiavelli, gives the following list of the nations which occupied the territory of the Western Empire at the time of the fall of Romulus Augustulus in AD476, the last emperor of Rome: The Lombards, the Franks, the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Heruli, the Suevi, the Alemanni, and the Saxons: ten in all."
"Amidst unceasing and almost countless fluctuations, the kingdoms of modern Europe have from their birth to the present day averaged ten in number. They have never since the breaking up of old Rome been united into one single empire; they have never formed one whole even like the United States. No scheme of proud ambition seeking to reunite the broken fragments has ever succeeded; when such have arisen, they have been invariably dashed to pieces."
"And the division is as apparent now as ever. Plainly and palpably inscribed on the map of Europe this day, it confronts the skeptic with its silent but conclusive testimony to the fulfillment of this great prophecy. Who can alter or add to this tenfold list of the kingdoms now occupying the sphere of old Rome? Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal—ten, and no more; ten, and no less" (H. Grattan Guinness, The Divine Program of the World's History, pp. 318-321).
Daniel 7:19-20, "Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast [Papal Rome], which was different from all the others [demanding and exercising spiritual power over the other kingdoms], exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; and of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell (the Heruli, Vandals and Ostrogoths); even of that [little] horn [the pope] who had eyes, and a mouth that demanded absolute obedience [as it claimed dominion over heaven, earth and a mythical purgatory], whose appearance was more authoritarian than his fellows" (Revelation 13:4-8).
According to history the Heruli (AD493), the Vandals (AD534) and the Ostrogoths (AD538)—Germanic tribes that adhered to Arianism in opposition to Trinitarianism—were all "plucked up" for their rejection of the Pope. This was their penalty for refusing to take "the mark of the beast" which is to worship the Trinity.
"In AD538, the year when the Ostrogoths collapsed, it was out of the smoking ruins of the western Roman Empire and after the overthrow of the three Arian kingdoms that the pope of Rome emerged as the most important single individual in the West, the head of a closely organized church with a carefully defined creed and with vast potential for political influence. Dozens of writers have pointed out that the real survivor of the ancient Roman Empire was the Church of Rome" (E.G. McKenzie, "Catholic Church" p. 14).
History testifies that shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire a new and diverse civil power arose and soon it forced most of Europe to bow down in reverent obedience to it precisely as its once Protestant united States image is doing today. That entity is the Papacy of Rome. Consider the following historical quotes:
"Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, in this simple manner, the best title of all to kingly right, commenced the temporal sovereignty of the popes . . . And meekly stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence throughout so many ages" (American Catholic Quarterly Review, April 1911).
This is precisely the pattern and type for what is to take place following the sinking of Los Angeles and the worldwide devastation of earthquakes, volcanoes and Tsunamis accompanied by the cleaving of the mount of Olives, the rape of Jerusalem, collapse of the US dollar and global economy, World War III, Russia's invasion and occupation of the USA, the Papal peace and inauguration of Satan incarnate in the pope as president by universal acclamation of one totalitarian world government.
"Another consequence of the fall of the Roman power in the West was the development of the Papacy. In the absence of an emperor in the West, the popes rapidly gained influence and power, and soon built up an ecclesiastical empire that in some respects took the place of the old empire and carried on its civilizing work" (Philip Van Ness Myers, Rome: Its Rise and Fall, General History for Colleges, p. 316).
"In a few centuries the pope had become in theory, and to a certain extent in practice, the high priest, censor, judge and divine monarch of Christiandom" (Well's Outline of History, p. 526).
In its great pride and arrogance the Papacy soon exalted itself above the kings of the earth. The Pope claimed to hold the seat of Caesar and the place of Christ on earth. He also claimed the power to enthrone kings and to dethrone kings. And the Monarchs of the nations of Europe trembled under the heavy hand of the Pope.
"The Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned by no Protestant who has a complete knowledge of history" (William E. H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, Vol. II, pp. 35-37).
The conservative estimates of those killed by the Roman Catholic Church is 50 million, but some reckon that it is closer to 150 million. Who with any knowledge of the persecutions of the Waldenses, the ravages of the Duke of Alva, the fires of Smithfield; the tortures of Goa, the crusades, the massacres, and the inquisitions could doubt that Papal Rome "made war with the saints and prevailed against them?" I would urge everyone to read Foxes' Book of Martyrs which contains much information concerning the persecutions of Rome in its pursuit of absolute mind control.
