Bible Believers' Newsletter #489
"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. God bless His Brothers and Sisters.
The world seems to be speeding up. "Be sober and vigilant as Lucifer as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour." International criminal activity and the global conspiracy is so thinly disguised nowadays, I dread to think of those within the circle of this Message who will miss the first resurrection because they have been satisfied with a second-hand religion, implicitly trusting their good minister instead of "receiving his word with all readiness of mind, then searching the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so." And what of those who have taken the "letter" of the Prophet's Message without taking it back to the written Word to understand what the Spirit is saying.
If you believe your will make the rapture "by the skin of your teeth," think what that means, since the most humble and under serving saint is no less a saint than the greatest of us, and he or she is already in the "rapture"! So if you really will "make it by the skin of your teeth," that can only mean that you are not yet born-again, but that you will be before the Seventh Trump. But if you are minister, what does this mean for your flock? It surely means they are not yet born-again, otherwise they would not suffer your lack of revelation. And it means that when you are born-again you will not have time to bring many, if any of them, into the faith. Think on this, and redeem the time.
In this issue we will be looking behind the veil that hides God from the unbeliever and studying the preview Jesus has given of what Israel will see under the revelation of the Seven Vials "when it turns to the Lord, and the veil is taken away." We will also review some of what we have taught on Brother Branham's "tent vision".
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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The Murder of America
August 10, 2007 – Over the years I have personally withstood a torrent of abuse and ridicule over my assertion that a small clique of traitorously evil men and women were plotting to bring down the walls of history. Still, I soldiered on, enduring the cruel arrows of ignorant and malicious critics. I refused to play along and keep quiet, and I have done my best to expose their heinous plot to shutdown the fabled American experiment in freedom and self-government.
Among the evil culprits I fingered over the years were such anti-American globalist groups as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Bilderbergs. All play important roles in the on-going conspiracy. But behind them all is the satanic influence and power of Zionists. Zionists, in fact, are the real, but, so often, unheralded authors of the globalist plot. Full story: just-another-inside-job.blogspot.com
Nations are breaking, Israel's not yet awakening.
The signs that the prophets foretold;
The Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered;
Eternity soon will unfold.
Comment: Educate yourself by spending a day reading all of the links associated with the above article. And refresh your memory with this interesting background on the Bush family.
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Russian Fleet Worries Israel
August 7, 2007 – Russia’s plans to restore its permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea are causing serious concern in Israel. The Israelis think that the Syrian ports the Russians are most likely to use will turn into major centers of electronic surveillance and air defense centers and, as such, threats to Israel’s national security. Russian experts say that Moscow’s plans are unlikely to come to fruition any time soon. There is neither the money nor the technical capacity for it.
Commander of the Russian Navy Fleet Adm. Vladimir Masorin announced Russia’s plans to return to the Mediterranean at the end of last week in Sevastopol. He did not say whether new bases would be established in the region. It is commonly known, however, that such bases could only be opened in Syria, where ports were used for the same purposes by the USSR. As Kommersant reported on June 2, 2006, Russia is already dredging the port of Tartus and has begun to build a dock in the Syrian port of Latakia. A defense Ministry source at that time revealed that Moscow plans a squadron of military vessels led by the missile cruiser Moskva to be permanently based in the Mediterranean Sea. . .
Full story: kommersant.com Russia's Reawakening
Comment: Jew versus Jew. Heads they win, tails the Goyim lose.
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Russia says US intercepted 2 of Its Bombers over Pacific
Moscow, August 7, 2007 – Two Russian bombers flew thousands of miles across Pacific Ocean waters to the vicinity of Guam, site of a major US military base, where US jets intercepted them, the Russian air force said Thursday. The flights renewed a type of military gamesmanship that has been largely dormant in the Pacific since the Cold War ended. . .
US officials confirmed the bombers' flight but not an interception. The maneuver was Moscow's latest display of a resurgent armed forces after years of decline in the 1990s. Restoring the luster of the military has been a key element of President Vladimir Putin's effort to renew Russian pride, which collapsed along with the Soviet Union. . .
Full story: truthout.org reuters.com
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China threatens "Nuclear Option" of Dollar Sales
August 8, 2007 – The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation. . . such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels. It would also cause a spike in US bond yields, hammering the US housing market and perhaps tipping the economy into recession. It is estimated that China holds over $900bn in a mix of US bonds. . .
Full story: truthout.org
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The Olympic Games, a Suckers' Market for the Chinese
August 8, 2007 – For the first time in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, the medals will be made of another material besides the traditional gold, silver and bronze. They will be jade, a stone that, in China, assumes a different value depending upon its color, form and use. The medals will surely be the best contribution from the Beijing 2008 organization to the Olympic Games' history.
But all medals have two sides — Beijing 2008 also. While only a year remains before the famous 08.08.08 date (and as the opening ceremony will begin at 8:08 p.m., we easily understand that 8 is a lucky number in China), the gap is obvious between a heralded success in terms of organization and a fundamental ambiguity on every other issue: human rights, the environment, the opening up and transformation of China. . .
And in this dawning 21st century, it's the Middle Kingdom, with its 1.3 billion inhabitants and double-digit growth that imposes the rules of the game on the rest of the planet. No one would dare dispute that. . . A nice stroke of diplomatic — and also political — propaganda. Chinese pride will suffocate the cries of dissidence. . . If no jarring note troubles the event, China will be able to contemplate the world, come to compete at its feet. . . Full story: truthout.org
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Big Brother gets High-Tech Help in Shenzhen
Shenzhen, August 12, 2007 – At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from a US-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of crime suspects and detect unusual activity.
Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens.
Data on the chip will include not just the citizen's name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord's phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China's "one child" policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card. . .
Western security experts have suspected for several years that Chinese security agencies could track individuals based on the location of their cellphones, and the Shenzhen police tracking system confirms this.
When a police officer goes indoors and cannot receive a global positioning signal from satellites overhead, the system automatically switches to tracking the location of the officer's cellphone, based on the three nearest cellphone towers. Huang used a real-time connection to local police dispatchers' computers to show a detailed computer map of a Shenzhen district and the precise location of each of the 92 patrolling officers, represented by caricatures of officers in blue uniforms and the routes they had traveled in the previous hour. Full story: iht.com
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Lawsuits may Illuminate Methods of Spy Program
August 14, 2007 – In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a 'special job' by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT&T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of emails and other online traffic from one of the largest Internet hubs in the United States, the former employee says in court filings. Full story: truthout.org
Comment: Uncle Sam's anti-Christian Big Brother is reading your email and FAX, and listening to your 'phone calls.
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British criticize US Air Attacks in Afghan Region
Sangin, August 9, 2007 – A senior British commander in southern Afghanistan said in recent weeks that he had asked that American Special Forces leave his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they had caused was making it difficult to win over local people.
Other British officers here in Helmand Province, speaking on condition of anonymity, criticized American Special Forces for causing most of the civilian deaths and injuries in their area. They also expressed concerns that the Americans' extensive use of air power was turning the people against the foreign presence as British forces were trying to solidify recent gains against the Taliban. . .
"The Americans are killing and destroying a village just in pursuit of one person," said Mahmadullah, 24, referring to Osama bin Laden. "So now we have understood that the Americans are a curse on us, and they are here just to destroy Afghanistan. They can tell the difference between men and women, children and animals, but they are just killing everyone". . . Full story: truthout.org
Comment: Silly Brits, don't understand that in order to get World War III between innocent Islam and the political Zionists to the "hot" stage it is necessary to provoke hatred in those who do not want to fight by insulting their religion, killing their wives and children, destroying their economies and their homes.
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Public sees News Media as Biased, Inaccurate, Uncaring: Poll
August 9, 2007 – Poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news — roughly one quarter of all Americans — were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.
More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased. More than half — 53 percent — of Internet users also faulted the news organizations for "failing to stand up for America". . .
Full story: truthout.org
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Learn from the Fall of Rome, US Warned
August 14, 2007 – The US government is on a 'burning platform' of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon. . . David Walker, Comptroller General of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country's future in a report that lays out what he called "chilling long-term simulations."
These include "dramatic" tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt. Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were "striking similarities" between America's current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including "declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government". . . Full story: truthout.org
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As it was in the Days of Lot
Randy Engel's book The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church, lays out the invasion, colonization, and the metastasization of the priesthood and religious life by homosexuals in the Catholic Church. Published in July 2006 and has 1,174 pages containing 4,523 endnotes, and a detailed Index.
Engel says, "Pope Paul VI was a homosexual who played a decisive role in the selection and advancement of many homosexual members of the American hierarchy. . ."
Regarding the recent Vatican document on homosexuals in the seminary, Engel says: "In a Vatican Radio interview on November 29, 2005, Cardinal Grocholewski [Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, which is charged with implementing the document] stated this might include a person who engaged in homosexual acts out of adolescent curiosity; or while intoxicated; or where he prostituted his body to obtain favors. High standards, indeed, for the most sublime of all vocations! The cardinal went out of his way to state that the norms expressed in the document do not apply to already ordained homosexual priests, . . acknowledging that Pope Benedict XVI, like his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, has no plans to clean house and mount a serious attack on the Homosexual Collective within the Roman Catholic priesthood and religious life." Full story: riteofsodomy.com
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Spreading God's Tent
John 1:1, 11-14, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . He came to His own, and His own received Him not. But those who received Him He empowered to become the sons of God, that is, those who believed in His Name: who owe their birth neither to human blood, nor to fleshly desire, nor to human design, but to God. And the Word became flesh, and pitched His tent among us, and we beheld His glory (the real Shekinah), such glory as of an only begotten Son from the Father, full of grace and truth".
Do you remember Brother Branham's prophecy of the "tent vision?" God told Noah He would convert Japheth so he could dwell in the tents of Shem, or come under the covering of His revealed Word (Genesis 9:27). You might question, why is Ham not mentioned? Are his children excluded from God's elect? By no means, but Ham's incest with his father's wife, who was in Cain's lineage, reproduced the Serpent's seed this side of the Flood, and his blessing was marred as God cursed their offspring, his firstborn, Canaan (Genesis 9:18-25). Ham’s other sons, Mizraim (Egypt), Phut (Libya), and Cush (Ethiopia), were not cursed, and many of their descendants are among the saints of God.
God has continued unveiling this prophecy to the present day. When mercy ends at the close of the Gentile dispensation, He will finish His tent in the first resurrection, which will embrace the 144,000 elect Israelites although their "awakening to eternal Life" will follow seven years after the resurrection and body change of Christ's Bride of all Ages (Daniel 12:2). God promised Abram that in his Seed, Jesus Messiah, all families of Adam's race shall be blessed, and changed his name to Abraham, which means "father of the Gentiles" or non-Israelite nations of Adam's race (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 17:5).
God further unveiled this prophecy in Isaiah 49:21-23, where Zion ponders in her heart: "Who has born me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away; who has raised these grown-up children for me? Behold, I was left alone by my Husband; whence have these come?"
"Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the Gentiles, and raise My standard to the peoples: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me".
Zion is forsaken of God, her Husband, from five years before the Desolations, which began in 589BC, to the consummation of life on earth. That is, throughout "the times of the Gentiles" as Ezekiel 10:18, 43:2, and Revelation 7:2 confirm. Daniel (9:27) and Jesus (Luke 21:24) said Israel will be ruled unto the consummation by non-Semitic Gentiles, as it is at this day. And she will learn it was "Jerusalem that is above" who bore her children begotten by the spoken Word from every nation, tribe and tongue of Adam's race, while she was forsaken and childless.
These are not children Jerusalem had lost but children she had never known before. If they were the returning Israelites she would have recognized them, but they are Gentile Spiritual Israelites. In Revelation 7:1-8 the Israelite apostle John immediately recognized the 144,000 elect Israelites by their tribal dress, but when he saw the Bride of all seven Church Ages in Revelation 7:9-17, which was the same vision Zion had seen, he was as confused as she by the strange dress and foreign appearance of the Gentile saints.
Through twenty centuries Gentile kings and queens nurtured Zion's unknown children in loving reverence. Their wealth and power watched over them with protective care and encouraged the propagation of the faith.
Isaiah 54:1-3, "Sing, O barren woman, you who did not bear; break forth into a loud and joyful song, Jerusalem, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the deserted woman than the children of she who has a husband, says the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your tent cords, and strengthen your stakes; for you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited".
The elect of every nation tribe and tongue find Life under the covering of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. As Brother Branham explained, God will assemble this tent or tabernacle on earth during the first resurrection and complete the structure of the tent vision in the body change of the living saints after the manifestation of the Sons of God. Malachi 4:2, "For you who fear My Name the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in his beams; and you will go forth and leap as calves from the stall".
The strengthening of Zion's tent stakes indicates the greatly enlarged dimensions of God's tabernacle since the middle wall of partition between Israelite and Gentile was broken down in Christ, and also the fact that it is no longer to be the tent of a sojourner. When Ezekiel described the Ark and the four living creatures, they were journeying on wheels (Ezekiel 1). John saw the same vision after the last of the PART-Word saints was redeemed at the close of the Laodicean Church Age when redemption was over (for Christ's end-time Bride and the 144,000 elect Israelites were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary because we were predestinated to be reborn by the fullness of the Word. We do not need a Mediator for ignorance of the Word). In Revelation 4 and 5 the Ark is stationary. Having reached its heavenly destination, its travelling days are over. Christ's Mediation is fulfilled and the Mercy Seat has become a Judgment Seat surrounded by the redeemed of all Ages.
"The seed of Zion shall inherit the Gentiles" (Isaiah 54:3; 49:6, 12, 18 sqq). New Jerusalem shall possess all nations, and not merely control their lands by expelling the inhabitants by force and law, but she will take possession of the inhabitants themselves by grace through faith and the love of God in Christ, the Seed of Abraham. His Spiritual offspring, the elect of every nation, tribe and tongue born of the "heavenly Jerusalem" shall rule the renewed earth, for He is King of kings, and Lord or lords. (See Newsletter #412). The seed of Zion are Abraham's seed by the baptism with the Holy Ghost (Galatians 3:29), not the seed of sinful men conceived in Jerusalem now in bondage to the Law and Talmudic loopholes that enable hypocrites to claim the Law whilst evading its requirements so that Jerusalem that now is "spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified."
Thus the Bible is the story of God changing His form or unfolding Himself from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts — through the spoken Word, to their manifestation in the glorified flesh of His Family, of whom Jesus Messiah is first born — the beginning of God creating Himself a part of creation (Revelation 3:14). There was no light or darkness, no atoms or molecules, stars or planets, just the eternal Spirit alone with His eternal thoughts. He was lonely and longed for fellowship, but His Word, "which is forever established unchangeable in heaven" declares, "two cannot fellowship unless they agree," so in order that he might have the fellowship He yearned, His children would have to share His faith and His character (Psalm 119:89; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; Amos 3:3).
Faith is the gift of unmerited grace. Character is not a gift, it is a victory that has to be formed within you as an individual by overcoming life's trials through faith set upon attaining His righteousness. Character is the product of right decisions and determined follow through requiring self-sacrifice and suffering. Christ wants us to share His throne in this earth on the same basis that He overcame and is seated in His Father's throne in the heavens. There are no short cuts: we too must overcome in order that we may sit with Him in His glory (Revelation 3:19-21). The temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes. What treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His kingdom through much tribulation.
Jesus prayed that God might dwell in you as He dwelt in Him. John 17:20-22, "I pray not for these alone, but also for those who will believe on Me through their message; that they may all be one; as You, Father are in Me, and I in You, so they may be in Us: that the world may believe that You have sent Me".
The verb taken from the Greek word for "dwelt," or "pitched His tent," which John also uses of God's dwelling with His people on the renewed earth (Revelation 21:3), was chosen in allusion to the Shekinah — the indwelling glorious Presence of Jehovah behind the Veil in the Holy of Holies, witnessed by Israel's high priest until just before king Nebuchadnezzar defeated Judah, but not since that time. It pointed to the incarnation, confirming that the Bible is the story of God erecting His tent in Jesus Messiah of the tribe of Judah, and stretching it over all of the children of Adam who receive the Logos in His Name, thus becoming the Sons of God, His elect and chosen people (John 1:12).
Galatians 3:26-29, "For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Judahite nor Gentile, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise".
God is an invisible Spirit who manifests Himself behind a veil. He spoke to Job veiled by a whirlwind, and first appeared to Moses veiled by the Shekinah in a burning bush. The Shekinah appeared to Israel's high priest on the Day of Atonement when the only way into the Presence was through the veil into the Holy of Holies. As that veil spoke of the virgin-born body of Christ, the only way into the Presence of God in this day is by entering His mystic Body. Hebrews 10:19-20, "We have confidence therefore, to enter into the Holy of Holies where God is by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He opened for us, through the torn veil of His flesh".
God is an invisible Spirit: "No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who as the Logos is the expressed heart thoughts of the Father, is the only and perfect expounder of the hidden Being of the godhead in all that relates to our salvation" (John 1:18). This dignity established Christianity as the absolute and therefore final religion for all mankind.
Colossians 1:15, 20-21, "Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature (in the new creation, which is God creating Himself in His Family). He has he reconciled us to God in the body of His flesh through death, to present us holy and unblameable and unreproveable in God's sight".
The Jewish leaders could not see God veiled behind the flesh of Messiah because they were veiled by "the tradition of the elders," now called the Talmud (Matthew 15:1-9). He was sent only to Israel but when certain Greeks desired to see God, Jesus said, "When the corn of wheat falls into the ground, the veil will be torn open and God will be seen by the elect of all nations." When the veil was crucified, the Spirit returned to theophany and preached to the souls in prison, and on the day of Pentecost "devout men out of every nation under heaven" saw God (Acts 2:5).
