A NEW NATION, CONCEIVED IN
RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND DEDICATED
TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL
MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
PREFACE~
COURT REFUSES
TEN COMMANDMENT CASE
Associated
Press 5/29/2001:
"The Supreme said Tuesday it wouldn't hear a case involving display of the Ten Commandments-The court on Tuesday decided not to rule on the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments Display in front of the Elkhart, Ind., Municipal Building. The court's action let stand a lower court ruling that the marker violated the constitutional boundaries between church and state."
"Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, in a dissent joined by Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, argued the case should have been accepted. He wrote that Elkhart's display had a secular as well as a religious purpose. By displaying the monument outside the building housing local courts and prosecutors, the city sought to reflect the cultural, historical and legal significance of the Commandments, Rehnquist wrote."
"Then he added: 'Indeed, a carving of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, surrounded by representations of other historical legal figures, adorns the frieze on the south wall of our [The Supreme Court's] courtroom'"
"'The carving
signals respect, not for great proselytizers, but for great lawgivers,'
Rehnquist wrote."
"[Justice] Stevens cried foul, writing that the silent
majority in denials of petitions don't state member's reasoning. 'Even though
the first two lines of the monuments text appear in significantly larger font
than the remainder, they are ignored by the dissenters,' Stevens wrote. 'Those
lines read 'THE TEN COMMANDMENTS-I AM the LORD thy God.'"
This was
apparently more than Stevens and the majority of the Justices of the Supreme
Court could tolerate in their idea of the separation of Church and
State.
The case was originally brought to trial by the American Civil
Liberties Union.
* * *
"We therefore, the REPRESENTATIVES of Patriotic Conservative Christians with
faith in Almighty God of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . . .appealing to the Supreme
Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by
the authority of the good People of Christian Faith [original read "these Colonies"]
solemnly PUBLISH and DECLARE, That these Christians are, and of Right ought to be,
FREE AND INDEPENDENT CITIZENS; that they
are absolved from all Allegiance to the Liberal Public School System, the
Atheistic and Humanistic agenda of the Liberals who dominate our learning
institutions and media, the evolutionists who have defrauded our children and
citizens for over a century with our own tax dollars, the sodomites and their
apologists in the media who have persecuted moral and God fearing organizations
and individuals who have taken a stand against their filthy practices, and from
any Institution that actively prohibits the free rights of Christians to openly
express their faith or that forces or intimidates Christians to accept into
their private homes, privately owned businesses,
private organizations or public institutions and events such as schools,
patriotic festivals and public gatherings a lifestyle that is an abomination in
the sight of Almighty God.
And for the
support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence, We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our
sacred Honor."
XXXV. That the Christian religion, as contained in the Scriptures [no extra biblical cults are meant to be included], be held forth and recommended as the public profession of these nations [England, Ireland and Scotland]; and that, as soon as may be, a provision, less subject to scruple and contention, and more certain than the present, be made for the encouragement and maintenance of able and painful teachers, for the instructing [of] the people, and for discovery and confutation of error * (see note) , hereby, and whatever is contrary to sound doctrine; and until such provision be made, the present maintenance shall not be taken away or impeached.
XXXVI. That to the public profession held forth none shall be compelled by penalties or otherwise; but that endeavours be used to win them by sound doctrine and the example of a good conversation.
XXXVII. That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ (though differing in judgment from the doctrine, worship or discipline publicly held forth) shall not be restrained from, but shall be protected in, the profession of the faith and exercise of their religion; so as they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others and to the actual disturbance of the public peace on their parts: provided this liberty be not extended to ["Popery or Prelacy, etc . . ."; this part relating to the Papacy would not be included, Catholics would enjoy the full rights as other Orthodox Christians; this was inserted after a century of Protestant/Catholic wars that tore the Empire apart] nor to such as, under the profession of Christ, hold forth and practice licentiousness.
1) Torn down any religious symbols in the public square and forbidden the Ten Commandments to be posted and forbidden children to pray in schools, and
2) Forcibly mandated that the colonists accept homosexuals in their churches, schools and their businesses,
Then the Lord said to Moses
"Go in to Pharaoh and tell
him,
'Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews:
'Let My people go, that they
may serve Me.'"
Addendum: On June
26, 2003 the Supreme Court of the United States of America legalized sodomy in
our land while Americans did nothing to protest it and our government leaders
sat by. On August 21, 2003, because Christians failed to do their duty, and
because we did not have courageous leadership in the White House to stand for
God's Word, the Ten Commandments were outlawed in the state of Alabama by the
courts of this land while Americans did nothing to protest it and our government
leaders sat by.
What follows is not a necessarily a prophetic
utterance in the sense of "Thus saith the Lord". I do not claim to be a
prophet. I was not raised in a Christian family. I am a
Christian who believes that Jesus Christ is Lord over the nations. For most
of my life I have done humble work and have been in poor circumstances
financially. I have received two inheritances years ago, one of which I gave
nearly a third away to charity, possibly more, and the other I gave half to
charity upon receiving it. I have no extensive theological training apart from
the Word of God.
There may be certain men and women living today who have
received prophecies from the Lord, however these people are very rare,
mainly because most people are not willing to pay the price to fulfill the
office of a prophet. A true prophet of the Lord will undergo much suffering, he
or she will probably be rejected by the world and will face scorn, derision and
persecution, even from Christians, or should I say especially from Christians. A
true prophet will be tested in the fire and refined as silver is refined in the
furnace, and he will not be living the lavish, comfortable lifestyle that we see
among many self-proclaimed prophets among the Protestant
denominations.
Currently there are multitudes of false prophets in
the world; they are chiefly found within the Pentecostal, Charismatic and
Catholic denominations. These denominations are rampant with false
declarations of "Thus saith the Lord" and of words from Mary when the Lord has
not spoken by them and Mary has certainly not spoken to them.
Having
made that disclaimer, here is what I do claim: God will raise up certain men who
have what is known as a word of wisdom. He will reveal certain things to
their hearts in order to warn, to rebuke, to chasten, and to encourage the
church of God. Even though I believe that most genuine prophecy has ceased since
the completion of the Book of Revelation, still, prophecies that were
pronounced on nations in the Old Testament have moral and spiritual lessons for
us today, and the same events that occured in the drama of those nations may
occur today as well, and the fulfillment of His judgements and the
prophecies in the Bible are yet being unfolded in the panorama of God's
providential dealing with mankind: God is not the God of the dead, but of the
living, and his judgements and statutes are from everlasting to everlasting.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
America is
now in her time of demise. Like the nations of anitiquity, great Egypt and
Babylon, who proudly resisted God's Word, the same scenario is now being acted
out in the American political scene. America's judgement has commenced. If
she does not repent, she will hear the awful words from the Lord of hosts
that were pronounced on other nations that had transgressed His Law:
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
When America
legalized sodomy and outlawed the Ten Commandments in 2003 this was no light
matter. It is a very serious matter for a nation to officially outlaw God's
Law.
When the Ten Commandments were in danger of being taken away from
public view in Alabama, the President of the United States should have sent down
Federal troops to prevent this from happening, and he should have addressed the
nation and reaffirmed our Christian heritage and told us of the necessity of
honoring God in our public institutions.
