Bible Believers' Newsletter #517
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Praise the Lord for shining His grace upon us after thirteen years of persecution through the national media by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and their associates. One of their most egregious accusations was that we follow the British Israel/Christian Identity sect which is itself a Jewish hoax. They commenced legal action against the Church on August 25, 2004, and later joined me to the case. I subsequently managed to have the Church removed from the case. The matter was dismissed and previous court orders set aside on February 28, 2008. To YHWH be all Glory in His compound redemptive Name, Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you, Brothers and Sisters, your effectual, fervent prayers have availed much. Thank you also for proving everything we present in your own Bibles, placing your trust in the God of Truth so that your confidence does not rest in the words of a man.
The hour is later than many dare imagine. Looking at Revelation 16:12 we see the effects of the outpouring of John Wesley's Vial in the trial of jealousy against the nominal church, for "the way of the kings of the East is prepared." The Khazars and Chinese have taken over the world from within the Western (once) Christian nations. Revelation 16:12-16 describes the uniting time in the struggle of man against man against God, for the great eschatological battle of Revelation 19:11 - 20:10. The union of churches and institutions and nations built upon the shifting sands of nineteenth century rationalization against the faith has became incarnate in twentieth century atheism, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Zionism, Humanism, Feminism, Unionism, Capitalism and a host of other "isms" - all born of the same spirit.
Truth is absent from the echelons of power occupied by verbally ambidextrous puppets of the caliber of the current crop of "democratically pre-elected" candidates for the presidency of the United States of America; and "Truth is no defense". May God have mercy on the blind, lame and withered minds of electors.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Russia: Victim of Narco-Aggression
February 4, 2008 – Afghanistan's narcotics have struck Russia like a tsunami threatening to decimate its already shrinking population. In a country of 142 million people, there are about 6 million drug-users — a 20-fold increase since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Overwhelmed by a flood of drugs from Afghanistan, Russia says it has fallen victim to "narco-aggression."
The illegal drug turnover in Russia is estimated to be between $10 billion and $15 billion, discounting transit trafficking. The Federal Drug Control Service said earlier this month that as many as 30 million to 40 million people in Russia may have tried drugs at least once. Annually, some 80,000 Russians die of drug-related causes. One in five crimes committed in Russia is related to drugs. . .
In December, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov told the Vesti 24-hour news channel that according to unconfirmed reports the US military transport aviation is used for the delivery of drugs from Afghanistan to the American airbases, Ganci in Kyrgyzstan and Incirlik in Turkey. . . One of the best-informed Russian journalists on Central Asia, Arkady Dubnov, quoted anonymous Afghan sources as saying that "85 per cent of all drugs produced in southern and southeastern provinces are shipped abroad by US aviation." Well-informed sources in Afghanistan's security services told the Russian journalist that the American military acquired drugs through local Afghan officials who dealt with field commanders in-charge of drug production. . . Full story: hindu.com
Comment: Vietnam and Air America redivivus with a new destination.
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US Embrace of Musharraf Irks Pakistanis
Islamabad, February 29, 2008 – The Bush administration's continued backing of President Pervez Musharraf, despite the overwhelming rejection of his party by voters this month, is fueling a new level of frustration in Pakistan with the United States. That support has rankled the public, politicians and journalists here, inciting deep anger at what is perceived as American meddling and the refusal of Washington to embrace the new, democratically elected government. . . Pakistanis say the Bush administration is grossly misjudging the political mood in Pakistan and squandering an opportunity to win support from the Pakistani public for its fight against terrorism. . .
"I've never seen such an irrational, impractical move on the part of the United States," said Rasul Baksh Rais, a political scientist at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. "The whole country has voted against Musharraf. This was a referendum against Musharraf". . . Full story: nytimes.com
Comment: The US move is eminently rational and practical as the objective of the 'hidden hand' is to provoke Political Islam to the "hot stage" of World War III, and what better excuse for US aggression than a "recalcitrant" nuclear-armed Islamic state?
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Scientists see WTC – Hutchison Effect Parallel
January 30, 2008 – In two appearances on a Washington DC Pacifica Radio Station, WPFW, on a show hosted by Author and Political Commentator Ambrose I. Lane, Sr., Dr. Judy Wood, a former Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and John Hutchison, an experimental scientist, discussed how photographic and video evidence suggest that the World Trade Centre (WTC) towers were destroyed using Directed Energy Weapons (DEW).
John Hutchison is a Canadian inventor and experimental scientist who has been working with "field effects" for almost 30 years. The Hutchison Effect is a collection of phenomena discovered accidentally by John Hutchison in 1979 during attempts to reproduce the work of Nikola Tesla. Hutchison uses radio frequency and electrostatic sources. The Hutchison Effect occurs in a volume of space where the beams intersect and interfere. The results are levitation of heavy objects, fusion of dissimilar materials such as metal and wood, anomalous melting (without heating) of metals without burning adjacent material, spontaneous fracturing of metals (which separate by sliding in a sideways fashion), and both temporary and permanent changes in the crystalline structure and physical properties of metal samples.
Hutchison has reproduced his experiments many times and the results are recorded on video and have been included in a number of TV documentaries that focus on unusual scientific experiments. Hutchison's metal samples have been repeatedly tested by scientists, including a group at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, confirming Hutchison Effects. The article by Wood and Hutchison documents effects and events seen in the vicinity of the World Trade Centre and compares these with observed characteristics of the Hutchison Effect. Full story: drjudywood.com
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Russia quietly prepares to switch some Oil Trading from Dollars to Rubles
Moscow, February 25, 2008 – the world's second-largest oil- exporting nation after Saudi Arabia, has been quietly preparing to switch trading in Russian Ural Blend oil, the country's primary export, from the dollar to the ruble. But the change, if it comes, is still some time off, industry analysts and officials said. . . companies and countries that buy petroleum products are encouraged to hold dollar reserves to pay for their supplies, coincidentally helping the American economy support its trade deficit.
Russia would like to change this practice, at least among its customers, as a means to elevate the importance of the ruble, a new source of national pride after gaining 30 percent against the dollar during the current oil boom.
A move away from the dollar, meanwhile, is more glum news for the United States. Full story: iht.com
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Part of Jerusalem officially labeled PA Territory
February 27, 2008 – Israeli authorities have placed several signs near the Atarot area in northern Jerusalem recently warning travelers, "You are entering territory under the control of the Palestinian Authority. Israelis are absolutely forbidden to enter!" Approximately 25,000 residents of Jerusalem, some of them Israeli citizens, live in the areas now designated as PA territory. . . Full story: israelnationalnews.com
Comment: Zechariah 14:1-2; Revelation 16:19.
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Global Warming faces a Cold Shower in New York
February 25, 2008 – The Carbon Sense Coalition based in Australia is supporting an International Conference on the Science of Global Warming in New York this week.
"There is definitely no "consensus" on man-made global warming even if this were relevant to determining a question of science. In fact, far more scientists have openly rejected the IPCC propositions than are publicly supporting it. . . "
"Garnaut's proposal that Australia should target a 90% cut in carbon emissions by 2050 is so extreme that Australians need to take notice what destruction is being proposed in such a cavalier fashion. At one stroke, he could destroy the value of the huge public assets in coal fired power stations, as well as causing a dramatic fall in food production, power shortages and the migration to Asia of much of Australia's cement, steel, processing and manufacturing industries."
"These people have already brainwashed our children into a state of fear about the future, now Garnaut will guarantee them lives of shortages and poverty. Without coal and oil the world could not maintain the world population, or produce and transport its food. . . The only efficient way to harvest the sun's energy is to use plants such as grass, trees and algae. However, "Biofuel" is a costly con which does more harm than good to energy supplies, energy costs and the environment" Full story: heartland.org carbon-sense.com
Comment: Chairman Viv Forbes, BScApp, FAusIMM, FSIA confirms that the objective of the "Global Warming" scam is the divestment, poverty, famine, disease, and global depopulation, disempowerment of the Western (once) Christian nations and massive world depopulation in accordance with the program of the 'hidden hand' prophesied by Jesus in Revelation 6:8 and reported on our Website for fifteen years.
It seems as if the US will soon join the Carbon Economy ponzi scheme.
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The Gaza Bombshell
After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle. . . President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever. . .
I've seen the video. . . It shows abu Dan kneeling, his hands bound behind his back, and screaming as his captors pummel him with a black iron rod. "I lost all the skin on my back from the beatings," he says. "Instead of medicine, they poured perfume on my wounds. It felt as if they had taken a sword to my injuries". . . The video reveals a bare room with white walls and a black-and-white tiled floor, where abu Dan's father is forced to sit and listen to his son's shrieks of pain. Afterward, abu Dan says, he and two of the others were driven to a market square. "They told us they were going to kill us. They made us sit on the ground." He rolls up the legs of his trousers to display the circular scars that are evidence of what happened next: "They shot our knees and feet—five bullets each. I spent four months in a wheelchair."
Abu Dan had no way of knowing it, but his tormentors had a secret ally: the administration of President George W. Bush... Full story: vanityfair.com April, 2008.
Comment: Once Israel funded Hamas with intent to develop Islamic extremists, now the US Administration is playing the same dirty tricks (Revelation 13:11-18).
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A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
March 4, 2008 – Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working. . . Mr. Marshall's Web sites had been put on a Treasury Department blacklist and, as a consequence, his American domain name registrar, eNom Inc., had disabled them. Mr. Marshall said eNom told him it did so after a call from the Treasury Department; the company, based in Bellevue, Wash., says it learned that the sites were on the blacklist through a blog.
Peter L. Fitzgerald, a law professor at Stetson University in Florida who has studied the blacklist—which the Treasury calls a list of "specially designated nationals"—said its operation was quite mysterious. "There really is no explanation or standard". . .
Susan Crawford, a visiting law professor at Yale and a leading authority on Internet law, said the fact that many large domain name registrars are based in the United States gives the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, control "over a great deal of speech—none of which may be actually hosted in the US, about the US or conflicting with any US rights. OFAC apparently has the power to order that this speech disappear". . . Full story: nytimes.com
Comment: George Orwell (alias Eric Blair) was right. Big Brother is alive in Yourtown, USA!
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Be Encouraged Brethren, for Today is One Day Closer to our Lord's Return
October 08, 2007 – Overlooking the fact that "today" is just ten days short of 48 years since our Lord's return, this page of an SDA-oriented website does contain some illuminating images illustrating Lucifer's carnal mastery and long term plans over the image unto the beast of Imperial Rome. Full story: xanga.com
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Christ's Offices of Prophet, Priest & King typed in the Old Testament
Prophet, Priest and King are the principal offices that define the Kingdom-building work of our Lord Jesus Christ. These notes review the type of the Temple ritual on the great Day of Atonement whence the Book of Revelation draws the symbols that explain redemption. For the Law and ordinances were a shadow of good things to come and Moses' heavenly vision was for the purpose of instructing and guiding Israel back to fellowship in the Presence of God. Moses did not see the glorified saints "for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of New Jerusalem in the renewed heavens and renewed earth." He saw their "pattern" in the form of a material temple and built a transportable similitude from the resources available in the wilderness (Revelation 21:22).
Hebrews 9:21-24, "Moses sprinkled blood on both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry." (For the tent and the instruments used for worship represent the corporeal and individual elect of God under the Spiritual covering of Shem as prophesied in Genesis 9:27 and implied in Brother Branham's "tent vision"). "Indeed, under the Law almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood is no remission. So it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." (You and every elect soul of God are these "heavenly things" and the "better sacrifice" (singular) is our kinsman Redeemer, the last Adam). "For Christ has not entered into a sanctuary made with hands, which are types of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the Presence of God in our behalf".
A PROPHET is a mediator between God and men who speaks to the latter in the Name of the Former (Deuteronomy 18:15-22). He is the God's mouthpiece and speaks only what he has heard by inspiration from God (Jeremiah 1:9; Isaiah 6:5-10; John 8:26), or what God has shown him by vision or dream (Numbers 12:6; John 5:19-20).
Through the prophet Moses, God commanded Israel not to adopt the moral religions and customs of the Serpent's seed nations from whom they would dispossess the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 18:16-19, "According to all you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb in the day of the assembly, when you said, Let me not hear again the Voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see the Shekinah any more, lest I die. And the Lord said to me, They have spoken well. I will raise up for them a Prophet from among their brethren, like you, and put My Words in His mouth; and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And whosoever will not pay heed to My Words which He shall speak in My Name, I Myself will require it".
Moses was prophesying of Jesus Messiah, who alone was comparable to Moses in His mediatorial character, in the peculiar excellence of His ministry, in the number, variety and magnitude of His miracles, in His close and familiar communion with God, and in being the author of a new dispensation of the faith (Acts 3:22-23; 7:37). As Moses introduced the Law, "which was Israel's schoolmaster to bring them to Christ, that they might be justified by faith" (Galatians 3:24), Jesus was the Israelite "prophet like Moses" who satisfied the requirements of the Law and fulfilled the part of kinsman Redeemer in God's plan of redemption. Particulars pertaining to Messiah are scattered through the words of so many prophets, yet all converging in Jesus—the race, nation, tribe, family, birthplace, miracles, humiliation, death, crucifixion with the wicked and association with the wealthy at his death, resurrection and the extension of His seed, the Church—are so numerous that their minute conformity can only be explained by believing that the prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit to foretell these events.
The Old Testament is said to contain 333 prophesies regarding Messiah, most of which were fulfilled by the first Coming of Jesus Christ. Even the most liberal critics acknowledge that these prophesies were written at least 400 years before His birth. Mathematicians have easily shown that the odds of all these prophesies being fulfilled by chance in one man is greater than the number of atoms in the universe many times over.
The self-styled Jews and Israelites would certainly not have corrupted the prophets in order to confirm Jesus' Messianic claims, which they reject. And the prophetic details are so complex, and seemingly inconsistent, that before the event it would seem impossible to make them coincide in one person. A "Son," yet "the everlasting Father"; a "child," yet "the mighty God"; "Prince of peace," sitting "upon the throne of David," yet coming as "Shiloh" (the peace-giver) when "the scepter shall depart from Judah"; "Son of David," yet "Lord of David"; a Prophet and Priest, yet also a King; "God's Servant," upon whom He "lays the iniquity of us all," "Messiah cut off," yet given by the Ancient of days "an everlasting dominion." The only key that opens this immensely complicated lock is the Gospel narrative of Jesus, written ages after Israel's prophets; but like the prophets, the Gospel has been rejected by Israel.
It is essential that we as end-time Christians clearly understand that a prophet is one with whom the Lord communicates in visions and in dreams and by inspiration — even "mouth to mouth" (Numbers 12:6-8) as He spoke with Moses, Jesus Christ, and Brother Branham. The vindication of a prophet requires that everything he speaks in the Name of the Lord is in perfect accord with the Words of every previously vindicated prophet, and that it comes to pass according to his words (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; 18:15-22). A word is a thought expressed, and as God's thoughts are eternal He is not now thinking or even taking counsel with Himself for all His thoughts He has always had. Therefore His Words are real and will come to pass in their designated and decreed season and time (Habakkuk 2:3; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8).
The Word of God comes first hand through His servants the prophets and we receive it secondarily. As the prophet and his Message are one and the same, Christians become "written epistles" of the Word for their day (I Peter 1:20-21). Hence the Psalmist says, "Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm" (Psalm 105.15). God does not make mistakes, and as we read in Deuteronomy, the false prophet shall be put to death, while the person who does not hearken to and obey the THUS SAITH THE LORD of His vindicated prophets will answer to God (Revelation 22:17-19).
Amos 3:7, "Truly the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secret to His servants the prophets." Who was he? Where did he live? What was his Message? And What does it mean? A prophet is a sign from God: a sign of coming judgment. His Message offers God's grace and the way of escape.
Our eternal destiny is dependent upon receiving and understanding the Message of God's prophets, specifically the Message of His covenant Prophet, William Branham in this end-time. Peter said, "every soul, who will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people." Brother Branham is the Covenant prophet promised in Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 17:11 and throughout the Book of Revelation (Acts 3:23). Outside a clear understanding of his Message there is no possibility of being born-again in this day and every certainty of the tribulation.
If you do not have a personal revelation from God of the prophet He has sent in this day confirmed by his Holy Bible you are going nowhere with God. Whoever that man was (past tense), he has been and has fulfilled everything spoken of him. Unless you identify that prophet, prove his vindication and his Message, you are walking in Darkness. And if you believe he was William Branham but have not proven this for yourself you are trusting psychology and not faith: tradition is obviously very powerful, because people believe tradition instead of "receiving the word with all readiness on mind, then searching the prophecy of Scripture, whether those things were so." However, the "letter" of his Message without faith to know what it means, is the "spirit of strong delusion" prophesied by Paul. Faith is not reading tea leaves, but God's infallible mind in you by a clear understanding of His revealed Word. Unless we are walking in the Light of the present Truth—what Jesus is doing now—we are deceived.
A PRIEST is an advocate who presents himself as the representative of another. As a mediator he intercedes in behalf of the people of God, His elect and holy nation, in the Presence of the Lord, and prepares a way by which they themselves might approach Him. As such he instructs them in the way of righteousness and holiness — and is to be so himself for he is also God's representative, and partaker of the sacrifices and living from the tithes (Leviticus 9:9-11,17; Malachi 2:7; II Corinthians 5:18-19; I John 2:1; I Peter 2:5, 9-10; Revelation 1:6).
There are four characteristics of the priest. He was:
chosen of God;
the (purchased possession or) property of God;
holy unto God, and
he offered gifts to God, and took back gifts from God (Numbers 18:8; I Corinthians 9:13-14; Hebrews 5:1-4).
Numbers 16:5, 40, "The Lord's . . . holy [and] . . . chosen . . . come near . . . to offer incense (a type of prayer made pleasing by faith) before the Lord" (Psalm 141:2; Revelation 8:3). This right and duty was reserved exclusively to the priest (II Chronicles 26:18). All Israel was originally chosen as a kingdom of priests to intercede in behalf of the Gentiles of Adam's race (Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 42:6; 49:6; 51:4). But Israel renounced the obligation through fear of the nearness of the Presence of the Lord (Exodus 20:18-19), and God accepted their renunciation (Deuteronomy 5:24-28; 18:16-17). Moses became their mediator with God, and the Aaronic priesthood became Israel's priesthood until Christ, the antitypical High Priest and Mediator should come.
