Bible Believers' Newsletter 641
"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, and welcome.
We are reviewing "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" Christ inspired to William Branham, the Prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 in March, 1963. If you are new to our fellowship we encourage you to review the series from Newsletter #627 to the present and invite you to request our free PowerPoint presentation, "The Second Coming of Christ".
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Obama moves away from 'Freedom of Religion' toward 'Freedom of Worship'?
July 19, 2010 — Since the initially strong language on religious freedom used in President Obama's Cairo speech, presidential references to religious freedom have become rare, often replaced, at most, with references to freedom of worship. A purposeful change in language could mean a much narrower view of the right to religious freedom. Does this change of language indicate a change of policy?
Language matters when it comes to defining freedoms and limits. A shift from freedom of religion to freedom of worship moves the dialog from the world stage into the physical confines of a church, temple, synagogue or mosque. Such limitations can unleash an unbridled initiative that we have only experienced in a mild way through actions determined to remove of roadside crosses, wearing of religious T-shirts and pro-life pins as well as any initiatives of evangelization. It also could exclude our right to raise our children in our faith, the right to religious education, literature or media, the right to raise funds or organize charitable activities and the right to express religious beliefs in the normal discourse of life. . . Full story: catholic.org
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Berg seeks Special Prosecutor to investigate Obama
July 16, 2010 — Former Pennsylvania Assistant Attorney General Philip Berg filed for a Petition for Rehearing En Banc under the False Claims Act of 1863 in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The filing is an appeal to Case 08-cv-01933RWR, stemming from Berg v Obama, 656 F.Supp. 2d 107 (D.D.C. 2009); order on June 9, 2009 dismissing Berg's case and a September 21, 2009 Memorandum and Order denying Relator's Motion for Reconsideration.
This Qui Tam case is based on the False Claims Act of 1863 (31 USC § 3729-3733 [generally referred to as the "Lincoln Law"] which allows people not affiliated with the government to file law suits against people who commit fraud against the government. Berg chose that filing because of the nature of the false claims which are affirmations by Barack Hussein Obama that he's a citizen of the United States even though he cannot, or will not, produce evidence that he is—since Berg believes Obama knows he's not. The basis of Berg's lawsuit is that a fraud was perpetuated on the People of the United States by Obama when he ran for, was elected to, and fraudulently held, the office of US Senator from Illinois. Berg pleads for and demands the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations of election fraud against Obama. The special prosecutor's job would be to determine whether or not grounds exist to prosecute the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for fraudulently representing himself as a citizen of the United States and seeking and holding political offices he could neither constitutionally seek nor hold. . . Full story: jonchristianryter.com
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The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom – Part III
New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship
July 5, 2010 — War, genocide, persecution and human degradation are directly the result of decisions made by those who control the apparatus of power, whether the power manifests itself as intellectual, ecclesiastical, spiritual, militaristic, or scientific. The most malevolent and ruthless power is that over the free human mind: if one controls how one thinks, they control the individual itself. The greatest human achievements are where individuals have broken free the shackles that bind the mind and let loose the inherent and undeniable power that lies in each and every individual on this small little planet. . .
Through all of human history, tyrants have used coercive force and terror to control populations. With the Technological Revolution, elites increasingly have the ability to control the very biology and psychology of the individual to a point where it may not be necessary to impose a system of terror, but rather where the control is implemented on a much deeper, psychological, subliminal and individual biological manner. While terror can prevent people from opposing power for a while, the scientific dictatorship can create a personal psycho-social condition in which the individual comes to love his or her own slavery; in which, like a mentally inferior pet, they are made to love their leaders and accept their servitude...
[Bertrand] Russell explains that eugenics plays a central feature in the construction of any world government scientific dictatorship, stating that, 'Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton'. . .
In a 1962 speech at UC Berkeley, Aldous Huxley [said] . . . if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they are living—the state of servitude—if you can do this, then you are likely to have a much more stable, a much more lasting society; much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs, and firing squads and concentration camps. . .
That inequality is derived from human biology—from genetics; it is a 'human fact.' It just so happens that elites who propagate this ideology, also happen to view the masses as intellectually inferior; thus, there can be no social equality in a world with a technological intellectual elite. So eugenics must be employed, as the UENSCO paper explains, to address the issues of raising human welfare to a manageable level; that the time will come where elites will need to address the whole of humanity as a single force, and with a single voice. Eugenics is about the social organization and control of humanity. Ultimately, eugenics is about the engineering of inequality. In genetics, elites found a way to take discrimination down to the DNA. . .
We seem to be increasingly unwilling to accept what we view as imperfection in ourselves and others. As health care costs skyrocket, we are coming to accept a bottom-line, cost-benefit analysis of human life. . . If gene or drug therapy is substituted for improving our workplace or school environments, our diets and our exercise practices, how close is this to eugenics? Significant social changes are expensive, however. If eugenics means making reproductive decisions primarily on the basis of social cost, then we are well on that road. . . Not only was the field of genetics born of eugenics, and heavily financed by the same monied-interests that seek social control; but so too was the field of population control. . . Population is seen as an environmental issue because the larger the population, the more resources it consumes and land it occupies. In this concept, the more people there are the worse the environment becomes. Thus, programs aimed at controlling population growth are often framed in an environmentalist lens. There is also a distinctly radical element in this field, which views population growth not simply as an environmental concern, but which frames people, in general, as a virus that must be eradicated if the earth is to survive. . .
'[Julian] Huxley believed that eugenics would one day be seen as the way forward for the human race,' and that, 'A catastrophic event may be needed for evolution to move at an accelerated pace. . ." Richard Tren, President of Africa Fighting Malaria, said that, 'In the 60 years since DDT was first introduced, not a single scientific paper has been able to replicate even one case of actual human harm from its use.' At the end of World War II, DDT was used on nearly every concentration camp survivor to prevent typhus, and the 'widespread use of DDT in Europe and the United States played vital roles in eradicating malaria and typhus on both continents.' Further, in 1979, a World Health Organization (WHO) review of DDT use could not find 'any possible adverse effects of DDT,' and said it was the 'safest pesticide used for residual spraying and vector control programs'. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca. (Related: Dysgenics or Eugenics)?
Comment: Restriction on the use of DDT is for the purpose of eugenics. The author presents the alternative of slavery to the power elite or freedom by human genius and works. But salvation does not lie in intellectual works and technology so either option means servitude to Rome and Satan, for the grace of God and the Word of His Prophet is denied.
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Agenda 21 Exposed
Now many of the goals and concepts behind 'sustainability' do not sound bad at all. Tyranny and government oppression is never marketed as such in the open—one always must have publicly admirable goals in order to justify any agenda that a regime is trying to promote. . .
The United States was founded on the principles of natural law codified in our Constitution, which formed and guaranteed a republican form of government. . . where the rule of law governs above the whims of mankind. Great philosophers such as John Locke saw that the sole purpose of civil government was the protection of private property from theft by larger groups of people. . . However, the creation of this supergang known as government created great dangers as well, and could be more harmful than any gang if it exercised arbitrary powers. That is why the founders established very limited powers to the central government . . . codified in the United States Constitution. . .
Democracy, on the other hand, is the rule of the majority, not the rule of law. The United States was not set up as a democracy as our founders despised democracy because it undermined the very reason for the foundation of civil government: the protection of private property. Benjamin Franklin said, 'Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.' In a democracy, if 51% of the people vote to steal from 49% of the people, they can do so (and regularly do). . . While our elected officials are elected in a democratic fashion, they are constrained by the rule of law—the United States Constitution, which gives them limited powers to violate the private property rights of others. . .
Unfortunately, our republic is being destroyed. Individual rights, as guaranteed by the United States Constitution, are being mocked and dismissed by our public school system. Instead of teaching the true history and intent of our country’s Founders, public education has become the most useful tool to justify corrupt Supreme Court decisions which ignore the framer's intent, and treat the document as a living, breathing entity which can be changed at will by the same government it is supposed to be constraining. . .
In order to get people to give up their natural rights, you have to redirect their focus on something greater than themselves. . . The Report from Iron Mountain . . . discussed the challenge of controlling the masses in times of peace. The answer involved creating a series of new wars against ideas, instead of actual nation-states . . . The most intriguing idea generated in the report was the ability to mobilize people to confront an environmental crisis by convincing them that if they did not act in submission to their government in support of these goals they risked their own lives and the lives of future generations. Such language pervades UN Agenda 21. In the Report from Iron Mountain they even suggest deliberately polluting the environment or making up a fake crisis in order for people to submit to a more powerful government. . .
Why would multinational corporations be promoting sustainable development? Believe it or not, they are the biggest beneficiaries of enhanced government powers, because they most directly control the government through the big money campaign contributions to elect these officials. Did you ever wonder why members of both political parties were rushing to bail out Goldman Sachs, when 90%-plus of the population were against it? Follow the money. . .
Socialism is the lie spoon-fed to the masses, like the ideals of democracy, sustainability, and manmade climate change, to get people to go along with the corporatist takeover of their property rights. This is what we are fighting. It is 'We the People', as individuals and small business owners, against global multinational corporations who promote the sustainability agenda to increase control and corporate profits, making the average person dependent on these same corporations and the state itself. Full story: agenda21isevil.com. Watch "Agenda 21 for Dummies Depopulation," and "NWO Depopulation Plans Exposed, Agenda 21 Club of Rome EnvironMentalism".
Comment: Democracy is not possible in a party political system because banksters control political parties, and usurers are the enemy of God and man. "The mystery of lawlessness is already working" imposing Hegelian sham democratic government on the nations by colonial troops of the 'City of London'.
The neo-Malthusian "climate change" hoax foisted upon the US Government in the Club of Rome's 1972 tract, "The Limits to Growth," was followed in 1980 by the CFR, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, and Rothschild-controlled IMF as the "Global 2000 Report to the President," and "Global Future: A Time to Act" goes back at least to H. G. Wells (1866-1946). These plots for global depopulation and "Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace" feature in previous Newsletters and Teachings.
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Iranian Scientist offered $50 Million by CIA and Mossad to Lie to YOU about Iranian Threat
July 15, 2010 — Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, 32, claimed he had been offered $50 million by the US to remain in America and 'spread lies' about Iran's nuclear work. He repeated that he was kidnapped in 2009 when on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and taken to the US. The scientist also said Israeli agents were involved in interrogating him. . . 'Americans wanted me to say that I defected to America of my own will to use me for revealing some false information about Iran's nuclear work,' Amiri told reporters at Tehran's International Imam Khomeini Airport. 'I was under intensive psychological pressure by CIA. . . the main aim of this abduction was to stage a new political and psychological game against Iran. . . Israeli agents were present at some of my interrogation sessions and I was threatened to be handed over to Israel if I refused to cooperate with Americans'. Full story: sott.net
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Netanyahu: U.S. Easily Manipulated
July 17, 2010 — A recently-revealed tape has shown Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, discussing ways to undermine the Oslo Accords and calling the United States "easy" to manipulate.
The video was filmed in 2001, apparently without Netanyahu's knowledge, during a meeting with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. It aired on Friday night on Israel's Channel 10. "I know what America is," Netanyahu said. "America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in the way."
Netanyahu also spoke extensively about undermining the Oslo Accords, the agreement signed in 1993 which set a framework for future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. . . Full story: aljazeera.net. Be sure to follow the links and watch the video mondoweiss.net which has English subtitles. What is clear from the Ben-gurion Scandals—How the Hagannah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews is the racialist hatred of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic Zionist Jewry toward the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Genesis 3:15), particularly those in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and other parts of the ancient Assyrian empire, expressed through puppet colonies of 'their City of London,' mainly Britain and the USA. This file also contains some impossible propaganda. It is interesting to add that the US Flag appears to be patterned after the flag of the City's British East India Company.
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Two State Hypocrisy
Quoting Genesis 12:3, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curses thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed," a minister wrote: How blind and stupid are America's leaders. According to our "pulpiteers," America can only be blessed by helping the bandit "Israelis" whom they call Israel?
If Israelis are the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Israel, why does the United States lead the world in the number of prisons; more natural disasters in last 15 years than in all the previous years combined; the largest debtor nation in the world, a dumbed-down educational system, (relative recent survey showed America ranked 47th in world in education, especially in areas of math and science), a bankrupt economic system existing only by use of fiat money which will eventually entirely collapse, another generation of lost insecure youth addicted to recreational drugs, a "mad" society (more people today taking "meds" that do not benefit the psyches of the desperate souls addicted to this toxic type approach in their efforts to obtain mental health).
This doesn't appear to me to be the characteristics of a "blessed" nation, especially so in the last few decades.
". . . The current argument for creating two states is simply another attempt to carve out a Jewish state, called Israel, where Jews have by law superior rights to non-Jews. It involves ethnic cleansing, segregation, and racism; it is definitely not a formula for lasting peace.
American support of a racist, apartheid state is contrary to what we Americans profess to believe. . . Americans claim to endorse equal rights of citizenship everywhere in the world, except Israel". Full story: Daniel McGowan, Professor Emeritus at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, executive director of Deir Yassin Remembered, an organization seeking to build a memorial in Deir Yassin, a former Palestinian-Arab village near Jerusalem, to commemorate a massacre there on April 9, 1948, in which 107 villagers were killed by forces from the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary groups).