This he failed to do.
When
God calls a man, and raises him up to a position of great leadership, there is a
great responsibility that goes along with this. If America's President will
continue to walk humbly before the Lord, and work to prevent the slaughter of
the innocent unborn children, and stand against the wickedness of the sodomite
assault on our culture, then the Lord will bless him in due season.
However,
if he will not follow the counsel of the Lord, and if he
will not support other righteous men for public office who reverence the Lord
and who obey His statutes, but instead will justify the wicked, and make
ungodly alliances (2 Chronicles 20:35-37), then the Lord will take away from him
his position and his power.
The second Bush administration appointed an
openly homosexual man to be ambassador to the nation of Romania on September
21st, 2001. According to the Washington Post, which reported the story at the
time, "Ambassador Michael Guest will be joined in Bucharest by his partner, Alex
Nevarez, who was onstage at Guest's swearing-in and was verbally acknowledged by
Secretary of State Colin Powell". The new ambassador then promptly moved into
the diplomatic residence with his male "lover". Romanians were shocked and
outraged by this appointment, since they have refused to change their strict
anti-sodomy laws as a requirement to join the European Union.
James Antle
wrote in the American Conservative (May 24, 2004)
that the embassy in Romania is now being called the "pink
embassy" and the "Bucharest bathhouse" He wrote that
A letter sent by a group of Romanian NGOs and individuals to President Bush and Secretary Powell in January named high-level appointees responsible for having "transformed the U.S. diplomatic addresses in to havens of debauchery," and further alleges that "(b)ased on reports and pornographic photos circulating around newspapers…" they "… use their privileged positions to corrupt young Romanians, paying them for sexual relations, by both cash and visas to the U.S." The signatories of this letter include the Union of War Veterans, the National League of December 1989 Combatants, and three former Romanian parliament members.
Dr. Patrick Johnston , family practice physician and founder of the Muskingum County Association of Pro-life Physicians noted
"On September 18, 2001, President Bush appointed a homosexual activist to be Ambassador to Romania at the protest of the Romanian government. Furthermore, President Bush authorized a Clinton policy that allows an "unmarried partner" of a foreign aid worker to be given the same status as a married spouse. So the ambassador's homosexual lover accompanies him to official government functions, travels with and resides with him on the taxpayers' tab. On August 22, 2001, President Bush appointed an open homosexual to the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts.[16] He presided over the appointment of another open homosexual to oversee the choice of civilian personnel at the Pentagon.[17] The Bush administration posted a job for a "gay and lesbian program specialist" at the Department of Agriculture. On November 1, 2001, President Bush appointed an open homosexual to the State Department as an arms control advisor, which was the first appointment of an openly gay person to a senior arms control post. President Bush insisted that openly homosexual Congressman Jim Kolbe of Arizona be given a prominent speaking role at the Republican National Convention."[18],[19] On January 25, 2002, President Bush appointed many openly gay Republicans to the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.[20]
Why Christians Should Not Vote for Bush" By Patrick Johnston, D.O. (Last updated 9/04)
http://www.wherethetruthhurts.org/tractsbooksread.php?w=59
The executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in charge of the Republican reelection effort in 2004 was a known homosexual. The Committee states that they do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
The President threw his support behind a pro-homosexual, pro-abortion senate candidate who also opposed prayer in public schools over a Christian pro-life candidate in Pennsylvania who stood solidly for public morality in 2004. The man of God lost the election by a very narrow margin, thanks in large part to Mr. Bush's backing of the other candidate.
President Bush, if you or any of your advisers are reading this, there are three things you need to do so that the Lord may prosper you:
All laws, whether they have to do with rape or poverty or aid to senior citizens or the taking of human life, are laws of morality; all legislation has to do with right and wrong, all of law is based on morality, and if we don't use the Bible as our basis for morality, then whose definition of morality will we use?
Your politically correct advisers do not fear the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is no fear of God in their eyes President Bush, and you need to turn back to the Lord, and seek His counsel. Mark these words well: Even if President Bush wins a second term, if he will not stand up for the Lord's cause, then he will not prosper. Judgment is coming on this country if we do not return to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It has even already begun.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party openly endorses sodomy and
advocates the slaughter of unborn children, even up to the moment of healthy,
live birth.
Both major political parties are awash in
corruption.
A slaughter of much greater proportions than what has
happened in Iraq (this was written before the persecution and mass exodus of Christians in Iraq after George Bush's inept and blundering war) has been occuring in Sudan for years, and three U.S. Presidents
have turned a blind eye to the sufferings of millions of Christians in
that country who have been hunted down and massacred by muslims in a horrific
genocide. Wealthy oil interests have been making profits with the Islamic
government that rules that country and sponsers the terrorism.
I want to
be very careful how I choose my words here, I want to write what the Lord wants
me to write. These are serious times, these are the times "that try men's
souls"; these recent court rulings will have historical, and in a spiritual
sense eternal repercusions.
I do believe though that when these two events occured, the removal
of the Ten Commandments and the legalization of sodomy, the United States of
America crossed a line of demarcation - she has come to her own Kadesh Barnea
and turned away from the Lord; she has in effect officially rejected God's Word
and has chosen to legalize abomination; her sins have reached up to heaven, and
nothing can forestall her impending judgement now; she has been given a time to
repent since 9/11 and to turn back to God. Instead she has turned her back on
God, and although I cannot say exactly how or when it will come, I do believe
that there will be a period of steady decline from this time forth in our
nation, followed by a final wrenching judgement, and when that judgement does
come it shall be swift and sure, and shall not tarry, meaning that it will be in
God's perfect timing. It was said of the nations whom Israel supplanted that
they were allowed to continue to exist until their iniquity had reached it's
fullness. America's cup is now nearly full, and when it reaches that mark of
final apostasy, then the Lord's judgement will come on her.
Be not
deceived, God is not mocked; whatsoever a man or a nation shall sow, that shall
it reap. As the prophet Isaiah has said:
"Alas, sinful nation. A people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward."
Like some Philistine Goliath the liberals and the secular forces in this land are coming out challenging the Lord's army, sometimes with bullhorns, saying
THIS IS THE
ACLU
YOU ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
DROP
YOUR BIBLES AND
COME OUT PEACEFULLY
THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF CROSSES
AND
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS ILLEGAL
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
SURRENDER
YOUR FREE RIGHTS
AS CHRISTIANS AND NOBODY WILL GET HURT
"Woe to those who desire the Day of the Lord! For what good is the Day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him! Or as though he went into his house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him! Is not the Day of the Lord darkness and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? I hate, I despise your feast days (your church barbeques while the world is going up in flames and children are starving in other parts of the world), and I do not savor your sacred assemblies (your hypocritical church gatherings in self congratulatory boasting, your "healing" and prophecy seminars, your white coated faith healers living like Croesus off of the offerings of widows). Though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings. Take away from me the noise of your songs (your "contemporary" Christian music), for I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments (your praise and worship songs from unsanctified hearts). But let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream." (Amos 5:18-24).