Jesus told His disciples, "Yet a little while, the world (and Israel) will see Me no more; but you will see Me: because I live, you shall live also" (John 14:19). To see is to perceive or understand. He told Israel as a nation, "You will not see Me, until you say, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord" (Matthew 23:39). That is, not for 2,000 years, then He will be seen by the eye of faith.
Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." I John 4:12 "Although we have never seen God, when we love the Brethren, God dwells in us, and His love within us grows ever stronger." III John 1:11 "Beloved, do not imitate evil, but good. He that does good is of God: but he that does evil has not seen God".
As John the Baptist introduced Christ's first Coming, Brother Branham introduced His second Coming veiled in His Word. The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in WORD form (I Corinthians 13:10). The unbeliever cannot see Him, and though the wise and foolish virgin both feed on the same Manna of the Message, one has entered within the Veil, while the other is outside the Body of Christ.
The blood of bulls and goats was only a temporary covering, not an atonement; therefore Israel's high priest alone could enter the veil that hid God's Presence from the unbeliever. The believers outside could not see Him, but by faith they knew He was there. Then, when the veil of Christ's flesh was rent on Calvary, that real Day of Atonement, the real Mercy Seat came into full view and the veil of the Holy of Holies was rent from top to the bottom, showing the nation there was no mercy seat in the Holy of Holies, but a rock. Likewise, when Christ tore open the Seven Seals, the veil, the mystery of God spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began came into full view showing the world that PART-Word and Mediation was done away (Acts 3:21; Revelation 10:7).
II Corinthians 5:19, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed unto us the Word of reconciliation." Jesus' humanity veiled God from the unbeliever. Now God is veiled from the unbeliever behind my humanity and your humanity.
Since the veil was rent on Calvary, only unbelief hides God from the people. When the Seventh Trumpet signals the end of the Gentile dispensation, "the sanctuary of God in heaven is seen to be open; there being no veil before the Holy of Holies; the ark of His covenant is in plain view. . ." (Revelation 11:19). This vision signifies God's favour toward Israel, but they will not see the Presence until God removes their veil of unbelief in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week by "turning away ungodliness from Jacob" to "finish the transgression" (Romans 11:26; Daniel 9:24).
When the seven "temporary judgments" upon the non-elect mixed multitude in the church are understood by Israel in the revelation of the Seven Vials they will distinguish the righteous and unrighteous sinners from the saints, and recognize that "the Holy of Holies of the tabernacle of witness in heaven was opened," and has remained open since the veil in earthly temple was rent on that day on Calvary.
Revelation 15:1, "I...(place your name here if you are Christ's end-time Bride, because John represented you throughout this Book which was sealed until the days of the Voice of the angel to the seventh Church Age, William Branham, whom John saw in visions revealing the Seven Seals)... saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them the wrath of God is consummated." This verse is a summary of the vision that follows in Revelation 15:7 - 16:21, and will be revealed to the 144,000 elect Israelites.
Revelation 15:2-4 is in parenthesis as it explains what transpires in Revelation 14 at the close of the Gentile dispensation, which ends with the simultaneous opening of the Sixth Seal, the sounding of the Seventh Trump, and pouring out of the Seventh Vial; and in particular what takes place after Rome breaks her covenant with the International Banksters in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week and forces her Trinitarian mark (Revelation 11:1-13; 12:7-17; 13:15-18).
Revelation 14:1-5 shows the 144,000 born-again, but not yet martyred. "Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on the Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred forty and four thousand, who had His Name and His Father's Name written in their foreheads. (Romans 11:26-27, "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, The Deliverer will come from Mount Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob: this is My covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins" – Isaiah 27:9; 59:20-21; Daniel 9:24). And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. It was the song of a choir accompanied by harps. They were singing a new song before the throne, and in the presence of the four living creatures, and the twenty-four elders: and none was able to sing that song but the hundred and forty four thousand, who were redeemed from earth. (Certainly not, it is a revelation of the New Testament. It is "the song of the Lamb," the antitype to the triumphant Old Testament "song of Moses" and the Israelites). These are they who have not defiled themselves with women (i.e. the apostate churches of Revelation 17:1-5); for they are virgins (to the Word). These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from mankind as the first fruits for God and for the Lamb. No lie was ever found on their lips; they are faultless". These Israelites will not believe in any of the many holocausts claimed by "those who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie" (Revelation 3:9).
Revelation 5:8-10 shows the elect Church. Jesus Messiah claimed the Book of Redemption, and "twenty-four elders," representing the chiefs of the twenty-four courses of the priesthood, "fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp and golden vial full of the fragrance of the prayers of the saints of all seven Church Ages. And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the Book and to open its Seals because You were sacrificed and Your blood has ransomed men as gifts for God out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and gathered them into a Kingdom and made them priests to our God: and they shall reign over the earth".
The Kingdom was made up when the last of the PART-Word saints was baptized into the Laodicean part of the Body. Redemption is over, and Christ's Mediation for ignorance of the fullness of the Word is fulfilled. His end-time Bride and the 144,000 elect Israelites were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary because we are predestinated to receive the Word in its fullness. We just need to "hear His Voice" to recognize our day and its Message to be baptized into our place in the Body; likewise God's servant nation, although "Israel is blind to the faith, until the last member of Christ's Bride is born-again" (Romans 11:25).
In Revelation 14 the redeemed nation of Israel, all 144,000 of them, appear with Jesus Messiah on Mount Zion. This is pure symbolism and not literal, just as Revelation 10:1-4 and Zechariah 14:4 are symbolic; His precious feet will not touch this earth until after the consummation when He will return with the glorified saints of all Ages for a thousand years of peace.
In Revelation 5:8-10 and 14:2-3 there appears to be an analogy with the Temple service when the music began just as the joyous drink-offering was poured out. And in Revelation 15:2-4 there is yet a third reference to "the harps of God" — "I saw a sea of glass mingled with Fire: and those who had gotten the victory as martyrs (Revelation 6:11) over the [Roman] beast, and his [once Protestant] image, and over his mark, which is the number of his name, standing beside the sea of glass, holding the harps of God. And they sang the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: Great and marvelous are Your undertakings, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Your decisions, You King of the Gentiles. (The point at issue in the Lord's controversy with the earth is, whether He, or Satan's minion, the beast, is "the King of the nations"; here at the eve of the judgments descending on the kingdom of the beast, the Israelite saints hail Jesus Messiah "the King of the nations" — Ezekiel 21:27). Which of your enemies shall not fear You, O Lord, (compare Moses' song, Exodus 15:14-16, on the fear which God's judgments strike into the foe, and contrast this with the fear of the beast – Revelation 13:4) and glorify Your Name? For You alone are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before You (Jeremiah 16:19); because the righteousnesses of Your [Trumpet, Seal and Vial] judgments are clearly understood by which You distinguished the foolish virgin from the false church".
This alludes, not to the ordinary, but to the sabbath services in the Temple. Besides the Psalm for the day, they sung Moses' song from Exodus 15:1-22 in the evening at the additional sabbatic sacrifice (Numbers 28:9-10), so the victorious 144,000 "harpers" celebrate their true sabbath or rest by singing this same "Song of Moses and of the Lamb" which Israel sang after crossing the Red Sea.
"The sea of glass" is so named after the original laver fashioned from the copper looking glasses (or mirrors) of the Israelite women. It stood before the sanctuary for the purification of the priests, typifying the baptism of water and of the Spirit of all who are made kings and priests to God (John 3:5). In Revelation 4:6 the sea within the laver was clear as crystal, because Laodicea having ended, the Church Age saints have all been redeemed. Here the sea is mingled with Fire and the 144,000, "born of water and of the Spirit," are passing over the sea in martyrdom as foretold in Revelation 6:11 and described in Revelation 14, "having gotten the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, which is the number of his name, they stand on the other side [or shore] of the sea of glass, having the harps of God," singing songs of victory and deliverance like their forefathers (I Corinthians 10:1-2).
After this preview of Israel's regeneration, the vision takes us back under the First Seal. Revelation 15:5, "Then ...(your name here)... looked and saw that the Holy of Holies of the tent of witness in heaven was wide open." But only to those with anointed eyes who view and enter through the riven veil of Jesus' flesh; to the world it remains veiled by traditions and unbelief. Israel will see the ark of God's Testament by revelation in the midst of "Jacob's trouble" they will see Jesus Messiah, the antitype after which Moses fashioned a box of shittim wood veiling the Word of God, crowned with gold and overshadowed by cherubim.
The Ark of witness in the unveiled Holy of Holies in Revelation 11:19 and Revelation 16:17 signifies the restoration of God's favour toward Israel, avenging His people with judgments on their foes, who include Christ-rejecting Gentiles.
The Seven Vials are the antitype of the Ordeal of Jealousy imposed upon non-elect make-believers and un-believers in the Message for their hour by their espoused husband, Christ, who suspects infidelity and flirtation with the "commandments of men" (Numbers 5:11-21). The seven angels are the Church Age Messengers and the curse is the two-edged Sword of the Message to their dispensation. The living creature with the face of a lion gives the vials of wrath to the seven angels, and the trial proceeds from the close of each Age, when dressed as a judge, each angel pours out his curse. "And the Holy of Holies of God in heaven was filled with smoke from the manifested glory and power of God throughout the execution of these judgments; and no one is able to enter the Holy Place or the Holy of Holies until the seven plagues of the seven angels are accomplished" (Revelation 15:8-6:17).
After Brother Branham has poured out the Seventh Vial into Satan's principality of the air or atmospheric heavens, where we "shall be caught up together with the Church Age saints in the Shekinah, to meet the Lord," he declares, "It is done." The plagues of God's wrath in the ordeal of jealousy have all been poured out upon the non-elect church. The mystery of the Seven Vials of Revelation 15:8-16:21 revealed retrospectively to the 144,000 by the two witnesses will distinguish the "saved" foolish virgin from the "lost" false church, and from Christ's Bride whom they will recognize in His 'parousia,' Coming "after He has destroyed the great whore which defiled the earth with her idolatry, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand" (Revelation 19:2-3).
In Anointed Ones at the End Time, Brother Branham said, "We're hoping soon as possible to make a way where we can bring all of us together, maybe under a big tent, where I'm feeling real definitely led to preach on the seven last Vials in the Bible" (p. 2:7-15). Scripturally, he was saying, "When God has stretched His tent over the last member of Christ's end-time Bride, the Sixth Seal will manifest, the Seventh Trumpet will sound, and my Seventh Vial will be poured out, he has already indicted the church, the first resurrection, manifestation of the Sons of God and translation will come to pass, and the mystery of the Seven Trumpets and Seven Vials will be preached to the elect Israelites".
He mentioned his prophecy regarding the Californian earthquake that takes place at this time, then read Jesus' prophecies of Matthew 24:15-28, warning the primitive Church to flee Jerusalem when they saw the Roman ensigns on the Mount of Olives, and explaining how the tribulation, begun with Rome's invasion, would become so dire under the Sixth Seal, that if He did not "shorten the days" under the Fourth Seal, "there would be no flesh saved" for the translation. Jesus warned that in the "shortening of days," which is the "silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" following the opening of the Seventh Seal, falsely anointed ministers will arise within the circle of this end-time Message. They will show great signs and wonders like pillars of fire and clouds; purchase a physical tent and trucking to transport it so they can bring to pass their understanding of the "tent vision;" purchase an aeroplane and engage a pilot (long since deceased) to gather the Bride for a low altitude "rapture;" appoint apostles and prophets, and divide the world among men as Papal Rome once divided the "new world." Some sought to worship the Prophet and baptize in his name as foretold in Revelation 22:8-10. Others prophesy a "return ministry" for Brother Branham and a "prophetic ministry" for his son Joseph, while millions of dollars and countless man-hours are spent to evangelise the seed of the Serpent. Some ministers look for the physical return of the glorified Messiah, when this cannot take place before the Millennium (Malachi 4:1-3). Jesus warned of this delusion, telling His eagle Bride to clothe Herself in the Light that shone in Jerusalem when it is restored in the evening time (Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 24:27-28).
We all make mistakes. God surely has a magnanimous sense of humour, and is longsuffering as He watches over "the greatest show on earth." It is the process of growing from enthusiastic "babes in Christ," to "those who are mature, having their judgment trained by experience to discern both good and evil." While in hindsight these things can be a source of good-natured amusement, they betray a lack of revelation because of poor teaching. Brother Branham said, "Preaching usually catches the sinner, brings him under condemnation by the Word. But teaching places a man positionally what he is. And we can never rightly be able to have faith until positionally we know what we are" (Ephesians Parallels Joshua, p. 2:6).
A generation after the death of the prophet, serious misgivings linger within the circle of this Message. Ministers continue to prophesy falsely, quoting the "letter" of THUS SAITH THE LORD without the Spirit. Having neglected to take the Message back to the written Word of God from Genesis to Revelation, they are deceived and deceivers of all but the very elected. One notable example of heresy is called "two souls," whose source is the Babylonian Talmud, the Jews' most holy book, which Jesus said, "makes void the Word of God" (Matthew 15:1-9). This is surely the most lewd wickedness in print and hatefully antichrist, yet ministers claiming this Message invite unregenerate non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews into their pulpits, and so-called "elders" partake of their sin. Jesus called them Serpent's seed, Paul rebuked Judaising Peter to his face, and Brother Branham taught that unless a man has met God on the backside of the desert like Moses and Paul, he has no right to stand behind the sacred desk.
The celebrated Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, head of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in the Foreword to his great classic, "The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith", traces the origin of the form of religious worship practiced today under the present name "Judaism," to its origin as "Pharisaism" in Judea in the time of Jesus. Jesus called the Pharisees, "hypocrites! You compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves" (Matthew 23:15).
These men despise your Jesus. Their holy book claims He was born of fornication between a Roman soldier and a prostitute hairdresser in menstruation, and is presently in hell boiling in excrement! The Talmud says Gentiles are animals on two legs God created in human form to serve the Jews (Yebamoth 98a), and the best of the Gentiles should be killed (Kiddushin 66c; Soferim 15, Rule 10).
Where is your discernment of spirits? Where is the Holy Spirit? Is there reason to believe you are born-again? Brother Branham said, "If a person cannot receive the revelation of the true Oneness of the godhead, Scriptural water baptism and the 'original sin,' you know the election is off. Just walk away from him." God placed "enmity" between the forefathers of most of these people, and commanded Moses and the Israelites to utterly slay them wherever they were found in the Promised Land (Genesis 3:15; Deuteronomy 7:1-2). Jesus called them liars and traced their lineage to Cain, yet ministers invite them into their pulpits (John 8:44; Matthew 23:33-35). Brother Branham commanded us not to enter into agreements with them; as they lied to Joshua (Joshua 9), they "will skin you alive." Do these men seriously believe either they or their congregations are Christ's Bride?
"Concerning the Gospel, the Israelites are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes" (Romans 11:28). The Old and New Testaments, historians, rabbis, Jewish and other encyclopedia all clearly teach that the vast majority of so-called Jews are the non-Semitic sworn enemy and impersonator of Israel. If by the grace of God, the Israelites are temporarily enemies for our blessing, the Jews who impersonate the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for evil are surely a curse to Spiritual Israelites as they are to natural Israelites (Genesis 12:3)!
Brother Branham often rehearsed the song:
"We let down the bars, we let down the bars, we compromised with sin.
We let down the bars; the sheep got out, but how did the goats get in?
We let down the bars. That's what happened; we compromised. And we have to get away from that. The old Azusa Street meetings, the old fashion Pentecostal religion, backwoods, sky blue, gun-barrel straight, sin-killing religion, brother, they didn't whitewash you; it washed white. It done something to people".
Backslidden ministers have allowed their churches to be invaded by Judaisers! You call yourselves Christians yet you preach lies. Don't you know God's Old Covenant was with the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not with any so-called Jew? Like their leaders who deceive them for personal and fanatical political advantage, you are guilty through ignorance of stealing their opportunity for redemption, which will end the instant God turns back to Israel, for Jews who are in Adam's race are predominantly non-Semitic Gentiles. Brother Branham said, the few blood Israelites in the West will likewise suffer loss, as they will not escape to the one place on earth where God will recognize the Old Covenant.
Whatever these people believe in is their business. "His wife is making herself ready." Red heifers and temple buildings are a denial of Christ. Do you imagine 144,000 elect Israelites under the ministry of two prophets will burden their souls with that? But what is it to you if they do? "YOU are the Temple of God, IF the Spirit of God dwells in you" (I Corinthians 3:16). What is Israel to Christians but God's timepiece, or Jerusalem? Brother Branham said there are no more Jerusalems. The life is in the blood, and you are the Blood of Jesus Christ by the baptism with the Holy Ghost. God's Headquarters is in your heart. Jesus said the Jerusalem of this day is spiritually as Sodom and Egypt! According to God's Holy Bible the 144,000 will live mainly in Islamic lands and remain blind to the faith until the Gentile dispensation is over. Then God will reveal Himself through the ministry of two Hebrew prophets, not busybody Branhamites who have missed the catching away!
Minister Brother, your business is to protect your flock from the wolf at the door, and to keep them clean by a clear revelation of God's Word for this hour, so keep the Token on display, which is to spread the Tent of God's Word over the little Flock God has entrusted to your care. nl489.htm
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Jacob's Ladder
Bible Believers' Newsletter #488
"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. May He continue to bless you exceedingly abundantly.
We certainly live in interesting times. The United States presidential election is scheduled to be held on November 4, 2008; in a radio interview, US presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton apparently supported fellow traveler Barak Obama’s belief that it may be necessary to intervene militarily in Pakistan. This "War on Terror" has Designed and Patented by the City of London, MADE IN THE USA writ large. Other than civilian employment everything else is Made in China, sold and repaired (or trashed) in the USA.