Satan wants to rule your head whereas Jesus desires to be the Lover of your heart, but the Spirit of God will only go where the Word of God is welcome. Those who refused "to receive the mark [of the beast] in their right hand, or in their forehead" were martyred in their millions (Revelation 13:16). Brother Branham said, "This mark in the head means that they will have to take the doctrine of the world church system which is trinitarianism, etc., and the mark in the hand which means to do the will of the world church. With this great power the church systems will persecute the true Bride. This image will try to keep the Bride from preaching and teaching, etc. Her ministers will be forbidden to give comfort and truth to the people who need it. But before the antichrist (in person) takes over this complete world system of churches the true Church will be taken away from this world to be with the Lord. God will catch away His Bride for the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 377).
Do you see the type and antitype? Just as we have the first and the last Adam, we have the first and the last Judas; the first Babylon and its image, Mystery Babylon; Christ and antichrist; the wise and foolish virgins, and the Great Whore and her (once) Protestant daughter churches. Imperial Rome and Papal Rome, the beast and its image. The Trinitarian religion of ancient Babylon that has overcame the world and is the basis of all religion has overcome the world church system as it overcame Israel and Judah, and for the past 46 years Christ has been calling His people our of Trinitarian religion into the unity of the faith and the glorious liberty of Christ.
Let us now return to our teaching on the betrayal of Jesus Christ on Wednesday night "two days before the feast of Passover." At this time "One of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests, and said to them, What will you give me if I deliver Him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time Judas sought an opportunity to betray Him" (Matthew 26:14-16; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:1-6).
Nisan 13, our Wednesday sunset to Thursday sunset, April 6
Jesus sent Peter and John to find a place to eat the Passover meal. "Where do you want us to go? they asked. [Jesus must have seen a vision, for] He replied, As soon as you have entered Jerusalem, you will see a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house he enters, and say to the householder, The Master says you are to show us to the guest-chamber where He can eat the Passover with His disciples? He will show you upstairs to a large room strewn with cushions, and divans. Prepare the meal there. And they went and found everything as Jesus had said: and prepared the Passover supper" (Luke 22:7-13; Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16).
Nisan 14, Thursday sunset our time to Friday sunset, April 7
In the evening of Thursday Nisan 13, Jesus came with the twelve to the guest-chamber for the Supper. John 13:1-4, "Now [one day] before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end of His life." As proven by His readiness to descend to the humblest death in their behalf.
We read in John 7 how Jesus went to the feast of Tabernacles secretly because the Jews wanted to kill Him. In verses 6 and 30, He said, "My time is not yet." So we see His life was in His Own hands and that His death was accomplished by Himself. Until that precise time came, He was immune to death, and I believe His end-time Bride is immune to death. Now we're going to witness Jesus lay down His life voluntarily, knowing that He has been betrayed.
It is important to note that Jesus and His disciples did not eat the Passover meal, but a common meal after which He instituted the Lord's Supper (Matthew 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:14-20), for the Passover meal was not eaten until the sundown after he was crucified, which would be a whole day after He instituted the Lord's Supper. John 13:1-2 expressly says the Last Supper was "before" the Passover feast on Nisan 15, and Nisan 14 AD30, was a Friday, which accords with this view. Further, Paul says nothing of the last supper having been a Passover night, merely that Jesus "took bread." It is quite evident that Jesus died before the Passover meal for He does not "eat" the Passover as He is the Passover. This was a special "farewell" meal or "last" supper.
The customary Paschal Supper itself commenced by the head of the company taking the first cup of wine and giving thanks. The cup was then drunk, and each washed his hands. John 13:2-5, "And supper having begun, the Devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him; Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God, and was going to God; He rose from supper, and laid aside His garments; and took a towel, and girded Himself"—in His self-humiliation to perform the footwashing normally done by slaves before to the commencement of the meal, but in the absence of a slave the duty naturally devolved on the humblest of the circle, and the footwashing that was anticipated was left undone in default of a disciple willing to submit himself in humility (John 13:12-14; Luke 22:24-30). This transpired after Thursday evening had become Friday night Nisan 14, the first day of Unleavened Bread, in which all leaven is expelled from the home as it was the preparation day for the Passover whose lamb would be killed "between the evenings" of Nisan 14 and Nisan 15; that is, before the close of the Nisan 14.