I do believe that there should have been a national period of true repentance and turning back to the Lord; but if that does not happen, America might someday hear "The harvest is passed, the summer is now ended, and we are not saved". I feel that, unless there is a genuine revival that changes the political and cultural atmosphere of this land, and this must be more than mere emotionalism; this should be a period of mourning, of fasting, perhaps even of wearing sackloth as a public display of humility and of warning, unless there is a genuine renewal to commitment to living a life of sacrifice, of obedience to the Word of God, then the plight of America is essentially hopeless at this point; all her pomp and splendour, all her military might, all of her wealth and prosperity, all of her knowledge cannot help her now, she has apostatised, she has despised the Lord and His statutes, only judgement awaits her now.
With a progressive lessening of the moral influence of
the Law, America has lost her sense of purpose; the loss of her internal
cohesiveness which the liberals have fought so long and hard to demolish will
spell her doom. The judgement will come from within initially, as the Lord has
said "The word that I have spoken will judge them"; thus the rejection of the
light of God's truth will be her own sentence on herself, however there will
undoubtedly be external influences; such as having her resources sapped by a
long and costly war in some middle eastern sphere of the world, which will leave
her vulnerable over the next few years to a possible military invasion from the
far east, from China or North Korea or from an alliance of both, and there may
also be some immediate catastrophes coming from foreign terrorists. After all,
since we have officially outlawed the display of the Ten Commandments, we can no
longer expect God to providentially protect our land as He has done for the past
few centuries.
I can say one thing at this time, if I may be
permitted by the Lord: The division will continue in our land, and it will only
be settled through one side winning, and one side losing, while that question
that rang through the congregation of ancient Israel still rings true today:
"Who is on the Lord's side?"
It is time for a regime change in our land, and
I am not referring to the typical Democrat/Republican circus that takes place
every four years in our nation.
There must be a broad based non-violent citizen's resistance
movement across this land against the liberal cultural elite in order to
restore our lost rights and privileges as Christians in America. Pastors
and Christian churches should unite in cities and towns all
over this nation and circle courthouses where the ACLU has threatened
to take down the Ten Commandments to protect them from being removed,
with their own bodies if necessary. We should have public praise
gatherings conducted in the public square, with Christian marches through the
streets of our towns and cities.
We must seek the Lord in repentance for
our sins with prayer and fasting, according to the pattern set in 2
Chronicles 20. Pastors of churches and entire denominations should declare a
season of solemn fasts for their congregations. Christians need to
repent of their selfish lifestyles, and seek justice for the oppressed, and
remember mercy for the poor, to give aid to those who are bowed down, to clothe
the naked, to house the homeless, to strengthen those who are weak and
afflicted, and to confirm the feeble knees, then perhaps the Lord will smile on
us again. and the Lord Himself will deliver us from our enemies.
This is not
something for sunshine patriots. This is first a spiritual battle,
but if we continue to seek the Lord, and keep His statutes and His
commandments while there is still time to repent, then perhaps He will relent of
His great displeasure, or at least leave a blessing for a remnant in
the land and protect those who have sought Him with their whole heart when
the judgement does come on this nation.
God is currently marking those who
are seeking Him with their whole heart and who are truly serving Him, and
separating them from the hypocrites and unbelievers, and when the judgement of
war, and famine, and pestilence does come they may be spared in the day of His
anger. Now is the time to seek refuge, now is the time to build your spiritual
house, for when the judgement comes, those who have not prepared their hearts
and put their lives in order will not be able to stand. If you have not been
able to stand for the Lord in a time of peace, how will you stand during the
swelling of the Jordan? And woe to those false pastors who say to their
congregations "Where is the God of judgement?" Woe to those who have preached a
false peace, who have said "You will not see evil, neither shall any
trouble come upon us". Woe to those pastors who have not prepared their
flock. Woe to those whited sepulchres who have said "It is vain to serve
the Lord", and that the Lord has pleasure in unrighteousness, for we shall all
stand before the judgement seat of the Lord, to answer to Him what we have done
in our bodies.
This is the kind of patriotism that we need if America is to survive; we
need real men in the pulpit and in the pews who will stand up for their liberty
the way our forefathers did; not the wimpy, namby-pamby, wishy washy
pre-tribulational milktoast lukewarm once-saved-always-saved Calvinism that
lulls most of the protestant churches to sleep every Sunday.
Once
righteousness is restored in this land and Christians have taken the realm back
from the evil liberals (yes, there are evil people in this world besides the
commonly identified variety of criminals and terrorists; slaughtering innocent,
unborn babies is evil and those who advocate this are evil; enforcing the
perversion of sodomy is evil and persecuting the Boy Scouts because they have
refused to allow this abhorrent lifestyle to infect their ranks is evil; forcing
the removal of the Ten Commandments from public view is evil and those who have
striven to enforce this tyrannical oppression of religious rights are evil, and
although I do not advocate taking the law of punitive retribution into our own
hands, either individually or in mass gatherings, I do believe that unrighteous
laws should not be obeyed, and peaceful, non-violent civil resistance could and
should be our recourse, and that governments sometimes have to be changed when
they abrogate the rights of the people, and sometimes these changes involve a
physical struggle), then Christianity will officially be the national religion,
and this will be put into legal code and displayed in the offices of the highest
courts of our land.
Now, what I am about to say is not written in stone; but
God's judgements are from everlasting to everlasting, and no nation can with
impunity scorn His law and not suffer the consequences. As Pharaoh was given the
opportunity ten times to repent and release the children of Israel, so America
will experience a succession of judgements, and at each point she will have an
opportunity to repent and return to the Lord, until the final judgement when her
cup of iniquity shall be full.
The Bible states
when you shall see the abomination of desolation standing in the Holy
Place where it ought not, then the end is near. Many Christians understand this
to mean the anti-christ standing in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. There is
another understanding of this though.
In Christianity, the Church is God's
temple, and the most Holy Place, the most sacred place where God's Presence is
understood to dwell is the table where Holy Communion is celebrated, where the
Body and Blood of the Lord is presented to the faithful in Christ. The Scripture
says that this is our alter, of which those who still offer animal sacrifices in
the Levitical priesthood have no right to eat (Hebrews 13:10).
This then is
the alter of the New Testament, the Lord's Supper. God's temple is the body of
believers who have the Holy Spirit indwelling in them. We are told that when the
abomination of desolation stands in this place, where it ought not, then we are
to prepare to flee for safety.
What could this abomination of desolation be?
There are only a few things mentioned in the Bible that are called abominations.
The Scripture says that this will be something "standing where it ought not". It
would be something or someone that will stand to represent the Lord, but will be
so detestable that it will be called an abomination. This would be some terrible
wickedness standing in God's stead. Has this happened today?
When the
Episcopal Church appointed an openly declared homosexual to the position of
bishop, I believe this prophecy was in part fulfilled. In this case,
the abomination would not necessarily be the political beast power itself, but
it would be a sign warning us that soon "then shall that wicked appear".
There may be a dual future fulfillment of this with the anti-christ in
Jerusalem in some rebuilt Jewish temple, although the partial fulfillment
of this prophecy has clearly happened today with the abomination of a sodomite
being allowed to represent Christ in the Holy Supper.
