Bible Believers' Newsletter #569
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. An especial welcome to our new subscribers.
As we approach the end of the Gentile dispensation we see prophecy reported in the daily news as it unfolds from Biblical text to living history, so in this issue more space is devoted to current news that to our main article. The world's news is a litany of lies woven from the same dark fabric as Genesis 3:15, Matthew 23:35, and John 8:42-47. This presentiment of evil is occasioned by the wrath of Satan's demons, for he knows that in a short time he will be cast down to earth. But we who are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus rejoice in expectation of the blessings promised to the children of God.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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The Apostate's Creed
February 28, 2009 – The Creed of the [Judaeo-Roman Catholic] Church of the Shoah:
"I believe in one Holocaust®, conceived in Hollywood, born of the New York media: and in Six Million Judaics, who suffered under Adolf Hitler, gassed, made into lampshades and cremated. In the 21st century they arose again, to haunt the living and the dead. I believe in Elie Wiesel and the geysers of blood, and Arnold Friedman and the color-coded crematory smoke, the holy Shoah biz Church, the communist saints, no forgiveness of German sins, the resurrection of lies, and the shelf-life everlasting of the Auschwitz gas chamber stories. Amen". Full Story: revisionistreview.blogspot.com
Comment: Like the Judaeo-Roman church which believes one God in three persons, the Apostates Creed claims belief in one holocaust when they have declared three, each of six million, in just the twentieth century, plus numerous far larger holocausts in previous centuries.
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Auschwitz Survivor claims Elie Wiesel is an Impostor
March 4, 2009 – At 15, Miklos Gruner was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. . . [he] and Lazar Wiesel became good friends. . . Miklos never forgot the number Lazar was tattooed with by the Nazis: A-7713. In April 8, 1945, the US army liberated Buchenwald. . . in 1986, Miklos was contacted by a Swedish journal and was invited to come to Sweden in order to meet "an old friend" named Elie Wiesel. . . the same person Miklos knew in the Nazi camps under the name Lazar Wiesel and with the inmate number A-7713. . . "I was stunned to see a man I didn't recognize at all, who didn't even speak Hungarian . . . our meeting was over in about ten minutes. . . the man gave me a book titled "Night" of which he claimed to be the author. I accepted the book. I didn't know at that time but told everyone there that this man was not the person he pretended to be!" . . . I did research everywhere I could for twenty years and found out that the man calling himself Elie Wiesel has never been in a Nazi camp since he doesn't figure on any official list of detainees.
Miklos also found out that the book Elie Wiesel gave him in 1986 as something he has written himself was in fact written in Hungarian in 1955 by Miklos' old friend Lazar Wiesel and published in Paris under the title "A Világ Hallgat," meaning approximately "The Silence of the World." The book was then shortened and rewritten in French as well as in English in order to be published under the author's name Elie Wiesel in 1958, under the French title "La Nuit" and the English title "Night." Ten million copies of the book were sold in the world by Elie Wiesel who even received a Nobel prize for it in 1986 while—says Miklos—the real author, Lazar Wiesel, was mysteriously missing. . .
Elie Wiesel never wanted to meet me again, says Miklos. He became very successful; he takes 25 thousand dollars for a 45 minutes speech on the Holocaust. I have officially reported to the FBI that Elie Wiesel is an impostor but had no answer... I have received anonymous calls telling me I could be shot if I don't shut up but I am not afraid of death any more.
Full story: henrymakow.com
Comment: This supposedly autobiographical book "Night," makes no mention of gas chambers. The author instead claims to have witnessed Jews being burned alive, a story now dismissed by all historians. Prominent false witness E-lie Wiesel gives credence to the most absurd stories of other "eyewitnesses" and spreads fantastic tales of 10,000 persons sent to their deaths each day in Buchenwald. The supposed fate of Miklos' family was unlawful in Germany. The BIG LIE is exposed.
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The Fifth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
Prominent Palestinians, Jewish anti-Zionists, and South Africans have been at the forefront of this struggle. From March 2 to March 6, UC Berkeley students will host Israeli Apartheid Week. The week long event will include lectures, panel discussions and movies addressing the legal system of Apartheid in Occupied Palestine. The event is also oriented toward educating the public about the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign of Israeli products. In its fifth annual year, Israeli Apartheid Week will be held in over forty cities around the world. . .
Israel Apartheid Week seeks to bolster understanding of the oppression facing the Palestinian people, Zionism, and the struggle for Palestinian liberation. This year the week of events takes place roughly two months following the recent bombardment of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Occupation Forces. During the three week incursion of air strikes and ground assault, more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed and more than 5,000 were injured. . . Full story: indybay.org
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Vaccines as Biological Weapons?
March 3, 2009 – Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. has just been caught shipping live avian flu viruses mixed with vaccine material to medical distributors in 18 countries. The "mistake" (if you can call it that, see below. . .) was discovered by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada. The World Health Organization was alerted and panic spread throughout the vaccine community as health experts asked the obvious question: How could this have happened?
"Baxter International Inc. in Austria 'unintentionally contaminated samples with bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in 3 neighbouring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease.' Austria, Germany, Slowenia and the Czech Republic—are the countries in which labs were hit with dangerous viruses. Not by bioterrorist commandos, but by Baxter. In other words: One of the major global pharmaceutical players seems to have lost control over a virus which is considered by many virologists to be one of the components leading some day to a new pandemic". . .
Full story: LifeGen.de
Or, put another way, Baxter is acting a whole lot like a biological terrorism organization these days, sending deadly viral samples around the world. . . How could this company have accidentally mixed LIVE avian flu viruses (both H5N1 and H3N2, the human form) in this vaccine material?
Was the viral contamination intentional? The shocking answer is that this couldn't have been an accident. Why? Because Baxter International adheres to something called BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3)—a set of laboratory safety protocols that prevent the cross-contamination of materials. Full story: naturalnews.com
Comment: "The recognition of our despot may also come before the destruction of the Constitution; the moment for this recognition will come when the peoples, utterly wearied by the irregularities and incompetence—a matter which we shall arrange for—of their rulers, will clamor: "Away with them and give us one king over all the earth who will unite us and annihilate the causes of disorders—frontiers, nationalities, religions, State debts—who will give us peace and quiet which we cannot find under our rulers and representatives."
But you yourselves perfectly well know that to produce the possibility of the expression of such wishes by all the nations it is indispensable to trouble in all countries the people's relations with their governments so as to utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by the inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the "Goyim" see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else.
But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space the moment we long for is hardly likely ever to arrive" (Protocol 10:18-20; Revelation 13:1-8).
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What if there is No Man-Made Global Warming?
March 2, 2009 – Here are some questions every American should ask their elected officials—especially those supporting "climate change" legislation: If it is proven that climate change is not man-made, but natural, will you be relieved and excited to know that man is off the hook? Will you now help to remove all of the draconian regulations passed during the global warming hysteria, since it was all wrong-headed and harmful to the economy and our way of life?
Their answers to these questions should be very illuminating as to the true agenda they seek to impose. Is their agenda really about helping to protect the environment, or is it about creating a new social and economic order, using environment as the excuse?
If they are supporting climate change legislation because of a genuine concern for the environment, then they should now be greatly relieved to know that true science is showing more and more evidence there is no man-made global warming, and in fact, a natural cooling period has begun.
Last year, 52 scientists authored a much hyped report issued by the UN's IPCC which said global warming was man-made and getting worse. But in the past year, more than 650 scientists from around the world have now expressed their doubts about the report's findings—12 times the number of IPCC global warming alarmists now agree it's bunk. . . 34,000 scientists have now signed a petition saying global warming is probably natural and is not man-made. Full story: newswithviews.com
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US Must Back Down on Iranian Uranium Enrichment
January 22, 2009 – There's really only one solution. One way for Obama to get himself out of the box his predecessor Bush, Dick Cheney and the neocons have put him in. He has to affirm Iran's inalienable right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to enrich uranium. Somewhere along the road American public opinion, which history shows can be easily persuaded of things that just aren't true, has bought several highly questionable propositions:
1. Iran has a nuclear weapons program.
2. Iran's nuclear program can have only one purpose, the production of nuclear weapons.
3. The Iranian leadership wishes to, and has threatened to, wipe Israel off the face of the map.
4. Given all of the above, Iran's progress towards nuclear enrichment must be stopped in order to prevent a second, "nuclear" Holocaust.
These propositions—BIG LIES that become better established with each retelling—are easily refutable.
1. The US intelligence community itself does not believe that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. In November 2007 all 16 US intelligence agencies produced a National Intelligence Estimate that declared "with high confidence" that Iran had suspended any such program as of 2003. . . Full story: jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com
Comment: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday, "Iran not Close" to Nuclear Weapon. It would not matter if they were – Ed!
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Pakistan, Cricket, Mossad, Saudi Arabia, CIA
March 4, 2009 – Someone appears to want to get Pakistan and India into a war.
1. To weaken and divide Pakistan, and possibly India. (The Iran-Iraq war was designed to weaken Iran and Iraq).
Why?
2. To make money for the military-industrial complex.
3. To frustrate China, which is a friend of Pakistan.
4. To make it easier for the powers-that-be to control strategically important parts of Asia.
5. To reinforce the idea that Moslems are a bunch of terrorists.
2. "Cricket matches between Pakistan and India, dubbed cricket diplomacy, are credited with healing the rift between the two neighbors and paving the way for peace talks in 2004." (Attack on cricket team shakes Pakistan).
So, the bad guys do not want cricket matches. Pakistan's spooky Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik, allegedly a friend of Mossad, said: "If foreigners are attacked, we will not have foreign investment." (Attack on cricket team shakes Pakistan).
3. In Pakistan, Lt. General (retd.) Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's ISI security service, told one TV channel that India's RAW security service got Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to carry out the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket bus in Pakistan. (In Pakistan, India is emerging as prime suspect). India's RAW is reported to be close to Mossad. (RAW & Mossad: The Secret Link) . . . Full story: The City of London strikes, working as always under another name and in a different occupation.
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The Worldwide Return to Reality
Late February, 2009 – At present, the global capital structure is horribly misaligned. The wrong factories with the wrong tools and equipment are in the wrong place. As evidence, foreign investors in China's export industries have shut down 45,000 of their factories since June. China itself has already shut down another 20,000. . . figures show that the US corporate sector is in a full-scale collapse. From here on, US unemployment will really accelerate.
Capital goods, consumer goods, time and money are the corner pillars with savings in the middle of them. In the US, it is the savings—the monetary savings—which are missing. Centred in the US, a global attempt has been made to replace the missing savings with credit. Credit is defined as present goods for future goods. In the US, the means—the real factories—are no longer there to repay the credit by delivering new economic goods now—in exchange for all the goods received earlier on credit.
We don't make things here no more: the situation described above is self-evidently a state of national bankruptcy in economic terms. What the US faces now is not only that economic bankruptcy, but also the stark necessity of rebuilding its stock of capital anew—and nearly from the ground up. . . US home prices nationally dropped 12 percent in the fourth quarter. Multiply by four for the annual rate. . . There is no way between here and eternity that President Obama's "stimulus" can overcome that. . . The red lights are flashing everywhere.
The "stimulus" is a con job. The Congressional Budget Office has said that the stimulus package would cost $US787 Billion. The "wake up call" is in the details. . . The main "stimulus" spending ($US99 Billion) will arrive next year, the year that the now Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will try to get re-elected. The remaining $US203 Billion in the "stimulus" is mandated new spending which in some cases stretches as far ahead as ten years. It is to be spent on every left wing or "liberal" cause known to man.
The true deficit of the federal government is $US65.5 TRILLION in total obligations. That sum exceeds the gross domestic product of the world! That $US65.5 TRILLION is the UNFUNDED part of the US Treasury's legally mandated future real obligations. Congress has voted to spend it but has never gotten around to voting for the taxes to pay for it. . .
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signed an agreement in Japan to remove 8,000 US Marines from Japan's southern island of Okinawa and base them in the US territory of Guam. The Secretary has in this way complied with China's long term policy aim of getting the present US armed forces in Japan as well as South Korea away from Asia . . . Mrs. Clinton had to offer China something to persuade it to keep buying US Treasury debt paper. . . The US Treasury NEEDS China's funds. . . Less than ten years ago, Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, was calling the US the "indispensable nation". How have the mighty fallen?
To get an idea of how "confident" the Chinese government (or anyone else holding them) should be in US Treasuries, consider the fact that in 1971, when the US Dollar was finally decoupled from Gold and the world embarked on its present "fiat" money adventure, the Treasury's debt limit stood at $US430 Billion. The limit has increased by 2,714 percent since then. The population of the US is up by about 46 percent. . . Full Story: The Privateer 2009 Volume Late February Issue # 623 worldnetdaily.com
Comment: According to unconfirmed reports the United States of America Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tendered a written agreement granting the People's Republic of China an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA in the event the US Government defaults on its financial obligations. Full story: rense.com rense.com Tycoons tumble as ailing China turns against capitalism trust-us.ch
The Bernie Madoff scheme appears to have been to move wealth out of the US in behalf of certain clients and transfer it to solid assets before the collapse of the US dollar and economy. A Russian scholar says the US will collapse—next year: Obama will order martial law this year, the US will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
It sounds as if he has been reading the Message! Were the US Administration "in the know" they would offer China eminent domain over California from San Jose to San Diego inland to the theoretical low water mark of the Sierras, because all west of that point will soon be under water. But the US is ruled by aliens for the City of London, and her citizens know it not.
"We had a great nation; but she is now rottening and crumbling and shaking and giving away, and trying to tax people to get money to send over yonder to buy friendship with our enemies. They're throwing it back in our face. One World War, two World Wars, and still moving on to a third one" (William Branham, This Day this Scripture if Fulfilled, p. 16:131-132).
"Let's prove what is God. If education is the way out to freedom, why don't it act? If social standings and so forth is the way out, why don't it act? If paying other nations to be our buddies, and we find out they've turned heels against us just as soon they can. . . you can't buy friendship with money. Friendship is a gift of God" (What Does Thou Here, p. 6:40).
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The Mystery of God, even Christ, as the Incarnate Fulness of the Godhead, Embedded in Whom all Divine Wisdom and Godliness is Restored to Man
Matthew 6:27-34, "Which of you by anxiety can add one moment to his lifespan? And why worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin: yet I tell you, that even Solomon in all his glory was never clothed as beautifully as they. But if God so clothes the grass of the field that exists today and to morrow is cast into the oven, will He not more surely clothe you, O men of little faith?
So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What are we to wear? For after all these things do the pagans center their interest while your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first His kingdom, and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you as well. Do not worry therefore in view of tomorrow, for tomorrow will have its own anxieties. Let each day's peculiar troubles be sufficient for the day".
Man is a threefold being of body, spirit and soul: like the lilies of the field he was ordained to be clothed from within, with righteousness. Thus we read in I Corinthians 11:1-16 that "a man is to cut his hair as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man . . . Does not nature itself tell you that for a man to wear uncut hair is degrading to him, but it is glorious for a woman? For her hair is given to her for a veil or covering." Here we see a simple illustration of outwardly visible glory produced by inward obedience to the Word of God, for the woman with uncut hair advertises her submission to the authority of God and her husband, and is the glory of both, whereas one who cuts her hair advertises her rejection of their authority, making herself a target for demonic oppression.
Man carries in himself a likeness to the greatness and majesty of God insofar as he rules his sphere with Godlike power and freedom, but the woman is his glory inasmuch as is in her, and in her management as a housewife the exalted position of the man is made manifest; or inasmuch as she develops an independent activity only in subordination to her husband, and by reason of his plenary power, or in conjunction with him attains to her proper dignity and worth. Thus in order for God to gather glory from our lives we must maintain the pattern reflected in the mystery of the Church as the Bride of Christ: "For the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man" (I Corinthians 11:8-9; Ephesians 5:22-33; Titus 2:5).
Before Eve fell and Adam crossed the timeline and the lifeline to redeem her, the eyes of their understanding were veiled by the Holy Spirit and the glory of righteousness in their souls veiled their perception of nakedness as the outer beauty of the lilies derives from within. Their innocence to things not seen was the evidence of obedience to faith whereas reasoning against the revealed Word of God heightened their carnal senses, so when Eve succumbed to the lust of her eyes, the lust of her flesh and the pride of Life, and Adam joined her, the natural intelligence of their mortal spirit—reasoning, memory, imagination, affection and conscience—took preeminence over the Word and darkened their souls. Their mutual fellowship with the fulness of the Godhead in the theophany of Christ terminated, and having separated themselves from eternity into time and the natural world, they recognized their own nakedness among the carnal things of nature, and were ashamed.
They were dying, and because Adam had forfeited his dominion over earth the whole creation was dying with them. Adam knew that self-works, worry and anxiety could not restore one moment of eternity to their lifespan, but that some day God would redeem them by grace through faith. So God clothed their bodies under the blood of a natural lamb, showing that the life of its Spiritual antitype would one day be sacrificed in order to redeem their lives and the lives of Adam's righteous seed who were potentially in him then, restoring their fellowship and perfect union with the Holy Spirit in their inner being.
The recovery of a visible glory will be the instant result of the replacement of our mortal spirit by our theophany and the transformation of our corruptible flesh following the manifestation of the Sons of God after the theophanies of the Church Age saints clothed with glorified flesh have been made manifest to our sight. I John 3:1-3, "See what a wealth of love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the Sons of God: and so we are! But since the world did not know Him, it does not understand us. Yes, beloved, we are the sons of God even now [although the glory of our Sonship is still imperfect and concealed from the world], and it has not yet (Gk. 'phaneroo') manifested what we shall be (not that we shall be something which as yet we are not): but we know that, when the glory shall be manifested, we shall resemble Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, even as He is pure".
There is only one Divine Sonship, but as in the natural, God's children must grow from "babes in Christ" to maturity in the full stature of the perfect man, thence by faith to full adoption in a glorified body (I Corinthians 3:1-3; Ephesians 4:13-15; Hebrews 5:8 – 6:9). We will never see God, for like your soul, God is an invisible Spirit whom no man has seen; we will see the resemblance of God manifest in our glorified Brothers and Sisters of the resurrection: thus "we shall see Him as He is" and when we do, we will change in the atoms and "be like Jesus" (Philippians 3:21).
This was explained in John 14:8-9, "Philip said to Jesus, Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied. Jesus replied, Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, Show us the Father?" When we are glorified we shall see God "as He is" incarnate in His children, Jesus being the first of many Sons brought into glory. As we have expounded in previous teachings (see Newsletters #511, #520 – #524), the Bible is the story of God changing His form or unfolding Himself from the eternal Spirit alone with His eternal thoughts to the manifestation of those thoughts in the flesh of His glorified Family, of whom Jesus Christ is firstborn. Together the many-membered body of Christ's glorified Bride will manifest the fulness of God's Attributes, whereas the fulness formerly manifest in one Man; and in the renewed heavens and renewed earth the "saved" will worship God throughout eternity in the form of Jesus Christ and His Bride who are one through the invisible marriage union or new birth (John 17:20-26).
"In Christ dwells all the fulness of the [Attributes of the nature and character of the] Godhead bodily. And you are complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and power" (Colossians 2:9-10; Ephesians 1:21-23).
Seeing God in the revelation of His Word glorifies us into the object of our vision, placing the Token of His Life on display, and making us resemble in appearance or manifestation the One we see. Thus the evidence of the promise that "we shall be like Him" may be "known and read of all men" even before our physical glorification (II Corinthians 3:2, 18; II Peter 1:4-11; Revelation 22:4). Now even without the Law "we demonstrate that what the Law requires is written in our hearts, while our conscience [or knowledge of good and evil] also bears witness, and our conflicting thoughts either accuse or else excuse one another" (Romans 2:15).
Bewildered by their altered condition, our first parents immediately tried to supply the lost covering artificially with a veil of fig leaves over their guilty members, and obfuscation from their lips to veil the condemnation in their hearts. Every living creature has its own proper covering, not put on from without, but developed naturally from within; fallen man alone is destitute and compelled to have recourse to artificial aids, vainly seeking to emulate the glory of holiness by magnificent adornments and sacramental worship like the Great Whore of Mystery Babylon as prophesied in Revelation 17 and 18, and every other religious system. Behind such artificial coverings their blind adherents are as spiritually naked before He with Whom we have to do as were the first couple behind fig leaves and excuses (Revelation 3:17-20).
Genesis 1:26-27, "God said, Let us (that is, Himself and the Logos wherein the saints were conceived in eternity by His foreknowledge of our their choice) make man in our image, and after our likeness . . . So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." God is a Spirit so He made man a spirit in His image, not that there is preexistence of souls, but God spoke the Word that would [Heb. 'bara'] create out of nothing and endow every human being with a mortal spirit and soul as they were born from mother's womb. Yet He did not create His "likeness" for even one of us, since each is placed on trust like Adam Eve with free moral agency to determine his ultimate destiny by the decisions he takes with His Word. God's likeness is His nature and character, and "character simply is never made without suffering. Character is a victory, not a gift. A man without character can't reign because power apart from character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to share even His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes. O, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His kingdom through much tribulation" (William Branham, An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 117:1).
Adam and Eve were made living souls in God's image and from the outset they were innocent and pure as snow, yet they were not in His likeness. After the fall they attempted to restore the outward appearance of righteousness by the works of their own hands and to prevaricate when confronted with their disobedience. Paul explains in Romans 1:20-25, "From the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, such as His eternal power and Divine nature [or Godhead], have been made visible, being understood by His handiwork, so they are without excuse. Because although they had knowledge of God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks to Him. Instead they indulged in speculations until their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the immortal God into images resembling mortal man, or birds, or quadrupeds and reptiles. Therefore God gave them up in the desires of their hearts to such impurity as dishonoured their own bodies".
The Fall ruptured man's relationship with the Lord God and his communication became, as it were, a "long distance call" as he relied upon the faculties of his mortal spirit to contact the world, rather than calling upon the Word by faith in his soul, which was thereby darkened "because they changed the truth about God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen".
Souls that are blotted from or (like the Serpent's seed) were never in the Book of Life, become naked, unclothed demons when their bodies die (II Corinthians 5:3-4), which is why they desire to occupy, possess and be clothed in the bodies of evil, sick, insane or otherwise vulnerable persons (Matthew 12:43-45), and why, when Jesus cast out the legion of demons they implored Him to permit them to enter the swine (Mark 5:1-13). Like their father, they desire worship, thus idols are made in the likeness of the demon who inspired their craftsman, and because the Protestants did not keep on walking in the Light of the present Truth as Jesus revealed It, they are forming themselves into the image of their wicked mother, the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church. And the United States, whose citizens failed to accept the responsibility of governing themselves, has become enslaved by an alien power that transformed the nation into the image of Imperial Rome, whose citizens were enslaved by same aliens and overwhelmed by foreigners. Soon the United States will unite church and state, forcing obeisance to Rome and worship to her Babylonian Trinity on pain of death (Revelation 13:8-18).
When the "times of the Gentiles" were ushered in, Babylon forced the worship of the image of a holy man. Nebuchadnezzar had made an image of Daniel and decreed "Whoever does not fall down and worship the image shall be cast into the fiery furnace" (Daniel 3:11). His Trinitarian son Belshazzar told Daniel, "the spirit of the gods is in you" (Daniel 5:14). The "times of the Gentiles" will end with Mystery Babylon's priest-king incarnate by Satan for the second crucifixion as Judas was incarnate for the first, sitting in the temple as if he were God commanding all men receive the mark of the beast in their forehead, which signifies receiving her Trinity dogma, or the mark in the hand, which signifies serving her will (Isaiah 14:14; Daniel 11:36; II Thessalonians 2:3-4). Revelation 13:8, "And all that dwell upon the earth will [vicariously] worship him [Satan] whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." This will lead to Armageddon and the consummation of life.
A man born of the Spirit of God grows into the image of God within, as a man without God conforms to the image of the world, or the image of the spirits that have dominion over his soul (Romans 12:1-2). Men long to fellowship and worship something, because we were created to worship and glorify the One in whose image we were created and yearn for that love, companionship and fellowship with the Lord God that was a daily experience for our first parents. The word "god" means an object of worship. Those who cannot find the One true God will substitute an idol, which may be their husband, wife or children, their business, money, pet, a motor car or anything man places above the One true God. Wherever we travel we find men worship, endeavouring to appease their unknown God. In India men worship the sun until they are blind, in America they worship spirits represented on a totem pole, in Africa they worship idols, trying to find their way back to fellowship with God. This is why the Supernatural ministry of Brother Branham attracted people to hear the Message of the One true God restored in its purity as prophesied in Malachi 4:5-6 and Matthew 17:11. All men are seeking the path that will take them Home to their Creator. There is one way, and only one Book in all the world that can tell you who you are, whence you came, and where you are going. That is the Holy Bible.
Jesus Christ is the mystery of the incarnate fulness of God revealed, embedded in whom all divine wisdom and godliness is restored to man, but that is not the end of God's purpose. As explained in Ephesians 1 and John 17, all God is He poured into Christ, and all Christ is He has poured into His Church: "God has made known to us in all His wisdom and insight the mystery of His will, according to His purpose which He proposed in Christ: as a plan to be brought to completion in the fulness of time, to gather together all things in heaven and things on earth in Christ. In Christ we too were made God's heritage, as predestinated according to His purpose, who works all things according to the counsel of His own will: that we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ" (Ephesians 1:9-11).
God planned to gather glory by expressing His Attributes but He could not accomplish this as the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts, so He created Adam and became a Father. Then He made Eve and placed the couple on free moral agency, instructing them that they should have nothing to do with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which was in fact the theophany of Lucifer before the Fall. Without sin God could not express His Attributes as a God of love, justice, mercy, jealousy, wrath, forgiveness, and so forth. But His justice would not permit Him to cause the Fall, and since Adam was the spoken Word made flesh he could not be deceived to disbelieve His Word, but Eve was not a spoken Word but a byproduct made from Adam and she was deceived. Once sin had entered God could manifest Himself to His needy people as:
Jehovah Jireh—the Lord will provide (Genesis 22:13-14; Matthew 14:15-21).
Jehovah Rapha—the Lord that heals (Exodus 15:26; Matthew 4:24).
Jehovah Nissi—the Lord our banner (Exodus 17:8-15; Revelation 19:11-16).
Jehovah Shalom—the Lord our Peace (Judges 6:23-24; Luke 19:38).
Jehovah Raah—the Lord my Shepherd (Psalm 23:1; Matthew 26:31).
Jehovah Tsidkenu—the Lord our righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 10:4).
Jehovah Shammah—the Lord is Present (Ezekiel 48:35; Revelation 21:3).
God is also Jehovah Saviour, our Redeemer (Isaiah 45:21; 48:17), but as the Holy Spirit He could not redeem His people because His Law demands a life for a life, and a Spirit cannot die. Moreover the Law requires the redeemer to be a "near kinsman," and as Spirit He was not kin to man (Leviticus 25; Ruth; Numbers 23:19). So the only way He could redeem His elect was to express Himself in human flesh by the spoken Word as the promised Seed of Abraham born without intercourse by a virgin of Adam's race to qualify as "God's Holy One" and voluntarily surrender His Life as kinsman Redeemer and pay sin's price for "whosoever [of Adam's race] will" receive Him by faith (Isaiah 7:14; Psalm 16:10).
God's secret purpose was to be accomplished by a threefold plan:
Firstly He would identify Himself with human beings by expressing the fulness of His character and nature in Jesus Christ, one Man unstained by the "original sin" who lived a sinless life, died in our stead and was raised again for our justification. I Timothy 3:16, "Great is the mystery of our faith: for God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up into glory." All of the Father's attributes could only be made known in the flesh of Jesus, His Son, because Jesus of the New Testament is Jehovah of the Old Testament manifest in flesh. There is no Trinity of Gods.
Secondly, to have the preeminence in His Body of believers, that He might live in the temple of His born-again Bride, and express Himself through them. Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).
Colossians 3:1-7, "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated on the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, [who is the essence of] our Life, shall appear (Gk. 'phaneroo' be manifested to reveal His true character), then we also will also appear [or be manifested to reveal our true character] with Him in glory".
John 17:6, 10, 22-23, "Father, I have manifested (the Attributes listed above to Gk. 'phaneroo' or express the true nature and character of) Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world: Yours they were, and You gave them to Me; and they have kept Your word . . . all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them . . . And the glory which You gave Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them, as You have loved Me".
Christ "appears" and we "appear with Him in glory" when we are under preeminence to the Word or Logos so that the Token or evidence of the nature and character of His Life are on display in us. When our life expresses His Word "written in our hearts, [His Word is] known and read of all men." He is glorified in us, and we are "with Him in glory".
Since Calvary, Christ's "appearing" or manifestation to reveal His true character was most prominently witnessed in the ministry of our Brother Branham, who was "the first mature Son of we who are Christ's at His (Gk. 'parousia') Coming" (I Corinthians 15:23). Brother Branham said that every great ministry had three 'pulls' (as we explained from the Bible in Newsletters #377 and #420). His 'first pull' was when he took a patient by the hand and the Lord indicated their ailment by a sensation in his hand. His 'second pull' was the Messianic sign of Hebrews 4:12 by which the Lord "discerned the thoughts and intents of the heart . . . to reveal Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever . . . as it was in the days of Lot" (Hebrews 4:12; 13:8; Genesis 18; Luke 17:28-30). This was the last sign Jesus promised we Gentiles before the close of our dispensation, and was the sign that manifest or identified God in Christ in the days of His flesh as exemplified in Matthew 9:4; 12:25; John 1:42, 47-51; 4:16-29; 16:19, and many other Scriptures.
Brother Branham's 'third pull' was speaking the Word as in the revelation of the Seven Seals and the manifestation of the Words God told Him to speak, creating squirrels which he shot, cooked and ate, calming a raging blizzard, restoring life to dead animals, speaking a tumor the size of a grapefruit from the womb of his wife before the surgeons scalpel could cut her flesh, and numerous other miracles. The manifestation of Supernatural acts in your life and in the lives of the saints is also Christ's "appearing".
Doubtless Paul was also referring to the manifestation of the Sons of God and our meeting with the Lord for the wedding supper in the air in Colossians 3:4 but his main objective in this letter was to instruct the saints at Colosse in "the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. . . [admonishing them to be] rooted and built up in Christ, and established in the faith, as they have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. [And to] beware lest any man spoil them through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ" (Colossians 1:27-28; 2:7-8). He was instructing them in righteousness and holy living whereby they should bring their mortal spirit or mind subject to the Husband of their soul, so it can take mastery over the senses and actions of their physical being in order that the life expressed through their mind and body is the Life of their second birth, which is Christ in them, and not a display of their first birth and the nature of this world (ibid. 3:5-15; Philippians 2:13). Thus, "when Christ [the living Word] who is our life, appears or is manifest by the Token on display in our life, then you shall appear or manifest with Him in glory".
Following the Seventh Trumpet at the close of the Gentile dispensation Christ's Bride will become a hunted and persecuted little group. Then we will manifest before God, and He will confirm to us that we are the Sons of God: under preeminence we will speak the inspired Word for our necessary requirements, and what we say God will do. This will be Christ appearing or manifesting His Life is us, and our assurance that we shall appear with Him in heavenly glory. It will not a public display but for our personal edification building faith to receive translation grace so that when one of the risen saints appears to us we can change in the atoms.
The third fold of God's plan is to restore the Kingdom to its former dominion over earth before the ingress of sin, and restore our uninhibited fellowship with God in creation throughout eternity as new Jerusalem ruling the renewed heavens and renewed earth. nl569.htm
Homework: Please review Brother Branham's teaching, Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed
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The Mystery of the Living Christ, the same, Yesterday, and Today, and Forever
Bible Believers' Newsletter #568
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Thank you, Brethren for your prayers, fasting and emails expressing concern for our Brother imprisoned in his homeland on the false charge of proselytism among Muslims. Thanks especially to two Sister in the USA and Singapore and two Brothers in South Africa and Australia who met his material needs. The world is unaware that one cannot join the Christian Church. Unlike worldly religions, one cannot become a Christian by force of law, proselytism or even self-will. One must be born-again by a clear revelation from Above (Matthew 16:17). Sadly, few people anywhere have met a Christian or understand what Christians believe, and no matter where the live they would not know how find a Christian Church.
Colossians 1:16-17 says that "all things were created and bound together by the Word of God." And Hebrews 11:3 says, "By faith we understand that the worlds (dispensational ages and sidereal universe) were joined together by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things that appear." Now because of apostasy in the churches, denominational Christians (so-called), and ignorance within the circle of this Message, the world—not merely the kosmos but also the physical world—is falling apart because there is no glue of faith to hold it together.
On the April 2 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the Group of Twenty (G-20) industrialized nations will gather together in London with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, the President of the World Bank, and Chairmen of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Development Committee of the IMF and WB, to address the global financial crisis. Together, member countries represent around ninety per cent of global gross national product, eighty percent of world trade (including EU intra-trade) as well as two-thirds of the world's population. The G-20's economic weight and broad membership gives the international banksters irresistible leverage over the management of the global economy and financial system, which explains how the upcoming global depression was engineered.
These minions of the Illuminati are working to unite the world together with usury in the stead of the revealed Word of God. It will fall apart, and great will be its fall.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Thanks to the Lord in Appreciation for Your Prayers and Support
February 26, 2009 – Last week we informed you by email of a fellow-subscriber, former policeman and now a minister in this Message who was imprisoned pending payment of a fine on the false charge of converting Muslims to Christianity. The Lord answered your effectual, fervent prayers in behalf of our Brother, and the prayers of the saints under his ministry, restoring his liberty and bringing glory to His Name from thankful hearts worldwide. The following letter is addressed to you personally:
Dear Brethren and Sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ,
I am so happy to be one of your fellowship and I hope that I can do some things for the glory of the Lord, preaching the Gospel and Brother William Branham's teachings and announcing his principles in this life.
I was so glad to hear that our Brothers and Sisters give me support even despite their own needs, really I am so shame and in same time I proud of their help, I can't find words to explain my joy and happiness about this.
I am 30 years old, I am not married, I hope find a good Sister but I prefer to be without a wife at this time, I see the example of Paul and our Lord Jesus. . . I was living with my family but after this problem I am now staying temporarily with my Brother in soul and flesh, but I think that I must looking for accommodation and work because my situation is very bad at this time, but I thank God in every situation because He permits this for me and He says that all things work for good for those who love God. May the Lord improve my situation in the future.
It has been a very difficult period, grappling against the forces of evil proliferating in our country, Islam with its laws and humanitarian law planned by the hands of men. Unfortunately the nation has sided with the idea that Islam is the only religion in this country, all laws are therefore written for the benefit of this religion!
At the outset, I informed you that I worked within the security apparatus (police), my past experience made me hate the work within this system. I came to know the Lord Jesus in this period and I hated the work more than ever. I left as a result of my faith and cannot bear the things that I see every day. Then the persecution began and its ferocity increased when I started studying the Bible.
I passed by a bitter personal experience, it was that the authorities monitored the mail, one of the brothers had sent me some material and Spiritual things by mail. Going to the Post Office I was arrested and charged with religious incitement to switch Muslims to Christianity and the result was taunting, beating and kicking, abrasive talk, false and unjust sentencing to a fine of about US$800.00 or a fateful six months in prison with the fine. Some of you Brothers and Sisters beside me were paying the fine for me. But what hurt my heart and what hurt me was why the authorities were dealing with me like this and why they make all this evils against me.
Excuse me for this bad English, but be sure that my feeling in my heart is very full with love to all those who making problems to me. Jesus said that we must love our enemies.
We are now, some Christians people in our country, we love to live in peace, and worship our Lord with liberty. All the Brethren sharing me send you a great love in Our King Jesus. God bless and keep you.
Comment: Matthew 25:34-40. Please pray the Lord will make clear the path before our Brethren.
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Your Chief Adversary
February 20, 2009 – After watching the quick approval of the so-called stimulus package it ought to be obvious to any thinking person that our so-called legislators, do not legislate. They do not even read proposed legislation before casting their votes.
Someone other than the legislators writes the legislation. Someone other than the senators and representatives decides what must be approved and what must be rejected. The so-called legislators merely put their unthinking sanction on packages they are told to approve. There is no need for them to read the legislation because they are not expected to think about what they are doing. They are not even expected to represent the thinking of voters in their states. There is no sense denying this fact because that is the way it IS. And IS means IS.
This impotence and robotization of legislative bodies was planned many years ago by none other than that crazy Frenchman, Auguste Comte. He made it perfectly clear in his Positive Philosophy that in the future, thinking would no longer be necessary or desirable on the part of most individuals. He wrote . . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: Our governments are controlled by 'the City of London' whose international banksters have set up the nations like tenpins to be struck with financial and economic ruin so they may introduce Lucifer's totalitarian one world government over a global debtor's prison. They could be defeated today by introducing import duties and tariffs to return nations to self-sufficiency and productive employment, but politicians worldwide serve 'the City.' Aliens write the laws and control the juridical systems, censor media to brainwash the world to receive their propaganda as truth, compose fraudulent histories and write educational curricula.
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Horst Mahler receives Six-Year Sentence
Munich, February 25, 2009 — German dissident Horst Mahler has been sentenced to six years in prison for "Volksverhetzung" (racial incitement). The symbolically significant number of years imposed for "anti-Semitic hate speech" stemmed from his refusal to recognize the Jewish Holocaust, which he described as "the biggest lie in world history". . .
Immediately following sentencing, the 73-year-old dissident was arrested and led away before astonished onlookers in the courtroom, including many of his supporters. The former attorney . . . earlier received prison sentences for thought-crimes on several occasions. "I have resolved to call a lie a lie". . .
In setting a personal example, Mahler declared that it was incumbent upon every German to "deal a deathblow to the Holocaust religion as martyrs for the truth. . . I have resolved to expose this Talmudic perfidy, that over and over again I will call a lie a lie and oppose it with the truth. I have sworn to my people never to give up in this fight against the Holocaust religion." Full story: northwestnationalists.blogspot.com
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The Mystery of the Living Christ, the same, Yesterday, and Today, and Forever
Colossians 1:17, "[As the Logos] Christ Himself existed before all things, and all things consist—cohere and endure—in the Logos or Word".
Hebrews 13:8-9, "Jesus Christ [the Word is always] the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Be not led astray by various strange teachings. For it is well to have the heart strengthened by God's grace, and not to be devoted to dietary rules and ritualistic meals from which devotees [under the Law] have derived no benefit".
God's thoughts, which are eternal and real, manifest in palpable dimensions by the exercise of correspondingly certain and eternal revelation. By faith God expressed His thoughts over six days of a thousand years to [Heb. 'bara'] create all things out of nothing by the 'third pull' of His immaterial spoken Word which is the original seed (II Peter 3:8; Luke 8:11). On the seventh day He rested and watched a mist rise up and water the surface of the whole earth and saw seed spoken in the third age of creation [Heb. yatsa'] germinate or "bring forth" vegetation according to His Word. Being inanimate, the Lord had no need to ['bara'] create it a spirit of life or a soul out of nothing. Having provided grass, herbs, and trees as food and shelter for man and beast He next fashioned the first man, [Heb. 'yatsar'], squeezing him into shape as a potter molds a vessel of clay and placing in him first the mortal spirit, and then the soul.
Writing in Greek, Paul expressed the same understanding Moses wrote in Hebrew: "Who are you, O man, to criticize God? The thing that was molded does not say to the one that molds it, Why have you made me this way? Has the potter no power over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for beauty, and another for menial use? What if God, desiring to show His wrath, and to make His power known, with great patience endured the vessels of wrath made for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory to the recipients of mercy, whom He predestinated for glory, even us, whom he has called, not only from among the Judahites, but also from among the Gentiles" (Romans 9:20-34)?
The mist that rose up on the seventh day and watered the whole face of the ground, transformed extremely fine particles of dust into clay from which the Lord God [Heb. 'yatsar'] molded or squeezed Adam into form. His name is derived from the Hebrew 'adamah,' which means the existing material of the ground from which he was [Heb. 'asah'] made. When the Lord metaphorically "breathed the breath of lives into his nostrils," the non-material elements of spirit and soul that were [Heb. 'bara'] created out of nothing by His spoken Word, manifest the first living soul (Genesis 1:26-28; 2:6-7).
"Out of the ground the Lord God ['yatsar'] formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). In naming the animals, Adam was taking possession and exercising his dominion as god of this earth. When the Lord God had finished forming His creation—male and female of each species—He put Adam to sleep and drew from his side a rib from which He built woman as a byproduct. Although Eve shared his dominion, it was through the oneness of the marriage union, just as we Christians are made joint-heirs in Christ's Kingdom through our invisible marriage union with and under His Headship (Romans 8:17; I Corinthians 3:21-23).
God is unchanging: as He put Adam to sleep in the garden of Eden and took from his side a rib with which to build Eve, He put Jesus to sleep on Calvary and took from His side the Holy Spirit with which He is building His Bride. Either dead or alive, no cruelty was omitted towards Christ, nor was there any evidence wanting that might confirm the truth of His death. To please the Jews who do not hesitate to defame the dead, "one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear," but the insult produced a miracle in that "blood and water" issued from His lifeless body, fulfilling the Law under which, "almost all things are purged with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission" for God requires a life for a life, and our kinsman Redeemer voluntarily offered up His own spotless Life in substitution for "whosoever will" of Adam's race (John 19:34; Hebrews 9:22; Revelation 1:5).
Caiaphas, Israel's high priest, "counseled the Jews, It is expedient that one man should die for the people! [And] all the people, answered, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children" as it is to this day (John 18:14; Matthew 27:25). But when Jesus Messiah claimed the Title Deed to all He had redeemed, "The four living creatures and the twenty-four elders sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the Book, and to open the Seals, for You were slain, and Your blood has redeemed to God men out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation [of Adam's race]" (Revelation 5:9), thus confirming Redemption is Over and Christ's mediation ended in March, 1963, when the Mercy Seat became a Judgment Seat, vindicating God's promise to Abraham, whose name means "father of the Gentiles" (Genesis 17:5; Revelation 4; 5).
Without moisture clay does not hold together well but is easily turned back into dust, and the whole creation is sustained only so long as it is bound by the moisture of God's eternal Word (Colossians 1:17). Likewise the promises of His Word are of no effect if we add to or take from what God has said, for they are no longer eternal Word and THUS SAITH THE LORD, but the ephemeral something you or I as mere mortals conceived. When we meddle with God's unchanging Word we break the glue of the Spirit that binds it together and which alone can honour His promises: we turn Life into death and make God's Word of no effect. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4; Revelation 22:17-19).
Jesus said, "If you abide in Me, and My Words remain in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be done for you." Your heart must be in the Logos or Word, and remain there in order for you to be among the chosen few for whom Jesus prayed and sent into the world to manifest His Name, "that the world may know that God sent Jesus, and that He has loved you as He has loved Him" (John 15:7; 17; 14:8-14).
When God ['bara'] created man out of nothing but His eternal thoughts expressed, He spoke them male and female. He ['asah'] made and ['yatsar'] molded man from the existing material of the ground, but He made woman from the existing material of Adam's flesh and bone—not a separate creation ['yatsar'] molded like clay, but ['banah'] built as a continuation of her husband. And as God is unchanging in His Word and His ways, the members of Christ's Bride are not an independent creation distinct from their Husband but a continuation of the same creation built from Attributes of the Logos manifest in flesh as written epistles of the Word for their day. As God never changes His principles, the Bride of the last Adam will be a W_O_R_D Bride like her Husband, performing the same works as Her Husband by speaking the Word. As His intercession for the ignorance of PART-Word is fulfilled, His end-time Bride can only come into His image through a clear revelation of the fullness of the Word, and to make this possible He sent William Branham, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 to restore the apostolic faith, finish the mystery of God, and call us out from the world church system into the unity of the faith so we can manifest that we are the Sons of God (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 13:10).
Once creation came into conflict with God's eternal Word, corruption and death set in and in the days of Noah the world fell apart. When Eve was deceived by Satan's reasoning against the Word, she crossed from eternity into time, as God warned, "In the day you partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil [which was a metaphor for Lucifer and his wisdom] you shall die-die" (Genesis 2:17). As in Cantonese the repetition of the Hebrew 'muwth' emphasized the certainty of death. Since Adam was God's spoken Word made flesh he was not deceived and could not sin, and like the last Adam, he loved His wife who was not spoken Word but a by-product of the Word and could be deceived, so she was made to be under obedience to her husband. Now Adam did not sin or reason in unbelief against God's revealed Word, but with the revelation he was God's Son he knew he was eternal with God and could no more be lost than God can be lost: by faith he voluntarily crossed from life unto death, knowing the Lord must at some time redeem Him, and when God redeemed him, Eve would be redeemed also, because the two were one flesh through the marriage union.
Being perfect, God's Word never changes: given the same circumstances His first decision and first work will be the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). Although He was born of a woman, Jesus Christ the last Adam was also without sin, and voluntarily crossed from life into death in order to redeem His wife. When Jesus prayed for His Bride He asked that she "might be one [in the faith] as He and the Father are one" (John 17:21-26; Acts 2:1; I Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 4:13). From eternity, Christ's Bride was foreknown of God in the Logos. And as Attributes of the Logos, every elect son of Adam is accounted crucified in Christ on Calvary, raised in Him and is even now seated in heavenly places in Him (II Corinthians 5:14; Revelation 13:8). Those accounted in Christ will be written epistles of with the Word for their day, as a life lived by the Word is the Word expressed, and our lives must be at one with the present Truth.
Adam surrendered his dominion to Satan for the love of his wife; this one offence brought death and decay upon the whole creation and condemnation upon all men, whereas the one righteous act of Jesus Christ crossing from life to death brought the unmerited gift of God's grace and justification within reach of every son of Adam when He was "raised from the dead for our justification [thereby] destroying the works of the Devil" (Romans 4:25; I John 3:8). Justification is not forgiveness but complete innocence as though you never committed those trespasses. True justification is the regeneration or new birth of your soul and union with God in Christ, not its replacement (Romans 5:17-18).
Adam and Eve could not live out the seventh day as their body and spirit lost the binding moisture of the pure Word and began falling apart. Through famine and drought for hearing the revealed Word of God the world is again falling apart (Amos 8:11; Luke 8:6) "as it did in the days of Noah," but this time it will be destroyed by fire (Matthew 24:37; Malachi 4:1-3; II Peter 3:1-11). God said, "In the sweat of your brow you will eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken: for dust you are, and to dust you shall return." Much of life became fruitless vanity: Job 10:9 implored God, "Remember that You have [Heb, 'asah'] made me of clay; Will You now turn me back into dust"?
The Lord God made only one woman for Adam, but through her many more children were born of Adam's race, and hordes of physical Serpent's seed of Cain's race. The last Adam likewise prayed for His one Bride "and for them also who shall believe on Me [and be born-again] through their Word" (John 17:20). These are "their offspring." Isaiah prophesied, "When He makes Himself an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in His hand" (Isaiah 61:9; 65:23; 53:10; Acts 2:39). Like her natural type, multitudes who should have been offspring to Christ by Spiritual Eve, the Church, fell by the wayside as make-believers and unbelievers, "led astray by various strange teachings," and having hybrid God's Word with human reasoning, which is the seed of discrepancy, are spiritual Serpent's seed (Revelation 22:18-19).
The Lord God Himself [Heb. 'banah'] "built" the wife of the first Adam overnight as it were. In longsuffering patience He has been 2,000 years building the wife of the last Adam, and placed a five-fold ministry in the Church to perfect those who are saints for ministry to those without and for the edifying or building up of Christ's Bride "until the last member comes into the unity of the faith in this holy convocation, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto the full measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-13; Matthew 16:8; Mark 14:58). When the first Eve was "built," the Lord presented her to the first Adam, and when the last Eve is built, the Lord will present her to Himself a glorious Bride "having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and blameless".
The living Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Psalm 102 was inspired toward the end of the captivity, but it was "written for a generation to come, a people yet to be created who will praise the Lord." The psalmist was looking to the time when Jesus Messiah, having been crucified and raised for our justification, would "hear the groaning of the prisoners and loose those that are destined to die." This was partially fulfilled when He "descended first into the lower parts of the earth" to indict sinners and vindicate the faith of the Old Testament saints, then ascended far above the visible heavens to cleanse the sanctuary of the accumulated sins of the Old Testament saints, and descending once again, lead captive of Life those who had been captives of death (Psalm 68:18; Matthew 27:50-53; Ephesians 4:8-9). He was also looking forward to the 144,000 elect Israelites, "a people yet to be created who will praise the Lord." And to the new Jerusalem on a renewed heavens and renewed earth "When the nations, even the kingdoms are gathered together, to serve the Lord".
With unwavering faith in his personal deliverance even though it must wait "for an age to come [when] the Lord would look down from the height of His heavenly sanctuary and hear the groaning of the prisoners," the psalmist anticipated the revelation of Jehovah to be accomplished in Jesus Messiah, as Jesus of the New Testament would be Jehovah of the Old manifest in the flesh of a virgin-born Man to play the part of our kinsman Redeemer (Isaiah 7:14; Leviticus 25; Ruth; I Timothy 3:16). He is the same yesterday, and today, and forever, hence His Name is called Emmanuel, which means not a second, third or any other fraction but "[ALL of] God with us . . . For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Matthew 1:23; Colossians 2:9); but His Name is Jesus, which means "the self-existing One [not two or three], the Saviour" (Isaiah 45:21-22). Our help comes exclusively from the Creator, not from His creation, for He alone hears and answers prayer.
Paul quotes Psalm 102 in Hebrews 1:10-12, the heavens and earth are said to have been created "of Old." Indeed they were created "in the beginning," are of lasting duration (49:26; Psalm 148:6; Isaiah 48:13) and may be billions of years old, yet in contrast with the Creator, they are merely transitory while He remains unchangeably the same through all the vicissitudes of time (Psalm 119:90). When He repeats the Greek word [Gk. 'parerchomai'] Jesus is emphatic: "Heaven and earth will pass away," or change from their present condition to renewal, or regeneration, not replaced (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; II Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1).
In Colossians 1:15-16 we read, "Jesus Messiah is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. For through Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through Christ the Logos, and for Him." As Brother Branham explained, the living Christ, the same, yesterday, and today, and forever, redeems Earth the same as He redeemed you. Your first step in faith is when you receive a clear revelation of the true oneness of the Godhead who is Jesus—and what He has done for you; repent and receive baptism by immersion in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins. They are not forgiven but remitted, and the record cast into the sea of God's forgetfulness. We call this justification by grace through faith. You have a clean slate, but the nature of the god of this world who influenced you to sin remains on your soul, spirit and body. Your second step in faith is a process called sanctification which sets your mind in order for holiness by ongoing revelation exposing your mistakes so that quickly you repent and line up with God's unchanging Word. However the nature of Satan that led you to sin is still on your soul. Your third step in faith is new birth by a clear understanding of the present Truth. This is the baptism with the Holy Spirit and Fire that cleanses your soul of the nature of the world and quickens it to new Life in Christ the Word. We must recognize our day and its Message in order that we can walk in the Light God is shining now, and receive the fullness of the revealed Word for our day when it is presented (I John 1:7).
God can only redeem, or buy back a possession that was lost, but was His from Eternity, that is, the Attributes of the Logos or Word. And you will only possess eternal Life if you are predestinated by God's foreknowledge and an eternal Attribute of the Logos (Romans 8:28-31; I Peter 1:2). In the days of Noah, Earth was baptized by the Great Flood and justified, but the waters only washed away civilization and the evidence of past sin as confirmed by the presence in the ark of Ham, his wife and Mrs. Noah, who repopulated Earth with physical and spiritual Serpent's seed. It was sanctified by the Blood of Christ after the Roman soldier pierced His side, and will receive its baptism with the Holy Ghost and Fire following the White Throne Judgment. Flames will leap thousands of miles into space and new lava will cover Earth's surface while the Shekinah will annihilate all demons, leaving no evidence of human history or remembrance of sin.
Hebrews 1:10-12 says, "Heavens and earth are the works of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain. They will all wear out like a garment, and like a mantle You will fold them up and they will be changed; but You are the same and your years will never end." This metaphor of impermanence is also found in Psalm 104:2 and Isaiah 40:22.
The metaphor of a scroll once read, rolled up and set aside, is applied to describe the dawning of the day of the Lord when Satan and his demons will be cast down to earth at the manifestation of the Sixth Seal upon the close of the Gentile dispensation (Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14; 12:7-17); while Isaiah 51:6 says, "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, then look on the earth beneath: for the skies shall vanish away like smoke, the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell thereon shall die in swarms: but My salvation shall abide for ever, and My righteousness shall never be annulled." In view of the contrast to which the soul of God's elect and this world are to be subjected, only God the Word is immutable and ever manifests Himself as the same.
Not surprisingly the blasphemous motto of the fraudulent Judaeo-Roman Catholic church is, 'Semper Eadem,' which means "always the same." She calls herself the Bride of Christ but He calls her "the great whore . . . the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth . . . who corrupted the earth with her [spiritual] fornication [which is idolatry] . . . and will be utterly burned with [nuclear] fire" (Revelation 17:1-5, 18:8-20; 19:2). In Hebrew that word is 'cherem,' which means "dedicated to destruction for the glory of God as in Daniel 9:27.
Psalm 102:15-16 identifies Jesus of the New Testament with Jehovah of the Old Testament: "The Gentiles shall revere the Name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. When the Lord has rebuilt Zion, He will appear in His glory." Jesus Christ is the glory of God. "Isaiah saw the glory of God and spoke of Him" (John 12:41; Isaiah 6:1-9). In Zechariah 12:10 Jehovah says, "I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." Immediately after the soldier had pierced Christ's dead body John applied this verse to Jesus (John 19:37).
When God spoke the Word that created all men and women in Adam's race, for potentially we were all in Adam as every banana that ever will be was potentially in the first banana tree, and as every elect was in Jesus Christ when He walked the shores of Galilee since we are Attributes of the Logos, He [Heb. 'bara'] created us in His image. That is, He spoke the Word that would manifest our soul when we were born. You are your soul, an unseen spirit being as God is an unseen Spirit being (Genesis 1:26-28). In our designated decreed season and time we were manifest on earth to be tested and overcome Satan, sin and the world by the Word of God and prayer, and grow into the [Heb. 'dmuwth'] likeness of God in Christ by putting on His character with the Token on display.
If the living Christ is in us we will "speak the truth and lie not." The Holy Spirit will not dwell where the Word of God is unwelcome. We need to humble ourselves before the Lord, repent, confess our misdeeds, remembering that in this day the Revival is only in the heart of His Bride. Return to Christ while you are still able. If we are honest we will confess before God and before men. Brother Branham came under condemnation one time when someone called and he said to his wife, "Tell them I'm not home; I'm outside right now, so I'm not here just at this time." Later He was called to pray for someone but first he had to make that right.
Ask the Lord to sweeten your life. Pour in oil and the balm of Gilead, and anoint your soul with His goodness and mercy, so that you can hear Him speak to you again, and so people will know the anointing lives in you as it dwelt in Jesus, then you may rest assured you will manifest the 'third pull' and change in the atoms.
Jesus is the living Christ. Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me". nl568.htm
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Thank you, Brethren for your prayers, fasting and emails expressing concern for our Brother imprisoned in his homeland on the false charge of proselytism among Muslims. Thanks especially to two Sister in the USA and Singapore and two Brothers in South Africa and Australia who met his material needs. The world is unaware that one cannot join the Christian Church. Unlike worldly religions, one cannot become a Christian by force of law, proselytism or even self-will. One must be born-again by a clear revelation from Above (Matthew 16:17). Sadly, few people anywhere have met a Christian or understand what Christians believe, and no matter where the live they would not know how find a Christian Church.
Colossians 1:16-17 says that "all things were created and bound together by the Word of God." And Hebrews 11:3 says, "By faith we understand that the worlds (dispensational ages and sidereal universe) were joined together by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things that appear." Now because of apostasy in the churches, denominational Christians (so-called), and ignorance within the circle of this Message, the world—not merely the kosmos but also the physical world—is falling apart because there is no glue of faith to hold it together.
On the April 2 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the Group of Twenty (G-20) industrialized nations will gather together in London with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, the President of the World Bank, and Chairmen of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Development Committee of the IMF and WB, to address the global financial crisis. Together, member countries represent around ninety per cent of global gross national product, eighty percent of world trade (including EU intra-trade) as well as two-thirds of the world's population. The G-20's economic weight and broad membership gives the international banksters irresistible leverage over the management of the global economy and financial system, which explains how the upcoming global depression was engineered.
These minions of the Illuminati are working to unite the world together with usury in the stead of the revealed Word of God. It will fall apart, and great will be its fall.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Thanks to the Lord in Appreciation for Your Prayers and Support
February 26, 2009 – Last week we informed you by email of a fellow-subscriber, former policeman and now a minister in this Message who was imprisoned pending payment of a fine on the false charge of converting Muslims to Christianity. The Lord answered your effectual, fervent prayers in behalf of our Brother, and the prayers of the saints under his ministry, restoring his liberty and bringing glory to His Name from thankful hearts worldwide. The following letter is addressed to you personally:
Dear Brethren and Sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ,
I am so happy to be one of your fellowship and I hope that I can do some things for the glory of the Lord, preaching the Gospel and Brother William Branham's teachings and announcing his principles in this life.
I was so glad to hear that our Brothers and Sisters give me support even despite their own needs, really I am so shame and in same time I proud of their help, I can't find words to explain my joy and happiness about this.
I am 30 years old, I am not married, I hope find a good Sister but I prefer to be without a wife at this time, I see the example of Paul and our Lord Jesus. . . I was living with my family but after this problem I am now staying temporarily with my Brother in soul and flesh, but I think that I must looking for accommodation and work because my situation is very bad at this time, but I thank God in every situation because He permits this for me and He says that all things work for good for those who love God. May the Lord improve my situation in the future.
It has been a very difficult period, grappling against the forces of evil proliferating in our country, Islam with its laws and humanitarian law planned by the hands of men. Unfortunately the nation has sided with the idea that Islam is the only religion in this country, all laws are therefore written for the benefit of this religion!
At the outset, I informed you that I worked within the security apparatus (police), my past experience made me hate the work within this system. I came to know the Lord Jesus in this period and I hated the work more than ever. I left as a result of my faith and cannot bear the things that I see every day. Then the persecution began and its ferocity increased when I started studying the Bible.
I passed by a bitter personal experience, it was that the authorities monitored the mail, one of the brothers had sent me some material and Spiritual things by mail. Going to the Post Office I was arrested and charged with religious incitement to switch Muslims to Christianity and the result was taunting, beating and kicking, abrasive talk, false and unjust sentencing to a fine of about US$800.00 or a fateful six months in prison with the fine. Some of you Brothers and Sisters beside me were paying the fine for me. But what hurt my heart and what hurt me was why the authorities were dealing with me like this and why they make all this evils against me.
Excuse me for this bad English, but be sure that my feeling in my heart is very full with love to all those who making problems to me. Jesus said that we must love our enemies.
We are now, some Christians people in our country, we love to live in peace, and worship our Lord with liberty. All the Brethren sharing me send you a great love in Our King Jesus. God bless and keep you.
Comment: Matthew 25:34-40. Please pray the Lord will make clear the path before our Brethren.
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Your Chief Adversary
February 20, 2009 – After watching the quick approval of the so-called stimulus package it ought to be obvious to any thinking person that our so-called legislators, do not legislate. They do not even read proposed legislation before casting their votes.
Someone other than the legislators writes the legislation. Someone other than the senators and representatives decides what must be approved and what must be rejected. The so-called legislators merely put their unthinking sanction on packages they are told to approve. There is no need for them to read the legislation because they are not expected to think about what they are doing. They are not even expected to represent the thinking of voters in their states. There is no sense denying this fact because that is the way it IS. And IS means IS.
This impotence and robotization of legislative bodies was planned many years ago by none other than that crazy Frenchman, Auguste Comte. He made it perfectly clear in his Positive Philosophy that in the future, thinking would no longer be necessary or desirable on the part of most individuals. He wrote . . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: Our governments are controlled by 'the City of London' whose international banksters have set up the nations like tenpins to be struck with financial and economic ruin so they may introduce Lucifer's totalitarian one world government over a global debtor's prison. They could be defeated today by introducing import duties and tariffs to return nations to self-sufficiency and productive employment, but politicians worldwide serve 'the City.' Aliens write the laws and control the juridical systems, censor media to brainwash the world to receive their propaganda as truth, compose fraudulent histories and write educational curricula.
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Horst Mahler receives Six-Year Sentence
Munich, February 25, 2009 — German dissident Horst Mahler has been sentenced to six years in prison for "Volksverhetzung" (racial incitement). The symbolically significant number of years imposed for "anti-Semitic hate speech" stemmed from his refusal to recognize the Jewish Holocaust, which he described as "the biggest lie in world history". . .
Immediately following sentencing, the 73-year-old dissident was arrested and led away before astonished onlookers in the courtroom, including many of his supporters. The former attorney . . . earlier received prison sentences for thought-crimes on several occasions. "I have resolved to call a lie a lie". . .
In setting a personal example, Mahler declared that it was incumbent upon every German to "deal a deathblow to the Holocaust religion as martyrs for the truth. . . I have resolved to expose this Talmudic perfidy, that over and over again I will call a lie a lie and oppose it with the truth. I have sworn to my people never to give up in this fight against the Holocaust religion." Full story: northwestnationalists.blogspot.com
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The Mystery of the Living Christ, the same, Yesterday, and Today, and Forever
Colossians 1:17, "[As the Logos] Christ Himself existed before all things, and all things consist—cohere and endure—in the Logos or Word".
Hebrews 13:8-9, "Jesus Christ [the Word is always] the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Be not led astray by various strange teachings. For it is well to have the heart strengthened by God's grace, and not to be devoted to dietary rules and ritualistic meals from which devotees [under the Law] have derived no benefit".
God's thoughts, which are eternal and real, manifest in palpable dimensions by the exercise of correspondingly certain and eternal revelation. By faith God expressed His thoughts over six days of a thousand years to [Heb. 'bara'] create all things out of nothing by the 'third pull' of His immaterial spoken Word which is the original seed (II Peter 3:8; Luke 8:11). On the seventh day He rested and watched a mist rise up and water the surface of the whole earth and saw seed spoken in the third age of creation [Heb. yatsa'] germinate or "bring forth" vegetation according to His Word. Being inanimate, the Lord had no need to ['bara'] create it a spirit of life or a soul out of nothing. Having provided grass, herbs, and trees as food and shelter for man and beast He next fashioned the first man, [Heb. 'yatsar'], squeezing him into shape as a potter molds a vessel of clay and placing in him first the mortal spirit, and then the soul.
Writing in Greek, Paul expressed the same understanding Moses wrote in Hebrew: "Who are you, O man, to criticize God? The thing that was molded does not say to the one that molds it, Why have you made me this way? Has the potter no power over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for beauty, and another for menial use? What if God, desiring to show His wrath, and to make His power known, with great patience endured the vessels of wrath made for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory to the recipients of mercy, whom He predestinated for glory, even us, whom he has called, not only from among the Judahites, but also from among the Gentiles" (Romans 9:20-34)?
The mist that rose up on the seventh day and watered the whole face of the ground, transformed extremely fine particles of dust into clay from which the Lord God [Heb. 'yatsar'] molded or squeezed Adam into form. His name is derived from the Hebrew 'adamah,' which means the existing material of the ground from which he was [Heb. 'asah'] made. When the Lord metaphorically "breathed the breath of lives into his nostrils," the non-material elements of spirit and soul that were [Heb. 'bara'] created out of nothing by His spoken Word, manifest the first living soul (Genesis 1:26-28; 2:6-7).
"Out of the ground the Lord God ['yatsar'] formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). In naming the animals, Adam was taking possession and exercising his dominion as god of this earth. When the Lord God had finished forming His creation—male and female of each species—He put Adam to sleep and drew from his side a rib from which He built woman as a byproduct. Although Eve shared his dominion, it was through the oneness of the marriage union, just as we Christians are made joint-heirs in Christ's Kingdom through our invisible marriage union with and under His Headship (Romans 8:17; I Corinthians 3:21-23).
God is unchanging: as He put Adam to sleep in the garden of Eden and took from his side a rib with which to build Eve, He put Jesus to sleep on Calvary and took from His side the Holy Spirit with which He is building His Bride. Either dead or alive, no cruelty was omitted towards Christ, nor was there any evidence wanting that might confirm the truth of His death. To please the Jews who do not hesitate to defame the dead, "one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear," but the insult produced a miracle in that "blood and water" issued from His lifeless body, fulfilling the Law under which, "almost all things are purged with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission" for God requires a life for a life, and our kinsman Redeemer voluntarily offered up His own spotless Life in substitution for "whosoever will" of Adam's race (John 19:34; Hebrews 9:22; Revelation 1:5).
Caiaphas, Israel's high priest, "counseled the Jews, It is expedient that one man should die for the people! [And] all the people, answered, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children" as it is to this day (John 18:14; Matthew 27:25). But when Jesus Messiah claimed the Title Deed to all He had redeemed, "The four living creatures and the twenty-four elders sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the Book, and to open the Seals, for You were slain, and Your blood has redeemed to God men out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation [of Adam's race]" (Revelation 5:9), thus confirming Redemption is Over and Christ's mediation ended in March, 1963, when the Mercy Seat became a Judgment Seat, vindicating God's promise to Abraham, whose name means "father of the Gentiles" (Genesis 17:5; Revelation 4; 5).
Without moisture clay does not hold together well but is easily turned back into dust, and the whole creation is sustained only so long as it is bound by the moisture of God's eternal Word (Colossians 1:17). Likewise the promises of His Word are of no effect if we add to or take from what God has said, for they are no longer eternal Word and THUS SAITH THE LORD, but the ephemeral something you or I as mere mortals conceived. When we meddle with God's unchanging Word we break the glue of the Spirit that binds it together and which alone can honour His promises: we turn Life into death and make God's Word of no effect. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4; Revelation 22:17-19).
Jesus said, "If you abide in Me, and My Words remain in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be done for you." Your heart must be in the Logos or Word, and remain there in order for you to be among the chosen few for whom Jesus prayed and sent into the world to manifest His Name, "that the world may know that God sent Jesus, and that He has loved you as He has loved Him" (John 15:7; 17; 14:8-14).
When God ['bara'] created man out of nothing but His eternal thoughts expressed, He spoke them male and female. He ['asah'] made and ['yatsar'] molded man from the existing material of the ground, but He made woman from the existing material of Adam's flesh and bone—not a separate creation ['yatsar'] molded like clay, but ['banah'] built as a continuation of her husband. And as God is unchanging in His Word and His ways, the members of Christ's Bride are not an independent creation distinct from their Husband but a continuation of the same creation built from Attributes of the Logos manifest in flesh as written epistles of the Word for their day. As God never changes His principles, the Bride of the last Adam will be a W_O_R_D Bride like her Husband, performing the same works as Her Husband by speaking the Word. As His intercession for the ignorance of PART-Word is fulfilled, His end-time Bride can only come into His image through a clear revelation of the fullness of the Word, and to make this possible He sent William Branham, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 to restore the apostolic faith, finish the mystery of God, and call us out from the world church system into the unity of the faith so we can manifest that we are the Sons of God (Matthew 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 18:4; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 13:10).
Once creation came into conflict with God's eternal Word, corruption and death set in and in the days of Noah the world fell apart. When Eve was deceived by Satan's reasoning against the Word, she crossed from eternity into time, as God warned, "In the day you partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil [which was a metaphor for Lucifer and his wisdom] you shall die-die" (Genesis 2:17). As in Cantonese the repetition of the Hebrew 'muwth' emphasized the certainty of death. Since Adam was God's spoken Word made flesh he was not deceived and could not sin, and like the last Adam, he loved His wife who was not spoken Word but a by-product of the Word and could be deceived, so she was made to be under obedience to her husband. Now Adam did not sin or reason in unbelief against God's revealed Word, but with the revelation he was God's Son he knew he was eternal with God and could no more be lost than God can be lost: by faith he voluntarily crossed from life unto death, knowing the Lord must at some time redeem Him, and when God redeemed him, Eve would be redeemed also, because the two were one flesh through the marriage union.
Being perfect, God's Word never changes: given the same circumstances His first decision and first work will be the same yesterday, and today, and forever (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). Although He was born of a woman, Jesus Christ the last Adam was also without sin, and voluntarily crossed from life into death in order to redeem His wife. When Jesus prayed for His Bride He asked that she "might be one [in the faith] as He and the Father are one" (John 17:21-26; Acts 2:1; I Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 4:13). From eternity, Christ's Bride was foreknown of God in the Logos. And as Attributes of the Logos, every elect son of Adam is accounted crucified in Christ on Calvary, raised in Him and is even now seated in heavenly places in Him (II Corinthians 5:14; Revelation 13:8). Those accounted in Christ will be written epistles of with the Word for their day, as a life lived by the Word is the Word expressed, and our lives must be at one with the present Truth.
Adam surrendered his dominion to Satan for the love of his wife; this one offence brought death and decay upon the whole creation and condemnation upon all men, whereas the one righteous act of Jesus Christ crossing from life to death brought the unmerited gift of God's grace and justification within reach of every son of Adam when He was "raised from the dead for our justification [thereby] destroying the works of the Devil" (Romans 4:25; I John 3:8). Justification is not forgiveness but complete innocence as though you never committed those trespasses. True justification is the regeneration or new birth of your soul and union with God in Christ, not its replacement (Romans 5:17-18).
Adam and Eve could not live out the seventh day as their body and spirit lost the binding moisture of the pure Word and began falling apart. Through famine and drought for hearing the revealed Word of God the world is again falling apart (Amos 8:11; Luke 8:6) "as it did in the days of Noah," but this time it will be destroyed by fire (Matthew 24:37; Malachi 4:1-3; II Peter 3:1-11). God said, "In the sweat of your brow you will eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken: for dust you are, and to dust you shall return." Much of life became fruitless vanity: Job 10:9 implored God, "Remember that You have [Heb, 'asah'] made me of clay; Will You now turn me back into dust"?
The Lord God made only one woman for Adam, but through her many more children were born of Adam's race, and hordes of physical Serpent's seed of Cain's race. The last Adam likewise prayed for His one Bride "and for them also who shall believe on Me [and be born-again] through their Word" (John 17:20). These are "their offspring." Isaiah prophesied, "When He makes Himself an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in His hand" (Isaiah 61:9; 65:23; 53:10; Acts 2:39). Like her natural type, multitudes who should have been offspring to Christ by Spiritual Eve, the Church, fell by the wayside as make-believers and unbelievers, "led astray by various strange teachings," and having hybrid God's Word with human reasoning, which is the seed of discrepancy, are spiritual Serpent's seed (Revelation 22:18-19).
The Lord God Himself [Heb. 'banah'] "built" the wife of the first Adam overnight as it were. In longsuffering patience He has been 2,000 years building the wife of the last Adam, and placed a five-fold ministry in the Church to perfect those who are saints for ministry to those without and for the edifying or building up of Christ's Bride "until the last member comes into the unity of the faith in this holy convocation, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto the full measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:12-13; Matthew 16:8; Mark 14:58). When the first Eve was "built," the Lord presented her to the first Adam, and when the last Eve is built, the Lord will present her to Himself a glorious Bride "having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and blameless".
The living Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Psalm 102 was inspired toward the end of the captivity, but it was "written for a generation to come, a people yet to be created who will praise the Lord." The psalmist was looking to the time when Jesus Messiah, having been crucified and raised for our justification, would "hear the groaning of the prisoners and loose those that are destined to die." This was partially fulfilled when He "descended first into the lower parts of the earth" to indict sinners and vindicate the faith of the Old Testament saints, then ascended far above the visible heavens to cleanse the sanctuary of the accumulated sins of the Old Testament saints, and descending once again, lead captive of Life those who had been captives of death (Psalm 68:18; Matthew 27:50-53; Ephesians 4:8-9). He was also looking forward to the 144,000 elect Israelites, "a people yet to be created who will praise the Lord." And to the new Jerusalem on a renewed heavens and renewed earth "When the nations, even the kingdoms are gathered together, to serve the Lord".
With unwavering faith in his personal deliverance even though it must wait "for an age to come [when] the Lord would look down from the height of His heavenly sanctuary and hear the groaning of the prisoners," the psalmist anticipated the revelation of Jehovah to be accomplished in Jesus Messiah, as Jesus of the New Testament would be Jehovah of the Old manifest in the flesh of a virgin-born Man to play the part of our kinsman Redeemer (Isaiah 7:14; Leviticus 25; Ruth; I Timothy 3:16). He is the same yesterday, and today, and forever, hence His Name is called Emmanuel, which means not a second, third or any other fraction but "[ALL of] God with us . . . For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Matthew 1:23; Colossians 2:9); but His Name is Jesus, which means "the self-existing One [not two or three], the Saviour" (Isaiah 45:21-22). Our help comes exclusively from the Creator, not from His creation, for He alone hears and answers prayer.
Paul quotes Psalm 102 in Hebrews 1:10-12, the heavens and earth are said to have been created "of Old." Indeed they were created "in the beginning," are of lasting duration (49:26; Psalm 148:6; Isaiah 48:13) and may be billions of years old, yet in contrast with the Creator, they are merely transitory while He remains unchangeably the same through all the vicissitudes of time (Psalm 119:90). When He repeats the Greek word [Gk. 'parerchomai'] Jesus is emphatic: "Heaven and earth will pass away," or change from their present condition to renewal, or regeneration, not replaced (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; II Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1).
In Colossians 1:15-16 we read, "Jesus Messiah is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. For through Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities—all things were created through Christ the Logos, and for Him." As Brother Branham explained, the living Christ, the same, yesterday, and today, and forever, redeems Earth the same as He redeemed you. Your first step in faith is when you receive a clear revelation of the true oneness of the Godhead who is Jesus—and what He has done for you; repent and receive baptism by immersion in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins. They are not forgiven but remitted, and the record cast into the sea of God's forgetfulness. We call this justification by grace through faith. You have a clean slate, but the nature of the god of this world who influenced you to sin remains on your soul, spirit and body. Your second step in faith is a process called sanctification which sets your mind in order for holiness by ongoing revelation exposing your mistakes so that quickly you repent and line up with God's unchanging Word. However the nature of Satan that led you to sin is still on your soul. Your third step in faith is new birth by a clear understanding of the present Truth. This is the baptism with the Holy Spirit and Fire that cleanses your soul of the nature of the world and quickens it to new Life in Christ the Word. We must recognize our day and its Message in order that we can walk in the Light God is shining now, and receive the fullness of the revealed Word for our day when it is presented (I John 1:7).
God can only redeem, or buy back a possession that was lost, but was His from Eternity, that is, the Attributes of the Logos or Word. And you will only possess eternal Life if you are predestinated by God's foreknowledge and an eternal Attribute of the Logos (Romans 8:28-31; I Peter 1:2). In the days of Noah, Earth was baptized by the Great Flood and justified, but the waters only washed away civilization and the evidence of past sin as confirmed by the presence in the ark of Ham, his wife and Mrs. Noah, who repopulated Earth with physical and spiritual Serpent's seed. It was sanctified by the Blood of Christ after the Roman soldier pierced His side, and will receive its baptism with the Holy Ghost and Fire following the White Throne Judgment. Flames will leap thousands of miles into space and new lava will cover Earth's surface while the Shekinah will annihilate all demons, leaving no evidence of human history or remembrance of sin.
Hebrews 1:10-12 says, "Heavens and earth are the works of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain. They will all wear out like a garment, and like a mantle You will fold them up and they will be changed; but You are the same and your years will never end." This metaphor of impermanence is also found in Psalm 104:2 and Isaiah 40:22.
The metaphor of a scroll once read, rolled up and set aside, is applied to describe the dawning of the day of the Lord when Satan and his demons will be cast down to earth at the manifestation of the Sixth Seal upon the close of the Gentile dispensation (Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14; 12:7-17); while Isaiah 51:6 says, "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, then look on the earth beneath: for the skies shall vanish away like smoke, the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell thereon shall die in swarms: but My salvation shall abide for ever, and My righteousness shall never be annulled." In view of the contrast to which the soul of God's elect and this world are to be subjected, only God the Word is immutable and ever manifests Himself as the same.
Not surprisingly the blasphemous motto of the fraudulent Judaeo-Roman Catholic church is, 'Semper Eadem,' which means "always the same." She calls herself the Bride of Christ but He calls her "the great whore . . . the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth . . . who corrupted the earth with her [spiritual] fornication [which is idolatry] . . . and will be utterly burned with [nuclear] fire" (Revelation 17:1-5, 18:8-20; 19:2). In Hebrew that word is 'cherem,' which means "dedicated to destruction for the glory of God as in Daniel 9:27.
Psalm 102:15-16 identifies Jesus of the New Testament with Jehovah of the Old Testament: "The Gentiles shall revere the Name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. When the Lord has rebuilt Zion, He will appear in His glory." Jesus Christ is the glory of God. "Isaiah saw the glory of God and spoke of Him" (John 12:41; Isaiah 6:1-9). In Zechariah 12:10 Jehovah says, "I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." Immediately after the soldier had pierced Christ's dead body John applied this verse to Jesus (John 19:37).
When God spoke the Word that created all men and women in Adam's race, for potentially we were all in Adam as every banana that ever will be was potentially in the first banana tree, and as every elect was in Jesus Christ when He walked the shores of Galilee since we are Attributes of the Logos, He [Heb. 'bara'] created us in His image. That is, He spoke the Word that would manifest our soul when we were born. You are your soul, an unseen spirit being as God is an unseen Spirit being (Genesis 1:26-28). In our designated decreed season and time we were manifest on earth to be tested and overcome Satan, sin and the world by the Word of God and prayer, and grow into the [Heb. 'dmuwth'] likeness of God in Christ by putting on His character with the Token on display.
If the living Christ is in us we will "speak the truth and lie not." The Holy Spirit will not dwell where the Word of God is unwelcome. We need to humble ourselves before the Lord, repent, confess our misdeeds, remembering that in this day the Revival is only in the heart of His Bride. Return to Christ while you are still able. If we are honest we will confess before God and before men. Brother Branham came under condemnation one time when someone called and he said to his wife, "Tell them I'm not home; I'm outside right now, so I'm not here just at this time." Later He was called to pray for someone but first he had to make that right.
Ask the Lord to sweeten your life. Pour in oil and the balm of Gilead, and anoint your soul with His goodness and mercy, so that you can hear Him speak to you again, and so people will know the anointing lives in you as it dwelt in Jesus, then you may rest assured you will manifest the 'third pull' and change in the atoms.
Jesus is the living Christ. Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me". nl568.htm
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Friday, February 20, 2009
The Mystery of the Church as the Bride of Christ
Bible Believers' Newsletter #567
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We so happy you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Big Brother has had 31,000 London bobbies microchipped for total surveillance. Apparently those who do not take the chip cannot work or even visit the bathroom unsupervised. Photograph them and you may be imprisoned. Stateside Homeland Security may be eyeing sinners: the Magnavox TV set top digital converter is said to contain a camera and microphone, so smile, Big Brother is watching. Russia has sunk a Chinese freighter bound for Seattle allegedly bearing a stolen nuclear warhead. And the cousin of alleged 9/11 hijacker Ziad al-Jarrah has been exposed as a long standing Israeli spy in yet another startling intelligence connection between the Zionist state and the attacks on New York and Washington. The world is falling apart.
The First World was destroyed by the Moneypower which instead of serving, took over the real economy, transforming its worth from real goods and services to paper priced far above the value of assets and production. Globalization then picked the eyes out of the real economy, transferring the real wealth of capital goods and real jobs to the Third World, and NWO politicians arranged a fire sale of public utilities and hard assets offshore in exchange for fiat money created out of thin air. Since the productive economies of Western nations have largely relocated in Asia, the once-developed world is "a nation of shopkeepers" with "service industries" doing one another's washing. The share market has begun its fall, and without a manufacturing or extractive economy those nations cannot trade out of the grip of the international usurers and without consumers in the West, the Asian Tigers will strike lean times. Refinancing the banksters with counterfeit fiat money not worth the paper on which it is printed is folly. Failing banks should be allowed to fail or nationalized along with their assets and the wealth of corrupt executives and the Babylonian fractional reserve system outlawed.
Stimulating our economies by printing money will feed the cause and exacerbate the crisis. The objective should be to save, not consume on credit. Our governments are servants of Lucifer's one world government determined by all means to preserve the globalist's rapine of free enterprise and prevent protectionist measures to strengthen national independence. The many stimulus packages can only serve the international banksters to further debase the currency of nations complicit in feeding rather than excising the contagion. The objective of the planned economic collapse is to bring the world to beg for the electronic currency for which the world was wired via the false flag of Y2K; the minions of the planners are kingpins directing the Obama Administration as they collectivize and centralize the (so-called) "Free World" under the claws of Judaeo-Communism Jesus indicated by the name "Laodicea".
Then there is the climate change hoax. Vintage weatherman John Coleman says, "Al Gore and others selling carbon credits should be sued for fraud." Oh, so many BIG lies to tell, and so little time in which to tell them. But you, Christian, "Speak the truth in Christ, and lie not" (I Timothy 2:7).
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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A Real Holocaust–One of Several: Dresden, February 13, 1945
There is physical and scientific proof and evidence for this holocaust. This one is not make believe and was witnessed by my own father from the outskirts of Dresden and close-up right after. Why do we not have a Dresden Holocaust Museum and Dresden Memorial Center in every major city in North America and the world—paid for by taxpayers? Dresden was not a strategic target. Why were the Jewish instigators Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Morganthau not executed along with Jewish Professor Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Jewish General Eisenhower, among others? Why are there no apologies, endless compensation and "respect for the dead"? And why can one publicly deny this holocaust which did happen—and not end up in jail!
Isn't civilization wonderful? Over a million Iraqis dead, so sorry! Afghans don't count much! The genocide of 1,400 innocent Gazans, ho hum, and no one has been prosecuted for these real war crimes. Full story: newsfromthewest.blogspot.com wintersonnenwende.com
Comment: Colonies of the City of London always fight on the wrong side in planned wars of aggression to 'front' for those "God set at enmity" with the children of the first and second Adam (Genesis 3:15). These once Christian nations, having rejected the Absolute of God's unchanging Word, parrot lying propaganda as "history" to cover atrocities devised by the 'hidden had', and incarcerate indict refuseniks. Finally, the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church has adopted the new holocaust religion essential to securing the alliance of Daniel 9:27, and will in the next few years force her US and (once) Protestant image to fulfil Revelation 13:15-18, bringing Revelation 18:24 and Matthew 23:35 into alignment.
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Who was Benazir Bhutto?
Islamabad, February 12, 2009 – Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik showed evidence to the media during his news conference and said, "Some part of the [Mumbai Bombing] conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan" (mercurynews.com).
It seems people loyal to the CIA/MOSSAD are running Pakistan now—traitors selling out their country for promises of wealth. . . like Interior Minister Malik who stated a lie when saying that part of the Mumbai planning was done in Pakistan whereas all the facts indicate Mumbai was a joint MOSSAD/RSS Hindutva operation as explained in the previous post by Farzana Khan. Rehman Malik is not what he seems, opium trade, Musharraf, Two other Qadianis in charge of Pakistan: Rehman Malik and Tariq Aziz. Rehman Malik had a criminal record in Pakistan while for eight years in London he made money with the help of likes of [the Chabad-Lubavitch] Nariman House [at the heart of the false flag Mumbai bombing]. (Any doubters check his companies' work in London and Europe). He was to be Pakistan's Chalabi!!
It cannot be said with certainty but there are some reasons to assume that Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, wittingly or unwittingly, played into the hands of RAW-Mossad masterminds. She appointed Rehman Malik as chief of the Federal Investigation Agency which then launched a secret war against the Islamists; amounting to a direct attack on the ISI.
War against religious extremists could have been a laudable goal but it seemed to target only those elements which could have brought a semblance of moderation to the religious swatch cutting across Pakistan society. Thus, leaving the field wide open for extremists. It seems that the Pakistani military was equally dismayed by reports of FIA contacts with the Israeli secret service, the MOSSAD, to investigate Islamist terrorists (rense.com).
"The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs. This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan. Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work therefrom against Pakistan."
"It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans" (David Ben Gurion, Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1967). Full story: israelforum.com
Comment: MOSSAD's motto is: "By way of deception, thou shalt do war"!
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'Sanctions' sought in Eligibility Case
February 13, 2009 – A high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing President Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be "monetary sanctions" against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn't qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution's demand for a "natural born" citizen in that post. . . Full story: worldnetdaily.com
Comment: A further instance wherein Truth is trounced by money, and law is without justice.
By executive order, on January 27, Obama ordered $20.3 million in urgent migration assistance to provide a free ticket with housing and food allowances to Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza who have displayed overwhelming support of Hamas in the parliamentary election of January 2006, to resettle in the United States. By executive order George II resettled 12,000 Iraqi refugees in 2008, to be increased to 19,000 in 2009. The "hot stage" of World War III, planned in 1871 between the political Zionists and political Islam, is being brought home to the colonials by the 'hidden hand' of the City of London, the Black Nobility and the Vatican. Might the internment camps persuade some to forsake Allah and take the mark of the Beast (Revelation 13:15-18)? Full story: loudobbsradio.com
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31 Percent blame Jews for Financial Crisis
February 10, 2009 — The findings released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today revealed that nearly half of the Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and more than one-third believe they have "too much power" in business and finance. . . Full story: adl.org pdf file with charts.
Comment: Only half? Only one-third?
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Orthodox Anglicans don't expect Unity for Long
February 10. 2009 – In an open letter addressed to Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, who is considered the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, Nigerian Archbishop Peter J. Akinola expressed his discontentment with the churches in North America and their continued pro-gay actions.
"It now seems increasingly clear that without a radical change of behavior on the part of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada the only possible outcome of such a process is acknowledgment of a bitter truth that the differences in the words of Archbishop Idris Jones are 'irreconcilable'," Akinola wrote . . . Full story: christianpost.com
Comment: "As it was in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30). Do you realize the Son of man has come?
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Billy Graham Association makes 'End Times' a Focus in 2009
February 5, 2009 — This year, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will focus on the return of Jesus Christ and help prepare believers for life in the last days, according to a recent announcement. . . Full story: christianpost.com
Comment: He has already missed it by 45 years (Daniel 12:4, 9; 10:4, 7), and he is still looking for the wrong Coming.
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For Catholics, a Door to Absolution is Reopened
February 9, 2009 — According to church teaching, even after sinners are absolved in the confessional and say their Our Fathers or Hail Marys as penance, they still face punishment after death, in Purgatory, before they can enter heaven. In exchange for certain prayers, devotions or pilgrimages in special years, a Catholic can receive an indulgence, which reduces or erases that punishment instantly, with no formal ceremony or sacrament.
There are partial indulgences, which reduce purgatorial time by a certain number of days or years and plenary indulgences, which eliminate all of it, until another sin is committed. You can get one for yourself, or for someone who is dead. . . There is a limit of one plenary indulgence per sinner per day. . . Full story: nytimes.com
Comment: Martin Luther knew: "Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin" (I John 3:9)!
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Controversial Bestseller shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State
January 28, 2009 — What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament? And what if most modern Israelis aren't descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia? . .
That's the explosive thesis of "When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?", a book by Tel Aviv University scholar Shlomo Zand (or Sand) that sent shockwaves across Israeli society when it was published last year. After 19 weeks on the Israeli best-seller list, the book is being translated into a dozen languages . . . Full story: alternet.org
Comment: As the Bible, Jewish encyclopedias and historians record for those not too lazy to read. this means they are not God's chosen people, which is a relief (because they are giving Him a real bad name). Were these people Judahites, Israelites or even Semites they would remember the great goodness of the Persian nation in securing Judah's freedom from Babylonian captivity, restoring the temple treasures and assisting the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its temple. Instead they are intent on killing the people of the twelve tribes who have lived for centuries in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Libya and will not return to modern day Israel "for fear of the [self-styled] Jews" (Genesis 27:39-41).
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The Mystery of the Church as the Bride of Christ
Romans 1:3-4, "Jesus Christ our Lord was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and openly declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by His resurrection from the dead." If you too are sanctified by the Spirit of holiness you have the assurance that in this last day, "Everyone will die but me".
Ephesians 5:22-33, "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord, because the husband is head of his wife, as Christ also is head of the Church, and is Himself the Saviour of the Body. Nevertheless as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself up for her: that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with His Word, so that He might present it to Himself gloriously, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and blameless.
Thus ought husbands also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself: for no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and carefully protects it, as Christ does the Church, because we are members of His Body, being of His flesh, and of His bones. For this reason a man shall leave father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
This is a profound mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let each one love his own wife as Himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband".
Christian marriage between a man and his wife is a type of the invisible union between Christ and His Bride. The verses we are studying commence with the command to wives to submit themselves to their husband as Christians submit themselves to one another in reverence to Christ (verse 21), because the husband is head of the one body united with his wife in holy matrimony, as Christ is Head of the Body of the Church of all Ages.
Clearly, marriage as ordained by God is not a 50:50 arrangement but 100:0, for He calls and chooses his wife as the Lord calls and chooses His Bride, and the Lord is behind him as the substance which cast the shadow his life fulfils, hence her obedience is not to him as a man but as her own husband in whose person the Lord is honoured and whom the Husband must himself obey (I Corinthians 11:3-16; I Peter 3:6). He is sovereign in his calling and choosing; and the natural woman, typing your soul, is on free moral agency to accept or decline his proposal; once she has accepted, the choice is mutual and each is obligated to his word: should she break the marriage contract she must remain single so long as he lives, or she shall be an adulteress (Romans 7:3). In the Spiritual marriage, the soul united with Christ cannot divorce her Lord for God and the soul that is joined together with God is one Spirit (Matthew 19:6; I Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians 4:30).
Women are called to be "loving wives and mothers, sensible, chaste, domesticated keepers at home, good-natured and obedient to their own husbands, so that the Word of God is not discredited" (Titus 2:4-5). The husband being older and more mature than his wife not only chose her but possesses greater power and culture for civil life, and must represent his wife and the household as it was ordered by God until Satan unleashed feminism and "equal opportunity" whereby men now earn half salaries and their wives also work full time in order to maintain the home (I Corinthians 7:11). This subtle plan of Satan is an example of "the spirit of strong delusion" designed to destroy the authority of man over woman who was not in the original creation and is a byproduct taken from man to be his helpmate. Not being God's spoken Word she was deceived on the revealed Word, causing the Fall, and her father or husband is to rule over her.
The emancipation of the headstrong woman, that repulsive miscreant of iron will, destroys what is Christian and becomes an offensive caricature of womanhood. Should the husband be lacking in some of the attributes necessary to fulfill his ideal calling, the wife should not despise his social dignity but look above and beyond him to the Christ he represents. Let love be self-sacrificial with the consequence and purpose of sanctification. As Christians, Christ has sent us into the world with the same purpose for which the Father sent Him, "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the Truth . . . that we might reconcile the world to God" (John 17:17-23; II Corinthians 5:19).
The natural marriage is parallel to the Spiritual marriage. As the wife is commanded in love to conduct herself towards her husband, so the Church should conduct herself toward Christ. As the husband should conduct himself towards his wife, so Christ does toward the Church. Natural and spiritual marriage is a fellowship between a head and a body in mutually dependent life and love. Thus the earthly shadow should reflect the nature and character of its pattern which is the heavenly substance. Hence Paul states, "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord, because the husband is head of his wife" In other words, yield to your husband that obedience which you yield to Christ, who, having chosen and won you, is your Head, and as such the husband's responsibility is to organize and manage and provide, make decisions and control "as Christ also is Head of the Church" and Husband of your soul.
"Christ Himself and no other is the Saviour of the Body," which establishes His Headship over husband and wife who are joint heirs in Him and co-equal in eternal Life and "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one [in eternal Life] in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:27-29). The natural husband cannot endue his wife with eternal Life but aside from this distinction, wives should be subject to their own husband as the Church or soul is subject to Christ the Word "in every thing" that is not contrary to God's unchanging Word (Colossians 3:17-22). A woman who does not obey her husband is out of the will of God of whom her husband is a type. He cannot sanctify the marriage with a rebellious wife, and the Lord cannot sanctify an unruly church but will spew it from His mouth. The husband should live a holy life so that his wife reverences him (Genesis 3:16; I Corinthians 14:34-35; I Timothy 2:11-12; I Peter 3:1).
A husband or a wife married to an unbeliever with whom they are otherwise pleased should remain together. However, if the unbelieving spouse insists upon ungodliness in his or her partner, such as immodest dress, shorts or slacks, cut hair and a painted face, fraternizing with ungodly people and frequenting ungodly places, or prevents them reading their Bible or attending Church, the woman is not subject, and the husband may put away such a wife. For God is ruler over the husband and the wife, and Jesus said: "He who will not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple . . . There is no one who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom God, who will not receive manifold more in this age, and in the coming age, eternal Life" (Luke 14:33; 18:29-30). But if the wife departs she must remain unmarried and celebrate so long as her husband lives. Who knows but that the believing spouse might sanctify and save their partner? Everyone should remain in the station in which he was called. But if the unbeliever chooses to separate, let them depart; the Brother or Sister in such circumstances is not bond, for God has called you to enjoy peace (I Corinthians 7:11-24).
Paul types the husband with Christ, who sanctified Himself throughout life, even unto death, by the Token on display in order that His Bride might be sanctified or made holy and glorify Him by the Token on display in her life (as cited above in John 17:17-23). Since Jesus was the Logos manifest in flesh, as attributes of the Logos His Bride was accounted in Him and constantly sanctified. She was in Him when He was falsely accused, reviled, spat upon, crucified, dead and buried. If you are a member of His Body you paid for your sins when you were crucified in Jesus on Calvary "and will not come into condemnation; but have passed from death unto Life" (II Corinthians 5:14; John 5:24). When He was restored to life and caught up into heavenly places to sit at God's right hand, you were in Him then and are right now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:20-23; 2:6). The last Adam, the King of glory, is reuniting with His own glorious being: His wife is made up of the Holy Spirit taken from His side when He died on Calvary as Eve was taken from the side of her Adam in the form of flesh and blood when God put him to sleep.
In His outward stature Jesus possessed no comeliness that would attract our attention, and no beauty that we should be drawn towards Him, for His beauty was character within (Isaiah 53:2). His wife is His glory, so the members of His Bride will reflect His character. And as the husband is to reflect the Spirit of Christ he will display the Token of the Life of Christ by His devotion for and deference to the weaker vessel who is his glory (I Corinthians 11:7). Thus more is required of the husband than of the wife. While the devotion of the wife is entire, exclusive, indissoluble and ministering as the Church loves and belongs exclusively to Christ, and the husband should love His wife as Christ loved the Church in entire, exclusive, indissoluble and protecting love, it is more difficult for him to love her without egotism, and to be master of the house in true affection without any severity, than for her to submit to him in tender respect for his dignity as husband and his nature in manhood.
The objective of marriage in both the natural and Spiritual realm is the sanctification of character and mutual unity in the Spirit of holiness.
As a holy God demands a holy life: the objective of the self-sacrificing love of Christ is that He might sanctify a Bride in the likeness of His character, then renew heavens and earth. So from the holy convocation of Pentecost through Seven Church Ages to the holy convocation of this present day He has been building a holy Church, cleansing the members of His Body in each of those nine dispensations, not by the water of Scriptural baptism, but by the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ and His substitutionary sacrifice that led them to repentance and baptism (Titus 3:5; I Peter 1:18-25; 3:21) and to the baptism with the Holy Spirit or new birth by the revelation of the present Truth cleansing the heart and establishing the saint in that part of the Body Christ is building by the Word of the hour with the token of a particular virtue of the Life of Christ as explained in II Peter 1:1-12 and illustrated in this diagram (I John 1:7; I Corinthians 12:12-27). The "seven thunders" of Revelation 10 are the revelation of the Messages of the angels to the Seven Church Ages revealed in their fullness through the ministry of Brother Branham, the angel to the seventh Church Age, to restore the apostolic faith (Malachi 4:5; Matthew 17:11; Revelation 10:7). It is this fullness revealed to God's holy prophets and apostles placed in the context of Church history with an exposition of the mysteries hidden under the symbology of the Book of Revelation that quickens the Bride of Christ in this last day and brings her to maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
Water baptism does not cleanse the heart of sin but is merely an outward and public testimony of the soul-cleansing inner work of revelation. In the Old Testament the sacrifice had first to be washed before it was offered, hence when John the Baptist protested, "I need to be baptized by You; why are You coming to me? Jesus replied, Permit it to be so now: for it is fitting to fulfil all righteousness [under the Law at this time]" (Matthew 3:14-15). Justification by grace through faith and Scriptural water baptism is the firstwork of Christians as we "present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service" (Romans 12:1; Philippians 4:17-18).
Before Israel could come into fellowship with God the nation had to be justified by faith and come under the blood of a red heifer that was never yoked to any man-made religion, a type of Christ sacrificed without the camp, its blood sprinkled toward the front of the tabernacle seven times and burnt in his sight—"her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung"—as Jesus Messiah was crucified without the camp by a priest—not the high priest who was forbidden to associate with death (Matthew 27:25; John 11:50). Those seven stripes of blood show that their kinsman Redeemer died for their sin seven Church Ages before they would receive Him (Zechariah 12:1 – 13:9).
Numbers 19:9, 11-13, "And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer [as a memorial of the shed blood], and deposit them in a clean place without the camp, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for a water of separation for the removal of sin. . . He who touches the dead body of any one shall be unclean seven days. (Because death is the wages of sin, thus Israel, who murdered their Messiah, has been unclean throughout seven Church Ages of the past 2,000 years). He shall cleanse himself with water run through the ashes of the red heifer on the third day, (and we are well into that third day of a thousand years), then he shall be clean: but if he fails to purify himself then on the seventh day he shall not be clean. Every one who touches the corpse of a man who has died, and fails to purify himself has defiled the dwelling of the Lord; that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him. He is unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him".
Israel and the individual Israelite who does not cleanse himself by the washing of water by the Word revealed through the Message of the two Hebrew witnesses of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11, will be blotted from the Book of Life.
Our sins were purged or burnt in Christ on Calvary and can never more be imputed unto us (II Corinthians 5:14). Ashes are the token of a sacrifice (of the Word) that is received by God, and the washing of live or running water (signifying the Holy Spirit) through the ashes types separation from sin by a clear revelation of the Word, which exposes sin (or unbelief) and replaces it with righteousness. Only a holy or sanctified man could handle the ashes or revealed Word of God. The waters of separation cleansed the unclean but defiled the one who administered it (ibid verse 7, 21) as Christ took upon Himself the filthy robes of sinful Israel and the world when He removed them from "whomsoever will" of Adam's race and robed His elect with robes of His righteousness: not by works but by grace through faith (Zechariah 3:3-4).
In building, Christ has been constantly cleansing His glorious Church, washing unbelief and misunderstanding from souls by the revelation of the Word over 2,000 years. We can only walk in the Light as it is revealed to us; thus it is the Light of a clear understanding of the mind of Christ that washes sin from our soul by the Spirit of holiness (II Corinthians 11:2).
Throughout the Book of Revelation John types or represents Christ's end-time Bride because this Book was sealed until the time of the end when Christ revealed it to us through the Message of William Branham, the angel to the Seventh Church Age (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4-7). In Revelation 21:2, we see "the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared [or made ready] (Revelation 19:7-8) as a Bride adorned [with honour] for her Husband," and of course Christ's Bride is the holy city, worthy of her calling, fitted for Him to present to Himself gloriously and not to please the world or anybody else, but for His Own good pleasure "having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and blameless." Stains and "spots" signify soiling from the world without, such as the loathsome remains of our former life without Christ. "Wrinkles" are the external evidence of internal emotions that disfigure the face over time. Such blemishes as would mar the physical beauty of an idealized Bride will be absent in the Spiritual antitype of Christ's Bride perfected by the Spirit of holiness.
Adam and Eve were one flesh and bone and Christ and His "glorious Church" are one Spirit as Jesus prayed in Gethsemane. "Thus ought husbands also to love their wives as their own bodies," for their own wife is their body, they being the head as Christ is Head of His Church. Therefore, he who loves his wife loves himself, for if he hated her he would hate his own flesh, but he strengthens and renews its life, and carefully protects and preserves her life as Christ nourishes and protects the Church "because we are members of His Body, being of His flesh, and of His bones" whence we were taken at His death in the form of the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 6:15; 12:12, 27). When we observe the Lord's Supper we signify we are born of and therefore one with His Word and His Spirit, and if there is any disharmony or if any one has brought reproach upon the Body we all tarry until restitution is made and harmony restored (I Corinthians 11:27-34).
"For this reason a man shall leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh" as Christ left the Father's bosom to woo to Himself the Church out of a lost world. And as a natural husband and wife become one flesh in procreation, so Christ, as our Head passes His Life through the Body of His Church to quicken elect souls "dead in sin and trespasses" into epistles of the present Truth—offspring read and known of all men. For He is her Head, as the husband is of the wife (Romans 6:5; I Corinthians 11:3; 15:45) and will never allow any power to sever Himself and His Bride, indissolubly joined (Matthew 19:6; John 10:28-29; Ephesians 4:30).
"This is a profound mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let each one love his own wife as Christ loves His own wife, and love his wife as being himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband [which is her duty]". nl567.htm
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We so happy you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Big Brother has had 31,000 London bobbies microchipped for total surveillance. Apparently those who do not take the chip cannot work or even visit the bathroom unsupervised. Photograph them and you may be imprisoned. Stateside Homeland Security may be eyeing sinners: the Magnavox TV set top digital converter is said to contain a camera and microphone, so smile, Big Brother is watching. Russia has sunk a Chinese freighter bound for Seattle allegedly bearing a stolen nuclear warhead. And the cousin of alleged 9/11 hijacker Ziad al-Jarrah has been exposed as a long standing Israeli spy in yet another startling intelligence connection between the Zionist state and the attacks on New York and Washington. The world is falling apart.
The First World was destroyed by the Moneypower which instead of serving, took over the real economy, transforming its worth from real goods and services to paper priced far above the value of assets and production. Globalization then picked the eyes out of the real economy, transferring the real wealth of capital goods and real jobs to the Third World, and NWO politicians arranged a fire sale of public utilities and hard assets offshore in exchange for fiat money created out of thin air. Since the productive economies of Western nations have largely relocated in Asia, the once-developed world is "a nation of shopkeepers" with "service industries" doing one another's washing. The share market has begun its fall, and without a manufacturing or extractive economy those nations cannot trade out of the grip of the international usurers and without consumers in the West, the Asian Tigers will strike lean times. Refinancing the banksters with counterfeit fiat money not worth the paper on which it is printed is folly. Failing banks should be allowed to fail or nationalized along with their assets and the wealth of corrupt executives and the Babylonian fractional reserve system outlawed.
Stimulating our economies by printing money will feed the cause and exacerbate the crisis. The objective should be to save, not consume on credit. Our governments are servants of Lucifer's one world government determined by all means to preserve the globalist's rapine of free enterprise and prevent protectionist measures to strengthen national independence. The many stimulus packages can only serve the international banksters to further debase the currency of nations complicit in feeding rather than excising the contagion. The objective of the planned economic collapse is to bring the world to beg for the electronic currency for which the world was wired via the false flag of Y2K; the minions of the planners are kingpins directing the Obama Administration as they collectivize and centralize the (so-called) "Free World" under the claws of Judaeo-Communism Jesus indicated by the name "Laodicea".
Then there is the climate change hoax. Vintage weatherman John Coleman says, "Al Gore and others selling carbon credits should be sued for fraud." Oh, so many BIG lies to tell, and so little time in which to tell them. But you, Christian, "Speak the truth in Christ, and lie not" (I Timothy 2:7).
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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A Real Holocaust–One of Several: Dresden, February 13, 1945
There is physical and scientific proof and evidence for this holocaust. This one is not make believe and was witnessed by my own father from the outskirts of Dresden and close-up right after. Why do we not have a Dresden Holocaust Museum and Dresden Memorial Center in every major city in North America and the world—paid for by taxpayers? Dresden was not a strategic target. Why were the Jewish instigators Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Morganthau not executed along with Jewish Professor Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Jewish General Eisenhower, among others? Why are there no apologies, endless compensation and "respect for the dead"? And why can one publicly deny this holocaust which did happen—and not end up in jail!
Isn't civilization wonderful? Over a million Iraqis dead, so sorry! Afghans don't count much! The genocide of 1,400 innocent Gazans, ho hum, and no one has been prosecuted for these real war crimes. Full story: newsfromthewest.blogspot.com wintersonnenwende.com
Comment: Colonies of the City of London always fight on the wrong side in planned wars of aggression to 'front' for those "God set at enmity" with the children of the first and second Adam (Genesis 3:15). These once Christian nations, having rejected the Absolute of God's unchanging Word, parrot lying propaganda as "history" to cover atrocities devised by the 'hidden had', and incarcerate indict refuseniks. Finally, the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church has adopted the new holocaust religion essential to securing the alliance of Daniel 9:27, and will in the next few years force her US and (once) Protestant image to fulfil Revelation 13:15-18, bringing Revelation 18:24 and Matthew 23:35 into alignment.
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Who was Benazir Bhutto?
Islamabad, February 12, 2009 – Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik showed evidence to the media during his news conference and said, "Some part of the [Mumbai Bombing] conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan" (mercurynews.com).
It seems people loyal to the CIA/MOSSAD are running Pakistan now—traitors selling out their country for promises of wealth. . . like Interior Minister Malik who stated a lie when saying that part of the Mumbai planning was done in Pakistan whereas all the facts indicate Mumbai was a joint MOSSAD/RSS Hindutva operation as explained in the previous post by Farzana Khan. Rehman Malik is not what he seems, opium trade, Musharraf, Two other Qadianis in charge of Pakistan: Rehman Malik and Tariq Aziz. Rehman Malik had a criminal record in Pakistan while for eight years in London he made money with the help of likes of [the Chabad-Lubavitch] Nariman House [at the heart of the false flag Mumbai bombing]. (Any doubters check his companies' work in London and Europe). He was to be Pakistan's Chalabi!!
It cannot be said with certainty but there are some reasons to assume that Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, wittingly or unwittingly, played into the hands of RAW-Mossad masterminds. She appointed Rehman Malik as chief of the Federal Investigation Agency which then launched a secret war against the Islamists; amounting to a direct attack on the ISI.
War against religious extremists could have been a laudable goal but it seemed to target only those elements which could have brought a semblance of moderation to the religious swatch cutting across Pakistan society. Thus, leaving the field wide open for extremists. It seems that the Pakistani military was equally dismayed by reports of FIA contacts with the Israeli secret service, the MOSSAD, to investigate Islamist terrorists (rense.com).
"The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs. This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan. Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work therefrom against Pakistan."
"It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans" (David Ben Gurion, Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1967). Full story: israelforum.com
Comment: MOSSAD's motto is: "By way of deception, thou shalt do war"!
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'Sanctions' sought in Eligibility Case
February 13, 2009 – A high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing President Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be "monetary sanctions" against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn't qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution's demand for a "natural born" citizen in that post. . . Full story: worldnetdaily.com
Comment: A further instance wherein Truth is trounced by money, and law is without justice.
By executive order, on January 27, Obama ordered $20.3 million in urgent migration assistance to provide a free ticket with housing and food allowances to Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza who have displayed overwhelming support of Hamas in the parliamentary election of January 2006, to resettle in the United States. By executive order George II resettled 12,000 Iraqi refugees in 2008, to be increased to 19,000 in 2009. The "hot stage" of World War III, planned in 1871 between the political Zionists and political Islam, is being brought home to the colonials by the 'hidden hand' of the City of London, the Black Nobility and the Vatican. Might the internment camps persuade some to forsake Allah and take the mark of the Beast (Revelation 13:15-18)? Full story: loudobbsradio.com
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31 Percent blame Jews for Financial Crisis
February 10, 2009 — The findings released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today revealed that nearly half of the Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and more than one-third believe they have "too much power" in business and finance. . . Full story: adl.org pdf file with charts.
Comment: Only half? Only one-third?
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Orthodox Anglicans don't expect Unity for Long
February 10. 2009 – In an open letter addressed to Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, who is considered the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, Nigerian Archbishop Peter J. Akinola expressed his discontentment with the churches in North America and their continued pro-gay actions.
"It now seems increasingly clear that without a radical change of behavior on the part of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada the only possible outcome of such a process is acknowledgment of a bitter truth that the differences in the words of Archbishop Idris Jones are 'irreconcilable'," Akinola wrote . . . Full story: christianpost.com
Comment: "As it was in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30). Do you realize the Son of man has come?
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Billy Graham Association makes 'End Times' a Focus in 2009
February 5, 2009 — This year, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will focus on the return of Jesus Christ and help prepare believers for life in the last days, according to a recent announcement. . . Full story: christianpost.com
Comment: He has already missed it by 45 years (Daniel 12:4, 9; 10:4, 7), and he is still looking for the wrong Coming.
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For Catholics, a Door to Absolution is Reopened
February 9, 2009 — According to church teaching, even after sinners are absolved in the confessional and say their Our Fathers or Hail Marys as penance, they still face punishment after death, in Purgatory, before they can enter heaven. In exchange for certain prayers, devotions or pilgrimages in special years, a Catholic can receive an indulgence, which reduces or erases that punishment instantly, with no formal ceremony or sacrament.
There are partial indulgences, which reduce purgatorial time by a certain number of days or years and plenary indulgences, which eliminate all of it, until another sin is committed. You can get one for yourself, or for someone who is dead. . . There is a limit of one plenary indulgence per sinner per day. . . Full story: nytimes.com
Comment: Martin Luther knew: "Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin" (I John 3:9)!
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Controversial Bestseller shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State
January 28, 2009 — What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament? And what if most modern Israelis aren't descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia? . .
That's the explosive thesis of "When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?", a book by Tel Aviv University scholar Shlomo Zand (or Sand) that sent shockwaves across Israeli society when it was published last year. After 19 weeks on the Israeli best-seller list, the book is being translated into a dozen languages . . . Full story: alternet.org
Comment: As the Bible, Jewish encyclopedias and historians record for those not too lazy to read. this means they are not God's chosen people, which is a relief (because they are giving Him a real bad name). Were these people Judahites, Israelites or even Semites they would remember the great goodness of the Persian nation in securing Judah's freedom from Babylonian captivity, restoring the temple treasures and assisting the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its temple. Instead they are intent on killing the people of the twelve tribes who have lived for centuries in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Libya and will not return to modern day Israel "for fear of the [self-styled] Jews" (Genesis 27:39-41).
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The Mystery of the Church as the Bride of Christ
Romans 1:3-4, "Jesus Christ our Lord was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and openly declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by His resurrection from the dead." If you too are sanctified by the Spirit of holiness you have the assurance that in this last day, "Everyone will die but me".
Ephesians 5:22-33, "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord, because the husband is head of his wife, as Christ also is head of the Church, and is Himself the Saviour of the Body. Nevertheless as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself up for her: that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with His Word, so that He might present it to Himself gloriously, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and blameless.
Thus ought husbands also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself: for no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and carefully protects it, as Christ does the Church, because we are members of His Body, being of His flesh, and of His bones. For this reason a man shall leave father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.
This is a profound mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let each one love his own wife as Himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband".
Christian marriage between a man and his wife is a type of the invisible union between Christ and His Bride. The verses we are studying commence with the command to wives to submit themselves to their husband as Christians submit themselves to one another in reverence to Christ (verse 21), because the husband is head of the one body united with his wife in holy matrimony, as Christ is Head of the Body of the Church of all Ages.
Clearly, marriage as ordained by God is not a 50:50 arrangement but 100:0, for He calls and chooses his wife as the Lord calls and chooses His Bride, and the Lord is behind him as the substance which cast the shadow his life fulfils, hence her obedience is not to him as a man but as her own husband in whose person the Lord is honoured and whom the Husband must himself obey (I Corinthians 11:3-16; I Peter 3:6). He is sovereign in his calling and choosing; and the natural woman, typing your soul, is on free moral agency to accept or decline his proposal; once she has accepted, the choice is mutual and each is obligated to his word: should she break the marriage contract she must remain single so long as he lives, or she shall be an adulteress (Romans 7:3). In the Spiritual marriage, the soul united with Christ cannot divorce her Lord for God and the soul that is joined together with God is one Spirit (Matthew 19:6; I Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians 4:30).
Women are called to be "loving wives and mothers, sensible, chaste, domesticated keepers at home, good-natured and obedient to their own husbands, so that the Word of God is not discredited" (Titus 2:4-5). The husband being older and more mature than his wife not only chose her but possesses greater power and culture for civil life, and must represent his wife and the household as it was ordered by God until Satan unleashed feminism and "equal opportunity" whereby men now earn half salaries and their wives also work full time in order to maintain the home (I Corinthians 7:11). This subtle plan of Satan is an example of "the spirit of strong delusion" designed to destroy the authority of man over woman who was not in the original creation and is a byproduct taken from man to be his helpmate. Not being God's spoken Word she was deceived on the revealed Word, causing the Fall, and her father or husband is to rule over her.
The emancipation of the headstrong woman, that repulsive miscreant of iron will, destroys what is Christian and becomes an offensive caricature of womanhood. Should the husband be lacking in some of the attributes necessary to fulfill his ideal calling, the wife should not despise his social dignity but look above and beyond him to the Christ he represents. Let love be self-sacrificial with the consequence and purpose of sanctification. As Christians, Christ has sent us into the world with the same purpose for which the Father sent Him, "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the Truth . . . that we might reconcile the world to God" (John 17:17-23; II Corinthians 5:19).
The natural marriage is parallel to the Spiritual marriage. As the wife is commanded in love to conduct herself towards her husband, so the Church should conduct herself toward Christ. As the husband should conduct himself towards his wife, so Christ does toward the Church. Natural and spiritual marriage is a fellowship between a head and a body in mutually dependent life and love. Thus the earthly shadow should reflect the nature and character of its pattern which is the heavenly substance. Hence Paul states, "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as to the Lord, because the husband is head of his wife" In other words, yield to your husband that obedience which you yield to Christ, who, having chosen and won you, is your Head, and as such the husband's responsibility is to organize and manage and provide, make decisions and control "as Christ also is Head of the Church" and Husband of your soul.
"Christ Himself and no other is the Saviour of the Body," which establishes His Headship over husband and wife who are joint heirs in Him and co-equal in eternal Life and "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one [in eternal Life] in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:27-29). The natural husband cannot endue his wife with eternal Life but aside from this distinction, wives should be subject to their own husband as the Church or soul is subject to Christ the Word "in every thing" that is not contrary to God's unchanging Word (Colossians 3:17-22). A woman who does not obey her husband is out of the will of God of whom her husband is a type. He cannot sanctify the marriage with a rebellious wife, and the Lord cannot sanctify an unruly church but will spew it from His mouth. The husband should live a holy life so that his wife reverences him (Genesis 3:16; I Corinthians 14:34-35; I Timothy 2:11-12; I Peter 3:1).
A husband or a wife married to an unbeliever with whom they are otherwise pleased should remain together. However, if the unbelieving spouse insists upon ungodliness in his or her partner, such as immodest dress, shorts or slacks, cut hair and a painted face, fraternizing with ungodly people and frequenting ungodly places, or prevents them reading their Bible or attending Church, the woman is not subject, and the husband may put away such a wife. For God is ruler over the husband and the wife, and Jesus said: "He who will not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple . . . There is no one who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom God, who will not receive manifold more in this age, and in the coming age, eternal Life" (Luke 14:33; 18:29-30). But if the wife departs she must remain unmarried and celebrate so long as her husband lives. Who knows but that the believing spouse might sanctify and save their partner? Everyone should remain in the station in which he was called. But if the unbeliever chooses to separate, let them depart; the Brother or Sister in such circumstances is not bond, for God has called you to enjoy peace (I Corinthians 7:11-24).
Paul types the husband with Christ, who sanctified Himself throughout life, even unto death, by the Token on display in order that His Bride might be sanctified or made holy and glorify Him by the Token on display in her life (as cited above in John 17:17-23). Since Jesus was the Logos manifest in flesh, as attributes of the Logos His Bride was accounted in Him and constantly sanctified. She was in Him when He was falsely accused, reviled, spat upon, crucified, dead and buried. If you are a member of His Body you paid for your sins when you were crucified in Jesus on Calvary "and will not come into condemnation; but have passed from death unto Life" (II Corinthians 5:14; John 5:24). When He was restored to life and caught up into heavenly places to sit at God's right hand, you were in Him then and are right now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:20-23; 2:6). The last Adam, the King of glory, is reuniting with His own glorious being: His wife is made up of the Holy Spirit taken from His side when He died on Calvary as Eve was taken from the side of her Adam in the form of flesh and blood when God put him to sleep.
In His outward stature Jesus possessed no comeliness that would attract our attention, and no beauty that we should be drawn towards Him, for His beauty was character within (Isaiah 53:2). His wife is His glory, so the members of His Bride will reflect His character. And as the husband is to reflect the Spirit of Christ he will display the Token of the Life of Christ by His devotion for and deference to the weaker vessel who is his glory (I Corinthians 11:7). Thus more is required of the husband than of the wife. While the devotion of the wife is entire, exclusive, indissoluble and ministering as the Church loves and belongs exclusively to Christ, and the husband should love His wife as Christ loved the Church in entire, exclusive, indissoluble and protecting love, it is more difficult for him to love her without egotism, and to be master of the house in true affection without any severity, than for her to submit to him in tender respect for his dignity as husband and his nature in manhood.
The objective of marriage in both the natural and Spiritual realm is the sanctification of character and mutual unity in the Spirit of holiness.
As a holy God demands a holy life: the objective of the self-sacrificing love of Christ is that He might sanctify a Bride in the likeness of His character, then renew heavens and earth. So from the holy convocation of Pentecost through Seven Church Ages to the holy convocation of this present day He has been building a holy Church, cleansing the members of His Body in each of those nine dispensations, not by the water of Scriptural baptism, but by the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ and His substitutionary sacrifice that led them to repentance and baptism (Titus 3:5; I Peter 1:18-25; 3:21) and to the baptism with the Holy Spirit or new birth by the revelation of the present Truth cleansing the heart and establishing the saint in that part of the Body Christ is building by the Word of the hour with the token of a particular virtue of the Life of Christ as explained in II Peter 1:1-12 and illustrated in this diagram (I John 1:7; I Corinthians 12:12-27). The "seven thunders" of Revelation 10 are the revelation of the Messages of the angels to the Seven Church Ages revealed in their fullness through the ministry of Brother Branham, the angel to the seventh Church Age, to restore the apostolic faith (Malachi 4:5; Matthew 17:11; Revelation 10:7). It is this fullness revealed to God's holy prophets and apostles placed in the context of Church history with an exposition of the mysteries hidden under the symbology of the Book of Revelation that quickens the Bride of Christ in this last day and brings her to maturity in the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation.
Water baptism does not cleanse the heart of sin but is merely an outward and public testimony of the soul-cleansing inner work of revelation. In the Old Testament the sacrifice had first to be washed before it was offered, hence when John the Baptist protested, "I need to be baptized by You; why are You coming to me? Jesus replied, Permit it to be so now: for it is fitting to fulfil all righteousness [under the Law at this time]" (Matthew 3:14-15). Justification by grace through faith and Scriptural water baptism is the firstwork of Christians as we "present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service" (Romans 12:1; Philippians 4:17-18).
Before Israel could come into fellowship with God the nation had to be justified by faith and come under the blood of a red heifer that was never yoked to any man-made religion, a type of Christ sacrificed without the camp, its blood sprinkled toward the front of the tabernacle seven times and burnt in his sight—"her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung"—as Jesus Messiah was crucified without the camp by a priest—not the high priest who was forbidden to associate with death (Matthew 27:25; John 11:50). Those seven stripes of blood show that their kinsman Redeemer died for their sin seven Church Ages before they would receive Him (Zechariah 12:1 – 13:9).
Numbers 19:9, 11-13, "And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer [as a memorial of the shed blood], and deposit them in a clean place without the camp, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for a water of separation for the removal of sin. . . He who touches the dead body of any one shall be unclean seven days. (Because death is the wages of sin, thus Israel, who murdered their Messiah, has been unclean throughout seven Church Ages of the past 2,000 years). He shall cleanse himself with water run through the ashes of the red heifer on the third day, (and we are well into that third day of a thousand years), then he shall be clean: but if he fails to purify himself then on the seventh day he shall not be clean. Every one who touches the corpse of a man who has died, and fails to purify himself has defiled the dwelling of the Lord; that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him. He is unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him".
Israel and the individual Israelite who does not cleanse himself by the washing of water by the Word revealed through the Message of the two Hebrew witnesses of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11, will be blotted from the Book of Life.
Our sins were purged or burnt in Christ on Calvary and can never more be imputed unto us (II Corinthians 5:14). Ashes are the token of a sacrifice (of the Word) that is received by God, and the washing of live or running water (signifying the Holy Spirit) through the ashes types separation from sin by a clear revelation of the Word, which exposes sin (or unbelief) and replaces it with righteousness. Only a holy or sanctified man could handle the ashes or revealed Word of God. The waters of separation cleansed the unclean but defiled the one who administered it (ibid verse 7, 21) as Christ took upon Himself the filthy robes of sinful Israel and the world when He removed them from "whomsoever will" of Adam's race and robed His elect with robes of His righteousness: not by works but by grace through faith (Zechariah 3:3-4).
In building, Christ has been constantly cleansing His glorious Church, washing unbelief and misunderstanding from souls by the revelation of the Word over 2,000 years. We can only walk in the Light as it is revealed to us; thus it is the Light of a clear understanding of the mind of Christ that washes sin from our soul by the Spirit of holiness (II Corinthians 11:2).
Throughout the Book of Revelation John types or represents Christ's end-time Bride because this Book was sealed until the time of the end when Christ revealed it to us through the Message of William Branham, the angel to the Seventh Church Age (Daniel 12:4, 9; Revelation 10:4-7). In Revelation 21:2, we see "the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared [or made ready] (Revelation 19:7-8) as a Bride adorned [with honour] for her Husband," and of course Christ's Bride is the holy city, worthy of her calling, fitted for Him to present to Himself gloriously and not to please the world or anybody else, but for His Own good pleasure "having no spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and blameless." Stains and "spots" signify soiling from the world without, such as the loathsome remains of our former life without Christ. "Wrinkles" are the external evidence of internal emotions that disfigure the face over time. Such blemishes as would mar the physical beauty of an idealized Bride will be absent in the Spiritual antitype of Christ's Bride perfected by the Spirit of holiness.
Adam and Eve were one flesh and bone and Christ and His "glorious Church" are one Spirit as Jesus prayed in Gethsemane. "Thus ought husbands also to love their wives as their own bodies," for their own wife is their body, they being the head as Christ is Head of His Church. Therefore, he who loves his wife loves himself, for if he hated her he would hate his own flesh, but he strengthens and renews its life, and carefully protects and preserves her life as Christ nourishes and protects the Church "because we are members of His Body, being of His flesh, and of His bones" whence we were taken at His death in the form of the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 6:15; 12:12, 27). When we observe the Lord's Supper we signify we are born of and therefore one with His Word and His Spirit, and if there is any disharmony or if any one has brought reproach upon the Body we all tarry until restitution is made and harmony restored (I Corinthians 11:27-34).
"For this reason a man shall leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh" as Christ left the Father's bosom to woo to Himself the Church out of a lost world. And as a natural husband and wife become one flesh in procreation, so Christ, as our Head passes His Life through the Body of His Church to quicken elect souls "dead in sin and trespasses" into epistles of the present Truth—offspring read and known of all men. For He is her Head, as the husband is of the wife (Romans 6:5; I Corinthians 11:3; 15:45) and will never allow any power to sever Himself and His Bride, indissolubly joined (Matthew 19:6; John 10:28-29; Ephesians 4:30).
"This is a profound mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let each one love his own wife as Christ loves His own wife, and love his wife as being himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband [which is her duty]". nl567.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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