Bless Jesus

Jesus on Isaiah here.

Not before time

'Six senior doctors have begun legal action to force a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who died days after being exposed as the source of a controversial BBC story on the Iraq war'.

Here.

'The action is being taken because six doctors are convinced that the original verdict of suicide is unsafe and should be overturned.

'Some suspect that Dr Kelly, 59, was murdered shortly after it was revealed that he was the source of a BBC story which alleged that evidence against Iraq had been "sexed up" by the Government in order to justify the 2003 invasion.'

Not before time. This country spends its waking hours gazing at its navel.
Even so, it will still be relevant to bring to account the greed fueled journalists who purposefully jeopardised David Kelly's life.

Please could the others stop implying that he used the term 'sexed up'.
He never did.

And there was never anything 'sexy' about that 2003 story attempt, which was not worth a man's life. Neither is there anything sexy about a deep end journalist, most of them are one notch lower down the scale than London politicians.

Here, a tale told by an idiot.

Serious for the wintertime

Has anyone else noticed how much Sickert plays on Isaiah 54 ....in some of the series works? Particularly the Cathedral pictures? The pictures where the Vatican is suggested? Isaiah 54 is partly about God's grace and love for the persecuted. Sickert loved the persecuted church. He was also interested in the history of the Catholic and Protestant church institutions.

Sickert's not just painting 'bathers at Dieppe', (below) is he. See the ones in red and blue. He's painting a future generation going forward into discovery. He appears to believe that imagery can influence the future, the mentality of future generations. (The bible is full of that).

Here, Sickert in Venice, a brief journalistic comment. Many of Sickert's Venice and Dieppe pictures are London scenes superimposed onto a Venetian background. The one below is not the most specific. Here, more journalistic comment.

I think he'd have liked this song below. 'Cathedral song'. 'Serious for the winter time'. That's just what he was; capering dandy in summer, popular socialite ( later, instructer and connaisseur), and in summer his pictures were lighter, more positive, less suggestable. In winter, he'd often paint his 'clue pictures'. He'd often superimpose West End and Whitechapel scenes onto paintings of other places he'd seen. In winter he'd paint Whitechapel scenes or characters.

Mark Blanco, with love

The death of Chatterton, by Henry Wallis, pre raphaelite.

The Mark Blanco case seems to be yet another example of how British police fall over themselves for celebrities or wannabe celebs, ( such as Pete Doherty) and recoil at the sight of anyone from an academic family ( they persecute academic brilliance even when it emerges in their own force- and it does emerge in the police from time to time.)
What gentle academic people have ever done to deserve the kind of police abuse they receive no one seems prepared to explain.

'Mark, a 30-year-old Cambridge philosophy graduate, was found unconscious in the street following a row with Doherty and two of his cronies at a party in East London.

Doherty left before the police and ambulance arrived. He is captured on CCTV practically stepping over Mark's body on the pavement. A cloud of suspicion has hung over him ever since. Never more so than now'.

Full article here.

"Mother of Cambridge graduate who died at drug-addled singer's party reveals damning dossier of evidence which she claims proves her son was pushed to his death.

Next week, as Sheila Blanco is painfully aware, Pete Doherty begins a UK tour. How could she forget?

'He will be dancing on my son's grave when he gets on that stage,' says Mrs Blanco, with a mixture of anger and frustration, born out of the kind of grief none of us, God willing, will ever experience.

One of the numbers that Doherty, frontman of Babyshambles, will be performing is called The Lost Art Of Murder. The lyrics include the line: 'What a nice day for a murder.'

This probably won't mean very much to anyone in the audience, even supposing they manage to decipher Doherty's (often) incoherent, drug-ravaged ramblings that pass for songs.

But Mrs Blanco understands only too well. 'Doherty is just taunting us,' she told me this week. 'He's laughing at me, my family, the police, everyone.'

The track appears to be a gloating reference to the late Mark Blanco, who died in tragic and mysterious circumstances almost three years ago to the day.'

'One officer told me they [the people at the party where Mark died] were just poor helpless creatures,' says Mrs Blanco. 'Those were his exact words.'

Over the past three years, however, Mrs Blanco has compiled dossiers on the those 'poor helpless creatures' which rather contradicts that claim.'"

Some journalists are currently taking issue with Pete's song video, which was filmed at the scene where Mark Blanco died. 'The lost art of murder'.




The very first picture in the video is a take on a famous pre-raphaelite painting, 'The death of Chatterton' (more here) ... by pre-raphaelite Henry Wallis,

...it depicts a young man dead beside the open lattice window with an open box of his letters lying beside him. Observe.

The pre raphaelites focused on depicting aspects of an imagined 'earthly paradise' and were extreme romantics ( by trade, rather than delusion.) Here, a collection of images.

Suggestably, Pete's comparing his voice with Chatterton's, and the 'murder' he refers to is a self murder, a suicide. From that perspective his song's one of the lovliest takes on the Chatterton episode I've heard. The gentle Mark would doubtless be among the first to say so.

However, as Mark's mother points out, that's ostensibly not the only angle Pete intends us to take on this song, therein lies Pete's problem. And he's clearly saying... 'Call yourself a killer? The only thing you're killing is your time.' It seems to be a soliloquy. He also sings ..'someone else washed up in paradise...' (which presumably refers to Mark.)

Then there's the line that sounds abit like 'there's nothing absurder, ...' ( the rhyming is poor) ..'but it's a burden on your heart soul body spirit and mind'.... so perhaps there he's implying that he, Pete, is such a poor thing with this cloud of suspicion upon him that he might even take it upon himself do do away with his life and lie in some sort of eternal pre raphaelite repose? It this what he felt that line was about?

Some people feel the song line outlined above to be
'What a nice day for a murder
Say you're a killer, the only thing your killing is time
It's nothing absurder
A bird is a burden
To your heart your soul your body, spirit and mind'

This is a picture of poor Mark in hospital where he later died consequent to his fall.

Walter Sickert and his fellow impressionists followed in the pre raphaelite footsteps politically and socially ( William Morris' in particular). Sickert, as my research demonstrates, was particularly focused on deaths caused by letters between lovers being intercepted by disaproving authorities, and the lovers at the centre of the 1888 Whitechapel affair. (Sickert was not the only artist to comment on the Whitechapel murders in his paintings, but Sickert was a particular witness to events, and his careful picture comment was extensive.)

Can't help wondering if Pete's spent some of his time reading Patricia Cornwell's erroneous flamboyances? (Cornwell wrongly concludes that Walter Sickert boastfully painted murders he committed, whereas Walter Sickert in fact recorded Special Branch murders with integrity in his paintings.)

Pete; Sickert was at pains to comment on and expose murder and complex, real conspiracy among a few in the 1880's police force ( then incorporating security services which later developed into the Special Branch police department and the MI5 we know today.) It's apparent. Second, Sickert was a genius talent, which goes some way to explaining how he did it so beautifully. His extensive work's not about dancing on anyone's grave, or causing extra grief to a suffering mother. That's the last thing he'd have done.

Mark Blanco's is a gentle and intelligent soul, love and careful analysis in his eyes, 'the soul is in the eyes'. Ironically the winsome guitar appearing in the 'Lost art of murder' song suits his apparent personality rather than Pete's.

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* The song line 'lost my throne in paradise' ( if that's what it is) is rather lovely (of itself) but artistically it really belongs to the 1880's dandy gents ( the aristocrats and their artistic circle), Prince Eddy in particular, not to Pete and and his rather hapless looking bunch of 'crackheads'. Hold on; some commenters are saying it might be 'lost my phone in paradise.' Another video here. Take your pick.

The song appears to partly comprise a naive and conceited attempt at imitating Sickert's imagined attitude ( Given Pete seems to be assuming that Sickert may have commited murder as well as painted it). The video seems to be apeing Sid Vicious 'and co'. in part (Ironically Sid's Nancy (murder victim) does come across as a figure the pre raphaelites might have depicted. Here. )

(Sid, Johnny and co from 'out of your head land' (here) collectively calling themselves 'Babyshambles'. ( ??)) (Here, on Sid Vicious, it makes a point).

Mark's Mum and the journalist think Pete could at least answer a few more questions.

If the officer in charge of the Blanco investigation finds himself nicknamed 'operation shambles' he'll have to live with it I suppose. ( An earlier article here.)
It's distressing to again see what happens to the story of a person's life when their voice is taken away from them by a pack of journalists and abusers. Another earlier article. Mark's been portrayed as an enthusiatic socially inept groupie who was making a pest of himself and all but asking to be flung as far as anyone could throw him. That description is extremely unlikely to be true. I would also reject the claims that Mark's invitation to Pete to attend his play was in any way aggressive. That line ( or excuse?) sounds more like a guilty party default defense.

Some people have read Pete's break up with Kate into the song words. ( Just looking round the web briefly.) Kate's always finished with Pete when she's felt he's about to become a serious commercial embarassment, according to press reports. I thought her recent defiant pose beside Victoria Beckham's ( complete with posturing) was unfeeling.

Mrs Blanco has struggled with police and CPS indifference and indolence for a long time now.

Here's a CCTV analysis of exactly what the crowd at Pete Doherty's party that night purportedly thought of Mark's ' heart soul body spirit and mind'. ( The injury biomechanics investigation.)

From a spiritual perspective ( that's pretty important) it's a mercy to read that Mark took a while to leave this world, which means he had time to call on Christ. There is this scripture here, which I hope comforts Mark's mother.

Interesting people on forgiveness

In the news yesterday, a new development in the latest stage of the ever running death camp trials. Here, a website with details about the trials of some who organized the death camps under Adolf Hitler. In a new development, a long standing escapee from the 'Nazi Hunters', John Demjanjuk, apparently a Polish guard at the 'Sobibor' camps, has been charged with 27,900
counts of 'accessory to murder'.

Charges were filed at a state court in Munich.

The German prosecutors demonstrate a mania similar to that of their German predecessors. Twenty seven thousand nine hundred counts? He alone assisted, physically and personally, John Demanjuk, on each count, when his own personal intervention or refusal could have saved all the victims, each one?

The German nation is dumping its sins on a scapegoat, and hauling the goat up hill for slaughter. ( He's a guilty scapegoat, according to evidence that's apparently surfaced, but all the same).

I have met some Holocaust survivors ( when I was living in France, where quite a few of them are). Two, I knew well. In respect of the Polish who stood letting the holocaust happen, who did not assist, the survivors invariably advocate gentility and compassion. The Polish, though nearer to the camps than other nations, are less guilty than a number. Poles seen assisting a Jew in any shape or form were to be shot on sight, by decree.

The survivors don't have an 'us and them' ( ingroup-outgroup) mentality; they talk about man's inhumanity to man.

Here, a University study, forgiveness and resiliance, the Holocaust survivors.

"By studying the life experiences of older adults who endured the Holocaust, survived the atrocities perpetuated by one group upon another—and were able to triumph over adversity—we learn about the concepts of forgiveness and resilience," Greene said.

"The insights gleaned from interviewing this unique group of survivors can morally and spiritually equip individual communities and the country as a whole to deal with critical events facing the United States in today's uncertain world."

Here, the narrative.

Of course, there was a difference between doing nothing and saying 'Well, I've got my children to consider', and assisting at Sobibor and Bergen Belsen and other camps ( an act avoided by most of the oppressed Poles who felt the weight of their shame.)

Here, Eva Kor, Holocaust survivor, speaks of forgiving the Auschwitz Nazis. 'Forgiving Dr. Mengele' is the title of her story. A beautiful person, with full experience. Here, her heartbreaking story. Her heart is the work of Christ. She understands the God of the Hebrew bible and responds with dignity and strength, shaming her persecutors, as did so many of those who died under the Holocaust regime. Here, more information on her. This lady is not saying these people she forgives were not what they were; she recognises the extent of their sin and that they desperately need forgiveness ( or needed it), whether they admit(ed) it or not.

Here is Sally Klein O'Connor, 'Forgive them', with her point of view.

Forgiveness of people who set themselves as our enemies defies satan, and leaves him with nothing, which is all he is worth. He can't stand it. He hates it as much as genuine personal praise to God.

There is some objection to Eva 'making amnesty declarations' and ' issuing forgiveness decrees', while otherwise people feel she can get on with what she feels she needs to do. It's entirely true that while the bible requires us to personally forgive our enemies, whatever, we don't have the right to put decrees on anyone else, or forgive ( or unforgive) on anyone else's behalf. The fact that Eva's 'forgiving on everyone's behalf' though, which is endearing , should be seen with interest and compassion. She's removed power over her from one of the most dreadful persecutors the world has ever seen, and objections should be overlooked in her case, surely. She is not attention seeking, she is not in denial. She was one of the children at the front of the procession leaving Auschwitz at the liberation, and can point to her very young face.

Which incidentally still shows a smile for the joy of life at the liberation.

Jesus said, 'Unless you become like one of these, ( children) you will not enter the Kingdom of God.' He is talking about love and forgiveness.

He also said 'If you do not forgive others, your Heavenly Father will not forgive you.' And 'Love one another as I have loved you.' Everyone's sins put Jesus on the cross.

Here, pictures of the children at Auschwitz, some who were at the liberation, and others who did not make it.

'Forgiving Dr Mengele' trailer below.




(Ignore comments beneath the videos on the youtube comments boxes. You don't have to go there to see videos here.)
In the first video, you see the second child in the photographs taken on admissal to Mengele's part of Auschwitz, ( there is a photo showing the girls' head in a scarf on the right of three pictures.) The child's features bear quite a striking resemblance to Eva Moses Kor's adult features. The fact that Eva survived and these photos were maintained by officers ( an officer?) rather than destroyed, might bear the resemblance out. The child seems to be showing a remarkable attitude of compassion towards those photographing her.

The Lord Jesus clearly commands that on seeing an individual being victimized, such as the Holocaust victims were, you should not stand there and do nothing.

Jesus said: ' When you did it not for the least of these, you did it not for me.'

This bible commandment is found as early on as Deuteronomy and Leviticus. Throughout the Old Testament you seethe compassionate heart of God.

Finding animals to slaughter who'd represent and carry the nations sins was over the moment Jesus gave up his breath, shouted 'It is finished!' and died. The holy sacrifice rites of the Old Testament ( the Hebrew bible) were never intended to give the world a scapegoat mentality. The killing of the sacrificial lamb at Passover symbolized the coming Messiah, the lamb of God, taking the penalty for our sin through his death. The temple sacrifices were holy and sacred for this reason. So are the 'three days' constantly referred to in the OT (Hebrew bible). Jesus rose from the dead 'on the third day'.

"The effort to bring Demjanjuk to justice sends a very powerful message that the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrator," said the top Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, who described the charges as "an important step forward."

The Messiah said we must accept that we are helpless as sinners, repent of our sins, and accept that he has completely paid the price for our sins. And we must refuse to judge and punish others; we must refuse to want them to suffer. All others. There is no sub clause. Whatever the sin committed against us, we must forgive, we must let it go.

We leave all judgment to the Judgment seat of Christ.

As we do this Yahweh calls us children of God.

We rise above the heathen. He helps us.

Forgiveness is the love of God manifest in this world.

'For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.'

Forgiveness of others, forms part of the faith God always wanted from us; it shows our unconditional love for Him and our respect for his creation in the beginning. The faith he wants was the faith of the patriarchs, of Job, of the persecuted prophets, it was the faith of Daniel, it was the faith of those who walked in the flames while the Lord walked with them. It's nothing to do with 'contract faith' between God and man; 'contract faith' is not what God wants. He never wanted 'contract faith', He loved us too much.
Forgiveness of others is about unconditional love for God in return for His unconditional love for us. That's what He wants.

*****Are those who died in the holocaust all in heaven, given the acts committed against them? Is being asked over and over, on the web. See Jesus' story of the poor beggar outside the gates, who died after a life of extreme hardship, and was taken up by the angels. He was no scholar, was he.

19 Jesus said, "There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed and who lived each day in luxury. 20 At his door lay a diseased beggar named Lazarus. 21 As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man's table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores. 22 Finally, the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham. 24 "The rich man shouted, 'Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in these flames.' 25 "But Abraham said to him, 'Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. ...... "

C.S. Lewis opines that if a person has never had the chance to hear the gospel of Christ, and dies prematurely, perhaps in childhood, then his or her response to the Holy Spirit, (specifically, a heart's demonstration of acceptance of a love for the Holy Spirit of God, Jesus' Spirit) is taken as that individual's response to God's call to accept Christ. This makes sense to me. By the same Jesus that C.S. Lewis studied, this will be especially the case for children who emanate the Lord's heart in their circumstances.

Here, the story of a Holocaust surivor's 'dramatic journey to the Messiah.' He is calling himself a 'Messianic Jew' which simply means the same thing as 'Christian', Messiah is translated 'Christ'. Many people prefer to use the Hebrew texts. This is great, just as no one should separate themselves from the true Church of Christ, which is one body. ( That's Jesus.)

If the Holocaust survivors can forgive their enemies, so can any of us in the present day.

There is one quote, from a survivor, on exiting Auschwitz: 'Our hearts are still beating in our bodies, but we will never feel the joy of life again'. The emotion Elie Weisel elicits is instant sympathy and compassion. (ignore ad on top right of this video). More here. A thing very beautiful about the gentleness of the survivors, and it is steadfast, is their simple sincerity and frankness at all times.

A number of people tragically passed away just before the liberation, their minds and bodies couldn't cope with the shock.

This lady survivor's choice of quote, here: 'Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber or sleep.'

'The one watches Israel will His vigil keep,
In the burning sunlight, or in the darkness deep.
Constantly beside you, you need not fear atall,
He is never weary, and He will not let you fall.'

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Hillsong's 'Yahweh' song, 'We look to Yahweh' is only just out, and it looks as if it'll be a while before Sydney are easy about it being loose on the web. Here, the Wiki.

We'll have to wait to have it again here, for however long it takes to go back up on the web with their permission. Not long. It has been in the Churches for a while. People who loved it are free to get it for themselves.

Jesus' suffering for our sakes was first and foremost about taking the punishment for everyone's sins. And he asks us to receive this, and forgive others. It was also about our healing, which he achieved there, on the cross. He did not have to it. But 'he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.' (Here, Hillsong's 'Shout to the Lord.' song.)

It is more than obvious to anyone that people who commit acts such as Mengele's, on discovery, should be put away for life, where they can harm no other person. They can work out their repentance there. There's nothing stopping them doing that. Here, the Wiki on Mengele.

Eva's statements show she probably had a very proactive forgiveness attitude towards Mengele while she was in his captivity. She seems to have been very vocal about it, and feisty with it. Probably.

'Even to this day I am amazed,' she says, 'that he did not kill me'.

Perhaps Mengele did have some idea of how desperately he needed forgiveness.

Report after report of survivors who've been contained in such circumstances ( and Auschwitz is perhaps the most extreme example) shows evidence of this kind of development. Eva, in her childish manner, responded to Mengele's unspeakable mistreatment of her with an attitude known as 'grace', which she seems to have demonstrated very expressively, very dynamically.

He let her live, apparently.

It seems as if the children had some kind of (unspoken?) forgiveness attitude shared between them, while they were there. Perhaps they made a pact between them of some kind.

It is perhaps no coincidence that on the liberation of Auschwitz, Eva Mozes ( Now Eva Mozes Kor) was heading up the little procession of child survivors. Perhaps no coincidence that they followed her out, with their lives.

I find it sad that some people should want to judge and condescend at Eva rather than try to understand her story.

Here, a review of the documentary.

"For a film about death-camp survivors "Forgiving Dr. Mengele" is surprisingly uplifting and, at times, even lighthearted. Ms. Kor, a stout little sparkplug of a woman with energy to burn, charges around Terre Haute in a red-white-and-blue pantsuit, selling houses, giving speeches at schools and museums, and cheerfully reminding her interviewer that "there's more to life than Auschwitz."

Whether or not you agree with her decision to forgive her torturers, it's impossible not to be moved by her fierce capacity for life."

Letters that got forgotten

I had a quick look at this blog people; what do you think? 'Holocaust victims accuse'.

Eichmann (click), an SS officer, World War II, held strong Zionist sympathies at the outset of his career. A number of officers ( the smaller number, there were a few) were part Jewish- Hans Frank, for example, a lawyer responsible for the rounding up of Jews in Poland, and observe Reinhart Heydritch, (profile here), whom Hitler considered a possible successor, whose Jewish origin was well known; particularly vocal, ( if you can attribute that elegant descriptive to the SS more regular expression of Nazi police ideologies..... ) it is thought that he was as rabidly anti-Semitic as he was in order to ensure to ensure that his German SS superiors never fell into doubt about his party allegiance.

"The Eichmann trial had a double purpose: that of seeking justice against the beastly instincts in man and that of educating us to the nature of the wickedness of nations. As for the shadow trial which must be held against our own brethren, its sole purpose is educational. Secularism must be placed upon the prosecutor’s bench of the guilty and exposed as the mortal enemy of our people."

During the second world war, my father (SOE) worked to sabotage and counter Nazi (SS) Intelligence and Nazi operations. I came across an article about a letter sent by Jewish Warsaw ghetto inhabitants to the prominent Jews of America of the epoque who 'd declined to lobby for the European Jewish cause even though ( as the letter rightly points out) the terrible dilemma had been highlighted by the British press (and consequently the US press) early on ( before the construction of the Auschwitz camp).

Europe's Jews beg US: "Respond, at least." ( New York, 21 Jan, 1943.)

Jewish leaders have received a plea from the Warsaw ghetto dwellers, who say that they are "poised at the brink of annihilation". It says: "We notify you of the greatest crime of all times, about the murder of millions of Jews in Poland"..." Brothers, the remaining Jews in Poland live with the awareness that in the most terrible days of our history you did not come to our aid. Respond, at least, in the last days of our life."

It is a terrible indictment of American and British Jews of the epoque- and their descendants ( American Jews in particular)- who oddly enough spend a lot of time today capitalising on a 'victim status' platform that those they claim their 'predecessors' purportedly left them to maintain.
Of course the letter also indicts all people who felt content to stand uselessly by. This includes Neutral nations who refused to offer assistance and shelter.

"Dr. Nachum Goldmann, president of Zionist organizations and president of the World Jewish Congress, admitted this year in a public forum commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising: “We all are blameworthy, not only in the Q(c)ausative objective factors, but also in the absence of that fervent will and unbridled readiness to adapt any and all necessary measures possible in that period.” "

( But doesn't the letter put it better?)

The letter and the series of articles indicts ( by implication) Antony Eden, of the British, Roosevelt ( of course) and many others, and allows blame to fall on all people in the service of the USA . In London, on the 17th Nov 1942:...." Antony Eden, the British foreign secretary, read a lengthy declaration by the Allied governments condemning the Nazis systematic extermination of Europes Jews and giving warning that those responsible for the atrocities will face retribution after the war. The declaration is being broadcast accross Europe by the BBC and other Allied radios. " ..." Sidney Silverman, the Jewish Labour MP for Nelson and Colne, asked whether the Allied governments would consider what measures of immediate relief could be given to Europe's Jews. ' We shall do what we can,' Eden said, ' though I fear that what we can do may inevitably be slight.' "

'Inevitably.'

'Respond, at least, in the last days of our life.'

The letter from Europes' Jews sheds light on human nature. ( Unregenerate human nature, human nature without the gift of the Spirit of Christ). It doesn't matter what anyone wants to call your ethnicity; if you're suffering and you're seen as disposable, in particular conditions, the world and his wife ( most of them) will be quite happy to dispose of you, or stand by while someone does it. Simple as that. The Jewish Warsaw ghetto experience is one to observe. Here, a commentary.

Here, an awful old American film, which nonetheless reveals many aspects of the dreadful Nazi regime. Observe that it attempts to absolve America of blame for its late action, and makes out in one place, that America never believed the reports about the death camps, considering them too extraordinary to be true.

I have looked at human nature outlined by Jesus in the bible many times. He is the only historical figure who makes no mistakes at all about it. The New Testament records that at the height of his ministry on earth he rejected every self motivated accolade he received 'for he knew what was in man.'

Not everyone is capable of the type of persecution carried out by the Nazis and the like, though regretably many are. Yet it does seem that most people are capable of standing by with an 'I'm glad its not me' attitude when they see persecution in action.

Below, a Jewish Christian gives a beautiful testimony, a beautiful witnesses for Jesus the Messiah.



The guest Judaism scholar ( the opposing voice, also interviewed above) does well to raise the matter of the persecution of Jews by so called Christians of the past. He cites a certain Pope, and apparently implies that a number of Popes have been extremely abusive, ( in fact the abusive ones are well known antichrists ..so..it's is abit weak, his argument there. Those abusive Popes - and there were a number-have no socalled Christian supporters and certainly no Christian supporters; the book of Revelation thoroughly indicts Rome for its various acts). The argument he presents is a well worn classic, 'why should we respect your God when so many so called Christians don't?' and it stands up against degenerate, persecuting false Christians of the ages. It doesn't stand against the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and it won't stand up at the Judgement seat of Christ. Where, presumably the Lord will answer along the lines of....'Apostates are under Judgement. But what about you, and Me? What did I ever do to you? What did I do for you?'