The Scripture says that
the abomination would stand "where it ought not", meaning that it will be a
person so detestable, so vile, that it would not even be referred to in the
normal human way, or even given a masculine gender.
Scripture says "When you
shall see the abomination of desolation", meaning that this will be an event
that will be witnessed by the entire world. The whole Christian church will be
aware of this. That is what has happened. That sign was a warning, and just as
the Jews of the first century were warned to flee Jerusalem for persecution
would surely follow, so those Christians living in the New Jerusalem, the New
Testament Church, have been warned that the beginning of persecution will follow
soon on the heels of this event.
This, along with the sodomite Catholic
priests who have been allowed to celebrate communion and were not removed from
their positions, and those sodomites, false prophets and false shepherds in
other denominations who have committed sacrilege have fulfilled this prophecy.
Thus the abomination of desolation would be when the leaders in the modern day
temple, the Christian Church, apostatise in a very serious and deliberate
way.
The Catholic church has been in a state of apostasy regarding the theory of evolution, which her leaders have erroneously embraced, for many years, and for this and many other errors there has been a manifestation of terrible sin within her.
Do not say to yourselves "We have Simon Peter for our father", for I am saying to you that God is able from the very stones of the earth to raise up children for Simon Peter. The Catholic church has entered this millennium with much pomp and ceremony and splendor, however if she does not repent of her errors, God will take away her candlestick before the end of the millennium.
Pope John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the twentieth century. Rising from obscurity in his native land of Poland, he lost his mother and brother at an early age and his father died before his twenty first birthday. He risked his life during World War Two while studying for the priesthood when nearly one third of the clergy were killed by the Nazis. He has been a great voice for freedom, justice, the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity of life. He is perhaps the man most responsible for the collapse of communism in eastern Europe during the latter part of the twentieth century.
Unfortunately during
the reign of his Papacy he has also made some ill informed statements on
evolution. In 1996 he said that he believed that evolution was
"more than a hypothesis", in other words, he believed that it had some
scientific validity. (Where is the frenzied outcry from the liberals and the
evolutionists that we should not be mixing science and religion now?).
Aside from the lack of scientific evidence for evolution, from a purely
theological viewpoint the Pope should certainly have realized that if evolution
were "God's method" for creating mankind, and consequently if humans evolved
from apes or apelike ancestors, then this would mean that the Lord Himself, at
least by implication if evolution were true, was descended through his mother's
ancestry, from apes, and that the Virgin Mary, the mother of the promised
Messiah, whom Christians highly honor, was not much more than a "highly
evolved", immaculately conceived member of the ape family herself, if
man is truly descended from apes that is.
Apparently, near the same
time (October 22, 1996) that the Pope made this statement, a certain Harvard
paleontologist, the late and lamented Gould, was skulking around Europe and
Rome, insinuating himself into the confidence of various liberal members of the
clergy of the Catholic Church, and although I can't say that he headed up or was
involved in a campaign to persuade this leader to make some kind of statement
that would supposedly agree with what is called science, but what St. Paul
called "science falsely so called," it is possibly more than coincidence that
the visiting professor was ingratiating himself (rather shamelessly, since Gould
made no attempt to hide his distaste for the Christian religion throughout most
of his life) with certain more liberal clergy at the same period of time that
the Pope made his statement on evolution.
Perhaps from debilitation and age the Pontiff, after some shrewd and subtle diplomatic tactics from the evolutionists, consented to say something on this issue to appease them. At any rate, even though his intentions were undoubtedly good, it is a great tragedy that he made this statement. In effect he gave much ammunition to the enemies of Christ, and has seriously damaged the cause of Christianity with this statement.
I believe, as the Scripture has said, that Mary is most blessed among women. I do not, however, believe that Mary or our Lord Jesus were descended from apes, and I am simply pointing out the inconsistency of the theory of evolution with a traditional Christian view of our Lord and of His mother.
Apart from the fact that Darwin himself never demonstrated any really good evidence for evolution ever occurring, one would also have to believe, if man is continually evolving and improving through evolution, and did not fall from a state of original perfection and sinlessness, thus if death was not the penalty for sin, since men had been dying for thousands of years before Adam, then the Lords sacrificial death on the cross would have less meaning.
In fact, if by a purely naturalistic process of evolution we are progressing to better and smarter types of species continually, then the fall of man did not occur at all, since all of Adam and Eve's descendants would be more evolved than they were. And if evolution has been continuing up to the present day, then present day humans would be more highly evolved than Abraham; Isaac; Jacob; Moses; David; Joshua; Isaiah; the Apostles who wrote the New Testament, or any of the men who wrote the Bible itself! This is of course, at least from a Christian point of view, simply plain, old fashioned heterodoxy.
This was an unfortunate testimony in the life of one of the greatest men of
the twentieth century who had led an illustrious career in service to Christ.
This was the result of attempting to appease those who hold views antithetical
to the Christian faith. And appeasing the enemies of
Christianity will never win converts.
His statement on evolution
was not the first concession he made to those of other beliefs. In a
misguided attempt to bring reconciliation among the different religions of
the world, in 1986 Pope John Paul II convened a summit of religious leaders from
different faiths to worship together in Assisi, Italy. While the Pope stood in
the midst of a chanting assembly of Buddhists, Hindu's, muslim's, snake
worshippers and voodoo priests, he allowed a statue of Buddha to be placed on
top of the Tabernacle of Offering, the alter where the communion Host is kept,
the body and blood of Christ.
He allowed a pagan god to be elevated above
the true God of Israel.
He broke the first two commandments of the
Decalogue.
Once someone
begins departing from the faith, unless they repent, things can only go from a
bad state to a worse one. And thus it was in the life of the Pontiff. On May 4,
1999 the Pope actually held and kissed the
Koran in the presence of several muslim officials from Iraq and the late Chaldean
Catholic Patriarch, Raphael I Bidawid. This horrendously misguided attempt to placate the followers of Islam actually drew gasps from some of
the Catholics in attendance.
This was an act of apostasy. This was a
betrayal of his faith.
The Pope sat in the chair of St. Peter, who was
martyred for his faith. If Islam had existed during St. Peter's life, would he
have kissed the Koran? I would say not, even at the point of a sword. St.
Peter suffered chains and beatings and imprisonment for his faith. He would have
fearlessly preached Christ in the muslim lands, and willingly given his
life for this testimony, as millions of Christians already have sacrificed
their lives for their faith to the bloody sword of Islam in Africa and the
middle east and the far east over the past thirteen centuries.
Update 2013: Since Pope John Paul II committed this grave act of sacrilege to appease Iraqi muslums in 1999, over 2/3 of Iraqi Christians, that's at least 500,000, have fled muslim persecution in their native homeland. (Here is a New York Times article from 2010 that further documents the Iraqi Christian's plight). Millions of Christians in Africa have also been slain by the bloody sword of
Islam during the reign of this Pope who kissed the Koran. St Peter or St Paul bowing down and kissing Nero's ring to express "solidarity" with him in front of the Roman senate could not have been any worse than what John Paul II did.