Comment: An astute observation. Non-Semitic so-called Israelis are the sworn enemy of the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (See Genesis 27:39-41; Jewish Encyclopedias, Josephus and contemporary historians). Goes to show the churches are apostate and cannot be led by the Holy Spirit. No wonder, for the past 47 years, Christ has been calling the wise and foolish virgin OUT from Rome and her once Protestant harlot daughter churches (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4).
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The Rothschild's Demon in Israel
An evil force has been put into place in Jerusalem and has spread throughout Israel, in preparation for . . . the seat of the anti-Christ. For if we are to believe that the anti-Christ is to have his seat on the Temple Mount, then we must come to grips with some truths not being preached today.
The non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews are pawns manipulated by their kinsmen in Satan's end-game mastered by the Talmudic subterfuge of the followers of Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank, most notably Rothschilds who would be kings of this world and to whom one may trace the modern Illuminati, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, RothIsm, Zionism, Communism, Nazism, and the anti-Semitic state of racist, Marxist Israel.
After the close of the Gentile dispensation "The Lord shall extend His hand yet a second time to recover the remnant of blood Israelites [not Jews]" (Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 3; Romans 8:28-33; 11:25-31). Full story: thephora.net
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Planetary Triple Play makes Special Appearance Venus, Saturn and Mars will be visible after Sunset in Western Sky
June 2, 2010 — If you live in the northern hemisphere, go out any night this week an hour or so after sunset and look at the western sky to catch a planetary triple play starring Venus, Saturn and Mars. . . The first thing skywatchers will see—weather permitting—is the brilliant planet Venus, slightly north of west, in the constellation Gemini. Look for Gemini's twin first magnitude stars, Pollux and Castor, just above Venus. As the sky gets darker, the planet Mars can be spotted to Venus' left as it appears in the constellation Leo very close to the bright, first magnitude star Regulus. Further still to the left will be Saturn shining in the western part of the constellation Virgo. . . in the first week of August, the planets will be crowded into a 7-degree angle, and Mars will now be to the left of Saturn in Virgo. Venus, too, will have moved into Virgo. Full story: msnbc.msn.com
Comment: Apologies for this late posting. Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. To the naked eye it will look as large as the full Moon. This will culminate on August 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off Earth. Be sure to watch the sky on August 27 at 1230hrs. It will look like the Earth has two Moons.
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The Third Seal
I John 5:7-8, "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, [Christ] the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are One. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one [live birth]".
Modern Pentecostals are the Laodiceans—materially rich and in need of nothing, but for all their exuberant joy and confusion of tongues they are Spiritually bankrupt, naked of the Blood, and blind to the apostolic faith, as prophesied by our Lord Jesus. Laodicea means "people's rights," or communism, and today at the end of the Gentile dispensation of grace, our world, overshadowed and oppressed by the spirit of Laodicea, is on the cusp of the lawless age of Aquarius. Soon that lawless one, exposed to us through the revelation of the Seven Seals, will be revealed to the world, coming as Satan's man with great power, pretended signs and lying wonders, deceiving those who are to perish under the strong delusion of revival and reformation of church and state (II Thessalonians 2:8-12).
The Pentecostal Message of the baptism with the Holy Spirit completed the reformation of the Roman Catholic system of false worship begun by justification by grace through faith in the Sardis Church Age and complimented by sanctification in the Philadelphian Church Age. So when the Message to Laodicea baptized the last member of the Body predestinated to be born-again of PART-Word, Christ's mediation was fulfilled. And when the Laodiceans rejected "the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave Him [after His ascension] to show to His servants things which must shortly come to pass and which Jesus sent and signified by His angel [William Branham] to His servant John," they put Christ outside the church(Revelation 1:1; 3:20).
A different measure of Spirit-quickened Word was allotted to each Church Age. So long as the Bible was sealed, Christ received the Word for the Age and interceded for the ignorant errors of His elect so that the Laodicean saints were justified, sanctified and baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Prophet explained, "You can be sanctified without being justified, and you can be justified without being sanctified. You can be sanctified without receiving the Holy Ghost. It's exactly. The disciples in John 17:17 was sanctified and given power to cast out devils and still didn't have the Holy Ghost. See? Sure. Had to go up to Pentecost and wait till the Holy Ghost come. That's where Judas showed his colours. See how that spirit worked its way through justification and sanctification, but when it come to the end, he showed his colour. (See)? That's right" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 251:9).
The Reformation ended before the revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963 so when Christ descended with the open Book He swore by Himself that there should be "time no longer" (Revelation 10:1-6): judgment would not be delayed by further intercession. Thus, despite their noble intentions, nothing will be accomplished by those seeking to impeach Marxist usurpers such as president Obama and Australia's Prime Minister Gillard (against whom charges of treason have been brought), or pleading II Chronicles 7:14, because the Lord is about to smite the Earth with a curse by casting down Satan to incarnate "the [papal] lawless one, that man of sin, the son of perdition" (Malachi 4:6; II Thessalonians 2:3, 8; Revelation 12:7-13).
Because the Bible was sealed with Seven Seals the focus of ministry throughout the Church Ages was the justification of those predestined to be born-again of PART-Word through Christ's mediation, so when the last Laodicean saint was born-again the first three chapters of Revelation and Christ's mediatorial work were fulfilled. Redemption was over because His end-time Bride and the 144,000 elect Israelites are predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word, thus we were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary and do not require mediation. We are born of the unadulterated faith once delivered to the apostolic saints plus the mysteries of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10, which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals, while Israel will be born-again through the revelation of their Seven Trumpet mysteries. Thus the focus of ministry today is redemption revealed—how Christ has redeemed His Bride in each Age, and who they are.
'Judas showed his colours' by not going up to Pentecost to receive the Holy Ghost; and in rejecting this end-time Message the world church system is "crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh, and exposing Him to open shame" (Hebrews 6:6; Revelation 3:17-20). We are not living in the days of the Reformation of the Roman Catholic system of worship, but in the time of the restoration of "the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints" and the capping of the pyramid of the stature of the perfect Man with the perfect interpretation of the Word with Divine vindication (Jude 1:3; Malachi 4:5-6; Revelation 10:1-11; Romans 8:19; Ephesians 4:13).
Like the apostate Hebrew denominations, the Gentile denominations by their traditions have made the Word of God of no effect to their congregations, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:1-9). This is why there are no denominational revivals, and why, as Brother Branham said when delivering the Third Seal, "The Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it. He promised it" (ibid, p. 253:3). And about a decade later the revelation gradually began to open to the believers.
Brother Branham placed great emphasis on the simplicity of God in the second or 'parousia' Coming of the Lord "as a thief in the night" to waken the wise and foolish virgin and steal His Bride away to the Wedding Supper in the Air. He explained how this Coming, although universal, would be in such a simple manner that only an election would recognize it through believing and understanding (not believing and memorizing) the simple Message of the humble prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7. And that although he would be thoroughly vindicated by the same signs that identified Jesus as God's Messiah, he would be rejected by denominational people whose absolute was their traditions and not God's Holy Bible.
"Now, it didn't say He'd secretly come, but the rapture will be a secret. So if that was so secret when He come [the first time], how much more will the rapture be unknown. See? Directly they'll say, "Well, I thought we were supposed to have a rapture and all this judgment upon the earth." He said, "It's already taken place, and you didn't know it" (ibid, p. 238:5).
Jesus chose seventy ministers and sent them forth in pairs "as lambs among wolves" to forerun His campaign. They returned rejoicing that even demons were subject to them in His Name, but when He shared the revelation of His Message they were unable to receive it, and like the Pentecostals, "walked with Him no more" (Luke 10:1-23; John 6:53-67). The 'second pull' of Brother Branham's ministry was the Messianic sign of Hebrews 13:8, "discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart," (Luke 17:28-30). This is how he described a breakfast meeting where he was invited to address the Greater Ministerial Association of Chicago:
"Look in Chicago, greater Chicago, when them three hundred preachers setting there. . . The Lord told me that night what they was going to do. They had a trap set for me. And I went and told Brother Carlson; I said, "You'll not have it in that hotel. You'll have to take it to another place, and it'd be a green room.
And I said, "They got a trap set for me. Why, Brother Carlson? Are you afraid to tell me why, you and Tommy Hicks?" They dropped their head. I said, "Tommy, why don't you go speak?"
Said, "I couldn't do it."
I said, "I thought you said you'd do me a favor." I said, "Last night the Lord told me, 'You're going down there today, and you find out you're not going to get that building. You're going to another building. Dr. Mead will be setting on this side, that colored man and his wife that sings will be setting right here and so forth, where they'll all be setting. There'd be a Buddha priest there." And I said, "Now, find out. They got it against me because I preach the water baptism in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. They got it against me because I preach the Serpent's seed, and against the evidence that every man speaks with tongues has got the Holy Ghost and things." I said, "Come down and watch God."
Sometime that afternoon, they called up Brother Carlson and he said. The guy that let him have that and paid a down-payment on it said, "We have to cancel, because the manager said he'd already promised it to a band for that morning."
And they couldn't have it. So we went out to the Town and Country. And Brother Carlson said, "There's one thing, you brethren might disagree with Brother Branham, but he's not scared to say what he believes. He told me these things would happen just exactly the way they are. Now, here he is. Let him speak for hisself."
I just took the Scripture, "I'm not disobedient to the heavenly vision," as Paul said. I said, "You've got it in for me for water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ. Better than three hundred of you introduced yourself as Doctor So-and-so and Doctor So-and-so." I said, "I haven't even got a grammar school education, but I challenge any man here to bring your Bible. That was the quietest crowd you ever heard. I said, "What's the matter, if you can't support it, then keep off of my back." That's right. A lot of howling when they're around the corner, but come face to face with the issue it's different. That's right.
Them men went out. Tommy Hicks said, "I want three hundred of those tapes to send to every trinitarian preacher I know of." Them men shaking my hands said, "We'll come down to the Tabernacle and be baptized over." Where they at? Excuses. "I can't do it; my denomination won't let me do it." "I married a wife." "I bought a yoke of ox, I bought a piece of ground; I got to go look at it." See? Some of those things like. . . Excuses, is that right? Is that life worthy of the Gospel? If the Gospel's right, let's sell out everything we've got and live for it. Be a Christian. Yes, sir. Amen. Notice now as we close.
[Seventy ministers asked to be rebaptized in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and not one of them followed through on his commitment to Christ].
But their excuses is their creeds and their denominations. It's like a tree. I was looking at Brother Banks the other day. I had a pine tree I planted when I first moved up there about, oh, about fifteen years ago or better. And I let the branches grow out on the pine tree, and we couldn't get the mower back under there. And there wasn't a sprig of grass anyhow. And I went out there and took a saw, and sawed them limbs off until that pine tree was way up here where you could walk under it with a mower; and the prettiest bunch of grass you ever seen is under it now. What was it? The seed was there. It had to get the light. See, see?
And as long as the denomination, your excuses, try to shadow that seed that you know actually lays there, you're taking the part of Lot. Throw them things away and let the Gospel Light shine in upon there, the power of Jesus Christ. Yes. Keeping the Light off of it will keep it from living, for if the Light ever gets to it, it will spring forth to Life. That's the reason the people say, "Don't go to some of them kind of meetings." They're afraid some of the Light will strike one of their members" (Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel, p. 47:232-239).
Revelation 6:5-6, "When the Lamb had opened the Third Seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I looked and saw a black horse; and he who sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a Voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine".
The third living creature guarding the way into the Presence by the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a cherub with the face of a man, which in the New Testament was Dr. Luke's Gospel, and the Voice was the Holy Spirit, Christ, on the Throne. Man is the most intelligent of all creatures, and under the Third Seal God raised up godly men of supreme intelligence: great scholars and teachers full of the Holy Spirit who became the reformers of the Roman Catholic system of false worship following her violent and bloody excesses of the Dark Ages which were not completely put down until the mid-nineteenth century. Neither before nor since has the Lord raised such highly gifted Christian savants. Under this Seal, Lucifer added demonic power to the spiritual and political power he gained over mankind riding his white and red-coloured horses. The Third Seal covers the Sardis (1520-1750) and Philadelphia (1750-1906) Church Ages, the ministry of whose angels, Martin Luther and John Wesley turned Satan's world upside down. Luther's main Message smote Satan's Roman church a mortal blow from which she has never recovered. He is best known for restoring the foundational doctrine of the Bible, "justification by grace through faith" alone, against Rome's wicked dogma of "earning righteousness by works," which is to make God man's debtor. If human works can justify a man before the Lord, Christ died in vain. Hebrews 11:6, "Without faith it is impossible to please God: for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."