What does "Jacob's ladder" signify? We address this prophecy in our main article and expose some of the disinformation in the long-running asymmetrical warfare Lucifer and his servants have long waged by way of deception.
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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Bush fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
July 29, 2007 – Dubya has accomplished a huge transfer of wealth within the United States from the rest of us to the extremely wealthy. He's also effected a major privatization of public operations, including the military. And he's kept tight control over the media.
Dubya has given himself the power to rewrite all laws with signing statements. He's established that intentionally misleading the Congress about the need for a war is not a crime that carries any penalty. He's given himself the right (just as Hitler did) to open anyone's mail. He's created illegal spying programs and then proposed to legalize them. Prescott would be so proud!
The current President Bush has accomplished much more smoothly than his grandfather could have imagined a feat that was one of the goals of Prescott 's gang, namely the elimination of Congress. Full story: atlanticfreepress.com
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George II preparing to Attack Syria?
August 1, 2007 – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, determine that the actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions, to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty contribute to political and economic instability in that country and the region and constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
I hereby order: . . . Full story: rumormillnews.com:
Comment: George II had already released an Executive Order on July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country. Does he now see some sinister connection between Syria and the collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota? (Part of the I-35 NAFTA Super Highway Corridor, bisecting the United States to allow Mexican trucks to transport foreign cargo from the NAFTA port in Mexico through the United States to Canada and points east and west along that corridor). Is this latest EO a preemptive declaration of national emergency in the United States based on the prospect of unprovoked attack upon Syria? When George II exercises these authorities he will have absolute rule.
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Frankenforests: GE Trees threaten Ecosystem Collapse
August 2, 2007 – In China, over a million poplar trees have been planted since 2002 to combat deforestation. But the move has not been widely applauded by everyone. The poplars, which are genetically engineered, are China's first foray into the world of transgenic forestry - or "frankenforests" - and other countries are not far behind.
As the biotech industry continues to lay the groundwork for genetically engineered crops - poorly tested, widely debated and yet plugged as a technological wonder - a potentially greater threat to biodiversity has begun to emerge. Pushed forward by biotech and the multibillion-dollar timber industry, genetically engineered trees are the latest invention.
"The industry has tried very hard to keep it quiet, or tout the technology as benign and beneficial to the environment," says Anne Petermann, co-founder of the Global Justice Ecology Project, a nonprofit established to advance global justice through ecological awareness. "The technology is moving forward very quickly, outpacing regulations. There are no controls in place to properly address or assess the risks - which are major."
GE trees are planted in monoculture forests, which look more like plantations, and pose serious risks to the ecosystem. Trees live decades or centuries longer than plants, and their seeds can travel hundreds of miles, increasing the likelihood of gene contamination to wild species. The technology was created to optimize the manufacturing process, but environmentalists worry that it will open an ecological Pandora's Box and threaten the health of the forests we depend on for survival.
GE forestry research is already alarmingly prevalent across the globe. The United States leads the world in research projects, with 150 tree test plots — two-thirds of the world's known research areas — and they are joined by Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Despite the prevalence of the practice, GE forestry has remained somewhat obscured by GE crops. Full story: alternet.org
Comment: John 6:63, "My Word is Spirit, it is Life." But when we hybrid by adding to and taking from God's unchanging Word the product is death and can never be restored to Life. A word is a thought when it is expressed. Lucifer is creating a sterile world that cannot be redeemed by God because it was never in His creative thinking. He began by incarnating the Serpent who seduced Eve. She bore the hybrid, Cain, who together with his descendents is without redemption. Without kinship to the first Adam they have no call on the last Adam. He hybrid Yahwism with the religion of Babylon to produce Pharisaism, Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism, which in the antithesis of Moses and the prophets (Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith", p. XXI; Matthew 15:1-9). Next he hybrid Christianity with the Babylonian religion to produce Roman Catholicism and the Apostles' Creed, Trinity and baptism in three Titles, the antithesis of the New Testament.
In these last days God has sent us the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11 and Revelation 10:7, whose Message revealed the seven thunders contained in the Seven Seals. These Divinely revealed mystery truths will literally turn the heart of the children of God to the faith of their apostolic fathers.
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The Encyclopaedists
It was no enterprising bookseller, no brilliantly inspired philosopher, who conceived the idea of the Encyclopaedia, but a powerful international organization able to employ the services of more men than all the academies could supply, which devised the scheme at least six years before the date at which it is said to have occurred to Diderot. Thus the whole story as usually told to us would appear to be a complete fabrication—struggling publishers, toiling litterateurs carrying out their superhuman task as "independent men of letters" without the patronage of the great—which Lord Morley points out as "one of the most important facts in the history of the Encyclopaedia" — writers of all kinds bound together by no "common understanding or agreement," are all seen in reality to have been closely associated as "artisans of the Fraternity" carrying out the orders of their superiors.
The Encyclopaedia was therefore essentially a Masonic publication, and Papus, whilst erroneously attributing the famous oration and consequently the plan of the Encyclopaedia to the inspiration of the Duc d'Antin, emphasizes the importance of this fact. Thus, he writes:
The [French] Revolution manifests itself by two stages:
1st. Intellectual revolution, by the publication of the Encyclopedze, due to French Freemasonry under the high inspiration of the Duc d'Antin.
2nd. Occult revolution in the Lodges, due in great part to the members of the Templar Rite and executed by a group of expelled Freemasons afterwards amnestied. . .
But in using the lodges to sow the seeds of revolution, the Encyclopaedists betrayed not only the cause of monarchy but of Masonry as well. It will be noticed that, in conformity with true masonic principles, [Chevalier] Ramsay in his oration [to the Grand Lodge of Paris in 1737] expressly stated that the encyclopaedia was to concern itself with the [seven] liberal arts and sciences [enumerated in the Fellowcraft Degree] and that theology and politics were to be excluded from the contemplated scheme. How, then, did it come to pass that these were eventually the two subjects to which the Encyclopaedists devoted the greatest attention, so that their work became principally an attack on Church and monarchy? (Nester Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, p. 160-165).
It appears the Encyclopaedists have been re-energised for the third major revolution disseminating a measure of truth peppered with theological and political disinformation. But here is the clock of life and Death. Full story: poodwaddle.com
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Kill or Convert, Brought to You by the Pentagon
August 7, 2007 – As an official arm of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, Operation Straight Up (OSU) plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a "Military Crusade in Iraq" in the near future. . . OSU's "Freedom Packages" include a copy of evangelical pastor Jonathan McDowell's More Than A Carpenter — a book advertised as "one of the most powerful evangelism tools worldwide" — that is double-published in Arabic. Considering that only a handful of American troops speak Arabic, the book is ostensibly intended for proselytizing efforts among Iraqi civilians.
With its cadre of celebrity entertainers pushing End Times theology, and the overt support of the Defense Department, OSU is hoping to transform Bush's surge into a battle of biblical proportions. . . Full story: thenation.com
Comment: Sincerely misled, these "left right behind" wannabe Christians know not that they are playing the hand of Lucifer's City of London to generate hatred for the "hot" stage of World War III. Only after they are converted can they strengthen their Iraqi brethren (Luke 22:32; Revelation 3:17).
By making this proselytization part of the official DOD "outreach," they begin the process of making the quasi-Christian conversion of American soldiers official military policy. Jesus Christ prophesied, "The United States had power to give life to the (once) Protestant image of the Papal Roman beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that all who would not serve the image of the beast should be killed" (Revelation 13:11-18).
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Jacob's Ladder
The Prophet Malachi is the last of the series of prophets, who, through successive generations, for a thousand years, "had showed before of the Coming of the Just One" (Acts 7:52). Not only had this remarkable order of inspired men predicted the coming Messiah, but they lifted up their voice, like a trumpet, to show God's people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. They were the teachers and preachers of the generations in which they respectively lived, and were thus the prototypes of every true minister of the Gospel.
It is a tragic reality today that few ministers are prepared to "declare the whole counsel of God" — even among their fellows within the circle of this Message few understand the council of God, not having "met the Pillar of Fire on the backside of the desert".
Malachi mentions the names Jacob and Esau rather than those of Israel and Edom to call attention to the fact that though they were brothers, and sustained the same relation to Jehovah so that it might have been expected that He would have dealt with both alike, yet He had not done so, neither in their own persons nor in their posterity, so that judging from the results we might regard the one as loved and the other as hated. In Romans 9:11-33, Paul refers to Jacob and Esau as illustrations of "the purpose of God according to election" hinging upon faith that determined their history and typified and conditioned their posterity.
Brother Branham said, "Now remember this. Christ in the True Church is a continuation of the Book of Acts. But the Book of Revelation shows how the antichrist spirit would come into the church and defile it, making it lukewarm, formal and powerless. It exposes Satan, revealing his works (the attempted destruction of God's people and the discrediting of God's Word) right down to the time he is cast into the lake of Fire. He fights that. He cannot stand it. He knows that if the people get the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what she is, what she stands for and that SHE CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, she will be an invincible army. If they get a true revelation of the two spirits within the framework of the Christian church, and by God's Spirit discern and withstand the antichrist spirit, Satan will be powerless before her. He will be as definitely thwarted today as when Christ withstood his every effort to gain power over Him in the desert. Yes, Satan hates revelation. But we love it. With true revelation in our lives, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us, but we will prevail over them.
This Book of Revelation is the actual revelation of Jesus, Himself, in the church and His work in the future ages. It takes the Holy Spirit to give us revelation or we will fail to get it. Bringing these two thoughts together you will see that it won't take just ordinary study and thinking to make this Book real. It is going to take the operation of the Holy Ghost. That means this Book can't be revealed to anyone but a special class of people. It will take one with prophetic insight. It will require the ability to hear from God. It will require supernatural instruction, not just a student comparing verse with verse, though that is good. But a mystery requires the teaching of the Spirit or it never becomes clear. How we need to hear from God and lay ourselves open and become yielded to the Spirit to hear and know.
[This Book] is the revelation of God that will give you authority over the Devil. And you can see why they who would add or take from it would be cursed. It would have to be so, for who can add or take away from the perfect revelation of God and overcome the enemy? It is that simple. There is nothing of such prevailing power as the revelation of the Word. See, in chapter one verse three, a blessing is pronounced on those who give special attention to this Book" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 15:3 – 16:2).
Jacob departed secretly and alone in ignominious flight, taking nothing with him but his staff (Genesis 32:10). For fear of being pursued and waylaid by his vindictive brother, he did not take the highway, but traveled by lonely and unfrequented paths so that it was several days (see Genesis 22:4) before he came to Bethel, about forty-eight miles from Beer-sheba. He did not venture into the city but spent the night in the open field, and taking one of the stones for his pillow, lay down to sleep under the heavens, a stranger exiled from his father's house with deep anxiety approaching an uncertain future.
Genesis 28:12-15, "And he dreamed, that a ladder reached from the earth to heaven: and he saw the angels of God ascending and descending on it. At the top of the ladder stood the Lord, who said, I am Jehovah, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac: the land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants; and they shall be as numerous as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south: and in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Furthermore, I am with you, and will protect you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will be with you constantly until I have done everything I am promising to you".
When calling His disciples Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and discerning the thoughts and intents of his heart, said, "Here comes an honest man, a true son of Israel in whom is no deceit." Nathanael was not a overreaching crafty deceiver like Jacob before his conversion, but a man of honour and integrity like Israel after his encounter with the Lord. Recognizing the Messianic sign, Nathanael did not hesitate to express his faith, honouring Jesus as "The Son of God; the King of Israel."
"Jesus answered, Do you believe because I told you that in a vision I had seen you under the fig tree? You shall see greater proofs than that. Truly I assure you, you will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man" (John 1:43-51).
The key to this great saying is Jacob's vision. Though alone and friendless on earth Jacob's interests were busying all heaven, he was made to see "heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon a mystic ladder reaching from heaven to earth." That ladder was faith anchored upon the rock of the revelation of Jesus Messiah, the Word or Logos of God. "By and by," Jesus intimated, "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth: for He will not be presenting His own ideas; but what He has heard, and He will show you things to come. He will glorify Me and bring Me great honour by showing you My glory. All the Father's glory is Mine: this is what I mean when I say He will show you My glory" (John 16:13-15). "At that day [when you are born-again] you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you" (John 14:20); you will see this communion between heaven and earth open to you, and the Son of man, your Kinsman Redeemer, as the real "gate of heaven" (John 10:1-18; Revelation 3:8; 4:1).
The Tower of Babel was an impersonation of heaven's gate; its idolatry could not span the breach between God and man. God promised the Seed in Abraham, but he was born in sin and backslid, deceiving the king of Gerar into potential adultery and enriching himself (Genesis 20). The seed was in Jacob now, but faith could not rest on a supplanter. The nation of Israel could not honour the Covenant much less support the faith; neither could David, "a man after God's own heart," who committed adultery with Bathsheba and sent her husband, Uriah, to die on the front line. Faith's ladder could not rest on the temple, of which Jesus said, "There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
After the true Church is taken into glory, this blessing will cross to Israel. When they recognize God's ladder of faith rests on the precious foundation stone of Jesus Messiah, who is "the way, the truth, and the Life, . . the temple of God in heaven will open" to them and the nation will be born again in one day (John 14:6; Revelation 11:19; Isaiah 66:8).
Isaiah 28:16-18, "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I lay in Zion a foundation Stone, a tested Stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he who believes will not panic. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet to check the foundation of the wall you have built: it looks fine, but is so weak a hail storm will sweep away your refuge of lies, and flood waters will overwhelm your shelter. Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, you will be trampled down by it".
Plausible lies imparted as historic and religious truths have been received from Esaus whose desire is political in the here and now, not reconciliation with the God of heaven. "Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are they all happy that deal very treacherously?" Because "the leaders of [natural and spiritual] Israel cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" (Jeremiah 12:1; Isaiah 9:16; Hosea 4:6).
"One of the leading principles of the mystics was the sacredness and secrecy of self-knowledge and the true knowledge of the gods. This wisdom was, they thought, unfit for, perhaps even dangerous to the ordinary human mind; or in any case liable to perversion and misuse and loss of virtue if revealed to the vulgar and unpurified spirits. Hence they favoured the existence of an outer worship, effective but imperfect, for the profane" (Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy).
"Effective but imperfect" knowledge is what Jacobs have been taught throughout life, but the elect cannot be deceived on the revealed Word of God; once they hear the Word for their hour they repent of their self-centered ways and take on the nature of true Israel, Jesus Messiah, "in whom God will be glorified. . . It is too light a thing that you should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will make you a Light to the Gentiles, that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth" (Isaiah 49:3, 6).
Kark Marx wrote, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" (Contribution to Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right). The "soulless conditions" are the "spirit of strong delusion" produced by the opium of "outer worship, effective but imperfect, for the profane." Belief in lies and half truths is calculated to disarm and bring individuals into conformity with Establishment plans for utility as a predictable and dependent non- judgmental human resource in the corporatist state machine. Belief must be tested by the Absolute of God's unchanging Word before it can be transformed into faith, arming the individual with a clear understanding of the mind of God, so his life will be pleasing to God.
In exposing the modus operandi of the Jewish Weimar Republic that usurped and all but devastated Germany following the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II and the allies' betrayal of the Armistice of World War I, Josef Goebbels explained: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State".
For six thousand years, Satan and his children have been telling and repeating "the BIG LIE" in its many forms. Examples of the BIG LIE include the Babylonian Trinity of Gods foisted upon Israel to its destruction, then Judah, and later Christendom; the true location of Israel's Red Sea Crossing, and of mount Sinai, which is located in Saudi Arabia, and not in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (Galatians 4:26); the true borders of the land of Israel; the distinction between Jews and the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and the contradiction between Judaism and the faith of Abraham and his descendants; Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Iran's planned acquisition of same. Lies. BIG LIES, "and they that are led of them are destroyed."
The names of people and places are often changed. George Orwell was actually "Eric Blair," Gorbachev is really "Kahn," Woody Allen is "Allen Konigsberg;" Iran was Persia, which was Elam; Thailand was Siam, Myanmar was Burma, Edom became Jewry as did the nation of Khazaria — overnight. Orwell's "Department of Truth" also changes Science, technology and history — overnight — which is confusing, but the objective is often subterfuge. The BIG LIE.
Genesis 28:1-2, "Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel [the Syrian] your mother's father; and take from there a wife of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother."
As Lebanon, which was part of Syria, is named after Laban, where did Isaac send Jacob? An examination of ancient maps in conjunction with the unchanging Word of God reveals truths which correct popular presumptions. Genesis 28:10, "And Jacob went out from [his father's home in] Beersheba [of Canaan], and journeyed toward Haran [in Syria]". Haran is the city to which Abraham migrated when he left Ur of the Chaldees, and where he stayed until his father died, then left for the promised land. It is located in Padanaram in Mesopotamia at the foot of Mount Masius between the Khabour and the Euphrates.
Interestingly, there were two cities named Ur: one was established in the days of the Patriarchs; the second in Babylon is more contemporary. Genesis 15:7 distinguishes Ur of the Chaldees (Heb. Khasdim) from "Ur of Babylonia" as in Genesis 10:10, "Babel and Erech and Akkad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Shinar means "country of two rivers" and is derived from sheni "two" and 'ar or nahr "rivers".
In Genesis 24:3-7, Abraham commanded his most senior servant (Eliezer — Genesis 15:1-4) swear "you will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac".
"The servant said to Abraham, "Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land (i.e. Hebron in Canaan — Genesis 23:19); should I take your son back to the land whence you came?" As we read in Genesis 15:7 Abraham came from "Ur of the Chaldees".
"And Abraham said unto him, Beware you do not bring my son thither again. The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred (i.e. "Ur of the Chaldees" — Genesis 15:7), and who spoke to me, and took oath, saying, Unto your seed I will give this land (i.e. Canaan); He shall send His Angel before you, and you shall take a wife unto my son from there" (i.e. Ur of the Chaldees).
