Bible Believers' Newsletter 902
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we appreciate your fellowship in 2015.
This year has shown the nations of apostate Christendom bereft of "the whole armour of God" and helplessly subjugated by "them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie." Through pulpit delinquency and your slothfulness they devour national treasures and gnaw the bones of godly reputations long expired. We are the 'front' that hosts their merciless killing, maiming, rape and rapine of helpless individuals and nations worldwide, deploying apostate mercenaries and our technology to achieve their delusion of Satan's Talmudic Eden. Our alien governments spawned this golem "to make straight in the desert a highway for their god" and global hegemony. This parasite of Cain's bloodline and mindset is funded by your taxes, protected by your legislation, and shares your citizenship (Genesis 3:15).
God's Bible reveals the promises to His chosen people and admonishes us to walk in the Light of "the present Truth . . . that the Spirit of Truth may guide us into all the Truth for our day . . . and show us what will come to pass in our day." Jesus said, "Let both the wheat and the tares grow together unto the Harvest" thus the objective of the main articles and news items in our Newsletters is to reveal what Jesus is doing now, and also what Satan is doing now.
Much prayer, time and energy is devoted to each Bible Believers' Newsletter to feed your soul in accord with John 16:13. I admonish you to respect and cherish this work of the Lord by setting aside half a day or as long as required each week to read the full story, commentary and links in each news item and main article, "proving all things." Although this will take time away from the world and the things of the world, bear in mind that the Lord God has waited from the foundation of the world for you to manifest that you are a Son of God; in that day our Newsletters will be no more.
Today we have three main articles. Long time contributing author John Kaminski's essay, "Living a Life of Lies in America," identifies the United States in Scripture in real time. Felicity Arbuthnot exposes "US-NATO's 'Counter-Christmas Crusade' against the Cradle of Civilization and the Holy Land." Finally, our "Christmas" reminds us that Christ is building His Church "upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets" to which the prophetic ministry of the 'Elijah' of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 has restored His end-time Bride. We note neither Christmas or Easter were recognized by the apostles and prophets or indeed anyone outside pagan circles until they were introduced by the Judaeo-Roman false church after it organized in the fourth century. We cite quotations on these traditions by Brother Branham and historian Alexander Hislop whose "The Two Babylons" uncovers the pagan roots of "MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH".
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.
This year has shown the nations of apostate Christendom bereft of "the whole armour of God" and helplessly subjugated by "them of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie." Through pulpit delinquency and your slothfulness they devour national treasures and gnaw the bones of godly reputations long expired. We are the 'front' that hosts their merciless killing, maiming, rape and rapine of helpless individuals and nations worldwide, deploying apostate mercenaries and our technology to achieve their delusion of Satan's Talmudic Eden. Our alien governments spawned this golem "to make straight in the desert a highway for their god" and global hegemony. This parasite of Cain's bloodline and mindset is funded by your taxes, protected by your legislation, and shares your citizenship (Genesis 3:15).
God's Bible reveals the promises to His chosen people and admonishes us to walk in the Light of "the present Truth . . . that the Spirit of Truth may guide us into all the Truth for our day . . . and show us what will come to pass in our day." Jesus said, "Let both the wheat and the tares grow together unto the Harvest" thus the objective of the main articles and news items in our Newsletters is to reveal what Jesus is doing now, and also what Satan is doing now.
Much prayer, time and energy is devoted to each Bible Believers' Newsletter to feed your soul in accord with John 16:13. I admonish you to respect and cherish this work of the Lord by setting aside half a day or as long as required each week to read the full story, commentary and links in each news item and main article, "proving all things." Although this will take time away from the world and the things of the world, bear in mind that the Lord God has waited from the foundation of the world for you to manifest that you are a Son of God; in that day our Newsletters will be no more.
Today we have three main articles. Long time contributing author John Kaminski's essay, "Living a Life of Lies in America," identifies the United States in Scripture in real time. Felicity Arbuthnot exposes "US-NATO's 'Counter-Christmas Crusade' against the Cradle of Civilization and the Holy Land." Finally, our "Christmas" reminds us that Christ is building His Church "upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets" to which the prophetic ministry of the 'Elijah' of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 has restored His end-time Bride. We note neither Christmas or Easter were recognized by the apostles and prophets or indeed anyone outside pagan circles until they were introduced by the Judaeo-Roman false church after it organized in the fourth century. We cite quotations on these traditions by Brother Branham and historian Alexander Hislop whose "The Two Babylons" uncovers the pagan roots of "MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH".
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
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Boko Haram: another US Terrorist Brand to suppress Islamic Mvt in Nigeria
December 19, 2015 — "Who is carrying out senseless killings in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon? They are the same people carrying out attacks here, and we know them. We cannot be cowed" – Sheikh Ebrahim Zakzaky.
According to the Nigerian Government forces, a traffic infringement justifies the massacre of over 1,000 Muslims who were performing the religious ceremony of ushering in the new month of Maulud . . . To more fully understand this violent targeting of the Sheikh and the Islamic Movement, we must take into consideration, both the historical and more recent influences upon Nigeria.
China has been an evolving partnership in Nigeria, investing heavily in the development of infrastructure and fixed assets, refineries and factories. In a role diametrically opposed to the traditional plundering partnerships of the US and other neo-colonialists with sovereign nations, China contrarily seems to have a genuinely vested interest in the stability of Nigeria to support a mutually beneficial economic and trade relationship reliant upon the growth and profitability of Nigeria itself.
This concept adopted by China of a symbiotic expansion and growth, is anathema to the US neo-colonialism in the region, and particularly in Nigeria. The presence of China in a country so abundant in oil, uranium, diamond, mineral and timber resources is an acute thorn in the side of the US carpetbaggers who have perceived the Continent's largest economy and oil producer to be their bread basket and theirs alone.
It is logical, rational and reasonable to speculate that Boko Haram is effectively another terrorist trade name, brought into existence, to destabilize a region that is daring to jailbreak from US colonialism and to explore alternative bi-lateral trade pathways that deviate from the US regional "road maps".
Boko Haram's presence has a threefold purpose:
According to the Nigerian Government forces, a traffic infringement justifies the massacre of over 1,000 Muslims who were performing the religious ceremony of ushering in the new month of Maulud . . . To more fully understand this violent targeting of the Sheikh and the Islamic Movement, we must take into consideration, both the historical and more recent influences upon Nigeria.
China has been an evolving partnership in Nigeria, investing heavily in the development of infrastructure and fixed assets, refineries and factories. In a role diametrically opposed to the traditional plundering partnerships of the US and other neo-colonialists with sovereign nations, China contrarily seems to have a genuinely vested interest in the stability of Nigeria to support a mutually beneficial economic and trade relationship reliant upon the growth and profitability of Nigeria itself.
This concept adopted by China of a symbiotic expansion and growth, is anathema to the US neo-colonialism in the region, and particularly in Nigeria. The presence of China in a country so abundant in oil, uranium, diamond, mineral and timber resources is an acute thorn in the side of the US carpetbaggers who have perceived the Continent's largest economy and oil producer to be their bread basket and theirs alone.
It is logical, rational and reasonable to speculate that Boko Haram is effectively another terrorist trade name, brought into existence, to destabilize a region that is daring to jailbreak from US colonialism and to explore alternative bi-lateral trade pathways that deviate from the US regional "road maps".
Boko Haram's presence has a threefold purpose:
- It successfully elevates the Nigerian army to defender of the "meek" against the "terror" threat and provides cover for any violent opposition suppression.
- It gives the US justification for "boots on the ground," military support for anti-Boko Haram aka pro-US factions, and the ubiquitous drone strikes against the alleged "terror" strongholds, a devastating strategy already observed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen to name a few.
- It ensures the fragmentation, sectarian division, and fracturing of unity and a state of perpetual chaos which will seismically derail China's investment in Nigeria's physical and economic infrastructure essential to their US exclusive growth.
Sheikh Zakzaky had alluded to this very terror "patent" in his reaction to the suicide bomb attack on the Shia Arba'een procession in Kano on the 27th November 2015. Over 24 died and many were injured in further violent targeting of the minority Shia community in Nigeria.
"We know the names of the contractors and those contracted to commit the massacre, their identity is not hidden from us. Therefore we cannot be cowed by an imaginary Boko Haram tale, let them tell it to the fools and ignorant. They should know that they are dealing with those with foresight, wisdom and intelligence, and above all with the real religion".
This statement struck at the very heart of the US/NATO, Israeli and GCC strategy in Nigeria and threatened to undermine their architecture of "terror" foundations. The Sheikh made it clear that Boko Haram were none other than gangs of mercenaries, hired contractual killers, being unleashed to foment sectarian violence and an atmosphere of fear and division where only US appointed, backed and controlled "saviours" would emerge victorious.
When we consider the sheer numbers of gangs and rival gangs, extremist factions and sects emerging inorganically and globally, we can begin to connect the dots. All have as their purpose, the sowing and reaping of rapacious violence, the construct of division, the provocation of turmoil, the incitement of hatred and fear. All are posing as the enemies of Imperialism whilst serving Imperialist agendas. All fulfil roles of humanity-averse abomination and simultaneous US alliance proxy forces percolating from one target region to the next.
Grey Wolves, FSA, ISIS, DAESH, Al Qaeda, Khorasan, AQAP, Jabhat al Nusra and Boko Haram [to name a few], are they all nothing more than trade names, successfully managed brand images, logos and IDs all emanating from the US/NATO, Israel and Gulf State holders of the patent on terror and their associated marketing agents and concept creators?