"Jesus poured water into a bason and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the loin cloth He had about Him. When He came to Simon Peter, he said to Him, Lord, is it right for You to wash my feet? Jesus replied, You don't understand now why I am doing it; but you will soon know. Peter protested, You shall never wash my feet! Jesus replied, But if I don't, you have no part with Me. Simon Peter exclaimed, Then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. Jesus replied, He that has bathed all over needs only to have his feet washed to be entirely clean (or free from impurity). But He spoke this Word only of the eleven, and not of Judas, into whose heart Satan had planted an impure thought. So He said, Not all of you are clean. For He knew who had betrayed Him."
"After washing their feet, He put His robe back on, and everyone returned to their places around the table. Then He asked, Do you understand what I was doing? You call me Teacher and Lord: and you say well; for that is what I am. Therefore if I then, your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet; you should wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example to emulate: do as I have done to you. Truly, a servant is not greater than his master; neither is the messenger greater than the one who sends him. You know these things. Obey them and you will be blessed."
"I am not saying this to all of you: I know whom I have chosen: but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats My bread will betray Me (Psalm 41:9). I tell you now, before it happens, so when it comes to pass, you may believe on Me." Jesus had washed the feet of Judas, His betrayer who would also partake of that first Lord's Supper, the bread of which symbolized the manifested Word of the Lord's body broken for him.
The institution of the Lord's Supper was a special act introduced into the customary tradition of the Pascal celebration, which commemorated an event which pointed to and merged in another event—the offering of the better Lamb, and the better freedom connected with that Sacrifice. Hence, after the night of His betrayal, the Paschal lamb could have no further meaning, and it was right that the commemorative bread of Christ's Body should take its place. The symbolical cord had stretched to its goal—the offering up of the Lamb of God; and though it would continue from that point onwards till His second 'erchomai' coming, it was a new beginning.
Next bitter herbs were dipped in salt water and eaten and after a second cup was drunk; hands were washed a second time, thanks given, and one of the two unleavened cakes was broken as Jesus did at a later part of the service (Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19; I Corinthians 11:24). Next the Paschal lamb itself, after which nothing more was to be eaten, but since the cessation of the Paschal sacrifice after AD70 the Jews conclude the supper with a piece of unleavened bread. Then, having again washed their hands, the third cup is filled, and grace after meat said. Now, it is prescient that our Lord seems to have anticipated the present Jewish practice in that He broke the bread "when He had given thanks," instead of adhering to the old injunction of not eating anything after the Passover lamb. And yet in so doing He only carried out the spirit of the Paschal feast. For He was "that bread from heaven, which if a man eat, he will live forever," and as we have already explained, it was commemorative and typical.
Immediately after the meal was finished the third cup was drunk, a special blessing having been spoken over it. This was the cup which Jesus connected with His own Supper—to symbolize His blood. It is called in Jewish writings as in I Corinthians 10:16, "the cup of blessing. . . And when they had sung a hymn (Psalms 115 – 118) they went out into the mount of Olives" (Matthew 26:30). The service would normally conclude with the fourth cup, over which the second portion of the "Hallel" was sung.
As indicated by Matthew 26:22, 25; Luke 22:23 and John 13:22, the giving of the "sop" to Judas must have been after both the last Supper and the Lord's Supper because it was "after supper" that Jesus took the cup and made it the sacrament in His Blood, and after this that Jesus said, "the hand that betrays Me is with Me on the table" (Luke 22:19-23; I Corinthians 11:25, 27-30). He is already submitting to what He knows to be the will of the Father in voluntarily laying down His life. "Truly I assure you, he who receives whomsoever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives the Holy Spirit that sent Me" (John 13:4-20, 26).
Picture this in your mind as we follow the dialogue in John 13:21-30. "Having spoken of His betrayer, Jesus was in great anguish, and exclaimed, Truly, one of you shall betray Me. Then the disciples looked one toward another, wondering whom He could mean." John reclined at Jesus' right hand with his head towards His bosom with Judas next behind on his divan, for Jesus had seated Judas to His left side as an honored guest at the head of the table. Jesus had appealed to Judas' conscience, when without naming names, He foretold that one of those present would betray Him. Now He will appeal to Judas' heart by honoring him with the sop (Titus 3:9-11). As Simon Peter faced John, he was able to "beckon unto him." Understanding his meaning, and "leaning back with his head on Jesus' chest, John whispered, Pssst: who is it? Jesus whispered, It is the one I will honor by giving this morsel of bread dipped in sauce. When Jesus had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon." And like Pharaoh and Esau who rejected grace when it was offered, Judas "found no place of repentance".