Every New Testament saint whether male or female, Israelite or Gentile, is a priest (or intercessor with God), but not five-fold ministers (I Peter 2:5,9; Galatians 3:28), and in the regeneration we shall reign with Messiah as king-priests (Revelation 1:6; 5:10; 20:6; Ephesians 5:26). The five-fold ministry is not a priestly office, for Christ has an unchangeable priesthood as He ever lives" (Hebrews 7:23-25). Unlike the Aaronic priesthood or the papacy, He does not need to transmit the priesthood to successors. Christ needed no assistance in His priestly duties, so He is the sole representative of both high priest and the Aaronic priesthood which has passed away (Hebrews 10:1-23).
Israel was chosen to be the royal priesthood with respect to the other nations, though incapacitated by its natural sinfulness and therefore not realized in fact. By its incessant transgressions of the very Law through the fulfillment of which it was to be sanctified to enter the Presence (Exodus 19:21), it required the priesthood as a separate element which by its existence represented the nation as yet unfit to approach God (Hebrews 9:7-11). The priesthood was calculated to keep alive their consciousness of their estrangement from God, and the people offered their gifts to God by means of this separated class and in connection with the propitiatory sacrifices (Exodus 19:3-6; Numbers 3:12-13; 18:20-24; Deuteronomy 7:6).
The insufficiency of the priesthood itself was expressed by their being excluded from the Most Holy Place. The chief priest had access only once a year when the entire guilt of the nation was to be atoned for, and to enter, laid aside his magnificent robes of office to officiate in a plain linen garment (Exodus 29:36-43; Leviticus 16:1-4; Philippians 2:7-8; Hebrews 2:6-18).
He had to confess his own sin and bring a sin-offering (Leviticus 6:3, 6, 11, 14). Then he presented the atonement for the congregation and the gifts of a reconciled people (Leviticus 16:5, 7-10,15-23; 23:27). Finally, he brings back from the Presence the blessing of grace, mercy and peace (Numbers 6:22-27).
In the patriarchal age before Moses, the head of the family performed the priestly acts and drew near to God. For instance, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Job (Genesis 12:8; 18:23; 26:25; 33:20; Job 1:5). Melchisedek who became Jesus Christ, was King-Priest.
Jesus Christ our King-Priest descended from the kingly lineage recorded in Matthew 1, and also from a lineage recorded in Luke 3 that includes many priests: Levi, Eliezer, Malchi, Jochannan, Mattathias, and Heli, not of the priestly stock, but patriarchs who exercised the priesthood, delegating it to their first born or favoured son who became a Nazarite, separated from among his brethren (Genesis 27:15; 37:3; 49:26; Deuteronomy 33:16).
The priests mentioned in Exodus 19:16, 24; 24:11 may have been the firstborn or heads of the tribes and families as we find the 150 princes of Reuben who rose up (Numbers 16:2). At the time of the exodus the first-born were specifically claimed by God for His service. Subsequently, the Tribe of Levi was taken as a substitute for the firstborn — not upon right or privilege but by God's sovereign grace (Exodus 19:5-6; Numbers 3:12-13; 8:5-22). Only those called by God and sanctified by Him can represent the people (Numbers 16:7; Hebrews 5:4). This was symbolized in Aaron's rod which budded but which was in no way distinguishable from the other rods but was a sign of the Power of God's grace which replenished him in office.
The priest was to have no bodily defects or imperfections and the High Priest could only marry a virgin as he was a type of Christ who is only marrying a virgin to the Word, not a denominational harlot (Leviticus 21). Priestly succession depended on the sureness of the genealogy, these genealogies (in which mothers as well as fathers ere named) were jealously preserved and referred to in disputed cases (Ezra 2:62; Nehemiah 7:64). The ordinary priests could marry the widow of another priest (Ezekiel 44:22). The priests could drink no wine during the time of their ministrations and were not permitted to minister in the Tabernacle until twenty-five years of age (Leviticus 8:24; 10:9). In the antitype we see the distinction between the born-again elect and the "saved" foolish virgin.
Those who entered the Tabernacle were of a higher order than the Levites and there were two sets of ceremonies which accompanied the consecration of the priesthood, carried out by Aaron and his sons (Exodus 29:1-37; 40:12-15):-
1. a) washing — a type of Justification
b) robing — a type of Sanctification
c) anointing — a type of the New Birth.
Moses, the "servant of Jehovah," is fitly the consecrator and sanctifier throughout these ceremonies because, as the channel through which others receive this Office, he has for the time a higher priesthood than that of Aaron. As Moses divested himself of the priestly Office and transferred it to Aaron, the ascended Christ has transferred His earthly ministry to us (II Corinthians 5:18-21; Ephesians 4:11-12; I Peter 3:15). Every Christian is a priest, but God has taken to Himself and set in the Church the Gift of five different Offices of ministry to serve His holy people: to keep them clean and bring them to maturity through revelation of the Word, for the exercise of their priesthood in reconciling sinners through personal testimony when they ask a reason of the hope that is in them.
2. A three-fold sacrifice constituted by:-
a) a sin-offering of a bullock (Exodus 29:10; Leviticus 8:14) — signifying that they who seek to serve in the ministry of reconciliation must first themselves be reconciled. By laying hands on the bullock as sin offering they typically transferred their guilt to it as we identify with Christ who took upon Himself our guilt.
b) a burnt offering of a ram, a "sweet savour" indicating a totally surrendered life. The blood was sprinkled on the sacrificial horns of the altar, showing the candidate was not yet in possession of the priesthood. The blood of the second ram of consecration was applied to the candidate as his actual investiture into Office. The blood applied to his right ear implied its openness to hear God's voice (Psalm 40:6; Isaiah 1:5). The blood on the right hand, his duty to dispense or distribute what had been heard, and the blood on the right foot signified a holy and consistent walk in God's ways.
Lastly, Moses took portions of the sacrifices with the cakes of unleavened bread and blessed them in the hands of the candidates, and after presentation to God as a heave offering; all was burned. This symbolized the transfer of the priestly function of offering the fat upon the Altar of God and the conveyance of the right to receive certain gifts from the Altar for themselves. But as the priest was not yet properly consecrated, the portion is not yet given to him but to God by fire.
c) The above ceremony known as the "filling of the hand" meant to consecrate (Exodus 29:9; II Chronicles 13:9), and communicated the authority to exercise the Office of priesthood. It was repeated for seven days, during which they stayed in the tabernacle, separate from the people (Leviticus 8:31-36). This was the third part of the three-fold sacrifice. The consecration was transmitted from father to son and required no renewing. Only on the eighth day did he commence his priestly function, as on the eighth day Christ resurrected and commenced His Priesthood by cleansing the heavenly temple of the sins of the Old Testament saints with His own blood. And on the day following the seven sabbaths of the Pentecostal Feast or Gentile dispensation the end-tme Bride takes the open Book of Redemption from the hands of Christ and comes into the unity of the faith, for the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast is likened to an eighth day in that it is a restoration to the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints. Entering this holy convocation by the revelation of the Seven Seals we commenced our priesthood "to many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings" (Revelation 10:8-11) with authority to speak the Word in the manifestation of the Sons of God.
The holy garments of the priest represent his Office. They were first worn at the consecration and preserved in the Temple when not actually required. They were holy garments for "glory and beauty." They consisted of FOUR parts, all of which were required to be worn that he die not (Exodus 28:35,43).
The turban and coat were a shining white, typifying Light wherein God dwells (Exodus 34:29; Psalm 104:2; Daniel 2:22; 7:9; I Timothy 6:16). So His ministers should minister in the earthly sanctuary in livery emblematic of His ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. White is the only pure colour; white linen reflects the purity of God and represents the righteousness of the saints (Ezekiel 10:2,7; Daniel 12:6; Matthew 17:2; 28:3; Acts 10:30; I Timothy 6:16; Hebrews 1:7).
God loves holiness and forbids hybreeding. This is declared in the law of reproduction and symbolized in the ban against wearing garments of diverse threads such as wool and linen (Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:11).
This white — holiness and purity — completely covered the body down to the feet and adhered closely to the body with tight sleeves and the neck drawn together by a band. It was altogether woven, without seam like Christ's garment, a symbol of entireness, perfection and spiritual health.
Though entirely white it had a chequered or variegated pattern wrought in it (Exodus 39:27-29; 28:1-8). It was gathered round the body with a girdle of needlework (Exodus 28:39) which was only to be worn during the time of officiating as it was a sign of office. (It went round about the breast rather than the loins then around the waist and hung loosely down to the ankles whilst the priest was not engaged in laborious service, for in that manner it had its most agreeable appearance to the spectator. So he wore it before the Altar of Incense when interceding. But when he was obliged to assist at the offering of sacrifices, in order that he might not be hindered in his priestly operation by its motions, he bore it on his right shoulder). It was about four fingers broad and was loosely worn and embroidered with flowers of scarlet, purple and blue, the colours of the Temple, but only the warp was linen and therefore white.
Revelation 1:13, "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the breast with a golden girdle." Here we see a symbol of the glorified Christ in the midst of the churches. It is the Lord's Day; for John sees Him standing, not as a priest but as the coming Judge. The golden girdle is no longer girt around the waist where the priest must wear it as he ministers to God in the Holy Place but it is now around His shoulders, for He is not now the priest but the Judge. John 5:22 has come to pass, "For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son." His service has been rendered. The priesthood is over.
The ordinary priests wore at all times a bonnet or cap resembling in appearance a helmet signifying joy in their salvation: in Israel, uncovering the head was a sign of grief or mourning the dead and the priest was not to be associated with death but Life (Leviticus 10:6; 21:10). Hence Isaiah 59:17; Ephesians 6:17; I Thessalonians 5:8. The High priest wore a wound mitre or turban.
The last item was the linen trunks that reach from the loins to the middle of the thighs "to cover their nakedness" (Exodus 28:42-43; 39:28; Ephesians 6:14).
In all their ministrations the priests were barefooted to preserve the sanctity of the tabernacle (Exodus 3:5; Joshua 5:15).
The sacerdotal functions of the priests thus consecrated, in contradistinction to those of the Levites, in drawing close to God, or "keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the children of Israel" (Numbers 3:28; 18:3:) was:
a) Mediatorial — to keep the sacred fire ever burning on the sacrificial Altar (Leviticus 6:12-13); feed and trim the lampstand; offer the morning and evening whole offerings (Numbers 28:9-10) accompanied with a meat and drink offering. Then there was the tending the lamps; replacing the showbread, offering firstfruits, estimation of commutation in money for extraordinary vows for any devoted or unclean beast, house, field, etc.
These were fixed duties which never varied. Their chief function was to be always ready at their post of duty, to do the priest's office for any guilty, penitent, rejoicing, or thankful Israelite. The worshipper may come at any hour.
b) Teachers and guardians of the Law of God (Leviticus 10:10-11; Deuteronomy 33:10). From their knowledge of the Law which was at once civil and ecclesiastical, they were to act individually, and collectively as a court of appeal in the more difficult controversies in criminal or civil cases (Deuteronomy 17:8-13). Whereas nowadays "Halacha is the Jewish national legal system," although the Babylonian Talmud makes the Word of God of no effect (Matthew 15:1-9), under the Law and the prophets, fresh revelations or new enactments could not be made by the priest or anyone else, the Urim and Thummim of the high priest was the only exception. The priest had simply to explain the given Law — "Law to the priests, counsel to the wise, and the Word to the prophets" (Jeremiah 18:18).
c) They were to be referred to in the case of undetected murder (Deuteronomy 21:1-9). They were to bless the people at every solemn meeting and after the regular daily service (Numbers 6:22-27).
During the journeying in the wilderness the priests were required to cover the Ark and all the vessels of the Sanctuary with a purple or scarlet cloth before the Levites approached them (Numbers 4:5-15).
They were to blow the Trumpets. Only the priests could blow the Trumpets, not the Levites.
Under Joshua they received thirteen of the forty-eight cities of refuge assigned to Levi. They had no inheritance in the Land (Numbers 18:20-24; Ezekiel 44:28).
The priests received a tenth of the Tithes the people paid to the Levites. A further source of income was from the firstfruits of the animals and also the redemption money (Leviticus 27; Numbers 18), a share of war spoils, the skins of the burnt offering, meat of the sin offerings, etc.,
The priests of Jehovah were NOT to be wealthy. The maintenance of the priests depended upon the blessings of God or, the religious condition of the nation so they had a duty to ensure Israel was meeting the requirements of God's Covenant.
David divided the priesthood into 24 courses, each with a president.
As the three sections of the Tabernacle were separated with extreme severity, so the three orders of ministers.
The LEVITES were the appointed servants of the court, but they were excluded from the holy Place on pain of death.
The PRIESTS executed the ministry of the Holy Place but were as solemnly prohibited from entering beyond the veil into the Holy of Holies.
The priesthood culminated in the HIGH PRIEST as mediator between God and the people. He was set apart to represent the nation in order to "bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts" (Exodus 28:38). Hence the offerings are sanctified by the appearance of the high priest as an atoning mediator before God. Until Christ, this had to be constantly repeated because the blood of bulls and goats cannot remit sin, but were only a temporary covering for the past year (Hebrews 7:17-28; 10:1-14).
Levi was the chosen tribe of the chosen people to whom earthly possessions were denied. At their consecration the nation presented Levi to God by laying hands on their heads, exactly as when they offered a common victim in substitution (Numbers 8:10; 11:14; II Corinthians 5).
The priesthood, again, were the chosen of the tribe of Levi and the high priest was the representative of the entire priesthood, as well as of the whole nation, whose twelve tribes he had to bear on both his shoulders and on his heart (Exodus 28:12, 29).
God receives the whole nation to favour in the person of the high priest (Zechariah 3; Romans 5:8-21; II Corinthians 5:14; Colossians 3:3). On the other hand, if the high priest sins, it brings guilt upon the whole people. His sin offering of a young bullock is identical to the sin offering for the nation (Leviticus 4:3). Thus when Caiaphas called for the death of Messiah, whose type he was supposed to be, he separated himself and his nation from God (John 11:49-54; Matthew 27:25).
It was sacrilegious to kill the king, even at his own request, because he was "the Lord's anointed" (I Samuel 23:5-10; 26:9,16; II Samuel 1:14; Lamentations 4:20). Thus when Caiaphas and Israel "cut off Messiah after threescore and two weeks" the nation was "cut off" from the grace of God and "Spiritual insensibility has come over until the last member of Christ's Gentile Bride is redeemed" (Daniel 9:26; Romans 11:25; Isaiah 29:9-12).
The personal requirements of the high priest are in some things the same as those of the ordinary priest but as he was to reflect the whole fulness of the holy life in addition, he was to remain aloof from all defiling contact with death (Leviticus 21:10-15) so as in no way to interrupt his sacred function at the sanctuary (Leviticus 10:1), so we understand Luke 14:26 and Deuteronomy 33:9. He is not permitted to attend funerals or even mourn the dead (Leviticus 21:10).
The services or ceremonies of consecrating a high priest lasted for seven days.
The only specific difference between the consecration of the priests and of the high priest seems to have consisted in the four additional symbolical garments which, in the high priest's case were added to the coat, girdle, breeches and bonnet that belonged to the priests in general and the fact that while the priests were simply sprinkled with the perfumed precious oil, the high priest was anointed, for was poured till it ran down to the hem of his garments (Leviticus 8:12; Psalm 133:2). Hence he was called the "anointed priest" (Leviticus 4:3, 5, 16). This symbolised the Holy Spirit with which our Lord Jesus was anointed the without measure (John 3:34; Hebrews 1:9).
The transfer of the garments of high priest from Aaron to Eliezer was a transfer of the Office itself (Numbers 20:26-28) without these holy garments, the high priest was only a private person and could not represent the people. Hence he is threatened with death if he appears before Jehovah without them (Exodus 28:35).
The robes of the ephod was worn over the ordinary garment of a priest (Exodus 28:31-35). This pallim or blue robe of the ephod was of inferior material to the ephod itself, being only of woven work. It was also longer than the ephod and the tunic or coat would be visible only under it; also in the sleeves, since this blue robe had no sleeves, but arm slits.
It had bells (representing thunder) and pomegranates (representing lightning) around the hem . . ."and his sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place . . ." (Exodus 28:35; Leviticus 16:17; Revelation 6:1-8:1) — he was to be the sole person in the Holy Place during the entrance into the Most Holy Place when the "golden" was first removed but in the court many were present. He never wore the robes of beauty and glory in the Most Holy.
The command respecting the bells was given before Aaron was restricted to entering the Most Holy Place only once a year. Indeed Leviticus 16:1 implies he entered the Most Holy Place as often as his inclination led him and it is therefore intelligible that he should have been commanded to warn the priests of his approach to the inner mysteries. But as these bells formed an integral part of the vestments, their use became restricted to the Day of Atonement.
He only wore the Golden garments as far as the Holy Place where he put off his "Golden," washed in a golden basin, and put on his white robes and entered into the Most Holy. Thence he returned, assumed his golden robes, and went out to the people into the court.
We are approaching another cleansing of the sanctuary. When Mediation ended after the Church Ages, the Mercy Seat in the heavenly Temple became the Judgment Seat. The lamb advanced from the Outer Court where the Sacrifice had lain as a Memorial, and His entry into the Most Holy was heard in thundering and lightnings (Revelation 4:5; 10:3-4). He took the Book of Redemption, tore open the Seven Seals, and as Lion of the Tribe of Judah sat on the Throne as King of kings and Judge. The revelation of the Seven Seals indicted the world and is calling His Queen to the Marriage Supper.
The bells of the robe of the ephod warned the priests, who left the Holy and were not allowed to re-enter till the bells announced to them that the entrance had been completed. Hence "No man is able to enter into the Temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels are fulfilled" (Revelation 15:8). So when Christ's Bride has made Herself ready, Brother Branham's vial will be poured into the air for another cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, causing Satan to be cast out from heavenly places down to earth (Revelation 12:7-17; 16:17-21). And accompanied by thunders and lightnings, the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet will smite earth with a curse; a great earthquake will sink Los Angeles beneath the Pacific (Revelation 8:5; 11:19; 16:8), and the temple of God in heaven will open, revealing the ark of God's Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—a sign of His favour toward Israel. It also signals the end of the Gentile dispensation, calls the resurrection of the Church Age saints and the manifestation of the living Sons of God, and announces the revelation of Joseph's Antitype to Israel. After three and one half years when faith is quickened, they will recognize the Atonement, the Bridegroom and His Bride, King and Queen, and all Israel will be born in one day (Revelation 14:2; 15:8; 19:6).
The form of the vestment signified integrity since it was to be of one piece, and the blue colour, the heavenly origin of the Office of high priest to which the robe of the ephod was made subservient.