The virtues manifest in the saints born under the Third Seal confirm Zechariah 4:6-7, that the Church of the Living God overcomes not by works of human might nor power but by grace through faith in God's Spirit. Thus while Satan unleashed the demonic force of his Roman Catholic false church, which Jesus called "the synagogue of Satan," the token of the Life of Christ in the elect of the Sardis Age (1520-1750) manifest in "patience." In the Philadelphia Age (1750-1906), his demonic forces wrought a century of revolution throughout Europe and in the United States as weak rulers lost confidence in themselves and yielded to various demands from their rivals. Such compromises by rulers, or rapidly improving social conditions create a revolution of rising expectations, and if changes fail to keep pace with expectations, the people lose faith in their rulers and succumb to the allurements of revolutionary leaders.
The Industrial Revolution in the Philadelphian Church Age changed the basic nature of Western society from rural to cold and impersonal urban life, where most lived and worked under harsh conditions. The close relationships between employers, who felt some responsibility for their workers became impossible in the large factories. Most factory workers were desperately poor and illiterate, and migration from rural areas caused severe overcrowding in extremely unsanitary conditions that led to outbreaks of disease. Moral conditions deteriorated to ungodliness, encouraging theft, drunkenness, prostitution, infidelity, an explosion of illegitimate births, infanticide, and "rebellion, which is the sin of witchcraft" (I Samuel 15:23).
Mammon became god and in time the export of capital by the banksters of the 'City of London' to finance importers in other countries, mines and plantations, construction of railways and the export of locomotives and rolling stock, became far more important than the export of British manufactures, until today their demonic power of usury has overcome the governments in every nation; if not by the declining quality of character and leadership, then by bloody rebellion.
Although Sunday schools have existed since the 1500s, the present-day Sunday school movement started in Gloucester, England, by the publisher Robert Raikes when in 1780 he launched his "Ragged school." He sought to aid the children of the poor in his community both Spiritually and socially by teaching them reading, writing, and inculcating Christian principles. The great missionary age of Philadelphia spread Sunday schools to all parts of the world.
In contrast to the conditions prevailing throughout the Philadelphian Church Age, the virtue of the saints of this Age was "godliness." John Wesley's Message added the revelation of Sanctification or Scriptural holiness to Luther's Message of Justification. What a contrast to Roman Catholicism, which Jesus foresaw as a "woman arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a Name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [In contrast to Israel's high priest who bore "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD" on his forehead]. And the woman was drunken with the blood of the saints, even with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when John the Divine saw her, he was incredulous."
During his lifetime Wesley could have acquired vast wealth; but he did not. His favorite saying on the subject of money was, "Get all you can, save all you can, and give all you can." How strange it would be for Wesley to come back and see the denomination that bears the name of Methodist today. They are rich—vastly rich. But the life and power of John Wesley is missing. Wesley never did desire to build a work upon a denominational or sectarian basis. Though he was an Armenian in his beliefs, he did not want to separate himself from brethren on the grounds of doctrine. He was a good candidate for James: He based his eternal life on faith and works, or the living of the life—for works is faith expressed—rather than simply accepting a creed or a doctrinal statement. John Wesley died at the age of 88 having served God as few men would dare to even think they might, and in his Age missionaries delivered the Gospel throughout the world.
To bring the Words of I Kings 18:21 into the context of the New Testament, "Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long will you limp between two opinions? if the Lord is God, follow him: but if the Baal, then follow the Roman Catholic church and her (once) Protestant harlot daughters." See Matthew 25:1-13 and Revelation 18:1-4.
Having ridden through rivers of human blood, Satan changed to a black horse which signifies the Dark Ages in which he separated the people and kings from their wealth. Wheat and barley are the staff of natural life, whereas Jesus is the Bread of Spiritual Life through prayer and "the foolishness of preaching the whole counsel of God." The Roman Catholic church was charging for prayer (mass), and Novenas. (A nine days' private or public devotion in the Catholic Church to obtain special graces). The novena is permitted and even recommended by ecclesiastical authority, but still has no proper and fully set place in the liturgy of the Church. It has, however, more and more been prized and utilized by the faithful. Four kinds of novenas can be distinguished: novenas of mourning, of preparation, of prayer, and the indulgenced novenas (the extra-sacramental remission of the temporal punishment due, in God's justice, to sin that has been forgiven, which remission is granted by the Church in the exercise of the power of the keys, through the application of the superabundant merits of Christ and of the saints, and for some just and reasonable motive), though this distinction is not exclusive). Now you know where to obtain release from the mythical purgatory for real money.
This is a Satanic money racket, for Jesus Christ "is the expiation for our sins; and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world" (I John 2:2). But Roman Catholics, being unbelievers do not accept Him as "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29; Isaiah 53:5), and pay their church which can neither forgive nor forget sins.
In 1517, a "Dominican monk, named John Diezel, or Tetzel, the son of a goldsmith of Leipsic" declared: "Indulgences avail not only for the living but for the dead." Pope Boniface VIII had enacted this doctrine two centuries before; but, [Jewish] Pope Leo X [known as Leo the Khazar] was now using it and Tetzel to restore the empty coffers of the Vatican. And, Tetzel went on to make particular application of the dogma of indulgences. "Priest, noble, merchant, wife, youth, maiden, do you not hear your parents and your other friends who are dead, and who cry from the bottom of the abyss: 'We are suffering horrible torments! A trifling alms would deliver us; you can give it, and you will not?'"
Tetzel then delivered these chilling words. "At the very instant that the money rattles at the bottom of the chest, the soul escapes from purgatory, and flies liberated to heaven. Now you can ransom so many souls, stiff-necked and thoughtless man; with twelve groats you can deliver your father from purgatory, and you are ungrateful enough not to save him! I shall be justified in the Day of Judgment; but you—you will be punished so much the more severely for having neglected so great salvation. I declare to you, though you have but a single coat, you ought to strip it off and sell it, in order to obtain this grace. . . The Lord our God no longer reigns, he has resigned all power to the Pope" (J.A. Wylie, History of Protestantism, Volume 1, Book 5, Chapter 8, p. 400-402).
II Peter 2:3, "Motivated by greed, they will exploit you with false words: from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep".
These indulgences were sold by Tetzel in the form of a letter: "May our Lord Jesus Christ have pity on thee, N. N., and absolve thee by the merits of His most holy passion. And I, by virtue of the apostolic power which has been confided to me, do absolve thee from all ecclesiastical censures, judgments, and penalties which thou mayest have merited, and from all excesses, sins, and crimes which thou mayest have committed, however great or enormous they may be, and for whatsoever cause, even though they had been reserved to our most Holy Father the Pope and the Apostolic See. I efface all attainders of unfitness and all marks of infamy thou mayest have drawn on thee on this occasion; I remit the punishment thou shouldest have had to endure in purgatory; I make thee anew a participator in the Sacraments of the Church; I incorporate thee afresh in the communion of the saints; and I reinstate thee in the innocence and purity in which thou wast at the hour of thy baptism; so that, at the hour of thy death, the gate through which is the entrance to the place of torments and punishments shall be closed against thee, and that which leads to the Paradise of joy shall be open. And shouldest thou be spared long, this grace shall remain immutable to the time of thy last end. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. . . Brother John Tetzel, Commissioner, has signed it with his own hand" (ibid, p. 403-404).
At that time, Luther was a university professor, preacher, and confessor; since he still ignorantly held allegiance to the Church of Rome. "One day, as he sat in the confessional, some citizens of Wittemberg came before him, and confessed having committed thefts, adulteries, and other heinous sins. 'You must abandon your evil courses,' said Luther, 'otherwise I cannot absolve you.' To his surprise and grief, they replied that they had no thought of leaving off their sins; that this was not in the least necessary, inasmuch as these sins were already pardoned, and they themselves secured against the punishment of them. The deluded people would thereupon pull out the indulgence papers of Tetzel, and show them in testimony of their innocence. Luther could only tell them that these papers were worthless, that they must repent, and be forgiven of God, otherwise they should perish everlastingly" (ibid, Chapter 9, p. 408).
These dupes of Rome had actually purchased indulgences for uncommitted sins they lusted to commit in the future. Luther differed more widely with the Church of Rome than he was aware of. He wrote, "The Papacy is a general chase led by the Roman bishop to catch and destroy souls" (The Babylonish Captivity of the Church).
Oil typifies the Holy Spirit (Leviticus 8:12; Zechariah 4:12; Matthew 25:3-12), whereas wine symbolizes the stimulation of Spiritual revelation with joy and song and reverence as the fermented fruit of the vine excites the mortal spirit. If the stimulation is generated by true revelation, it must be THUS SAITH THE LORD according to the written Word from Genesis to Revelation. I have been in churches where the congregation spoke and sang in the Spirit, but rejected the revelation of water baptism when it was presented to them. I was told "The Word divides, while the spirit unites," yet God's Word is Spirit in a form we can receive by faith (Romans 10:14-17). In another church the congregation were so stimulated they were running round and around the aisles, yet the pastor was a felon and not in the faith. Other churches build doctrine by adding quote upon quote to justify polygamy and replacement rather than redemption of souls. Others actually divided the Seven Thunders, nominating seven ministers to evoke the seven virtues of II Peter 1:1-8. Still others look forward to the return of God's prophet to preach a campaign of tent meetings, while one actually purchased an aeroplane and hired a pilot (since deceased) to fly the resurrected prophet around the world gathering the saints for a hardly secret rapture. Without exception these people were "stimulated" by "a zeal of God . . . but not according to knowledge" (Romans 10:2).
On the day of Pentecost God fulfilled Joel 2:28 by pouring out His Spirit upon those in the upper room, and subsequently upon thousands who gathered to hear the new-born saints (Acts 2). This was the vindication of Isaiah 28:11-12, "With stammering lips and another tongue will God speak to this people, to whom He said, This is the rest you shall give to the weary, and this is the refreshing. Yet they would not listen." This is confirmed in Acts 3:19, "Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the Presence of the Lord".
Isaiah was prophesying the "Place of God's rest," which is in Christ (Isaiah 66:1). "This is the rest [or true sabbath] and this is the refreshing with stammering lips and another tongue"—not a drunken surfeit of the grape, or glossalalia—but the "former rain" regenerating and refreshing the soul with an outpouring of the "new wine" of His Spirit. The Bible does not imply that on the day of Pentecost the new-born saints spoke to the assembled multitude in unknown tongues. They spoke in their native Galilean and "every man heard them speak in his own language" (Acts 2:6).
A sister wrote after her pastor "preached on the Holy Spirit and said many good things. I still have a question about what Brother Branham called the "true Baptism of the Holy Spirit" So many people profess it in several different ways. Some think you need to speak in tongues, others say you need to "feel" something, others say you only believe this Message of truth, but I see no real manifesting of what Jesus Christ did no matter what others say".
Brother Branham said, One of the mysteries that the angel to the Seventh Church Age is supposed to wind up is "The mystery of the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation, but the Person of Christ performing in you the same works that He did" (Is This the Sign of the End-Time Sir, p. 32:1). And whenever he used the expression, "the true Baptism of the Holy Spirit," He pointed to our coming under preeminence to the revealed Word of God. This was how the Reformers were correcting the Church under the Third Seal.
Jesus said, "This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29). And in Brother Branham's Message, Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed, to which every one of his sermons point, he explained God's threefold purpose is:
to express the fullness of Himself bodily in Jesus Christ
to have the preeminence by Jesus Christ in His Body of believers
to restore that which was lost to Eden.
The evidence of the true baptism with the Holy Spirit, which is the new birth, is that by your clear revelation of the Message of the angel to your dispensation your life becomes an epistle of his Message, known and read by all men. The Message of this day will not reflect the PART-Word Message of any of the seven Church Age Messengers—Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley, or William Branham, but the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ, the fullness of the Word whom Brother Branham introduced (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7).
The Body of Christ is Spiritually redeemed or born-again under the first Four Seals of the Book of Revelation, and physically redeemed under the Seventh Seal. Concerning the Third Seal, Jesus said, "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" (Matthew 24:7). And between 1520 and 1906 there were scores of wars and revolutions as you may see in this list or wars. Major famines over this time killed tens of millions of Chinese and Indians, and about 750,000 potato-eating Irish. Influenza, cholera, typhus, dysentery, tuberculosis, scurvy, small pox and bubonic plague were common in England and Europe under the Third Seal. The 1,390,000 lives lost in major earthquakes over this period are not many more than the death toll in one or two years today in the latter end of the Fourth Seal. nl641.htm
Please read: The Third Seal.
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The Second Seal
Bible Believers' Newsletter 640
"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 appreciate your fellowship.
In this issue our Brother Boyd Reneau writes on the Second Seal based upon the revelation unfolded by our Lord Jesus Christ to Brother Branham with observations pertaining to our generation.
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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Solar Eclipse complete – Earthquakes will follow
July 12, 2010 — Earth Changes researcher Mitch Battros claims the slow release of oil from under the continental shelf [in the Gulf of Mexico] must accelerate the threatened earthquakes at the Andreas Fault and in the Yellowstone National Park calderon. "I predict increased earthquake and volcanic activity to occur over the next 14 days. The events I am speaking of will be large to mega events causing high fatalities and significant damage. I would suggest the areas of most interest would be Bay of Bengal, Baja California, Mexico, Puerto Rico Region, Japan Region, and Mediterranean Region."
"History shows at almost all full solar eclipse events, large earth changing events occur within 14 days prior to, and 14 days after the eclipse. Although last night's 6.2 earthquake which hit Chile could be considered large and significant; it is not the one I am predicting for this current 14-day window. The one expected [following the July 11, 2010] Total Solar Eclipse will be a magnitude 7.0 or larger. . ." Full story: Earth Changes Media (available only to subscribers).
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Southern California Faults feeling Pressure
July 10, 2010 — Seismologists are increasingly concerned that the 7.2 Mexicali temblor on April 4 placed more pressure on faults around the Southland, resulting in increased quake activity over the last three months. . . "The probability of a larger earthquake on those faults could be high within the next year or two," said John Rundle, a professor of physics and geology at UC Davis.
Rundle said the aftermath of the Mexicali quake is turning out to be significantly different from the aftermath of the two other large temblors to hit Southern California in the last two decades. Both the 7.3 Landers quake in 1992 and the 7.1 Hector Mine quake in 1999 in the Mojave Desert resulted in aftershocks that dissipated relatively quickly. By contrast, the Mexicali quake has been followed by aftershocks and "triggered earthquakes" that are showing no signs of ending. . . Full story: latimes.com
A big sinkhole at a condominium complex in Florida opened up Sunday morning near Tampa and claimed a Toyota Camry, pulling it down beneath its shifting sands. Another sinkhole swallowed a car near St. Louis on July 5.
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Central Banks dumping Gold at a Torrid Pace
July 7, 2010 — Central banks are pawning their gold to the Bank for International Settlements at a record rate, taking advantage of the precious metal's historically high value to raise cash.
A little-noticed data point at the back of a 216-page report released last week by the BIS shows the international agency has taken 349 metric tons of gold since December—allowing central banks to raise a record $14 billion.
The number surprised the market, which had assumed most central banks had retained their holdings of gold. Instead, the BIS data show that they have been entering these gold swaps—exchanging their gold with the BIS in return for cash, agreeing to repurchase the gold at a later date. Full story: wsj.com
Comment: As the article notes, this has been going on for awhile, and these transactions don't directly impact the open gold market, as it's not as though this is gold just flooding the market. . . The bottom line is that central banks still want flexibility, even if that means potentially-debased "paper" currencies.
The BIS is Rothschild-controlled. Rothschilds are banksters to the Vatican. When the US dollar fails and gold skyrockets in value this activity will bankrupt the (Rothschild-controlled) central banks and the nations they pretend to serve.
Brother Branham said, "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 [Revelation 13:15-18]. 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".
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The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff
November 11, 2009 — Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), BP (BP), Total (TOT), Shell (RDS.A), Deutsche Bank (DB) and Societe Generale (SCGLY.PK) founded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000. ICE is an online commodities and futures marketplace. It is outside the US and operates free from the constraints of US laws. The exchange was set up to facilitate "dark pool" trading in the commodities markets. Billions of dollars are being placed on oil futures contracts at the ICE and the beauty of this scam is that they NEVER take delivery, per se. They just ratchet up the price with leveraged speculation using your TARP money. This year alone they ratcheted up the global cost of oil from $40 to $80 per barrel.
A Congressional investigation into energy trading in 2003 discovered that ICE was being used to facilitate "round-trip" trades. "Round-trip" trades occur when one firm sells energy to another and then the second firm simultaneously sells the same amount of energy back to the first company at exactly the same price. No commodity ever changes hands. But when done on an exchange, these transactions send a price signal to the market and they artificially boost revenue for the company. This is nothing more than a massive fraud, pure and simple.
This is how the geniuses on Wall Street earn their big bonuses—they steal it. . . "It appears clear that BP and Goldman Sachs have been working collaboratively—at least at a strategic level—for maybe 15 years now. Their trading strategy has evolved over time as the global market has . . . become ever more financialised. . ." Full story: seekingalpha.com
Comment: In Newsletter #639 we reported how Goldman gambled on starvation. And don't miss This!
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian and professor of political science at Haifa University wrote: On a cold Wednesday afternoon, 10 March 1948, a group of eleven men, veteran Zionist leaders together with young military Jewish officers, put the final touches on a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (1). That same evening, military orders were dispatched to units on the ground to prepare for the systematic expulsion of Palestinians from vast areas of the country (2). The orders came with a detailed description of the methods to be used to forcibly evict the people: large-scale intimidation; laying siege to and bombarding villages and population centers; setting fire to homes, properties, and goods; expelling residents; demolishing homes; and, finally, planting mines in the rubble to prevent the expelled inhabitants from returning. Each unit was issued its own list of villages and neighborhoods to target in keeping with the master plan. Code-named Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), this was the fourth and final version of vaguer plans outlining the fate that was in store for the native population of Palestine (3). The previous three plans had articulated only obscurely how the Zionist leadership intended to deal with the presence of so many Palestinians on the land the Jewish national movement wanted for itself. This fourth and last blueprint spelled it out clearly and unambiguously: the Palestinians had to go. . .
Full story: ambient-palestine.blogspot.com
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International Conference on Gaza: Breaking the Siege
July 11, 2010 — We are dealing with a carefully planned military operation. The Israeli Navy Commando which attacked the Marvi Marmara on May 31st had prior knowledge of who was on the Turkish ship including where passengers were residing in terms of cabin layout. According to Swedish author Henning Mankell, who was on board the Marvi Marmara, "the Israeli forces attacked sleeping civilians." Specific individuals were targeted. . . "We were witnesses to premeditated murders. . ." The killing of civilians is intended to trigger a response by Palestinian resistance forces, which in turn justifies Israeli retaliation (on "humanitarian" grounds) as well as a process of military escalation. . . There are indications that the US was consulted at the highest levels regarding the nature of the military operation directed against the flotilla. Moreover, in the wake of the attacks, both the US and the UK unequivocally reaffirmed their support to Israel.
The actions of Israel against the Freedom Flotilla have important ramifications. Israel's criminal actions in international waters have contributed to weakening the US-NATO-Israel military alliance. . . It should be understood that Israel and Turkey are partners and major actors in the US-NATO planned aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in the pipeline since mid-2005. The rift between Turkey and Israel has a direct bearing on NATO as a military alliance. Turkey is one of the more powerful NATO member states with regard to its conventional forces. The rift with Israel breaks a consensus within the Atlantic Alliance. It also undermines ongoing US-NATO-Israel pre-emptive war plans directed against Iran, which until recently were endorsed by the Turkish military. . .
Israel's blockade of Gaza is in large part motivated by the broader issue of control of Gaza's territorial waters, which contain significant reserves of natural gas. What is at stake is the confiscation of Palestinian gas fields and the unilateral de facto declaration of Israeli sovereignty over Gaza's maritime areas. If the blockade were to be broken, Israel's de facto control over Gaza's offshore gas reserves would be in jeopardy. . . The issue of sovereignty over Gaza's gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine.
The death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza's offshore gas reserves.
The invasion plan of the Gaza Strip under "Operation Cast Lead" was set in motion in June 2008, according to Israeli military sources . . . "even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas". . . That very same month, the Israeli authorities contacted British Gas, with a view to resuming crucial negotiations pertaining to purchase of Gaza's natural gas. . . The military occupation of Gaza is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel in violation of international law.
If this were to occur, the Gaza gas fields would be integrated into Israel's offshore installations, which are contiguous to those of the Gaza Strip. Full story: globalresearch.ca
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The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom – Part II
Revolution and Repression in America
June 29, 2010 — Technological Revolution has led to a diametrically opposed, antagonistic, and conflicting geopolitical reality: never before has humanity been so awakened to issues of power, exploitation, imperialism and domination; and simultaneously, never before have elites been so transnational and global in orientation, and with the ability to impose such a truly global system of scientific despotism and political oppression. These are the two major geopolitical realities of the world today. Never in all of human history has mankind been so capable of achieving a true global political psycho-social awakening; nor . . . in such danger of being subjected to a truly global scientific totalitarianism, potentially more oppressive than any system known before, and without a doubt more technologically capable of imposing a permanent despotism upon humanity. . .
This new reality in the world, coupled with the fact that the world's population has never been so vast, presents a challenge to elites seeking to dominate people all over the world who are aware and awakened to the realities of social inequality, war, poverty, exploitation, disrespect, imperialism and domination. This directly implies that these populations will be significantly more challenging to control: economically, politically, socially, psychologically and spiritually. Thus, from the point of view of the global oligarchy, the only method of imposing order and control—on this unique and historical human condition—is through the organized chaos of economic crises, war, and the rapid expansion and institutionalization of a global scientific dictatorship. . .
The events of September 11th, 2001, sparked two major geopolitical events. The first was the implementation of the Bush Doctrine—the 'War on Terror'—which was organized in response to the terrorist attacks. This imperialist expansion led to the war and occupation of Afghanistan, the war on Iraq and subsequent occupation, the war in Lebanon in 2006, the war on Somalia, continuing military expansionism and imposition in the Palestinian territories, as well as expansive covert operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and around the world.
The second major geopolitical trend instigated by the 9/11 attacks was the formation of what has come to be known as the '9/11 Truth Movement,' in which millions of people around the world, including thousands of academics, architects, engineers, government officials, intelligence and military officials and other professionals, as well as an exponentially growing abundance of people in the general population internationally have sought to question and challenge the official accounts of the events of 9/11. . .
With the increasing militarization of foreign policy, we also see the increasing militarization of domestic politics, and most notably the emergence of a high-tech surveillance police state: a 'Homeland Security State.' National and international elites are in the process of incrementally constructing a 'new totalitarianism' in replacing democracy. . . the military is increasingly poised to partake in policing. Further, over the past decade, we have seen the rapid expansion of 'Continuity of Government' (COG) plans, which plan for the suspension of the Constitution and imposition of martial law in the event of an emergency. At this point in American society, if there was a rapid and expansive economic collapse or another major terrorist attack on US soil, America would transform into a military government, more fascist in nature than anything; but equipped with an arsenal and 'technetronic' police state the likes of which no dictator in history has had access to. . .
One interesting facet that very little is known about in the militarization of domestic society and incremental totalitarianism is how the coercive state apparatus, while being justified under the guise of fighting terrorism or 'protecting the Homeland,' is in fact being directed against citizen activists and popular political movements. . . To those in power, 'peace' is an 'extremist' idea, because 'war' and 'violence' are the norms . . . One startling and deeply concerning development in the area of 'Homeland Security' is the highly secretive and deliberately quiet establishment of 'detention centers' within the United States, designed to house millions of people in the event of an 'emergency' . . .
For the first time in the last 500 years, the East has risen—with China and India—as new global powers, rising within the system not against it; marking the first time that nation-states have not risen against the global power, but with the global power. China and India are being brought within a new global political and economic system that is being constructed: a global totalitarian system of continental colonies to a global state. . .
It is a difficult balancing act for global powers—particularly the United States—to manage the integration of China into the 'new world order', while simultaneously both of them compete for control of global resources, located primarily in regions of the world which are experiencing the most rapid and extensive 'awakening'. . . In many people's view of the global economic crisis, the problem was 'greed'. Greed is not the problem, it is but a symptom of the disease that is 'power'; which, like a cancer, expands and kills its host. Humanity is entering what will likely be the most turbulent period in human history. . . If we keep creating positions of great power, and continually globalize power, it will attract exactly the wrong type of people to those positions of power: the ones that want it and want to abuse the power. These people are more likely to get to these positions of power because they are willing to do anything to get there, which means that once they have it, they will do anything to maintain and expand it. And so power grows, and the cancer spreads. . . True peace will never be possible with a singular global power structure; for once power is globally centralized, what more can the powerful seek to achieve? Thus, the powerful fight each other for control of the centralized authority, paranoia governs their minds, and distrust and hatred directs their actions. . . We cannot any longer view each other through the lenses of power: through the media, government, economic, and social structures. These structures are designed with the intent to mislead and misrepresent people, they are illegitimate and must be considered as such. . . With power, peace is impossible.
From the militarization of domestic society, it would appear as if we are moving into a world quite reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, in which the world is divided into a few major regional blocs that war against each other and terrorize their populations through acts of physical terror and total surveillance ('Big Brother'). This is but a phase and evolution into the final stage—the grand idea—or as Aldous Huxley referred to it, 'The Ultimate Revolution': the global scientific dictatorship. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The motto of (the World Revolutionary Movement), 33o Masonry, is "Ordo Ab Chao," a Latin phrase meaning 'Order out of Chaos'.
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Is New Oz PM Head of Satanist Lodge?
July 13, 2010 — In a dramatic coup June 24 2010, Julia Gillard took over as Prime Minister from Kevin Rudd and became Australia's first female PM.
Gillard is the first PM to be unmarried and a lesbian. (She is in a relationship with Tim Mathieson—who is a "beard"). She is the first PM to be sworn in without making reference to God. (Gillard is an atheist and has no religious beliefs).
A reader has suggested that Gillard is head of the Satanic Alpha lodge of Sydney ("Australia's global satanic legacy and future").
This is based on the posthumous confessions of a leading Australian Satanist "Frater 616": "Some of the deadliest, most effective and disarming assassins are women. Within the Alpha Lodges they are worshipped as embodiments of the Dark Goddess—who is known by many names and is virgin still! Currently the Outer Head of the Alpha Lodge Australasia is a very highly placed and successful Federal politician—whose Satanic name is Bestia."
We asked Aloysius Fozdyke, (the man who brought Frater 616's testimony to the world), to comment. He is a member of the Alpha Lodge and we assume acts with their authorization. His reply on the "Bestia"-Gillard connection: "I'd rather not comment at this stage" . . . Full story: henrymakow.com
Comment: Luke 17:28-30; Ecclesiastes 7:26.
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The Second Seal
By Boyd Reneau
"Calling those things which were not as though they were," Abraham looked for a City whose Builder and Ruler is God. His seed who speak with like conviction, are that City. The birth of Jesus Messiah was proclaimed by the Angel Gabriel when John the forerunner was six months in his mother's womb. At his circumcision six months before Jesus' birth, thirty years before His public ministry and 2,000 years before the remission of Israel's sins and rebirth in one day, Zachariah declared: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people, and raised up a powerful Saviour for us in the house of His servant David, as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient times—that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy Covenant; the oath which He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us, that we being delivered from the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life."
"And You, little One, shall be called the Prophet of the Highest: for You will go before the Lord to prepare His ways; to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God; by which the Dayspring [or Bright and Morning Star] will visit us from on high, to give Light to them sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:68-76).
Zechariah was a man of Abrahamic faith. And so today we see a modern Israel state in the homeland pending the anointing of two Hebrew prophets in the Spirit and power that endued Moses and Elijah (Zechariah 4; Revelation 11) and the return of the Covenant people. Abraham staggered not at the promise through unbelief but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Jesus told the apostate Jews, "you have not known the One you say is your God for He honours Me. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day: and he saw it, and was glad" (John 8:54-56). It was his belief in the Word of God's promise that was the cause of Abraham's joy and the rejuvenation of his life enabling the patriarchal paternity (Genesis 15:4; 17:17; 18:10; Hebrews 11:11-12; John 1:13). Isaac's birth, like the resurrection of our Lord (Psalm 16:10), was mediated by the inspiration of faith and was therefore a type of the inspiration of faith by which the Virgin conceived and the rapturing faith we will receive by grace. Abraham saw the day of Christ in the hope for an heir (not heirs) for the inheritance (Genesis 17:7; 22:18; Romans 4:19-21; 9:8; Galatians 3:16; Galatians 4:23; Hebrews 11:8-20).
Jesus Messiah was the object of Abraham's highest desire. Abraham saw His day through faith in the promises of God, in types like the sacrifice of Isaac signifying the death and resurrection of the promised Seed, and in the manifestations of Melchisedec, who is the Logos wherein the Lord appeared veiled in the flesh of a created man just before Abraham and Sarah's bodies were renewed to receive their promised son (Genesis 14; 18). That same God has appeared in our time, veiled behind the flesh of a sinner saved by grace, as surety to impart the faith of Jesus Christ that our bodies might be renewed to receive Abraham's greater Son.
The Lord has been so good in revealing His secrets to us. In I Corinthians 2:6-10 the great apostle Paul said, "We speak wisdom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, who come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory: which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit: for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God".
This great outpouring of the Spirit at the end-time is truly the capstone revelation of the Pentecostal Feast whereby we crowned our Lord King of kings when He claimed the Book of Redemption (Revelation 5:8-14). In earlier years believers rejoiced when they saw Jesus in the Scriptures, but could not have imagined the glorious richness unveiled before us in the opening of the Seals. Almighty God, who would not hide from Abraham the utter destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (since his Seed would become a great and mighty nation), has revealed the mystery and purpose of His will to Abraham's faith seed in this end-time just before the destruction of the Gentile world.
Throughout the Ages, fellowship in God's unchanging Word and service to the Lord has been paramount in the sight of believers. Since the loose ends of doctrine have been gathered into the unity of the faith we now have the "true sayings of God" by which we will transcend gravity. Time and the things of this world grow dim in the Light of this Message as it imparts faith displayed in a life that is the Token of our soon-coming body change.
In the First Seal the rider on the white horse had a bow but no arrows. Then he received a triple crown and went forth conquering and to conquer. He had many titles, such as Vicar of Christ, and Holy Father, but he is not named until the Fourth Seal.
The spirit of antichrist was insinuating itself into the circle of the Church then as it has insinuated itself into the circle of this Message today. Under the First Seal he established spiritual power which he consolidated as the Roman Universal church in union with the state. Man-made creed and tradition usurped the pure Word of God, Papal Encyclicals and secret conclaves supplanted the Leadership of the Spirit, and worship in Spirit and in Truth was smothered by liturgy and ritual in an alien tongue. Whereas God had ordained a five-fold ministry, "evil men and impostors went from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." The righteous were excommunicated, incarcerated, beaten and stoned, but their foundation was "the full counsel of God" with the demonstration of the Holy Ghost working through them. It would be this teaching of truth and righteousness that Satan would attack.
In the Second Seal Satan would usurp political power over all states under the fourth Gentile world empire of Rome. Revelation 6: 3-4, "When the Lamb had opened the Second Seal, I . . . (insert your name here) . . . heard the second living creature say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and its rider was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that men should kill one another: and he was given a great sword".
This was Satan in another stage of his incarnation from that seemingly innocuous antichrist spirit called nicolaitanism to the false prophet and Supreme Pontiff of the universal or Catholic church, his triple crown signified dominion over heaven, earth and purgatory. This is the IMPERSONATOR at work.
God is unfolding Himself from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts to the glorified flesh of Jesus Christ and the New Testament saints by manifested faith in His unchanging Word, while Satan is incarnating himself into the corruptible flesh of a Pope and his blasphemous world church system by perverting God's revealed Word which is Spirit and Life to its antithesis, which is Death. Whereas God is called "Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war," the Enemy is unfaithful and deceitful, bearing spiritual and natural death from the beginning until he and his subjects are cast into the Lake of Fire.
When Moses delivered Israel it was born naturally as "one nation under God," but Israel broke His Covenant and killed His Messiah. Since 1954 citizens of the United States, which is Israel's antitype, "pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." And so long as she was "under God"—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—she was "indivisible," but today she is under many gods, for "as it was in the days of Noah" America has become the "great big melting pot" of miscegenation between the Sons of God and the daughters of men as the Lord told Daniel, "they shall be mixed in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay" (Daniel 2:43; Genesis 6:1-4; Matthew 24:37).
Brother Branham said, "This America is the prostitute of the nations. That's exactly what she is, and she's going to be worse than ever now. She's coming to her end. The Bible speaks of her doom, tells how she's going to be. America: lowdown, rotten, filthy, no good. That's exactly right. She's been a great nation. She's carried the Gospel Message. What makes her the way she is? Because she's turned down the Gospel Message and rejected the truth. She's horrible. She's got it coming; don't worry. I seen it in the vision as THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's coming. She's going to pay for her sins.
["The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 322:3)].
Back when America was America, she was a great nation. The greatest the world's ever known since Israel, was America; but she sure has polluted herself now. She's rejected the Message" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part III, p. 661:87-88).
"O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake You shall be ashamed, and they that depart from You shall be consigned to the dust, [and not to glory], because they have forsaken the Lord, the Fountain of living waters" (Jeremiah 17:13).
Like Israel, the United States has ended in apostasy, and having rejected her last opportunity for national repentance in 1956/7, Brother Branham said, "It's a million miles from being a Christian country. I don't even pray for it. How can I pray for it, and it won't repent under the mighty powers of God demonstrated before it, and denying, and closing the doors to it, and walking away? I commit it to God. And she's going further away, and now she's going to sink. Just watch what happens" (Trying to do God a Service without being the Will of God, p. 23:136).
Every government of the earth is owned and ruled by the Devil who is the god of this evil age. He showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world that were and would be, seeking to gift them without sacrifice in order to prevent Him from playing the part of our Kinsman Redeemer (Matthew 4:8-9). The US, which was founded by the Pilgrim Fathers seeking freedom of worship was once considered the greatest peace-loving nation on earth, is now the blooded image of the Beast of Imperial Rome ruled by Satan's children (John 8:44).
Jesus symbolized the United States as a beast, which in Scripture signifies a power. It was the America buffalo that came out of the earth and had two horns like a lamb—signifying the separation of civil and religious power with freedom of religion so that at first he acted like a lamb and he spoke like a lamb—"friendship with all [nations] but alliances with none." However it did not age into an old ram but morphed into the image of the Roman dragon. Today, the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" is shackled with insurmountable debt; cowardly killing innocent people in foreign lands and even citizens within in her own borders at the behest of the Enemy of God and Adam's race. "Exercising all the power of the first beast [Rome] before him, and causing all who dwell on the earth, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [when Imperial Rome morphed into Papal Rome]. And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven [with atomic and hydrogen bombs], deceiving the nations by means of these miracles . . ." (Revelation 13:11-18).
Interestingly, in her July 6, 2010 address, Queen Elizabeth II challenged the United Nations to fight global dangers by "waging" peace, then entered ground zero for the first time to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks. "Waging peace" my brother/sister is identical to the Orwellian "peace offensive" launched by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 roughly one year before the Queen's first visit to the UN. It should be apparent that the world has gone full circle in the mystery of iniquity and the "cup has been filled with a double portion in retribution" (Revelation 18:6). The spirit of Laodicean apostasy covers this globe from end to end. All are deceived, with the exception of those who receive their revelation from the Angel with the open book in His hand (Revelation 10:10).
Daniel (8:25), who saw the deadly nature of Satan working through all four Gentile world powers said concerning the rider of the fourth horse, "By his scheming he will make treachery win out, and in chutzpah magnify himself in his heart, and by peace destroy the unsuspecting . . ." So today the world is smitten by a "peace offensive" employing all the subterfuge and lying wonders initiated when Lucifer rode his white horse, indicative of righteousness, which continues to deceive theologians after two thousand years. By this means he will achieve one world dictatorship, an objective that clearly could not be gained by a conventional military confrontation.
Like our treacherous "lawmakers," Satan has employed the tactics of his Fabian Society to gradually transform himself from the spirit of antichrist to the false prophet in the days when the majority in Christian circles were either Israelites or so-called Jews. After the Church goes Home he will be cast down to earth to become the beast, the Devil incarnate, the red dragon himself. He is incarnate in his people then. He has his people in his power. The false prophet has prophesied them right into it, given them over to strong delusions to believe a lie and be damned by it . . . (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 204:3-4; Revelation 12:7-13; 13:1-10; II Thessalonians 2:7-12).
The Bible clearly states that power was given to him to take peace from the earth and that's just what he's been doing. He was a LIAR and a MURDERER from the beginning so you can't expect the truth from him because no truth abides in him or his children. His second horse was blood red and his works pertained to the Christian persecution during the Dark Ages.
Speaking of the Second Seal, Jesus said, "You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; this does not signal My return, for this must take place, but the end is not yet." Regarding the Gentile dispensation He prophesied, "Great tribulation [commencing with the siege of Jerusalem] such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days should are shortened, there should no flesh be saved [for the rapture]: but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened" (Matthew 24:6; 15-28; Revelation 7:14; 20:4).
To this day millions of Christians have been persecuted, tortured, burned at the stake, fed to lions, and killed on a grand scale. From the time of Augustine of Hippo until about 1850, the Roman Catholic church alone martyred 68 millions who denied her doctrine, which is the mark of the beast—or simply read God's Bible. Foxes Book of Martyrs and S.S. Schmucker's Discourse on the Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the 16th Century detail the horrors believers endured for the NAME of Jesus Christ and the triumph of faith which enabled them to sing hymns, pray for their torturers, and declare "No pain" as hot coals slowly cooked their limbs.
Since Britain was conquered in 1688 and became merely a colony of the 'City of London,' her power and the resources of what is today 'the Empire of the City of London' (or Commonwealth of Nations), has been directed to achieving one world government. In just the last century 'the City' was guilty of the deaths of hundreds of millions of Christians and others. As I write, billions worldwide are being desensitized and dehumanized by Hollywood sorcery through the principality of the "air" per medium of film, television, music and computer games. From cradle to grave men's minds are manipulated with disinformation in education and the news by "spirits of demons, working miracles, which confer with the rulers of this world to gather them for the battle against the Lord on the great day of God the Almighty" (Revelation 16:14; 18:23). This is evident in the Allied atrocities of World Wars I and II—the real holocaust—and the ongoing slaughter of peaceful and innocent nations with the objective of controlling their resources and rendering them subject to world government, justified by the myth of three holocausts and fraudulent claims of a Muslim attack on 9/11. Can you see that the (once) Christian nations are as apostate as Israel was in the days of our Lord, and that our young men (and women) are being blooded to kill all who refuse to receive the doctrine or obey the edicts of the Judaeo-Roman church and her daughters in the coming tribulation?
Many of us can still openly purchase and freely read the Bible or the history of the Christian Church, and fellowship to establish others in the faith, but as I write other believers around the world are being tortured and martyred. Use your time wisely, and "redeem the time for the days are evil. . . the night comes when no man can work," so shine your Light for Jesus while you are able.