Reason also suggests that the Lord's very aware that if followers of Jesus had done the evangelical job and reflected Christ they should have done, instead of allowing false Christians to keep pouring hate upon the Jews throughout the ages, (calling them "Christ killers" etc. etc.) all Israel would probably be converted by now.

The Warsaw ghetto; the remnant is rounded up for transporting to Treblinka and Auschwitz, up and running at that moment. Including the little boy and all the other children remaining.

It is well known that Hitler and his SS and their army were not Christians, this does not need explaining, obviously. ( Some propagandists try to state that they were 'Christians'.) The Nazis were extremely active against hat they called 'fundamental' Christians, those who believe the full bible who inevitably conclude that Jesus advocates humility, love, mercy, justice , grace and compassion.

Most people privately believe that Jesus is the Messiah. ( For sake, who else is? Or, who else, is he?) Yet this is not quite enough. You must risk the statement before men, as the Spirit leads, you must own him. Jesus said 'to whom much is given, much will be asked.'

After Jesus was crucified at their hands the prominent first century Jewish people persecuted the early Christians terribly, the facts are recorded.
Most of the Sanhedrin who presided over Jesus mockery of a trial never saw Jesus close up, never saw his eyes close, close enough to see whether they were the eyes of his mothers, never stopped in their anger and their scheming to see past all the pain they caused him.
They are not the only persecutors this world has seen. Far from it.

I wonder how some professed Christians will feel when trying to put forward the list of difficulties so many people presented with their 'persecuting ways' etc. etc. I think the Lord may say " Yes I told you to expect persecution and/or difficulty as a matter of course. People you complain of didn't have my Spirit. And you? Who did I entrust with the mission of showing my love, my compassion and my forgiveness ?"

And I wonder what sort of answers some people will try to give ( already have tried to give.)
(* The 'Judgement seat of Christ' which will evaluate/does evaluate our lives, is not the 'Great White throne Judgement where Christ also is depicted seated' of the book of Revelation. Everyone passes before the Judgement seat of Christ on passing on: believers in Jesus do not stand condemned before it , but Jesus will evaluate and show us our lives and the consequences of our actions.)

The British press followed the Warsaw ghetto and its fate specifically, as a sample type. There were over 700,000 inhabitants, it was vast. All were transferred to camps. The claim 'we didn't see it ' ( by those who stood by) was preposterous. The press were informed. Throughout Europe, the main roads and stations were a riot of commotion all the time.

I put up with the 'oh we didn't see it happening' style rubbish daily- in respect of what I endured for a year, beginning a couple of years ago. I won't go into detail about what I went through at that time, here. Many of the 'Wanted' notices and abuse pages that went up about me are still on the web. Perpetrators continue to shout and disclaim. Some deluded characters still tell themselves that it was nothing at all.

The Talmud specifically insists that every Jew who reads the New Testament for himself is cursed of God, and must be expelled from the Synagogue. That is exactly what the aforementioned Pope and his immediate successors and predecessors did in respect of people reading the New Testament in the Church. They forbade it. Church goers were denied access to the sacred New Testament scriptures, which were chained to the pulpit. This Talmud declaration explains one of the interviewer's statements on the video shown above, the 'May their names be praised'.... ( said about Christians- he refers evidently to false Christians); that is code speak for 'may they be cursed.'

Newcomers to the holocaust subject should be forgiven for at first doubting the extent of the Nazi atrocities towards the Jews on the 2nd world war. First, it is stupifying; second, the killing machine was extremely well organised and the extent of its ultimate capacity was efficiently hidden for some while. Those defending the authenticity of survivors stories in the beginning, unless they were comissioned reporters or SOE, risked having the "conspiraloon slur pie" flung in their faces. Nonetheless, the British press from the outset publicly concluded that plans against the Jews in Poland seemed very well organised and seemed to have long term intent.

Where have all the flowers gone?

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The memorial to the victims of the 7/7 bombings is unveiled in Hyde Park ( here.)

The photo above shows it in the best possible light, in a blaze of sunlight, but his is is an awful memorial, typical of the modern architecture cheat (and various Turner prize winners). It seems the artists commissioned had a quick look at Stonehenge, shoved afew steel planks into the ground as a model and rushed off to 'create'. ( Did they plan to use a few discarded train tracks?) Here, it looks grim the moment the sun's gone.

Another example here. Very grim. In the comments beneath article linked in , a variety of people express how they've taken offence at the sight of it.

This monument poignantly communicates how futile it is to expect anyone to feel that by a stain glass steel stuck into the ground any human soul can possibly be replaced, so, people feel it's achieved something?

And it's military, as if the departed are being obliged to stand to attention in a public manner, the stainless steel posts are uniform, which is off. (Some sort of spin off of the over involvement of police in the public mourning?)

Piccs here.

One million pounds for it. An utter waste of money. There's a starving world out there, and very many dying. (Many of them for want of funds from the West). None of the transparently beautiful people who died in 7/7 ( judging by their life stories) would have wanted this further display of collective madness (a product of false piety, hysteria, and sentimentalism.)

This horrible monument is not right. ( What happens when the rain and rust hits it?)

Would this monument remind you of anyone you personally knew, loved and respected? Or would you feel insulted?

What does this young girl take home with her from this memorial?

Whatever happened to the gardens that used to commemorate? A big garden feature, with a different flower garden for each one we lost in the London bombings, would have been just beautiful-with perhaps a central plaque for each, in each special garden? Or if designers really felt they had to use something evoking the train and track theme (which I would have thought people wouldn't necessarily want to see) then how about a tunnel covered with flowers running through the whole garden?

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And what about a fountain place, where people could regularly leave their tokens of peace and affection? The birds, the doves, would gather there.

The rust, the rain, inevitable neglect over time, doesn't seem to affect birds such as swallows, sparrows, doves, robins, jays. Not in a once well planned garden. They turn up in any case, they never neglect to.

Whereas if you create an institutionalised place, all you get are blackbirds, crows and ravens. You can see this anytime, walking round a prison garden. Blackbirds, crows and ravens are the only ones that venture into such places. Ravens in particular. (Other types of birds all perch behind the fence, they don't venture in.)

The Lord's provided all the materials for us to celebrate the lives of those we care for. They are often a reminder of how he also feels. It's not hard. A garden celebrated his resurrection, and he is risen, praise God.

Love to them all.

I printed this song once before. If you don't know this one, or this singer, you should. Here she is at the Operation Ceasefire concert in Washington DC 24/9/2005.

Katie Melua's 'Blowin' in the wind' is best.

The Telegraph are an absolute spectacle, aren't they. You can just hear that editorial: "Come one girls and boys I want a full report, get down to Hyde Park and praise that monument. Praise it, treat it like the Holy Grail, praise the thing and you can't go wrong." You can just hear it, ( raise eyes ceilingwards and keep it to yourself).

Here, perhaps the most unapologetically 'military' picture of the monument yet.

I wouldn't take any notice of the press claiming they're speaking for everyone. Here, just afew comments surface. People complain that the monument is 'inappropriate', 'ugly', 'art farty' and 'waste of money that could have been spent on the living'.

Beneath the article linked at the top of the page, commenters observing the memorial state:

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-Jason, I am grown up that's why I still remember countless British citizens, including children, being killed by the IRA and wonder why more recent victims of terrorists seem more deserving of a memorial!- Mark, South-East London

-Let the victims have a memorial by all means, just don't let it be this sort of hideously ugly rubbish; after all, we already have that pig's breakfast of a concrete sewer - sorry, memorial fountain to Diana. Why do people feel the need to spout such pretentious twaddle when discussing modern "art"?- The Gene Genie, Croydon

-How can ONE million £ be justified for this? You can build decent 15 houses for that. Someone is making a tidy profit out of this! P.S. There is a memorial plaque for a horse called Sefton that was killed as a result of the IRA mainland campaign.- Paul, London UK

-It was a tragic and horrific event but I am not sure a permanent memorial like this is needed. Should we do similar for every innocent shot or stabbed or in some other way killed through the greed, ignorance or politics of another? And I have to wonder if there is not a better way to spend £1,000,000 and remember these souls.

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Prince Charles speaks very well, by reports. (No I am not just saying that because he's the prince :-). He seems to really identify with those bereaved by atrocious attacks.)

It does seem to be a real opportunity missed -this monument- or I wouldn't make time to comment.

Blood of Eden

The Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, gave Jesus a scenario of a woman who married 7 men (sequentially, since they all died prematurely) in her lifetime. They asked whose wife she would be in heaven. Jesus answered:
"You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures, or the power of God. ..For in the resurrection they (men and women) neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven." (Matthew 22:29-30)

' "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed" (Genesis 2:8). Then the majestic words become quite specific: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [Tigris]: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates" (Genesis 2:10-14).'

Here, comment on the search for Eden, and the discovery of the location of a 'fossil river,' indicating the original location of the Tigris and the Euphrates via Landsat images from space. The land is very rich in material sources today.

Somewhere nearby, provided the elements have not disappeared from the earth, is the original dna pattern. Adam and Eve's 'dna'. Less than there is in your bloodstream.

Eve was taken from Adam.

'And the lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and he closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man he made into a woman, and he brought her to the man.' Gen 2: 21-13.

Adam and Eve were created adult, they had no childhood.

The cells in human bone marrow produce over a hundred trillion molecules of hemoglobin a second. Here's an outline suggestive of how Eve may have begun to come about in real time : active dna 'transcription', producing hemoglobin, the oxygen transport malloprotein in our blood. The action shown in the video below is also happening in every cell of our bodies, this minute.

'For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing.
For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. For I delight in God's law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 'Who will deliver me from the body of death? Jesus Christ.' ( The Apostle Paul explaining that the believer placing their faith in Christ receives the help of the Holy Spirit, and walks in the Spirit, with a desire to obey the Lord).

Adam and Eve, made in the image of God, male and female, reflected God. They reflected the relationship between the Trinity. God. 'Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is one' : this biblical statement declared God is the only God, 'One', three in one. 'Elohim', used in the Hebrew book of Genesis, shows He is more than One in himself; it is plural. Love, humility and mutual submission is the nature of the perfect Trinity: they are 'three in one'; Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The Messiah as part of the Godhead was suggested in the Old Testament era many times (click). The Holy Spirit as the 'third member of the Trinity' with the Father and the Son was not fully revealed until the New Testament era. He is frequently cited in the Hebrew bible (Old testament.)

Why did God go ahead and create us, knowing all the while so many wouldn't spend eternity with Him- knowing so many would be lost ? How can He say he is Love, and go ahead and create us, aware of the destiny of so many? We understand the concept of good and evil, and we acknowledge that we've failed, that we've fallen short of perfect purity. That's not hard to grasp. Why did God go ahead and create those who'd be lost? It would have been better to have thought better of it, we say. We say we'd have done so.

We are fallen man, and that's the sort of question we ask, and the sort of statement we make. It's unconscious sin. We are often mistaken, not understanding the scriptures, or the power of God.

Between our intentions and our actions there's a space; our fallen nature; often, our sin. Not so Elohim. He's Love in action. In Him there is no hypocrisy, no darkness. The moment we were conceived in the mind of the Father, we existed, though we came into being as we know it later. As soon as were wanted, we became. There's no difference between the thoughts and the perfect deeds of the Heavenly Father. The moment the Trinity suggested 'Let us make man in our image', they agreed , and mankind existed. There was no 'going back', nor was 'going back' considered. Time as we know it here is an entity created by God for us for the purpose of giving us every opportunity possible to discover and enjoy God. It's less Less relevant than Love in action, which is God. Elohim. 'The Father Himself loves you'. ( Jesus.)

'And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.'

' ...God said ' Let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the birds in the air and the fish of the sea, and over the cattle (herds) over all the earth and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in His Own image; in the image of God he created them , male and female He created them.'

Adam and Eve walked in perfect love, their relationship emanated the nature of the Holy Trinity. Their relationship of mutual love, discovery and adoration perfectly echoed the relationship shared by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is male and female; Adam's entity was suggestive of the Heavenly Father himself, by Heavenly design.

'And the Lord God said 'It is not good that man should be alone, I will make him a helper comparable to him.' ( Gen 18. ) Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all the cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

This is the very first human being. He is simplicity, innocence and inexperience, and all he knows is God. ( at this stage.)

Whenever we see a lower intelligence ( the animal kingdom) doing such a thing as swim beneath the sea with a fleet of its kind all decorated in incredible colours, or paint with its trunk, or imitate two or three of our words, we express such extraordinary childlike joy of discovery, you'd think we'd discovered an intelligence higher than ourselves, an amazing creator behind the scenes, the way we go on. That reaction we have is curious. We all express it. It seems it's nothing but delight akin to the joy of discovery Adam probably expressed in the beginning when he saw all the created creatures for the first time; something innate.

Presumably since the first man saw every bird of the air and every fish of the sea, he was taken over the world. Why did God show Adam all this then?

God allowed Adam the progressive dawning 'there is no suitable helper who understands my life as I do' he allowed him joy of recognition on discovering 'Eve,' and experiential knowledge of the Lord's essential commandment; 'you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and all your mind, and you shall love your neighbour as yourself'. And then the Lord invited him to submit to very deep sleep.

'Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man he made into a woman, and he brought her to the man.' Gen 2: 21-13.'

The gospel of John records Jesus referring to the Holy Spirit as the 'helper' and 'comforter', who 'guides us into all truth'.

New International Version (©1984) But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

This was the first woman's role: 'helper'.

Eve's voice, to Adam, was a reflection of the voice of the Holy Spirit of God.

And Adam said: ' This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.' (Gen 2: 23.) 'Therefore a man shall leave his mother and father, and be joined to his wife, and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.'

It seems as if he must have been aware on some level, during the painless process when the rib from which Eve was created was removed from his body. A God given dream.

Adam and Eve have eternal life in their possession. In the garden of Eden are many trees. In the midst of the garden of Eden there are two; the tree of knowledge, and the tree of life. God has forbidden them both to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

'Then the Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord commanded the man, saying "Of every tree in the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may shall not eat of it, for the day you eat of it, you shall surely die.' ( Gen 2: 15-17).



Death means eternal separation from God, the source of life. That's what death is.

That's all and everything that hell is: eternal separation from God. God is Love, imagination, creation, light, comfort, relief, safety, innocence, beauty; life. Total absence of Him is manifest in a place named 'Sheol,', hell.

God allows people to choose where they'll spend eternity. With or without Him?


The tree of knowledge would enable Adam and Eve knowledge of good and evil; it would enable them to recognize and define satan in whatever form he might choose to appear.

And they were commanded not to eat of its fruit.
There's nothing wrong in knowing and discerning the difference between good and evil. God knows about good and evil. On our behalf, He defeated the evil that entered the world and blighted us , an act of his creationist Love.

'International Standard Version (©2008)
Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.' ( The Apostle Paul).

In desiring to spare Adam and Eve knowledge of good and evil the Lord was sparing them awareness of evil. Yet, given that he knew satan was watching for an opportunity, why didn't God allow Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge?

Adam and Eve might have then recognised satan for what he was as soon as he approached.

And they'd certainly have refused him. Yet there would have been no unconditional loyalty to God in such a well informed decision; there'd have been showing God no unconditional love, no true faith. Love for love's sake, faith for its sweet sake, that's what God hoped for, it's what he loves. The faith he asks us for now. Adam and Eve had a choice. They were asked not to taste the fruit of the tree. They could have made a decision to return God love for love, and stayed with Him.

Whether satan he watched the whole of creation from the shadows' isn't clear. We know that he saw how Adam and Eve reflected the nature of God. satan wanted to dissemble their relationship; it was a reflection of the Holy Trinity relationship. He wanted to get to Adam by getting Eve, Adam's 'helper' to be false. He wanted to implant in the voice of the helper whose voice reflected the voice of the Holy Spirit, a lie guided by himself.

'Now the serpent was more cunning than any other beast of the field, which the Lord God has made. And he said to the woman, ' Has God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?'

Eve's heard God's command about the tree of knowledge from Adam. She hasn't got the command first hand, we observe.

She responds. ' We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'

Eve was communicated the commandment by Adam, who's told her not to go anywhere near it.

'Then the serpent said to woman 'You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'

satan wanted Eve to embrace experiential evil (sin). He wanted her to ask 'Is God 'Yahweh false?' while experiencing knowledge. He wanted her to take after his own nature. ( Sin). And he wanted Adam to to state 'yes, God ' Yahweh' is false' while experiencing knowledge.

Much more than that, he wanted God wounded, caused immeasurable sorrow, and if possible, destroyed. He knows Elohim. He knows the extent God is Love in action; he knows Him. (He does not comprehend Love, the nature of God, but he recognizes God's actions.) Here in the garden of Eden he knew there was a terrible penalty for sin: death. He'd just experienced his penalty for sin; expulsion from paradise ( from the presence of God). He was in a position to evaluate that if Adam and Eve fell, God would step in, and accept to take their penalty in their place. Of course He would. If God failed in love in action at any stage, he (satan) would prove God is not. ( would prove Yaweh was not God.)

He'd decided to hold God to ransom. He'd tell God: 'You can have them back, can't you. But there's a penalty for sin, is there not. Either they pay, or you do.'

'So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.' ( Gen 3: 6-8).

'Nakedness' as described here in Gen 3 , aswell as being Adam and Eve's actual state, metaphorically represents guilt and spiritual shame, a sense of loss of self; Adam and Eve sensed that they'd lost their purity, lost their hold. They felt shame, and exposure to what they didn't know or understand; cold fear. Adam and Eve had never felt it before they ate. The first thing they did was try and hide from God.

Gen 3: 8-19

'And then they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid hid themselves from the presence of God among the trees of the garden.'

'Then the Lord God called to Adam, and said 'Adam, where are you?'

'So he said 'I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.'

(In Gen 3 we see the simplest of confessions.)

Adam's been aware of the presence of God for some time; his memory of the joy of it; and intermittently, he's been hearing God's voice.

'And He said 'Who told you that you were naked? have you eaten of the fruit of the tree that I commanded you not to eat?'

And apparently Adam then recounted it. Presumably he trembled and wept . ' The woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.'

And the Lord God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?'

King James Bible 1 Timothy 2: 14. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.' ( Apostle Paul.)

And presumably the same distress and tears in Eve's simple confession . ' The serpent deceived me, and I ate.' Her confession is absolutely true.

There was a way back for Adam and Eve; through repentance and accepting their need for forgiveness and the coming Messiah's sacrifice. There's a way back for Adam and Eve's descendants, through the same ( if they lived BC) and if they lived after Christ on earth, like us, through the same repentance and accepting Messiah Jesus' Lordship in their lives.

There is no way back for satan:

'The the Lord said to the Serpent: ' Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.'

The Lord promises mankind the Messiah as He continues:

'And I will put an enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.'

There is, here, a reference to the coming of the Messiah Jesus: 'There will be an enmity between you and the woman, between your spiritual descendants and hers ( believers in the Messiah) and he ( Jesus) shall crush your head, and you (satan) shall bruise his heel'. This verse refers to the crucifixion. Jesus would come to die. Jesus would defeat him who had the power of death ( satan) while satan would attack Him (crucifixion).

To the woman He said 'I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.' In Gen the Lord turns to judge Adam for his wilful sin committed without any direct influence from satan: ' Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying "You shall not eat of it", cursed is the ground for your sake, in toil you shall eat of it, all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return'.

Elohim has begun again already; in the minds of Trinity, there's the preparation of a new heavens and a new earth, and it exists. Men and women will be given perfect, eternal bodies in the resurrection, and will be as the angels are.

Adam and Eve and their direct descendants named their children after God's promise of deliverance from him who had the power of death over them, and they comfort one another with the message of the coming Messiah, Jesus. The list of bible names in the transcript begin's with Adam's son, Seth, which means 'Appointed one.' Enosh, his son's name, means 'mortal', and his son, Kenan's name 'Sorrow.' His son Malahel's name means 'The blessed God.' He named his son Jared, which means 'Came down', and his son, Enoch's name, means 'teaching.' Methuselah means "His death shall bring; ' Lamech' means 'Strength' and Noah,' Comfort.'


'God Appointed' 'Mortal man' of 'Sorrow'
'The Blessed God' 'Came Down'
'Teaching'
'His Death Shall Bring'
'Strength' and 'Comfort' .

(Faith in the coming Messiah whose crucifixion would atone for their sins will have made Adam and Eve acceptable to God; so though suffering on earth as a consequence of sin they would be alive in the resurrection. 'And Abraham believed God, and God considered him righteous because of his faith.' )

Adam and Eve's pitiful, futile first reaction to their guilt and shame ( covering themselves with leaves) would be rectified by God . He slew an animal ( the first bloodshed in Eden) and covered them with animal skin. This gesture represented the coming Messiah as the 'Lamb of God'; His atoning sacrifice would cover our guilt; He would pay the price for our sin.

'And Adam called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.' ( Gen 3: 22)

There is another reference to the Holy Trinity ensuite:

' Then the Lord God said, behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever- Therefore th Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So he drove out the man, and placed Cherubim at the East of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.' ( Gen 3: 23-24)

The Messiah was born of a virgin, as the Hebrew bible continued to prophecy and declare. First through the patriarchs, the twelve tribes of Israel, the prophets, and the prophetic and suggestive stories.

Adam sinned of his own volition; Eve sinned while being deceived. Jesus the Messiah became human, born of Mary, and not a product of the union between Adam and Eve; he was uncontaminated by original sin, untouched by the uncleanliness of sinful nature. God had spoken that the offspring of the descendants of Adam and Eve would both, return to dust- the appearance of the Messiah came through virgin birth.

In Isaiah's prophecy 'Emmanuel' refers specifically to Jesus Christ, born of Mary. 'Emmanuel', is a clear scripture reference to the coming Messiah.


"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call his name Immanuel" (Mtt 1:23).

By the laws of the Hebrew bible, ( Old Testament) the Messiah should be untouched by the dust Adam and Eve became in death, untouched by the original sinful nature. He would be the first resurrected from the dead. He would have to avoid sin himself and so avoid becoming as the first man and woman, which He did. The virgin birth and the Messiah's purity is defined in procedures relating to the Tabernacle. Without trace of sin, the Messiah, at liberty to do so, would redeem sinners by paying the price for their sin. He would thus defeat him (satan) who had the power of death over us.

In Mathew 22 Jesus defeats the Sadducees, once again speaking as the co author of the scriptures, and not as a reader merely.

'And some of the scribes replied ' teacher, you have spoken well. ..And after that they didn't dare as him anymore questions.'

(It is unclear whether the scribes were delighted that Jesus had defeated the Saduccees, or whether the scribes, having gathered with the Sadducees against Jesus, were defeated as the Sadduccees were, accepting their defeat. The latter seems more likely.)

British police display abusive conduct

Before, and while, persistent police abuses of many kinds were committed against me I was not indulging in any kind of rioting or gathering that might be perceived as potentially troublemaking. I was simply recording detail of what was being done to me, and reporting it on my blog, in accordance with Freedom of Speech law of this country. I knew, at the time, that it was important to record everything.



Police are bing accused of more abuses by G20 protesters and media. The recent abuse is clearly a reflection of police behavior as a whole. ( 'Shame on you' is being shouted by various protesters. Some of them regulars, no doubt.) Here's another video, showing police piling in to peaceful protesters.

Police seem indifferent to the death recently experienced at their hands during the G20 protests. We now learn that Mr. Tomlinson, the police victim who died, suffered abdominal bleeding rather than a heart attack, and that a police officer is likely to be up on a manslaughter charge. Here.

Why is a manslaughter charge being expected, rather than a murder charge? The CPS do not appear to be releasing an explanation about this.

Where do abusive police get their confidence from when they're not getting it from media strategists, British courts and abusive members of the British public? ( Each other, of course. And abusive puerile members of the CPS and their associates.)

Mr. Tomlinson, a poor man who died during the G20 protests, was an innocent bystander. He may have been a vulnerable adult. The video below, obtained by the Guardian, shows him being beaten and assaulted by police, then collapsing to the ground.

The very revealing video here (Mr Tomlinson). Viewing recommended.

Police attempted to state that protesters had stood in the way of their obtaining medical aid for the victim Tomlinson; however, it later transpired that police probably wounded him to the point that they caused him to later die, and then did nothing while he died, even though he requested their help, and tried to explain his predicament to them, in what looks like a very gentle manner.
Having violently abused him, police refused him help, and he died.
This sort of incidence is not untypical of British police.

As for police being concerned about anyone's medical health, observe the video below, which seems to speak for itself. A police medic appears to be bashing his baton about as if there were no tomorrow.



Many British police appear to be programmed to despise and abuse accused people whom they do not know, whose cases they frequently do not investigate. Police 'training' , socalled, usually translates into subjecting individuals of all backgrounds ( usually, defendants) to varieties of mental and physical abuse. This abuse is regularly evidenced in day to day police behaviors. Often regular police attitudes spill over into abuse of other members of the public: poor Mr. Tomlinson was simply a man who found himself near a rowdy scene.