Sheikh Ebrahim Zakzaky also challenges another malevolent bastion of Nigeria's landscape, the powerful pro-Israel lobby whose growth and expansion in Nigeria had been hugely facilitated by former President and Christian Zionist, Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria is now home to Africa's largest Israeli Jewish community [15, 000 in 2014] . . .
Into this maelstrom of lawless and Machiavellian meddling in Nigeria we can add one final component without which the neo-colonialist frontlines would not be complete: the Saudi Wahhabi agents of Islamic "change" who are the subterranean source of Muslim extremism and religious fanaticism; the funders and suppliers of the brand name proxy forces, deployed to whip up the "terror" frenzy wherever it is required to destabilize or unhinge unity that may jeopardize Empire's intent.
With ultimate irony, it is Riyadh that is self-appointed to combat the terrorism created in its image, by forming a coalition of 34 predominantly Muslim nations, Nigeria included, with the predictable exclusion of Iran, Syria and Iraq all of whom are involved in battling the Saudi NATO sourced terror hordes on the ground . . . [Many of those nations received no 'invitation' from the Jewish House of Saud, and have no intention of military commitment].
We live in a world where those honoured are the sowers of discord and the reapers of mayhem, state sponsored agents of chaos. We no longer honour the true heroes; we honour an illusion called power and greed. The state media apparatuses serve only to keep historic Fitna (sedition) wounds festering and the "NGO complex" pied piper plays the tune of stake-holding in human suffering, created in advance by the Empire's composers of death. Full story: english.khamenei.ir
Comment: Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, "America the Beautiful" achieved fin-de-siècle immortality post 9/11 as "the image unto the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of brass, and which devoured, crushed, and stamped the residue with its feet" (Daniel 7:19; Revelation 13:11-18). See US last minute attempt to "double cross" UN Security Council Resolution 2254 on Syria?
It is important that you take time to study and absorb the full story above and follow all links, noting in particular that the State sponsors of terrorism engage in counterterrorism and the role of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. A large number of ISIS mercenaries are convicted criminals released from Saudi prisons on condition they join the ISIL. Saudi death row inmates were recruited to join the terror brigades.
The "findings" of the US National Intelligence Council in an unclassified report entitled "Mapping the Global Future" is, like The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, not so much an objective study as a projection of the geostrategic plans of City of London into the inner consciousness of millions around the World.
When we consider the sheer numbers of gangs and rival gangs, extremist factions and sects emerging inorganically and globally, we can begin to connect the dots. All have as their purpose, the sowing and reaping of rapacious violence, the construct of division, the provocation of turmoil, the incitement of hatred and fear. All are posing as the enemies of Imperialism whilst serving Imperialist agendas. All fulfil roles of humanity-averse abomination and simultaneous US alliance proxy forces percolating from one target region to the next.
Grey Wolves, FSA, ISIS, DAESH, Al Qaeda, Khorasan, AQAP, Jabhat al Nusra and Boko Haram [to name a few], are they all nothing more than trade names, successfully managed brand images, logos and IDs all emanating from the US/NATO, Israel and Gulf State holders of the patent on terror and their associated marketing agents and concept creators?
Sheikh Ebrahim Zakzaky also challenges another malevolent bastion of Nigeria's landscape, the powerful pro-Israel lobby whose growth and expansion in Nigeria had been hugely facilitated by former President and Christian Zionist, Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria is now home to Africa's largest Israeli Jewish community [15, 000 in 2014] . . .
Into this maelstrom of lawless and Machiavellian meddling in Nigeria we can add one final component without which the neo-colonialist frontlines would not be complete: the Saudi Wahhabi agents of Islamic "change" who are the subterranean source of Muslim extremism and religious fanaticism; the funders and suppliers of the brand name proxy forces, deployed to whip up the "terror" frenzy wherever it is required to destabilize or unhinge unity that may jeopardize Empire's intent.
With ultimate irony, it is Riyadh that is self-appointed to combat the terrorism created in its image, by forming a coalition of 34 predominantly Muslim nations, Nigeria included, with the predictable exclusion of Iran, Syria and Iraq all of whom are involved in battling the Saudi NATO sourced terror hordes on the ground . . . [Many of those nations received no 'invitation' from the Jewish House of Saud, and have no intention of military commitment].
We live in a world where those honoured are the sowers of discord and the reapers of mayhem, state sponsored agents of chaos. We no longer honour the true heroes; we honour an illusion called power and greed. The state media apparatuses serve only to keep historic Fitna (sedition) wounds festering and the "NGO complex" pied piper plays the tune of stake-holding in human suffering, created in advance by the Empire's composers of death. Full story: english.khamenei.ir
Comment: Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, "America the Beautiful" achieved fin-de-siècle immortality post 9/11 as "the image unto the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of brass, and which devoured, crushed, and stamped the residue with its feet" (Daniel 7:19; Revelation 13:11-18). See US last minute attempt to "double cross" UN Security Council Resolution 2254 on Syria?
It is important that you take time to study and absorb the full story above and follow all links, noting in particular that the State sponsors of terrorism engage in counterterrorism and the role of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. A large number of ISIS mercenaries are convicted criminals released from Saudi prisons on condition they join the ISIL. Saudi death row inmates were recruited to join the terror brigades.
The "findings" of the US National Intelligence Council in an unclassified report entitled "Mapping the Global Future" is, like The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, not so much an objective study as a projection of the geostrategic plans of City of London into the inner consciousness of millions around the World.
The IMF changes its Rules to Isolate China and Russia
December 18, 2015 — The nightmare scenario of US geopolitical strategists seems to be coming true: foreign economic independence from US control. Instead of privatizing and neoliberalizing the world under US-centered financial planning and ownership, Russian and Chinese governments are investing in neighboring economies on terms that cement Eurasian economic integration on the basis of Russian oil and tax exports and Chinese financing. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) threatens to replace the IMF and World Bank programs that favor US suppliers, banks and bondholders (with the United States holding unique veto power).
Russia's 2013 loan to Ukraine, made at the request of Ukraine's elected pro-Russian government, demonstrated the benefits of mutual trade and investment relations between the two countries . . . What especially annoys US financial strategists is that this loan by Russia's sovereign debt fund was protected by IMF lending practice, which at that time ensured collectability by withholding new credit from countries in default of foreign official debts (or at least, not bargaining in good faith to pay). To cap matters, the bonds are registered under London's creditor-oriented rules and courts . . . Full story: counterpunch.org
Comment: Important revelation of deception by the Jewish-controlled US, West and predatory banking system.
Russia's 2013 loan to Ukraine, made at the request of Ukraine's elected pro-Russian government, demonstrated the benefits of mutual trade and investment relations between the two countries . . . What especially annoys US financial strategists is that this loan by Russia's sovereign debt fund was protected by IMF lending practice, which at that time ensured collectability by withholding new credit from countries in default of foreign official debts (or at least, not bargaining in good faith to pay). To cap matters, the bonds are registered under London's creditor-oriented rules and courts . . . Full story: counterpunch.org
Comment: Important revelation of deception by the Jewish-controlled US, West and predatory banking system.
Joining NATO: Ukraine a Warning to Others
December 21, 2015 — Ukraine was not exactly clamoring to get into NATO, the antiquated military alliance created in the wake of World War II to prevent a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. In order to even raise the prospect of Ukraine's inclusion, first NATO itself would have to overthrow the elected government via an armed coup. Then it would have to ensure its new client regime remained in power . . . There are other nations the United States and NATO are courting. But considering the fate of Ukraine, it will likely take coups, terrorism, and coercing, unparalleled even to what Ukraine has suffered, in order to strong-arm them into the alliance. Full story: journal-neo.org
Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: US and NATO Culpability (IV)
December 22, 2015 — Turkish government is not acting alone in Syria and Iraq. The corrupt leadership of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Britain, Israel, and the United States are also involved. They have all played direct or indirect roles in the theft of oil too. After the role of Turkey in stealing oil from Syria and Iraq was revealed, the US government began work to mask and conceal the oil smuggling operations . . .
On December 1, Alexander Grushko, the Russian permanent representative to NATO Headquarters, pointed out that the US and NATO gave 'political cover' to Turkey for its attack on Russia's Sukhoi Su-24M bomber jet in Syria. On the same day, Russian parliamentarian Irina Yarovaya pointed out that the military alliance is also involved in protecting ISIL and theft of Iraqi and Syrian oil. NATO's response to the Turkish incursion into Iraq was also muted, even after Iraq' Prime Minister Al-Abadi called NATO Secretariat on December 8 asking it to get NATO member Turkey to withdraw its forces . . . Full story: Part IV
Turkish officials were involved in illegal transport of oil from Iraq long before the emergence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS/IS/DAESH) . . . The operations of the Anglo-Turkish company Genel Energy PLC, which works in Iraqi Kurdistan and Malta, illustrates the constellation of financial and energy sector interests involved. Genel Energy PLC has its headquarters in the English Channel's Crown Dependency of the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is an offshore tax haven governed by Britain's monarchy as a separate entity from the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. With the involvement of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Cazenove . . . Nathaniel Rothschild . . . cousin Thomas Daniel, and Dresdner Kleinwort and Goldman Sachs investment banker Julian Metherell . . . Turkish billionaire business mogul and banker Mehmet Emin Karamehmet . . . Mehmet Sepil . . . Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed Massoud Barzani's takeover of Kirkuk and other disputed territories in Iraq . . . Full story: Part III Part II Part I
Comment: BIG LIES of elected Jewish dictators of apostate Christendom seeking Russia's destruction exposed.