The ephod consisted of two parts, like an apron (Exodus 28:5-14), one falling down behind, one in front. Its four colours represented the four elements.
The Urim (blazing Lights of reflected Glory, or revelation, from the twelve stones) and Thummim (perfections, referring to the twelve tribes who, as the children of Abraham were in Covenant, bound to walk before God and be perfect), was attached to the ephod.
This breastplate in the midst of the ephod signifies the shadowing forth of justification by the precious stones. It was called the breastplate of judgment and glory (Isaiah 61:10; Revelation 21:10-21). The New Testament antitype is the "breastplate of righteousness." It also represented the camp of Israel, the glory of the New Jerusalem (Isaiah 54:11-12), and the twelve months and signs of the zodiac.
Two sardonyx stones were worn on his shoulders. Upon each was engraved the names of six Tribes, according to their generations (Exodus 28:12). Aaron wore them as a memorial so that Jehovah should remember them as they were carried into the Presence on the shoulders of the representative of the people.
The high priest will also be king in David's stead as indicated by the insignia of office which he wore upon his shoulders (Isaiah 9:6). In order to signify that the representative bore the people into God's Presence, their names were engraved not only upon his shoulders but also over his heart on the Urim Thummim, the "Breastplate of Judgment" (Exodus 28:30; Leviticus 8:8). The government will be on Christ's shoulders, and He will rule the kingdom of Israel during the Millennium where the nation will be restored to Tribal order and apportioned land in relation to the Temple (Acts 1:6; Ezekiel 48).
The high priest wore a mitre with a gold plate fastened by a ribbon of blue (Exodus 29:6). It was different to the turban of the priests and consisted of two turbans, the one being the bonnet of the ordinary priest and another turban of blue upon the first. His official garments were to descend from the one to his successor (Exodus 29:29). As the high priest was President of the Sanhedrin he was also the supreme judge. His special function however, related to the Day of Atonement.
A KING is mediator of the judicial and executive Power of God among His people, acting in the Name of Jehovah. The king is also judge (II Chronicles 19:6; Psalms 2:10-11; John 5:27).
We understand from Deuteronomy that Moses contemplated the contingency of a king being set over Israel as in all the adjoining nations. The theocracy and the Law could be maintained as well under kings as under a commonwealth. God had promised, "I will bless Sarah, and give you a son by her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be by him" (Genesis 17:16; 36:31; Numbers 24:17; Deuteronomy 28:36).
Israel's request to Samuel, "Make us a king to judge us like all the nations" (I Samuel 8:5) was evidently inspired from Deuteronomy 17:14, so Samuel's language in presenting Saul as "Him whom the Lord has chosen" (I Samuel 10:24) alludes to Moses' direction in Deuteronomy 17:15, "You may indeed put a king over you whom the Lord shall choose. From among your own brothers you will put a king over you, not a foreigner who is not your brother".
So the people chose their own king, but only in accordance with God's choice, and from their "brethren." This rule explains the guile of the Pharisees: "Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not"? And the wisdom of the Holy Spirit: But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you tempt Me, you hypocrites? Show Me the tribute money. And they brought Him a penny. And He said to them, Whose is this image and superscription"?
They replied, "Caesar's." Then Jesus said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left him, and went their way" (Matthew 22:15-22; Jeremiah 30:21).
Israel's fault was not that they wanted a king, but that they set aside Samuel, though anointed by the heavenly King, on the pretext of his age, though he took a leading part in state affairs for the next thirty-five years. After the kingdom was set up the danger was no longer a physical return to Egypt, but a spiritual backsliding to Egypt (Hosea 11:5; Isaiah 30:1-2; Revelation 11:8).
When set up, the king was but God's viceroy, enjoying only delegated authority. The words, "Jehovah is our Judge, Jehovah is our Lawgiver, Jehovah is our King" embody the theocracy (Isaiah 33:22). The land itself was His; and the people as His servants, could not be permanently bondservants to men (Leviticus 25:23, 42, 55). Instead of being of a distinct royal caste like Eastern kings, he was simply to be the first among equals, and like his subjects, bound by the fundamental Law of the nation (Matthew 23:9).
If we rightly divide the Word of Truth and recognize our day and its Message, we will see that Messiah's three principal offices are distinct and also successive. He had first to be the Prophet and lay down His life as Kinsman Redeemer for His Gentile Bride before He could be our High Priest under the New Covenant, mediating for an election ignorant of the fullness of the Word so long as the Book was sealed with Seven Seals. Once He had redeemed the Church Age who were saints predestinated to live under the times of PART-Word when the Book was sealed, redemption was over, for His end-time Bride and the 144,000 elect Israelites were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and require no mediation as we were predestinated to be born-again after the revelation of the Seven Seals when "the mystery of God is finished."
The saints could not crown Jesus Christ King by their revelation until the end of the Age when He claimed the Book of Redemption and sat down in the Judgment seat, and as King in the office of Son of man He is also the supreme Judge, and as "first among equals" able to execute judgment on his peers (Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:27). The revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963 began a cycle of events that will terminate man's day, end the Gentile dispensation, and begin the Day of the Lord with the Spiritual awakening of 144,000 elect Israelites and an outpouring of the wrath of God's judgments upon this sin-cursed world.
Once He has fully redeemed and glorified His Bride and their elect servant subjects they will return to a cleansed earth for the Millennium. This is when the kingdom is restored to Israel and King Jesus will be in the office of Son of David. As Son of Man He was the Prophet who died to redeem His people, as Son of God He was Mediator for their ignorance of God's unchanging Word so long as the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals. After the conclusion of His Mediatorial Office He claimed the Book and opened the Seals then returned to earth in the Office of the Son of man, and veiling Himself behind the flesh of a son of man, William Branham, He revealed the seven thunders which are the mysteries hidden under the Seals (Revelation 5, 6, 10:1-7). Returning with the glorified saints of all ages he will be King in the office of Son of David. Now we understand how the offices Prophet, Priest, and King are successive and cannot be engaged simultaneously until the Millennium. bb920526.htm
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Pentecost Types the Gentile Dispensation
Bible Believers' Newsletter #516
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Brother Branham cautioned Brethren to pay off any lingering debt because the world is coming on hard times worse than the Great Depression. Taking a magnifying glass I read my own bank balance, and feeling glum remembered the old adage, "there is always someone worse off," and peeked at the account balances of nations. My country is fifth most indebted nation behind the USA, Spain, the UK and Italy on credit was created out of thin air borrowed on nonexistent money loaned at interest. Many third world countries to which we donate aid are billions in Credit. China is at the top of the list, 30% ahead of Japan, and 50% ahead of Germany.
Governments should create their own money and spend it into circulation as a credit. Subservience to 'the City' commits us to borrow "credit" from their banksters and circulate it as debt. Inflation is hereby built in to our economies in order to pay the interest. Nations that claim to be Christian, or Spiritual Israelites who have inherited the blessings of Abraham, are accursed, while pagan nations whose friendship we seek to buy with bribes of foreign aid are blessed. Read Deuteronomy 28:1-14 and ask yourself, "Has God abandoned His people? or have those who believe themselves God's people become His enemy and know it not (Revelation 3:17-20)?
In 1963 Brother Branham said, "The world coming to a place it's falling apart, politically, socially, economically. . . We're borrowed on taxes that'll be paid forty years from today. She's broke. She's bankrupt, the nation: not this nation, but all of them. And there's no way ever getting it back. And it's a trap set exactly to swing this nation into something. And all of you are wise on that. Well, who's got the wealth of the world? Who holds it? . . . Rome holds it" (Testimony, p. 9:20-21).
"For the church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a living. This will be accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the whole world" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 314:1).
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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America: The Greatest Menace to Global Stability
November 11, 2006 – The 2006 Angus Reid World Poll: People in 13 countries believe the United States is the greatest threat to global stability, and residents of eight countries consider American foreign policy as the most menacing issue to the world, the Angus Reid World Poll conducted for Maclean's found. Overall, most people in the 20 countries surveyed chose the US as the greatest threat from a list that included Iran, China, Iraq, North Korea, Israel and Russia.
China appears, along with Israel, as the third most threatening country. . . Full story: angus-reid.com
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No One is Safe: The Ruling Class Unleashed
February 13, 2008 – The Democrats may condemn the Iraq invasion and occupation as the worst "blunder" in our history, but they will not condemn it as the war crime it is. And they keep paying for it. They are not murderers themselves, but every member of Congress who votes to pay for this continuing obscenity is an accomplice to murder and genocide. . .
The Bush administration has announced to the world, and to all Americans, that this is what the United States now stands for: a vicious determination to dominate the world, criminal, genocidal wars of aggression, torture, and an increasingly brutal and brutalizing authoritarian state at home. That is what we stand for. . .
Full story: powerofnarrative.blogspot.com
Comment: Someone has been reading his Bible.
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N. American Army created without OK by Congress
February 24, 2008 – In a ceremony that received virtually no attention in the American media, the United States and Canada signed a military agreement February 14 allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency, even one that does not involve a cross-border crisis.
The agreement, defined as a Civil Assistance Plan, was not submitted to Congress for approval, nor did Congress pass any law or treaty specifically authorizing this military agreement to combine the operations of the armed forces of the United States and Canada in the event of a wide range of domestic civil disturbances ranging from violent storms, to health epidemics, to civil riots or terrorist attacks.
In Canada, the agreement paving the way for the militaries of the US and Canada to cross each other's borders to fight domestic emergencies was not announced either by the Harper government or the Canadian military, prompting sharp protest. . . Full story: worldnetdaily.com
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Washington gets a New Colony in the Balkans
February 21, 2008 – In evaluating the recent "declaration of independence" by Kosovo, a province of Serbia, and its immediate recognition as a state by the US, Germany, Britain and France, it is important to know three things.
First, Kosovo is not gaining independence or even minimal self-government. It will be run by an appointed High Representative and bodies appointed by the US, European Union and NATO. An old-style colonial viceroy and imperialist administrators will have control over foreign and domestic policy. US imperialism has merely consolidated its direct control of a totally dependent colony in the heart of the Balkans.
Second, Washington’s immediate recognition of Kosovo confirms once again that US imperialism will break any and every treaty or international agreement it has ever signed, including agreements it drafted and imposed by force and violence on others.
The recognition of Kosovo is in direct violation of such law—specifically UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which the leaders of Yugoslavia were forced to sign to end the 78 days of NATO bombing of their country in 1999. Even this imposed agreement affirmed the "commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Serbia, a republic of Yugoslavia.
This week’s illegal recognition of Kosovo was condemned by Serbia, Russia, China and Spain.
Thirdly, US imperialist domination does not benefit the occupied people. Kosovo after nine years of direct NATO military occupation has a staggering 60 percent unemployment rate. It has become a center of the international drug trade and of prostitution rings in Europe.
The once humming mines, mills, smelters, refining centers and railroads of this small resource-rich industrial area all sit silent. The resources of Kosovo under NATO occupation were forcibly privatized and sold to giant Western multinational corporations. Now almost the only employment is working for the US/NATO army of occupation or UN agencies. . .
Full story: workers.org
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Bush Solicitor General LIED! Barbara Olsen did not call Ted Olsen
February 20, 2008 – David Ray Griffin says the FBI has reported that no such call between Barbara Olsen and Ted Olsen ever took place on 9/11/2001. . .
It was part of the rapidly unraveling scam that is the official story of 9/11. In fact. . . there is zero evidence that any hijackers had commandeered a plane at all. . . there is no "EVIDENCE" of their existence. Which also reveals that mis-information shill, Popular Mechanics, in their 9/11 interview on the Charles Goyette Show months ago, lied when they told us there was DNA evidence of the so-called Muslim hijackers. LIES, all lies. . . Full story: opednews.com
Comment: It was not technically possible for anyone to call from that plane on their cell phone. Is there any reason to believe Mrs. Olsen or any of the other passengers were on that flight? Investigations have shown that many of the 9/11 passengers had passed from this life years before 2001, while many of the so-called "hijackers" were and are peacefully living and working in their home countries. And I seem to recall photographs of a woman claimed to be Mrs. Olsen overseas and very much alive after 9/11. Besides, there was no DNA!
The question is: "Who arranged for Ted Olsen and Popular Mechanics to lie to Americans, and to the world?
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Wernher von Braun's Predictions
January 24, 2008 – The pioneer rocket [Wernher von Braun] scientist laying on his death bed confided in Dr. Carol Rosin his fears about the weaponization of space. He identified the scare tactics that would convince the public to accept that space-based weapons need to be built. . . Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the '70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the '90s was planned.
When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun. We first met in early 1974. At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me about the game that was being played—that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself.
The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy... Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons. The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. "Asteroids — against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons!!" And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. . . He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapons back in 1974. . .
Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie—that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify—were all based on a lie. . .
In 1977, I was at a meeting in Fairchild Industries in a conference room called the War Room. In that room were a lot of charts on the walls with enemies, identified enemies. There were other more obscure names, names like Saddam Hussein and Khadafi. But we were talking then about terrorists, the potential terrorists. No one had ever talked about this before but this was the next stage after the Russians against whom we were going to build these space-based weapons. . . Well, they continued the conversation about how they were going to antagonize these enemies and that at some point, there was going to be a war in the Gulf, a Gulf War. Now this is 1977, 1977! . . Full story: flashclub.ch disclosureproject.org
Comment: The Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, planted such unheard of scenarios in the public mind in 1967: fictitious alternative enemies, a permanent inspection program for disarmament, an international police force, massive global pollution, an open-ended space program aimed at unreachable targets (in 2007 George II said the United States was planning to land men on Mars when the Moon landing was a hoax), an extraterrestrial threat, etc.,
We reported these plans since 1998, and Dr. Peter Beter's disclosures which revealed the hidden hand's achievements in space in far greater detail than Dr. Rosin. As FDR said, "If it happens in politics, it was planned that way".
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Jewish Bolsheviks Murdered 66 Million in Russia
July 21, 2007 – How many people did Russia's Bolshevik Communists kill?
Israel's YNET News admits: "at least 20 million."
We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish.
Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka. Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags. Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself. . .
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the "bloodthirsty dwarf." . .
Full story: ynetnews.com
Alexander Solzhenitsyn states flatly: "66 million."
If not exaggerated, Solzhenitsyn asserts that since 1917, the Bolsheviks, continuing under assassin Stalin, through and even after WW2, systematically executed, and inside (and outside) their thousands of Gulags, worked, starved and froze to death, SIXTY-SIX million people, not all, but most of them CHRISTIANS (whom the Bolsheviks hated). This mass death was THE LARGEST REAL "HOLOCAUST" in modern history — but totally unknown today by most Americans, British and western Europeans and absent from our school books. [A. Solzhenitsyn, "Together for Two Hundred Years"]. Of course no publisher in the Western world dares reprint Solzhenitsyn's book in English. . .
Full story: rense.com biblebelievers
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Europe told to Open Borders for 20m Asian and African Workers
A subscriber found this newspaper clipping by Andrew Bounds in Brussels on a German website. Unfortunately there was no source given, but its from an English Newspaper giving a report from Brussels. Many Years ago Count Kalergi-Coudenhove (President of the Pan-Europe Federation) said openly. Quote: "We intend to turn Europe into a mixed race of Asians and Negros ruled over by the Jews" (Endquote). The copy reads:
Justice Chief says all skills levels are required.
Europe must open its doors in the next two Decades to the extra 20 Million Workers from Asia & Africa. The EU must lower its barriers and instead build a corridor for those Asians & Africans that are now risking their lives to get here.
Germany, Italy and Hungary need the most immigrants in order to make up for their falling birth deficit. The EU Commission is currently setting up, first in Mali, at a cost of 10 Million Euros an Information Center in which those wishing to emigrate can learn about the entry and work possibilities in the EU. Other such facilities in other countries will follow. Further, said Frattini, We must not see this immigration as a danger, but as an enrichment and an unalterable Phenomena of today's world.
Comment: "We will openly reveal our identity with the races of Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last generation of white children is now being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory" (Address by Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich to the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest on January 12, 1952, originally published in full Common Sense and brought to the attention of Captain William Guy Carr by the Canadian Intelligence Service; who published it verbatim in Pawns in the Game (pp. 104-106). One of many similar quotes by prominent Jews like Theodore Herzl, Rabbi Reichorn, Dr. Oscar Levy, Bernard Lazare, Chief Rabbi of the United States Stephen Wise and Maurice Samuel, inspired by the Talmud. Jesus Messiah, who abhorred the Talmud, prophesied this evil for our day in Matthew 24:37.
"We Jews must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause" (Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957).
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Mr. Lincoln the Racist
Several years ago, columnist Joseph Sobran wrote: "When Lincoln finally did grab the slavery issue in 1854, he again followed (Henry) Clay in advocating gradual emancipation, combined with a program of colonization—resettling former slaves outside of the United States. He expressly opposed political and social equality for Negroes in this country. They should be equal all right, but not here. . . Lincoln's segregationist views are soft-peddled, shrugged off, explained away, or simply ignored. . . the Fantasy Lincoln must be maintained at all costs." And this is exactly what many establishment scholars today do. They maintain the cottage industry that promotes the "Fantasy Lincoln" while conveniently ignoring his racist views— views they seem to find abhorrent in anyone else yet perfectly alright in Mr. Lincoln.
Full story: albensonjr.com
Comment: Christ's end-time Bride must base their understanding upon the Absolute of truth, not the fantasy of folk tales. Mr. Lincoln broke the US Republic with his bloody Civil War, dividing the nation between North and South as required by the City of London. It is still divided as the South remains under martial law, and in the very near future the North, too, will be under martial law.
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Yellowstone Mystery: Where are all the rabbits?
New York, February 17, 2008 – The US Wildlife Conservation Society is trying to figure out why jack rabbits have vanished from Yellowstone National Park.
The report, published in the journal Oryx, said there have been no confirmed jack rabbit sightings in Yellowstone since 1991 and only three in Grand Teton National Park since 1978. Historical records indicate that white-tailed jack rabbits were once abundant in Greater Yellowstone, a 23,166-square-mile ecosystem that contains the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, the group said Thursday in a release. . . Full story: google.com
Comment: The rabbits have gone because the caldera is active and an eruption may be triggered by tectonic activity that will sink Los Angeles.
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The Virtues of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
February 25, 2008 – Why are these people doing this? Why has Al Gore positioned himself to become a historical laughing stock, and why have a few hundred United Nations climate change-funded "scientists" joined them? The reason surely is not global warming. . .