It often transpires that the worse thing a genuinely vulnerable person can do, is go to a British policeman for help. Often enough. British Police enjoy abusing the vulnerable.

British police often appear to act in the knowledge that they are likely to pass their 'versions of events' off to biased British courts, to prejudiced and abusive magistrates who are all to often unchallenged by a prejudiced British public, who are encouraged by an abusive media system that enjoys exercising vindictive behavior towards vulnerable defendants ( and anyone else it can find) whenever it can.

Safe Journey Jade

'Clifford said that Goody and her children Bobby, 5, and Freddy, 4, were recently christened and that Goody has been using the experience to explain her future death.

"She's described that as 'through Jesus mommy will be in touch with you,'" Clifford said.'

Here, the full post.

Safe Journey, Jade. :-)

'No one comes to me unless the Father draw him, and whoever comes to me I will never turn away.' ( Jesus.)

Having endured an immense, very lengthy campaign against her, during which many forms of hatred were poured out on her, and all manner of words spoken against her, all of which the Heavenly Father saw, and having endured a terrible disease, Jade Goody is going to heaven. ( Oh of course she is!)

The Heavenly Father saw what was being done to Jade and drew her to Jesus.

Thankyou Heavenly Father, for being who, and what, you are.

Bravo

Mr Clifford said Jade Goody had told him (in respect of her children): "I want them to try to get to know Jesus because if they get to know Jesus, hopefully they'll be able to keep in touch in the future." BBC comment here.

The word is she has repented and accepted Jesus as Lord and her saviour. That's enough (click). If it is the case. She is apparently reading her bible daily.

The most important thing she can do at this time is talk to Jesus. God bless little Jade who (if it is the Lord's decision that she leaves this world) will be incomparibly above and beyond her pointless critics ere long, which will leave them feeling exposed for their pointless judgementalism and very silly indeed.
I hope she can relax and enjoy the love of God at this time.

I see Jade and Jack as two very young people who made some real mistakes, as so many young people do, who've been hit by a huge tragedy, which they've handled with simplicity and dignity.

The wedding and the request that her children get to know the Lord appears to be a gesture towards the Lord on Jade's part.

Jade has highlighted her cancer situation with humility, dignity and care, and helped millions of women. Her simple self effacement has brought the specific cancer problem out into the open 'the Jade effect' and she's raised awareness.

Jack Straw should show compassion and reason more often.

This morning we prayed for a lady with cancer in our Church. There was a specific word for her to come forward and be prayed for. It was a beautiful service, the Lord communicating the healing nature of his Holy Spirit.

I haven't forgotten previous posting promises but have been very busy :-)

In respect of Jade's comment, the bible forbids all attempts to communicate directly with those who have passed on, but there is everything good about asking the children get to know Jesus so that she and they may meet up again in heaven one day. (I personally can't see anything wrong with asking Jesus to take a message or a word to anyone who you believe is in heaven, but this must obviously go through prayer to Jesus specifically.)

Jade is also reported to have said ' I want my children to get to know Jesus so they will know their Mummy is in heaven.'

Stopping by

Hello. :-). Sorry for the lack of blogging these week; I've been elsewhere, but I've been here a bit, looking at A.D. history and the present American matter, as they relate to the Daniel prophecies and those in the New Testament in respect of the 'last days.' I'd like to study it all more.

A few additions and updates here and there, not many. I have been very busy this week. We had some very good teaching at Church this week on the assurance of salvation ( I have it, btw :-) ) and the complete and perfect work of Christ Jesus. It was good to listen to a full discussion and observe so many relevant scripture quotes in context. I will try and find time to communicate that study on the blog this week! :-). ( If possible; time is very limited at present...).

Archives

My Dad's SOE records (1939-1946) have been confided to the National Archives, along with other SOE files. They are not available under the Freedom of Information Act and are 'closed'. ( The SOE was the official name for Churchill's Secret Army.) Dad worked on facilitating British agent communications and sabotaging Nazi operations.
'Station X' simply meant 'Station 10', there were many stations. The station names and operation names were kept as simple as possible, the idea was that the SS were to fail to perceive their existence for as long as possible, for obvious reasons.

Faith hope and love remain

For other posts relating to subjects in this post, scroll down.

Today I saw ( inner City London) a bus drive past with a vast, apparently gratuitous, huge public advertisement:

'There probably is no God. Now relax and enjoy yourself.'

As well as making the incorrect statement that there is no God, this new 'trailer' suggests that relaxation and enjoyment do not happen in the Spirit filled born again believer's life, which is also false.

There seemed to be no commercial reason for the bus announcement. Has anyone else seen this new bus slogan?

Would anyone expect to see such vast announcements everywhere in the public domain a decade ago?

Jesus said, " Luke 17:26-30 "And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. "

The days of the Son of man infers to the days before the second coming of the Lord Jesus. Prior to his return, we can expect a situation as described to Timothy, who learned from the Apostle Paul:

2Timothy 3:1-7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Rembrant's Apostle Paul.

The Apostle Paul wrote in the bible:

'If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love'.

There is a redeemer, he went to the cross for you. His name is Jesus. He is the son of God.

'For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.'

The description 'having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof' refers to people who put on a show of godliness but deny the truths of the bible, they deny the full story.

Jesus said: "And you shall be hated of all men for my names' sake, but he that endures to the end shall be saved'. .....'For in those days there will be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, nor ever shall be. And except that the Lord shorten those days, which for the elects (believing Christian's) sake he has chosen, no flesh could survive, but for the elects' sake, he has shortened the days. "

I love this 'Lift Jesus Higher' video below. Many Christian communities in Africa are being terribly persecuted at present. Zimbabwe is suffering terribly. At my Church we receive stories about people having members of their families murdered, their houses ramsacked; they're being bullied, robbed, expelled, continually intimidated. What they endure while satan is taking his last stand in the world is appalling. They continue to sing the praises of Jesus.

The words are: 'Lift Jesus higher', 'Lower satan lower'.

Give these people all your love and support whenever and wherever you can. (End Time Evangelism here. They have removed their videos is a reshuffle, I hope they go back up again!)

Continue to declare the full bible story and praise Jesus.

The Israeli directive orders the military to carry out a massive strike on Gaza in a last ditch attempt to maneuver American lobbyists into standing successfully Obama's contacts in the Islam network. Over six hundred Palestinians killed. Newspaper reports show that two schools were devastated.

Both sides are rejecting a ceasefire. Israel's directive and the Hamas response want to show that 'their position had improved as a result of the fighting'.

Yet more demonstrations of pride, fear, aggressive ancestor worship, ( worship of human ancestors) racism, vengeance, and violence in the region.

Maneuver American lobbyists into standing successfully against Obama's contacts in the Islam network?

There is a much higher probability of an attack on Jewish Israel and Jerusalem in consequence of this....

A prayer Network for the Peace of Jerusalem. Good news in the turmoil.

Here, arab legislators speak out for Gaza from a meeting in Tyre. An interesting co-incidence.

Jesus and John the Baptist spoke out against ancestor worship ( worship of human ancestors). The saducees the pharisees of his era attempted to excuse themselves from their patently apparent need for salvation on the basis that they were 'descendants of Abraham'.

International Standard Version: 'Don't think you can say to yourselves, 'We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!'

Think not to say... 'We have Abraham to our father'. Sadducees and pharisees believed that Abraham's race was to be saved, if all else were destroyed. However, there was one way they could take, like everyone else: they had to be born again. They were not to flatter themselves that their inheritance ( human ancestry) could make them secure.

Another layer of meaning (prophetic) :

'God is as able to raise up a seed to Abraham out of those stones........ as He was 'to take Abraham himself out of the rock whence he was hewn and out of the hole of the pit whence he was digged' (Isa 51:1). While Jesus may have pointed as he spoke to the pebbles of the bare clay hills that lay around it was clearly the calling of the Gentiles into the room of unbelieving and then disinherited Israel that he meant to indicate ( Mt 21:43; Ro 11:20, 30).'

Israel was never disinherited in the sense of cast away, abandoned or rejected. Rather, there was a change of situation and the gentiles came into the Kingdom of God. After Jesus resurrection, the Lord as promised 'poured out his spirit on all flesh' ( All believers) and continues to do so.

International Standard Version.
'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams'.

The Lord gave, still gives, his spirit to indwell all who believe, who enter into a direct relationship with the Heavenly Father through Jesus. The bible later speaks extensively on the gratfing in of the gentiles into the 'cultivated Olive tree' of God and the salvation of the Jews in the 'end times' who will return to Messiah Jesus in significant numbers : 'when the fullness of the gentiles has come in.'

Romans 11:1 I say then, Has the Lord cast away his people? The Lord forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 The Lord has not cast away his people which he foreknew.

Jeremiah 31: 35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; the Lord of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37 Thus says the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.

The prophet Ezekiel and the 'Prince of Tyre'

The prophet Ezekiel by Michelangelo.

The 'futurist' view of the 'end times', so named, takes seriously the prophecies of Daniel and historical events, and advocates that according to scripture there is a 'son of perdition' , or the 'man of lawlessness' ( as defined by scripture) who emerges in the last days.

This link here is well written outline of relevant Ezekiel prophecies, I'll quote it here.

'We frequently find in scripture prophecy that the prophet is speaking of a contemporaneous event and also refers to an event of later times, ( end times) of which the contemporaneous event is in some respects a type'.

The scriptures demonstrate that there are political powers on earth and principalities and a spiritual equivalent that the bible names 'Powers and Principalities.' It is clearly implied that evil in the world is orchestrated by satan and his fallen Archangels who rebelled with satan : 'powers in high places' are said to control the legions of fallen angels beneath them. The 'high places' mentioned are not in God's heaven, the bible states. They are beneath God's heaven.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" Ephesians 6:12 - KJV

Below, God's command to the prophet Ezekiel to go and rebuke a man who sets himself up as a great god . Some feel that the scripture prophecy may ultimately apply to the 'son of perdition' of the last days ( popularly referred to as the 'Antichrist'.)

Ezekiel 28:1-10 [1] The word of the LORD came to me: [2] "Son of man, say to the ruler [most translations: prince of Tyre, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`In the pride of your heart you say, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas." But you are a man and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god. [3] Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you? [4] By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. [5] By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud. [6] "`Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god, [7] I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor. [8] They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas. [9] Will you then say, "I am a god," in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a man, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you. [10] You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.'"

So there's a 'Prince of Tyre' who's being addressed in scripture who is rebuked and condemned by the Lord.

Barack Hussein Obama, President Elect of the USA is the subject of many questions about his 'Messiah complex' and his role at the forefront of an emergent global governance or 'One World Government' which he has called for and named 'New World Order.' ( he also refers to it as 'globalisation', apparently when speaking of a 'global economy'.)

The two scripture paragraphs cited here are consecutive. The prophet Ezekiel is told to rebuke satan. See how it goes. Notice satan is called 'King of Tyre' in this instance. Implying that satan himself is ruling over the 'Tyre' region:

Ezekiel 28:11-19 [11] The word of the LORD came to me: [12] "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. [13] You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. [14] You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. [15] You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. [16] Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. [17] Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. [18] By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching. [19] All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'"

This perfect prophecy appears to tell the story of satan being cast out of heaven as well as his 'horrible end'.

Jesus is our redeemer.Colossians 2:14 and 15: 'He did this by erasing the charges that were brought against us by the written laws God had established. He took the charges away by nailing them to the cross.
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.


Here is a Revelation scripture:

International Standard Version (©2008)
'So be glad, heavens, and those who live in them! How terrible it is for the earth and the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, filled with rage, knowing that his time is short!"

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" Ephesians 6:12 - KJV


The contemporaneous event in ancient Tyre is outlined via the site linked as follows:

'Verses 1-10 refer at least primarily to the prince of Tyre then reigning, Ittiobalus by name, according to Josephus. They were fulfilled in the siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar.

Tyre was a great seafaring, naval, and financial power, the Wall Street of its time. Its core was on a highly fortified island, which made it practically impervious to attack. Ultimately, Alexander the Great completed the conquest of Tyre by taking rubble from the ruins of the mainland construction and using it to build a road to the island so his armies could mount a sustained assault on the fortifications.

Verses 11-19 have expressions which it is difficult, if not impossible, to refer to any mere man, e.g., verses 12-14. There are however, other verses that seem to indicate an earthly kingdom, e.g., 16 and 18.'

The scriptures shown above demonstrate more apparent biblical allusion to the 'son of perdition', the 'man of lawlessness' ...who according to scripture is to rise to power in the last days. Here again there appears to be the suggestion that in the 'end times' people will perceive that there have been been many false Messiahs who have come into the world, and that yet there is a penultimate ( world significant) false Messiah, the 'son of perdition', 'the man of lawlessness' who is part of a world governance. (The 'son of perdition' is popularly referred to as 'the Antichrist' in our times.)

In respect of the 'man of lawlessness' there is the scripture ' ...the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth.'

This blog recommends peaceful behaviors in accordance with the beatitudes of the Lord Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount at all times.


'Tyre' is an ancient world principality. The Ezekiel prophecy interpretation here shown gives credence to the suggestion that the 'son of perdition' -'man of lawlessness' described in the bible will have a background related to the history of Tyre. A Muslim or part Muslim background to the 'son of perdition' is often suggested today. There is nothing in Revelation on the ethnicity of the 'son of perdition'. Given the scripture prophecies, it makes sense that if the 'son of perdition' were to emerge in our generation he would have an education in the religion and religious ways of a people who are very hostile to 'Israel', (hostile to both the Jewish people and the Church) which points to Islam. It makes sense that his hostile background should evolve out of a principality where religious ways have always been extremely hostile to the sacred scriptures. ( Is that clearer.)

Barack Obama is subject to speculation that he may be the 'son of perdition' /'man of lawlessness'identified in the bible.

It makes sense that such a background might combine with a Western education and background at this time. Given that the four empire prophecies of Daniel are thought to involve prophecies about Rome, it is perhaps worth noting that Obama's formal religious identity on his Western side ( his grandmother's family) is lapsed Catholic and before he was born, his Western mother abandoned the families Catholic practice for practices that are entirely hostile to the sacred scriptures.

Barack Obama, apparently in keeping with scriptures on the 'end times' is seeking to amalgamate religions and forms of devotion that are unacceptable to the God of the bible into a 'one world religion.' Most of the world's media and his many followers are misguidedly hailing him an 'enlightened being'.

The history of Tyre is interesting and relevant. It's history corresponds with scripture prophecies and presumably continues to do so. One ruler that modern history books name as a 'King of Tyre' in history was named 'Abibaal'. ( Meaning, my father is 'Baal'. ) In the bible it is recorded that the Israelites were forbidden all forms of worship of 'foreign gods' . As are all Christian believers today.
'Baal' worship represented worship of satan.

The Ezekiel prophecy names a 'Prince' of Tyre, ruling over the region.

Here, arab legislators speak out for Gaza from a meeting in Tyre. An interesting event.

Barack Obama and 'Community Organisation.'

This video here, shows some rare clips of Adolf Hitler that appear to validate the Christian claims of his time that he was 'possessed by satan himself'. As did all Hitler's acts. This video also compares Hitler and Obama and is another to suggest that Obama, who will be head of the free world and his 'New World Order' is smoother, more sophisticated, and in appearance, more calculating than Hitler.

This T-shirt has a good emblem (click), which comes recommended here. :-)

While the candidates were running for the presidency, it was suggested:

'Jesus is a community organiser, Pilate was a governor.' This is being said over in America. Apparently to cast a slur on Palin for her office of governor in modern America. Susan Sarandon appears to have been among those who started it off. The reaction to this has been that Jesus is the true Messiah, therefore not a worldly 'community organizer'. Jesus was not a politically motivated community organizer ( as Barack appears to be- he is also a political radical). Barabas was. ( Barabus was also a radical). When Jesus was before Pontious Pilate, the latter asked the crowd of they'd like to have one of them released. The ranting crowd shouted for Barabus.

Here, Barack Obama mentions 'Muslim faith'. He makes claims to different faiths. He had instruction in Islam.

A note on Barack's "community organization" skills from a blogger here, who feels that Obama's respect for satanist community organisers of the past is suspect. Barack Obama further respects satanists who refer to satan as 'Lucifer'. This blogger complains about Barack being edited and defended by the press whenever they feel it's necessary. (I do not share this bloggers views about the evangelical Church. I support all true Christian believers in Jesus, I love his Church.)

People who refer to satan as 'Lucifer' are mistaken. ( Exception the one incidence where he addressed by the prophet Isaiah as Lucifer. Once . Here, go figure.) Here's a dictionnary definition providing scriptures for you to check. According to the bible, satan is fallen, condemned, punished, humiliated, cast out of heaven entirely; since man was expelled from the garden of Eden, he's tied to this world's time, the buible explains that after creating havoc in the last days he will be bound for a thousand years; at the end of the world's time, time as the world knows it, he is permanently punished and locked away. He has no future, he is powerless before Jesus; since he fell he has always been referred to as 'satan'. In many bible translations, the apostles don't even give a capital letter to the beginning of his name.

Here is a current discourse about Barack and his community organization.

Here's an interesting clip from Hannity and co, 'Obama's Radicalism' showing his radical connections . Barack Obama probably got into Harvard University thanks to recommendations from Islam extremists, and there is more info on his 'community organization' training. All radical extremists with far out views. Part 1 here.
And Part 2. and Part 3. and Part 4.

n.b. when watching this, bear in mind that Jesus is indeed a liberator for the oppressed (there is one point in the video where this is denied). Don't let anyone tell you different. Click here for the scripture.
Jesus is Not a politically motivated liberator, no, never has been and never will be. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

He came to set us free from sin and death and the kingdom of satan's destruction.

'King James Bible
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised..'

A lot of people didn't like his message. They wanted a Messiah King who'd set them free from their various oppressors through political means; the Sanhedrin wanted someone who'd free them from the Romans, many others wanted a King who'd use political force to free them from the Roman's and the Sanhedrin alike. ..

That wasn't Jesus' mission.

Here are a number of videos relating to the 'Saul Alinsky' issue.

Enjoy your Christmas time

I am taking a break from blog writing now for the Christmas period. I have put a few additions into posts, relevant to interesting issues; scroll down.

If the whole Western business, the whole commercial Christmas effort gets you down, relax.

Not because Barack thoroughly intends to get rid of all previous states and culture traditions. ( He apparently does.)

Jesus was not born to us mid winter. When he was conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary it was probably mid winter, since he was probably born mid Autumn.

'And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.

Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father; and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.

And of his kingdom there shall be no end.'

Here, a site page explaining the matter of Jesus' birth time in detail.

Mary and Joseph , at the time of Jesus' birth, were rejected by an indifferent, self absorbed world to the point Mary nearly had no where to give birth. No one would help them.
Not even when Joseph pointed out that Mary was about to give birth. They had to go knocking from door to door, everyone turned them down.

It must have been hurtful and bewildering.

Eventually, an innkeeper consented to lend them his stable.

The sort of response they were greeted with when in need might remind you of much of the world we live in today.

Throughout Israel there had been excitement over the coming of the Messiah to the point that Herod, the tyrannical political ruler, had been jealous and frightened about it. He did not understand the prophecies about Jesus and his mission. He was a tyrannical politician to the core.

He believed a 'King of the Jews' would come; he wondered what it all meant.

Jesus was born in a stable, as there had been 'no room at the inn.' Mary will have been carefully tended, and protected every moment by God.

After Jesus was born Mary tenderly placed him in a manger there. It will have been a little wooden one, filled with new, clean hay.

In Chapter 2, Verse 7, we read: "And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."

The scriptures indicate that throughout the Old Testament era, satan tried to disrupt the advent of the Messiah. He did not want Jesus to be born to us.

As soon as Jesus was born, he did not want him to live.

He did not want him to continue to fulfill the promises, the prophecies.

The Son of God had come to earth in spite all satan's efforts to prevent it, all recorded throughout the Old Testament. satan knew his plans against the salvation of mankind would be forever defeated if Jesus fulfilled his ministry and mission on earth.

He started in straight away, as soon as Jesus was born, trying to attack the newborn baby Jesus and attacking others without scruple of any kind. Herod, in a tyrant's rage, sought to have every male infant under the age of two years old in Bethlehem killed.

The effort to annihilate Jesus failed; Mary and Joseph were warned. They knew the direction of the Lord because they put their faith in him.

.... behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Matthew 2.13

The little family were probably only a few days out of the little stable just before Herod's soldiers raged in and rampaged the place.

God's timing was perfect. The young couple left Bethlehem carrying Jesus; Mary on the back of a donkey. Mary must have been wide eyed, amazed, horrified at what Herod wanted to do. Horrified that anyone would want to destroy the baby Jesus. Horrified that her family had been threatened in such a way.

She knew what it was all about.

In her arms she held the saviour of the world.

She already knew her baby was the prophesied Messiah. She was living in prophecy fulfillment; all about her, she saw prophecy being fulfilled.

I wonder what she must have felt, riding out of Bethlehem.
The bible doesn't say whether Mary and Joseph knew exactly what Herod was planning in his effort to find and destroy Jesus. It looks like they didn't, at the time of escaping.

We are just told that Mary and Joseph escaped with baby Jesus, having been warned in a dream that Herod was seeking to kill Jesus.

And later they heard about what Herod had done, they must have done.

King James Bible
'In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they were no more'.

Leaving Bethlehem there will have been security, peace and joy in Mary's heart as she held on tight to God.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” ( Jesus.)

It is good to celebrate the coming of Messiah Jesus to the world and his perfect story.

I heard a song this time last year, a soul song, a spontaneous song a lady had recorded. It was a song about Jesus the healer, the Messiah, who came to earth to set us free and lift us as his friends.

Everyone who sincerely calls on the name of the Lord Jesus is heard, and set free.

Jesus describes himself 'I am the good shepherd, and I lay down my life for the sheep.' He said he was sent to 'the lost sheep of Israel.'

When a sheep goes astray, wanders out of the fold, the good shepherd will go far to get it, and bring it back.

From her song, it seemed as though this lady had been rescued from a situation through God's love.

It was a song expressing her love for him, her acknowledgment of him, and what he had done for her.

'Well hallelujah, Jesus'.

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How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given. So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven. No ear may hear His coming, but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive Him still, the dear Christ enters in.

Barack Obama and the 'Beasts of Revelation.'

Looking objectively at interpretations of the beasts of the book of Revelation as they could be applied to Barack Obama and his announced 'New World Order.'

This interpretation suggests that the first beast of Revelation represents the emerging 'New World order', or 'global governance'. ( 'One world government'.) These authors quote the bible well. I refer here uniquely to the page linked which gives a good outline of the Revelation scripture beasts. ( I have not had time to observe the rest of the pages on that site. )

As ever, in all cases, depend on your bible, and a Christian Church you feel you can trust.

The 'first beast' , (the beast like a leopard, with feet like a bear) represents the New World Order or 'global government' according to the above link. It may represent the New World Order a little more:

'And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were the feet of a bear, and in his mouth the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wondered at the beast. And they worshiped the dragon which gave power to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying who is like him? Who can make war with him? '

...It might be suggestive of more aspects of different world governments and systems that stand in opposition to Christ that come together to form the 'One World Government' prophesied in the bible.
Also, the 'signs and wonders' that are not of God which are to emerge in the 'end times', according to the bible, surely suggest much more than just endless technology advancement; there is political achievement suggested, an ability to influence multitudes, etc. supernatural occurrences; perhaps there's much more to come.

The site linked above suggests that the 'New World Order' ( 'One world government') will come out of the people, it will be made up of a coming together of the people. These people may be represented by the 'sea' from which the 'beast' described in the bible emerges.

A coming together of the people to form a one world government entirely corresponds with what Barack Obama is advocating in his endless message in support of his 'New World Order':

"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

Barack Obama is not excluding the current world politicians from his 'we are the ones', 'we are the ones we've been waiting for' messages; rather, everyone is 'coming together as one' into his New World Order ( One World Government) as far as he is concerned. ( Except those who refuse to join in.)

^{One modern translation of the bible scripture here: 14} Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. ¹⁵ He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. ¹⁶ He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
¹⁸ This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

If the first beast uniquely depicts the currently emerging 'New World Order', and Barack Obama is the one to enforce the 'mark of the beast', ( popularly thought to be the veri-chip), then Barack Obama is represented by the 'second beast' in the Revelation prophecies. He is then the 'beast with horns like a lamb', the 'false lamb' of the book of Revelation: and thus a false Messiah and a false prophet: ( the 'son of perdition' , the 'Antichrist' man.) Possessed by satan, speaking like satan. 'Speaking as a dragon.'
Self adulating and blaspheming..

..'the one' who enforces the 'mark of the beast' and forces everyone to 'worship the beast.'

...'And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and all who dwell in it, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he does great wonders, and makes fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceives all who dwell on the earth by means of the miracles that he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had been wounded by the sword, and did live. And he had power to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, to receive a mark in their right hand or on their foreheads; and that no man may buy or sell, save that he had the mark , or the name, of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six-hundred threescore and six'.'

The bible states that the first beast of Revelation is 'wounded by the sword' and that its wound will be healed, which causes people to marvel.