On December 1, Alexander Grushko, the Russian permanent representative to NATO Headquarters, pointed out that the US and NATO gave 'political cover' to Turkey for its attack on Russia's Sukhoi Su-24M bomber jet in Syria. On the same day, Russian parliamentarian Irina Yarovaya pointed out that the military alliance is also involved in protecting ISIL and theft of Iraqi and Syrian oil. NATO's response to the Turkish incursion into Iraq was also muted, even after Iraq' Prime Minister Al-Abadi called NATO Secretariat on December 8 asking it to get NATO member Turkey to withdraw its forces . . . Full story: Part IV
Turkish officials were involved in illegal transport of oil from Iraq long before the emergence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS/IS/DAESH) . . . The operations of the Anglo-Turkish company Genel Energy PLC, which works in Iraqi Kurdistan and Malta, illustrates the constellation of financial and energy sector interests involved. Genel Energy PLC has its headquarters in the English Channel's Crown Dependency of the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is an offshore tax haven governed by Britain's monarchy as a separate entity from the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. With the involvement of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Cazenove . . . Nathaniel Rothschild . . . cousin Thomas Daniel, and Dresdner Kleinwort and Goldman Sachs investment banker Julian Metherell . . . Turkish billionaire business mogul and banker Mehmet Emin Karamehmet . . . Mehmet Sepil . . . Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed Massoud Barzani's takeover of Kirkuk and other disputed territories in Iraq . . . Full story: Part III Part II Part I
Comment: BIG LIES of elected Jewish dictators of apostate Christendom seeking Russia's destruction exposed.
Neocons object to Syrian Democracy
December 19, 2015 — To the chagrin of the [Washington] Post's editors, Obama finally ceded to the more democratically defensible position that the Syrian people should pick their own leaders. After all, if Obama is right about how much the Syrian people hate Assad, elections would empower them to implement their own "regime change" through the ballot box. That uncertain outcome is not what the Post's editors want. They want a predetermined result—Assad's ouster—regardless of the Syrian people's wishes.
And regarding the editorial, you also should note the reference to Assad killing "his own people with chemical weapons," an apparent allusion to the now-discredited—but still widely accepted (inside Official Washington at least)—claim that Assad was behind a lethal sarin gas attack outside Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013.
To this day, the US government (or, for that matter, the Washington Post) has not presented any verifiable evidence to support the Assad-did-it allegation, but it nevertheless has become an Everyone-Knows-It-To-Be-True "group think" based on endless repetition, much as Official Washington concluded that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had WMD stockpiles, based on the fact that it was stated as flat fact by lots of Important People, including the Post's editorial writers . . .
Full story: consortiumnews.com
And regarding the editorial, you also should note the reference to Assad killing "his own people with chemical weapons," an apparent allusion to the now-discredited—but still widely accepted (inside Official Washington at least)—claim that Assad was behind a lethal sarin gas attack outside Damascus on Aug. 21, 2013.
To this day, the US government (or, for that matter, the Washington Post) has not presented any verifiable evidence to support the Assad-did-it allegation, but it nevertheless has become an Everyone-Knows-It-To-Be-True "group think" based on endless repetition, much as Official Washington concluded that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had WMD stockpiles, based on the fact that it was stated as flat fact by lots of Important People, including the Post's editorial writers . . .
Full story: consortiumnews.com
Iranian Militia Volunteers stage Capture of Replica al-Aqsa Mosque
November 20, 2015 — Iranian volunteer militia forces have staged two days of military drills near the shrine city of Qom, culminating with a march to a replica of Jerusalem's holy al-Aqsa Mosque . . . 120 Basij battalions, fighters marched towards a plastic replica of al-Aqsa . . . fighter jets bombed targets in the desert, watched by squadrons of gun-wielding volunteers dressed in fatigues and wearing headbands that read "At Your Service Ruhollah" . . . the cleric who led Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and served as supreme leader until his death a decade later. . . . Though the Basij are generally trained to fight in Iran, members of the force have also reportedly been deployed to fight in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad . . . Full story: middleeasteye.net
Comment: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has assured believers that Muslims will indeed capture the Dome of the Rock, after it has been demolished by an earthquake (Isaiah 13:6-16; Ezekiel 43:1-2; Daniel 11:39; Zechariah 14:1-5; I Thessalonians 4:14; Revelation 11:2; 16:19).
Comment: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has assured believers that Muslims will indeed capture the Dome of the Rock, after it has been demolished by an earthquake (Isaiah 13:6-16; Ezekiel 43:1-2; Daniel 11:39; Zechariah 14:1-5; I Thessalonians 4:14; Revelation 11:2; 16:19).
US taking 100,000 Muslim Refugees/Year
November 28, 2015 — So we may be getting closer to the bottom of that UPS charter that unloaded 30 bus loads of people at night at the Harrisburg, Penn Regional airport. Our fearless commenters provided some great information. It turns out that UPS has converted a few planes for passengers as charters . . . an interview with a commercial pilot last year who ". . . refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement that allowed him to break FAA regulations but lost his job in his refusal. He was to fly [refugees] in from some Middle East country into JFK in the middle of the night bypassing security.
And just look at the numbers. Everyone is getting all excited about Obama saying he would bring in 10,000 refugees from Syria. In the first 5 years of the Obama presidency, the US gave out green cards to over 680,000 immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries . . . Full story: youtube.com the voice of sanity from Hungary
And just look at the numbers. Everyone is getting all excited about Obama saying he would bring in 10,000 refugees from Syria. In the first 5 years of the Obama presidency, the US gave out green cards to over 680,000 immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries . . . Full story: youtube.com the voice of sanity from Hungary
Confessions of a Former Swiss Banker
August, 2015 — Former Swiss Banker Francois Siebenthal discusses his experiences at the highest levels of International banking, while attending an annual conference with The Pilgrim's of St. Michael in Rougemont, Quebec, Canada. Eucharist Shine Films was on-hand to document the proceedings and classroom sessions. While there, we were introduced to former Swiss banker Francois de Siebenthal, an advocate for the concept of worldwide monetary reform known as "Social Credit," agreed to an in-depth interview. Full story: vimeo.com
Weapon used in November 13 Paris Attacks came from CIA-linked Arms Dealer
December 18, 2015 — According to data from Interpol and Serbian officials, at least one of the guns . . . was purchased by Century International Arms . . . Century Arms has close ties to the CIA and has faced accusations in America and Europe of involvement in illegal arms deals . . . the Zastava arms factory . . . delivered the pistol in May 2013 to Century Arms . . . NATO powers were undoubtedly politically implicated. The attacks were led by Islamist fighters trained in Syria—where the CIA, European intelligence and Persian Gulf oil sheikdoms have given financial and military backing to . . . topple President Bashar al-Assad. Full story: wsws.org
Comment: The report tables Century and CIA criminality around the world.
Comment: The report tables Century and CIA criminality around the world.
The 239-Year Timeline of America's Involvement in Military Conflict
December 18, 2015 — In truth, the United States of America has been engaged in some kind of war during 218 out of the nation's total 239 years of existence. Put another way, in the entire span of US history, this country has only experienced 21 years without conflict . . . As the world moves closer and closer to an official beginning to world war III, and as many people are seeking opportunities to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East, it is important to realize that the US state and the American people are simply not equipped or conditioned to pursue and realize peace. War is indeed the health of our state . . . excluding acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing such as were carried out against Native American populations during the establishment of the empire, and also excluding foreign interventions by America's covert security agencies such as the CIA . . . Full story: activistpost.com
Living a Life of Lies in America
By John Kaminski
Revelation 13:10-18: "He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with war must be killed with war (Revelation 13:4; The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 211:3; 220:5 - 222:5). Here is the patience and the faith of the saints."
"I beheld another beast [the USA] coming up out of the [sparsely populated] earth [whereas Rome came up out of the sea of multitudes]; and he had two horns like a lamb [church and state power], and he spoke as a dragon [Satan, Revelation 20:2]. And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him [Imperial Rome], and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to make obeisance to the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [when it became Papal Rome]."
"And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men [the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki], and deceives them that dwell on the earth by those portents transcending the common course of nature which he had power to do in the sight of the beast [Papal Rome]; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make a [Protestant] image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And [as Papal Rome] he had power to give life to the image of the beast [World Council of Churches], that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand [indicating servitude], or in their foreheads [accepting trinitarianism which all religions observe knowingly or in ignorance]: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name [VICARIVS FILII DEI which means substitute for Christ or in place of the Holy Spirit]. Here is wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast [5 + 1 + 100 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 1 + 1 + 500 + 1 = 666] for it is the number of a man [the Pope]; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six".
This prophecy identifies the United States of America as "the image of the beast of Imperial Rome" and the apostate (once) Protestant churches as "the image unto the beast of Papal Rome." The following essay demonstrates from history and the present instant it is in an advanced stage of fulfilment. As the "great red Dragon [of Imperial Rome] stood before the woman [Israel] which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child [Jesus Messiah] as soon as it was born" and initiated a persecution and killed all the children from two years of age and younger, Papal Rome and her once Protestant harlot daughters will persecute and martyr 144,000 elect Israelites and the foolish virgins when church and state are united in the great tribulation (Revelation 12:3-4; 13:15-18).
"I beheld another beast [the USA] coming up out of the [sparsely populated] earth [whereas Rome came up out of the sea of multitudes]; and he had two horns like a lamb [church and state power], and he spoke as a dragon [Satan, Revelation 20:2]. And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him [Imperial Rome], and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to make obeisance to the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [when it became Papal Rome]."