The Koran is
not a Holy Book. It is not on a par with the Bible. It is not the Word of God.
It is the recorded words of a raving maniac, probably demon possessed, who
raped, pillaged, killed and led a band of robbers who slaughtered entire
villages of Jews and Christians in the middle east during his life.
The late
Pope was a great champion for human rights, and the dignity of life, and the
sanctity of marriage, however when he began to make compromises with those of
pagan beliefs the consequences only grew worse over a period of time. He started
out well, but in the end he compromised his office and his faith.
I am not attempting to denigrate the faith of wonderful, sincere and
godly Christians here. I am sure the Pontiff was a good man, a sincere man, a
humble man, and a loving and kind man, however, we need to follow Scripture as
assiduously as possible in our faith, in our doctrine, in our practice as
Christians. We have to measure everything by Scripture.
The Pope was known as
a man of mercy, but mercy needs to be balanced with truth. It has been said that
the Pope prayed for four hours a day stretched out on a cold marble slab. This
would be commendable, however we need to ask ourselves, who was the Pope praying
to?
When Pope John Paul II was struck by an assassin's
bullet in 1981 and nearly died, "Totus tuus" became his life's motto. He
consecrated his life to someone with that phrase. "Totus tuus" is Latin for
"It's all yours", or "It all belongs to you". When he was on his deathbed he
again consecrated his life to that person. One would suppose that he had
consecrated his life into God's hands, but it wasn't Jesus whom he gave his life
to. It was Mary. She was the one he gave his soul to.
Search the
gospels, search the book of Acts, search any of the epistles, and you will not
find anything, anywhere where our Lord or any of the apostles said a
word about praying to Mary- nothing, not in the entire Bible. Surely if this was
a standard part of the Christian message Paul would have written about it.
Surely our Lord would have said something about it. But there's nothing about it
in the word of God. There is though a mysterious warning from the book of
Jeremiah to apostate Jews who had been praying to a false deity, known as the
Queen of heaven. Catholics have crowned Mary as the Queen of heaven and made her
a co-intercessor with her Son, Jesus. What do we read in Jeremiah about this? We
find in Jeremiah this warning:
16 "Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you. 17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. 19 Do they provoke Me to anger?" says the Lord. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?" 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: "Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place--on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched." Jeremiah 7:16-20
15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying: 16 "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you! 17 But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine." 19 The women also said, "And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands' permission?" Jeremiah 44:15-19
20 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people--the men, the women, and all the people who had given him that answer--saying: 21 "The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and did it not come into His mind? 22 So the Lord could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day. 23 Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord or walked in His law, in His statutes or in His testimonies, therefore this calamity has happened to you, as at this day." 24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt! 25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: 'You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, "We will surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her." You will surely keep your vows and perform your vows!' 26 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: 'Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the Lord, 'that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "The Lord God lives." 27 Behold, I will watch over them for adversity and not for good. And all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end to them. 28 Yet a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs. Jeremiah 44:20-30
I believe this fundamental and crucial error in theology
and faith led the Pope over the years to make some of the disastrous and tragic decisions regarding the role of Christianity in relation to other
religions.
When the Pope violated the first commandment of our Lord, to have
Him and Him alone as our Lord and as the agent of our salvation, when he broke
the first commandment of the Decalogue, then this led to his further disastrous
decisions in making accomodation to pagan gods, gods who were not the one true
God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Our Lord told His
disciples that He would send them the Holy Spirit, that those who believe on Him
and follow Him would receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of
truth. Our Lord told the disciples that the Holy Spirit would lead them into all
truth. The theory of evolution is not true. When the Pope made his statement on
evolution, he was not being led by the Holy Spirit, but by the false ideology of
man. It was not the Holy Spirit that led the Pope to kiss the Koran.
The
late Pope has been heralded as the great unifier of the world's religions.
During his reign the Vatican said to the Jews that conversion is not necessary
for salvation. This is in direct contradiction to the word of God, that says
unless we be converted, both Jew and gentile, we cannot be saved, however God
has given the Jewish nation hope, a hope that was denied by John Paul when he
whitewashed the gospel of salvation. Here is what the first Peter had to say to
the Jews:
14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17 Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, F14 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.' F15 24 Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold F16 these days. 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' F17 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities." Acts 3:12-26
This is the hope for the Jews, this is the hope
for all of mankind, that they would turn to their messiah, Jesus, and be
converted, and be saved. Peter was not condemning the Jews, but offering to them
the olive branch of peace from the Lord, for he said
"I know that you did it in ignorance, as did your rulers . . . repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord".
God has made his peace offering to us, both Jew and gentile, with the sacrifice of His Son Jesus. If anyone refuses this offer, then it is not God's fault, but their own for they have freely chosen their destiny, and rejected God's provision. However we must bear in mind our great indebtedness to the nation of Israel, to the rich cultural heritage from the Jewish nation, for the Law and the Prophets, our Lord and all the Apostles sprang from Israel, from the loins of Jacob, and God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, for the gospel was preached to the Jew first, and then to the gentile, as it is written:
"1 I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3 "Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life"? F52 4 But what does the divine response say to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." F53 5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. F54 But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 8 Just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day." F55 9 And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, A stumbling block and a recompense to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, And bow down their back always." F56 11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, F57 if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, F58 as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins." F59 28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all."
(Rom 11:1-32)
God is still reaching out to Israel after the flesh, the apple of God's eye, for the promises of God are without repentance.
The book of Revelation compares physical Jerusalem with
Sodom and Egypt spiritually (Rev 11:8 "where also our Lord was crucified";
although He was crucified outside the gates of the City to fulfill prophecy, our
Lord Himself has already pronounced physical Jerusalem desolate when the
Jews rejected Him at his first coming; Matt 23:38; Luke 13:35. When the
Lord does come back he will rule from Jerusalem and it will again be the Holy
City. Perhaps at that time a new temple will be rebuilt.
The leaders of
the early first century Christian church were nearly all Jewish; our Lord,
the Apostles, most of the writers of the New Testament, and during
the last days immediately prior to the coming of the Lord the leaders of the
remnant Christian church of true believers, as opposed to the false harlot
church, will again be Jewish, they will be Messianic Jews who have accepted
Christ. At present the rulers of physical Zion are still unbelievers - they have
still not accepted their Messiah - I speak as a Christian of Jewish
ancestry who prays for the remnant of Israel - but when another, antichrist,
shall come in his own name, him they will receive). The temple of God where the
abomination would be in the last days would not be another Jewish temple though.
We have our eyes in the wrong place; we are watching the middle east for the
anti-christ, when the temple that will be desecrated in the last days is the
apostate Christian church.
We are entering the time of "Jacob's Trouble", a time of trial when great tribulation will come on all those who profess the name of Jesus Christ. Those who believe in the false pre-tribulation rapture will be totally unprepared for this, just as the unbelievers were unprepared before the time of the Flood of Noah. The church in America will not be spared this tribulation, however those who live for the Lord and follow Him with their whole heart will be protected in a special way. This does not mean that there will not be persecution for them, however the Lord will strengthen them, and guide them, and anoint them to be witnesses for Him, and many of them will be spared the great plagues that are coming upon all of mankind. The Lord will guide them to "cities of refuge" where they can find safety and security from the wrath to come after the tribulation has purified the saints. America is the last bastion of protection for Christianity, and when America falls, then the persecution will begin.