When the mob descended in the Garden of Gethsemane, Peter was of a mind to fight the infidels but our Lord told him, "put away your sword, for they who live by the sword shall die by the sword." As NO Christian is above his Master, on no account did Christians condone or participate in the martyrdom of men of other religions let alone professed Christians.
Satan rode his red horse for almost a thousand years, it was the bloodiest era of Church history. Under this Seal, which compassed the Thyatira Church Age (606 – 1520), he exchanged his bow for "a great sword" to kill all who would not receive the false teachings of his church and gain political power. Today his church is in every nation (Matthew 4:8-9), so please warn your denominational friends Death rules in churches that curry favour with government for tax exemptions and other privileges.
Satan attended church at the First Nicea Council where he merged ecclesiastical powers and political powers in the universal Roman Catholic church. To those who were carnal-minded it seemed perfectly reasonable to unite the empire in common worship. But few could visualize the dark spirit veiled behind the purple cloth, or that as "all things work together for the good of God's elect. . . the Lord raised up an ensign against the evil one," and used his wickedness to develop character manifest as faith in the saints of the Ephesian Church Age; Virtue (strength) in the Smyrnean Age, and Knowledge of God's unchanging Word by which to discern right from wrong in the saints of the Pergamean Church Age.
"God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-control. Do not be ashamed, therefore, of testifying of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but share my suffering for the Gospel in the power of God" (II Timothy 1:8). For the virtue displayed by the saints of the Thyatira Age was Temperance, which is self-control.
That should be instructive for all, since the false vine flourished in part because the celebrities and bigwigs who attended 'church' were ashamed to declare the whole counsel of God and stoop to spontaneous clapping and shouts of "amen," or staggering under the influence of the Spirit and associating with fishermen and tax collectors, converted prostitutes and plain common folk. Their hunger was for polite intercourse with 'respectable' society rather than the unadulterated Word of the hour. Like Cain, theirs was a social gospel without the Blood of the Lamb. How God confounds the wise and prudent with "foolish" things.
Jesus of Nazareth was born in a stable and was not received by this world. He said, "I am meek and lowly in heart." Some of the wonderful epistles in the Bible were written from behind bars in gloomy dungeons. But God has filled our hearts with His love and given us the Spirit of Adoption. How but in lowliness of mind, can we esteem the other better than ourselves and fulfill Paul's joy (Philippians 2: 1-5) that we be in one accord and one mind. Satan's intellectual polished Church trusts in science and corrupt theology, looking down on what God has sanctified and cleansed, but all members of the body of Christ are baptized by the same Holy Spirit and that is marvelous in our eyes.
Amidst great strife the True Church held to God's unchanging hand while the false church system trod faith underfoot. That woman Jezebel was seducing and causing people to commit spiritual fornication against God's Word and those who withstood the anti-Christ church were deemed heretics and destroyed. What Jezebel did not realize was that she and her children were being destroyed with Death.
Brother Branham said, "Everything that you see that's wrong, just do the opposite and you'll be right as unrighteousness is righteousness perverted." So while Satan's Roman church was killing Christians during the Dark Ages, God countered his dark force with another mighty cherub. The living creature that announced the Second Seal had the face of an Ox, which is a beast of burden and sacrifice. Its patient productive work would be the predominant feature of grace in the lives of God's people during the Dark Ages. No militant uprising, no political activism, but Temperance; no matter what the cost, the saints during this time lay down their lives for the Gospel. Grace enabled Christians in this Age to bear the burden of suffering unto death. Though they were persecuted, tortured, burned at stake, and fed to lions, their courage did not waver and they graciously surrendered their lives for the sake of the Word of God.
The believers Hall of Fame records the great exploits of faith of the Old Testament saints. Hebrew 11:35-37, "others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword".
Yet to the chagrin of their slayers they gloried in their martyrdom, "some through the water, some through the flood, some through the fire but all through the Blood." None recanted the faith or denied that lovely Name of Jesus. Hallelujah! As Jesus freely died for us they freely died for Him.
The Bible faithfully records who is responsible for this and the awful price that will be paid for touching God's anointed: "The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication".
Brother Branham said, "That antichrist spirit, fornication (See?) teaching, that committing adultery with God. See? Now, she's supposed to be a bride (See?), and committing adultery (See?); see just like Eve did—just like the church does there. See?"
"And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, (anybody knows Babylon is Rome) THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." (Listen to the sixth verse). "And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."
"She was such a beautiful thing with crosses and everything on her; how in the world could she be the guilty of drinking the blood of the saints. It puzzled him. Now, He is going to tell him" (ibid, p. 218:1-4).
"All right. This rider and all his kingdom subjects that are slain down through the Age that's drawed all this blood of the martyrs of the saints will be slain by the sword of Jesus Christ when He comes. "They that take the sword will be slain by the sword." They took the sword of dogma and antichrist and cut down the real true worshippers all down through the ages by the millions, and when Christ comes with the Sword—for it is His Word that proceeds out of His mouth—He will slay every enemy there is before Him. You believe it" (ibid, p. 221:1; I Corinthians 15:25-28)?
The prophet made this wonderful statement just before ending that sermon:
"As the impostors against the Word of God, and because they wouldn't agree and this thing, Satan placed, united the political powers which he held and the spiritual powers which he held together and made a church that sweeps into every nation; and he's put millions times millions (after he had jumped off from his white horse onto his red horse), and he took his sword and went forth; but God said with the same thing that he perverted, or tried to—the false teaching—that same Word will rise in power, coming forth from the lips of Jesus Christ, and it shall slay him and everything before him. Amen. There's the Second Seal. Do you love Him? Oh, my. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD" (ibid p. 222:5)!!!
Read this Message of the Prophet friends, catch the revelation, search the Scriptures and hear the deep and passionate prayer at the close of this sermon when in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the prophet commanded those who had not yet been filled with the Holy Ghost to fall to their knees and not to get up until the Holy Spirit had sanctified them thoroughly and filled them with His love and goodness and their souls were so satisfied in the Presence of God that their whole desire would be to serve Him and walk and work with Him all the rest of their lives.
May that prayer be the desire of your heart. God bless you. nl640.htm
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In this issue our Brother Boyd Reneau writes on the Second Seal based upon the revelation unfolded by our Lord Jesus Christ to Brother Branham with observations pertaining to our generation.
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Solar Eclipse complete – Earthquakes will follow
July 12, 2010 — Earth Changes researcher Mitch Battros claims the slow release of oil from under the continental shelf [in the Gulf of Mexico] must accelerate the threatened earthquakes at the Andreas Fault and in the Yellowstone National Park calderon. "I predict increased earthquake and volcanic activity to occur over the next 14 days. The events I am speaking of will be large to mega events causing high fatalities and significant damage. I would suggest the areas of most interest would be Bay of Bengal, Baja California, Mexico, Puerto Rico Region, Japan Region, and Mediterranean Region."
"History shows at almost all full solar eclipse events, large earth changing events occur within 14 days prior to, and 14 days after the eclipse. Although last night's 6.2 earthquake which hit Chile could be considered large and significant; it is not the one I am predicting for this current 14-day window. The one expected [following the July 11, 2010] Total Solar Eclipse will be a magnitude 7.0 or larger. . ." Full story: Earth Changes Media (available only to subscribers).
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Southern California Faults feeling Pressure
July 10, 2010 — Seismologists are increasingly concerned that the 7.2 Mexicali temblor on April 4 placed more pressure on faults around the Southland, resulting in increased quake activity over the last three months. . . "The probability of a larger earthquake on those faults could be high within the next year or two," said John Rundle, a professor of physics and geology at UC Davis.
Rundle said the aftermath of the Mexicali quake is turning out to be significantly different from the aftermath of the two other large temblors to hit Southern California in the last two decades. Both the 7.3 Landers quake in 1992 and the 7.1 Hector Mine quake in 1999 in the Mojave Desert resulted in aftershocks that dissipated relatively quickly. By contrast, the Mexicali quake has been followed by aftershocks and "triggered earthquakes" that are showing no signs of ending. . . Full story: latimes.com
A big sinkhole at a condominium complex in Florida opened up Sunday morning near Tampa and claimed a Toyota Camry, pulling it down beneath its shifting sands. Another sinkhole swallowed a car near St. Louis on July 5.
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Central Banks dumping Gold at a Torrid Pace
July 7, 2010 — Central banks are pawning their gold to the Bank for International Settlements at a record rate, taking advantage of the precious metal's historically high value to raise cash.
A little-noticed data point at the back of a 216-page report released last week by the BIS shows the international agency has taken 349 metric tons of gold since December—allowing central banks to raise a record $14 billion.
The number surprised the market, which had assumed most central banks had retained their holdings of gold. Instead, the BIS data show that they have been entering these gold swaps—exchanging their gold with the BIS in return for cash, agreeing to repurchase the gold at a later date. Full story: wsj.com
Comment: As the article notes, this has been going on for awhile, and these transactions don't directly impact the open gold market, as it's not as though this is gold just flooding the market. . . The bottom line is that central banks still want flexibility, even if that means potentially-debased "paper" currencies.
The BIS is Rothschild-controlled. Rothschilds are banksters to the Vatican. When the US dollar fails and gold skyrockets in value this activity will bankrupt the (Rothschild-controlled) central banks and the nations they pretend to serve.
Brother Branham said, "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 [Revelation 13:15-18]. 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".
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The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff
November 11, 2009 — Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), BP (BP), Total (TOT), Shell (RDS.A), Deutsche Bank (DB) and Societe Generale (SCGLY.PK) founded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000. ICE is an online commodities and futures marketplace. It is outside the US and operates free from the constraints of US laws. The exchange was set up to facilitate "dark pool" trading in the commodities markets. Billions of dollars are being placed on oil futures contracts at the ICE and the beauty of this scam is that they NEVER take delivery, per se. They just ratchet up the price with leveraged speculation using your TARP money. This year alone they ratcheted up the global cost of oil from $40 to $80 per barrel.
A Congressional investigation into energy trading in 2003 discovered that ICE was being used to facilitate "round-trip" trades. "Round-trip" trades occur when one firm sells energy to another and then the second firm simultaneously sells the same amount of energy back to the first company at exactly the same price. No commodity ever changes hands. But when done on an exchange, these transactions send a price signal to the market and they artificially boost revenue for the company. This is nothing more than a massive fraud, pure and simple.
This is how the geniuses on Wall Street earn their big bonuses—they steal it. . . "It appears clear that BP and Goldman Sachs have been working collaboratively—at least at a strategic level—for maybe 15 years now. Their trading strategy has evolved over time as the global market has . . . become ever more financialised. . ." Full story: seekingalpha.com
Comment: In Newsletter #639 we reported how Goldman gambled on starvation. And don't miss This!
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian and professor of political science at Haifa University wrote: On a cold Wednesday afternoon, 10 March 1948, a group of eleven men, veteran Zionist leaders together with young military Jewish officers, put the final touches on a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (1). That same evening, military orders were dispatched to units on the ground to prepare for the systematic expulsion of Palestinians from vast areas of the country (2). The orders came with a detailed description of the methods to be used to forcibly evict the people: large-scale intimidation; laying siege to and bombarding villages and population centers; setting fire to homes, properties, and goods; expelling residents; demolishing homes; and, finally, planting mines in the rubble to prevent the expelled inhabitants from returning. Each unit was issued its own list of villages and neighborhoods to target in keeping with the master plan. Code-named Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), this was the fourth and final version of vaguer plans outlining the fate that was in store for the native population of Palestine (3). The previous three plans had articulated only obscurely how the Zionist leadership intended to deal with the presence of so many Palestinians on the land the Jewish national movement wanted for itself. This fourth and last blueprint spelled it out clearly and unambiguously: the Palestinians had to go. . .
Full story: ambient-palestine.blogspot.com
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International Conference on Gaza: Breaking the Siege
July 11, 2010 — We are dealing with a carefully planned military operation. The Israeli Navy Commando which attacked the Marvi Marmara on May 31st had prior knowledge of who was on the Turkish ship including where passengers were residing in terms of cabin layout. According to Swedish author Henning Mankell, who was on board the Marvi Marmara, "the Israeli forces attacked sleeping civilians." Specific individuals were targeted. . . "We were witnesses to premeditated murders. . ." The killing of civilians is intended to trigger a response by Palestinian resistance forces, which in turn justifies Israeli retaliation (on "humanitarian" grounds) as well as a process of military escalation. . . There are indications that the US was consulted at the highest levels regarding the nature of the military operation directed against the flotilla. Moreover, in the wake of the attacks, both the US and the UK unequivocally reaffirmed their support to Israel.
The actions of Israel against the Freedom Flotilla have important ramifications. Israel's criminal actions in international waters have contributed to weakening the US-NATO-Israel military alliance. . . It should be understood that Israel and Turkey are partners and major actors in the US-NATO planned aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in the pipeline since mid-2005. The rift between Turkey and Israel has a direct bearing on NATO as a military alliance. Turkey is one of the more powerful NATO member states with regard to its conventional forces. The rift with Israel breaks a consensus within the Atlantic Alliance. It also undermines ongoing US-NATO-Israel pre-emptive war plans directed against Iran, which until recently were endorsed by the Turkish military. . .
Israel's blockade of Gaza is in large part motivated by the broader issue of control of Gaza's territorial waters, which contain significant reserves of natural gas. What is at stake is the confiscation of Palestinian gas fields and the unilateral de facto declaration of Israeli sovereignty over Gaza's maritime areas. If the blockade were to be broken, Israel's de facto control over Gaza's offshore gas reserves would be in jeopardy. . . The issue of sovereignty over Gaza's gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine.
The death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza's offshore gas reserves.
The invasion plan of the Gaza Strip under "Operation Cast Lead" was set in motion in June 2008, according to Israeli military sources . . . "even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas". . . That very same month, the Israeli authorities contacted British Gas, with a view to resuming crucial negotiations pertaining to purchase of Gaza's natural gas. . . The military occupation of Gaza is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel in violation of international law.
If this were to occur, the Gaza gas fields would be integrated into Israel's offshore installations, which are contiguous to those of the Gaza Strip. Full story: globalresearch.ca
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The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom – Part II
Revolution and Repression in America
June 29, 2010 — Technological Revolution has led to a diametrically opposed, antagonistic, and conflicting geopolitical reality: never before has humanity been so awakened to issues of power, exploitation, imperialism and domination; and simultaneously, never before have elites been so transnational and global in orientation, and with the ability to impose such a truly global system of scientific despotism and political oppression. These are the two major geopolitical realities of the world today. Never in all of human history has mankind been so capable of achieving a true global political psycho-social awakening; nor . . . in such danger of being subjected to a truly global scientific totalitarianism, potentially more oppressive than any system known before, and without a doubt more technologically capable of imposing a permanent despotism upon humanity. . .
This new reality in the world, coupled with the fact that the world's population has never been so vast, presents a challenge to elites seeking to dominate people all over the world who are aware and awakened to the realities of social inequality, war, poverty, exploitation, disrespect, imperialism and domination. This directly implies that these populations will be significantly more challenging to control: economically, politically, socially, psychologically and spiritually. Thus, from the point of view of the global oligarchy, the only method of imposing order and control—on this unique and historical human condition—is through the organized chaos of economic crises, war, and the rapid expansion and institutionalization of a global scientific dictatorship. . .
The events of September 11th, 2001, sparked two major geopolitical events. The first was the implementation of the Bush Doctrine—the 'War on Terror'—which was organized in response to the terrorist attacks. This imperialist expansion led to the war and occupation of Afghanistan, the war on Iraq and subsequent occupation, the war in Lebanon in 2006, the war on Somalia, continuing military expansionism and imposition in the Palestinian territories, as well as expansive covert operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and around the world.
The second major geopolitical trend instigated by the 9/11 attacks was the formation of what has come to be known as the '9/11 Truth Movement,' in which millions of people around the world, including thousands of academics, architects, engineers, government officials, intelligence and military officials and other professionals, as well as an exponentially growing abundance of people in the general population internationally have sought to question and challenge the official accounts of the events of 9/11. . .
With the increasing militarization of foreign policy, we also see the increasing militarization of domestic politics, and most notably the emergence of a high-tech surveillance police state: a 'Homeland Security State.' National and international elites are in the process of incrementally constructing a 'new totalitarianism' in replacing democracy. . . the military is increasingly poised to partake in policing. Further, over the past decade, we have seen the rapid expansion of 'Continuity of Government' (COG) plans, which plan for the suspension of the Constitution and imposition of martial law in the event of an emergency. At this point in American society, if there was a rapid and expansive economic collapse or another major terrorist attack on US soil, America would transform into a military government, more fascist in nature than anything; but equipped with an arsenal and 'technetronic' police state the likes of which no dictator in history has had access to. . .
One interesting facet that very little is known about in the militarization of domestic society and incremental totalitarianism is how the coercive state apparatus, while being justified under the guise of fighting terrorism or 'protecting the Homeland,' is in fact being directed against citizen activists and popular political movements. . . To those in power, 'peace' is an 'extremist' idea, because 'war' and 'violence' are the norms . . . One startling and deeply concerning development in the area of 'Homeland Security' is the highly secretive and deliberately quiet establishment of 'detention centers' within the United States, designed to house millions of people in the event of an 'emergency' . . .
For the first time in the last 500 years, the East has risen—with China and India—as new global powers, rising within the system not against it; marking the first time that nation-states have not risen against the global power, but with the global power. China and India are being brought within a new global political and economic system that is being constructed: a global totalitarian system of continental colonies to a global state. . .
It is a difficult balancing act for global powers—particularly the United States—to manage the integration of China into the 'new world order', while simultaneously both of them compete for control of global resources, located primarily in regions of the world which are experiencing the most rapid and extensive 'awakening'. . . In many people's view of the global economic crisis, the problem was 'greed'. Greed is not the problem, it is but a symptom of the disease that is 'power'; which, like a cancer, expands and kills its host. Humanity is entering what will likely be the most turbulent period in human history. . . If we keep creating positions of great power, and continually globalize power, it will attract exactly the wrong type of people to those positions of power: the ones that want it and want to abuse the power. These people are more likely to get to these positions of power because they are willing to do anything to get there, which means that once they have it, they will do anything to maintain and expand it. And so power grows, and the cancer spreads. . . True peace will never be possible with a singular global power structure; for once power is globally centralized, what more can the powerful seek to achieve? Thus, the powerful fight each other for control of the centralized authority, paranoia governs their minds, and distrust and hatred directs their actions. . . We cannot any longer view each other through the lenses of power: through the media, government, economic, and social structures. These structures are designed with the intent to mislead and misrepresent people, they are illegitimate and must be considered as such. . . With power, peace is impossible.
From the militarization of domestic society, it would appear as if we are moving into a world quite reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, in which the world is divided into a few major regional blocs that war against each other and terrorize their populations through acts of physical terror and total surveillance ('Big Brother'). This is but a phase and evolution into the final stage—the grand idea—or as Aldous Huxley referred to it, 'The Ultimate Revolution': the global scientific dictatorship. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The motto of (the World Revolutionary Movement), 33o Masonry, is "Ordo Ab Chao," a Latin phrase meaning 'Order out of Chaos'.
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Is New Oz PM Head of Satanist Lodge?
July 13, 2010 — In a dramatic coup June 24 2010, Julia Gillard took over as Prime Minister from Kevin Rudd and became Australia's first female PM.
Gillard is the first PM to be unmarried and a lesbian. (She is in a relationship with Tim Mathieson—who is a "beard"). She is the first PM to be sworn in without making reference to God. (Gillard is an atheist and has no religious beliefs).
A reader has suggested that Gillard is head of the Satanic Alpha lodge of Sydney ("Australia's global satanic legacy and future").
This is based on the posthumous confessions of a leading Australian Satanist "Frater 616": "Some of the deadliest, most effective and disarming assassins are women. Within the Alpha Lodges they are worshipped as embodiments of the Dark Goddess—who is known by many names and is virgin still! Currently the Outer Head of the Alpha Lodge Australasia is a very highly placed and successful Federal politician—whose Satanic name is Bestia."
We asked Aloysius Fozdyke, (the man who brought Frater 616's testimony to the world), to comment. He is a member of the Alpha Lodge and we assume acts with their authorization. His reply on the "Bestia"-Gillard connection: "I'd rather not comment at this stage" . . . Full story: henrymakow.com
Comment: Luke 17:28-30; Ecclesiastes 7:26.
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The Second Seal
By Boyd Reneau
"Calling those things which were not as though they were," Abraham looked for a City whose Builder and Ruler is God. His seed who speak with like conviction, are that City. The birth of Jesus Messiah was proclaimed by the Angel Gabriel when John the forerunner was six months in his mother's womb. At his circumcision six months before Jesus' birth, thirty years before His public ministry and 2,000 years before the remission of Israel's sins and rebirth in one day, Zachariah declared: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people, and raised up a powerful Saviour for us in the house of His servant David, as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient times—that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy Covenant; the oath which He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us, that we being delivered from the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life."
"And You, little One, shall be called the Prophet of the Highest: for You will go before the Lord to prepare His ways; to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God; by which the Dayspring [or Bright and Morning Star] will visit us from on high, to give Light to them sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:68-76).
Zechariah was a man of Abrahamic faith. And so today we see a modern Israel state in the homeland pending the anointing of two Hebrew prophets in the Spirit and power that endued Moses and Elijah (Zechariah 4; Revelation 11) and the return of the Covenant people. Abraham staggered not at the promise through unbelief but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Jesus told the apostate Jews, "you have not known the One you say is your God for He honours Me. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day: and he saw it, and was glad" (John 8:54-56). It was his belief in the Word of God's promise that was the cause of Abraham's joy and the rejuvenation of his life enabling the patriarchal paternity (Genesis 15:4; 17:17; 18:10; Hebrews 11:11-12; John 1:13). Isaac's birth, like the resurrection of our Lord (Psalm 16:10), was mediated by the inspiration of faith and was therefore a type of the inspiration of faith by which the Virgin conceived and the rapturing faith we will receive by grace. Abraham saw the day of Christ in the hope for an heir (not heirs) for the inheritance (Genesis 17:7; 22:18; Romans 4:19-21; 9:8; Galatians 3:16; Galatians 4:23; Hebrews 11:8-20).
Jesus Messiah was the object of Abraham's highest desire. Abraham saw His day through faith in the promises of God, in types like the sacrifice of Isaac signifying the death and resurrection of the promised Seed, and in the manifestations of Melchisedec, who is the Logos wherein the Lord appeared veiled in the flesh of a created man just before Abraham and Sarah's bodies were renewed to receive their promised son (Genesis 14; 18). That same God has appeared in our time, veiled behind the flesh of a sinner saved by grace, as surety to impart the faith of Jesus Christ that our bodies might be renewed to receive Abraham's greater Son.
The Lord has been so good in revealing His secrets to us. In I Corinthians 2:6-10 the great apostle Paul said, "We speak wisdom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, who come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory: which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit: for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God".
This great outpouring of the Spirit at the end-time is truly the capstone revelation of the Pentecostal Feast whereby we crowned our Lord King of kings when He claimed the Book of Redemption (Revelation 5:8-14). In earlier years believers rejoiced when they saw Jesus in the Scriptures, but could not have imagined the glorious richness unveiled before us in the opening of the Seals. Almighty God, who would not hide from Abraham the utter destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (since his Seed would become a great and mighty nation), has revealed the mystery and purpose of His will to Abraham's faith seed in this end-time just before the destruction of the Gentile world.
Throughout the Ages, fellowship in God's unchanging Word and service to the Lord has been paramount in the sight of believers. Since the loose ends of doctrine have been gathered into the unity of the faith we now have the "true sayings of God" by which we will transcend gravity. Time and the things of this world grow dim in the Light of this Message as it imparts faith displayed in a life that is the Token of our soon-coming body change.
In the First Seal the rider on the white horse had a bow but no arrows. Then he received a triple crown and went forth conquering and to conquer. He had many titles, such as Vicar of Christ, and Holy Father, but he is not named until the Fourth Seal.
The spirit of antichrist was insinuating itself into the circle of the Church then as it has insinuated itself into the circle of this Message today. Under the First Seal he established spiritual power which he consolidated as the Roman Universal church in union with the state. Man-made creed and tradition usurped the pure Word of God, Papal Encyclicals and secret conclaves supplanted the Leadership of the Spirit, and worship in Spirit and in Truth was smothered by liturgy and ritual in an alien tongue. Whereas God had ordained a five-fold ministry, "evil men and impostors went from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." The righteous were excommunicated, incarcerated, beaten and stoned, but their foundation was "the full counsel of God" with the demonstration of the Holy Ghost working through them. It would be this teaching of truth and righteousness that Satan would attack.
In the Second Seal Satan would usurp political power over all states under the fourth Gentile world empire of Rome. Revelation 6: 3-4, "When the Lamb had opened the Second Seal, I . . . (insert your name here) . . . heard the second living creature say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and its rider was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that men should kill one another: and he was given a great sword".
This was Satan in another stage of his incarnation from that seemingly innocuous antichrist spirit called nicolaitanism to the false prophet and Supreme Pontiff of the universal or Catholic church, his triple crown signified dominion over heaven, earth and purgatory. This is the IMPERSONATOR at work.
God is unfolding Himself from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts to the glorified flesh of Jesus Christ and the New Testament saints by manifested faith in His unchanging Word, while Satan is incarnating himself into the corruptible flesh of a Pope and his blasphemous world church system by perverting God's revealed Word which is Spirit and Life to its antithesis, which is Death. Whereas God is called "Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war," the Enemy is unfaithful and deceitful, bearing spiritual and natural death from the beginning until he and his subjects are cast into the Lake of Fire.