"And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men [the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki], and deceives them that dwell on the earth by those portents transcending the common course of nature which he had power to do in the sight of the beast [Papal Rome]; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make a [Protestant] image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And [as Papal Rome] he had power to give life to the image of the beast [World Council of Churches], that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand [indicating servitude], or in their foreheads [accepting trinitarianism which all religions observe knowingly or in ignorance]: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name [VICARIVS FILII DEI which means substitute for Christ or in place of the Holy Spirit]. Here is wisdom. Let he who has understanding count the number of the beast [5 + 1 + 100 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 50 + 1 + 1 + 500 + 1 = 666] for it is the number of a man [the Pope]; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six".
This prophecy identifies the United States of America as "the image of the beast of Imperial Rome" and the apostate (once) Protestant churches as "the image unto the beast of Papal Rome." The following essay demonstrates from history and the present instant it is in an advanced stage of fulfilment. As the "great red Dragon [of Imperial Rome] stood before the woman [Israel] which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child [Jesus Messiah] as soon as it was born" and initiated a persecution and killed all the children from two years of age and younger, Papal Rome and her once Protestant harlot daughters will persecute and martyr 144,000 elect Israelites and the foolish virgins when church and state are united in the great tribulation (Revelation 12:3-4; 13:15-18).
"I often think about the assassination of a man named Anwar al-Awlaki, who was so disgusted with what the United States government was doing to the world that he moved to Yemen, where he could practice his religion, which was Islam, and say what he wanted, freely. While there, he was murdered, death from above courtesy of an American drone. A short while later, al-Awlaki's son was murdered in the same way, along with a bunch of his friends, a drone bomb from the sky delivered by the push of a button from very far away.
No charges, no trial, just the execution, has become the new American way.
The thing of it is, the thing that sticks in my craw and rubs wrong on my conscience, is that al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico, was telling the truth, and the people who killed him, that is to say, the US government, were telling a lie, and enforcing that lie with arbitrary death from the sky.
The truth al-Awlaki was telling was that America had no right to be doing what it does to the rest of the world, particularly the Muslim world. And he had the evidence to back up what he was saying. A few very vivid and vomitous examples will suffice to serve to illustrate what I am saying.
Abu Ghraib prison, where Americans practiced torturing Iraqi prisoners, attaching electrical cords to prisoners' genitals, or forcing mothers to watch their children being raped. Fallujah (which everybody has forgotten), where 350,000 Iraqis were burned, mostly to death, by illegal white phosphorus, all for stringing up a few murderous mercenaries who were (and are still today) paid big money to foment war.
And of course, the rape of Libya and its leader, where everyone has pretty much forgotten was the freest, happiest country in the world, so the Western governments, who specialize in oppressing their own people without them realizing it, didn't want word getting out that there was a place on this planet where citizens of a country were actually happy about the way their government treated them.
Can you comprehend that the imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya wound up causing 600,000 deaths that you, as an American, are responsible for, because your government and its constant and never ending misrepresentations caused this tragedy? The same process and numbers of dead innocent people apply to the current situation in Syria. And they have always applied in Palestine.
This is your fault, for letting politicians lie to you, and doing nothing about it.
Wonder no longer why there is an Islamic invasion of Europe.
So now, today, Americans have to pretty much live with the fact, as their plastic politicians prattle on, that we murdered Anwar al-Awlaki and his son because they were telling the truth about what America was doing to the world. We have to suppress this knowledge as our politicians get up on the stage and mumble about how we need the strongest military in the world (which we already have, by far) to protect ourselves from these military threats all over the world, from the big bad Russians (who seem to be the only ones telling us the real truth about what's going on in the Middle East) or those nasty Mooslims, who right now seem to be waging an invasion of Europe that we Americans ourselves have precipitated by obliterating the countries they used to live in.
And it wouldn't be so bad, in the minds of many Americans, if we were just murdering people overseas (which we have always done!), but now we have all sorts of new categories in which we are murdering our own citizens here at home because their behavior just doesn't fit in with the plans our controllers have for us.
The broad category in which people are being murdered seems to fit under the general rubric of trying to do things that are good for other people, or actions that are beneficial to humanity. These things are almost always at odds with the plans our foreign controlled (read: Jewish) government has for us.
We saw how that worked in the recent spate of honorable physicians (a rare category in itself) who were all murdered — or suicided — because they had found a cancer treatment that actually worked. You remember Dr. Bradstreet, don't you? The guy who committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, and then jumping into a river.
Scarier still was the death of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, the popular cardiologist in perfect shape who died of a sudden heart attack that was undetectable during his autopsy. (If they could do this to him, they could do this to anybody.)
It behoves us to think of these things (and try not to vomit at our silent complicity in these events) when we listen to our presidential candidates boast about the quality of medical care in America, and their willingness to let the pharmaceutical giants to inflict untested products on an oblivious populace just to make obscene profits.
Remember, following your doctor's orders is really the leading cause of death in America.
Of course, the new growth industry in a rapidly getting poorer America is without question the false flag public massacre. There are numerous employment opportunities for anyone willing to lie for money (which unfortunately includes a very large percentage of the population).
Ever since the titanic hoax of 9/11, more and more people are finding work as crisis actors, false witnesses and corrupt federal agents pretending to investigate these so-called crimes that are really elaborately staged government dramas all designed for one purpose alone—to get the people to give up their guns so the totalitarian prison drama being implemented by the worldwide Jewish menace can begin throughout the country, reducing the population as quickly as possible, creating a windfall for both the insurance companies and the government which will cash in the policies they have on everyone.
Heck, crisis actors in Sandy Hook, Connecticut made many millions of dollars and many got free houses simply for participating in that high drama in which a 120-pound dweeb carrying 80 pounds of weapons and ammo murdered 26 people in five minutes after which no bodies were ever seen and no mess of blood and guts ever needed to be cleaned up.
Now that's what I can an efficiently staged production. I loved it when the medical examiner actually said he hoped the whole thing didn't come crashing down on the heads of the people of Sandy Hook and the criminal politicians who set up this whole hoax, and virtually no one picked up on the line.
The same thing happened a short time later in Boston, and illustrated the maxim that in America today, anyone can be charged with any crime, found guilty and sentenced to death for any reason and under any circumstances by a corrupt, Jewish controlled government that will say anything and do anything to impose its totalitarian Communist rule over American people who appear to be, at this late date, all too willing to accept it.
On the other hand, despite all the false flag massacres and all the not-so-mysterious murders of people trying to do good, gun sales in America have never been higher and contempt for corrupt politicians has never been more prevalent so that it would seem, hoping for the best, that it is only a matter of time before the Jewish hammerlock on the American mind can be overthrown, and liberty can be re-established for those of us still around who are currently living a life of lies in America.
No charges, no trial, just the execution, has become the new American way.
The thing of it is, the thing that sticks in my craw and rubs wrong on my conscience, is that al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico, was telling the truth, and the people who killed him, that is to say, the US government, were telling a lie, and enforcing that lie with arbitrary death from the sky.
The truth al-Awlaki was telling was that America had no right to be doing what it does to the rest of the world, particularly the Muslim world. And he had the evidence to back up what he was saying. A few very vivid and vomitous examples will suffice to serve to illustrate what I am saying.
Abu Ghraib prison, where Americans practiced torturing Iraqi prisoners, attaching electrical cords to prisoners' genitals, or forcing mothers to watch their children being raped. Fallujah (which everybody has forgotten), where 350,000 Iraqis were burned, mostly to death, by illegal white phosphorus, all for stringing up a few murderous mercenaries who were (and are still today) paid big money to foment war.
And of course, the rape of Libya and its leader, where everyone has pretty much forgotten was the freest, happiest country in the world, so the Western governments, who specialize in oppressing their own people without them realizing it, didn't want word getting out that there was a place on this planet where citizens of a country were actually happy about the way their government treated them.
Can you comprehend that the imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya wound up causing 600,000 deaths that you, as an American, are responsible for, because your government and its constant and never ending misrepresentations caused this tragedy? The same process and numbers of dead innocent people apply to the current situation in Syria. And they have always applied in Palestine.
This is your fault, for letting politicians lie to you, and doing nothing about it.
Wonder no longer why there is an Islamic invasion of Europe.
So now, today, Americans have to pretty much live with the fact, as their plastic politicians prattle on, that we murdered Anwar al-Awlaki and his son because they were telling the truth about what America was doing to the world. We have to suppress this knowledge as our politicians get up on the stage and mumble about how we need the strongest military in the world (which we already have, by far) to protect ourselves from these military threats all over the world, from the big bad Russians (who seem to be the only ones telling us the real truth about what's going on in the Middle East) or those nasty Mooslims, who right now seem to be waging an invasion of Europe that we Americans ourselves have precipitated by obliterating the countries they used to live in.
And it wouldn't be so bad, in the minds of many Americans, if we were just murdering people overseas (which we have always done!), but now we have all sorts of new categories in which we are murdering our own citizens here at home because their behavior just doesn't fit in with the plans our controllers have for us.
The broad category in which people are being murdered seems to fit under the general rubric of trying to do things that are good for other people, or actions that are beneficial to humanity. These things are almost always at odds with the plans our foreign controlled (read: Jewish) government has for us.
We saw how that worked in the recent spate of honorable physicians (a rare category in itself) who were all murdered — or suicided — because they had found a cancer treatment that actually worked. You remember Dr. Bradstreet, don't you? The guy who committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, and then jumping into a river.
Scarier still was the death of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, the popular cardiologist in perfect shape who died of a sudden heart attack that was undetectable during his autopsy. (If they could do this to him, they could do this to anybody.)