Barack Obama has described America as 'wounded', and he is stating that America's 'wound' can be healed.

Barack Obama states that he intends to 'heal America' ( He said "heal the wounds of this nation") through the formation of the 'New World Order' and his political dealings , which, it is thought, will create a 'false peace' before terrible tribulation comes. ( It is thought he may cause tribulation on a global scale, and attack Israel and the Church particularly.)

The components of the New World religion (the false religions and false belief systems that all come together to form one , a discussion here) that will apparently become a part of the 'New World Order' or 'Global Government' are possibly depicted in the picture of the 'beast like a leopard' with 'feet like a bear', in the bible.

Upon his many heads were the names of blasphemy.'(click)

People who will eventually receive 'the mark of the beast', a mark that implies the beast, on their foreheads. Or their right hand.

Barack Obama seems determined to amalgamate and develop the current practices of the world's false religion and false belief systems into one belief system through which people may worship 'the beast'.

According to scripture, many are going to worship 'the beast and his image' ( the 'image' of the 'first beast' described in the bible book of Revelation.) Many will be forced to. Many are going to willingly receive 'the mark of the beast or the number of his name.'

The act of worship of the 'first beast' will apparently happen through a progressive, developing 'New World Religion'.
The currently emerging 'New World religion' seems to be composed of extracts from false religions , self adulation and mutual reverence.
Barack Obama is its main advocate. He is being hailed by his followers and most of the media as an 'enlightened being.'

The Dragon, the first beast and the second beast are, by the interpretation above, a 'False Trinity' dominated by 'the dragon', satan.

Assuming that Barack Obama is represented by the 'beast with horns like a lamb', the current worshipful adulation of Obama and what he stands for that is going on is effectively adulating him while he is in the process of bringing in the 'first beast', (the New world order/one world government) . Adulating him while he is moving people to a point where they will think nothing of 'worshiping the beast and his image' or 'receiving the mark of the beast or the number of his name.'
There is the suggestion being made that some of the adulation of Obama that is going on is already worship of the 'first beast' as it emerges.

Both Revelation scripture 'beasts' are owned by satan who is being adulated as and when the penultimate false Messiah, the 'son of perdition' ( looking at Obama in the case) is adulated.

'Worship' is express devotion and praise in knowledge of what you're doing. Defined by some as 'Adoring acknowledgement.'

The above interpretation assumes that the 'son of perdition' ( popularly referred to in modern times as the 'Antichrist man' who is to appear on earth) is the one who will actively 'enforce the mark of the beast or the number of his name'. ( We are looking the suggestion that Barack Obama is that man here.)

Here are some Obama quotes relevant to the points made in this essay ( sorry they have to come through a McCain ad.)




Below, relates to points raised ( the author of this video below has come to a definitive conclusion about Barack Obama).



There is also the suggestion that the 'son of perdition', the 'Antichrist man', is depicted by the picture of the 'first beast'. Looking at Barack Obama in the case, this Revelation scripture interpretation equally suggests that he is a prime advocate of the emerging New World Order and New World religion, and a False Messiah.
By this interpretation the 'son of perdition' embodies, represents and heads up the New World Order ( World Governance) and all it brings. 'Upon his many heads were the names of blasphemy.'
This interpretation assumes that the the 'son of perdition', the 'penultimate False Messiah' , the 'Antichrist' man ( we are looking at Barack Obama in the case) is not the one to enforce 'the mark of the beast' or 'the number of his name', but that there will be another who will enforce it on his behalf.

Here is a link to an extended outline of the basis for the interpretation just above, ( the assumption that the 'son of perdition' is represented by the first beast).
This interpretation makes the dragon and the two beasts no less a 'False Trinity.'

There is also a suggestion being made that Barack Obama is merely the first beast's 'prophet' and heralds the penultimate 'False Messiah' figure, and therefore precedes the 'son of perdition', penultimate 'False Messiah figure' ( 'Antichrist') in some way, and that this figure has not yet appeared.

There is also the suggestion being made that Barack Obama is a false Messiah of no world significance; this does not seem at all plausible at this stage.

The past two thousand years history have made the reliability and dependancy of the Lord's word very clear. Jesus explained that there would be many false Messiahs and wars and rumours of wars, and a penultimate world significant false Messiah, who the apostles call the 'son of perdition.' The bible is accurate. There are quite a few contendors for part or definitive fulfillment of the prophecies about the 'beasts of Revelation' and there have been a number of antichrist dictators who have seemed to be chasing after the role of 'son of perdition'. Barack Obama is catching peoples' attention on account of his being a false Messiah about whom Chrsitians have stated that they have 'grave misgivings' who is head of the free world, and has called for a global government.

Let's 'watch and pray'.

The coming veri-chip, the micro chip that can be implanted in a person's hand or forehead, thought to be 'the mark of the beast', which it is thought Barack Obama may enforce, or that someone may enforce on his behalf. Bear in mind Barack Obama's personalized and angry contempt for the book of Leviticus, which we've all seen:

Leviticus 19:28 'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.'

There's an old saying: 'show me the seven year old and I'll show you the man.'

What is this "symbol" or "image", that the child Barack (then Barry) is wearing around his neck in the form of a medallion, encouraged by his mother? ( See photograph below.) This horrible thing he's wearing round his neck in the photograph below does not entirely resemble any of the signs of satanism or the advertised occult based signs of the 'New World Order' of the past. It could be seen as suggestive of its wearer's fostership by satan himself, it's ugly enough. Is it meant to be a face, or an image suggestive of devils ? Or both? It is particularly hideous.



From another perspective it could be seen as an amalgamation of past occult signs. Barack Obama is currently reported to often wear various suspect signs/symbols, apparently resembling signs of satanism, on badges and so on, ( all of them seem to have something of an original vent) and apparently these signs he wears are combinations of past satanist signs, by popular opinion. One he wore last year looks like the advertised strange long star that apparently represents satanism with a slight variation. He had apparently placed a strange face shape in the middle of it.

This much debated 'flair' of this man as to whom many have already come to a definitive conclusion (here), would seem to be in line with scripture prophecies about the end times, because the scriptures are thought to suggest that those who worship 'the beast and his image' will be subscribing to a 'world religion' which will amalgamate all past and contemporary forms of what amounts to worship of satan.

We've noticed how Barack Obama is displaying his 'flair' with regard to the American seal which he adapted for his purposes during the course of his campaign. This does tend to suggest that he feels that the New World Order that he is setting in place should have some sort of unprecedented 'image'.

There is a certain structure similarity between the new American seal he's suggested imposing on America and the free world, and the ghastly image on the medallion in the family photograph.



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The proposed New World religion

The 'Obama the Antichrist?' blog is very well edited and contains data on matters relating to the New World Order being put in place by Barack Obama and others.

n.b. Adolf Hitler's attempted world order had an associated 'image': the swastika. Though he was an extremely strong antichrist figure, Hitler was apparently not the penultimate 'son of perdition' , the penultimate 'False Messiah' depicted in the Thessalonians scripture, though he was obviously an extremely strong candidate. ( During his time many believed he was "the 'Antichrist". He was an antichrist dictator.) He did not achieve his aim of being head of the free world. He did not enforce the mark and the number described in the bible on the whole of the free world and neither did one member of his psychopath Gestapo. He did not achieve world domination; he was driven back.
He forced everyone he could force, to submit to his 'emerging new order' and its image. And many were willing participants in his psychopathic schemes.

The 'second beast' according to scripture excersises all the authority of the 'first beast' and to cause an 'image' or 'likeness' of it to be made. This image is given life and the 'power to speak' and also to 'pronounce the death penalty.'

' And he had the power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and to cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.'

This is usually translated as implying that councils that represent an antichrist governance will obtain power to defend it and so put to death those who do not comply.

As previously stated: clearly, no one in their right minds today would think of Hitler as a Messiah figure, though while he was rising, he posed as one. As a solution to world problems. Germany thought of him as some sort of 'Messiah' to their desperate problems and the whole nation appeared to go mad, demonized in some way. Hitler quickly revealed himself as an authoritarian madman. He was recognized for the threat that he was and driven right back. ( Too late for a great many.)

Obama has been very artful at concealing his plans while he brings in 'the New World Order' just as his affiliates have been.

Barack is new i.e. he has publicly come to the fore over the last decade. His announced 'New World Order' ( One world government) is not in place just yet. You could say it was emerging, rising up out of a sea of people.

Looking at Obama as the 'son of perdition' and looking at the 'Global government' that he is proposing as relevant in the case, (looking at this possibility) it seems that a definitive 'beast's image' would notbe fully developed yet. An established 'New World Order ( One world government) isn't quite here yet. It's announced and on its way. The full veri-chip, popularly thought to be the 'mark of the beast' isn't quite here yet. It is not yet being enforced in support of an established 'New World Order' or ' World Government'.

Shout to the Lord

My loyalty is to my Lord who went to the cross for me. My saviour, my Jesus.



'And it shall be in those days that whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.' What amazing, merciful God.
'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.'

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Recommended.

Barack Obama, his announced 'new world order', and the 'emerging new world religion'

The 'Alpha and the Oemga.' 'I am the Alpha and the Omega.' Jesus said. The first and the last.' 'The beginning and end of all things.'

The Church interprets this statement of Jesus to mean that the Holy Trinity, the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, has always been God. Jesus did not suddenly begin to exist in Mary's womb or the stable there. In the New Testament, after Jesus' resurrection, the apostles explain Jesus the Messiah as 'having become human'. ( using their exact words). He was conceived in the virgin Mary's womb by a miracle of the Holy Spirit, and was born in a stable.
Jesus is God's son, he is God. The Holy Trinity are one.
Jesus' spiritual innocence and purity are perfect. He is the 'bright morning star.' He experienced childhood in human form and went on to experience adulthood in human form. His Spirit is the Holy Spirit, and always has been.

Here the prophet Isaiah.


New American Standard Bible
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.'

Set to music.

The Old Testament scriptures, the living word of God, contain God's commandments. Jesus, the living word of God, emphasised compassion for others, loving the Lord God with all your heart, soul and mind, and your neighbour as yourself. This gospel is his. He demonstrated his genuine love for mankind in all his acts, including fulfilling scriptures that prophesied that sinless, he would go to the cross for us and take the penalty for sin that we might repent, put our faith in him, be acceptable to God, and have eternal life.
No other spiritual leader on earth has done anything like this. None have been sinless. ( Many Christian leaders do their best to follow in Jesus' footsteps and lead them on in Christ.)
Leaders of all false religions are sinners who demonstrate self adulation motives. Often political motives.
The dialogue the Lord Jesus gave his disciples at the last supper, given that he knew what was directly to come, evidences his perfect innocence. As does everything in the Old testament, everything else he did on earth, everything he continues to do following his resurrection.

Any attempt to adapt or negate Jesus and his teachings is a hollow sham. A counterfeit.

It is eing considered that this world is edging towards a 'New world religion' ( a false religion) that will support the announced 'New world order', in fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

This proposed new 'world religion', currently dominant in the West, consists of an elaborate humanism, a 'we, the people, have it within us to solve answer to the world's problems if only we all get together' ( an ethos that has often been exploited by dictators for political purposes) and a coming together of an apparent selection of teachings from religions that the God of the bible, the Lord, rejects entirely.

The emerging 'New World religion helps itself to some of Jesus' teaching without acknowledging him. ( Many false religions do this.) His instruction to show kindness and compassion in particular. It also suggests that 'mankind's common humanity' can be perfected if everyone gets together and ignores the full bible scriptures and Jesus.
This 'New World Religion' invites people to indulge in hollow self glorifying; it's a deception. In the light of thousands of years of human history, people are being invited to buy into the notion that they may by sheer effort of will emerge as love-filled sinless wonders and a solution to world problems. They are being told they do not need Christ.
The emerging 'new world religion' sets itself up as a 'more plausible solution' to human problems than the essential matter of man's need for repentance and the fact that Jesus went to the cross.

In an earlier post we looked at how the bible shows that one of satan's tricks is to put his false and deceptive ideas forward as a 'solution' to the problems he instigates.

The emergent 'New world religion' is an attempt to set a thesis and a religion up above Christ. Not one of these advocates of the 'new world religion' would lay down their lives for you.

Jesus did.

It is being given a fancy name, this 'new world religion': 'the golden rule.' An outline of one interpretation here. It is being promoted everywhere.


Here it is, the new 'world religion ethic', introduced by a woman who displays an angry vent, clothed in intellectualism.

She starts out with an attack; on 'fundamentalism'.
For anyone who knows Christ, 'fundamentalism' in respect of belief in the Holy Scriptures is not an aggressive word at all; it is simple belief in Jesus and respect for his beautiful Holy Spirit, it is belief in the full scriptures. The woman introducing the video above falsely betrays Jesus as an 'aggressive warmonger like the rest'. False. Jesus is Prince of Peace, Lord of correct judgement, with all the power of the Holy Spirit at his disposal. She goes on to recommend that compassion should be applied, but that Jesus should not be respected and believed in: that's too 'fundamental,' she suggests.

A deluded group then go on to pontificate about the concept of faith and promote their essential 'golden rule' which they elevate to deistic status.

Elsewhere you can see the 'new world faith' emerging in all its forms; various 'campaigns against extremism' incorporate a snide attack on full belief in Jesus the Messiah. There is nothing 'extremist' about faith in Jesus, who is 'Prince of Peace'.

Jesus is the 'author and perfecter of our faith' as Christians. He is the Messiah. The 'first and the last and the beginning and end of all things'.

The emerging 'new world faith/religion' that people are being asked to participate in promotes the philosophy of 'god in self'. It's nothing to do with having the Holy Spirit within as a gift from Jesus Christ in response to repentance and belief in him as Lord and saviour. Mankind are not sinners, the emerging 'new world religion' suggests; not children of the fall of Adam and Eve at all. It suggests that Satan never tempted us, and we never fell short of the glory of God. It proposes that 'Mankind is something of a warm, golden glow, if only everyone could somehow 'blend as one' and tap into one another's resources'. Men and women are 'gods in the making' who don't need salvation, it suggests. It encourages spiritual pride, it's antichrist.

It's main proponent is Barack Hussein Obama, who is looked to as its representative. He is being hailed a 'modern saviour' all over the place. 'An enlightened being.'

The scriptures advise that God's enemy satan is very adept at deceiving people into 'worshiping foreign gods' , and has spent thousands of years doing it. According to the bible, all 'worship of foreign gods' is worship of satan.

Scriptures advise on the spiritual origin of the emerging 'new world religion'. Christians everywhere are suggesting that it's 'satanic counterfeit.' It is.

The scriptures explain satan's defeat at the cross of Jesus Christ as follows: ( here's one scripture)

Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us: “Since then the children [that’s us, the children of God] share in flesh and blood [that is, we have physical bodies], He Himself [Jesus] likewise also partook of the same [a physical body], that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives” .

A command to satan to cease his activity 'in the name of Jesus' spoken by a born again Christian believer who loves Christ is what satan recognizes as his defeat in any given situation.

People from all religions are running to subscribe to the 'new world religion' ethos, afraid of looking as if they're not part of some sort of 'golden glow.' It's very vain.

The only people who won't have it, are 'fundamental Christians' (born again Christians who fully believe the whole bible) who wont sell out to anyone or any other faith. (Some professed Christians have sold out to the 'New world religion'; in doing so, they demonstrate they never knew or respected Jesus in the first place). The reason Christians who know Jesus won't sell out to anyone or any other faith is that they're born again, they know the Lord's love, they love the Lord Jesus. Jesus and his the Holy Spirit are essential their lives and they know the Holy Trinity is priceless. No one who's received the Lord's spirit will have anything to do with this 'New world religion'.

"Jesus said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13-14 RSV)

"On the last day of the Feast, the great day [i.e. the 8th day of The Feast Of Tabernacles], Jesus cried out and said, "If any one thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" (John 7:37-39 RSV)

The righteous Old Testament Israelites (King Solomon, to name one) in the days of the Old Testament prophets refused to sell out.
The Heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, are not exchangeable for anything. Not to those who love the Lord. It's not negotiable.

It may be that under Barack Hussein Obama, Islam turns out to be a major component of this new, developing 'World Religion' under debate. Americans attempt to incorporate the Islamic traditions and ethos into into the emerging new religion.

People from all faiths except serious Christian faith are showing a willingness to subscribe to a 'new world faith' ethos, including many Muslims and Jews.

Currently extreme Arab and Islam terrorist elements ( Al Qaida ) act as if they won't adapt for anyone; then again, their strict religion, so called, has never been anything but a pretext excuse for violence. Under Barack Obama they may be prepared to deal in many ways in exchange for a promise from him to move in on Israel, including merging into a new religion.

Barack Obama has been proposing a 'Civilian National Security force.'

'Obama Youths', here, brainwashed to a significant extent, apparently in the military, ( military youth, a youth group, or some sort of 'behaviour correctional boot camp'?) swear allegiance to Obama and call him 'The Alpha and the Omega.' This is absolute blasphemy. Here, the words of Jesus of the book of Revelation, 'I am the Alpha and the Omega.'

Here, Obama was responding to suggestions that 'his record runs counter to Jesus' teachings', and the question of youth training he's seen and supervised in the past.

Mr. Keyes' comment, shown on the video above is totally inappropriate ( the suggestion that Jesus would 'vote in an election') and Obama shrewdly observed it. Straight away. Mr. Keyes apparently does not apologize for it. He makes some interesting points, be careful though, the guy's a politician as well.

Barack Obama states that his (purported) Christian faith 'not absolute.' And there are other statements. If you look closely he is in fact saying that Jesus is not King of Kings and not the absolute answer for our souls. It's very smooth, his attitude. He exposes himself from the outset though: saying 'If I had the opportunity to talk to Jesus Christ, I would ask him..etc.'

Every human person who puts their faith in Christ has the opportunity to talk to Jesus Christ. And it is not too late for anyone alive on earth to put their faith in him and speak with him. Ever. That's the miracle of the love of Jesus who died on the cross for us. It is never inappropriate for Christian believers to repent of their sins ; on the contrary, confession and repentance of sin are an essential part of a believer's life.

Barack Obama states that he went to Church for twenty years, ( it was a highly controversial and unusual one) and presumably he has come across teaching from a wide variety of Churches. Of course he has. And he states that he has read the bible. He never heard that a person can pray and talk to the Lord Jesus Christ?

Refusing to judge individuals who are caught in other faiths contrary to Christ ( and the Lord Jesus tells us not to judge anyone, a serious commandment that people seem to be forgetting all over the place) is one thing. Refusing to denounce a false Messiah is quite another.

Will Barack Obama denounce this song ? I don't think he will.

Have you noticed how Barack really struggles with pride/humility issues whenever he makes a pretence to Christian faith? He really slips up here.

He says he's ' very proud of his Christian faith'. (Say what?)

True Christians are not 'proud of their own faith', no. No. We are ever grateful that the Lord Jesus has saved us, we love him for giving us the opportunity to be in his Kingdom, and for his endless mercy and forgiveness, surely.

Jesus Christ, perfect in wisdom and humility, is the author and perfecter of our faith. Not us.

A scripture on Jesus' humility: 'But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name.'

( Christian author C.S Lewis points out that the first temptation satan usually offers a new Christian is the idea that he's done the Lord some big favour in allowing himself to be converted to Christianity . He also tries to get Christians to look down on other Christians who he invites them to think 'might not be up to standard'.
The truth is, Christians are righteous in God's sight due to the grace of God, due to accepting our need for God's forgiveness and putting faith in Christ. The tempter, satan, is full of sin and pride, the bible explains.
To point out that false Christians who stated that they were 'proud' of their own faith and views have at times been history's aggressive warmongers.)

A 'one world religion' adulating a false Messiah figure is not fully here, though there is much discussion about how it's on its way.The story of the prodigal son in the bible makes it very clear that that the Heavenly Father always wants people to come to their senses, leave the 'Kingdom of satan's destruction' and come home to him. His heart for adult sinners is well described in this song, 'Adam, where are you?':

'I don't care where you've been sleeping
I don't care who's made your bed
I already gave my life to set you free
There's no sin you can imagine that is stronger than my love
And it's all yours if you'll come home again to me'.

With its chorus

'The Father's voice is calling with an urgency we've never heard before
Come in from the darkness now, before it's time to finally close the door'.

This is the Father's heart for adult sinners as described in a song. The father's heart is perfectly illustrated by one of Jesus' parables.

Consider the Heavenly Father's heart for children and young people who are being brainwashed by this very serious false Messiah figure Obama who is soon to be head of the free world. Here, the words of Jesus on very young children specifically.

Mathew 19:14 'Jesus, however, said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to people like these." '

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Mathew 7:13 "Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many people are entering by it'.

Anyone moving in on your free will as Barack Obama is doing with young people ( and this is very serious) and many more, will always move fast, giving you no time to reflect, and rain on you a barrage of propaganda and idealism, incase you think for yourself. And Obama is a slick fast mover. The fastest world politics has ever seen. His socalled 'upwardly mobile freeway' which he advertised on his site on election day, is no technological breakdown, as he says. No one else has managed to announce a 'New World Order' and pull it off with efficacity while all the world's politicians ran out after him. He is a false Messiah (who is about to become head of the free world). You've heard it before: 'that is the road to hell'.

There seems to have been a 'falling away' generally, in all the denomination Churches, over recent years, in keeping with the Thessalonians scripture.

The bible explains that insincere, merely professed Christians quit when the time is hard and those who really believe remain faithful to Jesus.

The parable of the wheat and the tares .

These 'end times' we are thought to be living in appear to be demonstrating the truth of the parable which applies on a global scale in the 'end times'.

One girl wrote this summer:

(Beware the wolf (in designer clothers). Christ is the only way
June 26th, 2008 11:27 am
Plain and simple, Obama preaches and supports “anti- Christ” teachings.......Hats off to Dr. Dobson for having the guts to expose Obama’s “fruitcake” view of Christianity and the Sacred Scriptures.
Obama has clearly demonstrated that his Christianity is “inclusive”, meaning 'Christianity is not what Christ teaches, only what people “think” it is'. Beware the wolf; Obama is one in designer clothing!

Politics and false Messiahs

Jesus, scripture tells us, was not political; world politics is not of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was subjected to an assassination by those who were politically minded, who handed him over to the Romans to be crucified.

Understanding this is essential. 'False Messiahs', have tended to have political/self aggrandissement motives. Now there is one set to become head of the free world.

The devil is a world politician, we are told; with other characteristics; he is a strategist who opposes God. (See the scriptures.)

Death could not hold Jesus, who rose from the dead on the third day.

During the last supper Jesus told his disciples; 'I cannot speak with you longer, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me. But I do this ( Jesus laid down his life) so that the world will know that I love the Father.' 'Come, let us be going.'
( John 14.)

This to my understanding means that he meant the ruler of this world, Satan, was coming, (Jesus' trial and crucifixion) and he had nothing on him i.e could not successfully accuse him of anything; Satan had no power over him; Satan had no basis for his attack on him, and could not gain anything by attacking him. Some versions say Jesus said 'he has no hold over me'.

Most importantly, satan is described in the bble as a 'dead god', active, but cut off from god, whose condemned for eternity. Jesus is the living God, so He says about satan 'he has nothing in me.'

Some people argue: surely King David and the other rulers of Israel used politics? Against their adversaries? They went to battle when the Lord gave the go ahead, etc.
So; the scriptures state that the righteous Kings of Israel took the Lord's advice ( usually through the prophets, see the scriptures) when they made a move, that the Lord made righteous moves to defend Israel, and always has.
That is not 'engaging in world politics'. Far from it. By the scriptures, that is defending Israel against world politics. The scriptures state that at first, the Lord never wanted Israel to be a state with a King from among their people, a King other than himself. He simply wanted them to be his people, a people apart under his own sovereignty.
Israel insisted in having Kings over them, so these were granted, and the ones who revered the scriptures and the prophets were defended by God. ( See the scriptures.)

Video declaring Obama as saviour and asking everyone to lift their hands in praise

You tube video of song denying Christ, with Barack Obama's usual line "we are the ones we've been waiting for" and worshiping Obama as some sort of "Saviour". He approved it. He is being called the saviour of people's souls, "He is almost like a revival for people's souls" and it is being said: 'Lift your hands and say, Obama.' Look at this.




In Mathew 4 vs 9: Jesus said: it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God alone, and him only shall you serve.'

This chanting style 'Obama' is typical of the dictator, the cult leader, absolutely. It never happens in a true Church and nor would it. The motive for the Obama worship comes across as a sort of aggressive vanity, most of the time. And some look a little uncomfortable with it; some seem taken in by him in a simplistic way.



Here, you can examine the general Google comment on the 'Obama worship' in more detail; there's a great deal of comment on it around. Some people are simply calling his style 'narcissism in the extreme.'

It is thought that perhaps the 'beast's image' is not fully here yet; neither is the announced 'New World Order.' Neither is the full veri-chip, popularly thought to be the 'mark of the beast.' It is not yet being enforced on the part of a 'One world government.'