If Al Gore were truly alarmed about hydrocarbon use, he would be clamoring for nuclear power plants. The construction of just 50 nuclear installations similar to that partially completed at Palo Verde near Phoenix would erase most of the US carbon dioxide output — and would also erase most of the US trade deficit at the same time. . . Al Gore. . . has already accumulated astonishing personal wealth during his campaign against world energy technology and is now a principal in a new corporation being formed to profit from public fear of global warming. Meanwhile, UN bureaucrats are mesmerized by the prospect of taxing and rationing world energy supplies — a position of virtually unlimited wealth and power that would give them life-and-death control over both world technology and the human race. . . Full story: newswithviews.com Forget global warming.
Comment: The program is de-industrialization, famine, impoverishment, the elimination of a middle class, disempowerment, massive global depopulation, and a return to serfdom for most people under Lucifer's totalitarian one world government.
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Pentecost Types the Gentile Dispensation
Genesis 1:27-28, "God created mankind in His own image: in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them, and He blessed them".
God's purpose in the creation of man is to (Gk. 'phaneroo') make His true character so thoroughly understood by teaching that He becomes visibly manifest in the material form of His Body, the Church, who are His Attributes reflecting the glory of His Being in whom as His glorified Family He will be worshipped throughout eternity. This is the true Temple or dwelling place of the Lord God foreordained from the foundation of the world, and He showed Moses the pattern in conformity to which it must be made. Moses and Solomon built its representation with human hands, but as Paul explained, "God who made the world and all it contains, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples built by human hands" (Acts 17:24). "We are to come to Christ, that living Stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious, and be built up as living stones into a Spiritual house, a dedicated priesthood, to offer Spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (I Peter 2:4-5; I Corinthians 7:19).
Thus "we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has foreordained that we should live in" becoming "written epistles" of the Word for our day (Ephesians 2:10; II Corinthians 3:2-3). This is the creation of God, whose Head and beginning is Jesus Messiah, born of a virgin just 2,000 years ago. His mystic Body, the Church, is the continuation of the same creation through her second birth by the spoken Word of Promise (Revelation 3:14).
Although we are individual members of Christ's Body with different abilities, personal obligations and responsibilities to the Brethren, we were all baptized into the Body by a measure of the faith commonly ordained to meet challenges peculiar to our day. So the corporeal Body is built up of nine dispensations of grace each defined by the measure of faith ordained to the gift of Christ for each Age. Christ's gift to the Church is the five-fold ministry of men who are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, or teachers. Their vocation is to equip those who are saints for the task of ministering toward the building up of the Body of Christ by admonishing, helping and encouraging the Brethren, supporting their pastor and living so that their Token of the Life of Christ is on public display, "trusting Christ in their hearts as Lord and ready always to answer anybody who asks for a reason of the hope that is within them, yet with gentleness and reverence" (I Peter 3:15). Christ's Bride is in the stature of a perfect Man, God's second Masterpiece built of lively stones.
Christ's gift of the five-fold ministry will be in the Body "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and that understanding of that Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we should no longer be babes, swung back and forth, and carried here and there with every wind of doctrine that springs from human craftiness and ingenuity for devising error. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we should grow up in every way toward He who is the Head, into Christ" (Ephesians 4:13-15).
The accompanying diagram illustrates how the pattern of God's second Bible, which Enoch wrought in stone before the Flood, has been transformed into the "substance of things [God had] hoped for"—a true living Temple. The double line at its base signifies the "foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone" (Ephesians 2:20; I Corinthians 3:11-13). This we call Alpha, or the Word at the beginning, which was the brief holy convocation of Pentecost (AD33-53) wherein the saints received and understood the pure Word of God (Jude 1:3).
The Bible was sealed with Seven Seals unto the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4), so from Pentecost until the close of the Church Ages the saints had only PART-Word with Christ as a mediator for their ignorance of the fulness. So long as one understood and was living the Word for his day Christ received His faith, placed his ignorance under the Blood and baptized him into his position in the Body. As Jesus explained in Revelation 1 to 3, He sent an "angel" or major apostle to each of the seven Church Ages inspired by a different measure of the Spirit to rebuke and correct those who had fallen away from the Message of the preceding Age, then reveal the Word for the new Age.
The evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit or new birth is a clear revelation of the Word for the hour, this causes our life to display a particular virtue of the Life of Christ as indicated on the diagram (II Peter 1:1-8). The seven Church Ages represent Revelation 2 and 3. The world church system apostatized in 1963 "and knows it not." This is illustrated by the breach between the close of Laodicea and the Capstone and represented by Revelation 4 and 5 which show the Blood removed from the Mercy Seat made it a Judgment Seat. Now Jesus advanced from the Outer Court where the bloody body of the Lamb had lain on the altar of sacrifice as a memorial, claimed the Book of Redemption, tore open its Seals, and sat down on the Judgment Seat. He is no longer in the office of Son of God and Mediator but as Son of Man He is Judge (John 5:27).
In Revelation 10:1-6 (I Thessalonians 4:14-16) the Lord Himself descended, placing judgment on the beast of Papal Rome, on the United States of America (the image of Imperial Rome) and her (once) Protestant daughter churches, which are the image of Papal Rome (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4). At this point Brother Branham received His "Elijah" anointing to reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders of Revelation 10:3-7 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. It is these Divinely revealed "mystery-truths" that are literally turning the hearts of the children back to the apostolic faith (Malachi 4:5-6).
The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in WORD form (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:1-7). "The restoration of all things spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began" is the fulness of the Word which is Christ, the Logos. Brother Branham's Message is the "Shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16 calling the wise and foolish virgin out from the world church system into Christ for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
Born of the fulness of the Word, Christ's end-time Bride is forming the Capstone of the Pyramid. As Jesus Christ, "the Head of the corner" was rejected by the builders, Christ's end-time Bride will be "set at nought" by the world church system as they "crucify unto themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame" (Hebrews 6:6).
The corn of wheat fell to the ground and died on Calvary, but within three days it rose again and brought forth the Alpha Bride of Pentecost. The apostolic saints sowed and their Message brought forth, "a hundredfold, sixty, and thirty fold" in the first three Church Ages as the faith was hybrid with Jewish fables, Gentile myths and organizational creeds until it, too, fell into the ground and died. It did not revive until God inspired Martin Luther, the angel to the Sardis Church Age, with the mighty revelation, "the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).
Brother Martin Luther started the reformation of the Roman Catholic system of worship in which the corn of wheat put forth leaves, then the tassel in Philadelphia, and the shuck in Laodicea. In the third day God sent forth the Prophet William Branham whose ministry sowed for the "latter rain" and brought forth original grain who will manifest the Sons of God and be translated. He is Alpha and Omega, the Word at the beginning and the same Word restored at the end; He was not the PART-Word that made up the Church Ages in between. All seven Church Ages are over, and since we now have the perfect interpretation of the Word we are in the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast and unlike the Church Age saints we do no servile work presuming to interpret God's Word.
In Ephesians 1:3-14 Paul expounds Genesis 1:27-28 and God's purpose, "How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every blessing in the Logos because we belong to Christ, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in His Presence. In love He has predestinated us to be recognized as His children through Jesus Christ according to the kind intent of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has bestowed on us in the beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of trespasses, to the measure of the riches of His grace; which He lavished on us, making known to us in all wisdom and insight the secret of His purpose, according to His kind intention which he proposed in Christ: a plan to be brought to completion in the fulness of times (Gk. 'kairos,' opportunity, or "once in a lifetime" times. See Newsletter #286) to unite everything together in Christ, things in heaven, and things on earth."
"In Christ we too were made His Heritage, being predestinated according to His purpose, who works out everything in agreement with the design of His own will, so that we, the first to put our hope in Christ, might bring praise to His glory. In Him you also, after listening to the Message of Truth, the good news of your salvation, have as believers in Him been sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, which is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory".
The expression, "In the image of God He created him," with no mention of the word "likeness," shows us that in God's great thinking mankind received the dignity of His image as an Attribute of the Logos, which is His eternal, unchanging thoughts expressed. That is we, our soul, is a spirit as God is a Spirit, but the perfection of His "likeness" in us has been reserved for the consummation, because that is the Christ-like character to which we attain only by overcoming adversity and acquire for ourselves as individuals by the exercise of our free moral agency in diligent imitation of God. The possibility of attaining to perfection was granted to Adam's race "in the beginning" through the dignity of the divine image with the perfect realization of the divine "likeness" being reached in the end by becoming a written epistle of the present Truth or recognizing our day and manifesting its Message in our life. Thus works are faith expressed (James 2:18).
"It is at the resurrection that the Royal Seed will see many royal seeds like unto Himself, and they will be even as He is, for says John, "we shall be like Him." This is what John the Baptist was referring to when He said that Jesus would gather the wheat into the garner. That was the resurrection where the redeemed who had been elected unto eternal life came in" (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 283; I John 3:2).
Our Lord will appear when that last elected member to the body of Christ comes in, and manifest Himself in his resurrected and translated Body (John 6:37-39). Philippians 3:21, "He will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself." Then we shall be "like Him" and manifest that we are the Sons of God (Ephesians 1:19-23; Romans 8:19).
I John 2:28-3:3, "Now, little children, remain permanently in Him so that when He is (Gk. 'Phaneroo') manifested to reveal His true character, we may have confidence and bold assurance, and not be ashamed and shrink from Him at His (Gk. 'parousia') Coming. If you are sure that Christ is absolutely righteous, [conforming to the Father's will in purpose, thought and action], you will be just as confident that every one who does righteousness [and therefore in like manner conforms to the divine will] is born of Him".
"See, what an incredible quantity of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be named and called and accounted the Sons of God! And so we are! The reason the world does not recognize us, is that it does not acknowledge Him. Beloved, we are right now the Sons of God, and it is not (Gk. 'Phaneroo') made clear what we shall be: but we know that, when He (Gk. 'Phaneroo') is manifested [in us] we shall be in His likeness; for we shall see Him as He really is. And every one who has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is undefiled and guiltless."
John points out with the utmost certainty, that not only was the end of all things to be hoped for, but also the likeness to God. "We shall walk with Him in white, for we are worthy." We have identified ourselves with Him on earth and He will identify Himself with us in the New Jerusalem. God is going to reward those who follow His advice in Revelation 3:4-5. When Peter, James and John saw Him on Mount Transfiguration His clothes were as white as light. That is how the saints are going to be clothed. Their garments will be shining, exceedingly white. "Fine linen is the righteousnesses of saints".
Now we shall consider the Pentecostal Feast from Leviticus 23.
On the third day after the Passover, the sheaf of the firstfruits of the barley harvest was waved by the priest. By this act Israel consecrated the whole of the harvest unto the Lord, and were only permitted to use it when they received it back as a Gift from Him. This wave sheaf represented Christ who was lifted up on the Cross as Moses lifted up the serpent before the people in the wilderness showing sin was judged (Numbers 21:8-9). Jesus was waved before the Father and accepted in that God raised Him from the dead for the justification of everyone who comes to the Father by faith in the Son. Like the first-born Son, the firstfruits of the harvest was considered the choicest. Their acceptance consecrated the whole of the harvest.
Jesus was the firstfruits of the Old Testament saints who rose after His resurrection, and the New Testament saints who are Christ's at His parousia — that's NOW (I Corinthians 15:23). We becoming one with the Bread of Life or finished product of the wheat as the gift of the Holy Spirit in a new birth. Soon there will be another resurrection: the sleeping New Testament saints will be raised and waved as a loaf baked with leaven while we who are alive and remain will be waved in the manifestation of the Sons of God as a second leavened loaf, then we shall be changed in the atoms to meet Christ in the air.
The Sheaf Wave Offering introduced the Feast of Firstfruits, or Weeks: better known as Pentecost. Whereas the former festival marked the absolute beginning of the grain harvest, with barley, the Pentecostal Feast marked its completion with the reaping of wheat. It was divided into nine divisions, beginning with the last six days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which represented the primitive Church who held and understood the pure Word of God undefiled. Seven rests or sabbaths followed, representing the seven different baptisms of the Holy Ghost, or new births that distinguish the seven Church Ages. Moses and Joshua led Israel to a place where they could find natural rest for their body and mortal spirit. Jesus said, "Come unto Me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and you will find Spiritual sabbath for your soul" (Matthew 11:27-29). The sabbath for Christians is a rest for the soul, or new birth. When we enter our Spiritual Promise, we've ceased from our own works. But our sabbath can only be observed if we're in God's provided Place of worship, in Christ the Word, but the living Word for our day, not the Word for the days of Luther, Wesley, or the Pentecostals; just as Israel's sabbath can only be observed in the Promised Land, outside which the Old Covenant is of no effect.
These seven rests or Church Ages were followed by another rest on the fiftieth day, which is this present holy convocation wherein: "the mystery of God is finished," the apostolic faith is restored, and God's elect are called out from all man-made systems into oneness with the fullness of the Word. It's called an holy convocation because unlike the Church Age saints, who presumed to interpret God's Word, we do no servile work as we have "the true sayings of God" who sent us a prophet with THUS SAITH THE LORD, that finished the mystery of God by the revelation of the Seven Seals to bring Christ's end-time Bride to maturity by agreement with the fulness of the Word, for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
As we study the types in Leviticus 23:15-22, we discover that in the fiftieth day after the presentation of the Wave Sheaf offering (which was fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus Christ), "a new grain offering of two loaves baked with leaven" was to be waved before the Lord. One loaf represents that which is perfect—made manifest in his living Bride, the other represents the Church Age saints—who manifested that which was in part, back in the days when Christ was a Mediator.
The end-time Bride under pre-eminence to the Fullness of the Word by her revelation of the Seven Seals will be waved before the Lord at the manifestation of the Sons of God, in behalf of our brethren who fell asleep since Pentecost. We are all one body, and without us, the sleeping saints cannot be made perfect, or glorified. Together we are waved before the Lord as the finished product—grain prepared for food. The Church is symbolized as two loaves baked with leaven, on account of our sinful flesh, for all are not yet glorified.
Leaven represents sin. Because of the Eve's sin, all are born in sin, shaped in iniquity, and come into the world speaking lies. On account of the leaven of our sin-born bodies we who are alive and remain cannot be offered on the altar. This proves the true Church does not go through the Tribulation. Because Christ is accepted, we too are accepted, and when we change in the atoms, this corruptible flesh puts on incorruption, mortality puts on immortality, and we lose the leaven.
Pentecost types the harvest of the firstfruits or elect of all Gentiles in Adam's race. The firstfruits of the Gospel sowing is the harvest of the true Church. The Church Age saints resurrect and the wise virgin or true Church of the end-time will be translated before the Tribulation period when God turns back to Israel. nl516.htm
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Brother Branham cautioned Brethren to pay off any lingering debt because the world is coming on hard times worse than the Great Depression. Taking a magnifying glass I read my own bank balance, and feeling glum remembered the old adage, "there is always someone worse off," and peeked at the account balances of nations. My country is fifth most indebted nation behind the USA, Spain, the UK and Italy on credit was created out of thin air borrowed on nonexistent money loaned at interest. Many third world countries to which we donate aid are billions in Credit. China is at the top of the list, 30% ahead of Japan, and 50% ahead of Germany.
Governments should create their own money and spend it into circulation as a credit. Subservience to 'the City' commits us to borrow "credit" from their banksters and circulate it as debt. Inflation is hereby built in to our economies in order to pay the interest. Nations that claim to be Christian, or Spiritual Israelites who have inherited the blessings of Abraham, are accursed, while pagan nations whose friendship we seek to buy with bribes of foreign aid are blessed. Read Deuteronomy 28:1-14 and ask yourself, "Has God abandoned His people? or have those who believe themselves God's people become His enemy and know it not (Revelation 3:17-20)?
In 1963 Brother Branham said, "The world coming to a place it's falling apart, politically, socially, economically. . . We're borrowed on taxes that'll be paid forty years from today. She's broke. She's bankrupt, the nation: not this nation, but all of them. And there's no way ever getting it back. And it's a trap set exactly to swing this nation into something. And all of you are wise on that. Well, who's got the wealth of the world? Who holds it? . . . Rome holds it" (Testimony, p. 9:20-21).
"For the church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a living. This will be accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all the paper, and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the whole world" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 314:1).
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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America: The Greatest Menace to Global Stability
November 11, 2006 – The 2006 Angus Reid World Poll: People in 13 countries believe the United States is the greatest threat to global stability, and residents of eight countries consider American foreign policy as the most menacing issue to the world, the Angus Reid World Poll conducted for Maclean's found. Overall, most people in the 20 countries surveyed chose the US as the greatest threat from a list that included Iran, China, Iraq, North Korea, Israel and Russia.
China appears, along with Israel, as the third most threatening country. . . Full story: angus-reid.com
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No One is Safe: The Ruling Class Unleashed
February 13, 2008 – The Democrats may condemn the Iraq invasion and occupation as the worst "blunder" in our history, but they will not condemn it as the war crime it is. And they keep paying for it. They are not murderers themselves, but every member of Congress who votes to pay for this continuing obscenity is an accomplice to murder and genocide. . .
The Bush administration has announced to the world, and to all Americans, that this is what the United States now stands for: a vicious determination to dominate the world, criminal, genocidal wars of aggression, torture, and an increasingly brutal and brutalizing authoritarian state at home. That is what we stand for. . .
Full story: powerofnarrative.blogspot.com
Comment: Someone has been reading his Bible.
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N. American Army created without OK by Congress
February 24, 2008 – In a ceremony that received virtually no attention in the American media, the United States and Canada signed a military agreement February 14 allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency, even one that does not involve a cross-border crisis.
The agreement, defined as a Civil Assistance Plan, was not submitted to Congress for approval, nor did Congress pass any law or treaty specifically authorizing this military agreement to combine the operations of the armed forces of the United States and Canada in the event of a wide range of domestic civil disturbances ranging from violent storms, to health epidemics, to civil riots or terrorist attacks.
In Canada, the agreement paving the way for the militaries of the US and Canada to cross each other's borders to fight domestic emergencies was not announced either by the Harper government or the Canadian military, prompting sharp protest. . . Full story: worldnetdaily.com
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Washington gets a New Colony in the Balkans
February 21, 2008 – In evaluating the recent "declaration of independence" by Kosovo, a province of Serbia, and its immediate recognition as a state by the US, Germany, Britain and France, it is important to know three things.
First, Kosovo is not gaining independence or even minimal self-government. It will be run by an appointed High Representative and bodies appointed by the US, European Union and NATO. An old-style colonial viceroy and imperialist administrators will have control over foreign and domestic policy. US imperialism has merely consolidated its direct control of a totally dependent colony in the heart of the Balkans.