Genesis 24:10, "And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia unto the city of Nahor." Note the intentional mistranslation of Aram Naharaim as "Mesopotamia," obscuring the fact that Abraham's homeland is in Northern Mesopotamia, not in the south. According to Gordon J. Wenham (Genesis 24:16-50) "there was also a city called Nah_ur (first mentioned in the twentieth-century Kanish texts and later in the Mari letters and neo-Assyrian texts) that was near Haran" — and of course near Haran was where we found this same family of Nahor in Genesis 28.
Genesis 11:28, "And Haran died in his father Terah's presence in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldees." Not in Ur in the land of Babylonia.
Prior to archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley's excavations in Ur of Babylonia, begun in 1922, Abraham's birthplace was identified as Ur of the Khasdim in Northern Mesopotamia, now south eastern Turkey (identified with Urartu, Urfa, and Kutha respectively by Josephus, Islamic tradition, and Jewish authorities like Maimonides). Since 1927, the hypothesis of the celebrated Sir Charles Woolley has persuaded scholars to relocate Abraham's birthplace, contrary to the Holy Bible, in the Sumerian city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia.
Woolley's excavations at Ur were a joint venture between the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania. Without deeper study one can only speculate that pressure from wealthy patrons such as the Rothschilds and political Zionists who plan a greater Israel from which to rule what Theodor Herzyl called, "A Jewish World Colony," (NWO) might have led to the transplanting of Ur, with the object of expanding God's promise of Genesis 15:18: "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt (i.e. Wady el-'Arish south-west of Gaza) to the great river, the river Euphrates" on the west by the Mediterranean, to a swathe of land subsuming half of Egypt eastward from the Nile, across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the western half of Iraq to the mouth of the Euphrates in the Persian Gulf. This, coincidentally, is the projected course of the present World War III.
Another indication that Syria is the location of Abraham's birthplace is the embassy Merodach-Baladan sent King Hezekiah trying to enlist support for the Chaldean rebellion against Assyria. Also called Marduk-apal-iddina II, Marduk-baladan, and Baladan, he was a Chaldean prince who usurped the Babylonian throne in 721BC and reigned from 722-710BC, and again from 703-702BC, maintaining Babylonian independence for more than a decade in the face of Assyrian military supremacy. But why would he have been interested in support from such a tiny far-away kingdom as Judah?
Sargon of Assyria repressed Merodach-Baladan's allies in Aram (the birthplace of Abraham) and Israel, and drove him from Babylon in about 710BC. After the death of Sargon, Merodach-Baladan recaptured the throne. He returned from Elam (i.e. Persia, now Iran) and ignited all the Arameans in Babylonia into rebellion. He was able to enter Babylon and be declared king again. Nine months later he was defeated near Kish, but escaped to Elam with the gods of the south and died in exile a couple of years later.
He sent an ambassador to King Hezekiah trying to enlist support for his Aramean kinsmen in the Chaldean rebellion against Assyria. Flattered, Hezekiah revealed the riches of his treasury to the ambassador; his ostentatious spirit, and the unbelief that tempted him to rest on Babylon, proud of its alliance, instead of on Jehovah, called forth God's retributive threat that Babylon, the instrument of his and Judah's sin, should be the instrument of their punishment (Isaiah 39:5-7), fulfilled 120 years later in the reign of Zedekiah.
He sought support from such a tiny far-away kingdom as Judah for three reasons:
Because the Israelites were themselves Arameans: Deuteronomy 26:5, "You shall speak and say before the Lord your God, A Syrian (Aramean) ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous."
Because Shalmaneser of Assyria had already conquered Israel, transported her citizens, and conquered all of Judah's fenced cities (Isaiah 29:9-16).
And also perhaps because Babylon, famed for her astronomers, would like to be allied with a nation whose God could make the sun's shadow go backwards (Isaiah 38:8).
The Archaeological Research Newsletter of the late Ron Wyatt had this to report:
It's so exciting to study the archaeological discoveries of the last few hundred years and see how vividly they conform to the Biblical account. However, as we saw with the Ebla tablets, people come along with various "agendas" and motives, and try to twist or suppress these evidences. The Syrian government was extremely irate when they learned that the Ebla tablets brought to light evidences relating to the patriarchs, so they had the original translator removed from the project. It was then "arranged" for this translator to recant some of his original translations, stating that he had been in error. It is the same situation in Saudi Arabia with the real Mount Sinai. The Saudis know that it is the true site — yet they do not want the world to know because of the connection with the Israelites. They even removed the column with the inscriptions on the Saudi shore because it was written in archaic Hebrew. Another example can be seen in Saqarra, Egypt. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ron was shown the tombs of two officials from the reign of Pharaoh Djoser, and the inscriptions of the officials both state that they "collected grain for a seven year famine." But by the mid-1980's, both of these tombs were closed. The "good news" is that even though today's "leading men" and "experts" flood the media with their "interpretations" of the evidences in a manner which is completely contradictory to the Biblical account, the true evidence is still available. We will examine some of that evidence which relates to events soon after the flood.
The commonly accepted view today is that the tower of Babel was located near the much later city of Babylon, which is in southern Mesopotamia. Yet, the ancient remains there are from the time of Nebuchadnezzar, about 1,700 years after the flood! The earliest remains they have found date to the time of the Amorite period, whose most famous king was Hammurabi. Nothing earlier has been found. Of course, the "explanation" is that the "earlier remains" are now located under the water table and can't be excavated. But the Biblical account doesn't place Babel here. Genesis 11:1 "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." Who is it that traveled to this plain and where did they come from? The family of Noah (Genesis 10:32), and they were coming from the region originally settled by Noah and his family after the flood, which was in the Ararat region.
If we use a little common sense, we can help our understanding of this first "exodus" from the area the ark settled in. The people leaving this region would have had flocks of animals as well as their families. To travel, they would have needed to follow a river in order to assure they would always have a sufficient water supply for both the people as well as the animals. The Biblical account says they traveled "from the east" — and since the Euphrates flows from east to west here, we can trace this river to see where it goes. (Note — the Euphrates has two sources, one near Erzurum, now called Karas, and the other near Ararat, now called Murat. We have traced their journey from the Ararat region, along the Murat). We are told that they traveled until they "found a plain in the land of Shinar" and that they then "dwelt there." The region of Turkey that they traveled through is extremely mountainous until they reach the point where the Euphrates turns south near the present day Syrian border. And here, the mountains end and the region flattens out into a plain. Could Babel have been located in this region? We just don't know since it hasn't been found. But for now, let's keep the possibility open and see what happens when we continue to study the Biblical account: Genesis 11:9 "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." We next learn that it was from Babel that the people dispersed. But backing up a bit, we learn that the leader in the building of the tower at Babel was a son of Cush named Nimrod: Genesis 10:9 "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Nimrod established Babel, Accad and Calneh, none of which has ever been located. But the next verse may help: Genesis 10:11-12, "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city." Nimrod began establishing cities, and from this region (land), Shem's son, Asshur went out and also established some cities — Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah and Resen. Now, two of these cities have been located — Nineveh and Calah. They can be seen on the map to be in northern Mesopotamia on the Tigris River. This agrees well with the statement that Asshur went out of the region of Nimrod's first established cities and built his own cities. [However, "The translators made a mistake in translating Asshur as a noun for it is a verb, and in the Chaldee means "to make strong." Thus it is Nimrod, who having been made strong (he established his kingdom by building the world's first army which he trained by drilling and through the rigors of hunting) went beyond Shinar with his strong army and subdued nations and built such cities as Nineveh, which was named after him, for even today a chief part of the ruins of that city is called Nimroud!" — William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 186:1]. But for now, let's go on to the next event mentioned in the Bible — the "call of Abraham" out of his homeland to a land inhabited by the Canaanites — the land of "Canaan".
Ur of the Chaldees
Genesis 12:1, "Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." The verses relating to God's call to Abram to leave his home and go into Canaan must be examined out of their order in the Bible to get the entire picture. He is called to leave his "country", his relatives (kindred) and his father's home—in other words, the place where his entire family had established their residence. This didn't imply one "house" but one area. However, we learn that his father originally set out with Abraham to enter Canaan: Genesis 11:31 "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." Terah obviously believed he was supposed to accompany his son into this "promised land." But something happened before they got there which caused them to make a temporary stop at Haran. And Genesis 11:32, ". . . Terah died in Haran." For some reason, Terah wasn't meant to go to Canaan. The reason may be found in another verse in Joshua 24:2, "And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods." Even the father of Abraham had been affected by the idolatry all around him, and mingled the worship of the true God with the worship of pagan gods. Perhaps the Lord knew his influence would hinder the purpose He had ordained through Abraham.
"The Other Side of the Flood"
Another point to mention here is the phrase, "the other side of the flood", when talking about the Israelites' "fathers", or ancestors. This doesn't refer to Noah's flood — it means "the river" Euphrates, as can be seen from the next verse: Joshua 24:3, "And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac".
The point we are studying here, though, is "where was Ur" that Abraham and Terah dwelt in before they went to Haran? Ever since Woolley's discovery of the ancient city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia, the general consensus among the "learned men and scholars" has been that this was Abraham's "Ur". But again, this doesn't agree with the Biblical account. It indicates that Abraham made a 600 or so mile detour to the north — yet, Canaan was directly west of this "Ur". Remember, Genesis 11:31 tells us distinctly that when Abraham, Terah and Lot left Ur, they were going to Canaan.
Haran
Well, the site of Haran is known. And amazingly, it is located in that very plain that we located earlier when we followed the Euphrates from the Ararat region; the first plain encountered when the Euphrates leaves the mountainous region. It is also located on the Balikh River — the Euphrates, flowing south, turns west, then south and then east, around this plain area. The Balikh River branches off the western curve of the Euphrates and flows directly south and meets up with the eastern curve.
Are we to believe Abraham left southern Mesopotamia for Canaan, detouring to Haran which was about 600 miles north, and then another 400 miles south to Canaan? Or should we look for Ur in the region of Haran? Remember, we earlier discussed the need for traveling along rivers? Well, if we follow the Balikh River north, we see that about 20 miles north and a few miles west, is a city called today, Urfa. Could this be "Ur of the Chaldees"? The following is quoted from the 1985 edition of Encycolpaedia Britannica, under the subject, "Urfa": "The Town lies in the fertile plain of Haran, ringed by limestone hills on three sides. . . Traditions of its earliest foundation associate the site with the legendary king Nimrod, and Muslim legend associates the place with Abraham; a cave beneath Urfa's citadel is said to be Abraham's birthplace. The town's modern name is derived from its early Aramaic name, Urhai. . ."
In addition to this, since we are told that Abraham was to leave his country and obviously the place of his, as well as his father's, birth, we cannot be surprised to learn that there are towns bearing the names of Serug (Abraham's great-grandfather) Nahor (his grandfather) and Terah (his father) all in the area: "It would seem to have been a Hurrian custom to call a place by what was originally the name of a person, such as Nahor, Serug and Terah. What is remarkable is that all these geographical names are found in the district of Haran — according to the Biblical traditions it is precisely in this region that Abram's family stayed" (Roland DeVaux, The Early History of Israel, 1971).
The cuneiform tablets of Ebla mention a city designated "Ur in the territory of Haran" (BAR, June, 1977). The evidence shows local tradition and place names — but where was "the Chaldees"? Ur is referred to as "Ur of the Chaldees", yet the only mention of Chaldea after this in the Bible is referring to the Chaldean dynasty of Babylon in Nebuchadnezzar's time, which was almost 1,700 years later! I believe the answer can be found in the religion of the people who continued to live in the region of eastern and central Turkey. The first inhabitants of this region were called "Hurrians", and later "Urartuans", from which comes the name "Ararat". Inscriptions show that the Urartuans had at least 79 different gods — and this conglomeration of gods was called "Khaldis" (Chaldees). In the inscription of Argistis near Van, it states: "This is the spoil of the cities which I obtained for the people of the Khaldis in one year. . . To Khaldis, the giver, to the Khaidises, the supreme givers, the children of Khaldis the mighty. . ." Interestingly, these were the people who years later still lived in the region near and around where the ark came to rest. And one thing noted later about the Chaldeans was their great knowledge. There is a great deal of logic in assuming that the people who remained closest to Noah and his immediate family would have had access to the greatest amount of knowledge. With this information, we can now confidently place Abraham as living in Urfa on the Balikh River. Then, when called to leave this "Ur" for Canaan, he and his family members gathered their flocks and belongings and followed the Balikh south, in the direction of Canaan. But, for some reason, about 20 miles down the road, they temporarily stop in Haran, where Terah dies.
The evidence archaeology has revealed completely validates the Biblical account. Sir Charles Marston wrote in "New Bible Evidence" (1934) p. 21, ". . . Bible commentators as a rule display little respect for the Old Testament when it stands it the way of their conjectures." Was there really a time when all people spoke one language? The ancient Sumerians believed this to be true, as is recorded in an ancient text entitled, "Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta": "Once upon a time. . . the whole universe, the people in unison, to Enlil in one tongue gave praise." (Enlil was Lord of the Air and son of the highest god, Anu – Ed). (Ron Wyatt, Archaeological Research Newsletter #10, January 1995. The First Event Mentioned after the Flood – the Migration to the West and then, Building Babel).
Knowledge withheld or stolen from the common man empowers leaders who demand, but cannot command respect. When truth disagrees with political, religious or scientific warfare, truth is sacrificed. Hence the shameless motto of the Mossad: "By way of Deception Thou shalt do War."
In Genesis 27:24-41, "Isaac asked, Are you truly my son Esau? And Jacob answered, I am. Then bring the venison near me that I may eat of my son's game, so I may personally bless you. So he placed it near him and he ate; he brought him wine, too, and he drank."
"His father Isaac then said to him, Now come close and kiss me, my son. He moved near and kissed him and when he smelled his clothes, he blessed him. He said, Truly, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. God grant you from heaven's dew and from earth's fatness abundance of grain and wine. May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be master over your kinsmen and may your mother's sons prostrate themselves to you. A curse on those who curse you and a blessing on those who bless you."
"As soon as Isaac had blessed Jacob, and almost before Jacob has left the room, Esau came in from his hunting. He, too, has prepared his father's favourite dish, and brings it to him. Let my father sit up and eat from his son's game, that he may bless me."
"Who are you? Isaac said. I am Esau, your first-born. Isaac was so shocked he trembled, Then who is it who was just here and brought me venison? I have already blessed him with an irrevocable blessing, and he shall be blessed."
"Upon hearing his father's words, Esau cried out with a loud and bitter cry, pleading, O my father, bless me, bless me too. But he replied, Your brother came in with guile and has stolen your blessing."
"Esau exclaimed, Well was he named "Shyster," for he has supplanted me two times. (Instead of reproaching himself for his own rashness, he sees only the wrong Jacob has done to him). He robbed me of my birthright, and now he has stolen my blessing. Oh, have you not reserved even one blessing for me?"
"Isaac responded, I have made him your master and I have given him yourself and all his kinsfolk for servants. Your theocratic responsibility and greatest blessing will be to serve Jacob, for I have guaranteed him abundance of grain and wine—what is there left to give, my son?"
Esau pleaded with his father as if he could pronounce blessings at will. "Is that your only blessing, my father? Bless me, O my father; me too! (Isaac kept silence as Esau wept. Esau's dwelling place would be the very opposite of the richly-blessed land of Canaan). "Then Isaac said, Your dwelling shall be away from the fatness of the earth, and away from the dew of heaven on high" (as confirmed by Malachi 1:3). "You shall hew your way with your sword, and you shall serve your brother; but when you have the dominion, you will break his yoke from your neck."
This blessing corresponds with Esau's character, and the future of his descendants who to this very day make their way by war, pillage and robbery. Because of his frank and open disposition, what Esau thought in his heart he soon uttered in his words, and he swore to kill Jacob, but after the death of his father, that he should not cause him to grieve.
God's blessings and his curses shall never fail. The blessing of Jacob was transmitted through Judah to David, to Jesus Messiah, to the elect Gentiles, and will very soon return upon an election of 144,000 elect Israelites. Meanwhile, blood Israelites descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are a people accursed by the Law of sin and death, and the grasping, aggressive self-seeking worldly nature of unregenerate Jacob. While Esau's progeny is predominantly Serpent's seed and accursed of God. They have been killing the children from that day to this, and under another name and in a different office hold dominion over the sons of Jacob and all nations, tribes and tongues via Judaism, Catholicism, Communism, usury, lying propaganda and international law devised by the City of London (Genesis 4:14).
Travel has increased worldly knowledge, the counterpart to revelation, but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand. Praise the Lord who sent Abraham's seed a prophet whose ministry has restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God so the wise will know their God. The heart thoughts of our angels are ascending and descending in personal communication with His throne day and night. nl488.htm
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Bush fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
July 29, 2007 – Dubya has accomplished a huge transfer of wealth within the United States from the rest of us to the extremely wealthy. He's also effected a major privatization of public operations, including the military. And he's kept tight control over the media.
Dubya has given himself the power to rewrite all laws with signing statements. He's established that intentionally misleading the Congress about the need for a war is not a crime that carries any penalty. He's given himself the right (just as Hitler did) to open anyone's mail. He's created illegal spying programs and then proposed to legalize them. Prescott would be so proud!
The current President Bush has accomplished much more smoothly than his grandfather could have imagined a feat that was one of the goals of Prescott 's gang, namely the elimination of Congress. Full story: atlanticfreepress.com
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George II preparing to Attack Syria?