It behoves us to think of these things (and try not to vomit at our silent complicity in these events) when we listen to our presidential candidates boast about the quality of medical care in America, and their willingness to let the pharmaceutical giants to inflict untested products on an oblivious populace just to make obscene profits.
Remember, following your doctor's orders is really the leading cause of death in America.
Of course, the new growth industry in a rapidly getting poorer America is without question the false flag public massacre. There are numerous employment opportunities for anyone willing to lie for money (which unfortunately includes a very large percentage of the population).
Ever since the titanic hoax of 9/11, more and more people are finding work as crisis actors, false witnesses and corrupt federal agents pretending to investigate these so-called crimes that are really elaborately staged government dramas all designed for one purpose alone—to get the people to give up their guns so the totalitarian prison drama being implemented by the worldwide Jewish menace can begin throughout the country, reducing the population as quickly as possible, creating a windfall for both the insurance companies and the government which will cash in the policies they have on everyone.
Heck, crisis actors in Sandy Hook, Connecticut made many millions of dollars and many got free houses simply for participating in that high drama in which a 120-pound dweeb carrying 80 pounds of weapons and ammo murdered 26 people in five minutes after which no bodies were ever seen and no mess of blood and guts ever needed to be cleaned up.
Now that's what I can an efficiently staged production. I loved it when the medical examiner actually said he hoped the whole thing didn't come crashing down on the heads of the people of Sandy Hook and the criminal politicians who set up this whole hoax, and virtually no one picked up on the line.
The same thing happened a short time later in Boston, and illustrated the maxim that in America today, anyone can be charged with any crime, found guilty and sentenced to death for any reason and under any circumstances by a corrupt, Jewish controlled government that will say anything and do anything to impose its totalitarian Communist rule over American people who appear to be, at this late date, all too willing to accept it.
On the other hand, despite all the false flag massacres and all the not-so-mysterious murders of people trying to do good, gun sales in America have never been higher and contempt for corrupt politicians has never been more prevalent so that it would seem, hoping for the best, that it is only a matter of time before the Jewish hammerlock on the American mind can be overthrown, and liberty can be re-established for those of us still around who are currently living a life of lies in America.
US-NATO's 'Counter-Christmas Crusade' against the Cradle of Civilization and the Holy Land
By Felicity Arbuthnot
December 17, 2015 — "It's really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. You just don't invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests." -John Kerry [tongue-in-cheek], "Meet the Press", 2nd March 2014.
There has been a searing irony to Christmas since August 1990 and the decimating embargo on Iraq. It marked the beginning of the destruction of the region where the three Abrahamic religions were born at Ur in southern Iraq, where the Garden of Eden is believed to have flourished at Al-Qurnah, translation "connection" or "joint", since it is where the Biblical Tigris and Euphrates rivers join.
[There is but one (1) "Abrahamic religion" and it is not religion at all, but the faith of Abraham in the infinitesimally small minority of Adam's race who have been baptized into the unconditional Covenant God made with Abraham through His promised Seed, Jesus Messiah, and born-again by the present Truth" ". . . what Jesus is doing now. This excludes the whole of institutional Christendom (Amos 8:11; Luke 17:22-37; 18:8; II Timothy 3:1 – 4:4; Revelation 3:17; 18:4).
Judaism is the modern name for Pharisaism and was never Abrahamic faith but arose among reprobates to Yahweh Torah (Yahwism) during the Babylonian captivity. ". . . Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name . . . the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered . . . From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia, and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered . . . demonstrates the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious movement . . ." (Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, head of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in his Foreword to his First Edition of "The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith", on page XXI; Isaiah 8:20; Malachi 3:6; Jesus Messiah, Matthew 15:1-9; 23:1-7).
Islam is not Abrahamic faith but a fabrication of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews who are liars like Judaeo-Roman Catholicism (Revelation 2:9; 3:9) and also the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as history confirms].
In Al-Qurnah an ancient jujube tree—a fruit species (image right), cultivation of which is believed to go back to 900 BCE—was celebrated as the actual Biblical Tree of Knowledge. ["The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" was Satan, the god of this evil age. If a fruit could make Eve recognize her nakedness then is it time to pass the Jujubes in this wicked and adulterous generation which is repeating the original sin of miscegenation "as it was in the days of Noah" as Jesus prophesied (Matthew 24:37; Genesis 6:1-4) although it is applauded as the euphemism "multiculturalism"].
Nearby is Babylon, found in the Books of Genesis, Peter and Revelation. Neighbouring Syria is also part of the "Cradle of Civilization", integral to Biblical narrative.
[Antioch was where the name "Christian" first marked the new 'sect' that had sprung up in Palestine (Acts 11:26) and where the first Gentile Church was formed (Acts 11:20-21) just outside the northern boundary of Israel. Like the Israelites, Christians can only worship under the blood, and in the place where God has chosen to place His Name (Deuteronomy 16:1-6). Unlike the Law-keepers we are not bound to meet Him in Jerusalem where once God chose to place His Name but in the Word for the hour (Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 11:25-30; II Peter 1:12; I John 1:7). And whereas Israel's sabbath gave natural rest for their mortal flesh and spirit, our sabbath is spiritual and eternal rest for the soul].
Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount (Mount Hermon) which according to the Book of Matthew [perhaps Acts 11?] included: "Syria, you are the cradle of the prophets and apostles and the center that spreads the gospel from Antioch in Syria to the world, and paved the way of the Forefathers of the Church to continue."
St Paul of course was converted on the road to Damascus—where he was actually headed to persecute Christians not to become one of them.
Geographically next door to Syria is what remains of Israeli occupied Palestine, Christ's birthplace in Bethlehem, where, at what is now the Church of the Nativity (image left), He was believed born.
Above are just a few of the jewels of a region now decimated by that created by George W. Bush's and Tony Blair's "Crusade," not to mention Obama and Cameron's "humanitarian bombings" of the Land of two Rivers.
Ur was vandalized by the US army, who arrived with Bibles in vast stocks, missionaries and plans for proselytizing those who had nurtured and stewarded the region's wonders of all religions for centuries.
Al-Qurna was stormed and devastatingly damaged by British, Lithuanian and Danish troops, the Tree of Knowledge whose legend and life seemingly spanned the mists of time, died, near certainly from the poisonous pollution of battle, more poisonous even than that which destroyed over half all fauna and flora after the Desert Storm 1991 onslaught, leaving the soil dead and infertile for years afterwards. [The Tree of Knowledge is very much alive, "walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (I Peter 5:8).
Syria's tragedy in the ongoing Crusade, determination to redraw the map of the Middle East and steal all natural resources rather than purchase them, is outside the scope of this article.
However, Mount Hermon is now part of the buffer zone between Syria and Israeli occupied territory and the highest permanently manned United Nations position on earth. "Jesus wept" comes to mind.
As for Bethlehem's "Little Town" so central during the Christmas period, it is prisoner to a wall eight meters high, which:
"snakes through and around Bethlehem, disrupting social, religious, cultural and economic life" (old.quaker.org.uk).
The brilliant political artist Banksy's Christmas card show's Joseph, with Mary on a donkey, on their way to Bethlehem for Christ's birth—blocked by the wall.
At Al Quds University last week, the most poignant of Christmas trees was unveiled to "Absent Friends", attended by the Mufti of Bethlehem, Sheikh Abdul Majid Amarna, University's President, Imad Abu Kishk and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna. The tree was decorated with photographs of those killed by Israeli settlers and Israeli security forces representing the unity between Christian and Muslim students. It received predictable criticism from Israeli media. (middleeastmonitor.com).
The tree is a microcosm of the unity to be found across the region and the world between all faiths and none. So where did this rabid Islamophobia, as demonstrated in swathes of mainstream Western media and by politicians suddenly come from?
It came primarily from a forty-two million dollar fund from seven foundations read and all will become crystal clear. Some excellent links also to be found at middleeasteye.net and the CIA's input (globalresearch.us)
However, it was the Orthodox Church of the Holy Land which first spotted the dangers of a creeping hate campaign, responding on 31st March 2003, as the bombs fell on Iraq, by excommunicating Tony Blair, his then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, George W. Bush [both Jews] and his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and banning them from the Church of the Nativity, for life.
Blair, Straw and Bush all declare passionate Christian faith, with Bush and Blair stating they "prayed together" prior to illegally decimating Abraham's birth country.
"A spokesman of the Orthodox Church in the Holy Land, Archimandrite Attallah Hanna declared that US President George Bush, his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw have all been banned from visiting the traditional birth place of Christ in Bethlehem." Hanna described both Bush and Blair as "excommunicates".
[The Jew] David Cameron has also expressed an "evangelical passion" for Christianity as he plots to further destroy Syria. With any luck he'll be the next to be banned. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently said: "The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded."
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There has been a searing irony to Christmas since August 1990 and the decimating embargo on Iraq. It marked the beginning of the destruction of the region where the three Abrahamic religions were born at Ur in southern Iraq, where the Garden of Eden is believed to have flourished at Al-Qurnah, translation "connection" or "joint", since it is where the Biblical Tigris and Euphrates rivers join.
[There is but one (1) "Abrahamic religion" and it is not religion at all, but the faith of Abraham in the infinitesimally small minority of Adam's race who have been baptized into the unconditional Covenant God made with Abraham through His promised Seed, Jesus Messiah, and born-again by the present Truth" ". . . what Jesus is doing now. This excludes the whole of institutional Christendom (Amos 8:11; Luke 17:22-37; 18:8; II Timothy 3:1 – 4:4; Revelation 3:17; 18:4).