Second, Washington’s immediate recognition of Kosovo confirms once again that US imperialism will break any and every treaty or international agreement it has ever signed, including agreements it drafted and imposed by force and violence on others.
The recognition of Kosovo is in direct violation of such law—specifically UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which the leaders of Yugoslavia were forced to sign to end the 78 days of NATO bombing of their country in 1999. Even this imposed agreement affirmed the "commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Serbia, a republic of Yugoslavia.
This week’s illegal recognition of Kosovo was condemned by Serbia, Russia, China and Spain.
Thirdly, US imperialist domination does not benefit the occupied people. Kosovo after nine years of direct NATO military occupation has a staggering 60 percent unemployment rate. It has become a center of the international drug trade and of prostitution rings in Europe.
The once humming mines, mills, smelters, refining centers and railroads of this small resource-rich industrial area all sit silent. The resources of Kosovo under NATO occupation were forcibly privatized and sold to giant Western multinational corporations. Now almost the only employment is working for the US/NATO army of occupation or UN agencies. . .
Full story: workers.org
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Bush Solicitor General LIED! Barbara Olsen did not call Ted Olsen
February 20, 2008 – David Ray Griffin says the FBI has reported that no such call between Barbara Olsen and Ted Olsen ever took place on 9/11/2001. . .
It was part of the rapidly unraveling scam that is the official story of 9/11. In fact. . . there is zero evidence that any hijackers had commandeered a plane at all. . . there is no "EVIDENCE" of their existence. Which also reveals that mis-information shill, Popular Mechanics, in their 9/11 interview on the Charles Goyette Show months ago, lied when they told us there was DNA evidence of the so-called Muslim hijackers. LIES, all lies. . . Full story: opednews.com
Comment: It was not technically possible for anyone to call from that plane on their cell phone. Is there any reason to believe Mrs. Olsen or any of the other passengers were on that flight? Investigations have shown that many of the 9/11 passengers had passed from this life years before 2001, while many of the so-called "hijackers" were and are peacefully living and working in their home countries. And I seem to recall photographs of a woman claimed to be Mrs. Olsen overseas and very much alive after 9/11. Besides, there was no DNA!
The question is: "Who arranged for Ted Olsen and Popular Mechanics to lie to Americans, and to the world?
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Wernher von Braun's Predictions
January 24, 2008 – The pioneer rocket [Wernher von Braun] scientist laying on his death bed confided in Dr. Carol Rosin his fears about the weaponization of space. He identified the scare tactics that would convince the public to accept that space-based weapons need to be built. . . Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the '70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the '90s was planned.
When I was a Corporate Manager of Fairchild Industries from 1974 through 1977, I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun. We first met in early 1974. At that time, Von Braun was dying of cancer but he assured me that he would live a few more years to tell me about the game that was being played—that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control the Earth from space and space itself.
The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy... Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons. The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. "Asteroids — against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons!!" And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. . . He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapons back in 1974. . .
Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie—that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify—were all based on a lie. . .
In 1977, I was at a meeting in Fairchild Industries in a conference room called the War Room. In that room were a lot of charts on the walls with enemies, identified enemies. There were other more obscure names, names like Saddam Hussein and Khadafi. But we were talking then about terrorists, the potential terrorists. No one had ever talked about this before but this was the next stage after the Russians against whom we were going to build these space-based weapons. . . Well, they continued the conversation about how they were going to antagonize these enemies and that at some point, there was going to be a war in the Gulf, a Gulf War. Now this is 1977, 1977! . . Full story: flashclub.ch disclosureproject.org
Comment: The Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, planted such unheard of scenarios in the public mind in 1967: fictitious alternative enemies, a permanent inspection program for disarmament, an international police force, massive global pollution, an open-ended space program aimed at unreachable targets (in 2007 George II said the United States was planning to land men on Mars when the Moon landing was a hoax), an extraterrestrial threat, etc.,
We reported these plans since 1998, and Dr. Peter Beter's disclosures which revealed the hidden hand's achievements in space in far greater detail than Dr. Rosin. As FDR said, "If it happens in politics, it was planned that way".
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Jewish Bolsheviks Murdered 66 Million in Russia
July 21, 2007 – How many people did Russia's Bolshevik Communists kill?
Israel's YNET News admits: "at least 20 million."
We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish.
Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka. Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags. Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself. . .
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the "bloodthirsty dwarf." . .
Full story: ynetnews.com
Alexander Solzhenitsyn states flatly: "66 million."
If not exaggerated, Solzhenitsyn asserts that since 1917, the Bolsheviks, continuing under assassin Stalin, through and even after WW2, systematically executed, and inside (and outside) their thousands of Gulags, worked, starved and froze to death, SIXTY-SIX million people, not all, but most of them CHRISTIANS (whom the Bolsheviks hated). This mass death was THE LARGEST REAL "HOLOCAUST" in modern history — but totally unknown today by most Americans, British and western Europeans and absent from our school books. [A. Solzhenitsyn, "Together for Two Hundred Years"]. Of course no publisher in the Western world dares reprint Solzhenitsyn's book in English. . .
Full story: rense.com biblebelievers
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Europe told to Open Borders for 20m Asian and African Workers
A subscriber found this newspaper clipping by Andrew Bounds in Brussels on a German website. Unfortunately there was no source given, but its from an English Newspaper giving a report from Brussels. Many Years ago Count Kalergi-Coudenhove (President of the Pan-Europe Federation) said openly. Quote: "We intend to turn Europe into a mixed race of Asians and Negros ruled over by the Jews" (Endquote). The copy reads:
Justice Chief says all skills levels are required.
Europe must open its doors in the next two Decades to the extra 20 Million Workers from Asia & Africa. The EU must lower its barriers and instead build a corridor for those Asians & Africans that are now risking their lives to get here.
Germany, Italy and Hungary need the most immigrants in order to make up for their falling birth deficit. The EU Commission is currently setting up, first in Mali, at a cost of 10 Million Euros an Information Center in which those wishing to emigrate can learn about the entry and work possibilities in the EU. Other such facilities in other countries will follow. Further, said Frattini, We must not see this immigration as a danger, but as an enrichment and an unalterable Phenomena of today's world.
Comment: "We will openly reveal our identity with the races of Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last generation of white children is now being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory" (Address by Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich to the Emergency Council of European Rabbis in Budapest on January 12, 1952, originally published in full Common Sense and brought to the attention of Captain William Guy Carr by the Canadian Intelligence Service; who published it verbatim in Pawns in the Game (pp. 104-106). One of many similar quotes by prominent Jews like Theodore Herzl, Rabbi Reichorn, Dr. Oscar Levy, Bernard Lazare, Chief Rabbi of the United States Stephen Wise and Maurice Samuel, inspired by the Talmud. Jesus Messiah, who abhorred the Talmud, prophesied this evil for our day in Matthew 24:37.
"We Jews must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause" (Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957).
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Mr. Lincoln the Racist
Several years ago, columnist Joseph Sobran wrote: "When Lincoln finally did grab the slavery issue in 1854, he again followed (Henry) Clay in advocating gradual emancipation, combined with a program of colonization—resettling former slaves outside of the United States. He expressly opposed political and social equality for Negroes in this country. They should be equal all right, but not here. . . Lincoln's segregationist views are soft-peddled, shrugged off, explained away, or simply ignored. . . the Fantasy Lincoln must be maintained at all costs." And this is exactly what many establishment scholars today do. They maintain the cottage industry that promotes the "Fantasy Lincoln" while conveniently ignoring his racist views— views they seem to find abhorrent in anyone else yet perfectly alright in Mr. Lincoln.
Full story: albensonjr.com
Comment: Christ's end-time Bride must base their understanding upon the Absolute of truth, not the fantasy of folk tales. Mr. Lincoln broke the US Republic with his bloody Civil War, dividing the nation between North and South as required by the City of London. It is still divided as the South remains under martial law, and in the very near future the North, too, will be under martial law.
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Yellowstone Mystery: Where are all the rabbits?
New York, February 17, 2008 – The US Wildlife Conservation Society is trying to figure out why jack rabbits have vanished from Yellowstone National Park.
The report, published in the journal Oryx, said there have been no confirmed jack rabbit sightings in Yellowstone since 1991 and only three in Grand Teton National Park since 1978. Historical records indicate that white-tailed jack rabbits were once abundant in Greater Yellowstone, a 23,166-square-mile ecosystem that contains the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, the group said Thursday in a release. . . Full story: google.com
Comment: The rabbits have gone because the caldera is active and an eruption may be triggered by tectonic activity that will sink Los Angeles.
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The Virtues of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
February 25, 2008 – Why are these people doing this? Why has Al Gore positioned himself to become a historical laughing stock, and why have a few hundred United Nations climate change-funded "scientists" joined them? The reason surely is not global warming. . .
If Al Gore were truly alarmed about hydrocarbon use, he would be clamoring for nuclear power plants. The construction of just 50 nuclear installations similar to that partially completed at Palo Verde near Phoenix would erase most of the US carbon dioxide output — and would also erase most of the US trade deficit at the same time. . . Al Gore. . . has already accumulated astonishing personal wealth during his campaign against world energy technology and is now a principal in a new corporation being formed to profit from public fear of global warming. Meanwhile, UN bureaucrats are mesmerized by the prospect of taxing and rationing world energy supplies — a position of virtually unlimited wealth and power that would give them life-and-death control over both world technology and the human race. . . Full story: newswithviews.com Forget global warming.
Comment: The program is de-industrialization, famine, impoverishment, the elimination of a middle class, disempowerment, massive global depopulation, and a return to serfdom for most people under Lucifer's totalitarian one world government.
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Pentecost Types the Gentile Dispensation
Genesis 1:27-28, "God created mankind in His own image: in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them, and He blessed them".
God's purpose in the creation of man is to (Gk. 'phaneroo') make His true character so thoroughly understood by teaching that He becomes visibly manifest in the material form of His Body, the Church, who are His Attributes reflecting the glory of His Being in whom as His glorified Family He will be worshipped throughout eternity. This is the true Temple or dwelling place of the Lord God foreordained from the foundation of the world, and He showed Moses the pattern in conformity to which it must be made. Moses and Solomon built its representation with human hands, but as Paul explained, "God who made the world and all it contains, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples built by human hands" (Acts 17:24). "We are to come to Christ, that living Stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious, and be built up as living stones into a Spiritual house, a dedicated priesthood, to offer Spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (I Peter 2:4-5; I Corinthians 7:19).
Thus "we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has foreordained that we should live in" becoming "written epistles" of the Word for our day (Ephesians 2:10; II Corinthians 3:2-3). This is the creation of God, whose Head and beginning is Jesus Messiah, born of a virgin just 2,000 years ago. His mystic Body, the Church, is the continuation of the same creation through her second birth by the spoken Word of Promise (Revelation 3:14).
Although we are individual members of Christ's Body with different abilities, personal obligations and responsibilities to the Brethren, we were all baptized into the Body by a measure of the faith commonly ordained to meet challenges peculiar to our day. So the corporeal Body is built up of nine dispensations of grace each defined by the measure of faith ordained to the gift of Christ for each Age. Christ's gift to the Church is the five-fold ministry of men who are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, or teachers. Their vocation is to equip those who are saints for the task of ministering toward the building up of the Body of Christ by admonishing, helping and encouraging the Brethren, supporting their pastor and living so that their Token of the Life of Christ is on public display, "trusting Christ in their hearts as Lord and ready always to answer anybody who asks for a reason of the hope that is within them, yet with gentleness and reverence" (I Peter 3:15). Christ's Bride is in the stature of a perfect Man, God's second Masterpiece built of lively stones.
Christ's gift of the five-fold ministry will be in the Body "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and that understanding of that Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we should no longer be babes, swung back and forth, and carried here and there with every wind of doctrine that springs from human craftiness and ingenuity for devising error. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we should grow up in every way toward He who is the Head, into Christ" (Ephesians 4:13-15).
The accompanying diagram illustrates how the pattern of God's second Bible, which Enoch wrought in stone before the Flood, has been transformed into the "substance of things [God had] hoped for"—a true living Temple. The double line at its base signifies the "foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone" (Ephesians 2:20; I Corinthians 3:11-13). This we call Alpha, or the Word at the beginning, which was the brief holy convocation of Pentecost (AD33-53) wherein the saints received and understood the pure Word of God (Jude 1:3).
The Bible was sealed with Seven Seals unto the time of the end (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4), so from Pentecost until the close of the Church Ages the saints had only PART-Word with Christ as a mediator for their ignorance of the fulness. So long as one understood and was living the Word for his day Christ received His faith, placed his ignorance under the Blood and baptized him into his position in the Body. As Jesus explained in Revelation 1 to 3, He sent an "angel" or major apostle to each of the seven Church Ages inspired by a different measure of the Spirit to rebuke and correct those who had fallen away from the Message of the preceding Age, then reveal the Word for the new Age.
The evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit or new birth is a clear revelation of the Word for the hour, this causes our life to display a particular virtue of the Life of Christ as indicated on the diagram (II Peter 1:1-8). The seven Church Ages represent Revelation 2 and 3. The world church system apostatized in 1963 "and knows it not." This is illustrated by the breach between the close of Laodicea and the Capstone and represented by Revelation 4 and 5 which show the Blood removed from the Mercy Seat made it a Judgment Seat. Now Jesus advanced from the Outer Court where the bloody body of the Lamb had lain on the altar of sacrifice as a memorial, claimed the Book of Redemption, tore open its Seals, and sat down on the Judgment Seat. He is no longer in the office of Son of God and Mediator but as Son of Man He is Judge (John 5:27).
In Revelation 10:1-6 (I Thessalonians 4:14-16) the Lord Himself descended, placing judgment on the beast of Papal Rome, on the United States of America (the image of Imperial Rome) and her (once) Protestant daughter churches, which are the image of Papal Rome (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4). At this point Brother Branham received His "Elijah" anointing to reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders of Revelation 10:3-7 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. It is these Divinely revealed "mystery-truths" that are literally turning the hearts of the children back to the apostolic faith (Malachi 4:5-6).
The revelation of the Seven Seals brought Christ back to earth in WORD form (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:1-7). "The restoration of all things spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began" is the fulness of the Word which is Christ, the Logos. Brother Branham's Message is the "Shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16 calling the wise and foolish virgin out from the world church system into Christ for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
Born of the fulness of the Word, Christ's end-time Bride is forming the Capstone of the Pyramid. As Jesus Christ, "the Head of the corner" was rejected by the builders, Christ's end-time Bride will be "set at nought" by the world church system as they "crucify unto themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame" (Hebrews 6:6).
The corn of wheat fell to the ground and died on Calvary, but within three days it rose again and brought forth the Alpha Bride of Pentecost. The apostolic saints sowed and their Message brought forth, "a hundredfold, sixty, and thirty fold" in the first three Church Ages as the faith was hybrid with Jewish fables, Gentile myths and organizational creeds until it, too, fell into the ground and died. It did not revive until God inspired Martin Luther, the angel to the Sardis Church Age, with the mighty revelation, "the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).
Brother Martin Luther started the reformation of the Roman Catholic system of worship in which the corn of wheat put forth leaves, then the tassel in Philadelphia, and the shuck in Laodicea. In the third day God sent forth the Prophet William Branham whose ministry sowed for the "latter rain" and brought forth original grain who will manifest the Sons of God and be translated. He is Alpha and Omega, the Word at the beginning and the same Word restored at the end; He was not the PART-Word that made up the Church Ages in between. All seven Church Ages are over, and since we now have the perfect interpretation of the Word we are in the holy convocation of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast and unlike the Church Age saints we do no servile work presuming to interpret God's Word.
In Ephesians 1:3-14 Paul expounds Genesis 1:27-28 and God's purpose, "How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every blessing in the Logos because we belong to Christ, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in His Presence. In love He has predestinated us to be recognized as His children through Jesus Christ according to the kind intent of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has bestowed on us in the beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of trespasses, to the measure of the riches of His grace; which He lavished on us, making known to us in all wisdom and insight the secret of His purpose, according to His kind intention which he proposed in Christ: a plan to be brought to completion in the fulness of times (Gk. 'kairos,' opportunity, or "once in a lifetime" times. See Newsletter #286) to unite everything together in Christ, things in heaven, and things on earth."
"In Christ we too were made His Heritage, being predestinated according to His purpose, who works out everything in agreement with the design of His own will, so that we, the first to put our hope in Christ, might bring praise to His glory. In Him you also, after listening to the Message of Truth, the good news of your salvation, have as believers in Him been sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, which is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory".
The expression, "In the image of God He created him," with no mention of the word "likeness," shows us that in God's great thinking mankind received the dignity of His image as an Attribute of the Logos, which is His eternal, unchanging thoughts expressed. That is we, our soul, is a spirit as God is a Spirit, but the perfection of His "likeness" in us has been reserved for the consummation, because that is the Christ-like character to which we attain only by overcoming adversity and acquire for ourselves as individuals by the exercise of our free moral agency in diligent imitation of God. The possibility of attaining to perfection was granted to Adam's race "in the beginning" through the dignity of the divine image with the perfect realization of the divine "likeness" being reached in the end by becoming a written epistle of the present Truth or recognizing our day and manifesting its Message in our life. Thus works are faith expressed (James 2:18).
"It is at the resurrection that the Royal Seed will see many royal seeds like unto Himself, and they will be even as He is, for says John, "we shall be like Him." This is what John the Baptist was referring to when He said that Jesus would gather the wheat into the garner. That was the resurrection where the redeemed who had been elected unto eternal life came in" (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 283; I John 3:2).
Our Lord will appear when that last elected member to the body of Christ comes in, and manifest Himself in his resurrected and translated Body (John 6:37-39). Philippians 3:21, "He will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself." Then we shall be "like Him" and manifest that we are the Sons of God (Ephesians 1:19-23; Romans 8:19).
I John 2:28-3:3, "Now, little children, remain permanently in Him so that when He is (Gk. 'Phaneroo') manifested to reveal His true character, we may have confidence and bold assurance, and not be ashamed and shrink from Him at His (Gk. 'parousia') Coming. If you are sure that Christ is absolutely righteous, [conforming to the Father's will in purpose, thought and action], you will be just as confident that every one who does righteousness [and therefore in like manner conforms to the divine will] is born of Him".