"Knowing the spiritual transaction that had taken place, and that further appeal was useless, Jesus dismissed Judas saying, Hurry and do what you must. None of the others knew what Jesus meant. Some thought that since Judas was their treasurer, He had told him to buy seven day's provisions needed for the feast of Unleavened Bread that would commence the following afternoon, or that he should give something to the poor. Judas, having received the sop, left immediately: and it was night".
Jesus sealed the contract of the New Covenant spoken of in Jeremiah 31:31 by drinking the cup. He will pay the Bride price or "mohar" on Calvary in His Own blood (Israelite Marriage). Let's turn to Matthew 26:26-29 and read how Jesus instituted the memorial we know as the Lord's Supper.
"As they were eating, Jesus took a piece of hard unleavened bread which required to be broken, blessed, broke, and gave it to the disciples, saying, Take, eat; this represents My body." Of course it was not His body, it was wheat flour and water symbolizing His body which was that corn of wheat that must fall to the ground and die, in order that it could reproduce His Life in the many-membered Body of His Church.
From this we see that we are to observe the Lord's Supper in the evening, not in the morning. It is the Lord's Supper, not His breakfast or His lunch. The unleavened bread is to be prepared by the holy hands of a saint from wheat flour sifted fine so that every grain, like Jesus Christ, is "the same." Water is added to make the dough which is rolled wafer-thin and cut square, not round like bread baked for Astarte the Babylonian queen of heaven, worshipped by the Catholics as the virgin Mary. Then it is baked in an oven, or over a hot pan.
"And Jesus took the cup of wine and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Each of you drink of it; for this is My blood sealing the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Mark My Words, I will not drink this wine again, until the day I drink it in a higher sense with you in My Father's kingdom." Jesus was pointing to "the Marriage Supper of the Lamb" (Matthew 26:29; I Corinthians 11:26; Revelation 19:9).
The wine we take at the Lord's Supper is not grape juice but fermented wine made by holy hands, or feet. Juice sours whilst wine has a spirit, which like the Holy Spirit it preserves and improves with age.
The type for Calvary and the Lord's Supper was the first Passover in Egypt. As only those under the blood of the lamb and prepared for the journey were allowed to partake of the Passover, so only those under the Blood of Christ or truly born-again and living sanctified lives, in communion with the Lord and His saints through the unity of the faith, and rapture-ready, are qualified to partake the Lord's Supper.
Judas partook of the first Lord's Supper with iniquity in his heart and was accursed. Paul warned, "Whosoever eats this bread, and drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. That's why a man should examine himself beforehand (and if he needs to ask forgiveness, he should first make things right with those he's wronged. Or if he feels someone has wronged him, he should go to that person and inform him before taking Communion), because if he eats and drinks unworthily, not discerning the Lord's Body (which is the individual members of the Church, then like Judas) he eats and drinks his own damnation."
"Such careless and unworthy participation is the reason so many of your number are spiritually weak and sickly; some are spiritually dead. For if we would examine our own lives we would recognize and correct our shortcomings, so we should not be judged. But when we fall short and are judged by the Word, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. Therefore when you gather together for the Lord's Supper, wait upon those who are making things right" (I Corinthians 11:27-33).
During the last supper Jesus prophesied Peter's denials, told them of the necessity of His separation, the Coming of the Holy Spirit, the true evidence of the new birth, the commandment to follow the example of His life and to propagate the faith. Jesus then prayed and they departed for Gethsemane (John 14:1-17:26).
"In agony of spirit [in the garden named for its oil presses where the pure Olive was beaten to give Light to the world] He broke into a sweat of blood, great drops falling to the ground as He prayed more earnestly" (Luke 22:44; Exodus 27:20), beseeching the Father if there be some other way to atone for Adam and his fallen race. There in His agony He overcame the frailties of flesh and mortal spirit: "Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done" (Matthew 26:42). Then Judas arrived with a mob of thugs organized by the religious leaders to arrest Jesus. The eleven disciples fled and Jesus was led to Caiaphas' palace where He was interrogated throughout the night until the early hours of the day of preparation for the Passover—Friday Nisan 14 (John 18:28; Matthew 27:2; Mark 15:1).
The Jewish leaders were desperate to be rid of Jesus, but the Law forbad them to try a prisoner at night (Talmud Sanhedrin 32a, chapter 4). So "they led Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's hall of judgment: it was early (in the day of preparation, between 11:00pm and midnight Thursday our time but already the sixth day, Friday, in Hebrew time). They did not personally enter the judgment hall in case they became defiled and unable to eat the Passover (John 18:28).
Here is a FIXED time: morning is any time before sunrise when it is yet dark. The Sanhedrin found Jesus guilty of blasphemy and before sunrise they delivered Him to Governor Pilate, to pronounce the death penalty. There the entire Council began at once accusing Jesus, "This Man has been telling our nation not to pay taxes to the Roman government, claiming He is our Messiah and King"!
"Pilate found no fault in Jesus, and learning He was of Galilee and therefore under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod who was in Jerusalem for the Passover. When Jesus declined to amuse Herod with a miraculous demonstration, he had his troops dress Jesus in royal purple and then sent Him back to Pilate for a joke."
"Knowing Jesus' innocence, "Pilate sought to release Him: but the Jews cried, If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend: whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."
"When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat. It was the preparation day of the Passover, and already about the sixth hour (after midnight, or about 6:00am on Nisan 14, according to Roman reckoning and the trial was still in progress. Another FIXED time).
"With irony Pilate said to the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him! Pilate said sarcastically, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. (Prophesying the fact their nation will be under Roman dominion unto the consummation of life). Then Pilate gave Jesus to them to be crucified" (Matthew 26:30 – 27:2; Luke 22:54-23:25; John 19:12-16).
The purple robe was taken, and Jesus wore only His own clothes to Calvary, which, before He was crucified, were stripped from Him and sold in a sweep while He looked down naked from the Cross about three hours after Pilate had delivered Him to be crucified (John 19:15-18).
Mark 15:25 says, "It was about the third hour [of the day or 9:00am] when they crucified Him." The time of the Temple morning sacrifice.
The synoptic gospels declare that "from about the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour" or from noon until 3:00pm when Jesus died. This could not have been an eclipse because it was the middle of the month when the moon is full. The darkness signified God had rejected the regular evening sacrifice, and light returned once the true and accepted sacrifice was fulfilled (Matthew 27:45-50; Mark 15:33-37; Luke 23:44-46).
Time was drawing-on. (Less than three hours remained to 6:00pm and the High Day or holy convocation of Nisan 15, and the first day of Unleavened Bread. As their days were not actually regulated by the clock, but like the months and religious festivals, by observation of the sun and harvest, daytime may have been several hours longer at this time of year). John 19:31, "The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation of the Passover, so that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was a high day, asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, (causing almost instant suffocation), so that they might be taken away".
The Jew's first concern after the crucifixion was obeying the letter of the Law. Jesus had to be buried in haste for Jewish Law commands: "If a man committed a sin worthy of death, and is hanged on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him that day" (Deuteronomy 21:22-23).
The Jewish day begins at sunset, the Passover meal will be served on the evening of Nisan 15, less than three hours away. According to John 19:14 and 16, and John is emphatic about this: "It was the day of preparation of the Passover . . . then Pilate handed Jesus over to the Jews to be crucified".
On the day of preparation, the evening sacrifice was killed at the sixth hour and offered at the seventh (1:00pm). The killing of the Passover lambs began immediately after and finished at the ninth hour (3:00pm) when our Lord "Gave up the ghost." And all four gospels state emphatically that Jesus was buried before sunset on Nisan 14.
The new day beginning at 6:00pm was the HIGH DAY of Nisan 15, the FIRST day of the feast (John 19:31) when the Passover meal was eaten. Nisan 15 is a FIXED date and was always a sabbath no matter on which day of the week it fell. That year it fell on a Saturday, (our Friday sunset to Saturday sunset).
Let us read Leviticus 23:4-8, "These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed times. On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord: seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no customary work therein. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no customary work therein".
The first day of each of the three compulsory pilgrim feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles was a "holy convocation." It was called by the Hebrews "Good day," which is still the customary greeting throughout Jewry to the present time.
The special sabbaths were fixed DATES, not fixed DAYS: they could fall on any day of the week. To illustrate, if the sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread were a Saturday, the sabbath of the seventh day could not be a Saturday.