Judaism is the modern name for Pharisaism and was never Abrahamic faith but arose among reprobates to Yahweh Torah (Yahwism) during the Babylonian captivity. ". . . Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name . . . the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered . . . From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia, and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered . . . demonstrates the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious movement . . ." (Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, head of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in his Foreword to his First Edition of "The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith", on page XXI; Isaiah 8:20; Malachi 3:6; Jesus Messiah, Matthew 15:1-9; 23:1-7).
Islam is not Abrahamic faith but a fabrication of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews who are liars like Judaeo-Roman Catholicism (Revelation 2:9; 3:9) and also the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as history confirms].
In Al-Qurnah an ancient jujube tree—a fruit species (image right), cultivation of which is believed to go back to 900 BCE—was celebrated as the actual Biblical Tree of Knowledge. ["The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" was Satan, the god of this evil age. If a fruit could make Eve recognize her nakedness then is it time to pass the Jujubes in this wicked and adulterous generation which is repeating the original sin of miscegenation "as it was in the days of Noah" as Jesus prophesied (Matthew 24:37; Genesis 6:1-4) although it is applauded as the euphemism "multiculturalism"]. Nearby is Babylon, found in the Books of Genesis, Peter and Revelation. Neighbouring Syria is also part of the "Cradle of Civilization", integral to Biblical narrative.
[Antioch was where the name "Christian" first marked the new 'sect' that had sprung up in Palestine (Acts 11:26) and where the first Gentile Church was formed (Acts 11:20-21) just outside the northern boundary of Israel. Like the Israelites, Christians can only worship under the blood, and in the place where God has chosen to place His Name (Deuteronomy 16:1-6). Unlike the Law-keepers we are not bound to meet Him in Jerusalem where once God chose to place His Name but in the Word for the hour (Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 11:25-30; II Peter 1:12; I John 1:7). And whereas Israel's sabbath gave natural rest for their mortal flesh and spirit, our sabbath is spiritual and eternal rest for the soul].
Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount (Mount Hermon) which according to the Book of Matthew [perhaps Acts 11?] included: "Syria, you are the cradle of the prophets and apostles and the center that spreads the gospel from Antioch in Syria to the world, and paved the way of the Forefathers of the Church to continue."
St Paul of course was converted on the road to Damascus—where he was actually headed to persecute Christians not to become one of them.
Geographically next door to Syria is what remains of Israeli occupied Palestine, Christ's birthplace in Bethlehem, where, at what is now the Church of the Nativity (image left), He was believed born. Above are just a few of the jewels of a region now decimated by that created by George W. Bush's and Tony Blair's "Crusade," not to mention Obama and Cameron's "humanitarian bombings" of the Land of two Rivers.
Ur was vandalized by the US army, who arrived with Bibles in vast stocks, missionaries and plans for proselytizing those who had nurtured and stewarded the region's wonders of all religions for centuries.
Al-Qurna was stormed and devastatingly damaged by British, Lithuanian and Danish troops, the Tree of Knowledge whose legend and life seemingly spanned the mists of time, died, near certainly from the poisonous pollution of battle, more poisonous even than that which destroyed over half all fauna and flora after the Desert Storm 1991 onslaught, leaving the soil dead and infertile for years afterwards. [The Tree of Knowledge is very much alive, "walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (I Peter 5:8).
Syria's tragedy in the ongoing Crusade, determination to redraw the map of the Middle East and steal all natural resources rather than purchase them, is outside the scope of this article.
However, Mount Hermon is now part of the buffer zone between Syria and Israeli occupied territory and the highest permanently manned United Nations position on earth. "Jesus wept" comes to mind.
As for Bethlehem's "Little Town" so central during the Christmas period, it is prisoner to a wall eight meters high, which:
"snakes through and around Bethlehem, disrupting social, religious, cultural and economic life" (old.quaker.org.uk).
The brilliant political artist Banksy's Christmas card show's Joseph, with Mary on a donkey, on their way to Bethlehem for Christ's birth—blocked by the wall. At Al Quds University last week, the most poignant of Christmas trees was unveiled to "Absent Friends", attended by the Mufti of Bethlehem, Sheikh Abdul Majid Amarna, University's President, Imad Abu Kishk and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna. The tree was decorated with photographs of those killed by Israeli settlers and Israeli security forces representing the unity between Christian and Muslim students. It received predictable criticism from Israeli media. (middleeastmonitor.com).
The tree is a microcosm of the unity to be found across the region and the world between all faiths and none. So where did this rabid Islamophobia, as demonstrated in swathes of mainstream Western media and by politicians suddenly come from?
It came primarily from a forty-two million dollar fund from seven foundations read and all will become crystal clear. Some excellent links also to be found at middleeasteye.net and the CIA's input (globalresearch.us)
However, it was the Orthodox Church of the Holy Land which first spotted the dangers of a creeping hate campaign, responding on 31st March 2003, as the bombs fell on Iraq, by excommunicating Tony Blair, his then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, George W. Bush [both Jews] and his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and banning them from the Church of the Nativity, for life.
Blair, Straw and Bush all declare passionate Christian faith, with Bush and Blair stating they "prayed together" prior to illegally decimating Abraham's birth country.
"A spokesman of the Orthodox Church in the Holy Land, Archimandrite Attallah Hanna declared that US President George Bush, his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw have all been banned from visiting the traditional birth place of Christ in Bethlehem." Hanna described both Bush and Blair as "excommunicates".
[The Jew] David Cameron has also expressed an "evangelical passion" for Christianity as he plots to further destroy Syria. With any luck he'll be the next to be banned. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently said: "The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded."
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Ephesians 2:20, "Christ's Body, His Bride, is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone."
Brother Branham's ministry completed the Reformation of the Judaeo-Roman system of false worship and is now restoring Christ's end-time Bride to the "common faith" of that rock of "revelation from Above" (Matthew 16:13-19) by revealing the mysteries of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. This Message introduced Christ's second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming and called the virgins out of "her" the church into "Him" the Word (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 14:9-11. One of the most deceptive traditions in which most of the world revels is the Judaeo-Roman Catholic festival of Christ-mass of which Brother Branham said:
"Pagan Rome become papal Rome, and was bound there in its traditions of Christian, what part of Christian and superstitions it had of Rome, putting together all these worship of women, and all these other kind of stuff, and Christmas days, and holidays, and holy days, and things. It's been bound by that tradition that it cannot let loose, because it's against Christian principles. Still the same ungodly, pagan spirit . . . And that spirit caught into the nations of the world, according to the prophecies of Ezekiel, and the rest of them" (The Feast of Trumpets. p. 21:163).
"When today that pagan ceremonies, Christmas trees worshipped, fiction stories of a man named Santa Claus, and of our Easter rabbits, and the different fashions that the commercial world has capitalized on, may it be laid aside, God. Let us enter into Christ the Word, for we asked it in His Name and for His glory. Amen" (Why it had to be Shepherds, p. 3:14).
"Well, it look like that Santa Claus has taken the place of Christ in Christmas, and some fiction of a Kriss Kringle coming down a chimney with a sack of toys on his back, that visits the whole world in one night. And I don't know what you think about it; it's all right if you want to tell your children that; but I was taught, thought the Scripture said, "Thou shalt not lie." And then someday they're going to ask you, "Is this Jesus the same thing that Santa Claus is?" when they find out there's no Santa Claus" (We have seen His Star and have come to Worship Him, p. 1:4).
Alexander Hislop had this to say in his book, The Two Babylons: The festivals of Rome are innumerable; but five of the most important may be singled out for elucidation, viz., Christmas-day, Lady-day, Easter, the Nativity of St. John, and the Feast of the Assumption. Each and all of these can be proved to be Babylonian. And first, as to the festival in honour of the birth of Christ, or Christmas. How comes it that that festival was connected with the 25th of December? There is not a word in the Scriptures about the precise day of His birth . . . it could not have been on the 25th of December. At the time that the angel announced His birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem, they were feeding their flocks by night in the open fields . . . the cold of the night, from December to February, is very piercing, and it was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October . . . There is great unanimity among commentators on this point . . ."At the birth of Christ every woman and child was to go to be taxed at the city whereto they belonged, whither some had long journeys; but the middle of winter was not fitting for such a business, especially for women with child, and children to travel in. Therefore, Christ could not be born in the depth of winter . . . remember the words of Christ in the gospel, "Pray that your flight be not in the winter . . ."
Within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and that not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance. How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas-day? Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity, the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it only the name of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet Paganism half-way was very early developed; and we find Tertullian, even in his day, about the year 230, bitterly lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in this respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to their own superstition. "By us," says he, "who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts are carried to and fro, New Year's day presents are made with din, and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar; oh, how much more faithful are the heathen to their religion, who take special care to adopt no solemnity from the Christians."
Upright men strive to stem the tide, but in spite of all their efforts, the apostasy went on, till the Church, with the exception of a small remnant, was submerged under Pagan superstition. That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival is beyond all doubt. The time of the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, "about the time of the winter solstice." The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves—Yule-day—proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. "Yule" is the Chaldee name for an "infant" or "little child;" and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, Yule-day," or the "Child's day," and the night that preceded it, "Mother-night," long before they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far and wide, in the realms of Paganism, was this birth-day observed. This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun's yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle.