"See, what an incredible quantity of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be named and called and accounted the Sons of God! And so we are! The reason the world does not recognize us, is that it does not acknowledge Him. Beloved, we are right now the Sons of God, and it is not (Gk. 'Phaneroo') made clear what we shall be: but we know that, when He (Gk. 'Phaneroo') is manifested [in us] we shall be in His likeness; for we shall see Him as He really is. And every one who has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is undefiled and guiltless."
John points out with the utmost certainty, that not only was the end of all things to be hoped for, but also the likeness to God. "We shall walk with Him in white, for we are worthy." We have identified ourselves with Him on earth and He will identify Himself with us in the New Jerusalem. God is going to reward those who follow His advice in Revelation 3:4-5. When Peter, James and John saw Him on Mount Transfiguration His clothes were as white as light. That is how the saints are going to be clothed. Their garments will be shining, exceedingly white. "Fine linen is the righteousnesses of saints".
Now we shall consider the Pentecostal Feast from Leviticus 23.
On the third day after the Passover, the sheaf of the firstfruits of the barley harvest was waved by the priest. By this act Israel consecrated the whole of the harvest unto the Lord, and were only permitted to use it when they received it back as a Gift from Him. This wave sheaf represented Christ who was lifted up on the Cross as Moses lifted up the serpent before the people in the wilderness showing sin was judged (Numbers 21:8-9). Jesus was waved before the Father and accepted in that God raised Him from the dead for the justification of everyone who comes to the Father by faith in the Son. Like the first-born Son, the firstfruits of the harvest was considered the choicest. Their acceptance consecrated the whole of the harvest.
Jesus was the firstfruits of the Old Testament saints who rose after His resurrection, and the New Testament saints who are Christ's at His parousia — that's NOW (I Corinthians 15:23). We becoming one with the Bread of Life or finished product of the wheat as the gift of the Holy Spirit in a new birth. Soon there will be another resurrection: the sleeping New Testament saints will be raised and waved as a loaf baked with leaven while we who are alive and remain will be waved in the manifestation of the Sons of God as a second leavened loaf, then we shall be changed in the atoms to meet Christ in the air.
The Sheaf Wave Offering introduced the Feast of Firstfruits, or Weeks: better known as Pentecost. Whereas the former festival marked the absolute beginning of the grain harvest, with barley, the Pentecostal Feast marked its completion with the reaping of wheat. It was divided into nine divisions, beginning with the last six days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which represented the primitive Church who held and understood the pure Word of God undefiled. Seven rests or sabbaths followed, representing the seven different baptisms of the Holy Ghost, or new births that distinguish the seven Church Ages. Moses and Joshua led Israel to a place where they could find natural rest for their body and mortal spirit. Jesus said, "Come unto Me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and you will find Spiritual sabbath for your soul" (Matthew 11:27-29). The sabbath for Christians is a rest for the soul, or new birth. When we enter our Spiritual Promise, we've ceased from our own works. But our sabbath can only be observed if we're in God's provided Place of worship, in Christ the Word, but the living Word for our day, not the Word for the days of Luther, Wesley, or the Pentecostals; just as Israel's sabbath can only be observed in the Promised Land, outside which the Old Covenant is of no effect.
These seven rests or Church Ages were followed by another rest on the fiftieth day, which is this present holy convocation wherein: "the mystery of God is finished," the apostolic faith is restored, and God's elect are called out from all man-made systems into oneness with the fullness of the Word. It's called an holy convocation because unlike the Church Age saints, who presumed to interpret God's Word, we do no servile work as we have "the true sayings of God" who sent us a prophet with THUS SAITH THE LORD, that finished the mystery of God by the revelation of the Seven Seals to bring Christ's end-time Bride to maturity by agreement with the fulness of the Word, for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
As we study the types in Leviticus 23:15-22, we discover that in the fiftieth day after the presentation of the Wave Sheaf offering (which was fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus Christ), "a new grain offering of two loaves baked with leaven" was to be waved before the Lord. One loaf represents that which is perfect—made manifest in his living Bride, the other represents the Church Age saints—who manifested that which was in part, back in the days when Christ was a Mediator.
The end-time Bride under pre-eminence to the Fullness of the Word by her revelation of the Seven Seals will be waved before the Lord at the manifestation of the Sons of God, in behalf of our brethren who fell asleep since Pentecost. We are all one body, and without us, the sleeping saints cannot be made perfect, or glorified. Together we are waved before the Lord as the finished product—grain prepared for food. The Church is symbolized as two loaves baked with leaven, on account of our sinful flesh, for all are not yet glorified.
Leaven represents sin. Because of the Eve's sin, all are born in sin, shaped in iniquity, and come into the world speaking lies. On account of the leaven of our sin-born bodies we who are alive and remain cannot be offered on the altar. This proves the true Church does not go through the Tribulation. Because Christ is accepted, we too are accepted, and when we change in the atoms, this corruptible flesh puts on incorruption, mortality puts on immortality, and we lose the leaven.
Pentecost types the harvest of the firstfruits or elect of all Gentiles in Adam's race. The firstfruits of the Gospel sowing is the harvest of the true Church. The Church Age saints resurrect and the wise virgin or true Church of the end-time will be translated before the Tribulation period when God turns back to Israel. nl516.htm
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Original Sin
Bible Believers' Newsletter #515
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In this Newsletter we will consider the Fall, and what really happened in the garden of Eden.
You know, the Lord placed every one in Adam's race on free moral agency and on a level playing field—even with the seed of the Serpent who are far wiser in the ways of this world than the children of Light, since they are the vicarious children of the god of this evil age. God is no respecter of persons. He gave Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Jesus, Paul and Brother Branham no special privileges in this respect. We must each confront and overcome adversity, sinner or saint.
The Lord does not place His saints on a flowery bed of ease, for "the wicked prosper and all who deal very treacherously are happy," while "all who will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution." If anything, the sinner has the advantage in this world. His material or sensual blessings are seen in the here and now and make no call on faith, but he is a creature of time, while we are even now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Then cheer, my brothers cheer, our trials will soon be o'er
Our loved ones we shall meet, shall meet upon the golden shore
We're pilgrims and we're strangers here, we're seeking a city to come
The life-boat soon is coming to gather the Jewels home.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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What FBI Whistle-Blower Sibel Edmonds found in Translation
February 17, 2008 – Former FBI translator turned whistle-blower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington's highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Ms. Edmonds' account is full of dates, places and names.
And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or dismissed if classified government documents were made available to investigators. But Congress has refused to act, and the Justice Department has shrouded Ms. Edmonds' case in the state-secrets privilege. . .
After five years of thwarted legal challenges and fruitless attempts to launch a congressional investigation, Sibel Edmonds is telling her story, though her defiance could land her in jail. . . Full story: dallasnews.com
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More Evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid
February 10, 2008 – Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before 9/11 never investigated? Had an investigation been done into the crime of failing to file the "currency transaction reports" in August 2001, then we would know who made the cash withdrawals in $100 bills amounting to the $5 billion surge.
When reviewing the record of July and August of 2001, Bill Bergman noticed a $5 billion surge in the currency component of the M1 money supply—the third largest such increase since 1947. Bergman asked about this anomaly—and was removed from his investigative duties. . . As a financial market analyst for the Federal Reserve, he was assigned in 2003 to review the record of July and August of 2001. He noticed an unusual surge in the currency component of the M1 money supply (cash circulating outside of banks) during that period. The surge totaled over $5 billion above the norm for a two-month increase.
The increase in August alone was the third largest single monthly increase since 1947, even after a significantly above-average month in July. . . Bergman's supervisor instructed him to follow up on an unanswered question he had raised pertaining to an August 2, 2001 letter from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve to the 12 Reserve Banks. This letter urged scrutiny of suspicious activity reports. Bergman learned of the pervasiveness of the warnings of the 9/11 attacks, and wondered how thoroughly these warnings had permeated the financial system.
In this capacity as Federal Reserve investigative point-man, and with his money-laundering portfolio being guided by his supervisor's directive, he asked the Board why they had issued their August 2, 2001 directive, and whether this related to any heightened intelligence of a terrorist threat. His position was then eliminated, and a crucial investigation was terminated before it could even begin. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
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Holocaust™ Reparations Bill in Congress could cost Americans 200 BILLION DOLLARS
The Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007 (H.R. 1746) is now snaking its way thru committees, in preparation for what is to quite possibly be a huge extortion of money from the American tax payer.
Copied from the bill is this:
Experts estimate that the value in 2006 of unpaid life, annuity, endowment, and dowry insurance theft from European Jewry from the Holocaust and its aftermath ranges between $17,000,000,000 and $200,000,000,000. . . This act will give Holocaust™ survivors, heirs, dependents, and others, access to US courts for the purpose of entertaining legal actions against insurance companies, even when those claims have already been denied by European Courts. . . .
Full story: wakeupfromyourslumber.com
Comment: Jews Declared War against Germany! Not the other way around! houston.craigslist.org; houston.craigslist.org. Read Sec. 204 and 205 of this Bill.
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Thousands March in Dresden Commemoration
Dresden, February 17, 2008 – More than 6,000 marchers from throughout Germany as well as other European countries took part in a memorial demonstration here yesterday for those who died in the Allied firebombing of this old Saxon city on February 13, 1945, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. . .
A concluding rally was held at the famous Zwinger, where featured speaker Udo Pastörs described the Anglo-American war crime of 63 years ago and recalled other Allied crimes up to the present day. . . Full story: netzwerknord.com
Comment: A real holocaust with no reparations.
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What You didn't know about this Woman
In reality Benazir Bhutto's status as an icon of freedom and democracy was an illusion. "[H]er two periods in office as prime minister (1988-90 and 1993-96) were marked by economic collapse, suppression of the press, human rights abuses and appalling corruption," wrote the National Review (September 20, 2007). Her first administration was accused of "having one of the world's worst records of custodial deaths, killings and torture," said the Observer (December 30, 2007).
During her second term, Transparency International called Pakistan the second-most corrupt country in the world. Four countries have launched criminal investigations into the various bank accounts maintained by Bhutto and her husband (nicknamed "Mr. 10 Percent" after how much he routinely skimmed off government contracts—amounting to somewhere around $1.5 billion). Strong evidence points to her having ordered the highly suspicious murder of her brother in 1996 after he challenged her leadership of the Pakistan's People's Party, of which she had declared herself "president for life."
Under her leadership, Islamism flourished. Under-funded state schools opened the door for the rise of radical religious schools. Islamists milked their favorite recruiting tool for all they could. . . This is the woman the [US] State Department pressured to return home from exile to reclaim power . . . It exposes America's marriage to an idea that continues to underpin the "war on terror" long after it has proven to be disastrously false. . . Full story: thetrumpet.com
Comment: The objective of "the City" of which the US is a colony, is to strengthen radical Islam as set forth in their blueprint for World War III, and weaken the United States, making it subservient to its colonial master.
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Mr. Lincoln the Infidel
Just as, over the years, we have all been treated to the ethereal fables of Mr. Lincoln as the "great emancipator" of blacks, so have also been treated to many stories about his supposed Christian faith. The problem with all of this is the most patriotic and conservative folks have bought into this hook, line, and sinker. I talked several years ago with a conservative man who informed me that Lincoln "got saved" in the White House. I asked him for some evidence and then sought to go a little into the true nature of Lincoln's character. At that point, he informed me that he "didn't have time for all this." Conversation ended. He had no evidence to back up what he said and I had just punctured the aura of secular holiness that surrounded his secular saint, and he wasn't happy with that. He really didn't want to be confronted with any facts that might force him to change his opinion. . . Full story: albensonjr.com
Comment: Abraham Lincoln was a Rothschild. See Pandora's Box.
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This Medication may cause You to think for Yourself
Warning: As a nurse I am shattering the myth of modern medicine. Medical protocol is determined by what's most profitable, which means "managing" diseases with medication rather than curing them.
Since graduating with honors in 1990 from one of the top 10 nursing schools in the US, I have learned the inside truth about Western Medicine - a truth that most doctors and nurses are totally unaware of. Like myself they chose their profession with good intentions, believing it was valiant, but this is a powerful deception hiding a villainous truth. . .
Full story: edpillreich.blogspot.com
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The Original Sin
There were many trees in the garden of Eden, including the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Fall was not caused by eating natural fruit, which was permitted, and nothing is recorded in Genesis 3 about eating an apple; we read only about partaking of fruit of the tree of Knowledge. Therefore, it is important for us to know who and what the tree of Knowledge was.
In Genesis 3:7 we read, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves skirts." Something terrible had happened. Satan's promise was half fulfilled but not quite as expected; they had developed a self consciousness of their nakedness and of the guilt of their genitalia, which hitherto had been public but which they now considered private and sought to hide from each another, and from the Lord. You will notice, they did not blindfold their eyes or cover their mouth, but veiled their guilty reproductive organs that instead of bringing life, introduced death into the world. Guilt-conscious, their intimate relationship with God is replaced by distrustful, selfish, servile fear, as the first common act of sin passes over to a second, and they seek to hide themselves and their sin amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3 portrays the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Every man and woman understands temptation of the senses, so Eve's admission, "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" should be understood by every adult person. When a girl or a boy is entrapped and beguiled, we know it was not an ice-cream or apple they ate.
The apostle Paul certainly knew what happened in the garden of Eden. Otherwise he could not have admonished the Corinthian church: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3). In view of the Fall, the apostle writes further, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression" (I Timothy 2:14).
Directly after it happened, the Lord God told Eve, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. . ." (Genesis 3:16). This statement tells us what really happened. It was not meals she was to eat in pain as one might suppose had the transgression been epicurean; and neither Adam nor yet any woman has conceived by eating fruit. God knew what took place, and where punishment should be pronounced. Therefore as a memorial of the original sin, and under normal circumstances, women give birth in pain. They don't suffer toothache at mealtimes. Proverbs 30:18-20, "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her orifice, and says, I have done no wickedness."
Birth-pains remind women of the original sin, "for the woman being deceived was in the transgression," and lost her co-equality with man (Genesis 3:16; I Timothy 2:8-15). Under the Old Covenant, circumcision in the male organ of generation recognised that because of the Fall corruption is inherently transmitted by our sexual conception (Psalm 51:5), and symbolised an Israelite man's severance from nature's defilement to a state of consecrated fellowship with God. Hereby an unmarried Israelite woman came under the Covenant by the token of her father, and a married woman came under the token of her husband (I Corinthians 11:3-16; Ephesians 5:20-23). So "God's holy One, whose flesh should not see corruption" was "born of a virgin" (Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 7:14). When God made a Covenant with Abraham and his natural seed He required circumcision, "This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: every male child among you shall be circumcised" (Genesis 17:10-14). Every soul who refused circumcision was "cut off" from His people because he did not have the token of the Covenant.
In Jeremiah 9:24-25 we read, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the days are coming when I will punish all these circumcised with the uncircumcised; Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and the Semitic Arabs who dwell in the desert and cut the edge of their beard: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." Three classes are distinguished here, the Covenant people, their Serpent seed half brothers, their Semitic Ammonite, Moabite and Arabian cousins, and Gentile Egyptians. All of these nations were uncircumcised in spite of a circumcision in the flesh, (which from Israel's standpoint was an unjustifiable imitation of the sacred sign of the Covenant), while the whole house of Israel, including Judah, is uncircumcised in heart and ears and essentially no different from the heathen nations without the token. From this it is evident that the only means of escape from the threatened punishment is a living and truly productive knowledge of the Lord (Jeremiah 9:22-23).
In Genesis 17:12-13 and Exodus 12:43-49 we learn that every Israelite and every Gentile of Adam's race must have the token of circumcision in the flesh before he can partake of the Passover, which the Serpent's seed are forbidden to eat. However John Hyrcanus compelled them to "circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, (25) and of the rest of the Jewish ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 9:1).
(Note 25: "This account of the Idumeans admitting circumcision, and the entire Jewish law, from this time, or from the days of Hyrcanus, is confirmed by their entire history afterward (Antiquities XIV, 8:1; XV, 7:9; Wars of the Jews, II, 3:1; IV, 4:5). This, in the opinion of Josephus, made them proselytes of justice, or entire Jews, as here and elsewhere (Antiquities, XIV, 8:1). However, Antigonus, the enemy of Herod, though Herod were derived from such a proselyte of justice for several generations, will allow him to be no more than a half Jew (XV, 15:2). But still, take out of Dean Prideaux, at the year 129, the words of Ammouius, a grammarian, which fully confirm this account of the Idumeans in Josephus: "The Jews," says he, are such by nature, and from the beginning, whilst the Idumeans were not Jews from the beginning, but Phoenicians and Syrians; but being afterward subdued by the Jews, and compelled to be circumcised, and to unite into one nation, and be subject to the same laws, they were called Jews." Dio also says, as the Dean there quotes him, from Book XXXVI, p. 37, "That country is called Judea, and the people Jews; and this name is given also to as many others as embrace their religion, though of other nations." But then upon what foundation so good a governor as Hyrcanus took upon him to compel those Idumeans either to become Jews, or to leave the country, deserves great consideration. I suppose it was because they had long ago been driven out of the land of Edom, and had seized on and possessed the tribe of Simeon, and all the southern parts of the tribe of Judah, which was the peculiar inheritance of the worshippers of the true God without idolatry, as the reader may learn from Reland, Palestine, Part I, p. 154, 305; and from Prideaux, at the years 140 and 165).
Before one is fit to celebrate our "Passover," which is to partake the Lord's Supper and footwashing under the New Covenant, he or she must be circumcised—not in the flesh—but in heart and ears, and our Token, unlike that of the Israelite, must be on display for it is the Life of Christ generated by the Spirit of Christ within the individual believer. Whereas the Israelite woman was "saved" under the Token of her father or her husband, "the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the Token of his Christian wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified under the Token of her Christian husband" (I Corinthians, 7:11-19).
There is no shame in displaying our Token, and our Token is not the Token unless it is on public display. Now the soul that refuses the Message of God's Prophet in this day is "cut off" and "shall be destroyed from among the people" (Malachi 4:6; Acts 3:23; Revelation 22:17-19). This is so because since the Seven Seals are revealed, Christ is no longer a Mediator for ignorance, and without this Message he is "uncircumcised in heart and ears" and cannot have the Token, which is the new birth by the Fullness of the Word, aside from which he cannot be restored to fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Word (Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21-23; I Corinthians 13:10; John 17:20-26).
The Lord God pronounced judgment on the serpent for his wickedness and said, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and eat dust all the days of your life" (Genesis 3:14). Up to that time, the serpent walked upright, else the statement "upon your belly you shall go" would make no sense (Ezekiel 28:13-14).