When Moses delivered Israel it was born naturally as "one nation under God," but Israel broke His Covenant and killed His Messiah. Since 1954 citizens of the United States, which is Israel's antitype, "pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." And so long as she was "under God"—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—she was "indivisible," but today she is under many gods, for "as it was in the days of Noah" America has become the "great big melting pot" of miscegenation between the Sons of God and the daughters of men as the Lord told Daniel, "they shall be mixed in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay" (Daniel 2:43; Genesis 6:1-4; Matthew 24:37).
Brother Branham said, "This America is the prostitute of the nations. That's exactly what she is, and she's going to be worse than ever now. She's coming to her end. The Bible speaks of her doom, tells how she's going to be. America: lowdown, rotten, filthy, no good. That's exactly right. She's been a great nation. She's carried the Gospel Message. What makes her the way she is? Because she's turned down the Gospel Message and rejected the truth. She's horrible. She's got it coming; don't worry. I seen it in the vision as THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's coming. She's going to pay for her sins.
["The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 322:3)].
Back when America was America, she was a great nation. The greatest the world's ever known since Israel, was America; but she sure has polluted herself now. She's rejected the Message" (Revelation Chapter Four, Part III, p. 661:87-88).
"O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake You shall be ashamed, and they that depart from You shall be consigned to the dust, [and not to glory], because they have forsaken the Lord, the Fountain of living waters" (Jeremiah 17:13).
Like Israel, the United States has ended in apostasy, and having rejected her last opportunity for national repentance in 1956/7, Brother Branham said, "It's a million miles from being a Christian country. I don't even pray for it. How can I pray for it, and it won't repent under the mighty powers of God demonstrated before it, and denying, and closing the doors to it, and walking away? I commit it to God. And she's going further away, and now she's going to sink. Just watch what happens" (Trying to do God a Service without being the Will of God, p. 23:136).
Every government of the earth is owned and ruled by the Devil who is the god of this evil age. He showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world that were and would be, seeking to gift them without sacrifice in order to prevent Him from playing the part of our Kinsman Redeemer (Matthew 4:8-9). The US, which was founded by the Pilgrim Fathers seeking freedom of worship was once considered the greatest peace-loving nation on earth, is now the blooded image of the Beast of Imperial Rome ruled by Satan's children (John 8:44).
Jesus symbolized the United States as a beast, which in Scripture signifies a power. It was the America buffalo that came out of the earth and had two horns like a lamb—signifying the separation of civil and religious power with freedom of religion so that at first he acted like a lamb and he spoke like a lamb—"friendship with all [nations] but alliances with none." However it did not age into an old ram but morphed into the image of the Roman dragon. Today, the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" is shackled with insurmountable debt; cowardly killing innocent people in foreign lands and even citizens within in her own borders at the behest of the Enemy of God and Adam's race. "Exercising all the power of the first beast [Rome] before him, and causing all who dwell on the earth, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [when Imperial Rome morphed into Papal Rome]. And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven [with atomic and hydrogen bombs], deceiving the nations by means of these miracles . . ." (Revelation 13:11-18).
Interestingly, in her July 6, 2010 address, Queen Elizabeth II challenged the United Nations to fight global dangers by "waging" peace, then entered ground zero for the first time to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks. "Waging peace" my brother/sister is identical to the Orwellian "peace offensive" launched by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 roughly one year before the Queen's first visit to the UN. It should be apparent that the world has gone full circle in the mystery of iniquity and the "cup has been filled with a double portion in retribution" (Revelation 18:6). The spirit of Laodicean apostasy covers this globe from end to end. All are deceived, with the exception of those who receive their revelation from the Angel with the open book in His hand (Revelation 10:10).
Daniel (8:25), who saw the deadly nature of Satan working through all four Gentile world powers said concerning the rider of the fourth horse, "By his scheming he will make treachery win out, and in chutzpah magnify himself in his heart, and by peace destroy the unsuspecting . . ." So today the world is smitten by a "peace offensive" employing all the subterfuge and lying wonders initiated when Lucifer rode his white horse, indicative of righteousness, which continues to deceive theologians after two thousand years. By this means he will achieve one world dictatorship, an objective that clearly could not be gained by a conventional military confrontation.
Like our treacherous "lawmakers," Satan has employed the tactics of his Fabian Society to gradually transform himself from the spirit of antichrist to the false prophet in the days when the majority in Christian circles were either Israelites or so-called Jews. After the Church goes Home he will be cast down to earth to become the beast, the Devil incarnate, the red dragon himself. He is incarnate in his people then. He has his people in his power. The false prophet has prophesied them right into it, given them over to strong delusions to believe a lie and be damned by it . . . (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 204:3-4; Revelation 12:7-13; 13:1-10; II Thessalonians 2:7-12).
The Bible clearly states that power was given to him to take peace from the earth and that's just what he's been doing. He was a LIAR and a MURDERER from the beginning so you can't expect the truth from him because no truth abides in him or his children. His second horse was blood red and his works pertained to the Christian persecution during the Dark Ages.
Speaking of the Second Seal, Jesus said, "You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; this does not signal My return, for this must take place, but the end is not yet." Regarding the Gentile dispensation He prophesied, "Great tribulation [commencing with the siege of Jerusalem] such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days should are shortened, there should no flesh be saved [for the rapture]: but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened" (Matthew 24:6; 15-28; Revelation 7:14; 20:4).
To this day millions of Christians have been persecuted, tortured, burned at the stake, fed to lions, and killed on a grand scale. From the time of Augustine of Hippo until about 1850, the Roman Catholic church alone martyred 68 millions who denied her doctrine, which is the mark of the beast—or simply read God's Bible. Foxes Book of Martyrs and S.S. Schmucker's Discourse on the Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the 16th Century detail the horrors believers endured for the NAME of Jesus Christ and the triumph of faith which enabled them to sing hymns, pray for their torturers, and declare "No pain" as hot coals slowly cooked their limbs.
Since Britain was conquered in 1688 and became merely a colony of the 'City of London,' her power and the resources of what is today 'the Empire of the City of London' (or Commonwealth of Nations), has been directed to achieving one world government. In just the last century 'the City' was guilty of the deaths of hundreds of millions of Christians and others. As I write, billions worldwide are being desensitized and dehumanized by Hollywood sorcery through the principality of the "air" per medium of film, television, music and computer games. From cradle to grave men's minds are manipulated with disinformation in education and the news by "spirits of demons, working miracles, which confer with the rulers of this world to gather them for the battle against the Lord on the great day of God the Almighty" (Revelation 16:14; 18:23). This is evident in the Allied atrocities of World Wars I and II—the real holocaust—and the ongoing slaughter of peaceful and innocent nations with the objective of controlling their resources and rendering them subject to world government, justified by the myth of three holocausts and fraudulent claims of a Muslim attack on 9/11. Can you see that the (once) Christian nations are as apostate as Israel was in the days of our Lord, and that our young men (and women) are being blooded to kill all who refuse to receive the doctrine or obey the edicts of the Judaeo-Roman church and her daughters in the coming tribulation?
Many of us can still openly purchase and freely read the Bible or the history of the Christian Church, and fellowship to establish others in the faith, but as I write other believers around the world are being tortured and martyred. Use your time wisely, and "redeem the time for the days are evil. . . the night comes when no man can work," so shine your Light for Jesus while you are able.
When the mob descended in the Garden of Gethsemane, Peter was of a mind to fight the infidels but our Lord told him, "put away your sword, for they who live by the sword shall die by the sword." As NO Christian is above his Master, on no account did Christians condone or participate in the martyrdom of men of other religions let alone professed Christians.
Satan rode his red horse for almost a thousand years, it was the bloodiest era of Church history. Under this Seal, which compassed the Thyatira Church Age (606 – 1520), he exchanged his bow for "a great sword" to kill all who would not receive the false teachings of his church and gain political power. Today his church is in every nation (Matthew 4:8-9), so please warn your denominational friends Death rules in churches that curry favour with government for tax exemptions and other privileges.
Satan attended church at the First Nicea Council where he merged ecclesiastical powers and political powers in the universal Roman Catholic church. To those who were carnal-minded it seemed perfectly reasonable to unite the empire in common worship. But few could visualize the dark spirit veiled behind the purple cloth, or that as "all things work together for the good of God's elect. . . the Lord raised up an ensign against the evil one," and used his wickedness to develop character manifest as faith in the saints of the Ephesian Church Age; Virtue (strength) in the Smyrnean Age, and Knowledge of God's unchanging Word by which to discern right from wrong in the saints of the Pergamean Church Age.
"God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-control. Do not be ashamed, therefore, of testifying of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but share my suffering for the Gospel in the power of God" (II Timothy 1:8). For the virtue displayed by the saints of the Thyatira Age was Temperance, which is self-control.
That should be instructive for all, since the false vine flourished in part because the celebrities and bigwigs who attended 'church' were ashamed to declare the whole counsel of God and stoop to spontaneous clapping and shouts of "amen," or staggering under the influence of the Spirit and associating with fishermen and tax collectors, converted prostitutes and plain common folk. Their hunger was for polite intercourse with 'respectable' society rather than the unadulterated Word of the hour. Like Cain, theirs was a social gospel without the Blood of the Lamb. How God confounds the wise and prudent with "foolish" things.
Jesus of Nazareth was born in a stable and was not received by this world. He said, "I am meek and lowly in heart." Some of the wonderful epistles in the Bible were written from behind bars in gloomy dungeons. But God has filled our hearts with His love and given us the Spirit of Adoption. How but in lowliness of mind, can we esteem the other better than ourselves and fulfill Paul's joy (Philippians 2: 1-5) that we be in one accord and one mind. Satan's intellectual polished Church trusts in science and corrupt theology, looking down on what God has sanctified and cleansed, but all members of the body of Christ are baptized by the same Holy Spirit and that is marvelous in our eyes.
Amidst great strife the True Church held to God's unchanging hand while the false church system trod faith underfoot. That woman Jezebel was seducing and causing people to commit spiritual fornication against God's Word and those who withstood the anti-Christ church were deemed heretics and destroyed. What Jezebel did not realize was that she and her children were being destroyed with Death.
Brother Branham said, "Everything that you see that's wrong, just do the opposite and you'll be right as unrighteousness is righteousness perverted." So while Satan's Roman church was killing Christians during the Dark Ages, God countered his dark force with another mighty cherub. The living creature that announced the Second Seal had the face of an Ox, which is a beast of burden and sacrifice. Its patient productive work would be the predominant feature of grace in the lives of God's people during the Dark Ages. No militant uprising, no political activism, but Temperance; no matter what the cost, the saints during this time lay down their lives for the Gospel. Grace enabled Christians in this Age to bear the burden of suffering unto death. Though they were persecuted, tortured, burned at stake, and fed to lions, their courage did not waver and they graciously surrendered their lives for the sake of the Word of God.
The believers Hall of Fame records the great exploits of faith of the Old Testament saints. Hebrew 11:35-37, "others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword".
Yet to the chagrin of their slayers they gloried in their martyrdom, "some through the water, some through the flood, some through the fire but all through the Blood." None recanted the faith or denied that lovely Name of Jesus. Hallelujah! As Jesus freely died for us they freely died for Him.
The Bible faithfully records who is responsible for this and the awful price that will be paid for touching God's anointed: "The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication".
Brother Branham said, "That antichrist spirit, fornication (See?) teaching, that committing adultery with God. See? Now, she's supposed to be a bride (See?), and committing adultery (See?); see just like Eve did—just like the church does there. See?"
"And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, (anybody knows Babylon is Rome) THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." (Listen to the sixth verse). "And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."
"She was such a beautiful thing with crosses and everything on her; how in the world could she be the guilty of drinking the blood of the saints. It puzzled him. Now, He is going to tell him" (ibid, p. 218:1-4).
"All right. This rider and all his kingdom subjects that are slain down through the Age that's drawed all this blood of the martyrs of the saints will be slain by the sword of Jesus Christ when He comes. "They that take the sword will be slain by the sword." They took the sword of dogma and antichrist and cut down the real true worshippers all down through the ages by the millions, and when Christ comes with the Sword—for it is His Word that proceeds out of His mouth—He will slay every enemy there is before Him. You believe it" (ibid, p. 221:1; I Corinthians 15:25-28)?
The prophet made this wonderful statement just before ending that sermon:
"As the impostors against the Word of God, and because they wouldn't agree and this thing, Satan placed, united the political powers which he held and the spiritual powers which he held together and made a church that sweeps into every nation; and he's put millions times millions (after he had jumped off from his white horse onto his red horse), and he took his sword and went forth; but God said with the same thing that he perverted, or tried to—the false teaching—that same Word will rise in power, coming forth from the lips of Jesus Christ, and it shall slay him and everything before him. Amen. There's the Second Seal. Do you love Him? Oh, my. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD" (ibid p. 222:5)!!!
Read this Message of the Prophet friends, catch the revelation, search the Scriptures and hear the deep and passionate prayer at the close of this sermon when in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the prophet commanded those who had not yet been filled with the Holy Ghost to fall to their knees and not to get up until the Holy Spirit had sanctified them thoroughly and filled them with His love and goodness and their souls were so satisfied in the Presence of God that their whole desire would be to serve Him and walk and work with Him all the rest of their lives.
May that prayer be the desire of your heart. God bless you. nl640.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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