Here , comment on the Obama worship promoted by the media. Good article.
And of course we've all seen this.
Here, the Daily Telegraph on the Obama worship. A comment on various misguided pastors who've lost their calling comparing him to Moses and Martin ( Luther King) in the same breath.

Make no mistake; this man Obama is not going to care one fillip for any of his worshipers' hopes. People have already been asking 'so what about the promises of change then?' in respect the discussions over his possible political nominations. Currently, the excuse being made is 'he wants to surround himself with people who know what they're doing, who've got a certain experience.'
Did you hear him promise to discuss every aspect of his policies with the people during his election speech while his followers crooned his praises and chanted his name? (When he wasn't condescending a smirk about all the praises.)

The Christian objections to this man are justified.

Associated posts: The top of the Mountain,


Nb My comment on human rights being kept out of media. I think media should highlight human rights issues. I meant, keep human rights issues out of self serving media with political biases, which is what our mainstream media is most of the time now. I trust this was clear from the context.

Cain and Abel / Jesus and the Sanhedrin/ a false teacher of today

Abel respected that he himself could not atone for his own sins through any method. He recognized that he was a sinner who needed redemption. He recognized that the Lamb of God, sinless, was to die in our place for our sins, defeating he who had the power of death over us.

Jesus rose from the dead on the third day.

If a person repents of their sins and believes in the Lord Jesus, they have eternal life.

International Standard Version:
'Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.'

Abel offered God the first of his livestock, in recognition of this event to come. A lamb. And God accepted the offering . Abel looked ahead to the coming Messiah, recognized his need to be saved from sin and death and believed God. Cain did not. He thought his simple offering gesture that did not recognize his need for the Messiah ought to be enough for a relationship with God, which it is not. He offered his fruits from the ground, and his offering was rejected by God.

Then, Cain killed Abel. He slew the man who had recognized the need for the coming Christ in the first holy and obedient sacrifice gesture.

Jesus calls Satan, the author of evil, 'a liar and a murderer from the beginning.'

That's the very beginning, the garden of Eden.

God said to Cain: 'Your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. What have you done?' Cain first denied, then admitted, the murder. God's judgment on him was that he was to be be a vagabond and rejected from all the earth. Cain said his punishment was more than he could bear. He said that anyone who found him would kill him. So God put a mark on Cain, to state that anyone who slew Cain, vengeance would be taken on him sevenfold. This was in order to stop murder and revenge spreading instantly. Murder and revenge spread throughout the world later.

Remember that Christ, the son of God, asks us to forgive 'seventy times seven'. 'Seventy times seven' is God's definition for forgiving someone an' infinite number of times'.

There is only one sin that can't be forgiven through Jesus, according to the bible; it is 'blasphemy against the Holy Spirit'; this apparently goes hand in hand with permanently rejecting God's offer of salvation through Jesus.

If you permanently reject the offer of salvation through Christ , then there is nothing left for you. Usually God gives people a whole life span to make a decision for Christ, and he asks people; 'choose life'.

The bible at times incorporates numbers into what is representative of what is either Holy or 'otherwise'. This is well known. Odd and even numbers are put forward in the bible.

According to scripture, The 'son of perdition' is of Satan. The mark of the beast will be Satan's mark. A mark from Satan. It is 666, representative of opposition to the God of the bible's definition of all that is Holy and redemptive. It is against God's plan for man's salvation through the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundations of the world. It is antichrist. Anyone who willfully receives the mark has put himself outside of forgiveness through Jesus Christ and will not be forgiven by God, according to scripture.

The 'woe to you, scribes and pharisees!.... How can any of you escape damnation?' speech that Jesus directed personally at those particular members of the temple, in those days, seems in part to have been because these would crucify him, hand him over to the Romans to be crucified, ( he knew they would) and die in their sin. He also strongly addressed them on the way they denied Justice to so many.
Their motives were in part political.

Jesus doesn't seem to have been in two minds about his opinion of the 'scribes and pharisees'. (Click here for Jesus' advice to the Sanhedrin). 'Serpents.' 'Brood of vipers.' 'How can any of you escape damnation?'

There was nothing political about Jesus, nor will there ever be. Yet he was subjected to a what was in part, a politically motivated assassination.
Instead of repenting on hearing Jesus' message, the Sanhedrin were proud, filled with sententious anger and rage. Their attack on Jesus was very personal. Presiding Sanhedrin members were embarrassed by Jesus' sermons, his anointing and his message, and they wanted to silence him. Those in Jerusalem in particular. They wanted to retain power over the Jewish people. And they hoped that handing Jesus over to the Romans would gain them favor with the Roman empire. Before Pilate, the Sanhedrin accused Jesus of sedition against Rome. Before Pilate they accused Jesus of having a political mission, which was an entirely false allegation, as they well knew.

And much of the speech Jesus gave the scribes and the pharisees in the Temple applies to many politicians ( and many judges) of this world, as is plain.

Caiaphas knew the prophesies of Isaiah and others about one Messiah dying for the people's sins ( and crucifixion is very well indicated in the Old Testament bible) and he knew the time was right for the Messiah in his era; he supervised the Council of the Sanhedrin. He knew the Old Testament prophesies by heart. And there are many. And he said: 'Better that one man should die for the people.' His motive for having Jesus crucified was jealousy, hatred, anger, self promotion and politics.

It is important to remember that among a few others it was mainly the members of the Sanhedrin, incorporating the prominent Pharisees and Sadducees, ( probably most of them assisting at the Council when Jesus was tried and condemned ) and the scribes, who were very well informed in respect of the Laws of Moses, the Tabernacle, the Temple and the OT prophecies about the Messiah. They all well knew the prophecies about the coming Messiah in their time, though their understanding ( most of them) had been polluted by their own interpretations of the Hebrew bible, and their various attempts to add to it and distort it. They oppressed Israel a great deal of the time. Many in Israel had believed in Jesus' goodness during his ministry, and a number believed he was the Messiah. During his ministry, most of the people of the rest of Israel, not those in authority, thought him an obvious gift from God. Huge crowds followed him everywhere, resulting in Caiaphas saying to other members of the Jerusalem temple; 'Observe that you are getting nowhere. See, the whole world has gone out after him!'

Here's a picture version of Jesus' analogy, the 'Lost sheep of Israel', those the heavenly Father sent Jesus to care for , according to the scriptures.

These 'Lost sheep of Israel' refers to the people of Israel who believed in him during his mission, those who believed him, and those to come who would believe, from among the Jews and the Gentiles. At the time, many people, due to the false teaching and oppression they'd received from members of the Sanhedrin, Judges of the day-were afraid of a God who might come to terrify or condescend, which Jesus didn't. And doesn't. It becomes very clear from this illustration Jesus gave, 'the lost sheep of Israel', that Jesus does not address the speech condemning the 'scribes and pharisees' at all Israel generally; neither to the first ( The Jews of all Israel) nor the second Israel (the Church). To say that he was shouting at all Israel when he was in the temple there, instead of at those self promoting Justice corrupters is surely one of God's enemy's more tiresome lies. Many people are tired of seeing it put about by anti Semites and sanctimonious characters and all kinds. Hence, the picture that makes the scripture reality apparent. :-)

At the time of his crucifixion, many people were cast out of Jerusalem, suppressed, silenced or whipped into an eager frenzy against him by the Sanhedrin. Politically minded and permanently unrepentant scribes and pharisees ( and there were quite a number) are the people Jesus condemns in his specific address - 'woe to you!.....' in the temple.

The High Priest Caiaphas was perhaps the most guilty of all the Sanhedrin, and of course permanently unrepentant.

In the book of Acts we see the apostle Paul tell presiding Jews, the Sanhedrin, that they crucified the Messiah; he brings them the gospel again, and apparently they publicly and sanctimoniously tear their robes and refuse to repent.

At a later date, more Jewish apostles of Christ come before a presiding Council; the scriptures tell us that many Jews of the era continually persecuted the apostles, thanks to the influence of certain presiding members. On one occasion, when the apostles are arrested, tried and released, one apostle of the bride of Christ ( the church) shouts at the presiding Council 'The Lord will deal with you, you whitewashed wall!'
That was directed at those who were presiding on that Council specifically. Not the rest of Israel. On the contrary, it was the rest of Israel that the apostles were seeking to communicate the gospel of Christ to. Notice that this outburst ( above) was not suggestive of Christ's reaction after his trial, prior to his crucifixion, and it could be argued that the apostles were simply sounding off, on this occasion. On the other hand, Jesus clearly said in respect of arrests in respect of the Christian faith generally, 'Do not worry about what you will say, the words you will speak, for it will not be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.'

There were two members of the temple who believed in Jesus . They detracted. ( Jairus and Nicodemus.)

One rich man asked Pilate for Jesus' body, and made sure that Jesus was given the private tomb in the beautiful garden where his friends could go and wait for the resurrection. Jesus was 'lain in a rich man's tomb' as prophesied. The rich man's name was Joseph of Arimathea. He is variously reported to be a member of the council who believed in Jesus who quietly went behind Caiaphas' back and ensured that Jesus was buried in accordance with scripture prophecy.

'When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Jospeh, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. The Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.'

This a beautiful mystery in the bible. Joseph of Arimathaea somehow had sufficient sway with Pilate to get him to contravene the wishes of the Sanhedrin. He provided Jesus with the beautiful garden tomb prophesied by the prophet Isaiah. A 'rich man'.

I believe he was a simple and gentle man who believed God would help him in his request to Pilate.

Some presiding Jews who the apostles confronted during their early trials are reported in the scriptures to be distressed by their confrontation, whereas others appear indifferent.

The following post, below, was written on around the 25th January 2009. I had never seen the contents of the Talmud ( afew printed in the post here) before then.

Bible in Basic English
Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and antichrist.
( Full English scripture translations here.)

Shmuel Boteach. Often called Shmuely Boteach, or Shmuley Boteach.

International Standard Version
'For many deceivers have gone out into the world. They refuse to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah as having become human. Any such person is a deceiver and an antichrist'.

Shmuel Boteach, or Shmuley Boteach lies about the New Testament scriptures and other historical record. He is a blasphemer. He is antichrist.

Some agitated people calling themselves 'rabbis', one in particular, Shmuel Boteach, are going about stating that the pharisees who often gathered at the Jerusalem temple in the days of Jesus' ministry on earth can't have assisted on the Sanhedrin Council (click) ( the Council who tried Jesus and handed him over to the Romans to be crucified) because history records that pharisees hated the High Priests etc. Of course they assisted on the Council. As did the Sadducees. There were seventy one members of that Council, comprising so called administrators of Justice throughout the land.

It is true that the Sanhedrin Council was not uniquely made up of 'the scribes and pharisees and Caiaphas', contrary to popular opinion. Many more were involved. Saduccess were strong members of the Council of the Sanhedrin. There were Judges throughout Israel. Jesus stood trial before the Council that officially represented all Israel.

They all did it, the Council of Jesus' time on earth. They got together and planned it, they rigged up a trial, accused Jesus of claiming that he was the Christ, the son of the most high God, ( he is) and handed him over to the Romans to be brutally crucified. Caiaphas, the official 'high priest' of the era presided over Jesus' trial; 'better that one man should die for the people', he'd said.
Then the Sanhedrin handed Jesus to Pilate.
Before Pilate they accused Jesus of 'sedition against the Roman empire.' Before Pilate they accused Jesus of having a political mission, which was an entirely false allegation, as they well knew.

By some interpretations, the Sanhedrin, as many as could attend, tried Jesus in Caiaphas' house covertly. Jesus was taken late at night to 'where Caiaphas was.'
The Sanhedrin did not run the risk of an open Court in daytime.
Caiaphas could have accessed the temple and called everyone in whenever he pleased. The fact that Jesus was produced before the Sanhedrin late at night would have ensured that crowds were avoided at that stage.



The Sanhedrin will have told themselves they were not conspirators as such because they were the Sanhedrin. ( Of course, they conspired. Hypocrites all the way along- of course Jesus, who named them hypocrites, was entirely innocent. )

'All the Synoptic Gospels state that Jesus was finally asked directly by the Sanhedrin if he was the Christ, Son of God. Jesus responded, as in Mark 14:60-62: "And Jesus said, "I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven", (see also the Second Coming).'

Before Pilate, the Sanhedrin accused Jesus of having a political mission, which was an entirely false allegation as they knew.
The Sanhedrin told Pilate that Jesus had said he was 'King of the Jews'. They hoped that Pilate would interpret the phrase as meaning that Jesus was committing sedition against Rome.

'The very first question Pilate asked when Jesus was brought before him was "Are you the King of the Jews?" (John 18:33). Jesus answered by saying "My kingdom is not of this world" (18:36), and Pilate said "So you are a king?" (18:37). It is not clear what Pilate understood about the Kingship of Jesus.

19:14 He said to the Jews, "Here is your King."

19:15 Pilate asked them, "Shall I crucify your King?"

19:19 Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek (19:20).

19:21-22 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but, "This man said, I am the King of the Jews'." Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

Pilate seems to have sensed much more than he actually understood.'

One commenter writes: 'The following are some of the Mosaic Laws that were violated by the Sanhedrin in the trial of Christ: bribery (Deuteronomy 16:19; 27:25); conspiracy and the perversion of judgement and justice (Exodus 23:1-2; Exodus 23:6-7; Leviticus 19:15; Le 19:35); bearing false witness, in which matter the judges connived (Ex 20:16); letting a murderer (Barabbas) go, thereby bringing blood-guilt upon themselves and upon the land (Nu 35:31-34; De 19:11-13); mob action, or 'following a crowd to do evil' (Ex 23:2, 3); in crying out for Jesus to be impaled, they were violating the law that prohibited following the statutes of other nations and that also prescribed no torture (Le 18:3-5; ); they accepted as king one not of their own nation, but a pagan (Caesar), and rejected the King whom God had chosen (De 17:14, 15); and finally, they were guilty of murder (Ex 20:13)'.

Of course in turning Jesus over to the Romans to be crucified and insisting he should be, they were doing more than simply breaking laws of Moses. They were crucifying the author of the laws of Moses. ( Jesus, the Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit are one. Three in one.)

My understanding in respect of the ranting mob (those who shouted 'We have no King but Caesar! Crucify him!') is that the Sanhedrin encouraged a ranting mob as much as possible. The crowd will have been eager to express hatred and promote themselves with the Sanhedrin, obviously.

I love that scripture regarding Joseph of Amrimathea. The 'rich man' who had sufficient sway with Pilate to successfully ask him for Jesus body, that he might lay Jesus' body 'in a rich man's tomb', a prominent tomb. The man the bible describes as 'also himself a disciple of Jesus.'
He must have approached Pilate in simplicity, knowing he was in the perfect will of God.

Below: Shmuel Boteach presents himself . You can tell by the way he rants what sort of a man he has become. You will have to turn the volume down; his raving and his lies wound the ears . He rants against Jesus and claims he was not the Messiah.

Boteach is antichrist. He is a ranting blasphemer.

Boteach makes a catalogue of false statements about the New Testament bible and other historical record. He states that Jesus was a ' martyr for a political cause', but this is completely untrue, definitely not suggested in New Testament scripture or anywhere else. Boteach states that Jesus told his disciples to take up swords against the Romans, which is completely untrue; see the records, the New Testament scriptures. Boteach invents and fabricates throughout his speech. ( Did he think people wouldn't note his words ?) Towards the end of his speech he states that Jesus was a political pharisee! Completely untrue. A preposterous claim. Jesus had nothing to do with politics and was not a pharisee, at all. He states 'all Jesus wanted to do was throw off Roman oppression and enforce the laws of Moses'. He suggest 'Jews should take Jesus back from Christians and embrace him for the political radical that he was' ( he wasn't).

The evidence Boteach claims to have dug up on Pilate simply makes the Sanhedrin of Jesus' day look terrible for handing Jesus over to Pilate to be crucified, as far as I can see. ( No one is in any doubt that Pilate was a classic Roman governor. Pilate did send Jesus to the cross, he eventually gave in to the ranting crowd.)

Check Boteach's speech here.

Jesus' mission was not political at all. He had no involvement with politics whatsoever. He is the innocent Messiah, the son of God, the Prince of Peace. His mission, in keeping with Old Testament prophecy, was to set us free from sin and death and satan's destruction. He went to the cross of Calvary and paid the price for our sins . During his ministry he spent time teaching, healing, delivering people, performing miracles that advanced the Kingdom of God. Including raising the dead. Readers are strongly advised to check everything Boteach says against the sacred New Testament scriptures which quickly reveal Boteach's many falsehoods.

Boteach tries to push the idea that rejection of the Sanhedrin of Jesus' time on earth ( and every Christian must reject them) equates to anti semitism, which is nonsense.

Boteach states that there were 'would be Messiahs' around at the time of Jesus' ministry and that these were aggressively dealt with by the Sanhedrin. When Jesus began his ministry people were aware that the time was right for the Messiah; the Sanhedrin certainly were. Around that time, some impostors emerged, who claimed that they were the Messiah. They came to nothing, history has heard almost nothing of them. (There are some records to this effect).
That does not change the fact that Jesus is the true Messiah who came at the right time.

Boteach complains that people are insensitive to how Jews feel today when they hear about how the Sanhedrin handed Messiah Jesus over to be crucified.

I think people are interested in Jesus and they're not put off by hearing about the first century Sanhedrin.

Boteach states that people are insensitive to how Jews must feel when they hear people say that they've rejected their Messiah.
How about the Old Testament Prophecies that state that the Messiah would be rejected by his people? Is Boteach trying to claim that Jewish people haven't seen these scriptures and don't wonder about them?

Here is an Isaiah prophecy about Messiah Jesus, his rejection by his people, the Israelites of Israel, by others also:

'King James Bible He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.' Isaiah 53:3

On the lashes Jesus received and the crucifixion , the treatment he received at the hands of the Sanhedrin and the Romans:

King James Bible
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

And on Jews recognizing Jesus as the Messiah:

King James Bible
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Zechariah 12:10

( Click on the scriptures for links to all the scripture translations.)

All of our sins put Jesus on the cross and each person realizes this when they become a believer in Christ Jesus.

The bible's prophets are very deep prophets.

All the scriptures above evidently have meaning for both the Jews and gentiles, they apply to everyone who comes to love the Lord of course.

There is meaning in those scriptures for the descendants of those who were in Jerusalem who convened to have Jesus crucified or called for his crucifixion.
Or stood by and let it happen. Jesus said: 'He who is not for me is against me.'

You can see that the treatment Jesus received and the fact that he went to the cross is extremely relevant, and that this is well defined by the Old Testament, the 'Hebrew bible'.

Everyone's sins put Jesus on the cross, all believers appreciate this.

It seems to be the fact that Jesus does meet all the Old Testament prophecies that Shmuel Boteach has a problem with. It does, doesn't it.

Boteach states that the Apostle Paul 'spewed venom.' 'Spewed venom at the pharisees'.

There is absolutely no evidence for such a claim of course. The Apostle Paul was an Apostle of Christ, a gentle teacher who wrote sacred scriptures perfectly with the Holy Spirit's guidance.

Boteach is a blasphemer. He is a hater. He frequently comes across as befitting the descriptions of a man demon possessed. He is proud of the fact.

The way Boteach is behaving is deplorable.

I looked after this person's children on a regular basis many years ago. In 1995. ( They were lovely.) I had no knowledge of the 'Talmud' and its contents then, and only discovered them recently. His family were poor so we were kind to them. Boteach was not a believer in Jesus, ( standard for most Jews) but he was not making statements of the type he is now making. He did not have the evil and aggressive appearance he now does (shown in the videos) though he was arrogant, he could be snide. I never heard him make a hate speech against the Lord Jesus and Christians (or I would not have stayed for a second), and he was not ranting as he now is, on any subject, to the best of my knowledge. (I never heard him on a speaker's platform). He used to monopolize conversation at table ( where there were often Christians and Jews ), he had few manners; he had difficulty allowing others to steer a conversation. He was loud mouthed and crass; a clumsy, insensitive man, who shouted sensitive people down. He was writing various attention seeking books and peddling them all over the place. These were treated as a bit of a joke locally. One of them was titled 'Moses of Oxford.' He was scouting for a platform in those days, constantly promoting himself through any means.

On the day he exhibited himself as a ranting antichrist shown in the video ( and he regularly does these days apparently) he was speaking at a public debate forum with a Jewish Christian , and they are both interviewed here:

Dr. Micheal Brown does well here and speaks correctly. Notice that here, ( video above) Boteach suggests that the Messiah predicted in Old Testament scripture ought to be a political figure and not a spiritual one!

In stating such a thing he disavows the scriptures, the Old Testament ( the 'Hebrew bible') and New Testament.
The Sanhedrin handed Jesus over to Pilate to be crucified under the pretext that Jesus had been an active political figure, which he clearly had not been. He is the son of God. The Sanhedrin asked Pilate to believe that Jesus was engaging in sedition against the Roman empire, which was clearly untrue.
Boteach wants people to believe that 'the Jewish Messiah' who he believes has not yet come, should save the world through political means. Here, a post on 'politics and false Messiahs.'

Jesus is the Israelite ( Jewish) Messiah who also came to the gentiles. Obviously. The Messiah, Jesus, is the saviour of mankind.

Boteach states that Jews have no need for salvation through Christ ( he says that Jesus is the Messiah for Chrsitians and not for Jews and also, that 'man has no need for an intermediary') . Effectively stating that Jews have no need for salvation, that they 'all have a Messiah like nature'. This assertion is Talmud in origin, it is one of many Talmud clauses. ( There are many assertions and 'rabinnical discussions' in the Talmud.) He then goes on to complain that the world is filled with 'mass slaughter'. And he repeats his claim that 'all Jews have a Messiah like nature' and states that the 'Messiah has not yet come'. Dr Michael Brown corrects Boteach's false statements well.

One commenter wrote in a comments box below one of Boteach's published antichrist rants:
'I have been reading the bible for over 20 years and today is the first time I can see a performance similar of the people who took Jesus to the cross. If one day I have to imagine a high priest who performed to condemn Jesus... this is the guy Rabbi Boteach.
I love Jesus and a love Jewish people and hope they recognize the lamb of God: Jesus'.

Below, the Christian seen above ( also a Jew, calling himself a 'Messianic Jew') responds to Boteach's worthless rantings on an occasion.

Comment : it is the successful plan of God to save us, what Jesus the son of God achieved through death and the resurrection of Jesus that causes Christians rejoicing. Jesus rendered powerless him who had the power of death over us.

Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us: “Since then the children share in flesh and blood [that is, we have physical bodies], He Himself [Jesus] likewise also partook of the same [a physical body], that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives” .

....The fact that he loved each one of us enough to go to the cross for us. The fact that everyone who believes in Jesus has eternal life. The Lord Jesus' friendship, God's forgiveness, the fact that Jesus cares for us on a daily basis; we bless God for everything he did here on earth, everything he did before, everything he continues to do. As John wrote 'if everything Jesus did were written down, the world could not contain the books!' The Holy Spirit, our relationship with the Heavenly Father through Jesus.... the fact that our names our written in the book of life, inscribed upon Jesus' palms. The fact there's power in the name of Jesus, that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus. The fact that the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three in one.

And this is the reason for a Christian to rejoice.

As darkness and horror seemed to be closing in on Calvary, Mary heard a voice tell her 'woman, behold your son!'
John, who was beside her there, was the son Jesus spoke of.
Effectively: 'start rejoicing! I am defeating him who had the power of death; the Kingdom of God is here!'
Everyone's sins put Jesus on the cross. Sinless, Jesus took the penalty for the sins of the world. No one who loves the Lord is glad about the pain and suffering he went through. It was terrible.

We love the Lord Jesus who elected to suffer for our sakes.

American King James Version
'But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy'.

Jesus' cry 'It is finished!' 'Father, into your hands I commit, or 'commend' my spirit' was no simper in essence, though he was dying. It was a shout of triumph. 'Into Your Hands I commitMy Spirit!' ( The Holy Spirit.) Here, the dictionnary meaning of 'commend.'

It is clear that the Sanhedrin of Jesus' time on earth connived to hand him over to the Romans to be crucified. This should be acknowledged. It is important never to make light of the suffering of the Lord Jesus, what was done to him, what he suffered, what he went through for all our sakes.

Another true Old Testament prophecy about the Lord Jesus, Isaiah 7:14.

'The gospels of Matthew (1:18-25) and Luke (1:26-35) both reveal that Jesus was born of a virgin. Matthew (1:23) appeals to the Hebrew scriptures as an explanation for why this should be the case. The verse appeals to Isaiah 7:14, which reads: "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel." '

Isaiah 7:14 predicts the birth of Jesus uniquely. It is very obvious and clear.

'Messianic Jews' are Christian Jews who have set themselves apart from the rest of the Church is many ways. They are Jews who have given their lives to Christ. In pointless contravention of scripture, the group ( In the Uk and USA) sets itself apart from the rest of the Church most of the time and clings to various AD Jewish traditions. As a result the group often out on its own which is not advisable for any Christian or group of Christians. The ''Messianic Jewish' groups take a very significant amount of money from the Church and people generally. The 'Messianic Jews' group relies heavily on the scripture that states that Jesus came 'to the Jew first, and then to the gentile.' It seems that they often take that scripture out of its entire context and adapt it to fit an ethos that suggests ' Jews ought to have access to Jesus before anyone else', which is false. They have the same opportunity for a relationship with the risen Jesus as everyone else of course.