I can say this: America is now ripe for judgement. Her armed forces are stretched thin on two fronts on the opposite side of the world. She has recently removed many of her troops from South Korea to send to the Arab conflict. Her own borders are now vulnerable and she does not have the armed strength to protect herself at home should a foreign power move against her.
Take heed to these words, for the time may be near:
When the north shall attack the south in the land of the morning calm, and the
land of the dragon shall move against the island to the east, America will be
unable to respond; then the bear from the land of Russ will see it and torment
the harlot with fire.
I am not advocating selling everything that you
have and running off into the mountains. If the Lord speaks to you to do this,
fine, but just be sure it is really the Lord speaking to you, and not your own
imagination. I do have one word of advice for someone who is asking how to
escape these things. Commit your way to Jesus Christ, and remember justice, and
mercy: "Blessed is he who cares for the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time
of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be
blessed upon the earth" (Psalm 41:1-2). The sin of America is pride,
haughtiness, adultery and covetousness. Give to the poor, give to charity, give
of your substance to those in need, both in this nation and especially on other
nations where children are suffering from hunger and want, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased
(Hebrews 13:16). When you remember the fatherless and the widow, and seek
good and not evil, then perhaps you will be spared from the wrath to come.
Regarding the war with
Islam, what we
have in the world at this time is a clash of civilizations, a clash of
worldviews, and one side must prevail. And even though there are those who are
called "moderate" muslims, nevertheless the muslims who are of the extremist
brand are simply those muslims who have read their Koran and have taken it's
bloody precepts to heart! It is the leading clerics in the muslim world who
are proclaiming the call to jihad, these are not the fringe elements of
their faith who are initiating this war!
This is the main difference between
the Islamic fanatics and those fringe groups of Christians who bomb buildings
and shoot abortion doctors-they are the fringe element of Christianity,
they are not the mainstream leaders of the major Christian movements,
but those in the Islamist camp who are calling for the slaughter of the
infidels are the leaders of the mainstream movements
of the muslim faith! When the liberals and the dominant western media lump all
"fundamentalists" together in one big bag, making no distinction as to whether
they are Christian or Islamic, this is a slanderous calumny of the gravest
proportions; to lump a Christian who takes their faith seriously with a muslim
who takes their faith seriously would be to put Mother Teresa and Osama
Bin Laden in the same camp, nevertheless that is what the liberals and their
toadies in academia have done when they have besmirched Christians with their
propaganda.
This is the crucial difference, and whether we like it or
not, we are in a war for our culture, for our way of life, for those grand
institutions of civil and religious liberty that we take for granted
and that are the foundations of our heritage of lawful freedom to
worship and to choose our system of government. This is in fact a war that
began centuries ago, and despite what has been taught in our history books, the
Crusades were a defensive war being fought against Islamic fanatics who
wanted to turn Europe into an Islamic state, and they had already conquered the
entire middle east with the sword and had made their way all the way to
Vienna, and they occupied Spain for many centuries. Were it not for the
crusaders turning the muslim hoards back, all the women in Europe would be
wearing burkas and we would be under the muslim rule of
shariah.
Whatever the reason for our entering the war in Iraq, we must win this war, and we must win it decisively. Sun Tzu said rightly that there has never been a prolonged military campaign that has ended profitably.
America will be given a series of chances to repent and return to
God, and at each one of these crossroads a further judgement will commence if
she refuses to return to God. When the Supreme Court refused to reinstate Judge
Moore in October of 2004 the bell tolled one more time against this nation.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls America, it tolls for thee.
God is saying to
you, America, just as the Lord said to Jerusalem two thousand years ago, "How
oft would I have gathered you under me, as a hen gathers her chicks, but you
would not".
God is using the world scene to judge America. At
every juncture that America turns against God, she will suffer a further
consequence of this in her international and domestic affairs.
God did raise up George Bush to lead America at this time. However just as there were certain kings of Israel who were chosen by God and then later lost their place due to disobedience, so there are three things that George Bush must do if he is to prosper, whether or not he wins the election. If he will stand for Christian and Godly principles again, stand firmly against abortion and stand against the assault of the sodomites, then the Lord will prosper him. However even if he were to win the election, if he will not stand for Godly principles, he will not prosper.
On February 18, 2002 George W. Bush became the first American President to worship a pagan god in public office. He and his wife both bowed before the Meiji Shinto Shrine, alienating both the Korean and Japanese Christian communities. After they bowed to this demon shrine and clapped their hands to awaken him, they entered their signatures into the book of those who have worshipped at the Shrine. The Japanese Premier, Junichiro Koizumi, did not join the Bushes in worship because the Japanese Constitution has set up a wall of separation between temple and state. The Japanese Constitution forbids heads of state to participate in Shinto worship since it was that religion that motivated the Pearl Harbor attack and the horrendous carnage inflicted by the Japanese on their Chinese, Burmese, and South Asian neighbors, as reported by the Japan Times after the event.
Japanese and Korean Christians who refused to worship the demon-spirit at Shinto shrines were put to death during WW II. George Bush, a professed Christian, has tread on the blood of those martyrs who refused to bow before a heathen idol.
In his second inaugural address he praised Islam and mentioned the Koran but he did not mention the Holy Bible.
President George W. Bush, a professed Christian, has done more for the spread of Islam than he has done for Christianity. Under President Bush's initiative the United States has spent billions of dollars to set up the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the new Republic of Iraq, both based on Islamic Law, while we have sat by and done nothing as hundreds of thousands of Christians were slaughtered by a militant muslim government in Sudan .
During President Bush's term of office Judge Roy Moore was disbarred for believing in God's Law and the Ten Commandments. During President Bush's term in office Terri Schiavo was allowed to starve to death.
In 2004 Christian chaplains in the United States armed forces were forbidden to publicly pray in Jesus' name. While he has publicly praised the bloodthirsty religion of Islam as a "peaceful religion", President Bush has done nothing to remedy this breach of our religious liberties, nor has Donald Rumsfeld nor has anyone else in the Bush administration done anything about it.
After a hard fought battle to take the city of Fallujah in April of 2004 our marines were ordered back just when victory was in our grasp so that we would not appear to be insensitive to the muslim inhabitants of the city. Within days the city was back in the hands of the terrorists. We have repeatedly allowed a terrorist muslim sheik responsible for American deaths in Iraq to slip out of our hands so that we would not appear to be intolerant of his faith!