The first and seventh days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread were not the only special sabbaths or holy convocations. The Feast of Trumpets on Tishri 1, Day of Atonement on Tishri 10, the first and eighth days of the Feast of Tabernacles that same month were also special sabbaths. If the first day of this Feast was a Saturday, the eighth must also be a Saturday. But were the first day to fall on any other day of the week, neither special sabbath would be a Saturday (Leviticus 23:23-32; 33-36).
Before closing, I will quote Leviticus 23:10-11 so we can prove what day Jesus was crucified. "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it."
This sabbath is the high day or holy convocation of Nisan 15, the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread—commanded by verse 7. As the sheaf was always waved on Nisan 16 which always follows the sabbath of Nisan 15, it should be clear that it is not the regular weekly sabbath that is here spoken of. However we know that in the year of Christ's crucifixion, the sabbath of Nisan 15 fell upon a Saturday, because Christ was the sheaf, and He was waved after His resurrection on the first day of the week, which was the day after the regular Saturday sabbath.
We will pause our narrative after 3:00pm, Friday Nisan 14.
We have discovered the necessity of thinking according to the Hebrew reckoning of time. We've received some fresh understanding on the sequence of events regarding the last days of our Lord on earth, and by calculating forward, recognized that His crucifixion had to be on a Friday.
We now know that having been crucified on the day of Preparation of the Passover, Jesus could not have eaten the Passover lamb with His disciples (John 18:28; 19:14). And we've received valuable new insight on the institution of the ordinances of the Lord's Supper and foot washing.
This is what Brother Branham said, and it is what he meant. If we can't take his teachings to God's Word from Genesis to Revelation, then we, not "he," have the wrong revelation. And I had the wrong revelation but God caused a Brother to tap me on the shoulder with a little e-mail; the Holy Spirit did the rest.
Critics may say, "What has this got to do with the Rapture"?
These are a few of the "missing clues" in the jig-saw puzzle. If we can get the "little foxes out of the vine," we'll gain a more perfect understanding of the "big picture," that is Christ the fullness of the Word. God bless you all.
(I was asked this question recently: "Why are Jesus' disciples coming to Him on the First Day of Unleavened Bread according to Matthew 26:17, asking where they should prepare the meal? How can they be doing this on the First Day of Unleavened Bread if we are to believe that Jesus was killed for Passover and was in the grave on the First Day of Unleavened Bread?"
I responded, "If we look at John 13:1, "Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." This was, the preparation day, or Nisan 14, (our Thursday sunset to Friday sunset), one day before the Passover and feast of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15 was a Saturday this particular year, making it a sabbath or holy convocation, and as Nisan 15, the first day of Unleavened Bread is always a sabbath or holy convocation—regardless which day of the week it falls, this was a "double sabbath" or "high day."
Now read John 18:28, "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover." (This was probably very late Thursday night our time or Friday, Nisan 14, Hebrew time—still 18-19 hours before the Passover meal was to be eaten on Friday evening our time which was Saturday evening Nisan 15 in Hebrew time).
Next we come to John 19:14, "And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and Pilate said unto the Jews, Behold your King!" This is about midnight (the sixth hour) Thursday night our time or Friday Nisan 14, Hebrew time—about 18 hours before the Passover meal, and the Pascal lambs would not be killed until between 1:00 – 3:00pm that day—3 to 16 hours hence. The "day of preparation" was Nisan 14 when the Hebrew people cleaned their homes from top to bottom to ensure there was no leaven in the house.
This brings us back to Matthew 26:17, "Now the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto Him, Where wilt You that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?" (This is saying, "Now the first day of Unleavened Bread was APPROACHING which was a sabbath and on which work like "preparing for the Passover" was forbidden under the Law").
Mark 14:12, "And the first day of [having no] Unleavened Bread [in the house WAS AT HAND AND], when they killed the Passover, His disciples said unto Him, Where wilt Thou that we go and prepare that You may eat the Passover?"
And Luke 22:7-9, "Then came the day of [having no] Unleavened Bread [in the house], when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the Passover, that we may eat. And they said unto Him, Where wilt You that we prepare?"
This should be understood as THEN THE DAY FOR REMOVING ALL LEAVEN AND LEAVENED BREAD FROM THE HOME WAS AT HAND, or day of PREPARATION FOR the Day of Unleavened Bread and the Passover Meal was at hand. It cannot be the first day of Unleavened Bread because the Passover was killed BEFORE the day of Unleavened Bread. Had this been the first day of Unleavened Bread they could prepare nothing, for it was a holy convocation and NO work could be performed on that day). bb980527.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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