Most important is the following verse, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." According to the testimony of the Lord God, there would be two different seeds. He spoke of the seed of the serpent, and also of its archenemy, both seeds would come through the woman. In Scripture, seed speaks of offspring, and there were in Eve's womb two different seeds as there are two different seeds in the church.
Satan cannot beget nor can he create. He is a sexless, fallen spirit-being. Therefore he had to make use of the beast which was closest to man and could even speak. Only after the curse, did the serpent lose its upright human form and become a reptile.
Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Has God said?" The devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued It, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die. . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Uplifted at the prospect of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex — how they might fulfill God's Command to "multiply and fill the earth," Eve fell for Satan's lie. What benefit was this knowledge of good and evil that separated them from God's Presence? Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil whereby we are accountable to God (Romans 5:12-14).
The human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through begetting in the sex act. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race in Cain and his lineage. Eve's transgression caused Adam to forfeit our dominion over earth to death. As we are conceived according to Satan's worldly wisdom, we are born with a nature of this world, which is the nature of the god of this evil age. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh "That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil, and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:14-15). Conquering Satan and death, and rising the third day, Jesus announced victoriously, "I have the keys of death and hell" (Revelation 1:18).
God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28), so He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage, when Eve listened to one she knew to be inspired by Satan, and in correcting him made God's prohibition even stronger by adding, "neither shall you touch the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," which is Satan. Hereby she usurped authority over her husband, who was the spoken Word of God. Every species was to bring forth after his own kind, but in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to the Word of God, which is His thoughts expressed. Eve then gave herself to Adam.
Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin, and although she should have been burnt as says the law (which is forever written in heaven), he was not deceived, but he loved her and quickly took her to himself. Eve was dying, having crossed the Word from eternity into time but as a son of God Adam knew he could no more be lost than God can be lost. He also knew that Eve was part of him and if he joined her in death, God must somehow redeem him, so in dying he would 'save' Eve. A perfect type of Christ.
Thus, the Fall took place: Eve gave herself to the serpent, then had her first relation with Adam. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel.
In this day, 'twins' are born of different fathers. The best-known cases happened in Sweden and France. In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black, and to a blond blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, a Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and one Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans, where a woman with multiple ovum is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination. The offspring are not truly twins but half-brothers or half-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm.
Whoever reads Genesis 3:15 carefully, will see the Lord God had spoken of the two seeds, or offspring right after the Fall. So from the very beginning, there were these two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth.
Not once is Cain mentioned in the genealogies of Adam in the Old or the New Testament. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living": never is it suggested that he is the father of all living (Genesis 3:20). Had Cain been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God, and a special place in God's record.
As Eve bore her firstborn, she exclaimed, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). This must be understood correctly. Eve was NOT declaring Adam was the father of Cain: under Satan's delusion she actually thought Cain was Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God." No other act with Adam is recorded between the births of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth . . ." (Genesis 4:25). Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, you know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three was NOT the son of Adam.
The apostle John also knew what happened in the garden of Eden. He wrote, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one" (I John 3:12). In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle wrote of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one" (I John 2:13, 14). Again Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture with this description. In Revelation 20:2, he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In the Gospels Jesus calls the opponent of God "the wicked one." God is altogether good; Satan is just the opposite. In the Lord's prayer we petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13). We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain and origin of all ungodly things.
Cain, the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning — not in heaven, but on earth (John 8:44). Now it behooves us to consider what prompted such envy and jealousy as would cause Cain to murder Abel. It arose from their worship of God. Cain was rejected with his revelation, because he was carnal. Perhaps he thought it was an apple that caused the Fall, and knowing God requires life for life, picked the choicest of his crop, knowing the 'life' would go out of it. But by revelation from God the Bible says Abel knew animal had caused the Fall, and so animal life must be offered.
When the elder saw his 'works' rejected and Abel's sacrifice for which he had not labored, accepted of God, it seemed so unreasonable. And when God told him he would be accepted if by faith he offered the same sacrifice as His vindicated prophet, he felt humiliated. Concealing his pride, Cain asked Abel to expound the faith. Abel was reluctant to explain, fearing for his life, but when Cain prevailed he expounded the 'original sin.' Cain recognized he was not Adam's son, that he had never possessed the birthright, and was nowhere in the genealogy of God, but that if he destroyed Abel, he reasoned there was the possibility of fabricating primogeniture.
Hence, when God exposed Cain's evil and he saw there was no way he could claim Adam's birthright, which is ultimately the restoration to eternal Life in a restored world, he exclaimed, ". . . from Your face I shall be hid; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me" (because intermarriage with his line always procreates the unredeemable serpent seed and further pollutes the human race). So to prevent man from taking vengeance on Cain and his kindred, God placed a mark upon him. That mark is worldly wisdom: reasoning against the faith. According to anthropologists and Brother Branham, the serpent seed were responsible for all inventions and the discovery of all technological principles.
It is absolutely impossible for Cain to have come forth from Adam who was created in the image of the holy God from Whom no evil can come. Satan misused the serpent to enter into the human race in this cunning way, and throw it into destruction and death. Thus it was necessary for God to come in human flesh without human male instrumentality to redeem us back from the power of Satan. When all the redeemed receive their full inheritance, we will be placed back into our original ordained position under God to rule over all the earth.
Enoch was the seventh from Adam: Cain was not counted in the genealogy (Jude 14). Abel was killed with no offspring, therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect, the Word of God is also perfect and enlightening — Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch — Cain is not Adam's seed and is not mentioned (Genesis 5:6-18; Luke 3:38).
The seed of the serpent was just as real as the seed of the woman. If the serpent did not have a seed, then Christ too was a myth. The seed of the serpent was Cain, the promised seed of the woman was Christ. Paul referred to the promised seed, ". . . and to your seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16-19). He is the seed for whom the promise was given. In the Old Testament, we read, "When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed" (Isaiah 53:10). God's law states that every seed must reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). So we should recognize not only did the serpent seed produce a physical race of people not on the Book of Life, but it also produces spiritual death in Adam's race, causing names to be removed from the Book of Life.
God hates hybreeding — His Word is Spirit, and it is Life, but when mixed with human reasoning it is no longer His Word and becomes death (John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). In Luke 8:11 we read, "The seed is the Word of God." Before Eve could receive the physical seed of the serpent, she first had to receive the perverted word or suggestion of Satan into her mind — spiritual serpent seed — and reason against the clear instruction of God's seed Word.
In Matthew 13:36-43 the Lord spoke clearly about these diverse spiritual seeds, "He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Our lives manifest our faith or understanding. A life lived by the Word is the Word expressed — Christ in you, the hope of glory. A life lived by God's Word hybrid into creeds is reasoning against the faith; it is the mark of Cain and of the beast, and is death. Those influenced by the wicked one hardened their hearts, to which Jesus said, "You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there no truth in him." He did not dispute their claim to be Abraham's seed, nor did he concede that they were also the seed of Isaac and Jacob and therefore Israelites. As we have noted, the majority of Judeans (or Jews) in His day were Edomites. Esau, their progenitor was Abraham's seed but he married into Cain's race and marred his inheritance. Knowing this the Pharisees protested, "We were not born of fornication; we have one father, even God." Jesus said, "If you were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham . . . and if God were your father, you would love Me." Since they were deceived on the Word and abode not in the Truth, even those who were in Adam's line physically, were serpent seed SPIRITUALLY, and blotted from the record of life (John 8:37-47; Psalm 69:21-28; Jeremiah 9:24-25).
We must remember that God put "enmity" between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . your seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there.
Satan perverted God's holy instruction to "multiply and fill the earth," deceiving Eve and coming into human flesh and blood to produce death instead of life. "Man that's born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). God required a perfect substitute, so Jesus was born of a virgin without sex, by faith in the spoken Word Seed of God to pay sin's penalty. Hence our second birth is not by woman but by the Man Christ Jesus without sin and without sex, by the spoken seed Word of God.
After Pentecost, Satan returned to pervert the spoken Word seed of God by mixing or hybridizing it with reasoning into creeds and traditions. So long as the seven-sealed Book was closed and the mystery sealed to the time of the end, Christ was in the Office of Mediator, interceding in behalf of the ignorance of God's elect concerning the faith (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4,7). Once the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age had been baptized into the Body, Christ answered the call of the elders, fulfilling Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7.
Advancing from the sacrifice altar as the bleeding bloody Lamb and taking the Book of Life, which is the title deed to all He has redeemed, He became Lion, Judge, and King of Kings. Revelation 10:1-6 signifies Christ descending to earth in WORD Form with the Book that was sealed open in His hands to reveal Himself through the ministry of the 'angel' to the Laodicean Church Age before the seventh Trumpet Angel sounds the end of the Gentile Dispensation (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:52).
You see the Church Age saints cannot be made perfect without us. As the Holy Spirit was waved before God in the first ripe Sheaf of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted in that God resurrected Him for the justification of the whole harvest (Romans 4:25), that same Spirit in the Fullness of the Word is to be waved again in the end-time Bride whose acceptance will signal the resurrection of the sleeping saints and build faith for translation grace. The "church" will know nothing of this: God having called out the righteous, both wise and foolish virgin, their end will be a lake of Fire (Leviticus 23:16-21; Matthew 3:12; I Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).
Speaking through His prophets, God promised He would "RESTORE the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints" (Joel 2:25; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:19-21). This is the ministry of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, whose Message is the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16, which is the "midnight cry" heard and heeded by the wise and foolish virgin of Matthew 25:6 and confirmed by the heavenly Voice of Revelation 18:4. This Message is Christ the fullness of the Word "spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began" —"that which is perfect" or complete (Acts 3:21; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7). It separates Christ's tiny Flock from the hordes of the great whore of Rome and her Protestant harlot daughters, bringing her into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Genesis 49:10; Amos 3:3; Matthew 13:41; Ephesians 1:10; Romans 8:19; II Thessalonians 2:1).
The 'enmity' God placed between the seed of the righteous first and last Adams, and the unrighteous physical seed of Cain and the bastard-born spiritual children of the second Eve, whom Jesus calls "the mother of harlots and abominations on the earth," is extant. Christ's little Flock is marching toward heaven in the rapture, while Satan's mighty world-wide church is marching to Armageddon (Revelation 16:13-16; 17:14).
Revelation 1-3 prophesies the battle that commenced on the day of Pentecost between Christ in His people, and antichrist in his people. These trees that stood in the midst of the Garden have grown together, like Judas and Jesus, as brothers within the framework of the Christian church, so close as would almost deceive the very elect if it were possible. However this is the harvest time, each congregation is bearing the life of the seed that was planted and cannot hide its fruit. Satan's apostate big church is uniting with the apostate smaller churches in order to convert or kill Christ's little Flock. But after a brief and powerful demonstration of the Spirit — NOT a public display as it was in Pentecost — our little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus.
As Satan incarnate the beast in the garden of Eden and led the first Eve to death, when he is cast out of the heavenlies he will evict his demons and incarnate the man of sin, thereafter called the beast, who will lead his followers to perdition. Christ's purpose is to be fulfilled in His Bride. He is that Corn of Wheat that fell to the ground at Calvary in order to reproduce Himself in the many-membered spoken Word seed Bride.
When Jesus was on earth, Satan showed Him all the kingdoms and their glory in this end-time and said, "I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). Our Redeemer knew that once He overcame, and shed His blood for the redemption of those ordained for eternal Life, the inheritance forfeited by the first Adam would be His. Already the psalmist had said, "Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations" (Psalm 82:8; Revelation 11:15).
Of Christ's elect or Spiritual Seed, the apostle Paul wrote, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ — if so be that we suffer with Him, we may be also glorified together" (Romans 8:17). This will be fulfilled sooner than most (so-called) Christians dare imagine. We are privileged to live in the time when all the mysteries contained in the Holy Scriptures have been revealed, including the original sin in the garden of Eden. bb930112.htm
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In this Newsletter we will consider the Fall, and what really happened in the garden of Eden.
You know, the Lord placed every one in Adam's race on free moral agency and on a level playing field—even with the seed of the Serpent who are far wiser in the ways of this world than the children of Light, since they are the vicarious children of the god of this evil age. God is no respecter of persons. He gave Moses, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Jesus, Paul and Brother Branham no special privileges in this respect. We must each confront and overcome adversity, sinner or saint.
The Lord does not place His saints on a flowery bed of ease, for "the wicked prosper and all who deal very treacherously are happy," while "all who will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution." If anything, the sinner has the advantage in this world. His material or sensual blessings are seen in the here and now and make no call on faith, but he is a creature of time, while we are even now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Then cheer, my brothers cheer, our trials will soon be o'er
Our loved ones we shall meet, shall meet upon the golden shore
We're pilgrims and we're strangers here, we're seeking a city to come
The life-boat soon is coming to gather the Jewels home.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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What FBI Whistle-Blower Sibel Edmonds found in Translation
February 17, 2008 – Former FBI translator turned whistle-blower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington's highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Ms. Edmonds' account is full of dates, places and names.
And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or dismissed if classified government documents were made available to investigators. But Congress has refused to act, and the Justice Department has shrouded Ms. Edmonds' case in the state-secrets privilege. . .
After five years of thwarted legal challenges and fruitless attempts to launch a congressional investigation, Sibel Edmonds is telling her story, though her defiance could land her in jail. . . Full story: dallasnews.com
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More Evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid
February 10, 2008 – Why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before 9/11 never investigated? Had an investigation been done into the crime of failing to file the "currency transaction reports" in August 2001, then we would know who made the cash withdrawals in $100 bills amounting to the $5 billion surge.
When reviewing the record of July and August of 2001, Bill Bergman noticed a $5 billion surge in the currency component of the M1 money supply—the third largest such increase since 1947. Bergman asked about this anomaly—and was removed from his investigative duties. . . As a financial market analyst for the Federal Reserve, he was assigned in 2003 to review the record of July and August of 2001. He noticed an unusual surge in the currency component of the M1 money supply (cash circulating outside of banks) during that period. The surge totaled over $5 billion above the norm for a two-month increase.
The increase in August alone was the third largest single monthly increase since 1947, even after a significantly above-average month in July. . . Bergman's supervisor instructed him to follow up on an unanswered question he had raised pertaining to an August 2, 2001 letter from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve to the 12 Reserve Banks. This letter urged scrutiny of suspicious activity reports. Bergman learned of the pervasiveness of the warnings of the 9/11 attacks, and wondered how thoroughly these warnings had permeated the financial system.
In this capacity as Federal Reserve investigative point-man, and with his money-laundering portfolio being guided by his supervisor's directive, he asked the Board why they had issued their August 2, 2001 directive, and whether this related to any heightened intelligence of a terrorist threat. His position was then eliminated, and a crucial investigation was terminated before it could even begin. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
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Holocaust™ Reparations Bill in Congress could cost Americans 200 BILLION DOLLARS
The Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007 (H.R. 1746) is now snaking its way thru committees, in preparation for what is to quite possibly be a huge extortion of money from the American tax payer.
Copied from the bill is this:
Experts estimate that the value in 2006 of unpaid life, annuity, endowment, and dowry insurance theft from European Jewry from the Holocaust and its aftermath ranges between $17,000,000,000 and $200,000,000,000. . . This act will give Holocaust™ survivors, heirs, dependents, and others, access to US courts for the purpose of entertaining legal actions against insurance companies, even when those claims have already been denied by European Courts. . . .
Full story: wakeupfromyourslumber.com
Comment: Jews Declared War against Germany! Not the other way around! houston.craigslist.org; houston.craigslist.org. Read Sec. 204 and 205 of this Bill.
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Thousands March in Dresden Commemoration
Dresden, February 17, 2008 – More than 6,000 marchers from throughout Germany as well as other European countries took part in a memorial demonstration here yesterday for those who died in the Allied firebombing of this old Saxon city on February 13, 1945, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. . .
A concluding rally was held at the famous Zwinger, where featured speaker Udo Pastörs described the Anglo-American war crime of 63 years ago and recalled other Allied crimes up to the present day. . . Full story: netzwerknord.com
Comment: A real holocaust with no reparations.
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What You didn't know about this Woman
In reality Benazir Bhutto's status as an icon of freedom and democracy was an illusion. "[H]er two periods in office as prime minister (1988-90 and 1993-96) were marked by economic collapse, suppression of the press, human rights abuses and appalling corruption," wrote the National Review (September 20, 2007). Her first administration was accused of "having one of the world's worst records of custodial deaths, killings and torture," said the Observer (December 30, 2007).
During her second term, Transparency International called Pakistan the second-most corrupt country in the world. Four countries have launched criminal investigations into the various bank accounts maintained by Bhutto and her husband (nicknamed "Mr. 10 Percent" after how much he routinely skimmed off government contracts—amounting to somewhere around $1.5 billion). Strong evidence points to her having ordered the highly suspicious murder of her brother in 1996 after he challenged her leadership of the Pakistan's People's Party, of which she had declared herself "president for life."
Under her leadership, Islamism flourished. Under-funded state schools opened the door for the rise of radical religious schools. Islamists milked their favorite recruiting tool for all they could. . . This is the woman the [US] State Department pressured to return home from exile to reclaim power . . . It exposes America's marriage to an idea that continues to underpin the "war on terror" long after it has proven to be disastrously false. . . Full story: thetrumpet.com
Comment: The objective of "the City" of which the US is a colony, is to strengthen radical Islam as set forth in their blueprint for World War III, and weaken the United States, making it subservient to its colonial master.
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Mr. Lincoln the Infidel
Just as, over the years, we have all been treated to the ethereal fables of Mr. Lincoln as the "great emancipator" of blacks, so have also been treated to many stories about his supposed Christian faith. The problem with all of this is the most patriotic and conservative folks have bought into this hook, line, and sinker. I talked several years ago with a conservative man who informed me that Lincoln "got saved" in the White House. I asked him for some evidence and then sought to go a little into the true nature of Lincoln's character. At that point, he informed me that he "didn't have time for all this." Conversation ended. He had no evidence to back up what he said and I had just punctured the aura of secular holiness that surrounded his secular saint, and he wasn't happy with that. He really didn't want to be confronted with any facts that might force him to change his opinion. . . Full story: albensonjr.com
Comment: Abraham Lincoln was a Rothschild. See Pandora's Box.
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This Medication may cause You to think for Yourself
Warning: As a nurse I am shattering the myth of modern medicine. Medical protocol is determined by what's most profitable, which means "managing" diseases with medication rather than curing them.
Since graduating with honors in 1990 from one of the top 10 nursing schools in the US, I have learned the inside truth about Western Medicine - a truth that most doctors and nurses are totally unaware of. Like myself they chose their profession with good intentions, believing it was valiant, but this is a powerful deception hiding a villainous truth. . .