President Bush became the first President in office to worship with muslims at a mosque. Within a week after 3,000 innocent Americans were killed in the 9/11 attacks by muslim terrorists, President Bush was bowing and scraping before the muslim leaders in this country when he went to the Islamic Center in Washington D.C. and stated: "The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam", as he was escorted by Islamic clerics, "Islam is peace". No less than seventeen times over the next year and a half he proclaimed Islam as a peaceful religion . He said on December 5, 2002, "Islam brings hope and comfort to more than a billion peole worldwide . . . Islam affirms God's justice and insists on man's moral responsibility . . . Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind"
Of the six great genocides in the twentieth century, Hitler's holocaust of the Jews, Stalin's slaughter of twenty to thirty million people in the Soviet Union in the thirties and forties in the name of atheistic communism, China's purges when hundreds of millions of people were put to death throughout the mid and late twentieth century in the name of atheistic communism, Pol Pot's slaughter of millions in southeast Asia in the name of atheistic communism after the United States pulled out of Southeast Asia, the Armenian genocide by the Turks in the early part of the twentieth century, and the slaughter of millions of Christians in Sudan in the latter part of the twentieth century, two of the six genocides were done in the name of Islam, by followers of Mohammed, and the last one is still going on; Christians are being slaughtered in Africa and being persecuted in Indonesia by muslims, and in Saudi Arabia you will be thrown into prison for bringing a Bible into that country or for sharing faith in Christ; all this while President Bush sings out the praises of Islam.
You don't start a war you are not determined to win, and the first thing you must do is identify the enemy and have him in your sites. You don't engage in a fight with some murderous thugs and then turn around and say "You know, you guys aren't such a bad bunch of fellows after all. We've got more in common than I thought". It is not radical Islam that is the enemy. The enemy is Islam. The only reason we have peaceful and moderate muslims in the United States is because they are not a sizeable part of the population. There are no moderate muslims in Saudi Arabia. There are no moderate muslims in Afghanistan. There are no moderate muslims in Pakistan. If you live in one of those countries and decide "You know, I think I'm going to go out for lunch today" during the month of Ramadan, or decide to go bowling instead of going to the mosque on Friday you can wind up in prison. Women in those countries can be beaten for making too much noise. Moderate muslims in those countries who might equate Islam with Christianity or some other religion can be shot!
Meanwhile our President blabbers on about Islam being a peaceful religion.
You cannot fight against a dangerous enemy with one hand shackled behind your back. We should have learned this lesson decades ago in Vietnam, but apparently the politically correct managers of the war in the Pentagon and the State department have not learned that lesson. Islam is a rogue religion and those Islamic leaders in the middle east and the far east have no legitimacy before God to rule over their countries.
Whether or
not it was the right decision to go to war in Iraq, now that we are there, we
must win it, and we must win it decisively, and you do not win a war through
political correctness. Many of the bureaucrats in the state department graduated
from colleges where the professors were marxists and atheists, and where America
was pilloried in the classrooms as responsible for most of the crimes in the
world over the past two hundred years, responsible for the repression of blacks
and other minorities, imperialistic and greedy, in other words, America was
portrayed in much the same way that Islam portrays America, as the "great
satan".
Thus many of those working in the state department itself would have
questionable loyalty to the foundational ideals of our country.
America had
a policy of prohibiting American troops who were putting their lives on the line
in Iraq from receiving Christian literature and Bibles in the mail lest we
offend the indigenous muslim population, while the muslim prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay prison were freely given Korans, muslim prayer beads, and
muslim prayer blankets courtesy of the U.S. government! General Boykin was
forced by his superiors to publicly apologise over a speech he made
while off duty to a private church audience in the United States regarding
the differences between Christianity and Islam ! Among other sad news on
the home front, Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore has been permanently
removed from his office for erecting a monument of the Ten Commandments in a
courthouse in his home state. Recently the Supreme Court refused to review his
case.
Judge Moore is a modern Jeremiah suffering at the hands of this
apostate government. It does not matter who wins the election in
2004, for this and other actions judgement is coming on this nation.
In November 2004 the Pentagon instructed all military bases in the United States and throughout the world not to sponsor Boy Scout meetings any more. Why? The Boy Scouts must take an oath to honor God and country, and the ACLU threatened the military with a lawsuit unless they withdrew support for the Boy Scouts, claiming a violation of the non-existent clause of separation of Church and state. The Pentagon lawyers backed down from the ACLU with barely a whimper of protest. Where were you Don Rumsfeld, where were you President Bush when the Scouts needed your help? If we will not honor God, then He will not honor us. With every transgression against God, with every chance to repent and turn back to God that we turn away from, America will suffer a further judgement.
The insanity persists when we
allow muslims to serve in our armed forces in the war against terrorism.
This would be equivalent to our having let openly professed
Nazis serve in the United States military during World War II in the
war against Germany. And then prohibiting our brave soldiers in Iraq from firing
on Mosques so that we don't offend the religious sensibilities of the muslims?
Mosques where weapons have been stored to kill our young men and women fighting
for their country; Mosques where hatred of Jews and Christians and the "infidel
West" has been preached for decades by fanatical Islamic Mullahs; Mosques where
terrorists meet to collaborate and exchange plans to conduct more terror
campaigns?
Mosques are centers of idol worship for a pagan religion founded
by a fanatical madman in the seventh century. There is no Mosque on the face of
the earth that can be called a holy shrine, any more than Hitler's Reichstag
could have been considered a cathedral.
"But we all worship the same
God, don't we?" Well, don't we? If you truly believe this, why don't
you go to Saudi Arabia, or any other muslim country, and share
with them your wonderful message for world peace. Go and tell them that God
and Allah and Buddha are all names for the same God! They might want to hear it.
I'm sure that once you were within the borders of Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or
Indonesia, or Iraq, or Iran, or Jordan, or any other Islamic country, and you
shared with them your wonderful message of peace, that your muslim brothers
would welcome you with open arms. However, it might easily be your sentence
for a lengthy imprisonment, or even your epitaph as well; what one can say
freely here in America in perfect and profound ignorance is not so easily
tolerated by those who follow the teachings of the "Prophet".
During Muhammad's
life, among his various wives he married a six year old girl when
he was over forty, and consumated the relationship with her when she was nine
years old. According to Craig Winn, who personally interviewed
terrorists at the risk of his own life and who wrote a thoroughly
documented biography of Muhammad's life, Muhammad was "a thief, liar, assassin,
mass murderer, terrorist, warmonger, and an unrestrained sexual pervert engaged
in pedophilia, incest, and rape. He authorized deception, assassinations,
torture, slavery, and genocide. He was a pirate, not a prophet." (Craig Winn, Prophet of
Doom). His band of followers were a far cry from the gentle apostles
who followed the Prince of Peace and went around healing and preaching
forgiveness in His name. The followers of Muhammad were a band of brigands who
raped, robbed and slaughtered whole villages in the name of Islam, with Muhammad
leading the pack. "Death to the Infidel" was part and parcel of this "religion"
from the very start, and the present day militants have not "hijacked" Islam to
suite their own present day nefarious ends; they are simply following the words
and the example of the murderous founder of their faith.
Islam is not a
religion of peace, and in it's long, bloody history it never has been.
At
this very moment Saudi Arabia is pouring millions of dollars into the United
States, building mosques, and setting up Islamic schools and camps for young
converts, filling them with hatred for Christians and Jews, and even
though most muslims in this country at this point are relatively
peaceful (except the ones who fly airplanes into buildings), when their numbers
reach a certain point, like killer bees they will turn on those who are the
"infidels" and wage a jihad within our own borders. (Update: At this time, April
22, 2004, while Christian children are being denied the right to share Jesus
with their classmates and Christmas scenes and the Ten Commandments are being
taken down from public squares in this country, the town of Hamtramck Michigan,
which is now one third muslim, is going to allow a Mosque to broadcast the
muslim call to prayer over loudspeakers five times a day within the city
limits).