Among the Sabeans of Arabia [re. the Queen of Sheba, Sabah, Yemen], who regarded the moon, and not the sun, as the visible symbol of the favourite object of their idolatry, the same period was observed as the birth festival. Thus we read in Stanley's Sabean Philosophy: "On the 24th of the tenth month," that is December, according to our reckoning, "the Arabians celebrated the BIRTHDAY OF THE LORD—that is the Moon (p. 1006, col. 1). [Hence, Allah the Moon God]. The Lord Moon was the great object of Arabian worship, and that Lord Moon, according to them, was born on the 24th of December, which clearly shows that the birth which they celebrated had no necessary connection with the course of the sun. It is worthy of special note, too, that if Christmas-day among the ancient Saxons of this island, was observed to celebrate the birth of any Lord of the host of heaven, the case must have been precisely the same here as it was in Arabia. The Saxons, as is well known, regarded the Sun as a female divinity, and the Moon as a male. It must have been the birth-day of the Lord Moon, therefore, and not of the Sun, that was celebrated by them on the 25th of December, even as the birth-day of the same Lord Moon was observed by the Arabians on the 24th of December.
The name of the Lord Moon in the East seems to have been Meni, for this appears to be the most natural interpretation of the Divine statement in Isaiah 65:11, "But ye are they that forsake my holy mountain, that prepare a temple for Gad, and that furnish the drink-offering unto Meni." There is reason to believe that Gad refers to the sun-god, and that Meni in like manner designates the moon-divinity. Meni, or Manai, signifies "The Numberer," and it is by the changes of the moon that the months are numbered: Psalm 104:19, "He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth the time of its going down." The name of the "Man of the Moon," or the god who presided over that luminary among the Saxons, was Mane, as given in the "Edda," and Mani, in the "Voluspa." That it was the birth of the "Lord Moon" that was celebrated among our ancestors at Christmas, we have remarkable evidence in the name that is still given in the lowlands of Scotland to the feast on the last day of the year, which seems to be a remnant of the old birth festival for the cakes then made are called Nur-Cakes, or Birth-cakes. That name is Hogmanay. Now, "Hog-Manai" in Chaldee signifies "The feast of the Numberer;" in other words, The festival of Deus Lunus, or of the Man of the Moon.
To show the connection between country and country, and the inveterate endurance of old customs, it is worthy of remark, that Jerome, commenting on the very words of Isaiah already quoted, about spreading "a table for Gad," and "pouring out a drink-offering to Meni," observes that it "was the custom so late as his time [in the fourth century], in all cities especially in Egypt and at Alexandria, to set tables, and furnish them with various luxurious articles of food, and with goblets containing a mixture of new wine, on the last day of the month and the year, and that the people drew omens from them in respect of the fruitfulness of the year." The Egyptian year began at a different time from ours; but this is a near as possible (only substituting whisky for wine), the way in which Hogmanay is still observed on the last day of the last month of our year in Scotland. I do not know that any omens are drawn from anything that takes place at that time, but everybody in the south of Scotland is personally cognisant of the fact, that, on Hogmanay, or the evening before New Year's day, among those who observe old customs, a table is spread, and that while buns and other dainties are provided by those who can afford them, oat cakes and cheese are brought forth among those who never see oat cakes but on this occasion, and that strong drink forms an essential article of the provision.
It was no mere astronomic festival, then, that the Pagans celebrated at the winter solstice. That festival at Rome was called the feast of Saturn, and the mode in which it was celebrated there, showed whence it had been derived. The feast, as regulated by Caligula, lasted five days; loose reins were given to drunkenness and revelry, slaves had a temporary emancipation, and used all manner of freedoms with their masters. This was precisely the way in which, according to Berosus, the drunken festival of the month Thebeth, answering to our December, in other words, the festival of Bacchus, was celebrated in Babylon. "It was the custom," says he, "during the five days it lasted, for masters to be in subjection to their servants, and one of them ruled the house, clothed in a purple garment like a king." This "purple-robed" servant was called "Zoganes," the "Man of sport and wantonness," and answered exactly to the "Lord of Misrule," that in the Dark Ages, was chosen in all Popish countries to head the revels of Christmas. The wassailling bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in the "Drunken festival" of Babylon; and many of the other observances still kept up among ourselves at Christmas came from the very same quarter. The candles, in some parts of England, lighted on Christmas-eve, and used so long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour to him: for it was one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have lighted wax-candles on his altars.
The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognised as the "Man the branch." And this entirely accounts for the putting of the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas-eve, and the appearance of the Christmas-tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, "The seed of the woman," which name also signified Ignigena, or "born of the fire," he has to enter the fire on "Mother-night," that he may be born the next day out of it, as the "Branch of God," or the Tree that brings all divine gifts to men. But why, it may be asked, does he enter the fire under the symbol of a Log?
To understand this, it must be remembered that the divine child born at the winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god ([Nimrod] after that god had been cut in pieces), on purpose to revenge his death upon his murderers. Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory, was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all its branches, and cut down almost to the ground. But the great serpent, the symbol of the life restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock, and lo, at its side up sprouts a young tree—a tree of an entirely different kind, that is destined never to be cut down by hostile power—even the palm-tree, the well-known symbol of victory . . .
Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis invicti solis, "The birth-day of the unconquered Sun." Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus—the slain god come to life again. In the light reflected by the above statement on customs that still linger among us, the origin of which has been lost in the midst of hoar antiquity, let the reader look at the singular practice still kept up in the South on Christmas-eve, of kissing under the misletoe bough. That misletoe bough in the Druidic superstition, which, as we have seen, was derived from Babylon, was a representation of the Messiah, "The man the branch." The misletoe was regarded as a divine branch—a branch that came from heaven, and grew upon a tree that sprung out of the earth. Thus by the engrafting of the celestial branch into the earthly tree, heaven and earth, that sin had severed, were joined together, and thus the misletoe bough became the token of Divine reconciliation to man, the kiss being the will-known token of pardon and reconciliation. Whence could such an idea have come? May it not have come from the Psalm 85:10-11, "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have KISSED each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth [in consequence of the coming of the promised Saviour], and righteousness shall look down from heaven"?
Certain it is that that Psalm was written soon after the Babylonish captivity; and as multitudes of the Jews, after that event, still remained in Babylon under the guidance of inspired men, such as Daniel, as a part of the Divine Word it must have been communicated to them, as well as to their kinsmen in Palestine. Babylon was, at that time, the centre of the civilised world; and thus Paganism, corrupting the Divine symbol as it ever has done, had opportunities of sending forth its debased counterfeit of the truth to all the ends of the earth, through the Mysteries that were affiliated with the great central system in Babylon. Thus the very customs of Christmas still existent cast surprising light at once on the revelations of grace made to all the earth, and the efforts made by Satan and his emissaries to materialise, carnalise, and degrade them".
Now, it is manifest that Lady-day and Christmas-day stand in intimate relation to one another. Between the 25th of March and the 25th of December there are exactly nine months. If, then, the false Messiah was conceived in March and born in December, can anyone for a moment believe that the conception and birth of the true Messiah can have so exactly synchronised, not only to the mouth, but to the day? The thing is incredible. Lady-day and Christmas-day, then, are purely Babylonian.
Then look at Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar . . . But this is another subject, the point is that Jesus promised the 'Elijah' of Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 17:11 and Jude 3 whose ministry would restore Christ's end-time Bride to the faith once delivered to our apostolic fathers. He would be the angel to the Seventh Church Age who would "finish the mystery of God" through the revelation of the Seven Seals in order to bring us into "the unity of the faith . . . for the manifestation of the Sons of God . . . and the translation". nl902.htm
Brother Branham's ministry completed the Reformation of the Judaeo-Roman system of false worship and is now restoring Christ's end-time Bride to the "common faith" of that rock of "revelation from Above" (Matthew 16:13-19) by revealing the mysteries of the Seven Thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. This Message introduced Christ's second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming and called the virgins out of "her" the church into "Him" the Word (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 14:9-11. One of the most deceptive traditions in which most of the world revels is the Judaeo-Roman Catholic festival of Christ-mass of which Brother Branham said:
"Pagan Rome become papal Rome, and was bound there in its traditions of Christian, what part of Christian and superstitions it had of Rome, putting together all these worship of women, and all these other kind of stuff, and Christmas days, and holidays, and holy days, and things. It's been bound by that tradition that it cannot let loose, because it's against Christian principles. Still the same ungodly, pagan spirit . . . And that spirit caught into the nations of the world, according to the prophecies of Ezekiel, and the rest of them" (The Feast of Trumpets. p. 21:163).
"When today that pagan ceremonies, Christmas trees worshipped, fiction stories of a man named Santa Claus, and of our Easter rabbits, and the different fashions that the commercial world has capitalized on, may it be laid aside, God. Let us enter into Christ the Word, for we asked it in His Name and for His glory. Amen" (Why it had to be Shepherds, p. 3:14).
"Well, it look like that Santa Claus has taken the place of Christ in Christmas, and some fiction of a Kriss Kringle coming down a chimney with a sack of toys on his back, that visits the whole world in one night. And I don't know what you think about it; it's all right if you want to tell your children that; but I was taught, thought the Scripture said, "Thou shalt not lie." And then someday they're going to ask you, "Is this Jesus the same thing that Santa Claus is?" when they find out there's no Santa Claus" (We have seen His Star and have come to Worship Him, p. 1:4).