Full story: edpillreich.blogspot.com
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The Original Sin
There were many trees in the garden of Eden, including the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Fall was not caused by eating natural fruit, which was permitted, and nothing is recorded in Genesis 3 about eating an apple; we read only about partaking of fruit of the tree of Knowledge. Therefore, it is important for us to know who and what the tree of Knowledge was.
In Genesis 3:7 we read, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves skirts." Something terrible had happened. Satan's promise was half fulfilled but not quite as expected; they had developed a self consciousness of their nakedness and of the guilt of their genitalia, which hitherto had been public but which they now considered private and sought to hide from each another, and from the Lord. You will notice, they did not blindfold their eyes or cover their mouth, but veiled their guilty reproductive organs that instead of bringing life, introduced death into the world. Guilt-conscious, their intimate relationship with God is replaced by distrustful, selfish, servile fear, as the first common act of sin passes over to a second, and they seek to hide themselves and their sin amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3 portrays the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Every man and woman understands temptation of the senses, so Eve's admission, "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" should be understood by every adult person. When a girl or a boy is entrapped and beguiled, we know it was not an ice-cream or apple they ate.
The apostle Paul certainly knew what happened in the garden of Eden. Otherwise he could not have admonished the Corinthian church: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3). In view of the Fall, the apostle writes further, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression" (I Timothy 2:14).
Directly after it happened, the Lord God told Eve, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. . ." (Genesis 3:16). This statement tells us what really happened. It was not meals she was to eat in pain as one might suppose had the transgression been epicurean; and neither Adam nor yet any woman has conceived by eating fruit. God knew what took place, and where punishment should be pronounced. Therefore as a memorial of the original sin, and under normal circumstances, women give birth in pain. They don't suffer toothache at mealtimes. Proverbs 30:18-20, "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her orifice, and says, I have done no wickedness."
Birth-pains remind women of the original sin, "for the woman being deceived was in the transgression," and lost her co-equality with man (Genesis 3:16; I Timothy 2:8-15). Under the Old Covenant, circumcision in the male organ of generation recognised that because of the Fall corruption is inherently transmitted by our sexual conception (Psalm 51:5), and symbolised an Israelite man's severance from nature's defilement to a state of consecrated fellowship with God. Hereby an unmarried Israelite woman came under the Covenant by the token of her father, and a married woman came under the token of her husband (I Corinthians 11:3-16; Ephesians 5:20-23). So "God's holy One, whose flesh should not see corruption" was "born of a virgin" (Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 7:14). When God made a Covenant with Abraham and his natural seed He required circumcision, "This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: every male child among you shall be circumcised" (Genesis 17:10-14). Every soul who refused circumcision was "cut off" from His people because he did not have the token of the Covenant.
In Jeremiah 9:24-25 we read, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the days are coming when I will punish all these circumcised with the uncircumcised; Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and the Semitic Arabs who dwell in the desert and cut the edge of their beard: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." Three classes are distinguished here, the Covenant people, their Serpent seed half brothers, their Semitic Ammonite, Moabite and Arabian cousins, and Gentile Egyptians. All of these nations were uncircumcised in spite of a circumcision in the flesh, (which from Israel's standpoint was an unjustifiable imitation of the sacred sign of the Covenant), while the whole house of Israel, including Judah, is uncircumcised in heart and ears and essentially no different from the heathen nations without the token. From this it is evident that the only means of escape from the threatened punishment is a living and truly productive knowledge of the Lord (Jeremiah 9:22-23).
In Genesis 17:12-13 and Exodus 12:43-49 we learn that every Israelite and every Gentile of Adam's race must have the token of circumcision in the flesh before he can partake of the Passover, which the Serpent's seed are forbidden to eat. However John Hyrcanus compelled them to "circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, (25) and of the rest of the Jewish ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 9:1).
(Note 25: "This account of the Idumeans admitting circumcision, and the entire Jewish law, from this time, or from the days of Hyrcanus, is confirmed by their entire history afterward (Antiquities XIV, 8:1; XV, 7:9; Wars of the Jews, II, 3:1; IV, 4:5). This, in the opinion of Josephus, made them proselytes of justice, or entire Jews, as here and elsewhere (Antiquities, XIV, 8:1). However, Antigonus, the enemy of Herod, though Herod were derived from such a proselyte of justice for several generations, will allow him to be no more than a half Jew (XV, 15:2). But still, take out of Dean Prideaux, at the year 129, the words of Ammouius, a grammarian, which fully confirm this account of the Idumeans in Josephus: "The Jews," says he, are such by nature, and from the beginning, whilst the Idumeans were not Jews from the beginning, but Phoenicians and Syrians; but being afterward subdued by the Jews, and compelled to be circumcised, and to unite into one nation, and be subject to the same laws, they were called Jews." Dio also says, as the Dean there quotes him, from Book XXXVI, p. 37, "That country is called Judea, and the people Jews; and this name is given also to as many others as embrace their religion, though of other nations." But then upon what foundation so good a governor as Hyrcanus took upon him to compel those Idumeans either to become Jews, or to leave the country, deserves great consideration. I suppose it was because they had long ago been driven out of the land of Edom, and had seized on and possessed the tribe of Simeon, and all the southern parts of the tribe of Judah, which was the peculiar inheritance of the worshippers of the true God without idolatry, as the reader may learn from Reland, Palestine, Part I, p. 154, 305; and from Prideaux, at the years 140 and 165).
Before one is fit to celebrate our "Passover," which is to partake the Lord's Supper and footwashing under the New Covenant, he or she must be circumcised—not in the flesh—but in heart and ears, and our Token, unlike that of the Israelite, must be on display for it is the Life of Christ generated by the Spirit of Christ within the individual believer. Whereas the Israelite woman was "saved" under the Token of her father or her husband, "the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the Token of his Christian wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified under the Token of her Christian husband" (I Corinthians, 7:11-19).
There is no shame in displaying our Token, and our Token is not the Token unless it is on public display. Now the soul that refuses the Message of God's Prophet in this day is "cut off" and "shall be destroyed from among the people" (Malachi 4:6; Acts 3:23; Revelation 22:17-19). This is so because since the Seven Seals are revealed, Christ is no longer a Mediator for ignorance, and without this Message he is "uncircumcised in heart and ears" and cannot have the Token, which is the new birth by the Fullness of the Word, aside from which he cannot be restored to fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Word (Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21-23; I Corinthians 13:10; John 17:20-26).
The Lord God pronounced judgment on the serpent for his wickedness and said, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and eat dust all the days of your life" (Genesis 3:14). Up to that time, the serpent walked upright, else the statement "upon your belly you shall go" would make no sense (Ezekiel 28:13-14).
Most important is the following verse, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." According to the testimony of the Lord God, there would be two different seeds. He spoke of the seed of the serpent, and also of its archenemy, both seeds would come through the woman. In Scripture, seed speaks of offspring, and there were in Eve's womb two different seeds as there are two different seeds in the church.
Satan cannot beget nor can he create. He is a sexless, fallen spirit-being. Therefore he had to make use of the beast which was closest to man and could even speak. Only after the curse, did the serpent lose its upright human form and become a reptile.
Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Has God said?" The devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued It, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die. . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Uplifted at the prospect of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex — how they might fulfill God's Command to "multiply and fill the earth," Eve fell for Satan's lie. What benefit was this knowledge of good and evil that separated them from God's Presence? Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil whereby we are accountable to God (Romans 5:12-14).
The human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through begetting in the sex act. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race in Cain and his lineage. Eve's transgression caused Adam to forfeit our dominion over earth to death. As we are conceived according to Satan's worldly wisdom, we are born with a nature of this world, which is the nature of the god of this evil age. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh "That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil, and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:14-15). Conquering Satan and death, and rising the third day, Jesus announced victoriously, "I have the keys of death and hell" (Revelation 1:18).
God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28), so He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage, when Eve listened to one she knew to be inspired by Satan, and in correcting him made God's prohibition even stronger by adding, "neither shall you touch the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," which is Satan. Hereby she usurped authority over her husband, who was the spoken Word of God. Every species was to bring forth after his own kind, but in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to the Word of God, which is His thoughts expressed. Eve then gave herself to Adam.
Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin, and although she should have been burnt as says the law (which is forever written in heaven), he was not deceived, but he loved her and quickly took her to himself. Eve was dying, having crossed the Word from eternity into time but as a son of God Adam knew he could no more be lost than God can be lost. He also knew that Eve was part of him and if he joined her in death, God must somehow redeem him, so in dying he would 'save' Eve. A perfect type of Christ.
Thus, the Fall took place: Eve gave herself to the serpent, then had her first relation with Adam. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel.
In this day, 'twins' are born of different fathers. The best-known cases happened in Sweden and France. In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black, and to a blond blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, a Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and one Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans, where a woman with multiple ovum is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination. The offspring are not truly twins but half-brothers or half-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm.
Whoever reads Genesis 3:15 carefully, will see the Lord God had spoken of the two seeds, or offspring right after the Fall. So from the very beginning, there were these two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth.
Not once is Cain mentioned in the genealogies of Adam in the Old or the New Testament. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living": never is it suggested that he is the father of all living (Genesis 3:20). Had Cain been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God, and a special place in God's record.
As Eve bore her firstborn, she exclaimed, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). This must be understood correctly. Eve was NOT declaring Adam was the father of Cain: under Satan's delusion she actually thought Cain was Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God." No other act with Adam is recorded between the births of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth . . ." (Genesis 4:25). Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, you know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three was NOT the son of Adam.
The apostle John also knew what happened in the garden of Eden. He wrote, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one" (I John 3:12). In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle wrote of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one" (I John 2:13, 14). Again Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture with this description. In Revelation 20:2, he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In the Gospels Jesus calls the opponent of God "the wicked one." God is altogether good; Satan is just the opposite. In the Lord's prayer we petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13). We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain and origin of all ungodly things.
Cain, the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning — not in heaven, but on earth (John 8:44). Now it behooves us to consider what prompted such envy and jealousy as would cause Cain to murder Abel. It arose from their worship of God. Cain was rejected with his revelation, because he was carnal. Perhaps he thought it was an apple that caused the Fall, and knowing God requires life for life, picked the choicest of his crop, knowing the 'life' would go out of it. But by revelation from God the Bible says Abel knew animal had caused the Fall, and so animal life must be offered.
When the elder saw his 'works' rejected and Abel's sacrifice for which he had not labored, accepted of God, it seemed so unreasonable. And when God told him he would be accepted if by faith he offered the same sacrifice as His vindicated prophet, he felt humiliated. Concealing his pride, Cain asked Abel to expound the faith. Abel was reluctant to explain, fearing for his life, but when Cain prevailed he expounded the 'original sin.' Cain recognized he was not Adam's son, that he had never possessed the birthright, and was nowhere in the genealogy of God, but that if he destroyed Abel, he reasoned there was the possibility of fabricating primogeniture.
Hence, when God exposed Cain's evil and he saw there was no way he could claim Adam's birthright, which is ultimately the restoration to eternal Life in a restored world, he exclaimed, ". . . from Your face I shall be hid; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me" (because intermarriage with his line always procreates the unredeemable serpent seed and further pollutes the human race). So to prevent man from taking vengeance on Cain and his kindred, God placed a mark upon him. That mark is worldly wisdom: reasoning against the faith. According to anthropologists and Brother Branham, the serpent seed were responsible for all inventions and the discovery of all technological principles.
It is absolutely impossible for Cain to have come forth from Adam who was created in the image of the holy God from Whom no evil can come. Satan misused the serpent to enter into the human race in this cunning way, and throw it into destruction and death. Thus it was necessary for God to come in human flesh without human male instrumentality to redeem us back from the power of Satan. When all the redeemed receive their full inheritance, we will be placed back into our original ordained position under God to rule over all the earth.
Enoch was the seventh from Adam: Cain was not counted in the genealogy (Jude 14). Abel was killed with no offspring, therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect, the Word of God is also perfect and enlightening — Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch — Cain is not Adam's seed and is not mentioned (Genesis 5:6-18; Luke 3:38).
The seed of the serpent was just as real as the seed of the woman. If the serpent did not have a seed, then Christ too was a myth. The seed of the serpent was Cain, the promised seed of the woman was Christ. Paul referred to the promised seed, ". . . and to your seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16-19). He is the seed for whom the promise was given. In the Old Testament, we read, "When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed" (Isaiah 53:10). God's law states that every seed must reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). So we should recognize not only did the serpent seed produce a physical race of people not on the Book of Life, but it also produces spiritual death in Adam's race, causing names to be removed from the Book of Life.
God hates hybreeding — His Word is Spirit, and it is Life, but when mixed with human reasoning it is no longer His Word and becomes death (John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). In Luke 8:11 we read, "The seed is the Word of God." Before Eve could receive the physical seed of the serpent, she first had to receive the perverted word or suggestion of Satan into her mind — spiritual serpent seed — and reason against the clear instruction of God's seed Word.
In Matthew 13:36-43 the Lord spoke clearly about these diverse spiritual seeds, "He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Our lives manifest our faith or understanding. A life lived by the Word is the Word expressed — Christ in you, the hope of glory. A life lived by God's Word hybrid into creeds is reasoning against the faith; it is the mark of Cain and of the beast, and is death. Those influenced by the wicked one hardened their hearts, to which Jesus said, "You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there no truth in him." He did not dispute their claim to be Abraham's seed, nor did he concede that they were also the seed of Isaac and Jacob and therefore Israelites. As we have noted, the majority of Judeans (or Jews) in His day were Edomites. Esau, their progenitor was Abraham's seed but he married into Cain's race and marred his inheritance. Knowing this the Pharisees protested, "We were not born of fornication; we have one father, even God." Jesus said, "If you were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham . . . and if God were your father, you would love Me." Since they were deceived on the Word and abode not in the Truth, even those who were in Adam's line physically, were serpent seed SPIRITUALLY, and blotted from the record of life (John 8:37-47; Psalm 69:21-28; Jeremiah 9:24-25).
We must remember that God put "enmity" between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . your seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there.
Satan perverted God's holy instruction to "multiply and fill the earth," deceiving Eve and coming into human flesh and blood to produce death instead of life. "Man that's born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). God required a perfect substitute, so Jesus was born of a virgin without sex, by faith in the spoken Word Seed of God to pay sin's penalty. Hence our second birth is not by woman but by the Man Christ Jesus without sin and without sex, by the spoken seed Word of God.
After Pentecost, Satan returned to pervert the spoken Word seed of God by mixing or hybridizing it with reasoning into creeds and traditions. So long as the seven-sealed Book was closed and the mystery sealed to the time of the end, Christ was in the Office of Mediator, interceding in behalf of the ignorance of God's elect concerning the faith (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4,7). Once the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age had been baptized into the Body, Christ answered the call of the elders, fulfilling Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7.
Advancing from the sacrifice altar as the bleeding bloody Lamb and taking the Book of Life, which is the title deed to all He has redeemed, He became Lion, Judge, and King of Kings. Revelation 10:1-6 signifies Christ descending to earth in WORD Form with the Book that was sealed open in His hands to reveal Himself through the ministry of the 'angel' to the Laodicean Church Age before the seventh Trumpet Angel sounds the end of the Gentile Dispensation (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:52).
You see the Church Age saints cannot be made perfect without us. As the Holy Spirit was waved before God in the first ripe Sheaf of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted in that God resurrected Him for the justification of the whole harvest (Romans 4:25), that same Spirit in the Fullness of the Word is to be waved again in the end-time Bride whose acceptance will signal the resurrection of the sleeping saints and build faith for translation grace. The "church" will know nothing of this: God having called out the righteous, both wise and foolish virgin, their end will be a lake of Fire (Leviticus 23:16-21; Matthew 3:12; I Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).
Speaking through His prophets, God promised He would "RESTORE the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints" (Joel 2:25; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:19-21). This is the ministry of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, whose Message is the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16, which is the "midnight cry" heard and heeded by the wise and foolish virgin of Matthew 25:6 and confirmed by the heavenly Voice of Revelation 18:4. This Message is Christ the fullness of the Word "spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began" —"that which is perfect" or complete (Acts 3:21; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7). It separates Christ's tiny Flock from the hordes of the great whore of Rome and her Protestant harlot daughters, bringing her into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Genesis 49:10; Amos 3:3; Matthew 13:41; Ephesians 1:10; Romans 8:19; II Thessalonians 2:1).
The 'enmity' God placed between the seed of the righteous first and last Adams, and the unrighteous physical seed of Cain and the bastard-born spiritual children of the second Eve, whom Jesus calls "the mother of harlots and abominations on the earth," is extant. Christ's little Flock is marching toward heaven in the rapture, while Satan's mighty world-wide church is marching to Armageddon (Revelation 16:13-16; 17:14).
Revelation 1-3 prophesies the battle that commenced on the day of Pentecost between Christ in His people, and antichrist in his people. These trees that stood in the midst of the Garden have grown together, like Judas and Jesus, as brothers within the framework of the Christian church, so close as would almost deceive the very elect if it were possible. However this is the harvest time, each congregation is bearing the life of the seed that was planted and cannot hide its fruit. Satan's apostate big church is uniting with the apostate smaller churches in order to convert or kill Christ's little Flock. But after a brief and powerful demonstration of the Spirit — NOT a public display as it was in Pentecost — our little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus.
As Satan incarnate the beast in the garden of Eden and led the first Eve to death, when he is cast out of the heavenlies he will evict his demons and incarnate the man of sin, thereafter called the beast, who will lead his followers to perdition. Christ's purpose is to be fulfilled in His Bride. He is that Corn of Wheat that fell to the ground at Calvary in order to reproduce Himself in the many-membered spoken Word seed Bride.
When Jesus was on earth, Satan showed Him all the kingdoms and their glory in this end-time and said, "I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). Our Redeemer knew that once He overcame, and shed His blood for the redemption of those ordained for eternal Life, the inheritance forfeited by the first Adam would be His. Already the psalmist had said, "Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations" (Psalm 82:8; Revelation 11:15).
Of Christ's elect or Spiritual Seed, the apostle Paul wrote, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ — if so be that we suffer with Him, we may be also glorified together" (Romans 8:17). This will be fulfilled sooner than most (so-called) Christians dare imagine. We are privileged to live in the time when all the mysteries contained in the Holy Scriptures have been revealed, including the original sin in the garden of Eden. bb930112.htm
Homework: Please review But the Woman being deceived, was in the Transgression The Original Sin 2/3
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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