The man who was speaking against Boteach, Dr. Michael Brown, who names himself a 'Messianic Jew', was doing a brave job to some extent but ( see his many sermons) he at times makes blunders that he should not . I refer to his sometimes attempts to exonerate the pharisees and other members of the Sanhedrin of the time Jesus was on earth . It can't be done, and should not be attempted. ( Note: There is mention in the bible of members of the temple /those with authority in the land who did not go along with the presiding Jews who were against Jesus. There was Nicodemus, a 'pharisee', who crept out at night to speak with Jesus, and Jairus, 'a ruler of the temple'; Jesus is recorded as having conversations with wealthy Jews who show him respect on rare occasions. There is the story of Joseph of Arimathea, 'himself a disciple of Jesus', who asked Pilate for Jesus' body, who laid Jesus' body in the tomb in the beautiful garden.)

He is afraid to speak against the Sanhedrin (including the pharisees) of the time Jesus was on earth because he worries about modern Jewish Judges and pharisees ( and other Jews) taking offence. He shouldn't be concerned about that at all. His loyalty should be to Jesus.

He knows that false Christians have persecuted many Jews on the assumption that they should be an active extension of the presiding Sanhedrin that handed Jesus over to the Romans. Their behaviour does not reflect Jesus. Jesus message is a message of true peace.

No one appreciates someone saying they are a believer in Jesus who then compromises what the scriptures actually say. Ask any Jew capable of thinking for himself: 'If Jesus is the Messiah, does that make the behaviour of Caiaphas and his team truly abhorrent ' and he will say 'Yes, of course'. ( Most people agree that the behaviour of that Sanhedrin was abhorrent at all times, throughout their era. )

The Lord Jesus, who is perfect, needs no defence; he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It is the Holy Spirit that convicts the sinner of sin, and always has been. Christians need to obey the Lord's Spirit, with the help of a forgiving God. It's not complicated.

'Messianic Jews' ( a title that many Christian Jews have given themselves to distinguish themselves from the rest of the Church) should not be out on their own, nor should they dream of ever compromising the true record of Jesus for the sake of appeasing anyone who's indifferent to what was done to the Lord Jesus.

Some 'Messianic Jews' are actively involved in local Churches, some are not.

No Christian believer should place themselves outside the Church, Christians need each other. Fellowship, prayer and safety.
And there is everything to be gained by listening to intelligent Christians inside the Church.

It states clearly in the bible:

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'There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him'.

Check your scriptures. Jews who believe in Jesus should always be inside the Church with everyone else, where they are welcome, as there is only one 'Church of believers'.

If a man (or woman) born a Jew respects Jesus as his Lord and Saviour he will not distance himself from the rest of the Christian Church, he will consider Church members his equals in every way.
The men calling themselves 'rabbis' who actively oppose Jesus and falsely declare that he was a pharisee ( Boteach the example shown, the hate filled, ranting bigot) have spotted that matter. They are well aware that if a Jewish believer is sincere he/she will want to be part of the Church like every other Christian.
It's surprising that socalled 'rabbi' Boteach is capable of seeing anything at all. His abased mind is full of the worst lies, as is plain. He spends his time scouring the New Testament scriptures, his mind filled with jealousy and hate, desperate to find means to fault people who praise the Lord.
He can find nothing against the New Testament and speaks falsehood. He can find nothing against the Lord Jesus, and so resorts to constructing false reports about him. He can find nothing against Jesus' disciples /apostles, and constructs false reports about them as well.

According to report and comment Boteach is a part of a group of self named 'rabbis' who all behave in the same way.
Here, below, Boteach rants on. An appalling antichrist speech.

He makes brief reference to the fact that there have been false Christians in history. No one sincere is disputing that there have been false Christians in the world. There have been false Christians who persecuted Jews.

Jesus never instructed anyone to persecute Jews; this is extremely clear in the New Testament. He instructed people ' Love the Lord Your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself.'

While Jesus was walking up the hill carrying his cross, he said 'Do not weep for me, women of Jerusalem. For if they do this when the wood is green, what will they do when it is dry?'

Jesus' disciples/Apostles did not recommend persecution of Jews.

Boteach doesn't care. He blames the New Testament for persecution of Jews in the past.

In the video Boteach continues his many false reports and fabrications. He accuses the writers of the sacred scriptures of 'clear cut editing' to make the pharisees and persecuting Jews look bad. He complains about different accounts in a few (very few) places in the New Testament gospels and instead of observing that the writers talk about different aspects to an event, he advocates inappropriate conclusions. Boteach claims that the New Testament makes out that Jesus was an 'ally of Pontious Pilate' and a 'traitor to his people'. He denies that presiding Jewish people handed Jesus over to be crucified. Boteach states that Jesus did not minister to the poor and the suffering of Israel; yes he did. Constantly. These often showed their appreciation for him during his ministry.
Boteach states that Jesus' words to Caiaphas must have been different to that which is written in the New Testament scriptures. Then he goes on to state that he, Boteach hopes to be at the right hand of the Father himself, in place of Jesus. He does!

Jesus fully revealed that the Heavenly Father is Father to the Messiah, who is Jesus, and that the Father Son and Holy Spirit are one God, three in one. This is his gospel.

Boteach states that for him to want to be 'at the right hand of the Father' himself, in place of Jesus, is not blasphemy. It is absolute blasphemy.

Boteach states that Jesus' words 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' was blasphemy on Jesus' part.

Boteach is a terrible blasphemer.

Jesus cried out 'My God my God why have you forsaken me?' while he paid for the sins of the world. Sinless, Jesus took the penalty for our sins. The lamb of God. The Messiah. Jesus' gesture in going to the cross was the perfect act of love. Greater love has no man.

Boteach suggests that Caiaphas, who planned the crucifixion of Messiah Jesus and refused to repent, who has been 'cast into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth', should be exonerated.

Boteach denies that the Jews in the crowd in Jersualem who called for the crucifixion of Jesus shouted 'his blood be upon us and upon our children!' He states that it 's 'implausible.'
It was a ranting, raving crowd, and it is not implausible. History has irrefutably shown that ranting crowds are capable of anything.

At the end of his dreadful speech Boteach attempts to make out that he's hard done by. Very revolting indeed. He is a self absorbed, aggressive, gluttonous, overweight American who has never suffered persecution, in fact he's exploited a considerable number of people.

Boteach is not a 'poor thing'. He's a blasphemer, a shouting antichrist. Do not make allowances for his way of going on. Have nothing to do with him. Switch off all media when he appears. He is advocating the way of death, spiritual death, which is being cut off from God for eternity.

The statement on some people's part that Roman Catholic Christians are the only ones going to heaven is false. (As Boteach appears to have perceived, having read the scriptures.)

To think that I once, long ago, sat at this man's table, unaware of the future. ( Since those days, long ago, in 1995, I have not had any contact with the Boteachs.) I was there innocently-Boteach was not coming out with these speeches of his then at all, to the best of my knowledge and belief. He was not a media regular, he was just a young, self titled 'rabbi' who was treated as a rather pitiful loud mouth who was peddling unpopular and seemingly inconsequential books that were often laughed at. (So was his peddling. I never read his books, they looked worthless). The Boteach couple had beautiful children, who were a pleasure look after, imaginative, with a good disposition. Shmuel Boteach's wife came across as a gentle and hospitable person. Once Shmuel Boteach and his wife asked me to help them walk his children part of the way up a local hill to a house they had been lent, which was the sum of two miles away. I walked half way up, and they asked me to go the second mile to help them, which I did. 'If a man asks you to go with him one mile, go with him two.' ( The words of Jesus.) The words of Jesus came to my mind at that time.

I now learn that it was in 1998 that Boteach began making the ranting antichrist speeches that he is now coming out with today. 'Light for the last days' has researched it. Here.

'At a public debate on the issue ‘Was Jesus the Messiah?’ (London L’Chaim Society, 19/1/98), Rabbi Shmuel Boteach stated from the platform that any Christian claiming that Isaiah 7.14 is a prophecy of the virgin birth of Jesus is being intellectually dishonest. This means that Christians would have to reject the New Testament, since Matthew made this claim, quoting Isaiah 7.14 in connection with the birth of Jesus and stating: ‘All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ‘Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bear a son and they shall call his name Immanuel,’ which is translated ‘God with us.’ (Matthew 1.22-23).'

In early 1998, around two years after he was being laughed at for his silly books and relentless efforts to make his name and promote himself any which way, Boteach received and accepted a further offer from satan; the platform he stands on today.
Look at what Boteach has become . Disavowing all the Christian goodwill he once received he has become a fully fledged hater, an antichrist who proclaims and promotes the way of death. One of the leading antichrist figures in America. He has apparently appeared on the 'Oprah Winfrey show' promoting ideas that people have been describing as 'devil worship'. ( Apparently he got that youtube removed.)

It is very sad.

In respect of Shmuel Boteach's rantings, there is the following scripture:

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But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of eternal sin.

This is an essay by Watchman Nee on the unpardonable sin, 'blasphemy against the Holy Spirit'. Watchman Nee comes recommended by a teacher in my Church.

Here also is an essay by the apologestics ministry on the web. These ostensibly agree with watchman Nee that 'the unpardonable sin cannot be committed today'.
R.e. their statement 'the age of miracles is over', it is not. Jesus works miracles today, most Chrsitians believe; Jesus is Lord.

Other writers believe that some people commit the unpardonable sin today, but that it is very rare. An outline of these writers' views here, with some scripture quotes.

Boteach is clearly taking advantage of his apparent understanding of the fact that God's forgiveness is available to sinners, and it is not doing him or anyone else any type of service to let him continue in the delusion that a) his behavior is viewed by Christians as in any sense acceptable or b) that he is any sort of good position spiritually; he is not, he is in extremely serious danger.

The Lord Jesus Christ is a true friend. A true friend will not tell you any lies.

The bible's defention of a true righteous person is a one who praises the true God, who believes in Jesus Christ and the full scriptures.

Modern Orthodox Judaism is satanic. The 'Hebrew bible', the Old Testament, is sacred, but modern Orthodox Judaism denies Jesus Christ and advocates that the Messiah has not yet come. That is not the Lord's idea: that is, satan's doctrine. As it has irrefutably proven, modern Judaism ( the form of religion that denies Jesus) is as capable of delivering anyone from evil as a used tea bag. ( Below, adapted from an essay on the web.)

"...I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." -Revelation 2:9

God told the prophet Jeremiah, concerning the Jews of Jeremiah's era, in Jeremiah 7:16 and 14:11... "Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.. Pray not for this people for their good.

Many religious Jewish leaders of today are as Pharisaical and hypocritical as those of 2000 years ago. And yet many misguided Television evangelists are promising prosperity to people who give money to Christ-Rejecters. No sirs, you are apostate. To carry on their ancestors' sins, many actively antichristian Jews are irate about Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ for bringing further light to the fact that the many presiding Jews of the era and their shouting crowd murdered the Messiah.

Larry King was the son of Orthodox Jews who had emigrated from Russia. Larry King said: "What better location could there be for an institution single-mindedly dedicated to reaching and teaching Jews their heritage?" Teaching Jews their heritage? Teachings to the Jews have been corrupted with satanic lies. (Refers to teachings to Jews by Jews who have rejected Jesus throughout 2000 years.)

Did Abraham reject the Messiah? No, Abraham believed upon the Messiah and was saved..."And he believed in the Lord, and the Lord counted it to him for righteousness." (Genesis 15:6). We read in Isaiah 43:11, "I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour." We read in Luke 2:11, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Romans 10:13 promises, " For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord ( Jesus) shall be saved." Jews today must observe the words of the Apostle Paul:... "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

Why would Jews today still reject their own Savior, whose behavior was evidently perfect and innocent? (Always was, still is.)

The nation of Israel is in God's hands. The Jews, as a nation, rejected their Savior 2000 years ago, and still reject Jesus today. They persist in a religion that denies the Messiahship of Jesus). They persist in those denials whenever tribulation is on the horizon. When terrible coming trouble is imminent, they persist even more. They do not call on the true God when trouble arises. They do not respect the serious scripture warning: 'lift up your hands for the lives of your children' in that they reject the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit, and reject the idea of the Lord's assistance as defence against evil. Then they complain when trouble strikes, -satan being what he is, the trouble is always appalling. People who have persecuted Jews iare of course guilty of the sin of persecuting another person/people.

Any Jew or Gentile who does not call on the name of the true Lord, the Lord Jesus, is not delivered from satanic attack and terrible trouble. The scriptures are clear. If they had not been clear, there would be something for people to complain about, but they are clear. A true friend will not lie to you about this. Jesus didn't.

Some false Christians actually believe that some Jews are not saved by the cross of Christ, but by prior election and their pedigree in Abraham. This is heresy, which is adamantly condemned by Scriptures such as John 3:3... "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Carefully notice that Jesus spoke this to Nicodemus, a Jew, who was a religious leader over the Jews. Every lost sinner must be born-again to enter into a relationship with the Lord.

Jesus, while on the way toward the place where he was crucified: 'Do not weep for me daughters of Jerusalem. For if they do this when the wood is green, what will they do when it is dry?'

'I have sinned', Judus confessed to the Sanhedrin, 'for I have betrayed innocent blood.' Some utterance on his part- he had handed them the Messiah so they could have him crucified.

'That's your problem, they retorted.' (And flung the pieces of silver back at him).

The construction of a modern Sanhedrin is a hideous show. Political Zionism in American hands today is a bigoted display. I don't think there are very many people who'd want to deny this.

The anti-Jesus verses in the Talmud (click), (which includes the phrase, 'whoever saves one life saves the world entire') should be binned by any and every caring and thinking person. ( The interesting verses, there is nothing wrong with these, but those anti-Jesus diatribes-no caring and thinking person would want them home under any circumstances. If there had been one sinner on earth, Jesus would still have gone to the cross to save. Everyone has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and Jesus went to the cross for every sinner. Whoever calls sincerely on him is delivered. This is clear in the scared scriptures.

The Talmud, written after Jesus' time on earth, is publicized to comprise 'Rabbinical discussions on Jewish law and other matters'. Jesus said, "do not be called 'rabbi'." ( He is the true teacher. What he meant is apparent. It applies to everyone; don't call yourself a teacher in his place, is what he means.)

Here are some statements from the Talmud', ( cut and paste from another website) which contains the foulest perversion, blasphemies against Jesus and the worst kind of racist abuse :

Dreadful antichrisitian teachings :
Moed Kattan 17a . If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there.
Non-Jews are Not Human Baba Mezia 114a-114b. Only Jews are human ("Only ye are designated men").Also see Kerithoth 6b under the sub-head, "Oil of Anointing" and Berakoth 58a in which Gentile women are designated animals ("she-asses").
Jews are Divine, Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (Gentile) hits a Jew, the Gentile must be killed. Hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God.
O.K. to Cheat Non-Jews, Sanhedrin 57a . A Jew need not pay a Gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.
Jews Have Superior Legal Status, Baba Kamma 37b. "If an ox of an Israelite gores an ox of a Canaanite there is no liability; but if an ox of a Canaanite gores an ox of an Israelite...the payment is to be in full."
Jews May Steal from Non-Jews, Baba Mezia 24a . If a Jew finds an object lost by a Gentile ("heathen") it does not have to be returned. (Affirmed also in Baba Kamma 113b).
Sanhedrin 76a . God will not spare a Jew who "marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son or returns a lost article to a Cuthean..."
Jews May Rob and Kill Non-Jews, Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a Gentile ("Cuthean"), there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a Gentile he may keep.
Baba Kamma 37b. Gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has "exposed their money to Israel."
Jews May Lie to Non-Jews, Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile.

Sick and insane teachings:

Erubin 21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.

Non-Jewish Children Sub-Human, Yebamoth 98a. All Gentile children are animals.
Abodah Zarah 36b . Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.
Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with cows.
Abodah Zarah 67b . "The vessels of Gentiles, do they not impart a worsened flavor to the food cooked in them?"
Insults Against Mary, Sanhedrin 106a . Says Jesus' mother was a whore: "She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the harlot with carpenters." Also in footnote #2 to Shabbath 104b it is stated that in the "uncensored" text of the Talmud it is written that Jesus mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had sex with many men.
Gloats over Christ Dying Young, A passage from Sanhedrin 106 gloats over the early age at which Jesus died: "Hast thou heard how old Balaam (Jesus) was?--He replied: It is not actually stated but since it is written, Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days it follows that he was thirty-three or thirty-four years old."
Horrible blasphemy agains Jesus, says Jesus was a Sorcerer, Sanhedrin 43a . Says Jesus ("Yeshu" and in footnote #6, Yeshu "the Nazarene") was executed because he practiced sorcery.
Horrible Blasphemy against Jesus, Gittin 57a . Says Jesus ( see footnote #4) is being boiled in "hot excrement."
Sanhedrin 43a . Mor horrible blasphemy against Jesus: says Jesus deserved execution: "On the eve of the Passover, Yeshu was hanged...Do you suppose that he was one for whom a defense could be made? Was he not a Mesith (enticer)?"
Attacks Christians and their Books, Rosh Hashanah 17a . Christians ("minim") and others who reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for all generations (see footnote #11 for the definition of minim).
Sanhedrin 90a.States: Those who read the New Testament ("uncanonical books," see footnote #9) will have no portion in the world to come.
Shabbath 116a (p. 569). Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament. See footnote #6.
Israel Shahak reports that the Zionists burned hundreds of New Testament books in Occupied Palestine on March 23, 1980 (cf. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, p. 21).

More Sick and Insane Teachings:

Gittin 69a . To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix it with honey and eat it.
Shabbath 41a. The law regulating the rule for how to urinate in a holy way is given.
Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.
Yebamoth 63a. Declares that agriculture is the lowest of occupations.
Sanhedrin 55b . A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specifically, three years "and a day" old).
Sanhedrin 54b . A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.
Kethuboth 11b . "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing."
Yebamoth 59b . A woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a Jewish priest. A woman who has sex with a demon is also eligible to marry a Jewish priest.
Abodah Zarah 17a. States that there is not a whore in the world that Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with.
Hagigah 27a . States that no rabbi can ever go to hell.
Baba Mezia 59b. A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God admits the rabbi won the debate.
Gittin 70a . The Rabbis taught: "On coming from a privy (outdoor toilet) a man should not have sexual intercourse till he has waited long enough to walk half a mile, because the demon of the privy is with him for that time; if he does, his children will be epileptic."
Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
Sanhedrin 59a: "A Goy (Gentile) who pries into the law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
Libbre David 37: "To communicate anything with a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.
" Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is of three years of age.
More horrible blasphemy against Jesus: " Sanhedrin 105ab: "Jesus fornicated with his jackass.
More horrible blasphemy against Jesus and extreme abuse of Christians: " Gittin 57a: "Jesus is in hell and is being punished by being boiled in semen. Christians are boiled in dung.

More dreadful anti Gentile teachings and schemes,

" Schabouth Hag. 6b: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.
" Zohar 1,160a: "Jews must always try to deceive Christians." Hilkkoth Akum Z1: "Do not save Goyim (Gentiles) in danger of death.
" Choschen Ham 388, 15: "If it be proven that someone has given the money of israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of this earth."
Choschen Ham 266, 1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely if by so doing Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."

More quotes and teachings from the Talmud here, via the site 'The Talmud unmasked.' Site not recommended specifically, it's just an expose from a perspective.

Here, a post on 'Demonology of the Pharisees.' I refer uniqley to the page linked. (Pages connected to the link are not recommended.)

Here is an 'anti Messianic Jewish' website. It calls itself a Jewish outreach website but it seems consumed with anti Christian stuff more than anything else- they're reaching out to agnostic Jews and trying o convert them back to Judaism apparently. ( They are consumed and obsessed. ) At a glance, it comes across as kind of typical of anti outsider stuff that a number of very strict Jewish people come out with a lot today.

Look more closely at the practices that are promoted and practiced inside many Synagogues and you can see where some modern expression apparently stems from, the satanic ideology and practice ( in respect of Talmud and its abuse of Christ.). Here, the 'Talmud exposed' again. Many Jews may not be regularly practicing the abuse of Christ in the Talmud but you can see the teaching (just a few excerpts from the Talmud above) what is in the Talmud's instruction. It is sad obviously.

Serious care should be taken by any Christian having anything to do with anyone who is engaging in or demonstrating an alliance with, satanic statements and associated practice.

Here is Richard Dawkins response to Shmuel Boteach. " You shriek like Hitler."

The satanic Talmud ideology defended by so some Jewish people in modern times may explain the corrupt and violent nature of the state of Israel in regards to its human rights abuses, and its support by some Jews in places. It perhaps explains the failure of some USA Jews to renounce the behavior of the Israeli state while it is practicing extreme and extensive war crimes.

My understanding of Jesus' saying in the book of Revelation as per the 'synagogue of satan' is that is he saying that people of a certain Synagogue described in the bible make out they are righteous and praiseworthy but their behavior is blasphemy and dreadful.

Re post below: In Jewish tradition, the head 'rabbi' of the area would sit at the head of the table, and those who were considered of 'lesser esteem' would go lower, round the table. The poor and the needy would tend to be sent to the end of the table, or expelled from the seats altogether. This was happening during Jesus' time on earth.
A thing Boteach used to do at his table, ( which he would go to immense lengths to put in place, the tradition still continues) was sit himself at the head, and send the 'riff raf' to end of the table, where most of affirmed that Jesus is the Messiah (the habit of a lifetime as he suspected.) His interpretation of 'riff raff' was, anyone who had been hurt in the past, Jewish people who had been rejected by other Jews and/or who had had their lives made miserable, and various Christians present. Also, the Jewish kids go to the end of the table most of the time (by tradition). There is a parable and a story of Jesus, the true teacher:

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Luke 14:7 And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,
8″When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,
9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place.
10″But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.
11″For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

12 And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.
13″But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
14 and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15 When one of those who were reclining at the table with Him heard this, he said to Him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

19 Jesus said, "There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed and who lived each day in luxury. 20 At his door lay a diseased beggar named Lazarus. 21 As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man's table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores. 22 Finally, the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham. 24 "The rich man shouted, 'Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in these flames.' 25 "But Abraham said to him, 'Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. Anyone who wanted to cross over to you from here is stopped at its edge, and no one there can cross over to us.' 27 "Then the rich man said, 'Please, Father Abraham, send him to my father's home. 28 For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them about this place of torment so they won't have to come here when they die.' 29 "But Abraham said, 'Moses and the prophets have warned them. Your brothers can read their writings anytime they want to.' 30 "The rich man replied, 'No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will turn from their sins.' 31 "But Abraham said, 'If they won't listen to Moses and the prophets, they won't listen even if someone rises from the dead.'"

Tim Geithner is all set

Barack Obama considers his nominations and the seats are to be snapped up fast; some slick choices. Hilary Clinton is Secretary of State, 'send the near Christian busybody somewhere where she'll take the blame for foreign policy', Treasury Secretary is Geithner, the head of the New York Federal Reserve bank involved in the recent bail out taxation plans (there's a shock ;-) ) and there are other specs.

The 'Resourceful Bear', a Christian financier, made some vital observations on the Obama Treasury choice, Timothy Geithner, earlier this year.

'Lee Rogers writes in Rogue Government/Infowars article that fresh off of the 2008 Bilderberg Meeting, it looks as if New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner is set to push a new agenda in the world of central banking that was likely decided upon at Bilderberg.'

'It is no secret that the true objective of the Bilderberg Meeting is to steer the world into accepting a global government. By establishing a new global regulatory banking framework, this will inch the planet ever closer to a one world currency operating in a cashless society where microchips, (or a charagma) are used to facilitate transactions.'

'Bilderberg seeks bank centralisation agenda', (links in to Geithner's own article in the NYT )

I don't know why Bear has just stopped blogging; we need him. Says it's because of Obama. Get up and get on. :-)

Associated posts: The Trust principle, the Top of the Mountain

Chasing the wind / the Creator's heart

Politicians and world leaders are surely foolish to the point that it catches the Heavenly Father's particular attention when they start saying they're 'with the wind of history'.

I love my Heavenly Father, in whom I believe, as a Christian.

'The Father Himself loves you.' This makes a believer want to dance for happiness.

He is so spectacular that the Old testament quote was: 'No one has seen the Father and lived'.

No one ever will see his face without redemption through Jesus, his gift. And he has given believers his Holy Spirit. He said 'Let there be light', and light there was. Light there was. Jesus' disciples said at the last supper; 'Lord, show us the Father'. Jesus' answer was 'He who has seen me has seen the Father.' ' I am in the Father, and he is in me.'

These are among my favourite words of the last supper of Jesus. 'The Father himself loves you, because you love me, and believe that I came from the Father.'

'Only the Father knows' the timing of Jesus' second coming. That's good enough for me.

Matthew 24:36 (NIV) "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

You can't catch the Father's hidden plans, his direction in his hidden plans, and no one and nothing, including his enemy, has a hope against him. He is above time and space. It makes him laugh (see the scriptures). And when he rejoices all creation he creates does. He looks at everything he does, and he sees that it is 'very good.' Solomon, with his gift of wisdom from the Father himself, couldn't catch the Father's hidden plans. He spent his life trying, according to the scriptures. And he also dismissed world politicians:

World English Bible:
"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind."
Ecclesiastes 1:14

In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind.
To feel you all around me
And to take your hand along the sand,
Ah but I may as well try and catch the wind.
Continued.

When is Jesus coming back? No one will guess, despite the very significant mounting evidence for biblical prophesies about the 'last days' that cannot be ignored. Watch everyone try. We are told to take care over it; 'watch and pray.'

Jesus: "The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

I heard a speaker say that it is simply those who've believed in Jesus after his days on earth who receive a relationship with the Holy Spirit and receive his guidance in a full relationship with God . The Old Testament prophets, he said, must have heard some sort of strange audible voice that they gradually learned to discern to be the Lord's on account of the nature of the message given; he said they were not involved in the kind of close relationship with God that New Testament believers are. ( I think I disagree with him.)
We know that Samuel, as a very young child, heard what he felt to be a discernable, audible voice.
There is a great deal in the New Testament about how blessed we are to be living in grace, living in the forgiveness of God and enjoying a relationship with God through the help of the Holy Spirit who indwells us as believers in Christ.

It is clear that in the Old Testament the prophets and righteous Jews such as King David and King Solomon knew the anointing and blessing of the Holy Spirit, and had a very close relationship with the Lord. As Kings, they oversaw sacrifices that preceded and prefigured the final offering for our sins, the Heavenly Father's Lamb, Messiah Jesus, on the cross. They looked ahead, put their faith in Christ, about whom they prophesied, and received a relationship with the Lord and knew the guidance of the Holy Spirit in this way. King Solomon was a prophet King and a Judge who wrote many scriptures; he 'consulted the Lord'. Did he not.

Here, an article 'Jesus the Lamb of God.'

Two women came to Solomon claiming that a child was theirs. One was his true parent, the other falsely claimed the child was her own. Solomon decided the child should be cut in two, and half given to each one. No, cried the real mother; give him to her. So Solomon awarded the true mother the child.

King Solomon knew that the Heavenly Father's own son was to be the sacrifice for mankind's sin. Kind David prophesied it on many occasions.

Someone 'dancing in the Spirit' in Church is a beautiful thing. So is musical worship in the Spirit.

Very few Old Testament believers had the close relationship with the Father now available to all believers in Christ, apparently.
If you did anything remiss in respect of the Lord's tabernacle in those Old Testament days, the consequence was terrible. No one except the High Priest was allowed to enter the 'Holiest of All', or 'Holy of Holies', and this, but once a year.

King David, the prophet King, moved by the Holy Spirit, rescued the Arc of Covenant from his enemies and came dancing into Jerusalem. He was sneered for his dancing by Saul's daughter who saw him heading up the procession, and she was instantly struck down, (made infertile in her case) the bible tell us. (So he was dancing in the Spirit, was he not?) Whether she was simply in error, doing something remiss, or whether her attitude demonstrated contempt for the Spirit, is not stated.

In these times, to enter into a relationship with the Heavenly Father and receive his Holy Spirit, all you have to do is give him your heart. It's no sacrifice; he's provided the sacrifice. He gave his heart.

'For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.'

The Old Testament prophesies ' And I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' This was God's promise that Jesus would be his sacrificial lamb who would die on the cross as for our sins.

What we have to do is accept we need God's forgiveness of our sins, recognize Jesus as our Savior, and make the risen Jesus Lord of our lives. Then we become part of the bride of Christ, the Church of believers.

Old Testament prophets told Old Testament believers: It's no sacrifice to give the Heavenly Father your heart (in that we can't atone for our own sins); he's provided the sacrifice, his son will come to earth to be sacrificed for our sins on the cross, he is 'the Lamb of God .' 'Slain before the foundations of the world.'

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Jesus said we must take up our cross and follow him if we wish to be his disciples. This article is good. We do this out of obedience to the Spirit; we follow Christ and give him our lives and submit to his will. We refuse our own will and desires; we can follow Christ through God's grace, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

It is God who made the sacrifice that enabled us to become Jesus' disciples. Without Jesus we can do nothing. Apostle Paul said:

'But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world'.
King James Bible

The false Messiah prophesied in the bible who will come, will be ' broken without hand' according to the scriptures. Daniel 8:25. He is not the one was who struck by the hand of God to take the penalty for our sins that we might be acceptable to the Holy Spirit if we repent of our sins and put our faith in him. That is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Snow

When the children accidentally enter the world of Narnia through the back of the Wardrobe, they don't find themselves in a world of brilliance, love, beauty, and light. Which, if the door to Narnia were uniquely an analogy for the door to recognizing and accepting Jesus, they would, of course.

And when they first enter Narnia, they have no idea who Aslan, the Lion who represents Jesus, is.

In Narnia they're told he exists.

The door to Narnia is not uniquely analogous to the experience of being born again into Jesus. The wardrobe door is not simply a door to practising Christian life.
No it's not.

When you take the step of submitting your life to Jesus, you make a conscious decision to ask him into your life; and as a result, he gives you a world you never experienced or believed possible and enriches your life. You know who he claims to be when you do it; it's a conscious decision. At this stage you don't yet know what it is to live with him as your own Lord and Saviour.

Narnia in the beginning of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C. S. Lewis' seems to be analogous to the life where Jesus' love already is, before we make the decision to accept him. Jesus and His Holy Spirit is the author of every pure love origin and of every uplifting intervention in our lives, from before the day we're conceived, until the day we leave this world. He intervenes for our good, before we begin to believe. 'Love of every love the best.' When we come to know him, we recognise that he has always been there, waiting for us to open the door to him.

'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.' Revelation 3 vs 20.

There is our lives in which he exists before we discover who he is ; he's Jesus Christ. The living word of God.
He knows us better than we know ourselves.

'Before you were formed in the body of your mother I knew you, and before your birth I made you holy..' Jeremiah 1 vs 5. ( to the person who puts their faith in Christ. Since 'God wants all men to be saved', the child in the womb is sacred.)

The four Pevensie children make their way unexpectedly through the back of a wardrobe and enter a world that's oppressed, subdued, terrorised; covered in a blanket of snow. Narnia. They don't open the door themselves. They enter the place through a magical experience permitted by the Spirit of the place, some magical chance.

And in the distance, there's a lamp post.

'Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.' Psalm 105.

Perhaps the snow in Narnia partly represents the heart that thaws as it comes to know the love of the Lord, and share the Lord's love for others.

No one recognises them; they are intruders from 'Spare Oom'. ( The spare room containing the wardrobe, which explanation falls on deaf Narnia ears.) It takes a very brave faun to risk their acquaintance; and even he almost betrays them to the White Witch.

Quickly they learn that the place has been overtaken by something cold. They struggle; they're lost. There is a sense of near hopelessness, of loss, of cold, and of fear. Something needs to change. There is the whisper of change, of hope against hope. Something involving Aslan; something he needs to do. They don't know about it yet.

But it is rumoured that he is on the move.

So say the Narnia beavers.

The children later discover that he is to be assassinated by the White Witch and her legions, on the stone slab, on which there is written 'deeper magic from before the dawn of time', to her dismay. Aslans death represents the crucifixion of Jesus. Aslan is a live again on the third day, and continues in Narnia.

I wonder whether the era influenced C.S. Lewis' Narnia. At the time of writing. It was just post Holocaust era, a few short years after world war II; a period many had attributed to an unprecedented, cold spiritual threat. Most of Europe had been run by a dictator with the cruelest spirit behind him.

A blanket of 'cruel, ice cold snow' had covered Europe.

People are talking about a phrase being stirred in their hearts; 'Aslan is on the move.' There is a quote that keeps coming to me, it's a little longer. I don't have the reference with me, I'll have to put it in later, I'll have to use memory. I think it's similar to that moment when a beaver leans over the table and whispers to Peter; ' they say, Aslan is on the move.'

'When the flowers break their way through the snow, when you hear the sound of the birds in the trees, when sunlight dances on the ground... then you will know that Aslan is on the move. He is on his way.'

Something like that. :-)

There's something of a sense of this snow all around us at this time. Of being in a place where everything contrary to Christ dominates in a way that is unprecedented.

At times it almost seems as if some cruel spirit is devastating the land.

Prayer is holding on tight to a faithful God, hoping, remembering days of breakthrough, to a certain extent. Spiritual warfare, hope. These times are not easy. Not at all.

And there are constant words of encouragement and promise in the Churches that believe. A gentle and constant rejoicing in the Spirit in the resurrection of Christ.

'When the flowers break their way through the snow, when you hear the sound of the birds in the trees, when light dances on the ground... then you will know that Aslan is on the move. He is on his way.'

We live in the shadowlands
Shadow theme
'When you were little you girded yourself and went where you wanted, but when you are old you will reach out your hands, and others will take you where you do not wish to go.' Jesus to Peter, on the way he would die ( martyrdom for his faith/relationship with Jesus.) From a children's bible.

'This is home', a song about Jesus, and CS Lewis' chronicles of Narnia. The swords the children are brandishing, which appear in the subsequent books, are a metaphor for spiritual warfare, war on Aslan's behalf against the White Witch. There is no comparison between the books and the films.


This is quite good; the latest white witch, CS Lewis' metaphor for Satan. She wears Aslan's mane, which she ruthlessly shred while she assassinated him. By the film version. A good analogy for the 'false Messiah figure' described by Jesus ( who said there would be many, including the penultimate- world significant- one ) in what Christian's see as the 'last days'.

America decides

Well, here we go......

Here's the election latest.
More here.

The Obama question is just as eventful outside of his campaign territory, with many previously quiet Americans purchasing car bumper stickers and T-Shirts designed to warn others that Barack Obama is the 'Antichrist'/false Messiah for certain. ( Merely to demonstrate the weekend pre-election happenings in some of the 'United States'.)

Jewish Israel is divided over Obama to a certain extent; many have had enough of his farce, including those with regular contact with the state of Israel; here, a number of writers name one of his supporters a potty mouthed comic dunce. (Again, link is merely to demonstrate events).

Barack Obama's apparent life in pictures here. There is dispute about whether all the pictures are of him

He's created a last minute hit you over the head style campaign video, needless to say; apparently blanketing the air waves wasn't enough. Here. He's banging on about 'the fierce urgency of 'now'' again. One day to change the world, well ...! Whyever did the Creator bother taking seven days over it in the first place. I know, let's just do away with the question. ;-)

The McCain team is apparently feeling like it's losing, ( at the time of this paragraph) and claiming that there's voter fraud going on. Some interesting views on States to watch and perspectives. Let's have a look: interesting results predictions for the Republicans and a media panic: 'what if McCain gets in?'
Sarah Palin: equal opportunities for women, yes. But the the evangelical church in the states being progressively transformed into a crude right wing American political circus.....that, that was awful.
Sarah alone is not to blame for the way a lot of the Churches have embraced right wing politics that had no place in the Church. She took all the flack, and was horribly persecuted. However, Christians with serious faith should stay out of world politics according to the gospels.
The Bush administration are unelectable.
Here's a reminder of Jesus' views on politicians / self serving judges generally, with a particular address to the Sanhedrin 'scribes and pharisees' of the days he was here on earth. ( I do not particularly go for this film rendition of the scene, but it's the only one available.) Here, he smashes the money lenders tables to pieces, in the temple, due to the money merchant politician pharisees inside the temple. At the time he did this, many of his followers throughout Israel ( including Judas) hoped he would be useful as a counter political force against the Sanhedrin, but he emphatically refused. It is again very clear that Jesus is directing his anger at politics and politicians, those practising politics against him in the temple, rather than 'Jewish leaders generally' ( as is often assumed).

Obama seems to be fighting in a way we've never seen a politician fight before.

.... My inkling was that it would/will be something of a landslide election victory for Obama. But let's wait and see.

Premier Christian radio is full of requests for readings on the Psalms and readings of the teachings on the 'Last Supper' of Jesus. Many requests for comfort in difficulty in these times. We are not living in easy times, and the bible says we are not going to be, if we take it that these are the last days. Far from it. According to Jesus, there will be persecution (of Christians) such as the world has never known before in the 'last days.'

Excellent reading on Jesus' words of promise and comfort at the last supper, and how they apply up to the end.

It seems as if people are a little disillusioned with the state of 'no official comment' on the current affair this week from some of these broadcasting stations, and are turning elsewhere for discussions! :-)

God bless and keep you.

Jude spoke of Jesus' coming back to earth in the 24th verse where he said, "Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with joy."

The top of the Mountain / Barack Obama and the American elections

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The 'end times' and the 'last days' are a topic throughout almost all the churches. The up and coming American election is not excluded from the debate. The last biblical book 'The Revelation of Jesus Christ' draws a lot of attention. It contains predictions that are interpreted as relevant to the world stage at this time. These predictions, or prophecies, are give in the form of some very beautiful analogies or 'picture stories' characteristic of the record of the Holy Spirit of the Arc of the Covenant. Some people believe that these analogies actually describe what is happening in the spirit realm while material events occur on earth. Others believe that the beautiful descriptives merely formed the vision experienced by John, enabling him to communicate in a type of picture code about events that would take place on the world stage in the last days. Others believe that the book of Revelation suggests a combination of the two in many ways. And others avoid the subject whenever and wherever they can.

Many non Christians take an interest, but don't know where to start.

The whole picture communicated by the book is obviously important, and everyone has their favorites. The scriptures that crop up most in the 'last days' debates are:

Revelation 6: 1 And I saw when the lamb opened one of those seals, and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying; come and see.
Revelation 6: 5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, come and see. And I beheld a black horse; and he that sat on it had a pair of balances in his hand. 6:6 and I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, a measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius, and hurt not the oil and the wine.
Revelation 18: 10-19. ...Standing far off in fear of her great torment, saying alas, alas, that great city Babylon, in one hour her judgement has come. The merchandise of gold and silver, and all the precious stones, and of pearls, and of purple, and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner of vessels of Ivory, and all manner of vessels of of most precious wood, and of brass, and of iron, and marble, and Cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and chariots, and souls of men. And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all. The merchants of all these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand far off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing; and saying alas, alas, the great city, that was clothed in fine linen and decked in scarlet, purple and gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour all her great riches is come to nought.
( There are a few more verses here, amounting to the same.)

These verses ( amongs others in the bible) are those thought to suggest a global financial crash, a devastating world economic disaster in the last days.

Revelation 16:8-9 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has power over all these plagues, and they neither repented nor gave him glory.

These verses are those thought to have predicted global warming and the increasing temperature of the earth at this time.

There are also verses about the fusion of kingdoms to form a new world structure, ( the Babylon referred to) and global financement. There are 'picture stories' about a 'beast' and a false Messiah, or prophet, referred to as two 'beasts'. These two 'beasts' are clearly described as tools of Satan, referred to a dragon. These figures in John's vision apparently strongly suggest the spirit the apostles describe as 'the spirit of the Antichrist .' They indicate that there will be formed on earth what's commonly referred to as a new order, whose representative on earth, a false prophet /Messiah figure , will control the 'beast subjects'; no one will be able to buy and sell with the mark of the 'beast.' There is an indication that one of the heads of the first "beast" will be badly 'wounded', and that its wound is to be somehow healed, which causes people to marvel.

The apostles describe the antichrist spirit thus: 'For many deceivers have gone out into the world. They refuse to acknowledge Jesus the Messiah as having become human. Any such person is a deceiver and an antichrist'.

Continued:

Revelation 13: 1-18 And I stood on the land of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were the feet of a bear, and in his mouth the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wondered at the beast. And they worshiped the dragon which gave power to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying who is like him? Who can make war with him? And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and a power was given to him to continue forty two months. And he opened his mouth to blaspheme against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and all those who dwell in heaven. And it was given to him to make was with the saints, and to overcome them; and power was given to him over kindreds, and tongues and nations. All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. ...and I beheld another beast coming out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

The inference here is that the beast with the horns like a lamb is a 'false prophet'. The true 'Lamb' slain before the foundations of the world refers to Jesus. Continued:

'And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and all who dwell in it, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he does great wonders, and makes fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceives all who dwell on the earth by means of the miracles that he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast, which had been wounded by the sword, and did live. And he had power to give life to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, to receive a mark in their right hand or on their foreheads; and that no man may buy or sell, save that he had the mark, or the name, of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six-hundred threescore and six'. (666.)

These are the scriptures that appear to inspire most of the current interest.

A good link here.

Many Christians have expressed the belief that the 'secular humanistic style of thought' rife at the moment has been artfully brought about by Satan over the last few decades as a false solution to the terrible dilemmas he instigates, and that he's created a climate in which people can be lead to believe ' the people' can solve all world dilemmas and have no need to turn to God and repent. The false Messiah, the 'son of perdition', often referred to as 'the Antichrist', it has long been thought, will seize power in such a climate. Secular humanism is not specified in the Revelation scriptures. There is a 'New World religion' coming to the fore at the moment. It's secular humanism based, but it goes much further. It's based on encouraging people to come together and glorify themselves as if they are people who do not need salvation but are "'gods' in the making". Barack Hussein Obama is being hailed as the head of the movement and ost of the media and his followers are calling him an "enlightened being."

The scriptures indicate that Satan will put forward a penultimate false Messiah figure in the 'end times' as a false solution to the problems he created or instigated himself.


To the Christian, politically motivated humanism has always had an air of impurity, of insincerity. There's a a sense that it's a lame impersonation of the Holy Spirit and Jesus' ministry. Besides both, it is distinctly lame and incapable. C.S. Lewis in his Narnia's 'The Last Battle' portrays the "beast and its prophet" as a circus merchant and a part- lame, half witted performing lion.

The 'Obama's messianic complex' debate is rife all over the web and Global TV. The subject is gaining massive readership. (Here, some Christians and non Christians comment- link also leads to media comments on Christians, which are not usually reliable, and also throws out a lot of general Internet stuff ; not usually the place for widespread Christian comment.) The Mainstream press in every other place but ours ( sleepy UK) take the matter up. Many Christians with different associations are blogging it, and have been for some time, an example here. Many Christians wrote blogs on the matter during Obama's rising, another example here. Some are better researched than others.

The popularity of the subject and a great many of the remarks being made often appear to be the reflection of a repressed desire to understand the end time scriptures; where a small group expressly targeting Obama for twisted political purposes is concerned, it seems to be about a right wing, racist mentality; where's there's a Conservative objection to Obama, a lot of public schoolboy style, humorous Obama send ups. There are also many people who express an intellectual interest, a free thinker's interest. There are many Christians and Jews following the situation, interested in the bible prophecies about the 'end times.'

The following scripture also refers to the 'Antichrist, the false Messiah figure':

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, ( the second coming of Jesus) except there come a falling away first, and that a man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. - II Thessalonians 2:3-4

Thanks to the pace of life alone and modern communication tools we all spend less time on considered spiritual thought, investment in gradual and worthwhile friendships, or careful education for its own sweet sake. The 9/11 terrorist tragedy and associated events have succeeded in convincing governments of their need to tighten their control over the daily lives and freedoms of we the little people. Security bases are strategically armed to an unprecedented extent. Our world banks ( and notably, Israeli banks) have dramatically failed, and are being taken over, bailed out or dominated by governments worldwide in collaborate measures designed to stave off a global economic catastrophe. Our politicians are announcing a fusion of of goals and ideals in order to unite under the banner of global financial management. Micro chip identity facilities are being designed which people will be encouraged to wear on their wrists, inside their skin. They are not here quite yet, but when they are ready, they will not take long to install. And in 'response', a questionable, culty style 'we, the people, can sort this out ourselves' veiled in humanism is making its way onto an emerging spiritual and political stage.

The 'Obama has a Messiah complex' site, (here) that collects 'Obama cult spirit?' debate data is an interesting read for anyone who hasn't checked Obama out against the scriptures carefully. So is its partner site, satirically named 'Obama the Messiah. (Here). 'Unlike the right wing pro-McCain false Christianity on the Internet the sites make some very interesting points about the Obama worship , idol worship and excessive enthusing over saviour style political figures, and remark that idolization of the kind that a vast crowd are showing Obama is at least abit eerie, culty, as some might see it; conceivably tantamount to the spirit that the bible's apostles describe ( along with false religions) as that of 'the antichrist'. Here, the 'American Thinker' raises objections to the cult style of the Obama following.

The'antichrist' as depicted in the book of Revelation's analogies is apparently the 'beast like a leopard, the beast with feet like a bear' (the beast whose wound was healed) and the 'beast with horns like a lamb' . These are owned by the Dragon, who represents Satan. These 'beast' pictures represent satan and his plans on earth in the 'last days'.

Looking at those scriptures from the perspective that the 'son of perdition' (popularly referred to in modern times as 'the Antichrist') is one penultimate ( world significant) false Messiah who is to appear at the end of times: which of these 'beast' images refers to the 'son of perdition' on earth, the false Messiah who'll appear in the end times? The 'beast whose wound was healed', or the 'beast with horns like a lamb'? Does the "beast whose wound was healed" depict the emerging 'global governance' or does it depict the 'son of perdition', the penultimate false Messiah who is to emerge on earth?
Is this 'son of perdition', this 'false Messiah' who will emerge on earth specifically depicted by the image of the 'beast with horns like a lamb?'
This interesting chart depicts the 'Dragon', the 'beast', and 'the false lamb' as 'The False Trinity', which suggests that the false lamb figure, the 'beast with horns like a lamb' depicts the false Messiah who is to emerge on earth as a man in the last days ( usually referred to as 'the Antichrist'.)

The true Messiah, the true Lamb of God, Jesus, prophesied of course. He was a teacher, a deliverer, a healer, a prophet, etc. These roles were all part of his ministry. He is the true Messiah. Prophecy was part of his ministry on earth.

Some people believe that Revelation's 'beast like a leopard' with 'feet like a bear', 'whose wound was healed' depicts a 'beast system' comprising this world's dominant systems that exist in opposition to Christ. An interesting analysis of that view here.
Also here, referring uniquely to page linked.

There is the important line about the "beast's authority" : 'and the Dragon ( satan) gave him his seat, and great authority'.
The 'son of perdition(the 'Antichrist' )who appears on earth as a man will be a 'false Messiah' figure, a 'false lamb', a 'wolf in sheeps clothing', the book suggests.

The false Messiah figure, 'the son of perdition' (the Antichrist',) will apparently be an ambitious world leader who emerges at a time of great economic fragility, at a time when the sun has started burning the earth, who craftily proposes a saving style and a tolerant and peaceable set of solutions just when things get unbearably dangerous ( Cue: worn out you tube pictures of America's warmongering, finance jeopardising, right wing Bush administration represented by McCain, Obama's opponent, distorting the gospel of Christ to their own political advantage and getting unbearably dangerous). He'll be a self styled Messiah figure. Attractive and genuine in appearance, apparently: at face value, politically correct; a smooth talker. This apparently plausible world leader, the 'Babylon' leader, will propose a new world order and destroy people with promises of peace and he'll disrespect and deny the name of Jesus. Much of the world will go out after him. That's what the book suggests. A 'false lamb' will emerge, acting like something of a Messiah figure yet speaking artful lies. A wolf in sheep's clothing, effectively. And he'll take centre stage.

'There is surely everything good about defending human rights ( interpreted as defending good and fair treatment of poeple) provided you keep human rights out of politics. There are faithful Christian human rights organisations. Justice , and compassion for the oppressed human condition, were essential components of Jesus Christ's ministry. There is, though, according to scripture, everything amiss about demanding 'your automatic rights' as a sinful human being while dismissing your own need for love and forgiveness, while refusing to acknowledge your own need for humility and repentance before God. This, the bible indicates, is what the penultimate false Messiah 'the son of perdition' will encourage people to do.'

The true Lamb, Jesus, tells mankind that our hearts are wrong, filled with sin, and 'the state of this planet', we've done it to ourselves; that while sinless, he died for our sins in our place, and took God's punishment for sin so we would be acceptable to the Holy Spirit, provided we repent and accept his grace ( forgiveness). On the third day after his crucifixion Jesus rose from the dead. Whoever believes in Jesus as their Lord and saviour shall have eternal life.

In response to allegations about his faith, or lack of it, Obama has recently announced that he's a Christian who reads his bible daily . What his political opponents are trying to do with his image is a matter that will reflect them of course. However, most of the 'Messiah Obama' style logos come from his own campaign, and as for professing Christianity, he was taking a very different line earlier this year, and he made a case for a saving 'new world order' (you tube list here) which would be a very odd thing for a gospel Christian leader to want to come out with, to say the least. Here's what was called the Obama New World Order speech in full.
A good article containing the 'New World Order' ( One world government) details here.

"Barack Obama has been mocked for having a Messiah complex, but one democrat strategist thinks he has not gone far enough in proclaiming himself "the One." "

A few details on the New World Order here.

( The 'Obama Messiah Watch' seem convinced that he's the second coming of Jesus ( their site appears to be just a little sarcastic btw). This conspicuously illiterate standpoint, this conviction in some parts of the US that Obama is the second coming of Jesus, mercifully has a limited following.)

A few commenters clain that Barack Obama's name adds up to 666 in Hebrew Gematria. I have not verified this claim.

So did the Emperor Nero Ceasar's name, its components added up to either 616 or 666. ( Links to Wiki intro.) Numerous Roman/Latin titles associated with demagogues have added up to 666 in Hebrew gematria. Including those appropriated by numerous Popes.

Here, Louis Farrakhan, from Barack's home town, who appears to have encouraged Barack in his early run for the White House, calls Barack 'the Messiah' in front of a vast audience of young people. This teacher comes across as a smooth cult merchant..

Here, Obama rejects and denounces Farrakhan's support when questioned, but appears to have to be persuaded. He does not seem concerned about it specifically.


Assuming the bible text is correct, which every Christian does, it's not unreasonable to presume that the Roman empire, those first persecutors of both Christians and Jews in some ways generated the current world leadership state. The antichrist spirit legacy, as it were. The dispensation of the early Roman empire.

Certain elements are clearly preoccupied with this one '666' scripture verse to an unhealthy extent. They do not, seem to be demonstrating the wisdom requisite to deciphering the mysterious scriptural end time puzzle, to my opinion. :-). Others are spending a lot of time on interesting issues such as Obama's refusal to wear the American pin badge, and Obama's refusal to salute. Which seems to have perplexed many of the States, who -bible or no bible-are t least bemused about electing someone of Islam instruction at this time whatever his faith. He failed to salute on a platform one time, and it does look very conspicuous on photo.
Scripture suggests that both the beast and the false lamb of the book of Revelation will refuse to worship or salute anything except 'the beast' and they will make everyone else do the same on pain of loss of survival ( according to scripture).
Christians are supposed to refuse to worship or revere anything except Christ, the Father, and the Holy Spirit (the true Trinity). Might Barack Obama be trying to show that he instinctively feels that a 'nationalist Zeitgeist' has overtaken the States for far too long?

He's expressed a belief that the United states is 'wounded', and that this 'wound can be healed' if 'we the people' make enough effort. 'Yes we can' is his main slogan.

And the place was abuzz when he changed the American Presidential seal, leaving old school America incredulous. Comments that his using his new and adapted 'seal' on his campaigns is illegal and unconstitutional have fallen on deaf ears, swept aside by the Obama swoon.


Jewish and Christian scholars are having problems with Barack's own personal attacks on Deuteronomy, Leviticus ( he distorts both) and the Sermon on the Mount. ( Videos associated to this one do not necessarily come recommended as per.) Here's another: evangelical leader James Dobson, who has not stayed out of politics, puts forward his views. He was quick to notice that Barack Obama complained about the Sermon on the Mount while referring to the security services of America.

The Sermon on the Mount given by Jesus Christ contains the beatitudes, including 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.'

Many Christians believe that the 'mark of the beast' described in Revelation may turn out to be the micro-chip or 'verichip' identity process which people will apparently be ultimately asked to wear inside the skin on their hands or foreheads. Another comment here. Here, an American documentary, pointing out that the hands, wrists and forehead are particularly involved in the coming official biometric identity processes. Here, a British scientist opines. According to the bible, as soon as you willfully take on the 'mark of the beast', as soon as the mark is on your wrist or on your forehead, that's it. No more Holy Spirit intervention, no further offer of salvation, no more forgiveness, no more grace. That's it. You'll be identified as belonging to Satan and the Heavenly Father's Lamb, Jesus, will exclude your name from the book of life.

One conceivably obvious objection to the 'Obama is the false Messiah' claim is that there is absolutely nothing in the bible to suggest that the false Messiah, (often called the 'Antichrist') should be an educated and seemingly inspirational mixed race man. ( Many of his speeches, promises and confidence episodes are historically those of a rising demagogue; here he almost promises to permanently end all poverty, genocide and even disease! And if this were not enough, he throws in a promise about changing the climate....) There is no comment in Revelation on the 'son of perdition's'/false Messiah's ethnicity in the book of Revelation ; why would there be? There is a clear suggestion that the false Messiah/'son of perdition' will come to power in a country or combination of countries that leads in world finance. For our generation this does point to America . It makes a lot of sense that this penultimate, world significant 'false Messiah' figure should have some Islam education; Islam is a violation of God's scripture and in the last days, Israel will be attacked, and the 'son of perdition' will set himself and his religion/world order up in the the temple of God, according to scripture .The City of Israel, Jerusalem, has suffered ceaseless persecution from religious and political leaders. Muslim Palestine has suffered persecution distress.
A number of Republican socalled Christian 'enthusiasts' have demonstrated high level racism and in some cases behaviours evocative of the Klu Klux clan of old Southern America. Though it appears that the Klu Klux Klan have in fact endorsed Barack Obama.

Then there is the matter of the attractive and dignified ( if somewhat hard faced) Michelle and the two beautiful children. Isn't it abit off to suggest the head of their family might be the 'Antichrist', the 'false Messiah'?
The bible indicates that if Satan enters into a person, that is something that occurs between Satan and that person. 'And Satan entered into Judas', the bible explains; he entered into Judas just before Judas went to inform the Sanhedrin of Jesus' whereabouts so that they could have him crucified. Judas was an ordinary man. He might have had six sisters an an Aunt , it's irrelevant, apparently. Satan entering into a person, by scriptural definition, usually seems to be invited by a rare person's extreme anti Christ and political ambition. There is no specific suggestion in Revelation that Satan will enter into a specific person , 'son of perditition' in the 'last days', but looking at the whole of the scriptures, people see it as apparent.
If it can be assumed that Satan raises demagogue figures, it may be assumed that Satan's attempted to out do the scripture prophecies and raise a powerful Antichrist/'son of perdition' figure before the time defined by scripture, in the past. ( Adolf Hitler would be a good example. Many people believed Hitler was posessed by Satan himself on account of his staggering, bewilderingly successful attack on the first Israel, among other activities. Note: Hitler is a very picture of everything hideous to our generation. But it's important to remember that at the time of his rising, deceived multitiudes thought him inspiring and a real solution to world problems. He kept his hideous plans about war and about Israel quiet for quite a while.) The bible does clearly state that Satan continually tries to out maneuver the Lord and the Lord's scriptures. Why then, someone recently asked, would he condemn himself by finally raising a powerful false Messiah with potential global power at a time that corresponds entirely with the scripture Revelation verses?

Satan's been condemned by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, defeated by Jesus Christ, and he knows it. Why admit it now, and raise the 'Antichrist' to correspond with Revelation scripture entirely? Perhaps because he knows his time is short, as the bible says? There is also the matter of Satan's unfathomable desire for worship, to have people praying to him, his long time war on God, as the bible describes it.
He's defeated by Jesus; he'll put forward a 'Messiah' of his own, the bible says, and take souls with him to perdition. Most Christians believe that over the past half century he's been spending artful time creating a world situation wherein false prophets and false Messiahs of his choosing can take control to an unprecedented extent. (Some people believe that after Adolf Hitler he revised his tactics a little and that in this age he's raised more of a smooth idealist, less of an authoritarian. Might raising demagogues successfully always have been a question of the country in which the demagogue is being raised and the Zeitgeist established in that place? A difficult question to answer.)

Here is an interesting contribution ( this is from the bible, the apostle Paul, sent me by a reader):

' "And you know what is restraining him (the man of sin) now so that he may be revealed in his his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains it will do so until he is taken out of the midst. And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming. The coming of the lawless one by the activity (energeian) of Satan will be with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, and with every deceit of unrighteousness in those who are to perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. On account of this God will send upon them a working of error, to make them believe what is false (literally the lie); so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

Many people can see that there is something ' creepy' about political Obama at the best of times. His following is very humanism-culty, generated by a media system that ostensibly doesn't belong to Christ.
People in the States are being asked to choose between 'creepy' and ' right wing warmonger'.

Now there's an investigation into Obama's birth certificate. 'Is he an American citizen at all'? 'Where is he from'? 'What is this 'birth certificate' printed on his web site?' ( There are associated links to that audit where many people into it.) He wrote a book about his dreams in 1995, 'Dreams from my father.' It's being asked: 'isn't that a bit of an unusual thing for a future president of the US to be doing that far in advance? Destiny, premonition, ambition, or -what? And he has only met his purported natural father once in his life. According to one photo.

Here, a link exploring the many 'concerned citizens' investigations into his birth certificate and place of birth.
Barack has apparently denied writing this book during his campaign, though many state that he introduced them to the book. Here, the Wiki introduction to Barack's family.

Is the ground absolutely ripe for 'deceitful kings' and warmongers to spring up who'll wage wars and put forward false ideas and falsely claim they 'act in Jesus name', and a 'false Messiah' who'll spring up and claim to 'rescue us all from the mess'? It looks as if it is.

Jesus on John the baptist:

Matthew 11:13-14 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if you will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Matthew 17:12-13 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already.... then the disciples understood that he spoke unto them of John the Baptist.
Mark 9:13But I say to you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done to him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.

Elijah, who was to come again, and imminently precede the true Messiah, Jesus. John didn't look much like everyone's conception of the rising Elijah, beautifully imagined by Caravaggio, wandering in and out of the desert and shouting 'prepare the way of the Lord' at passers by. It certainly wasn't what the Sanhedrin were expecting at the time. They were pompously disgusted. While the grave of Caiaphas, the High Priest who orchestrated Jesus' assassination, has turned up in Israel ( together with the remnants of the priest's pointedly unresurrected bones) the old Sanhedrin anti Jesus and John 'media' is irretrievable. But supposing we could glance at afew 'anti Jesus and John' propaganda scrolls. They might look something like the press campaign conducted by a modern faction.
(There was never anything political about Jesus; however, many of those who assassinated him were motivated by world politics. )

How hard are people to please! ;-) Jesus again:

Mathew 11: 17-19 But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows, and saying, we piped for you, and you did not dance; we mourned for you, and you did not lament. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'he has a devil.' The son of man came eating and drinking and they say ' behold a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children.'

The Obama family have reacted vociferously against 'Barack is a Muslim' allegations which they now state they see as an emotive spiritual snipe.

See the McCain video below. This video was made by the republican political party, who were interested in the suggestions so many people were making that Barack Obama is perhaps 'the Antichrist.' Here (click) and article on the McCain ad.



It is an obvious send up, humourous, but observe the way Obama is speaking. Very serious. The Obamas profess of late, in response to allegations about Obama's faith reaching an extraordinary height, that Obama is a serious Christian. There appears to be insufficient honest comment on the times from either political party. Much of America an its media has behaved very badly indeed over this whole campaign, sometimes worse than the political opponents themselves; only a very base mentality would enjoy it. Both sides have handed out a personal bashing.

Here's an ugly incident where Barack Obama shouts down students who tell him that he has no right to suggest that he is the voice for the oppressed.

Here Obama demonstrates that it's about shouting, idealist rhetoric and question evasion.

Some pictures of the Obama adulation. Countless Obama followers demonstrate that it has gone way beyond politics, it is fanatical religion. Nothing about following Jesus is fanatical; Jesus is the way of true freedom, righteous order, justice and peace. Fanaticism and deception is the way of the cult leader.

There can be no doubt that the recent events in America have moved us all to a new place of awareness of the motives of those in the political spectrum and have provoked significant interest in the consequences of spiritual or intellectual gullibility on our part.

Jesus' advice on the end times is simple. Stay out of politics and false worship (a significant part of 'Babylon'), be obedient to his teaching, and do not deny his name. Go about your daily business; show love to your brother; forgive. Love your Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself. Confess your failings continually to him. 'I come as thief in the night', he states, about his unannounced return. If this is what he finds you doing when he comes looking, he'll honour you. This way of life may seem unglamorous and pointless to most of this world, but it is evidently very precious in the sight of God.

The main Obama campaign video: The lines 'this is my American prayer' and 'If you get to the top of the mountain remember me,' are separate and distinct. The song puts itself forward as an enthusiastic prayer chorus speaking for the long time persecuted, those who've been hurt and humilated by the hypocrite West. 'this is the church you can't see' is particularly poignant.

Who is this 'American prayer' worship song being directed to? Not the Lord, apparently.

We know that the poor and the needy, the persecuted, those rejected by sanctimonious religious institutions and abused this world's social systems were important to Jesus; scripture tells us they still are. The the song suggests a 'we can turn off the dark tonight' that and fails to mention Jesus. The bible explains that satan is capable of elaborate deceptions, 'even masquerading as an angel of light'. Everyone has heard Obama talk about uniting religions and forming a new, united prayer style that is not Christian. ( The verse containing the line 'Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses, you know they're yearning to breathe free' is an obvious concern if political history is anything to go by.) To many people it's an attractive seeming song; good music.

The scriptures explain that the heights of the 'political sphere' were worthless to Jesus Christ, who turned down Satan's offer of all the Kingdoms and instead laid down his own sinless life in order to take the penalty for mankind's sin, all of our sins. On the third day after his crucifixion he rose from the dead. He tells us that if we repent, and turn to him, we will live, and know the Heavenly Father we'd lost as a close personal defender and friend.

Mathew 4 verse 8: And again, the devil took him up to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and said to him, " All these things I will give you, if you fall down and worship me."
Mathew 4 vs 9: Then Jesus said to him, 'Go from Me, Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God alone, and him only shall you serve.'

'When you get to the top of the mountain,
Will you tell me what you see?
If you get to the top of the mountain,
Remember me.'

The euphoria responsible for the present turmoil in the States will die down. There has been so much propaganda and counter propaganda, it's a little difficult for anyone to discern the road Obama will take after it does. When it does, there will be the CIA to run, and there's usually a lot of gratuitous style press nuisance when a president takes office. The happy clappy motor will cease and Barack Obama will be under heavy, merciless media scrutiny, unless he takes over the media entirely. Here, he's being accused of blethering idiocy and deceitful self contradiction.

Nonetheless, he's up to speed in smooth, patronising blethersome blether designed to draw the eye away from economy and CIA issues, and 'fob off the proles while they hang out their laundry'. From his own website.

It will all be a very interesting watch; no question.

Other interesting Obama reads: Dangerous demagoguery (click), the Jewish World Review, name one accomplishment by Barak Obama, Hannity and Colmes, a well written Obama send up in the Sunday Times, as if they can talk. He's being sent up to music all over you tube. 'Little Tin god' is quippy.

Opinions vary on the Obama question.

A lot of writers and viewers are comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler with interest. Here's an example of a determined standpoint.
Here's another.
A lot of people have noticed that Obama's tactics with his 'Obama Youth' are almost identical to those used in the 'Hitler Youth' movement. Here.
A further example here. This audit points out that the brainwashing of youth groups is always a part of a dictatorial regime.

Israel's press have spent their usual dilligent research time examining Obama's stories about his background and seem particularly concerned about the fact that he was deliberately unclear about being involved with Islam and its political proponents. Understandable, given the current state of Jerusalem. This debate is relevant to the Christian from the perspective outlined and from the wider scriptural perspective, given the end time prophecies about the extreme vulnerabilities that the city of Jerusalem will experience during the period predicted in the book The Revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 John 4: 21, the bible: Little children, stay away from idols.

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Disclaimer: the book of Revelation quotes have been produced and analyzed here to the best of my honest ability. If you feel you have a correction to make, by all means send it.

I do not have a view on this subject. We are told to 'watch and pray.' That is all I am doing.
Though I never thought much of Barack Obama, ( I hadn't really looked at him or checked him out until recently, since doing so I reject him entirely) I do not dispute the beauty of some of the melodies, harmonies and speech content that despot Obama is putting forward. (Melody is often present. Look at your history.) They're tempting to people at times; they make people wonder.
Christians who read their bibles ( yes Barack, lots of us do) won't be slow to observe that the temptation in the garden of Eden must have been similar, mustn't it. According to the bible, a fallen Archangel, once created by God, the tempter had been the God appointed head of music in heaven before he fell, and since, he's been capable of masquerading as an 'angel of light' ....since before time as we know it began. He came to the garden of Eden to offer an alternative to the love of God to the first two people on earth, effectively saying ( in part) 'You can do it by yourselves. All you need are knowledge and beauty. You don't need God, he lied'.

'It was a creed, written in the founding documents, that declared the destiny of a people: Yes we can.'
(Line from one of Obama's key campaign songs.)

My opinion as a Christian on Barack? We're told to 'watch and pray' as far as anything relating to end times and debates is concerned. Is Barack Obama a dangerous and deceitful rising demagogue? That's obvious. As yet, we don't know exactly what he'll do.
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about an increasing need for spiritual warfare in Christian's lives.

I think it's pretty obvious that every Christian will be observing this guy's behaviour carefully.

Here's a Christian boy singing for 'The Peace of Jerusalem' ( the City and the Church) a prayer request from Jesus he sets out in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. You saw it. :-) Courtesy Cafe Sozo. Here again.
'Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance… (WIKIPEDIA) SOZO - the Greek word which means to heal, cure, to make well; to rescue from danger, to save; to cause something to change to an earlier, correct or appropriate state; to renew.'

Note on post above

I have spent a little time researching the most helpful links and updating and clarifying the post above,'The top of the Mountain' on the question many of the churches are asking, 'Is Barack Obama the Antichrist?'

I do not want anything written here distorted and exploited by either propagandist side ( the followers of the parties in the American elections ).

A little more time ( time is limited for blogging :-) ) has now been spent on examining Barack Obama's hatred of the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ and of course, its implications. Readers are encouraged to read the sermon. It is considered to be the most important sermon given by Jesus; it contains the beatitudes.

For those who are interested in the church's concerns about Barack Obama's campaign and many people in the church's question 'Is Barack Obama the Antichrist, the false Messiah of the book of Revelation, or merely another dictating false Messiah /false Messiah type who acts the role?'
The links to the post are mostly to Obama's prominent speeches and incidences on his campaign, among other issues. I would encourage readers to assess aspects to the widespread debate, and particularly to spend careful time on the issue of Barack Obama's dictator style and what is being called his "Messianic complex".

It would be good to have a post uniquely on the love of God, and Jesus' ministry. Next up.


Here is a link to a site Knowing God personally, a guide to inviting Jesus to become your personal Lord and Saviour.

Violets

It has taken the British government over a century, dating from the death of Mary Jeanette Kelly, to admit that its Special Branch police ought to be abl to function without Secret Inquests.

I have never taken a picture of the cemetary where Mary is purportedly buried. It is a humble, pretty ornate little place. Her resting place is still strewn with sympathetic flowers.

If there were a skillful photograph of Mary Kelly's resting place on the web today, I would print it, but there is not.

We must make do with violets.

Mary's inquest was held in public, but transferred to another borough of London and a specially appointed coroner, at the behest of the New Special Branch department of Scotland Yard. You know, the outwardly flamboyant, no nonsense type that can in most cases be bought for a penny. It was popularly believed to be a farce.

Journalist interuptions, terrified or worthless witnesses and back street urchins snickering in the gallery.

Revisited again

Oh, this Brideshead newbie didn't have a chance.

Brideshead Revisited. I've been thinking about Evelyn Waugh's Sebastian lately. The 'friendship love' he epitomises. We used to experience this, all of us, we were quite open about it. You love your best friends the way Charles loved him. You love them for themselves and because they never do a thing wrong. Then, not indifferently, you gradually drop those friends, or that one friend, and you mature, you learn to love selflessly.

You learn to suffer. For someone else. To take the bad with the good, and drop the search for the ideal. You forget that you once thought the 'ideal friendships,' those lived on a happiness and laughter continuum, had to be the best.

"It is time to speak of Julia."

These words embody Charles' letting go his first love experience.

That new film version. It will annoy us, let's not go. Let's guess it's content. Sebastian is patently gay, and so is Charles; Julia is treated as a mere interruption to their 'blossoming boom', and Lady Marchmain is suffering from some sort of religious identity crisis. ( Wade through the analytical pop-psych on the Internet if you can be asked.)

That's not what Evelyn Waugh wrote, is it. (He was thought to be gay himself, the novelist, though this is questionable; he experienced love affairs with women, married, and raised five children. All that is not a literary discovery. Believe it or not. ( !) )

He worked with and beyond his own life experiences. And he was an observer, insightful.

Brideshead Revisited is a story about a soul who learns to love selflessly, and the soul who's left behind.

( Sebastian.)

I won't intrude on your memories.

Neither man expresses any homosexual inclination throughout the novel.

Sebastian's the perfect host, the most interesting friend, the best caperer, and the one who does the choosing. He's still carting his teddy about, at nineteen years old. His is a doomed life, not because he's near perfect in bud, but because it contains insurmountables. ( Or it's dominated by 'enemy spirit strongholds', as the Christian gospel would define it.) One of these 'strongholds' is the old family religion, conveyed through the attitude of his mother ( Marchmain) a meticulous Catholic who speaks not an untrue word, yet distorts Christ's perspective entirely. To live in the grace of God, the good shepherd, is to live in his continual forgiveness; Lady Marchmain replaces forgiveness with control.

"I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread."

Sebastian regrets and deplores her. The legal system looms large; he doesn't escape its aim. He can't manage his drink. At least, he drinks too much. His self abandon at the sight of relationship difficulty, a feature of his beautiful younger personality, doesn't assist him in times of trouble.

This scene ( 1980's unique rendition) is among the most poignant. It marked the beginning of the end of first love. The accompaniment is particularly memorable.

"Rain in Venice."



How you once were. Below, the finalé, Charles witnessing the unbearable sight of Brideshead, Castle-Beautiful, Sebastian's childhood home, analogous here to a 'Stronghold of Christ' , the "Innocence, God, Hope" they experienced in their youth, being taken down piece by piece. Sebastian is long gone: so is Julia.



What can people be thinking of, trying to replace the old film masterpiece? (Imagine Gielgud's Brideshead expression at the mere sight of it. ) Where can we voice our objections. :-)

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Through Evelyn Waugh's perfectionist pen Lady Marchmain somehow comes to personify or exascerbate the dominant negative strongholds in Sebastian's life. The lifeless religion, the smooth religious interpret who distorts the truth- perhaps most prominently, sitting in her study beneath the turrets, she embodies a Justice system that briefly ensnares Sebastian along with so many others. No sooner does he express his love for anyone then she moves in with an attempt to make them some sort of spy, or lookout, on her behalf. Lest this meticulous plan fail, she hires an imbecile persona to police him to the same effect, 'Mr. Samgrass,' who follows Sebastian and Charles about all term in Oxford. 'Samgrass.'

N.b. there are various Christian interpretations of the term 'stronghold.' Some people believe that 'strongholds' are simply states of mind that give place to God's enemy, e.g unforgiveness, hatred, rooted in a general refusal to 'take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.' Thus, a person's life is ruined on account of the 'enemy strongholds' in their minds.
Personally I wouldn't call these states of mind 'enemy spirit strongholds.' Carefulness in thought is basic Christianity. If these states of mind were akin to the spiritual warfare ( specific prayer) involved in dealing with the destruction caused by the work of 'enemy strongholds' in one's own life or anyone else's, Jesus would not have instructed us to simply and instantly sort them out, e.g. 'Forgive'. 'Relinquish your own desires and ambitions'. ' Cease hating this person' etc.
An unforgiving or unrepentant heart will give place to God's enemy. 'Do not give the enemy a foothold' (apostle Paul.)
Some Christians believe as I do that satan's 'strongholds' are responsible for serious, long term work (on the part of God's enemy) in a person's life, (enemy imposition and destruction) and that the destruction of enemy 'strongholds' requires serious prayer.
Evidently, there is no point in engaging in the kind of serious prayer required to set yourself or any other individual free from serious / repeating negative or tragic situations ( the result of the work of destructive 'enemy strongholds' ) unless your heart is clean, i.e. emptied of unforgiveness, hatred, bitterness etc.
The two go hand in hand.

What is this prayer type, praying against 'satan's strongholds'. 'Spiritual warfare? Specific prayers, yet guided by the Spirit: where the Spirit leads. Fasting and praying. Supplication to God. Intercession on behalf of someone else. Or yourself. Praying for someone else is good. The kind of prayer Jesus regularly prayed and continues to pray on our behalf, according to the scriptures, that he might keep us safe. At times it's written 'and Jesus was moved within his spirit, and prayed-' ( ever noticed how sometimes there's an answer to a prayer you never vocalised? the Lord Jesus still prays, and still inspires prayer.) It's a particular type of prayer, involving the heart of the Holy Spirit.

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Here's Sebastian Contra Mundum. :-)

Most people are denouncing the new 2008 film as a 'complete travesty.'

There is always at least one detractor for every classic, and I thought this comment ( left on you tube) was funny,

"haunting beautiful music.. however.. still haven't a clue what the film was about although I watched it .. some poor spoilt toff feeling sorry for himself and being befriended by a Mr Charles Ryder.. and then going away to some far flung place and then drinking himself to a drunk stupour.. that is just about it!!
so silly to make a remake.. there really isn't even a story to tell!! just privileged people and how they lived