Alexander Hislop had this to say in his book, The Two Babylons: The festivals of Rome are innumerable; but five of the most important may be singled out for elucidation, viz., Christmas-day, Lady-day, Easter, the Nativity of St. John, and the Feast of the Assumption. Each and all of these can be proved to be Babylonian. And first, as to the festival in honour of the birth of Christ, or Christmas. How comes it that that festival was connected with the 25th of December? There is not a word in the Scriptures about the precise day of His birth . . . it could not have been on the 25th of December. At the time that the angel announced His birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem, they were feeding their flocks by night in the open fields . . . the cold of the night, from December to February, is very piercing, and it was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October . . . There is great unanimity among commentators on this point . . ."At the birth of Christ every woman and child was to go to be taxed at the city whereto they belonged, whither some had long journeys; but the middle of winter was not fitting for such a business, especially for women with child, and children to travel in. Therefore, Christ could not be born in the depth of winter . . . remember the words of Christ in the gospel, "Pray that your flight be not in the winter . . ."
Within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and that not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance. How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas-day? Why, thus: Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honour of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven; and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal adherents of Christianity, the same festival was adopted by the Roman Church, giving it only the name of Christ. This tendency on the part of Christians to meet Paganism half-way was very early developed; and we find Tertullian, even in his day, about the year 230, bitterly lamenting the inconsistency of the disciples of Christ in this respect, and contrasting it with the strict fidelity of the Pagans to their own superstition. "By us," says he, "who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia, the feasts of January, the Brumalia, and Matronalia, are now frequented; gifts are carried to and fro, New Year's day presents are made with din, and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar; oh, how much more faithful are the heathen to their religion, who take special care to adopt no solemnity from the Christians."
Upright men strive to stem the tide, but in spite of all their efforts, the apostasy went on, till the Church, with the exception of a small remnant, was submerged under Pagan superstition. That Christmas was originally a Pagan festival is beyond all doubt. The time of the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, "about the time of the winter solstice." The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves—Yule-day—proves at once its Pagan and Babylonian origin. "Yule" is the Chaldee name for an "infant" or "little child;" and as the 25th of December was called by our Pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors, Yule-day," or the "Child's day," and the night that preceded it, "Mother-night," long before they came in contact with Christianity, that sufficiently proves its real character. Far and wide, in the realms of Paganism, was this birth-day observed. This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun's yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle.
Among the Sabeans of Arabia [re. the Queen of Sheba, Sabah, Yemen], who regarded the moon, and not the sun, as the visible symbol of the favourite object of their idolatry, the same period was observed as the birth festival. Thus we read in Stanley's Sabean Philosophy: "On the 24th of the tenth month," that is December, according to our reckoning, "the Arabians celebrated the BIRTHDAY OF THE LORD—that is the Moon (p. 1006, col. 1). [Hence, Allah the Moon God]. The Lord Moon was the great object of Arabian worship, and that Lord Moon, according to them, was born on the 24th of December, which clearly shows that the birth which they celebrated had no necessary connection with the course of the sun. It is worthy of special note, too, that if Christmas-day among the ancient Saxons of this island, was observed to celebrate the birth of any Lord of the host of heaven, the case must have been precisely the same here as it was in Arabia. The Saxons, as is well known, regarded the Sun as a female divinity, and the Moon as a male. It must have been the birth-day of the Lord Moon, therefore, and not of the Sun, that was celebrated by them on the 25th of December, even as the birth-day of the same Lord Moon was observed by the Arabians on the 24th of December.
The name of the Lord Moon in the East seems to have been Meni, for this appears to be the most natural interpretation of the Divine statement in Isaiah 65:11, "But ye are they that forsake my holy mountain, that prepare a temple for Gad, and that furnish the drink-offering unto Meni." There is reason to believe that Gad refers to the sun-god, and that Meni in like manner designates the moon-divinity. Meni, or Manai, signifies "The Numberer," and it is by the changes of the moon that the months are numbered: Psalm 104:19, "He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth the time of its going down." The name of the "Man of the Moon," or the god who presided over that luminary among the Saxons, was Mane, as given in the "Edda," and Mani, in the "Voluspa." That it was the birth of the "Lord Moon" that was celebrated among our ancestors at Christmas, we have remarkable evidence in the name that is still given in the lowlands of Scotland to the feast on the last day of the year, which seems to be a remnant of the old birth festival for the cakes then made are called Nur-Cakes, or Birth-cakes. That name is Hogmanay. Now, "Hog-Manai" in Chaldee signifies "The feast of the Numberer;" in other words, The festival of Deus Lunus, or of the Man of the Moon. To show the connection between country and country, and the inveterate endurance of old customs, it is worthy of remark, that Jerome, commenting on the very words of Isaiah already quoted, about spreading "a table for Gad," and "pouring out a drink-offering to Meni," observes that it "was the custom so late as his time [in the fourth century], in all cities especially in Egypt and at Alexandria, to set tables, and furnish them with various luxurious articles of food, and with goblets containing a mixture of new wine, on the last day of the month and the year, and that the people drew omens from them in respect of the fruitfulness of the year." The Egyptian year began at a different time from ours; but this is a near as possible (only substituting whisky for wine), the way in which Hogmanay is still observed on the last day of the last month of our year in Scotland. I do not know that any omens are drawn from anything that takes place at that time, but everybody in the south of Scotland is personally cognisant of the fact, that, on Hogmanay, or the evening before New Year's day, among those who observe old customs, a table is spread, and that while buns and other dainties are provided by those who can afford them, oat cakes and cheese are brought forth among those who never see oat cakes but on this occasion, and that strong drink forms an essential article of the provision.
It was no mere astronomic festival, then, that the Pagans celebrated at the winter solstice. That festival at Rome was called the feast of Saturn, and the mode in which it was celebrated there, showed whence it had been derived. The feast, as regulated by Caligula, lasted five days; loose reins were given to drunkenness and revelry, slaves had a temporary emancipation, and used all manner of freedoms with their masters. This was precisely the way in which, according to Berosus, the drunken festival of the month Thebeth, answering to our December, in other words, the festival of Bacchus, was celebrated in Babylon. "It was the custom," says he, "during the five days it lasted, for masters to be in subjection to their servants, and one of them ruled the house, clothed in a purple garment like a king." This "purple-robed" servant was called "Zoganes," the "Man of sport and wantonness," and answered exactly to the "Lord of Misrule," that in the Dark Ages, was chosen in all Popish countries to head the revels of Christmas. The wassailling bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in the "Drunken festival" of Babylon; and many of the other observances still kept up among ourselves at Christmas came from the very same quarter. The candles, in some parts of England, lighted on Christmas-eve, and used so long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour to him: for it was one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have lighted wax-candles on his altars.
The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognised as the "Man the branch." And this entirely accounts for the putting of the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas-eve, and the appearance of the Christmas-tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, "The seed of the woman," which name also signified Ignigena, or "born of the fire," he has to enter the fire on "Mother-night," that he may be born the next day out of it, as the "Branch of God," or the Tree that brings all divine gifts to men. But why, it may be asked, does he enter the fire under the symbol of a Log?
To understand this, it must be remembered that the divine child born at the winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god ([Nimrod] after that god had been cut in pieces), on purpose to revenge his death upon his murderers. Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory, was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all its branches, and cut down almost to the ground. But the great serpent, the symbol of the life restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock, and lo, at its side up sprouts a young tree—a tree of an entirely different kind, that is destined never to be cut down by hostile power—even the palm-tree, the well-known symbol of victory . . .
Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis invicti solis, "The birth-day of the unconquered Sun." Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus—the slain god come to life again. In the light reflected by the above statement on customs that still linger among us, the origin of which has been lost in the midst of hoar antiquity, let the reader look at the singular practice still kept up in the South on Christmas-eve, of kissing under the misletoe bough. That misletoe bough in the Druidic superstition, which, as we have seen, was derived from Babylon, was a representation of the Messiah, "The man the branch." The misletoe was regarded as a divine branch—a branch that came from heaven, and grew upon a tree that sprung out of the earth. Thus by the engrafting of the celestial branch into the earthly tree, heaven and earth, that sin had severed, were joined together, and thus the misletoe bough became the token of Divine reconciliation to man, the kiss being the will-known token of pardon and reconciliation. Whence could such an idea have come? May it not have come from the Psalm 85:10-11, "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have KISSED each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth [in consequence of the coming of the promised Saviour], and righteousness shall look down from heaven"?
Certain it is that that Psalm was written soon after the Babylonish captivity; and as multitudes of the Jews, after that event, still remained in Babylon under the guidance of inspired men, such as Daniel, as a part of the Divine Word it must have been communicated to them, as well as to their kinsmen in Palestine. Babylon was, at that time, the centre of the civilised world; and thus Paganism, corrupting the Divine symbol as it ever has done, had opportunities of sending forth its debased counterfeit of the truth to all the ends of the earth, through the Mysteries that were affiliated with the great central system in Babylon. Thus the very customs of Christmas still existent cast surprising light at once on the revelations of grace made to all the earth, and the efforts made by Satan and his emissaries to materialise, carnalise, and degrade them".
Now, it is manifest that Lady-day and Christmas-day stand in intimate relation to one another. Between the 25th of March and the 25th of December there are exactly nine months. If, then, the false Messiah was conceived in March and born in December, can anyone for a moment believe that the conception and birth of the true Messiah can have so exactly synchronised, not only to the mouth, but to the day? The thing is incredible. Lady-day and Christmas-day, then, are purely Babylonian.
Then look at Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar . . . But this is another subject, the point is that Jesus promised the 'Elijah' of Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 17:11 and Jude 3 whose ministry would restore Christ's end-time Bride to the faith once delivered to our apostolic fathers. He would be the angel to the Seventh Church Age who would "finish the mystery of God" through the revelation of the Seven Seals in order to bring us into "the unity of the faith . . . for the manifestation of the Sons of God . . . and the translation". nl902.htm
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