August 1, 2007 – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, determine that the actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions, to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty contribute to political and economic instability in that country and the region and constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
I hereby order: . . . Full story: rumormillnews.com:
Comment: George II had already released an Executive Order on July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country. Does he now see some sinister connection between Syria and the collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota? (Part of the I-35 NAFTA Super Highway Corridor, bisecting the United States to allow Mexican trucks to transport foreign cargo from the NAFTA port in Mexico through the United States to Canada and points east and west along that corridor). Is this latest EO a preemptive declaration of national emergency in the United States based on the prospect of unprovoked attack upon Syria? When George II exercises these authorities he will have absolute rule.
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Frankenforests: GE Trees threaten Ecosystem Collapse
August 2, 2007 – In China, over a million poplar trees have been planted since 2002 to combat deforestation. But the move has not been widely applauded by everyone. The poplars, which are genetically engineered, are China's first foray into the world of transgenic forestry - or "frankenforests" - and other countries are not far behind.
As the biotech industry continues to lay the groundwork for genetically engineered crops - poorly tested, widely debated and yet plugged as a technological wonder - a potentially greater threat to biodiversity has begun to emerge. Pushed forward by biotech and the multibillion-dollar timber industry, genetically engineered trees are the latest invention.
"The industry has tried very hard to keep it quiet, or tout the technology as benign and beneficial to the environment," says Anne Petermann, co-founder of the Global Justice Ecology Project, a nonprofit established to advance global justice through ecological awareness. "The technology is moving forward very quickly, outpacing regulations. There are no controls in place to properly address or assess the risks - which are major."
GE trees are planted in monoculture forests, which look more like plantations, and pose serious risks to the ecosystem. Trees live decades or centuries longer than plants, and their seeds can travel hundreds of miles, increasing the likelihood of gene contamination to wild species. The technology was created to optimize the manufacturing process, but environmentalists worry that it will open an ecological Pandora's Box and threaten the health of the forests we depend on for survival.
GE forestry research is already alarmingly prevalent across the globe. The United States leads the world in research projects, with 150 tree test plots — two-thirds of the world's known research areas — and they are joined by Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Despite the prevalence of the practice, GE forestry has remained somewhat obscured by GE crops. Full story: alternet.org
Comment: John 6:63, "My Word is Spirit, it is Life." But when we hybrid by adding to and taking from God's unchanging Word the product is death and can never be restored to Life. A word is a thought when it is expressed. Lucifer is creating a sterile world that cannot be redeemed by God because it was never in His creative thinking. He began by incarnating the Serpent who seduced Eve. She bore the hybrid, Cain, who together with his descendents is without redemption. Without kinship to the first Adam they have no call on the last Adam. He hybrid Yahwism with the religion of Babylon to produce Pharisaism, Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism, which in the antithesis of Moses and the prophets (Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith", p. XXI; Matthew 15:1-9). Next he hybrid Christianity with the Babylonian religion to produce Roman Catholicism and the Apostles' Creed, Trinity and baptism in three Titles, the antithesis of the New Testament.
In these last days God has sent us the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11 and Revelation 10:7, whose Message revealed the seven thunders contained in the Seven Seals. These Divinely revealed mystery truths will literally turn the heart of the children of God to the faith of their apostolic fathers.
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The Encyclopaedists
It was no enterprising bookseller, no brilliantly inspired philosopher, who conceived the idea of the Encyclopaedia, but a powerful international organization able to employ the services of more men than all the academies could supply, which devised the scheme at least six years before the date at which it is said to have occurred to Diderot. Thus the whole story as usually told to us would appear to be a complete fabrication—struggling publishers, toiling litterateurs carrying out their superhuman task as "independent men of letters" without the patronage of the great—which Lord Morley points out as "one of the most important facts in the history of the Encyclopaedia" — writers of all kinds bound together by no "common understanding or agreement," are all seen in reality to have been closely associated as "artisans of the Fraternity" carrying out the orders of their superiors.
The Encyclopaedia was therefore essentially a Masonic publication, and Papus, whilst erroneously attributing the famous oration and consequently the plan of the Encyclopaedia to the inspiration of the Duc d'Antin, emphasizes the importance of this fact. Thus, he writes:
The [French] Revolution manifests itself by two stages:
1st. Intellectual revolution, by the publication of the Encyclopedze, due to French Freemasonry under the high inspiration of the Duc d'Antin.
2nd. Occult revolution in the Lodges, due in great part to the members of the Templar Rite and executed by a group of expelled Freemasons afterwards amnestied. . .
But in using the lodges to sow the seeds of revolution, the Encyclopaedists betrayed not only the cause of monarchy but of Masonry as well. It will be noticed that, in conformity with true masonic principles, [Chevalier] Ramsay in his oration [to the Grand Lodge of Paris in 1737] expressly stated that the encyclopaedia was to concern itself with the [seven] liberal arts and sciences [enumerated in the Fellowcraft Degree] and that theology and politics were to be excluded from the contemplated scheme. How, then, did it come to pass that these were eventually the two subjects to which the Encyclopaedists devoted the greatest attention, so that their work became principally an attack on Church and monarchy? (Nester Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, p. 160-165).
It appears the Encyclopaedists have been re-energised for the third major revolution disseminating a measure of truth peppered with theological and political disinformation. But here is the clock of life and Death. Full story: poodwaddle.com
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Kill or Convert, Brought to You by the Pentagon
August 7, 2007 – As an official arm of the Defense Department's America Supports You program, Operation Straight Up (OSU) plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a "Military Crusade in Iraq" in the near future. . . OSU's "Freedom Packages" include a copy of evangelical pastor Jonathan McDowell's More Than A Carpenter — a book advertised as "one of the most powerful evangelism tools worldwide" — that is double-published in Arabic. Considering that only a handful of American troops speak Arabic, the book is ostensibly intended for proselytizing efforts among Iraqi civilians.
With its cadre of celebrity entertainers pushing End Times theology, and the overt support of the Defense Department, OSU is hoping to transform Bush's surge into a battle of biblical proportions. . . Full story: thenation.com
Comment: Sincerely misled, these "left right behind" wannabe Christians know not that they are playing the hand of Lucifer's City of London to generate hatred for the "hot" stage of World War III. Only after they are converted can they strengthen their Iraqi brethren (Luke 22:32; Revelation 3:17).
By making this proselytization part of the official DOD "outreach," they begin the process of making the quasi-Christian conversion of American soldiers official military policy. Jesus Christ prophesied, "The United States had power to give life to the (once) Protestant image of the Papal Roman beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that all who would not serve the image of the beast should be killed" (Revelation 13:11-18).
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Jacob's Ladder
The Prophet Malachi is the last of the series of prophets, who, through successive generations, for a thousand years, "had showed before of the Coming of the Just One" (Acts 7:52). Not only had this remarkable order of inspired men predicted the coming Messiah, but they lifted up their voice, like a trumpet, to show God's people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. They were the teachers and preachers of the generations in which they respectively lived, and were thus the prototypes of every true minister of the Gospel.
It is a tragic reality today that few ministers are prepared to "declare the whole counsel of God" — even among their fellows within the circle of this Message few understand the council of God, not having "met the Pillar of Fire on the backside of the desert".
Malachi mentions the names Jacob and Esau rather than those of Israel and Edom to call attention to the fact that though they were brothers, and sustained the same relation to Jehovah so that it might have been expected that He would have dealt with both alike, yet He had not done so, neither in their own persons nor in their posterity, so that judging from the results we might regard the one as loved and the other as hated. In Romans 9:11-33, Paul refers to Jacob and Esau as illustrations of "the purpose of God according to election" hinging upon faith that determined their history and typified and conditioned their posterity.
Brother Branham said, "Now remember this. Christ in the True Church is a continuation of the Book of Acts. But the Book of Revelation shows how the antichrist spirit would come into the church and defile it, making it lukewarm, formal and powerless. It exposes Satan, revealing his works (the attempted destruction of God's people and the discrediting of God's Word) right down to the time he is cast into the lake of Fire. He fights that. He cannot stand it. He knows that if the people get the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what she is, what she stands for and that SHE CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, she will be an invincible army. If they get a true revelation of the two spirits within the framework of the Christian church, and by God's Spirit discern and withstand the antichrist spirit, Satan will be powerless before her. He will be as definitely thwarted today as when Christ withstood his every effort to gain power over Him in the desert. Yes, Satan hates revelation. But we love it. With true revelation in our lives, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us, but we will prevail over them.
This Book of Revelation is the actual revelation of Jesus, Himself, in the church and His work in the future ages. It takes the Holy Spirit to give us revelation or we will fail to get it. Bringing these two thoughts together you will see that it won't take just ordinary study and thinking to make this Book real. It is going to take the operation of the Holy Ghost. That means this Book can't be revealed to anyone but a special class of people. It will take one with prophetic insight. It will require the ability to hear from God. It will require supernatural instruction, not just a student comparing verse with verse, though that is good. But a mystery requires the teaching of the Spirit or it never becomes clear. How we need to hear from God and lay ourselves open and become yielded to the Spirit to hear and know.
[This Book] is the revelation of God that will give you authority over the Devil. And you can see why they who would add or take from it would be cursed. It would have to be so, for who can add or take away from the perfect revelation of God and overcome the enemy? It is that simple. There is nothing of such prevailing power as the revelation of the Word. See, in chapter one verse three, a blessing is pronounced on those who give special attention to this Book" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 15:3 – 16:2).
Jacob departed secretly and alone in ignominious flight, taking nothing with him but his staff (Genesis 32:10). For fear of being pursued and waylaid by his vindictive brother, he did not take the highway, but traveled by lonely and unfrequented paths so that it was several days (see Genesis 22:4) before he came to Bethel, about forty-eight miles from Beer-sheba. He did not venture into the city but spent the night in the open field, and taking one of the stones for his pillow, lay down to sleep under the heavens, a stranger exiled from his father's house with deep anxiety approaching an uncertain future.
Genesis 28:12-15, "And he dreamed, that a ladder reached from the earth to heaven: and he saw the angels of God ascending and descending on it. At the top of the ladder stood the Lord, who said, I am Jehovah, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac: the land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants; and they shall be as numerous as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south: and in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Furthermore, I am with you, and will protect you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will be with you constantly until I have done everything I am promising to you".
When calling His disciples Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and discerning the thoughts and intents of his heart, said, "Here comes an honest man, a true son of Israel in whom is no deceit." Nathanael was not a overreaching crafty deceiver like Jacob before his conversion, but a man of honour and integrity like Israel after his encounter with the Lord. Recognizing the Messianic sign, Nathanael did not hesitate to express his faith, honouring Jesus as "The Son of God; the King of Israel."
"Jesus answered, Do you believe because I told you that in a vision I had seen you under the fig tree? You shall see greater proofs than that. Truly I assure you, you will see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man" (John 1:43-51).
The key to this great saying is Jacob's vision. Though alone and friendless on earth Jacob's interests were busying all heaven, he was made to see "heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon a mystic ladder reaching from heaven to earth." That ladder was faith anchored upon the rock of the revelation of Jesus Messiah, the Word or Logos of God. "By and by," Jesus intimated, "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth: for He will not be presenting His own ideas; but what He has heard, and He will show you things to come. He will glorify Me and bring Me great honour by showing you My glory. All the Father's glory is Mine: this is what I mean when I say He will show you My glory" (John 16:13-15). "At that day [when you are born-again] you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you" (John 14:20); you will see this communion between heaven and earth open to you, and the Son of man, your Kinsman Redeemer, as the real "gate of heaven" (John 10:1-18; Revelation 3:8; 4:1).
The Tower of Babel was an impersonation of heaven's gate; its idolatry could not span the breach between God and man. God promised the Seed in Abraham, but he was born in sin and backslid, deceiving the king of Gerar into potential adultery and enriching himself (Genesis 20). The seed was in Jacob now, but faith could not rest on a supplanter. The nation of Israel could not honour the Covenant much less support the faith; neither could David, "a man after God's own heart," who committed adultery with Bathsheba and sent her husband, Uriah, to die on the front line. Faith's ladder could not rest on the temple, of which Jesus said, "There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
After the true Church is taken into glory, this blessing will cross to Israel. When they recognize God's ladder of faith rests on the precious foundation stone of Jesus Messiah, who is "the way, the truth, and the Life, . . the temple of God in heaven will open" to them and the nation will be born again in one day (John 14:6; Revelation 11:19; Isaiah 66:8).
Isaiah 28:16-18, "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I lay in Zion a foundation Stone, a tested Stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he who believes will not panic. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet to check the foundation of the wall you have built: it looks fine, but is so weak a hail storm will sweep away your refuge of lies, and flood waters will overwhelm your shelter. Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, you will be trampled down by it".
Plausible lies imparted as historic and religious truths have been received from Esaus whose desire is political in the here and now, not reconciliation with the God of heaven. "Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are they all happy that deal very treacherously?" Because "the leaders of [natural and spiritual] Israel cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" (Jeremiah 12:1; Isaiah 9:16; Hosea 4:6).
"One of the leading principles of the mystics was the sacredness and secrecy of self-knowledge and the true knowledge of the gods. This wisdom was, they thought, unfit for, perhaps even dangerous to the ordinary human mind; or in any case liable to perversion and misuse and loss of virtue if revealed to the vulgar and unpurified spirits. Hence they favoured the existence of an outer worship, effective but imperfect, for the profane" (Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy).
"Effective but imperfect" knowledge is what Jacobs have been taught throughout life, but the elect cannot be deceived on the revealed Word of God; once they hear the Word for their hour they repent of their self-centered ways and take on the nature of true Israel, Jesus Messiah, "in whom God will be glorified. . . It is too light a thing that you should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will make you a Light to the Gentiles, that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth" (Isaiah 49:3, 6).
Kark Marx wrote, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" (Contribution to Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right). The "soulless conditions" are the "spirit of strong delusion" produced by the opium of "outer worship, effective but imperfect, for the profane." Belief in lies and half truths is calculated to disarm and bring individuals into conformity with Establishment plans for utility as a predictable and dependent non- judgmental human resource in the corporatist state machine. Belief must be tested by the Absolute of God's unchanging Word before it can be transformed into faith, arming the individual with a clear understanding of the mind of God, so his life will be pleasing to God.
In exposing the modus operandi of the Jewish Weimar Republic that usurped and all but devastated Germany following the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II and the allies' betrayal of the Armistice of World War I, Josef Goebbels explained: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State".
For six thousand years, Satan and his children have been telling and repeating "the BIG LIE" in its many forms. Examples of the BIG LIE include the Babylonian Trinity of Gods foisted upon Israel to its destruction, then Judah, and later Christendom; the true location of Israel's Red Sea Crossing, and of mount Sinai, which is located in Saudi Arabia, and not in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (Galatians 4:26); the true borders of the land of Israel; the distinction between Jews and the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and the contradiction between Judaism and the faith of Abraham and his descendants; Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Iran's planned acquisition of same. Lies. BIG LIES, "and they that are led of them are destroyed."
The names of people and places are often changed. George Orwell was actually "Eric Blair," Gorbachev is really "Kahn," Woody Allen is "Allen Konigsberg;" Iran was Persia, which was Elam; Thailand was Siam, Myanmar was Burma, Edom became Jewry as did the nation of Khazaria — overnight. Orwell's "Department of Truth" also changes Science, technology and history — overnight — which is confusing, but the objective is often subterfuge. The BIG LIE.
Genesis 28:1-2, "Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel [the Syrian] your mother's father; and take from there a wife of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother."
As Lebanon, which was part of Syria, is named after Laban, where did Isaac send Jacob? An examination of ancient maps in conjunction with the unchanging Word of God reveals truths which correct popular presumptions. Genesis 28:10, "And Jacob went out from [his father's home in] Beersheba [of Canaan], and journeyed toward Haran [in Syria]". Haran is the city to which Abraham migrated when he left Ur of the Chaldees, and where he stayed until his father died, then left for the promised land. It is located in Padanaram in Mesopotamia at the foot of Mount Masius between the Khabour and the Euphrates.
Interestingly, there were two cities named Ur: one was established in the days of the Patriarchs; the second in Babylon is more contemporary. Genesis 15:7 distinguishes Ur of the Chaldees (Heb. Khasdim) from "Ur of Babylonia" as in Genesis 10:10, "Babel and Erech and Akkad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Shinar means "country of two rivers" and is derived from sheni "two" and 'ar or nahr "rivers".
In Genesis 24:3-7, Abraham commanded his most senior servant (Eliezer — Genesis 15:1-4) swear "you will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac".
"The servant said to Abraham, "Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land (i.e. Hebron in Canaan — Genesis 23:19); should I take your son back to the land whence you came?" As we read in Genesis 15:7 Abraham came from "Ur of the Chaldees".
"And Abraham said unto him, Beware you do not bring my son thither again. The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred (i.e. "Ur of the Chaldees" — Genesis 15:7), and who spoke to me, and took oath, saying, Unto your seed I will give this land (i.e. Canaan); He shall send His Angel before you, and you shall take a wife unto my son from there" (i.e. Ur of the Chaldees).
Genesis 24:10, "And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia unto the city of Nahor." Note the intentional mistranslation of Aram Naharaim as "Mesopotamia," obscuring the fact that Abraham's homeland is in Northern Mesopotamia, not in the south. According to Gordon J. Wenham (Genesis 24:16-50) "there was also a city called Nah_ur (first mentioned in the twentieth-century Kanish texts and later in the Mari letters and neo-Assyrian texts) that was near Haran" — and of course near Haran was where we found this same family of Nahor in Genesis 28.
Genesis 11:28, "And Haran died in his father Terah's presence in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldees." Not in Ur in the land of Babylonia.
Prior to archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley's excavations in Ur of Babylonia, begun in 1922, Abraham's birthplace was identified as Ur of the Khasdim in Northern Mesopotamia, now south eastern Turkey (identified with Urartu, Urfa, and Kutha respectively by Josephus, Islamic tradition, and Jewish authorities like Maimonides). Since 1927, the hypothesis of the celebrated Sir Charles Woolley has persuaded scholars to relocate Abraham's birthplace, contrary to the Holy Bible, in the Sumerian city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia.
Woolley's excavations at Ur were a joint venture between the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania. Without deeper study one can only speculate that pressure from wealthy patrons such as the Rothschilds and political Zionists who plan a greater Israel from which to rule what Theodor Herzyl called, "A Jewish World Colony," (NWO) might have led to the transplanting of Ur, with the object of expanding God's promise of Genesis 15:18: "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt (i.e. Wady el-'Arish south-west of Gaza) to the great river, the river Euphrates" on the west by the Mediterranean, to a swathe of land subsuming half of Egypt eastward from the Nile, across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the western half of Iraq to the mouth of the Euphrates in the Persian Gulf. This, coincidentally, is the projected course of the present World War III.
Another indication that Syria is the location of Abraham's birthplace is the embassy Merodach-Baladan sent King Hezekiah trying to enlist support for the Chaldean rebellion against Assyria. Also called Marduk-apal-iddina II, Marduk-baladan, and Baladan, he was a Chaldean prince who usurped the Babylonian throne in 721BC and reigned from 722-710BC, and again from 703-702BC, maintaining Babylonian independence for more than a decade in the face of Assyrian military supremacy. But why would he have been interested in support from such a tiny far-away kingdom as Judah?
Sargon of Assyria repressed Merodach-Baladan's allies in Aram (the birthplace of Abraham) and Israel, and drove him from Babylon in about 710BC. After the death of Sargon, Merodach-Baladan recaptured the throne. He returned from Elam (i.e. Persia, now Iran) and ignited all the Arameans in Babylonia into rebellion. He was able to enter Babylon and be declared king again. Nine months later he was defeated near Kish, but escaped to Elam with the gods of the south and died in exile a couple of years later.
He sent an ambassador to King Hezekiah trying to enlist support for his Aramean kinsmen in the Chaldean rebellion against Assyria. Flattered, Hezekiah revealed the riches of his treasury to the ambassador; his ostentatious spirit, and the unbelief that tempted him to rest on Babylon, proud of its alliance, instead of on Jehovah, called forth God's retributive threat that Babylon, the instrument of his and Judah's sin, should be the instrument of their punishment (Isaiah 39:5-7), fulfilled 120 years later in the reign of Zedekiah.
He sought support from such a tiny far-away kingdom as Judah for three reasons:
Because the Israelites were themselves Arameans: Deuteronomy 26:5, "You shall speak and say before the Lord your God, A Syrian (Aramean) ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous."
Because Shalmaneser of Assyria had already conquered Israel, transported her citizens, and conquered all of Judah's fenced cities (Isaiah 29:9-16).
And also perhaps because Babylon, famed for her astronomers, would like to be allied with a nation whose God could make the sun's shadow go backwards (Isaiah 38:8).
The Archaeological Research Newsletter of the late Ron Wyatt had this to report:
It's so exciting to study the archaeological discoveries of the last few hundred years and see how vividly they conform to the Biblical account. However, as we saw with the Ebla tablets, people come along with various "agendas" and motives, and try to twist or suppress these evidences. The Syrian government was extremely irate when they learned that the Ebla tablets brought to light evidences relating to the patriarchs, so they had the original translator removed from the project. It was then "arranged" for this translator to recant some of his original translations, stating that he had been in error. It is the same situation in Saudi Arabia with the real Mount Sinai. The Saudis know that it is the true site — yet they do not want the world to know because of the connection with the Israelites. They even removed the column with the inscriptions on the Saudi shore because it was written in archaic Hebrew. Another example can be seen in Saqarra, Egypt. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ron was shown the tombs of two officials from the reign of Pharaoh Djoser, and the inscriptions of the officials both state that they "collected grain for a seven year famine." But by the mid-1980's, both of these tombs were closed. The "good news" is that even though today's "leading men" and "experts" flood the media with their "interpretations" of the evidences in a manner which is completely contradictory to the Biblical account, the true evidence is still available. We will examine some of that evidence which relates to events soon after the flood.
The commonly accepted view today is that the tower of Babel was located near the much later city of Babylon, which is in southern Mesopotamia. Yet, the ancient remains there are from the time of Nebuchadnezzar, about 1,700 years after the flood! The earliest remains they have found date to the time of the Amorite period, whose most famous king was Hammurabi. Nothing earlier has been found. Of course, the "explanation" is that the "earlier remains" are now located under the water table and can't be excavated. But the Biblical account doesn't place Babel here. Genesis 11:1 "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." Who is it that traveled to this plain and where did they come from? The family of Noah (Genesis 10:32), and they were coming from the region originally settled by Noah and his family after the flood, which was in the Ararat region.
If we use a little common sense, we can help our understanding of this first "exodus" from the area the ark settled in. The people leaving this region would have had flocks of animals as well as their families. To travel, they would have needed to follow a river in order to assure they would always have a sufficient water supply for both the people as well as the animals. The Biblical account says they traveled "from the east" — and since the Euphrates flows from east to west here, we can trace this river to see where it goes. (Note — the Euphrates has two sources, one near Erzurum, now called Karas, and the other near Ararat, now called Murat. We have traced their journey from the Ararat region, along the Murat). We are told that they traveled until they "found a plain in the land of Shinar" and that they then "dwelt there." The region of Turkey that they traveled through is extremely mountainous until they reach the point where the Euphrates turns south near the present day Syrian border. And here, the mountains end and the region flattens out into a plain. Could Babel have been located in this region? We just don't know since it hasn't been found. But for now, let's keep the possibility open and see what happens when we continue to study the Biblical account: Genesis 11:9 "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." We next learn that it was from Babel that the people dispersed. But backing up a bit, we learn that the leader in the building of the tower at Babel was a son of Cush named Nimrod: Genesis 10:9 "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Nimrod established Babel, Accad and Calneh, none of which has ever been located. But the next verse may help: Genesis 10:11-12, "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city." Nimrod began establishing cities, and from this region (land), Shem's son, Asshur went out and also established some cities — Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah and Resen. Now, two of these cities have been located — Nineveh and Calah. They can be seen on the map to be in northern Mesopotamia on the Tigris River. This agrees well with the statement that Asshur went out of the region of Nimrod's first established cities and built his own cities. [However, "The translators made a mistake in translating Asshur as a noun for it is a verb, and in the Chaldee means "to make strong." Thus it is Nimrod, who having been made strong (he established his kingdom by building the world's first army which he trained by drilling and through the rigors of hunting) went beyond Shinar with his strong army and subdued nations and built such cities as Nineveh, which was named after him, for even today a chief part of the ruins of that city is called Nimroud!" — William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 186:1]. But for now, let's go on to the next event mentioned in the Bible — the "call of Abraham" out of his homeland to a land inhabited by the Canaanites — the land of "Canaan".
Ur of the Chaldees
Genesis 12:1, "Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." The verses relating to God's call to Abram to leave his home and go into Canaan must be examined out of their order in the Bible to get the entire picture. He is called to leave his "country", his relatives (kindred) and his father's home—in other words, the place where his entire family had established their residence. This didn't imply one "house" but one area. However, we learn that his father originally set out with Abraham to enter Canaan: Genesis 11:31 "And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." Terah obviously believed he was supposed to accompany his son into this "promised land." But something happened before they got there which caused them to make a temporary stop at Haran. And Genesis 11:32, ". . . Terah died in Haran." For some reason, Terah wasn't meant to go to Canaan. The reason may be found in another verse in Joshua 24:2, "And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods." Even the father of Abraham had been affected by the idolatry all around him, and mingled the worship of the true God with the worship of pagan gods. Perhaps the Lord knew his influence would hinder the purpose He had ordained through Abraham.
"The Other Side of the Flood"
Another point to mention here is the phrase, "the other side of the flood", when talking about the Israelites' "fathers", or ancestors. This doesn't refer to Noah's flood — it means "the river" Euphrates, as can be seen from the next verse: Joshua 24:3, "And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac".
The point we are studying here, though, is "where was Ur" that Abraham and Terah dwelt in before they went to Haran? Ever since Woolley's discovery of the ancient city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia, the general consensus among the "learned men and scholars" has been that this was Abraham's "Ur". But again, this doesn't agree with the Biblical account. It indicates that Abraham made a 600 or so mile detour to the north — yet, Canaan was directly west of this "Ur". Remember, Genesis 11:31 tells us distinctly that when Abraham, Terah and Lot left Ur, they were going to Canaan.
Haran
Well, the site of Haran is known. And amazingly, it is located in that very plain that we located earlier when we followed the Euphrates from the Ararat region; the first plain encountered when the Euphrates leaves the mountainous region. It is also located on the Balikh River — the Euphrates, flowing south, turns west, then south and then east, around this plain area. The Balikh River branches off the western curve of the Euphrates and flows directly south and meets up with the eastern curve.
Are we to believe Abraham left southern Mesopotamia for Canaan, detouring to Haran which was about 600 miles north, and then another 400 miles south to Canaan? Or should we look for Ur in the region of Haran? Remember, we earlier discussed the need for traveling along rivers? Well, if we follow the Balikh River north, we see that about 20 miles north and a few miles west, is a city called today, Urfa. Could this be "Ur of the Chaldees"? The following is quoted from the 1985 edition of Encycolpaedia Britannica, under the subject, "Urfa": "The Town lies in the fertile plain of Haran, ringed by limestone hills on three sides. . . Traditions of its earliest foundation associate the site with the legendary king Nimrod, and Muslim legend associates the place with Abraham; a cave beneath Urfa's citadel is said to be Abraham's birthplace. The town's modern name is derived from its early Aramaic name, Urhai. . ."
In addition to this, since we are told that Abraham was to leave his country and obviously the place of his, as well as his father's, birth, we cannot be surprised to learn that there are towns bearing the names of Serug (Abraham's great-grandfather) Nahor (his grandfather) and Terah (his father) all in the area: "It would seem to have been a Hurrian custom to call a place by what was originally the name of a person, such as Nahor, Serug and Terah. What is remarkable is that all these geographical names are found in the district of Haran — according to the Biblical traditions it is precisely in this region that Abram's family stayed" (Roland DeVaux, The Early History of Israel, 1971).
The cuneiform tablets of Ebla mention a city designated "Ur in the territory of Haran" (BAR, June, 1977). The evidence shows local tradition and place names — but where was "the Chaldees"? Ur is referred to as "Ur of the Chaldees", yet the only mention of Chaldea after this in the Bible is referring to the Chaldean dynasty of Babylon in Nebuchadnezzar's time, which was almost 1,700 years later! I believe the answer can be found in the religion of the people who continued to live in the region of eastern and central Turkey. The first inhabitants of this region were called "Hurrians", and later "Urartuans", from which comes the name "Ararat". Inscriptions show that the Urartuans had at least 79 different gods — and this conglomeration of gods was called "Khaldis" (Chaldees). In the inscription of Argistis near Van, it states: "This is the spoil of the cities which I obtained for the people of the Khaldis in one year. . . To Khaldis, the giver, to the Khaidises, the supreme givers, the children of Khaldis the mighty. . ." Interestingly, these were the people who years later still lived in the region near and around where the ark came to rest. And one thing noted later about the Chaldeans was their great knowledge. There is a great deal of logic in assuming that the people who remained closest to Noah and his immediate family would have had access to the greatest amount of knowledge. With this information, we can now confidently place Abraham as living in Urfa on the Balikh River. Then, when called to leave this "Ur" for Canaan, he and his family members gathered their flocks and belongings and followed the Balikh south, in the direction of Canaan. But, for some reason, about 20 miles down the road, they temporarily stop in Haran, where Terah dies.
The evidence archaeology has revealed completely validates the Biblical account. Sir Charles Marston wrote in "New Bible Evidence" (1934) p. 21, ". . . Bible commentators as a rule display little respect for the Old Testament when it stands it the way of their conjectures." Was there really a time when all people spoke one language? The ancient Sumerians believed this to be true, as is recorded in an ancient text entitled, "Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta": "Once upon a time. . . the whole universe, the people in unison, to Enlil in one tongue gave praise." (Enlil was Lord of the Air and son of the highest god, Anu – Ed). (Ron Wyatt, Archaeological Research Newsletter #10, January 1995. The First Event Mentioned after the Flood – the Migration to the West and then, Building Babel).
Knowledge withheld or stolen from the common man empowers leaders who demand, but cannot command respect. When truth disagrees with political, religious or scientific warfare, truth is sacrificed. Hence the shameless motto of the Mossad: "By way of Deception Thou shalt do War."
In Genesis 27:24-41, "Isaac asked, Are you truly my son Esau? And Jacob answered, I am. Then bring the venison near me that I may eat of my son's game, so I may personally bless you. So he placed it near him and he ate; he brought him wine, too, and he drank."
"His father Isaac then said to him, Now come close and kiss me, my son. He moved near and kissed him and when he smelled his clothes, he blessed him. He said, Truly, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. God grant you from heaven's dew and from earth's fatness abundance of grain and wine. May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be master over your kinsmen and may your mother's sons prostrate themselves to you. A curse on those who curse you and a blessing on those who bless you."
"As soon as Isaac had blessed Jacob, and almost before Jacob has left the room, Esau came in from his hunting. He, too, has prepared his father's favourite dish, and brings it to him. Let my father sit up and eat from his son's game, that he may bless me."
"Who are you? Isaac said. I am Esau, your first-born. Isaac was so shocked he trembled, Then who is it who was just here and brought me venison? I have already blessed him with an irrevocable blessing, and he shall be blessed."
"Upon hearing his father's words, Esau cried out with a loud and bitter cry, pleading, O my father, bless me, bless me too. But he replied, Your brother came in with guile and has stolen your blessing."
"Esau exclaimed, Well was he named "Shyster," for he has supplanted me two times. (Instead of reproaching himself for his own rashness, he sees only the wrong Jacob has done to him). He robbed me of my birthright, and now he has stolen my blessing. Oh, have you not reserved even one blessing for me?"
"Isaac responded, I have made him your master and I have given him yourself and all his kinsfolk for servants. Your theocratic responsibility and greatest blessing will be to serve Jacob, for I have guaranteed him abundance of grain and wine—what is there left to give, my son?"
Esau pleaded with his father as if he could pronounce blessings at will. "Is that your only blessing, my father? Bless me, O my father; me too! (Isaac kept silence as Esau wept. Esau's dwelling place would be the very opposite of the richly-blessed land of Canaan). "Then Isaac said, Your dwelling shall be away from the fatness of the earth, and away from the dew of heaven on high" (as confirmed by Malachi 1:3). "You shall hew your way with your sword, and you shall serve your brother; but when you have the dominion, you will break his yoke from your neck."
This blessing corresponds with Esau's character, and the future of his descendants who to this very day make their way by war, pillage and robbery. Because of his frank and open disposition, what Esau thought in his heart he soon uttered in his words, and he swore to kill Jacob, but after the death of his father, that he should not cause him to grieve.
God's blessings and his curses shall never fail. The blessing of Jacob was transmitted through Judah to David, to Jesus Messiah, to the elect Gentiles, and will very soon return upon an election of 144,000 elect Israelites. Meanwhile, blood Israelites descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are a people accursed by the Law of sin and death, and the grasping, aggressive self-seeking worldly nature of unregenerate Jacob. While Esau's progeny is predominantly Serpent's seed and accursed of God. They have been killing the children from that day to this, and under another name and in a different office hold dominion over the sons of Jacob and all nations, tribes and tongues via Judaism, Catholicism, Communism, usury, lying propaganda and international law devised by the City of London (Genesis 4:14).
Travel has increased worldly knowledge, the counterpart to revelation, but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand. Praise the Lord who sent Abraham's seed a prophet whose ministry has restored the apostolic faith and finished the mystery of God so the wise will know their God. The heart thoughts of our angels are ascending and descending in personal communication with His throne day and night. nl488.htm
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Reinventing Government
Bible Believers' Newsletter #487
"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 for another fellowship in cyberspace and thank you for your kind letters of encouragement.
We have here an unusual series of images associated with the ubiquitous Roman Catholic church. A curiosity among these images is the logo of the US National Security Agency in which the American Eagle (or Talmudic Phoenix of the Illuminati) clutches what may be one of the Keys of St. Peter (so-called), or perhaps the key to Uncle Sam's back door, while a video presentation identifies Bible symbology in the architecture of Vatican City.
Our friend Sister Joan Veon is this week's guest contributor. A Christian businesswoman and international reporter, she has covered 75 globalist meetings in different countries around the world, publishes a WTO Report, and may be contacted via The Women's International Media Group website.
Reinventing Government shows one need no longer fear ridicule as a student of the Conspiracy, and disarmed by their own ignorance, those without oil in their lamps are beginning to realize the terrors soon to overtake the world as the pieces of globalism's jigsaw puzzle comes together in plain view. The hard work of Amschel Mayer Rothschild, his co-conspirators and their fellow travelers, "those very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad," are about to accomplish vicariously the objective Lucifer failed to negotiate personally, and bear his rotten fruit (Matthew 4:8-9; Luke 13:6-9).
Hasten slowly. Carefully read every link: your life and eternal Life may depend on your familiarity with these matters.
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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Next elected Dictator of USA, Hillary Clinton? WWIII with Russia & China?
In his March 1933 vision William Brennan, [sic] then a Baptist minister during the great depression, and afterwards a pioneering healing Pentecost evangelist in the 40s, 50s and 60s, while preparing for his Sunday morning sermon, received a vision from the Lord in which was shown to him seven events that will occur before the end.
He was shown that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had just been inaugurated (in that time Presidents were inaugurated in March not in January), will be elected four times, a thing unheard of before, that this president would lead a country in another World War (WWII started in 1941), he was told that the man ruling Italy will die in a shameful way (Mussolini was killed by Italian partisans and hanged upside-down to be spat upon by his fellow citizens), that Adolph Hitler would become a tyrant who would lead the world into great bloodshed, the Lord showed him the immorality that would come upon America (he was shown the clothing of women that they will almost be naked), and the last thing he saw were people riding in egg-shaped cars and that the passengers in them would be amused by games while they were driving.
The next thing he saw was that an evil, wicked woman was running the USA. She become a dictator. And the next scene he saw was the smoking ruins of America. He saw that after this women take control of the nation, the nation will be destroyed. If this was talking about Hillary Clinton, we are really close. . . Full story: rumormillnews.com
Comment: As we meditate on the "mellowing" of Communism (except in China, of course), we would do well to remember Dimitri Manuilski's words: "The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. . . The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to join in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist."
It should be obvious by now why "the death of Communism" had to be staged. How else could Michael Gorbachev, chief Marxist-Leninist, and agent for Pharisees of the City of London, be able to base his operations in the world's chief anti-Communist country? How else would Western leaders consult without alarming their own citizens? How else would the masses be prevented from realizing that the purpose of such consultation is to work out the final details of a Communist world government?
Mikhail Gorbachev (whose Jewish surname is Kahn) declared in a speech at the seventieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution: ". . . In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road."
Speaking to the Soviet Politburo on November 1987, he stated: "Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. We want to accomplish three things:
One, we want the Americans to withdraw conventional forces from Europe.
Two, we want them to withdraw nuclear forces from Europe.
Three, we want the Americans to stop proceeding with the Strategic Defense Initiative."
These visions of the destruction of the USA by missiles launched from Soviet submarines confirm information Peter Beter gave the USDOD in the 1970's, as reported in Bible Believers' Newsletters in 2006. Do not bypass this Audio: Henry Gruver - Vision of Destruction of America, but filter it through the written Word of God and the Message of God's Prophet.
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Ex-CIA Officer slams US Allegations against Iran as Sham
July 28, 2007 – In an alarming exposure of the acceleration and urgency of the American war party's push towards catastrophic war with Iran, Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter terrorism officer, in an interview on 24th July with Anti War Radio debunked the NeoCons' repeated myth of Iran's support for al Qaeda as a pretext for war. Whilst acknowledging Iran's helpfulness in trying to establish security in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Giraldi spoke of the United States' hypocritical and illegal support for terrorist separatists groups inside Iran, and various plans and scenarios which have been drawn up to destroy Iran's military and economic infrastructure by massive bombardment, with the use of nuclear bombs a real and stated possibility. . . Full story: campaigniran.org
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US Government fails to explain "Chemtrails Hoax"
Its official: US Department of Air Force and US Federal Aviation Administration confirm Chemtrails are a product of chronic imaginitis. Full story: deepspace4.com
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US set to offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia
Washington, July 27 – The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.
The proposed package of advanced weaponry for Saudi Arabia, which includes advanced satellite-guided bombs, upgrades to its fighters and new naval vessels, has made Israel and some of its supporters in Congress nervous. Senior officials who described the package on Friday said they believed that the administration had resolved those concerns, in part by promising Israel $30.4 billion in military aid over the next decade, a significant increase over what Israel has received in the past 10 years. . . Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The chairman of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, Ruprecht Polenz, told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau that the Middle East was already a "powder keg" and that an influx of weapons could set it off. "If you add more explosives to a powder keg, you increase the risk and do not make the region more secure".
Considering CIA operative, the late Osama bin Laden was born of a Jewish mother and the Jewish origins of the House of Saud and the Wahabi sect of Islam could this be the objective. This WWIII is taking too long to reach the "hot" stage. "As the Washington Post's Walter Pincus reported last year, more than 70 percent of the staff of the Pentagon's newest intelligence unit, CIFA (Counterintelligence Field Activity), is made up of corporate contractors.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) lawyers revealed at a conference in May that contractors make up 51 percent of the staff in DIA offices. At the CIA, the situation is similar. Between 50 and 60 percent of the workforce of the CIA's most important directorate, the National Clandestine Service (NCS), responsible for the gathering of human intelligence, is composed of employees of for-profit corporations. . . Sources like "Curveball," the Iraqi informant who wrongly asserted the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and upon whom the CIA relied, are no longer needed. This is particularly frightening when one considers that the "war on terror" is fought by a $100 billion-plus industry that has a vested interest in its continuation". Full story: thenation.com
Brother Branham said, "Let's prove what's God. If education is the way out to freedom, why don't it act? If social standings and so forth is the way out, why don't it act? If paying other nations to be our buddies, and we find out they've turned heels against us just as soon they can. . . And you can't buy friendship with money. Friendship is a gift of God" (What Does Thou Here, p. 6:40).
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Reinventing Government
By Joan Veon © 2007 - All Rights Reserved
The Seventh Global Forum on Reinventing Government recently concluded in Vienna. For the first time since this type of meeting was organized in 1999, the United Nations hosted a conference on changing the structure of government worldwide to be more democratic. What does it mean to have the United Nations in charge of changing the structure of national government worldwide? We must primarily consider the actions of President Clinton who began the reinventing government process in the United States.
In 1989 Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton became chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). The DLC is also affiliated with the Progressive Policy Institute and the Smith Institute of London and was created to develop the "third way" philosophy and governing agenda. When he ran for the presidency, Clinton promised change and was the first to campaign on the concept of reinventing government.
On March 3, 1994, he announced, "We intend to redesign, to reinvent, to reinvigorate the entire national government" (Washington Times, March 4, 1994). In his January, 1995 State of the Union address, Clinton announced a "New Covenant" which he said was:
"A new set of understandings for how we can equip our people to meet the challenges of the new economy, how we can change the way our government works. The old way was centralized here in Washington. The New Covenant must take hold in the communities all across America. We should rely on government as a partner".
The president kept his word and created the National Performance Review. They reported that over a five year period of time, the US Government eliminated 250 outdated government programs, slashed more than 160,000 pages of regulations, cut more than 640,000 pages of internal rules, helped balance the federal budget for the first time in 30 years and cut more than 351,000 employees. However, reinventing government is more than just making government more efficient.
In 1999 when Vice President Al Gore hosted the first annual meeting on "Reinventing Government" at the State Department, he said overly centralized government is an impediment in the 21st century high-speed, high-tech economy. He explained, "To promote prosperity in the new economy, nations will have to reinvent their economic and regulatory institutions to respond to citizens and markets in a more flexible and efficient manner." Various countries testified as to what they were doing to reinvent government in their country.
Various books and reports started to pop up. Some of them included: Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, Creating a New Civilization — The Politics of the Third Wave in 1994 by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, An Agenda for Peace by Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1995, and Our Global Neighborhood by The Commission on Global Governance in 1995. For our purposes we will address the Toffler's book and the report, Our Global Neighborhood.
In Toffler's book, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote a very glowing forward in which he explained that he began working with the Toffler's in the early 1970s on a concept called "anticipatory democracy" when he was an assistant professor at West Georgia State College. Gingrich wrote that he has worked with them to develop a "future-conscious politics and popular understanding that would make it easier for America to make the transition from the Second Wave (industrial revolution) civilization — which is clearly dying — to the emerging, but in many ways undefined and not fully understood Third Wave civilization." The Toffler's state that a centralized form of bureaucratic government is outdated in the new Third Wave and that "more appropriate political structures" are needed because "In all likelihood it will require a protracted battle to radically overhaul the United States Congress, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the French Chamber of Deputies, the Bundestag, the Diet, the giant ministries and entrenched civil services of many nations, their constitutions and court systems — in short, much of the unwieldy and increasingly unworkable apparatus of existing representative governments. Nor will this wave of political struggle stop at the national level. Over the months and decades ahead, the entire 'global law machine' — from the United Nations at one end to the local city or town council at the other—will eventually face a mounting, ultimately irresistible demand for restructuring." The Toffler's say that the Third Wave society of the Internet age must depend on "the principle of 'semi-direct democracy' — a shift from depending on representatives to representing ourselves."
Toffler's book was followed by the release of Our Global Neighborhood which provided an independent report, we are told, in which the Commission wrote, "[B]ecause of the changes of recent years, we are at a new time, that we need a new order in world affairs, a new style of managing our relations on this planet and a new way of relating to the planet." The Commission provided a definition of "governance" which is "[T]he sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs." They explain that "when the United Nations was created, nation-states, some of them [with] imperial powers were dominant." They expanded the definition of governance to "global governance" which is "the governance of diversity, not uniformity; it is governance through democracy, not through dominion; it is governance that is multi-layered, not from the mountain-top. It is necessarily governance as an un-centralized system." In short, their definition of global governance is exactly what those who want to reinvent government are talking about! It builds on the Toffler theory of "more inclusive and participatory democracy." All of this is in the making — there is no pattern in all of history for what they are proposing! In short, the Commission writes, "The creation of adequate governance mechanisms will be complicated. There must be an agreed global framework for actions and policies to be carried out at appropriate levels."
At the first meeting on reinventing government, then Secretary of State Madeline Albright testified that the State Department had been reinventing itself and World Bank President Jim Wolfenson described how the World Bank was reinventing itself to help countries with their public sectors. In the UK, the Blair government was also reinventing itself and that was the vision of the Blair government. Their program, "Modernizing Government," according to Minister for the Cabinet Office Jack Cunningham, was dividing the work of government so that tasks "were more clearly defined. Some tasks were privatized, others were contracted out, or devolved to new, clearly focused agencies, and performance-related pay was introduced." Furthermore, the barriers between the different organizations of government were removed so they could work together. They created a new performance and innovation unit to determine how to better deliver government's objectives at the local level. Britain put in place family leave and launched new partnerships across government to deliver their policy pledges. They also set a target that by 2002, at least 25% of all government services should be capable of being delivered by electronic means: banking, the Internet, digital TV and telephone. The UK passed their own Freedom of Information Act and a people's panel of 5,000 to nationally represent their citizens to tell them what they think of government and their services.
Other countries testified of decentralizing government with the prime minister having the greatest power to coordinate the ministers of government and to rule them. Many former Comecon countries were adopting market-based democracy rules, privatizing government services by changing the constitution to end state monopolies. Canada testified that they have been "downsizing, privatizing, deregulating, and so on." Jocelyne Bourgon, Canada's Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet testified on reinventing government, "It means re-modernizing the role of government. What are the new roles that government will be called upon to play to adapt to a global economy, knowledge-based society, information age, digital age and so on? New roles that did not exist before. Like all of you, we've been experimenting with partnerships, strategic alliances with the private sector, academy, community, NGO, single society."
Common elements of reinventing government included public-private partnerships, de-regulating, privatizing and moving to electronic government. In an interview I did in Vienna with an official of Microsoft, he told me that at some point, there would be no need for a physical Congress for it would all be done electronically — within a country and between countries!
But let us consider globalization. Globalization is the process of tearing down barriers between the nation-states. When we consider that with the establishment of every international institution since 1944, the economic, political, trade, and legal barriers are gone. While I understood that Y2K wired the world, I did not carry it as far as electronic government! Furthermore, 9/11 tore down the most sensitive barriers: the military and intelligence. Basically the barriers between countries, for the most part, are gone.
Therefore what is left? To harmonize, integrate and reinvent government! Back in 1989, reinventing government became the mantra of the Democratic Leadership Council and the Smith Institute of the U.K. Eighteen years later it has been shifted to the United Nations. The First Global Forum on Reinventing Government was sponsored by the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Brookings Institute, all bastions of a progressive and democratic form of government, and not a republican form of government!
I find it fascinating that it was Margaret Thatcher who decided to adopt the economics of Frederic von Hayek who advocated smaller government through privatization of state assets. President Reagan agreed and during his term in office he adopted smaller government when he declared, "Get government off our backs." Little did the American people know that he was putting the foundation in place for big business to come in and buy up government through privatization and public private partnership. Now we see that the next level in destroying the nation-state as we know it was for Bill Clinton and Tony Blair to make reinventing government the centerpiece of their government. Today, based on the joint legacy of Thatcher/Reagan and Clinton/Blair, we have the infrastructure assets of government being sold: roads, bridges, water, electricity, sewer systems, airports, etc. As these assets are sold off, the citizens are being robbed of investments in government made with their tax dollars.
So just what are we witnessing in the 21st Century? Bottom line is that with the barriers between the nation-states gone and with the shift from the congresses and parliaments of the world to the local level along with the implementation of public-private partnerships which is the buy-out of government by business, the form that is really being put in place is global corporate fascism. With every new public-private partnership, representative government diminishes. While we are told civil society will have a voice, that voice is only limited to its financial power. Who has the power when the representatives of public-private partnership are sitting around the corporate table? Is it the bankrupt governments? Is it civil society? Or is it big business?
Furthermore, in a world without barriers and borders, we have the end of the nation-state as we have known it. As the world moves toward a global currency and a global tax, America will move away from the Constitution and Bill of Rights. As the Toffler's wrote, "Over the months and decades ahead, the entire 'global law machine' — from the United Nations at one end to the local city or town council at the other — will eventually face a mounting, ultimately irresistible demand for restructuring." But no one can tell us what it really means; when governments are stripped of assets, citizens become customers, and national government is no longer.
Bill Clinton is no George Washington and Hillary is no Betsy Ross. Unfortunately those who want a world governmental system or the reinventing of government are those who really want the world put back under British rule: the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and others. The world which is being reinvented is not being reinvented for you and me. As one man stated at the World Economic Forum several years ago, "The world depends on the US to get it right and when the US does not have it right, the world does not have it right." Where are the midnight riders who cried "The British are coming!" when danger was mounting during our fight for freedom? Freedom, when lost, is lost forever. We are no longer fighting the British, we have joined them!
For further information, see The United Nations' Global Straitjacket in which Joan Veon devotes a chapter to "reinventing government," and view her new DVD, Public Private Partnerships.
Comment: Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Do you see how the International Banksters and their cronies are asset-stripping nations, stealing public resources, disempowering citizens and returning the world to serfdom? Privatization and public-private partnerships shift authority from government and citizens to corporate investors, for he who has the gold rules. The costs have been socialised by past taxpayer dollars; now the profits are being privatized, and worse: the assets having been transferred, the nations stripped of national wealth will accumulate debt, enslaving their citizens to the usurers and tax-farmers. This research explains how it is done and who is doing the doing mindfully.org. We outlined the procedure in a six-part series, World Depopulation and Slavery.
The 'hidden hand' has transformed America from a republic to a democracy, which Franklin described as "two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." The well-armed lamb is clad in the full armour of God "taking the shield of faith, wherewith he will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, wearing the helmet of salvation and with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints".
Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty. Where liberty dwells, there is my country." Beullah Land, here we come.
What Sister Veon refers to as "the British" is actually the City of London, a one mile square alien sovereign state belonging to the successors of those who conquered England in 1649. The new form of government called 'reinvented government,' is based on Communitarianism or the 'Third Way' which is a merger between capitalism and communism in the same way that sustainable development and globalism are mergers between capitalism and communism."
Rowan Gaither, president of the Ford Foundation, confided personally to Norman Dodd, Director of Research for the Reece Committee of the US Senate in 1953, "Mr. Dodd, all of us here at the policy making level of the foundation have at one time or another served in the 0SS (the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA) or the European Economic Administration, operating under directives from the White House. We operate under those same directives. . . The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
Stunned, Dodd finally replied, "Why don't you tell the American people what you just told me and you could save the taxpayers thousands of dollars set aside for this investigation?" Gaither responded, "Mr. Dodd, we wouldn't think of doing that." So you see, the United States is still a British Colony, and it is the image of the beast in the natural as the (once) Protestant churches are in the Spiritual.
Brother Branham said, "God's church is united under God. Man has nothing to do with it. It's united under God. . . But the manmade religions will all come into this antichrist religion. There'll be two forms of them. One form will come from Rome, which will be the beast, and there is an image unto the beast, which will be the ecclesiastical head of the Protestant church heap up as a image unto the beast under the denominational world. And it'll all come under one great dominion. . . the devil uniting people under one head, one ecclesiastical head, a man on earth. The Bible said he would set in the temple of God, showing that he is God. And how he would wear a triple crown. . . the vicar of heaven, earth, and purgatory. And under this would be an image to him, where all the rest of them would unite together. But the church of the living God will be united under the power of God and the supervision of the Holy Spirit."
"The devil that's controlling Russia is trying to unite all the world under Communism. They'll never be able to do it. And then the UN, United Nations, is trying to unite them under a union police force, another manmade system. It never will work; it can't. But they're all trying to" (The Oneness of Unity, p. 4:24-33).
Rome will rule the world until she breaks her agreement with the International Jewish Banksters. They will openly change their alliance to Judaeo-Communist Russia, which is their creation God allowed them to raise up in order to destroy the false church. Russia will destroy both Vatican City State and the United States. Then Armageddon will set in, destroying all life on earth. nl487.htm
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We have here an unusual series of images associated with the ubiquitous Roman Catholic church. A curiosity among these images is the logo of the US National Security Agency in which the American Eagle (or Talmudic Phoenix of the Illuminati) clutches what may be one of the Keys of St. Peter (so-called), or perhaps the key to Uncle Sam's back door, while a video presentation identifies Bible symbology in the architecture of Vatican City.
Our friend Sister Joan Veon is this week's guest contributor. A Christian businesswoman and international reporter, she has covered 75 globalist meetings in different countries around the world, publishes a WTO Report, and may be contacted via The Women's International Media Group website.
Reinventing Government shows one need no longer fear ridicule as a student of the Conspiracy, and disarmed by their own ignorance, those without oil in their lamps are beginning to realize the terrors soon to overtake the world as the pieces of globalism's jigsaw puzzle comes together in plain view. The hard work of Amschel Mayer Rothschild, his co-conspirators and their fellow travelers, "those very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad," are about to accomplish vicariously the objective Lucifer failed to negotiate personally, and bear his rotten fruit (Matthew 4:8-9; Luke 13:6-9).
Hasten slowly. Carefully read every link: your life and eternal Life may depend on your familiarity with these matters.
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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Next elected Dictator of USA, Hillary Clinton? WWIII with Russia & China?
In his March 1933 vision William Brennan, [sic] then a Baptist minister during the great depression, and afterwards a pioneering healing Pentecost evangelist in the 40s, 50s and 60s, while preparing for his Sunday morning sermon, received a vision from the Lord in which was shown to him seven events that will occur before the end.
He was shown that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had just been inaugurated (in that time Presidents were inaugurated in March not in January), will be elected four times, a thing unheard of before, that this president would lead a country in another World War (WWII started in 1941), he was told that the man ruling Italy will die in a shameful way (Mussolini was killed by Italian partisans and hanged upside-down to be spat upon by his fellow citizens), that Adolph Hitler would become a tyrant who would lead the world into great bloodshed, the Lord showed him the immorality that would come upon America (he was shown the clothing of women that they will almost be naked), and the last thing he saw were people riding in egg-shaped cars and that the passengers in them would be amused by games while they were driving.
The next thing he saw was that an evil, wicked woman was running the USA. She become a dictator. And the next scene he saw was the smoking ruins of America. He saw that after this women take control of the nation, the nation will be destroyed. If this was talking about Hillary Clinton, we are really close. . . Full story: rumormillnews.com
Comment: As we meditate on the "mellowing" of Communism (except in China, of course), we would do well to remember Dimitri Manuilski's words: "The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. . . The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to join in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist."
It should be obvious by now why "the death of Communism" had to be staged. How else could Michael Gorbachev, chief Marxist-Leninist, and agent for Pharisees of the City of London, be able to base his operations in the world's chief anti-Communist country? How else would Western leaders consult without alarming their own citizens? How else would the masses be prevented from realizing that the purpose of such consultation is to work out the final details of a Communist world government?
Mikhail Gorbachev (whose Jewish surname is Kahn) declared in a speech at the seventieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution: ". . . In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road."
Speaking to the Soviet Politburo on November 1987, he stated: "Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. We want to accomplish three things:
One, we want the Americans to withdraw conventional forces from Europe.
Two, we want them to withdraw nuclear forces from Europe.
Three, we want the Americans to stop proceeding with the Strategic Defense Initiative."
These visions of the destruction of the USA by missiles launched from Soviet submarines confirm information Peter Beter gave the USDOD in the 1970's, as reported in Bible Believers' Newsletters in 2006. Do not bypass this Audio: Henry Gruver - Vision of Destruction of America, but filter it through the written Word of God and the Message of God's Prophet.
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Ex-CIA Officer slams US Allegations against Iran as Sham
July 28, 2007 – In an alarming exposure of the acceleration and urgency of the American war party's push towards catastrophic war with Iran, Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter terrorism officer, in an interview on 24th July with Anti War Radio debunked the NeoCons' repeated myth of Iran's support for al Qaeda as a pretext for war. Whilst acknowledging Iran's helpfulness in trying to establish security in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Giraldi spoke of the United States' hypocritical and illegal support for terrorist separatists groups inside Iran, and various plans and scenarios which have been drawn up to destroy Iran's military and economic infrastructure by massive bombardment, with the use of nuclear bombs a real and stated possibility. . . Full story: campaigniran.org
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US Government fails to explain "Chemtrails Hoax"
Its official: US Department of Air Force and US Federal Aviation Administration confirm Chemtrails are a product of chronic imaginitis. Full story: deepspace4.com
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US set to offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia
Washington, July 27 – The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.
The proposed package of advanced weaponry for Saudi Arabia, which includes advanced satellite-guided bombs, upgrades to its fighters and new naval vessels, has made Israel and some of its supporters in Congress nervous. Senior officials who described the package on Friday said they believed that the administration had resolved those concerns, in part by promising Israel $30.4 billion in military aid over the next decade, a significant increase over what Israel has received in the past 10 years. . . Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The chairman of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, Ruprecht Polenz, told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau that the Middle East was already a "powder keg" and that an influx of weapons could set it off. "If you add more explosives to a powder keg, you increase the risk and do not make the region more secure".
Considering CIA operative, the late Osama bin Laden was born of a Jewish mother and the Jewish origins of the House of Saud and the Wahabi sect of Islam could this be the objective. This WWIII is taking too long to reach the "hot" stage. "As the Washington Post's Walter Pincus reported last year, more than 70 percent of the staff of the Pentagon's newest intelligence unit, CIFA (Counterintelligence Field Activity), is made up of corporate contractors.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) lawyers revealed at a conference in May that contractors make up 51 percent of the staff in DIA offices. At the CIA, the situation is similar. Between 50 and 60 percent of the workforce of the CIA's most important directorate, the National Clandestine Service (NCS), responsible for the gathering of human intelligence, is composed of employees of for-profit corporations. . . Sources like "Curveball," the Iraqi informant who wrongly asserted the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and upon whom the CIA relied, are no longer needed. This is particularly frightening when one considers that the "war on terror" is fought by a $100 billion-plus industry that has a vested interest in its continuation". Full story: thenation.com
Brother Branham said, "Let's prove what's God. If education is the way out to freedom, why don't it act? If social standings and so forth is the way out, why don't it act? If paying other nations to be our buddies, and we find out they've turned heels against us just as soon they can. . . And you can't buy friendship with money. Friendship is a gift of God" (What Does Thou Here, p. 6:40).
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Reinventing Government
By Joan Veon © 2007 - All Rights Reserved
The Seventh Global Forum on Reinventing Government recently concluded in Vienna. For the first time since this type of meeting was organized in 1999, the United Nations hosted a conference on changing the structure of government worldwide to be more democratic. What does it mean to have the United Nations in charge of changing the structure of national government worldwide? We must primarily consider the actions of President Clinton who began the reinventing government process in the United States.
In 1989 Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton became chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). The DLC is also affiliated with the Progressive Policy Institute and the Smith Institute of London and was created to develop the "third way" philosophy and governing agenda. When he ran for the presidency, Clinton promised change and was the first to campaign on the concept of reinventing government.
On March 3, 1994, he announced, "We intend to redesign, to reinvent, to reinvigorate the entire national government" (Washington Times, March 4, 1994). In his January, 1995 State of the Union address, Clinton announced a "New Covenant" which he said was:
"A new set of understandings for how we can equip our people to meet the challenges of the new economy, how we can change the way our government works. The old way was centralized here in Washington. The New Covenant must take hold in the communities all across America. We should rely on government as a partner".
The president kept his word and created the National Performance Review. They reported that over a five year period of time, the US Government eliminated 250 outdated government programs, slashed more than 160,000 pages of regulations, cut more than 640,000 pages of internal rules, helped balance the federal budget for the first time in 30 years and cut more than 351,000 employees. However, reinventing government is more than just making government more efficient.
In 1999 when Vice President Al Gore hosted the first annual meeting on "Reinventing Government" at the State Department, he said overly centralized government is an impediment in the 21st century high-speed, high-tech economy. He explained, "To promote prosperity in the new economy, nations will have to reinvent their economic and regulatory institutions to respond to citizens and markets in a more flexible and efficient manner." Various countries testified as to what they were doing to reinvent government in their country.
Various books and reports started to pop up. Some of them included: Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, Creating a New Civilization — The Politics of the Third Wave in 1994 by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, An Agenda for Peace by Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1995, and Our Global Neighborhood by The Commission on Global Governance in 1995. For our purposes we will address the Toffler's book and the report, Our Global Neighborhood.
In Toffler's book, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote a very glowing forward in which he explained that he began working with the Toffler's in the early 1970s on a concept called "anticipatory democracy" when he was an assistant professor at West Georgia State College. Gingrich wrote that he has worked with them to develop a "future-conscious politics and popular understanding that would make it easier for America to make the transition from the Second Wave (industrial revolution) civilization — which is clearly dying — to the emerging, but in many ways undefined and not fully understood Third Wave civilization." The Toffler's state that a centralized form of bureaucratic government is outdated in the new Third Wave and that "more appropriate political structures" are needed because "In all likelihood it will require a protracted battle to radically overhaul the United States Congress, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the French Chamber of Deputies, the Bundestag, the Diet, the giant ministries and entrenched civil services of many nations, their constitutions and court systems — in short, much of the unwieldy and increasingly unworkable apparatus of existing representative governments. Nor will this wave of political struggle stop at the national level. Over the months and decades ahead, the entire 'global law machine' — from the United Nations at one end to the local city or town council at the other—will eventually face a mounting, ultimately irresistible demand for restructuring." The Toffler's say that the Third Wave society of the Internet age must depend on "the principle of 'semi-direct democracy' — a shift from depending on representatives to representing ourselves."
Toffler's book was followed by the release of Our Global Neighborhood which provided an independent report, we are told, in which the Commission wrote, "[B]ecause of the changes of recent years, we are at a new time, that we need a new order in world affairs, a new style of managing our relations on this planet and a new way of relating to the planet." The Commission provided a definition of "governance" which is "[T]he sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs." They explain that "when the United Nations was created, nation-states, some of them [with] imperial powers were dominant." They expanded the definition of governance to "global governance" which is "the governance of diversity, not uniformity; it is governance through democracy, not through dominion; it is governance that is multi-layered, not from the mountain-top. It is necessarily governance as an un-centralized system." In short, their definition of global governance is exactly what those who want to reinvent government are talking about! It builds on the Toffler theory of "more inclusive and participatory democracy." All of this is in the making — there is no pattern in all of history for what they are proposing! In short, the Commission writes, "The creation of adequate governance mechanisms will be complicated. There must be an agreed global framework for actions and policies to be carried out at appropriate levels."
At the first meeting on reinventing government, then Secretary of State Madeline Albright testified that the State Department had been reinventing itself and World Bank President Jim Wolfenson described how the World Bank was reinventing itself to help countries with their public sectors. In the UK, the Blair government was also reinventing itself and that was the vision of the Blair government. Their program, "Modernizing Government," according to Minister for the Cabinet Office Jack Cunningham, was dividing the work of government so that tasks "were more clearly defined. Some tasks were privatized, others were contracted out, or devolved to new, clearly focused agencies, and performance-related pay was introduced." Furthermore, the barriers between the different organizations of government were removed so they could work together. They created a new performance and innovation unit to determine how to better deliver government's objectives at the local level. Britain put in place family leave and launched new partnerships across government to deliver their policy pledges. They also set a target that by 2002, at least 25% of all government services should be capable of being delivered by electronic means: banking, the Internet, digital TV and telephone. The UK passed their own Freedom of Information Act and a people's panel of 5,000 to nationally represent their citizens to tell them what they think of government and their services.
Other countries testified of decentralizing government with the prime minister having the greatest power to coordinate the ministers of government and to rule them. Many former Comecon countries were adopting market-based democracy rules, privatizing government services by changing the constitution to end state monopolies. Canada testified that they have been "downsizing, privatizing, deregulating, and so on." Jocelyne Bourgon, Canada's Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet testified on reinventing government, "It means re-modernizing the role of government. What are the new roles that government will be called upon to play to adapt to a global economy, knowledge-based society, information age, digital age and so on? New roles that did not exist before. Like all of you, we've been experimenting with partnerships, strategic alliances with the private sector, academy, community, NGO, single society."
Common elements of reinventing government included public-private partnerships, de-regulating, privatizing and moving to electronic government. In an interview I did in Vienna with an official of Microsoft, he told me that at some point, there would be no need for a physical Congress for it would all be done electronically — within a country and between countries!
But let us consider globalization. Globalization is the process of tearing down barriers between the nation-states. When we consider that with the establishment of every international institution since 1944, the economic, political, trade, and legal barriers are gone. While I understood that Y2K wired the world, I did not carry it as far as electronic government! Furthermore, 9/11 tore down the most sensitive barriers: the military and intelligence. Basically the barriers between countries, for the most part, are gone.
Therefore what is left? To harmonize, integrate and reinvent government! Back in 1989, reinventing government became the mantra of the Democratic Leadership Council and the Smith Institute of the U.K. Eighteen years later it has been shifted to the United Nations. The First Global Forum on Reinventing Government was sponsored by the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Brookings Institute, all bastions of a progressive and democratic form of government, and not a republican form of government!
I find it fascinating that it was Margaret Thatcher who decided to adopt the economics of Frederic von Hayek who advocated smaller government through privatization of state assets. President Reagan agreed and during his term in office he adopted smaller government when he declared, "Get government off our backs." Little did the American people know that he was putting the foundation in place for big business to come in and buy up government through privatization and public private partnership. Now we see that the next level in destroying the nation-state as we know it was for Bill Clinton and Tony Blair to make reinventing government the centerpiece of their government. Today, based on the joint legacy of Thatcher/Reagan and Clinton/Blair, we have the infrastructure assets of government being sold: roads, bridges, water, electricity, sewer systems, airports, etc. As these assets are sold off, the citizens are being robbed of investments in government made with their tax dollars.
So just what are we witnessing in the 21st Century? Bottom line is that with the barriers between the nation-states gone and with the shift from the congresses and parliaments of the world to the local level along with the implementation of public-private partnerships which is the buy-out of government by business, the form that is really being put in place is global corporate fascism. With every new public-private partnership, representative government diminishes. While we are told civil society will have a voice, that voice is only limited to its financial power. Who has the power when the representatives of public-private partnership are sitting around the corporate table? Is it the bankrupt governments? Is it civil society? Or is it big business?
Furthermore, in a world without barriers and borders, we have the end of the nation-state as we have known it. As the world moves toward a global currency and a global tax, America will move away from the Constitution and Bill of Rights. As the Toffler's wrote, "Over the months and decades ahead, the entire 'global law machine' — from the United Nations at one end to the local city or town council at the other — will eventually face a mounting, ultimately irresistible demand for restructuring." But no one can tell us what it really means; when governments are stripped of assets, citizens become customers, and national government is no longer.
Bill Clinton is no George Washington and Hillary is no Betsy Ross. Unfortunately those who want a world governmental system or the reinventing of government are those who really want the world put back under British rule: the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and others. The world which is being reinvented is not being reinvented for you and me. As one man stated at the World Economic Forum several years ago, "The world depends on the US to get it right and when the US does not have it right, the world does not have it right." Where are the midnight riders who cried "The British are coming!" when danger was mounting during our fight for freedom? Freedom, when lost, is lost forever. We are no longer fighting the British, we have joined them!
For further information, see The United Nations' Global Straitjacket in which Joan Veon devotes a chapter to "reinventing government," and view her new DVD, Public Private Partnerships.
Comment: Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Do you see how the International Banksters and their cronies are asset-stripping nations, stealing public resources, disempowering citizens and returning the world to serfdom? Privatization and public-private partnerships shift authority from government and citizens to corporate investors, for he who has the gold rules. The costs have been socialised by past taxpayer dollars; now the profits are being privatized, and worse: the assets having been transferred, the nations stripped of national wealth will accumulate debt, enslaving their citizens to the usurers and tax-farmers. This research explains how it is done and who is doing the doing mindfully.org. We outlined the procedure in a six-part series, World Depopulation and Slavery.
The 'hidden hand' has transformed America from a republic to a democracy, which Franklin described as "two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." The well-armed lamb is clad in the full armour of God "taking the shield of faith, wherewith he will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, wearing the helmet of salvation and with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints".
Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty. Where liberty dwells, there is my country." Beullah Land, here we come.
What Sister Veon refers to as "the British" is actually the City of London, a one mile square alien sovereign state belonging to the successors of those who conquered England in 1649. The new form of government called 'reinvented government,' is based on Communitarianism or the 'Third Way' which is a merger between capitalism and communism in the same way that sustainable development and globalism are mergers between capitalism and communism."
Rowan Gaither, president of the Ford Foundation, confided personally to Norman Dodd, Director of Research for the Reece Committee of the US Senate in 1953, "Mr. Dodd, all of us here at the policy making level of the foundation have at one time or another served in the 0SS (the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA) or the European Economic Administration, operating under directives from the White House. We operate under those same directives. . . The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
Stunned, Dodd finally replied, "Why don't you tell the American people what you just told me and you could save the taxpayers thousands of dollars set aside for this investigation?" Gaither responded, "Mr. Dodd, we wouldn't think of doing that." So you see, the United States is still a British Colony, and it is the image of the beast in the natural as the (once) Protestant churches are in the Spiritual.
Brother Branham said, "God's church is united under God. Man has nothing to do with it. It's united under God. . . But the manmade religions will all come into this antichrist religion. There'll be two forms of them. One form will come from Rome, which will be the beast, and there is an image unto the beast, which will be the ecclesiastical head of the Protestant church heap up as a image unto the beast under the denominational world. And it'll all come under one great dominion. . . the devil uniting people under one head, one ecclesiastical head, a man on earth. The Bible said he would set in the temple of God, showing that he is God. And how he would wear a triple crown. . . the vicar of heaven, earth, and purgatory. And under this would be an image to him, where all the rest of them would unite together. But the church of the living God will be united under the power of God and the supervision of the Holy Spirit."
"The devil that's controlling Russia is trying to unite all the world under Communism. They'll never be able to do it. And then the UN, United Nations, is trying to unite them under a union police force, another manmade system. It never will work; it can't. But they're all trying to" (The Oneness of Unity, p. 4:24-33).
Rome will rule the world until she breaks her agreement with the International Jewish Banksters. They will openly change their alliance to Judaeo-Communist Russia, which is their creation God allowed them to raise up in order to destroy the false church. Russia will destroy both Vatican City State and the United States. Then Armageddon will set in, destroying all life on earth. nl487.htm
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