Even if America succeeds in setting up some kind of democracy in Iraq, we have to understand that this will be a pagan government. Essentially, America, a country founded on Christianity, has just spent 200 billion dollars to set up an Islamic state! For doing this, judgement is going to come on this country. God is very offended that we have spent our lives and our resources to set up a country dedicated to the bloody and false religion of Mohammed.
Democracy alone will not liberate Iraq. The only way that Iraq can be truly liberated will be when she is liberated from the wicked and oppressive Islamic ideology that created a monster like Saddam Hussein, that sends terrorist bombers into crowded marketplaces, that causes people to think that they are serving God by bowing five times a day to a stone hut in Saudi Arabia. The people in the middle east need to be liberated from their sin through the preaching of the gospel. Jesus is the light of the world, He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and if the Truth shall set men free, then they shall indeed be free!
If there is to be peace in the middle east, we must
first occupy these lands; we must jail the Islamist clerics, and we must
bulldoze every Mosque in the middle east to the ground. (We must do this same
thing in every country as soon as possible where Islam exists, including the
Western countries of Europe and America. This is not a job for vigilantes and I
am not advocating taking the law into your own hands; laws must be passed and
enforced; but it must be done, and it must be done soon.
We are in a fight
for our lives against a virulent, dangerous ideology that causes people to blow
up innocent children and behead good men and women whose only crime is to seek
to help an oppressed nation; an ideology that seeks to put the entire world
under the brutal dictatorship of sharia.)
Then we must re-educate the people
in the middle east, Africa and the far east, in essence civilise
them, instructing their children in the true faith of the gospel. This may
not happen until America has had a spiritual renaissance of her own and a
re-establishment of our own Christian foundation.
7. Establish a Christian Republic
here in America or in some other country in the world to shepherd the other
nations of the world under the regency, or guidelines of the gospel to be wise
and just stewards over the earth until the return of Christ for His
people. (2013: Looking back now, since I wrote this in 2004, I realise at this point that step #7 will have to be step #1, in order to conquer Islam)
As we enter the new millennium, we have
to ask ourselves whose set of beliefs will predominate in the social and
political fabric of the world. Some nation has got to assume the mantle of
responsibility to ensure that civil and religious rights are safeguarded for all
people. I believe that a Federation of governments based on Christian principles
is the only hope for mankind in the coming centuries.
I believe that the
American constitution, with the added provisions mentioned above to ensure
Christian liberty could be the blueprint for this government, or body of
governments worldwide. As Plato said, either philosophers (lovers of wisdom and
virtue) will become Kings, and Kings will become philosophers, or else there can
be no rest from troubles.
Regarding those heathen nations who have persecuted
Christians, and those in this country who have rejected the gospel and denied
Christians their rights and promoted abominations and the slaughter of the
innocents through abortion, if they will not yield to the gentle staff of our
Saviour through the preaching of the gospel, then let them be disciplined by the
iron of His rod, through a Christian government that would be guided by a set of
Biblical statutes to wield power in justice and in mercy, with the officials of
this government living frugal lives, not exalting themselves, not being harsh
taskmasters, not given over to utter licentiousness, not unduly enriching
themselves at the public expense, remembering justice, mercy, charity and
reverence for God, being servants for Christs' sake, wise stewards over a
Christian nation whom Christ shall raise up to shepherd the world until His
return.
That is the only hope for America to survive in this new millennium
and to fulfill her purpose, otherwise she will be destroyed by inward corruption
and finally by her enemies without. If America will not repent and return to her God,
then she will fall and she will be no more than a memory lost in the dust of
history, and God will raise up another nation to serve Him and bring Him glory.
Let us work and pray for revival in America.
"God of our fathers, known of old-
Lord of our far-flung battle line-
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies-
The Captains and the Kings depart-
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
Far-called, our navies melt away-
On dune and headland sinks the fire-
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
If drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe-
Such boasting as the Gentiles use
Or lesser creeds without the Law
Lord God of hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard-
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word
Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord! Amen!"
Recessional, Rudyard Kipling
I have said that there could be no peaceful resolution to our trouble
as a nation, unless we surrender our free rights as Christians and citizens to
the tyranny of the secular oligarchy. Sadly, this has indeed occurred. And yet,
I do believe that just as in the days when Israel had apostatised, and a man of
God had to flee from wicked rulers, so there is a righteous remnant left in this
land who may be holding back the hand of God's judgement, or at the very least
may alleviate it when it comes. There are some still who have not bowed the knee
to baal, and who still love the Lord with all of their hearts. And perhaps, in
His mercy, God may raise up a new nation on the ashes of this one, a country
that will fulfill what America was meant to be at one time, a light to the
nations, a City set on a hill:
"When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast
Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west.
Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the intantaneous throe,
When the travail of the Ages wrings earth's systems to and fro,
At the birth of each new Era, with a recognizing start,
Nation wildly looks at nation, standing with mute lips apart,
And glad Truth's yet mightier man-child leaps beneath the Future's heart."
"Backward look across the ages and the beacon-moments see,
That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut up through oblivions sea,
We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great,
Slow of faith how weak an arm my turn the iron helm of fate,
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own."
"Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,
And the multitude make virture of the faith they had denied."
"'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves
Of a legendary virtue carved upon our father's graves,
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime;
Was the Mayflower launched by cowards, steered by men behind their time?
Turn those tracks toward Past or Future, that make Plymouth Rock sublime?"
"They were men of present valor, stalwart old iconoclasts,
Unconvinced by ax or gibbet that all virtue was the Past's;
But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free,
Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee
The rude grasp of that great Impulse which drove them across the sea."
"They have rights who dare maintain them;
We are traitors to our sires,
Smothering in their holy ashes Freedom's new-lit alter-fires;
LO, before us gleams Truth's camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,"
"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side
Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,
Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?
Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong
And albeit, she wander outcast now, I see around her throng
Troops of beautiful tall angels, to enshrine her from all wrong"
The Present Crisis, James Russell Lowell
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The book of Revelation makes it clear that during
the last days, when the events revealed to the Apostle John begin to take place
immediately prior to the second coming of the Lord, that there will be at least
two final prophets on the earth; and perhaps there will be more. It is written
"Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants
the prophets. A lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who
can but prophecy?" (Amos 3:7-8)
The prophet Joel wrote under the inspiration
of the Holy Ghost that in the last days old men shall dream dreams and the young
men shall see visions, thus an understanding of the events in that final book of
the Bible will be revealed to His servants in the last days. Until that
time comes (and it may be at hand, even at the doors) we are warned that in the
last days there will also be many false prophets, even coming in the name of
Christ, so every word should be weighed by God's infallible Word.
Take heed
though, for the Word of God says that he who receives a prophet shall receive a
prophet's reward, but to receive the words of a false prophet would be to put your
own life at peril: