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The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times: Earthquakes

END TIMES: Jesus' Revelation: Also in Mark 13:1-37 , Luke 21:5-36 

1 Jesus went out from the Temple, and was going on His way. His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the Temple.

2 But he told them, “Do you see all these buildings? Truly I say to you, they will be so completely demolished that not one stone will be left on top of another!”

3 As He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

4 Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one deceives you.

                  <Here Jesus is giving signs which are in the same order as the Horses of Revelation! The White Horse symbolizes a great false church and Anti-Christ, the second, the Red Horse represents war; the third horse is the Black Horse of famine, inflation and lack of goods, the last (4^th) horse is the Pale Horse of death.>

5 "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray."

                 <He means that many would come using His name, saying Jesus is the Christ and deceive many. This is false Christianity and not false pagan religions being discussed.>

6 "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. 8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains."

The Plain Truth Version of the Holy Bible by Bob Barney with all the words of God in RED In their PROPER ORDER! My notes in italics and within < > ….

 

 

By Bob Barney

In the coming months, I will spend quite a bit of time on Matthew 24, and the message and warnings that Jesus gave his disciples, and ultimately us concerning the 'end times' and His return to earth to rule as king and bring world peace at last to this embattled planet. There are literally dozens of different messages covered in the 24^th chapter of Matthew, known as the olivet prophecy. I have always thought that earthquakes that he was talking about would strike America and the people of God more during the last few years of man's rule; not that there would be more earthquake activity in general. I had mistakenly believed that the number of earthquakes would remain basically the same, but that unlike before, serious earthquakes would occur more in different places in America and the Middle east than usual, but I have concluded recently that is not what Jesus is saying... He said earthquakes in VARIOUS places, hinting on the number of them increasing significantly, noticeably everywhere! Well, scientist will tell you that there isn't more earthquakes than before, we just have better record keeping in the past 200 years. Is this really a fact?

 

During some internet research lately I came across the chart below, provided by non other than the US Geological Survey. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

LOOK AT THIS:

http://www.science20.com/florilegium/blog/why_so_many_earthquakes_decade-65178

 

The above chart proves beyond the shadow of doubt that earthquake activity is exploding. We had more earthquakes from 2001-2010, than we had the previous 100 years (1901-2000). This is an incredible figure that should have scientist worried and wondering. I doubt it does, but those of us who understand that Jesus Christ is the LORD Yahweh of the Holy Bible, He is the God who created this earth and universe and is the all powerful; all knowing Creator God; who walked this planet as a man some 2,000 years ago, knew the future and what would happen throughout the ages. His predictions are uncanny in their accuracy. He predicted not only the 'signs of the times,' with weather and geological disturbances, He also predicted which nations would be doing what things at the end time. He predicted that Jews would return to Palestine, something that took 1900 more years to happen. He predicted wars that would kill billions, famines that would kill equally the same number, and exactly where this last events would take place.

 

 

The map here is current earthquake activity worldwide of the previous 7 days.... Pay attention to the warnings that Jesus gave to his followers. Pay close attention, and we will see over the next few months all the things that He predicted, and the insight He had for our day....

 

For example ….. Did you know that Jesus predicted that a false great Christian Church would emerge and be one of the end times perpetrators of the final holocaust? Did you know He predicted the rise of the Muslim world, and that China would have a 200 million man army? Remember this was predicted when there probably wasn't 100 million people on earth. Stay with us, in the next few weeks on our series on Matthew 24 and the rest of Jesus' warnings.

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Vegetarian's Do Kills Animals Too! Why we do - what we do!

Vegetarianism (Photo credit: Marius!!)

By Bob Barney

One reason I most commonly hear from vegetarians for giving up meat is the conviction that other animals have a right to life as well as humans. Their sincere belief in preserving other life is like most liberal causes (and yes it is a liberal cause, whether you want to believe it or not) based on the lack of understanding just how food is produced, or for that matter, how anything is produced.  We live in a ready made world, going to work from 9-5, and buying everything we need from some store, which purchased that item from hundreds, if not thousands of miles away.  Most of us today don't have a clue what it takes to grow an apple, or wheat, corn and yes, beef! We don't know how our clothes are made, or where they are made and by what sort of forced labor. We are blissfully ignorant of the world around  us.  You see, one must be ignorant of reality in order to be a liberal. You will never find a liberal on a deserted island, or living amongst natives in some wilderness setting. Liberals don't live very long, once their beloved “nature” controls their destinies.

Nobody's hands are free from the blood of animals, not vegetarians or anyone else.  Millions of animals are killed every year to prepare land for growing crops, "like corn, soybean, wheat and barley, the and the whole host of “organic” foods." The animals killed in many cases are mice and moles and rabbits and other creatures that are run over by tractors, or lose their habitat to make way for farming. These are the unintended victims of agriculture. Are their lives any less sacred than say, a goat? So one must honestly answer this: "What makes it OK to kill animals of the field so that we can eat veggies, but not venison, fish, chickens or cows?"  The cold hard facts are that any disruption of the land, whether it be to farm or to build homes and malls, reduces the amount of land left for other animals, resulting in their deaths.

And for those vegetarians who consume dairy, eggs and wear clothes made of wool, are they honest about not killing animals? Nope... If you buy milk, cheese, eggs, or woolen shirts-- it may be true in theory that you aren't killing these animals for their “goods,” but the fact is in order to supply you with these products, you are! All modern farmers, trying to eek out a living providing cheap food aren’t just going to let their animals die of old age; they kill them at whatever point the farm considers to be the most profit-maximizing. For dairy cows, that’s usually at age 3-5, out of a natural 20-25 year lifespan. For egg-laying hens, it’s usually after one or two laying cycles. And since the males of the laying species are useless to the egg farmer, they’re killed right after they hatch. These, are the cold hard facts.

English: Dairy heifers The milking dairy cows are in for the winter now, but as the weather is fair the heifers (young females) are still outside. When they reach 350 / 400kg in weight they will put in calf and 9 months later will begin their life as a dairy cow. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

A vegetarian diet must kill far fewer animals than an omnivore diet, right? Not always! Here is an example:  Eggs. While you only need to kill one single cow to get about 450 pounds (405,000 calories) worth of meat, you’d need to kill about 20 chickens to get enough eggs to match that number of calories. So if you’re a vegetarian who eats a lot of omelets, you’re likely responsible for more animal deaths than someone who chows down on burgers and steaks but doesn’t like eggs! Never thought of that did you?

Here is a link to look at to find some more information: 

I’ve scrounged up data on the typical amount of meat, eggs, and dairy that we get out of a modern farm animal, and combined it with data on the calorie counts of those foods. That allowed me to calculate the number of calories of food that we get out of each type of animal, or more to the point, the “lives-per-calorie” statistic for each food. The results are below, with the foods ordered from “kills the fewest animals per calorie” to “kills the most animals per calorie.” (All numbers are approximate, of course, but they’re from as recent and reliable sources as I could find. Detailed citations are at the end of this post.)

*The yield for a laying hen over its lifetime is actually about 550 eggs, but I’ve divided it by two because approximately one male chick is killed for each laying hen.

The lives-per-calories cost of eggs is so many times higher than that of beef that even a small amount of eggs outweighs the life cost of a larger amount of beef. So let’s say you’re a vegetarian and you go out to lunch with your omnivorous friend, where he orders a burger and you order an egg-salad sandwich. The two eggs in your sandwich are only 150 calories, compared to the 300 calories in his beef patty, but the eggs cost almost 9 times as much life as the beef.

 

Deutsch: Palette mit Hühnereiern auf dem Wochenmarkt (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Of course, as I said earlier, these calculations are only concerned with the question of taking animals’ lives. They don’t take into account the amount of suffering the animal experiences. That would change the calculations somewhat, but I suspect the overall verdict would remain similar if you were looking at suffering-per-calorie – or, if anything, things would look even grimmer for egg-lovers. Laying hens arguably lead some of the most miserable lives out of all livestock, spending all their time crammed into cages with less space than half a piece of paper, having their beaks cut off, and being starved to induce molting. (Although the male chicks would count less if you’re looking at suffering-per-calorie, since their lives are so short.)
These calculations also don’t take into account impact on the environment. Raising beef is pretty clearly the worst industry in terms of things like producing greenhouse gases, breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and requiring huge amounts of farmland just to feed the cattle. So there’s still a good case for choosing eggs over beef in the sense of minimizing your environmental impact, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’d be making a tradeoff: killing more animals to hurt the environment less.
Citations:

According to the USDA, the average dairy cow produced 21,000 lbs of milk last year, and according to several sources, the average dairy cow is culled from the herd after about 3 years, so I multiplied 21,000*3 to get the average amount of milk produced over the lifetime of a dairy cow. It takes about 1 gallon of milk to produce 1 lb of cheese, and there are about 8.5 lbs of milk per gallon, so I divided 63,000 lbs by 8.5 to get the 7,400 lbs of cheese figure.

The figures on beef and pork come from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture.
The average number of eggs per laying hen per year comes from the USDA, and I multiplied by two because that’s the most common figure I found for the number of laying cycles. The average weight of a broiler chicken I got from the USDA’s annual Poultry Slaughter publication.
And by the way, doesn't harmful insects have the same right to life as humans? Are most vegetarians willing to eat apples with worms in them – and if they are, what do they do with that live worm when they find it?

And if insect lives are as valuable as a human, how about bacteria. Bacteria is animal life. In order for vegetarians to digest their wholesome organic grains and grasses, trillions, of bacteria get killed in the process!  So, you better stop taking those pro-biotics, because you are brutally slaughtering animal life.

Seriously, it's about time we stop falling for the liberal lies that we were raised on. Both conservatives and liberals have been fed a bunch of lies. We need to start using the brain the God gave us to start thinking about why we do what we do.

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Jerusalem Mayor: Let Jews pray on Temple Mount

English: Sign prohibiting anyone from entry to Temple Mount in Jerusalem, about 1978. Français : Panneau interdisant à quiconque d'entrer dans sur le Mont du Temple, à Jérusalem, vers 1978. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Bob Barney

 

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said last week that it was time for Israel to finally allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. Despite being the holiest site in the world to Christians and Jews alike, only Muslims are permitted to pray at the Temple Mount.

"The government is ultimately responsible for whether or not Jews can pray on the Temple Mount, not the Jerusalem municipality," Barkat told students at a religious high school. "My opinion is that everyone should be able to pray there."

Jerusalem, which means "City of Peace," has known dozens of wars since its existence was first known to us from the Biblical record. Abraham's meeting with Melchizedek about 2000 BC reveals that there was in the city (known then as "Salem"), even at that early date. This king, Melchizedek, ruled there as "priest of God Most High" (El Elyon). Abraham's family had lapsed into idolatry living in Babylon (Ur of the Chaldees), in spite of his legitimacy of his being in the line of Noah's son, Shem. It is possible that Melchizedek was Abraham's teacher and is a per-carnate Jesus Christ. He gave Abraham additional information, and possibly even ancient documents, concerning the God of the land of Israel who had called him there.

Despite the ban, a growing numbers of Jews have been visiting the Temple Mount, and many have been arrested because they have been “secretly praying” on the mountain.

The Muslims claim Jerusalem's Temple Mount is where the prophet Mohamed ascended to heaven. However, the Plain Truth about "The Third Holiest Site in Islam" for Muslims is a 20th century HOAX! According to historians, Jerusalem's role as "The Third Holiest Site in Islam" in mainstream Islamic writings does not precede the 1930s. In fact the word Jerusalem NEVER appears in the Koran! Never! Mohammed was never there. Ther isn't one account of him being there until 1930! Why 1930? Well we all know that is about the time when many Jews fleeing Nazi Germany was starting to move back to the land of Israel and a move went out to try and prevent this from happening by inventing the story. Yes, the Muslims invaded Jerusalem and conquered it, built the Dome of the Rock, but they did so to commemorate the story of Abraham and not Mohamed.

The Bible plainly predicts a Jewish Temple will be built:

Revelation 11:1-6----“I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.”

God also says when and how long:

Daniel 11:1-13--- “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.  But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”

5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.  One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?”

The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time.[b] When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”

I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?”

He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

“From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.  Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

“As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”

and will be visited by Antichrist (The leader of the world government out of Europe). He will cause the ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ which will bring about the end of man's reign as ruler on earth:

Daniel 11:29-37 --- “At the appointed time he (Antichrist) will invade the South (Muslim nations) again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before.  Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

“His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

“Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.  When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them.  Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

“The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.”

Jesus will Himself return soon after this happens, and a new world under God will result. The dead in Christ will rise from the dead (1 Cor 15) and rule with Jesus one thousand years.

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Hurricane Sandy: God's Wrath or Our Stubborness

People have always wanted to live near the sea. From ancient times, most civilizations found it necessary to build near large waterways, rivers and oceans for ease of commerce and trade, as well as supplies of fresh water to drink. In the 3rd century B.C., Egyptian ruler Ptolemy II constructed elaborate dikes to protect the famous Alexandria's Pharos lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Herod too built dikes to protect his manmade shipping port called Caesarea Harbor; and parts of this construction are still visible today. Today, global warming is blamed for such disasters as Hurricane Sandy which totally leveled the shores of New Jersey and New York. However, global warming is not the cause, man's arrogance and rebellion against the word of God is at the root of many of our national tragedies today. Mankind simply refuses to listen and obey the Laws of the living God, which are available to anyone who reads the Bible. Try this one:

Matthew 7:24-27: 24 "Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25 Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse, because it is built on rock. 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will fall with a mighty crash." Yes, the words are in RED. Jesus Himself called those who build on the sand foolish, and time after time, the words of Jesus prove to be correct, but unfortunately we simply do not listen to God. We are too educated to listen to God, and take advice from the One who created the universe and everything that exist!

Why does bad things happen to good people? Sometimes because, as Jesus says; "But before all this occurs, there will be a time of great persecution. You will be dragged into synagogues and prisons, and you will be accused before kings and governors of being my followers.” (Luke 21:12) But all too often bad things happen because we refuse to listen to God. We act like teenagers at war with their parents because they don't want to obey sound advice. Yes, we are all like that with God. Whether 18 or 88, we are at odds with God, rebellious and wanting to make our own decisions and choose for ourselves what we think is right for us. God is our parent whom we do not want to listen too. Most teenagers grow up and by the time they are 40, realize that their parents were much more wiser than they ever thought! We have all heard this misquoted parable: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but actually the quote in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937.

Yes, when we grow up, our human father and mother proves to be wise, how sad that so many adults don't understand that God has given us all the answers that we need to be happy, healthy and safe. It's a shame that until Christ returns to show us the best way to live, horrible tragedies will occur over and over again, because we want to remain teenagers in rebellion against our heavenly parents. Moses understood this all to much when he feared upon learning that we would soon die, “For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!”

We need to start looking to God for answers and not keep blaming others for our tragedies. Actions have consequences.

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NEWSWEEK COVER Compares Obama to former Antichrist figure Napoleon

They are just too dumb to know what they did...... Or are they?
Forward by Bob Barney: Napoleon was in a long list of promised Antichrist, either the 5th or 6th one on our way to the final one to appear in Europe just before the Great Tribulation...  A revised end-time Holy Roman Empire is about to emerge, with an Antichrist (there is NO "THE" Antichrist, as there are many) is to gain power and rule the entire Western World and the UN (which will be moved to Europe). He will make an alliance with the Pope (as Charlemagne and Napoleon did), and make war with the Muslim world. Obama is a street thug comapred to Napoleon, and a mental moron. The next Napoleon will be quite smart, and won't get his position through affirmative action, as Obama did. Obama's job seems to be to help in the formation of the Muslim Empire, which is aboput to appear. A unifying monster will someday conquer all of the Muslim nations of the world and make war with the so-called "West" (actually the 'North', as the Bible explains it.)

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Case in point: the cover of the periodical's post-election edition, which shows President Obama dressed like Napoleon Bonaparte in addition to a headline that reads: "GOP: You're Old, You're White, You're History!"

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Tony Blair looking for 'strong man' president to rule the EU

By Bob Barney:

Former Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair stressed the need for a democratically elected European Union president, with increased authorities to solve Europe's economic crisis during a keynote speech in Berlin, Germany last month. To those who understand the Bible and the identity of the beast of Revelation, Blair's comments are quite startling. 
 

“In a move interpreted by some as a job application, the former prime minister said the EU could do with a strong leader approved by the people,” The Telegraph reported. Little do most understand the significance of this statement in that a 'strong man' will appear in Europe, and lead the western world into a huge world war which will kill more than 2 billion people! Yes, fully 1/3 of the world's population are killed in the final war when the EU beast invades the Muslim areas along the Euphrates River. 
 

“‘Out of this European crisis can come the opportunity finally to achieve a model of European integration that is sustainable,’ said Mr. Blair. ‘A Europe-wide election for the presidency...is the most direct way to involve the public.’” 

 
This president will become the demonic leader of the Holy Roman Empire, known as the King of the North in Daniel 11. Click Here for a complete essay on what to look for. 
 

Mr. Blair also called on the United Kingdom to consider its position on the European power coalition. 

The Guardian reported, “In one of his most important speeches on the EU since leaving office, he told the Council for the Future of Europe in Berlin: ‘It is massively in Britain’s interest not to play short-term politics with this issue. Personally, I would like to see the UK take a constructive role in shaping this new union.’” 

Blair went on with these eye-opening comments concerning a militaristic EU: “The world needs a Europe that is capable of deploying military missions to help stabilize the situation in crisis areas. We need to launch a comprehensive review of European capabilities and begin truly collective defense planning…A deep and genuine economic and monetary union, a political union, with a coherent foreign and defense policy, means ultimately that the present European Union must evolve.” 

In an article by The Christian Science Monitor titled “Europe needs a central government to manage its debt crisis,” former Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka also stated that the EU needed a central leader. That is what European leaders also stated in the 1930s just before Hitler winningly filled this role. Will another Hitler type come to power? Your Bible says YES, and I would not bet against God and His Word. 
 

The world is going to go into a great depression, similar to the one in the 1930s, where 25% of the population throughout the world will die off from wars, famines and diseases. If this doesn't scare the hell out of you, then I don't know what will.  

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As the US Supreme Court meets privately over the next few days, it seems that all of the pieces of the puzzle are coming together in order to form what will undeniably be the most scientifically advanced dictatorship ever realized in world history.

Supreme Court Justices are currently meeting in private for the purpose of deciding whether or not to hear a highly important genetic privacy case regarding the possibility that government authority extends to taking DNA samples from anyone arrested for “serious” crimes. If the court rules in favor of the prosecutors who wish for greater access to DNA samples, convictions will not be necessary to require DNA from arrestees.

As David Kravetz writes for Wired, at least 21 states and the federal government have policies and laws requiring suspects to give DNA samples upon their arrest. In these states, DNA saliva samples are added into state and federal “crime-fighting databases,” effectively creating a catalog of individuals and their most personal information, even those not guilty of committing a crime.

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My Prediction on the next President!

Well, it is that time of year again and I will go out and make my prediction on who will win the presidency next Tuesday.  Members of my family know what I am predicting today since last winter!  I said back during the primaries that the establishment Republicans would not choose a true conservative to lead their party this year because they know they are going to win! Yes, you read that right. The establishment realizes, as I do, that even a born again rapist loving conservative clown could win the election against the most failed presidency of all time. Jimmy Carter looks like Lincoln compared to this moron-in-chief, and everyone knows it!  So I said, that the last thing that Republicans want to win is another Reagan type Tea Party candidate, because honestly, they despise main street Americans and true conservatives more than they do Obama and leftists!  So I predicted that the Republicans would do all they could do to make sure Palin would not run, nor would Huckabee, and that what conservatives would run, would knock each other out, allowing a liberal Rockefeller Republican to gain the nomination.  If they thought for one minute that Obama was going to win, they would have all rallied around Rick Santorum or Representative Bachman and made sure that they got the nomination. They would do it to make sure that the Tea Party movement would die forever!  Establishment Republicans, like Karl Rove HATE the Tea Party, or anyone who wants smaller government and a balanced budget.  After all, it was Rove that gave us Obama, after insuring that the original moron, George Bush, got elected.  I predicted in 2004, that Bush would destroy conservative Republicanism. With Rove's help, he did just that.  Gave us the Depression, and Obama.  It was the belief that a Republican would win, that these anti-American Republicans made sure Romney would get the nod. They knew Obama was going to lose.

Well, that is my prediction.... Obama will lose in a landslide.  Here is the closet map I can find I agree with:




My fear is that the Republicans will once again, think they have a mandate, just like the Obama Democrats thought they had in 2008. They had NO MANDATE!  Obama's win was an Anti-Bush vote, plain and simple!  The people who make up middle America are totally disgusted with both parties and are trying to kill all of them by switching back and forth, like in my thesis below, that I first understood in 1976.

In 1976  I wrote a thesis in college on predicting elections in my senior year at the University of Connecticut. My brother was going to the University of Bridgeport studying to become a psychologist. I would during off times, sit in some of his classes. I became intrigued by an idea that I started to develop in my mind. That was to be able to predict national character the same way that psychologists predicted human behavior! I became intrigued in a psychological prediction method known as the Rotter I/E scale.

I should point out that I was WRONG in 2008, My prediction then was that Obama would lose.  I guess I underated just how much the media would get in bed with the guy and like traitors to the American public, refuse to vet him, as every other president was before him. Obama cannot be vetted honestly and win a national election. He is a communist, and we are not yet ready to vote for a communist.... We will be someday, but not yet.

Overview of Theory
When Rotter developed his Social Learning Theory, the dominant perspective in clinical psychology at the time was Freud's Psychoanalysis, which focused on people's deep-seated instinctual motives as determining behavior. Individuals were seen as being naive to their unconscious impulses, and treatment required long-term analysis of childhood experience. Even learning approaches at the time were dominated by drive theory, which held that people are motivated by physiologically based impulses that press the individual to satisfy them. In developing Social Learning Theory, Rotter departed from instinct-based Psychoanalysis and drive-based behaviorism. He believed that a psychological theory should have a psychological motivational principle. Rotter chose the empirical law of effect as his motivating factor. The law of effect states that people are motivated to seek out positive stimulation, or reinforcement, and to avoid unpleasant stimulation. Rotter combined behaviorism and the study of personality, without relying on physiological instincts or drives as a motive force.

The main idea in Julian Rotter's Social Learning Theory is that personality represents an interaction of the individual with his or her environment. One cannot speak of a personality, internal to the individual, that is independent of the environment. Neither can one focus on behavior as being an automatic response to an objective set of environmental stimuli. Rather, to understand behavior, one must take both the individual (i.e., his or her life history of learning and experiences) and the environment (i.e., those stimuli that the person is aware of and responding to) into account. Rotter describes personality as a relatively stable set of potentials for responding to situations in a particular way. (Read entire article, click here)

Rotter developed an Internal/External scale for people. Internals believe that they choose their destiny, and that God (if they accepted one) allows each one of us to choose our own destiny. An Internal type is ruled by very little chance, mostly it is their own choices that rules their destiny. Jews, Germans, Chinese, and especially WASPS (white Anglo/Saxon white people) score very high in the Internal scale. Most leaders of companies or even governments tend to score high on the Rotter I/E scale. Mediterranean , African, Slavic/Russian, and Arab people scored high on the External scale. Externals are fatalist that deem that fate is the major reason for their lives. God decides for them, or at least fate does. Catholicism and its adherents score very high in the “external” scale. The best way to describe an Internal is what is referred to the Puritan or Protestant work ethic… Work hard and you will succeed. WASP Americans built this country and score very high as Internal. Irish Catholics however, scores External! Therefore, do most black Americans, Latinos (with the exception of Cubans) and Muslims (again except for Pakistani Muslims that score very “Internal”).

I thought that our country and our elections could be predicted by the percentage of people who were Internal versus External. Republicans are Internals, Democrats Externals. I told Dr Gerson, head of UCONN’s PoliSci department what I wanted to write about. He could get me a meeting with Professor Rotter (who was so famous by now, I have since learned was an honor). Rotter liked my idea! He had already thought of it! He asked me another question however, that changed my entire thinking. He said, “you know there is another factor you are discounting in human nature”. 
“What was that,” I asked perplexed?
Many people in a multi-cultural society like America are both Internal AND External, and they bounce back and forth between the extremes trying to find balance (this is called cognitive dissonance.) You know, the nun becomes a prostitute, the thief becomes a good cop, etc. All good novels rely on this basic human instinct of switching from one end of the pendulum to the exact opposite, never finding a balance. Rotter said, “America, due to our culture can never find the middle of the road, she swings from right to left without any formula.”

I was intrigued by him and wrote my thesis based on much of his teachings: 
I wrote, in short, that America will swing radically from the Right to the Left and back to right again, but because more External types are moving here and gaining in population, namely Latin, African and Muslims, each switch back to the right would be less aggressive than prior swings and eventually, we would become a totally external socialist nation like the Soviet Union.

At this same time in my life, by the way, I was learning the incredible truth about America’s national identity of being “lost” Israel of the Bible and that the God was real! Until 1976, I was an atheist, by 1978, I would never question again who God was and that He was! I would often question God in my struggles with Him, but never questioned again that God was not real! Part of this education was the realization that the United States (Israel in the Bible) was destined to be conquered by foreigners living among us that would eventually rule over us! This is found in Leviticus chapter 26, and now I understood that Dr Rotter gave me the method how God would accomplish it.


In 1976, I was a young Republican who supported Ronald Reagan over President Ford and I was not very popular in the party that year. Then again, neither was Reagan! When he lost to Ford, I realized that according to my new theory, Jimmy Carter, a liberal democrat would win the Presidency that year, but after him, America would swing back to a very Conservative mode. I predicted Carter in 76 and that Reagan most likely would be president by 80 or 84. When he won the nomination in 80, I predicted Reagan. I picked him again for 84. I predicted Bush in 88 and said that if he did not maintain Reagan’s policies he would lose in 1992! I would have been correct in predicting Bush losing in 1992 (because he did not lead as a Reagan Republican) and thought he might lose until Clinton won the nomination. I saw through Bill Clinton so much, I was positive that everyone else did too and that he could not win. It would not be until 96, I surmised, that the liberals would win again. The Perot factor was vastly underrated by me! Clinton won, I had egg on my face, but my theory was on target!

I predicted Clinton in 1996 and Bush II in 2000, thinking he unlike his dad was a real Reaganite. He was not and so I predicted that he could lose in 2004 if a MODERATE democrat ran against him. Lieberman would have beat him hands down! I predicted, on Racerap.com in 2004 that Bush was probably going to destroy the Republican party and that if Hillary got the nod, she would be president.
We will see this tuesday if I am right or wrong.

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Bob Barney

CBS won't tell you, ABC won't tell you, not even Fox News will tell you but the Plain Truth about "The Third Holiest Site in Islam" for Muslims is a 20th century HOAX! According to historians, Jerusalem's role as "The Third Holiest Site in Islam" in mainstream Islamic writings does not precede the 1930s. In fact the word Jerusalem NEVER appears in the Koran! Never! Mohammed was never there. Ther isn't one account of him being there until 1930! Why 1930? Well we all know that is about the time when many Jews fleeing Nazi Germany was starting to move back to the land of Israel and a move went out to try and prevent this from happening by inventing the story. Yes, the Muslims invaded Jerusalem and conquered it, built the Dome of the Rock, but they did so to commemorate the story of Abraham and not Mohamed....

 

Petra, The Bible, and The Church

English: Sandstone Rock-cut tombs (Kokh) in Petra (Jordan) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bob Barney:

For the most part the city of Petra has been forgotten in church prophecy. Yet Petra, first inhabited by Canaanite Horites, then Edomites, Israelites, Nabatean Arabs, is actually third third most mentioned place in the Bible!  Once a most important place to Ancient Israel and God, then lost to the world for 1500 years, now being investigated again since it’s rediscovery in 1812. Petra has many names in the Bible- The following link is from www.bible.ca:

 

Petra, Jordan (Kadesh Barnea)

Josephus says Kadesh Barnea was located at Petra in 1400 BC. The Treasury at Petra was carved by the Nabataeans in 100 BC and represents a reuse of the Hebrew city. This unusual "city of the tombs" carved into solid sandstone by the Nabataeans was the place Israel buried their dead for 38 years.

Since the time of Joshua, is has been called "The Rock" (Sela/Petra) because this is where Moses brought water out of the Rock.

Introduction: Reasons why Petra is Kadesh:

    1.    You can prove from the Bible that Kadesh must be Transjordan, east of the Arabah Valley. (see below or southern boundaries of Judah for more specific details.) When Israel departed Kadesh, they headed south towards the Red Sea and came to Mt. Hor where Aaron died. We know, therefore, that Kadesh is either at Petra, or just north of it.
    2.    Eusebius (325 AD), Jerome (400 AD) both said that Kadesh was located at Petra. They also said that in their day, they could still see the rock that Moses struck with his staff for water.
    3.    Josephus (110 AD), Eusebius (325 AD), Jerome (400 AD) all stated that Petra is where Aaron died on Mt. Hor. Mt. Hor was Transjordan outside the promise land only one stop from Kadesh.
    4.    All Bible maps since 1916 AD wrongly locate Kadesh Barnea at ein el-Qudeirat which is 27 km inside formal stated boundary of the promised land. Israel did not spend 38 years in the wilderness in the territory given to Judah. So the current choice of Kadesh at Qudeirat is wrong for two reasons: 1. it is not Transjordan. 2. It is inside the promised land. Both of these reasons are based upon explicit Bible passages.
    5.    The name "Petra" means rock, because this is the place where Moses "brought water out of the rock". The Bible refers to Petra three times as "Sela", which also means rock. In 325 AD Eusebius said that he could visit Petra and see the very rock that Moses split in two and water came out. We believe that the 1 km long crevice called "the Siq", is itself what was split in two. People are looking for a single rock that split, when in fact it was more like an earth quake that split an entire mountain in two. More on the rock that split.
    6.    There is an ancient tradition (Eusebius) of the "River of Moses" (Wadi Musa) that flows through the 1 km long crevice (Siq), past the Nabataean Treasury then down into the Arabah valley. This reinforces why it is called, "Petra". Both the Rock that Moses struck and the resulting flow of water are ancient traditions at Petra. There are several springs in the Petra area even today. The Siq is a complex geological feature that has many places where water could enter it.
    7.    Geologist, Dr. Don Patton has personally examined the "River of Moses" (Siq), and has concluded that the canyon has hydrological features consistent with water cutting. As you walk the Siq, there are many fissures where water came out of the rock and joined the main flow. The Roman road that was recently excavated below 15 feet of earth, proves that the Siq is a dead relic canyon that has not deepened in 2300 years. This indicates that a large continuous flow of water cut the canyon quickly.
    8.    Archeology has uncovered evidence an occupation of Petra of a people (perhaps Hebrew) before the Edomites (1400 - 950 BC), Solomon (950 - 930 BC) and the Nabataeans (350 BC - 106 AD) Romans (106 AD - 300 AD) There is an ancient "Neolithic" town at Al-Beidha, just north of Petra. This is the general area where we would expect to find Kadesh, although we are not suggesting (to make it clear) that these Neolithic remains are from the exodus period.
    9.    Archeologists look for candidate locations of Kadesh with large natural water supplies. Ein el-Qudeirat, for example, was chosen for just this reason. Today Qudeirat is the almost universal choice of location on all Bible maps because it is the largest spring in the Sinai Peninsula for a 100 km radius. But the real Kadesh was described as a waterless place with no crops, grazing lands or fruit trees. Only with a miracle of Moses hitting the rock, did a large river result. Although we can prove from Tell el-kheleifeh, that sea levels are unchanged, the water table levels have dropped dramatically since the Exodus. Even during the time of Christ there were many springs flowing at Petra. In 15 AD, Strabo: "The metropolis of the Nabataeans is Petra ... and the inside parts having springs in abundance, both for domestic purposes and for watering gardens. (Strabo. Geography 16:4:21, 15 AD) Yet today, the 5 springs of Petra, have almost all dried up. So Kadesh is likely located at a place with no springs at all that we can see today!
    10.    No one knows why the tombs of the dead are there. It even says this in the official site information. Moshe said this. it is because it is near Mt. Hor where Aaron and Miriam were buried.
    11.    Since they spent 38 years at Kadesh, the tombs were where the dead Israelites were kept. The Nabateans found the site continued in the tradition started by the Hebrews of using it as a burial city. "The city underwent major construction in the period 50 BC to AD 100 during the reigns of Obodas II (III) and Aretas IV (with construction of the Treasury, Q'asr al Bint, Temple of the Winged Lions and Theatre), and Roman and Greek technologies most probably influenced the water-system design." (The Water Supply of Petra, Charles R. Ortloff, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2005, 15:1:93-109)
    12.    Moshe pointed out what he believed to be where the Israelite camp was at Petra.
    13.    There is no large flow of water now at Petra, the canyons are water cut relics of the past. Just like Mammoth caves in Kentucky are a relic of past events, so too Petra.
    14.    See the main page on Kadesh Barnea.
    15.    "Despite 75 years of excavation, only one percent of the city has been investigated." (How Petra was Built, Shaher M. Rababeh, 2005, p28)
    16.    It is very interesting is that the location of Petra was unknown in 1600 AD. It was rediscovered in 1812, by John Lewis Burckhardt. Yet maps from the 1600's knew of its existence but they were not sure where to locate it. For example, in 1587 AD, Abraham Ortelius had two locations for Petra and Kadesh Barnea. A precedent for mapping uncertain locations in two places is also found in the Madaba map regarding the location of Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal. Just as the Madaba Map has two locations for Gerizim and Ebal, so too does Abraham Ortelius's map have two locations for Petra and Kadesh Barnea. What is clear, however, is that Abraham Ortelius located Kadesh Barnea beside Petra. He just didn't know where Petra was! See our map page for more details.
    17.    After a careful research of the Bible and history, it became evident that Kadesh was either at or just north of Petra. 4 km north of Petra is Beidha which has traces of human occupation going back as far as the flood (3000 BC). The three occupational stages at Beidha occurred between 3000 - 1000 BC. Occupation by the Nabataeans about 100 BC is also evident. We believe that Beidha was part of Kadesh Barnea and represented public buildings used for various communal things. (Early Village Life At Beidha: Neolithic, Brian Byrd, 2005 AD)
    18.    Detailed look at Beidha, Jordan
 Petra in the Bible: Read the entire article here

 

God’s TRUE Church is pictured in Revelation 12. It is symbolized by a woman-(the bride of Christ). We see that by the end time, the true Church is hated by the world.  The great False Christian Church in Rome is not this church. The Church in Rome will be loved and a leader in the Tribulation times. According to verse 6 the true Church flees the first time from her persecutors for 1260 years - during the Middle Ages. But verse 14 unveils another flight of the Church-in the very last days. This time the duration is only 3y2 years! “And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle”-supernatural deliverance-“that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time”--3 1/2 years.

Revelation 3:7-13. “I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation”-the time of trial--“which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth’ (verse 10). Here is a world-wide terror that will come upon the entire world. This is not for the slow-moving past. It is a prophecy for the soon to come “last days” of human history--just before God intervenes to set up His Kingdom to bring peace to the world.

Isaiah 42:l0-13. Here is a prophecy for today-a time of divine intervention, verse 14. Now read verse 11 from the Jewish Publication Society translation according to the original inspired Hebrew:
“Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit”--the descendants of Kedar are the Bedouin Arabs who dwell throughout the Middle East in black tents. Here we have a wilderness located in the Arab world! But continue reading: “Let the inhabitants of Sela exult. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.” The inhabitants of Sela? Who are they? And where is Sela? (In the King James Version the word for Sela is translated “rock.” Sela is the Hebrew name of Petra)
Isaiah 33: Beginning with verse 13 God warns the House of Israel (which is The United States, Britain, and certain Western and Northern European nations)-the “sinners in Zion”-of their sins (verse 14). “Who will be able to live through the endtime warfare?” God asks (verse 14). Those who obey Him, declares verse 15. But where will they go?
Verses 16 and 17 answer! “He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks.. .” This verse is poorly translated in most versions because the translators did not understand the prophecy. The true meaning has been hidden. The place of protection shall be, not munitions of rocks, but the “strongholds of Sela!” The original, inspired Hebrew, mistranslated “munitions,” is metsad, and means a stronghold or a castle or a fort. And the word for “rock” in this verse is Sela, the name of Petra in the Hebrew language!
Petra is a dry, barren area. It hardly provides a few dozen Bedouin sufficient sustenance. How are all of the faithful people of God to be provided for? Continue with the end of verse 16: “...his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” Here also is supernatural provision! Remember what happened to the children of Israel in the Sinai wilderness? God supernaturally provided them food and water nearly 40 long years! God can do the same today! It is not those who heap up provisions that shall escape! It is those who obey God, who do His work, and who trust Him to provide the necessities and the divine protection when that time arrives!
Verse 17 completes the picture: “Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off’-or “they shall behold a land stretching afar,” according to the Jewish translation. We shall see Him as He is (I John 3:2). Notice also that those in safety see “the land”-Palestine, the promised land stretching into the distance. Surely here is another indication of the high rocky crags of Petra from which one may look northwest to the promised land.


In Isaiah 16,  in verses 1 to 5, the prophet foretells, “Send the lambs for the Ruler (Christ) of the land from Petra that is toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion” The time setting of this prophecy is the return of Christ to rule the world. He is the King of the land. The Moabites are commanded to seek Him, to send Him an offering as a token of their submission. The offering comes from Petra.  Other prophecies also picture peoples from the east capturing the land east of the Jordan. (See Ezekiel 25:l0.) As these hordes plunge toward Palestine, slaughtering as they go, a pitiful remnant--described in Jeremiah 48:1-25--escapes at the Arnon (a stream running into the Dead Sea). The Moabite refugees flee southward for protection. Why? Is it perhaps because they have known of others already there in a place of safety? Now look at verse 4. God is addressing Moab: "Let Mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler."
 "Mine outcasts," This is what God calls them. Now compare this prophecy with Jeremiah 48:28, “O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock”--Petra--“and be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the holes mouth...” This is a great description of Petra, with its caves!
Isaiah 16:5 then reveals the very next prophetic event to occur: “then God will establish one of David's descendants as king. He will rule with mercy and truth. He will always do what is just and be eager to do what is right.”

The longest continuous prophecy, covering event by event over 2500 years of history, is found in Daniel chapters 10 - 12. In the eleventh chapter, verse 41, is a prophecy for the “End Times.” The final ruler of the Roman Empire--the King of the North (Europe) -- overruns Egypt and invades Palestine. “He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon” (v. 41). The ancient territories are today all found in one modern nation- Jordan! And in Jordan today is Petra!
Does not this prophecy imply that Jordan escapes because God has chosen this land to be a place of safety? Every one of these prophecies point to the mysterious city of Petra as a place of safety! Not all of the Church will end up here, as the Bible does not preach “protectionism” to the saved. Many Christians are to be slaughtered for the sake of Christ, others will be tortured and imprisoned, but a few will be protected by God in the wilderness - and that place may be Petra!

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Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In October 2008, I wrote this article on how important it was for Obama and his communistic ways be defeated.... After 4 years, we have seen this warning become real......

By Bob Barney

In yet another move yesterday, the FED moved to directly make loans to large corporations. Little guys need not apply. Some seventy-five percent of all employed Americans works for the little guy, but only large corporations get any help from good Ole Uncle Sam! America, are you going to awaken? Do you not see what your future holds if this continual move towards totalitarianism continues? We are in the darkest hour of our existence as a nation! No, we are not on the verge of losing our homeland, like, we were in 1812, or our nation is not embroiled in a Civil War, as we were in 1863, but we are on the verge of becoming prisoners of our own government with our national malaise and welfare mentality. I have been calling all Americans to stand up for years now. Big business is just as evil as big government and the two in collusion equals FASCISM! Did you read that? Fascism! That's what we are moving to. On one hand, we have this almost surrealistic Obama movement which is much closer to the Nazi's in Germany than anything ever seen before and on the other hand, John McCain who is probably the weakest, and least able candidate to have run since Jimmy Carter! However, John McCain and Sarah Palin is our only hope! At least they are not total socialist and communist itching to destroy America and turn us into a European vessel state. That is what an Obama led nation will do!

I have included some quotes that can say far better than I what our fate is going to be, unless we wake up and take this country back! We must reject every sitting House member that voted for the bailout. I don't care what party they belong to. We must reject the Obama ticket and let McCain know that we will not tolerate any more erosion of personal rights, liberties and wealth. We must break up all monopolistic big business entities into smaller groups and must give American businesses most favored company status over foreign companies. We want Toyota in America, but we want it to be an American company, 51 owned by Americans! Let them spin off a subsidiary, something they do in other countries in order to be there.

Friends, this is a pivotal time for America. We are not just talking about who is elected President of the USA, we are talking about who we select to lead this nation going forward. Hopefully, by God's grace, John McCain will be that man and maybe Palin can return us to our glory days like we had with Ronald Reagan. However, it is important that you take back your government. Stop aliens from voting, stop the nonsense of ACORN and all like organizations and FIRE those who want to see us enslaved. I have warned that the Bible predicts that this will eventually happen to America, but it doesn't need to happen yet. We need to wake up.

In 1972, David Rockefeller(a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank and director of Chase Bank), who with Zbigniew Brzezinski, wanted to "bring the best brains in the world to bear on problems of the future." Speaking at Chase Manhattan International Financial Forums in London, Brussels, Montreal, and Paris, he proposed the creation of an International Commission of Peace and Prosperity (which would later become the Trilateral Commission). At the 1972 meeting, the idea was widely accepted, but elsewhere, it got a cool reception. According to Rockefeller, the organization could "be of help to government by providing measured judgment."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a professor at Columbia University, and a Rockefeller adviser, who was a specialist on international affairs, left his post to organize the group with Henry Owen(a Foreign Policy Studies Director with the Brookings Institution), George S. Franklin, Robert Bowie (of the Foreign Policy Association and Director of the Harvard Center for International Affairs), Gerard Smith (Salt I negotiator , Rockefeller in-law , and 1st North American Chairman ) , Marshall Hornblower, William Scranton (former Governor of Pennsylvania), Edwin Reischauer(a professor at Harvard), and Max Kohnstamn. Brzezinski was the author of the book Between Two Ages, which was published in 1970, in which he called for a new international monetary system, and is considered to be the "Bible" of the Trilateralists. On page 72, he said: "Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief." He calls for "deliberate management of the American future (pg. 260)", a "community of nations (pg. 296)" and a "world government (pg. 308)". He became the first Director(1973-76), drafted its Charter, and became its driving force.

Funding for the group came from David Rockefeller, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. (quotes from :silverbearcafe.com).

Journalist Bill Moyers said "David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital...Private citizen David Rockefeller is accorded privileges of a head of state...He is untouched by customs or passport offices and hardly pauses for traffic lights."

In 1973, David Rockefeller met with 27 heads of state, including representatives from the Soviet Union and China; Furthermore, in 1974, had a meeting with Pope Paul VI, who afterward called for the nations to form a world government. Sen. Barry Goldwater wrote that the Commission was "intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. Goldwater wrote in his book With No Apologies: "What the Trilaterals truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political government of the nation-states involved. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the world....In my view, the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power: political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical." On the left, the U.S. Labor Party alleges that the Commission was created by multinational companies in order to dominate American foreign policy. Upon analysis, their economic plans leaned toward the controlling of energy sources, food production, and the international monetary system, so was there any reason to doubt that there were ulterior motives to their agenda. (quotes from :silverbearcafe.com). You need to read all of this article!

It wasn't Just Barry Goldwater who predicted economic disaster for America if these industrialist powers over government did not get curtailed, Ronald Reagan said much of the same. In 1964, Reagan said, " No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income..... A government can't control the economy without controlling people. In addition, they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy."

He went on to say some 44 years ago that "Private property moralities are so diluted that public interest is almost anything that a few government planners decide it should be. In a program that takes for the needy and gives to the greedy" Does this sound like 2008? I think so.

I agree with Reagan when he said, "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth. " Reagan also said in 1980 "The people have not created this disaster in our economy; the federal government has. It has overspent, overestimated, and over-regulated. " This is just as true today!

Ronald Reagan, like what I have been writing about knew that our country needed a special relationship with God and that only God's blessings could pull us through tuff times. "We who are privileged to be Americans have had a rendezvous with destiny since the moment in 1630 when John Winthrop, standing on the deck of the tiny Arbella off the coast of Massachusetts, told the little band of Pilgrims, "We shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world."

Please take the time and Read Ronald Reagan's words. They ring true today! Click Here!

America, if we wake up, we can stop what is certainly going to be our fate. Wake Up!

The Great Last Day of the Feast What does it mean?

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By Bob Barney:

 

1 After this, Jesus stayed in Galilee, going from village to village. He wanted to stay out of Judea where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death. 2 But soon it was time for the Feast of Tabernacles (tents), 3 and Jesus' brothers urged him to go to Judea for the celebration. "Go where your followers can see your miracles!" they scoffed. 4 "You can't become a public figure if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, prove it to the world!" 5 For even his brothers didn't believe in him. 6 Jesus replied, "Now is not the right time for me to go. But you can go anytime, and it will make no difference. 7 The world can't hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of sin and evil. 8 You go on. I am not yet ready to go to this Feast, because my time has not yet come." 9 So Jesus remained in Galilee. 10 But after his brothers had left for the Feast, Jesus also went, though secretly, staying out of public view. 11 The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him. 12 There was a lot of discussion about him among the crowds. Some said, "He's a wonderful man," while others said, "He's nothing but a fraud, deceiving the people." 13 But no one had the courage to speak favorably about him in public, for they were afraid of getting in trouble with the Jewish leaders. 14 Then, midway through the Feast, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach. 15 The Jewish leaders were surprised when they heard him. "How does he know so much when he hasn't studied everything we've studied?" they asked. 16 So Jesus told them, "I'm not teaching my own ideas, but those of God who sent me. 17 Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own. 18 Those who present their own ideas are looking for praise for themselves, but those who seek to honor the one who sent them are good and genuine. 19 None of you obeys the law of Moses! In fact, you are trying to kill me." 20 The crowd replied, "You're demon possessed! Who's trying to kill you?" 21 Jesus replied, "I worked on the Sabbath by healing a man, and you were offended. 22 But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses' law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision is older than the law of Moses; it goes back to Abraham.) 23 For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it, so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should I be condemned for making a man completely well on the Sabbath? 24 Think this through and you will see that I am right." 25 Some of the people who lived there in Jerusalem said among themselves, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill? 26 But here he is, speaking in public, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that our leaders know that he really is the Messiah? 27 But how could he be? For we know where this man comes from. When the Messiah comes, he will simply appear; no one will know where he comes from." 28 While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he called out, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I come from. But I represent one you don't know, and he is true. 29 I know him because I have come from him, and he sent me to you." 30 Then the leaders tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come. 31 Many among the crowds at the Temple believed in him. "After all," they said, "would you expect the Messiah to do more miraculous signs than this man has done?" 32 When the Pharisees heard that the crowds were murmuring such things, they and the leading priests sent Temple guards to arrest Jesus. 33 But Jesus told them, "I will be here a little longer. Then I will return to the one who sent me. 34 You will search for me but not find me. And you won't be able to come where I am." 35 The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. "Where is he planning to go?" they asked. "Maybe he is thinking of leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands, or maybe even to the Gentiles! 36 What does he mean when he says, 'You will search for me but not find me,' and 'You won't be able to come where I am'?" 37 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, "If you are thirsty, come to me! 38 If you believe in me, come and drink! For the Scriptures declare that rivers of living water will flow out from within." 39 (When he said "living water," he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.) 40 When the crowds heard him say this, some of them declared, "This man surely is the Prophet." 41 Others said, "He is the Messiah." Still others said, "But he can't be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee? 42 For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where King David was born." 43 So the crowd was divided in their opinion about him."  (John 7 NLT version)

The Feast of Tabernacles, is a time of vacation, and great food and a time to think about God and the coming Kingdom that Jesus is bringing back when He returns. You see, the hope for Christians is not going to heaven, but reigning on earth with Christ, and helping administer His kingdom and His Laws!  That will be our job.

In Revelation chapter 20 we read this mission: "
1 Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. 2 He seized the dragon -- that old serpent, the Devil, Satan -- and bound him in chains for a thousand years. 3 The angel threw him into the bottomless pit, which he then shut and locked so Satan could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were finished. Afterward he would be released again for a little while. 4 Then I saw thrones, and the people sitting on them had been given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus, for proclaiming the word of God. And I saw the souls of those who had not worshiped the beast or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their forehead or their hands. They came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.) 6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. For them the second death holds no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years."

Yes, we are to rule with Christ for a thousand years!  This is what the 7 days of the Feast represents - God's Heavenly Kingdom on this earth. Remember what Jesus said, "Our Father, who lives in Heaven. Your Kingdom comes, Your will be done, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!"  Yes, we are to be here on earth - NOT in heaven when we come back to life in the first resurrection.  When we die, what really happens? Do we go to heaven, or do we lie in a grave ASLEEP until Christ returns?  

Read carefully from 1 Corinthians 15: Notice the words in bold (NLT ver): "
12 But tell me this -- since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead? 13 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. 14 And if Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless. 15 And we apostles would all be lying about God, for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave, but that can't be true if there is no resurrection of the dead. 16 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless, and you are still under condemnation for your sins. 18 In that case, all who have died believing in Christ have perished! 19 And if we have hope in Christ only for this life, we are the most miserable people in the world. 20 But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again. 21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, Adam, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man, Christ. 22 Everyone dies because all of us are related to Adam, the first man. But all who are related to Christ, the other man, will be given new life. 23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will be raised. 24 After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having put down all enemies of every kind. 25 For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. 26 And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For the Scriptures say, "God has given him authority over all things." (Of course, when it says "authority over all things," it does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.) 28 Then, when he has conquered all things, the Son will present himself to God, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere. 29 If the dead will not be raised, then what point is there in people being baptized for those who are dead? Why do it unless the dead will someday rise again? 30 And why should we ourselves be continually risking our lives, facing death hour by hour? 31 For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what the Lord Jesus Christ has done in you. 32 And what value was there in fighting wild beasts -- those men of Ephesus -- if there will be no resurrection from the dead? If there is no resurrection, "Let's feast and get drunk, for tomorrow we die!" 33 Don't be fooled by those who say such things, for "bad company corrupts good character." 34 Come to your senses and stop sinning. For to your shame I say that some of you don't even know God. 35 But someone may ask, "How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?" 36 What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn't grow into a plant unless it dies first. 37 And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a dry little seed of wheat or whatever it is you are planting. 38 Then God gives it a new body -- just the kind he wants it to have. A different kind of plant grows from each kind of seed. 39 And just as there are different kinds of seeds and plants, so also there are different kinds of flesh -- whether of humans, animals, birds, or fish. 40 There are bodies in the heavens, and there are bodies on earth. The glory of the heavenly bodies is different from the beauty of the earthly bodies. 41 The sun has one kind of glory, while the moon and stars each have another kind. And even the stars differ from each other in their beauty and brightness. 42 It is the same way for the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies, which die and decay, will be different when they are resurrected, for they will never die. 43 Our bodies now disappoint us, but when they are raised, they will be full of glory. They are weak now, but when they are raised, they will be full of power. 44 They are natural human bodies now, but when they are raised, they will be spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, so also there are spiritual bodies. 45 The Scriptures tell us, "The first man, Adam, became a living person." But the last Adam -- that is, Christ -- is a life-giving Spirit. 46 What came first was the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. 47 Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. 48 Every human being has an earthly body just like Adam's, but our heavenly bodies will be just like Christ's. 49 Just as we are now like Adam, the man of the earth, so we will someday be like Christ, the man from heaven. 50 What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These perishable bodies of ours are not able to live forever. 51 But let me tell you a wonderful secret God has revealed to us. Not all of us will die, but we will all be transformed. 52 It will happen in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, the Christians who have died will be raised with transformed bodies. And then we who are living will be transformed so that we will never die. 53 For our perishable earthly bodies must be transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die. 54 When this happens -- when our perishable earthly bodies have been transformed into heavenly bodies that will never die -- then at last the Scriptures will come true: "Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" 56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57 How we thank God, who gives us victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ our Lord!"

We, who die in Christ, do not live again until the last trump blows and that only happens when Christ returns. My Father is in his grave, my grandparents are in their graves, King David is still in his grave- Only Christ is out of His grave, and alive again, everyone else is awaiting His return IN THEIR GRAVES after they die! This brings us to what today stands for!  You see, after Christ and His Church has reigned on earth in peace for 1,000 years, God The Father will then come and live with us HERE on a new earth!  Read this for yourself: (Rev 20) "7 When the thousand years end, Satan will be let out of his prison. 8 He will go out to deceive the nations from every corner of the earth, which are called Gog and Magog. He will gather them together for battle -- a mighty host, as numberless as sand along the shore. 9 And I saw them as they went up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded God's people and the beloved city. But fire from heaven came down on the attacking armies and consumed them. 10 Then the Devil, who betrayed them, was thrown into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur, joining the beast and the false prophet. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 11 And I saw a great white throne, and I saw the one who was sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide. 12 I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God's throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 The sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the grave gave up the dead in them. They were all judged according to their deeds. 14 And death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death -- the lake of fire. 15 And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire." Now in Rev 21: 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a beautiful bride prepared for her husband. 3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, "Look, the home of God is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be His people. God himself will be with them. 4 He will remove all of their sorrows, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and its evils are gone forever." 5 And the one sitting on the throne said, "Look, I am making all things new!" And then he said to me, "Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true." 6 And he also said, "It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give the springs of the water of life without charge! 7 All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children. 8 But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars -- their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death." 9 Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come with me! I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." 10 So he took me in spirit to a great, high mountain, and he showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. 11 It was filled with the glory of God and sparkled like a precious gem, crystal clear like jasper. 12 Its walls were broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels. And the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were written on the gates. 13 There were three gates on each side -- east, north, south, and west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 The angel who talked to me held in his hand a gold measuring stick to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. 16 When he measured it, he found it was a square, as wide as it was long. In fact, it was in the form of a cube, for its length and width and height were each 1,400 miles. 17 Then he measured the walls and found them to be 216 feet thick (the angel used a standard human measure). 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure gold, as clear as glass. 19 The wall of the city was built on foundation stones inlaid with twelve gems: the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were made of pearls -- each gate from a single pearl! And the main street was pure gold, as clear as glass. 22 No temple could be seen in the city, for the LORD God Almighty and the Lamb are its Temple. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light. 24 The nations of the earth will walk in its light, and the rulers of the world will come and bring their glory to it. 25 Its gates never close at the end of day because there is no night. 26 And all the nations will bring their glory and honor into the city. 27 Nothing evil will be allowed to enter -- no one who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty -- but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

 

TODAY SYMBOLIZES WHEN GOD THE FATHER COMES TO LIVE WITH US!

Chapter 22:

1 And the angel showed me a pure river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 coursing down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations. 3 No longer will anything be cursed. For the throne of God and of the Lamb will be there, and his servants will worship him. 4 And they will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads. 5 And there will be no night there -- no need for lamps or sun -- for the Lord God will shine on them. And they will reign forever and ever. 6 Then the angel said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true: 'The Lord God, who tells his prophets what the future holds, has sent his angel to tell you what will happen soon.'" 7 "Look, I am coming soon! Blessed are those who obey the prophecy written in this scroll." 8 I, John, am the one who saw and heard all these things. And when I saw and heard these things, I fell down to worship the angel who showed them to me. 9 But again he said, "No, don't worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers the prophets, as well as all who obey what is written in this scroll. Worship God!" 10 Then he instructed me, "Do not seal up the prophetic words you have written, for the time is near. 11 Let the one who is doing wrong continue to do wrong; the one who is vile, continue to be vile; the one who is good, continue to do good; and the one who is holy, continue in holiness." 12 "See, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay all according to their deeds. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life. 15 Outside the city are the dogs -- the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie. 16 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this message for the churches. I am both the source of David and the heir to his throne. I am the bright morning star." 17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." Let each one who hears them say, "Come." Let the thirsty ones come -- anyone who wants to. Let them come and drink the water of life without charge. 18 And I solemnly declare to everyone who hears the prophetic words of this book: If anyone adds anything to what is written here, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book. 19 And if anyone removes any of the words of this prophetic book, God will remove that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book. 20 He who is the faithful witness to all these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all."

And I can't add another word! The Bible declares it all plainly! Let's start following God's Holy Days, and not mans holidays.

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Today Mark's God's Feast of Tabernacles ... Feast of what?

By Bob Barney  (originally published Sept 30, 2009)
      Most of our readers probably have never heard of the Feast of Tabernacles, but

it is in the Bible! In fact, this week meaning to God is so important that the Bible predicts that after Jesus returns to this earth, he will punish all who refuse to keep this feast! Read on for the proof. Again, like for the Day of Atonement, I am going to use the writing of Herbert Armstrong concerning this holiday. He does the subject much better than I can. The only difference that I have with his argument is the date he and most of the other feast keeping churches follow. Since they follow the Jewish calendar, and not the calendar of Moses (e-mail us for proof on the true calendar) and Jesus, they are often following the feast days on the wrong days. I am not sure if God is all that worried about this however....

 

FEAST OF TABERNACLES AND LAST GREAT DAY
Herbert Armstrong

NOW WE come to the festival of Tabernacles -- or Feast of Booths -- the sixth festival. Let us notice the instruction concerning this occasion:

     "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter ....Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice ... and they shall not appear before the Lord empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee" (Deut. 16:13-17).

     Here is the Festival of Tabernacles, to be kept for seven days, beginning the 15th day of the seventh month of God's sacred calendar. Notice Leviticus 23:33-35: "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. On the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work therein."

     On the first of these days is a holy convocation -- a commanded assembly. No work is to be done. "... And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days .... It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month" (Lev. 23:40-41).

     Notice that it is commanded forever.

     Here are pictured those final culminating events in God's great plan: after Christ has died for our sins to redeem mankind -- after He has sent us the Holy Spirit and picked out a people for His Name to become kings and priests through the thousand years -- after His glorious Second Coming -- after He has finally restored the redeemed by placing all the sins upon the head of Satan, their real author, and separating both him and the sins from the presence of God and His people, thus finally perfecting the at-one-ment, making us finally joined in one -- then we are ready for that final series of events, the commencement of the "Marriage of the Lamb," the actual making of the New Covenant, the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth and the reaping of the great harvest of souls for a thousand years.

     This festival is the picture of the Millennium!

Today is the Feast of Trumpets

A shofar made from a ram's horn is traditionally blown in observance of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish civic year. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By: Bob Barney

Many do not realize it, but God has His own set of Holy Days (Holidays) mentioned in the pages of the Bible. The holy days that Jesus followed, as well as the apostles and the early church were not the so-called "Christian" holidays such as Easter, Christmas or Halloween! No, the days that Jesus and his followers observed were:

• Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

• The Feast of First Fruits

• Penetecost or the Feast of Weeks

• Feast of Trumpets (today)

• Day of Atonement

• Feast of Tabernacles

• The Sabbath

Seven in all! Seven is a number of completion to God. This is why the seventh day of the week is the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath symbolizes the completion of the week.

The Bible not only mentions the days God ordained for His people to observe, it also states that the observance of these days will be mandated during the Millennium! Yes, there is a prophecy that states that the nation of Egypt will be punished for refusing to make holy the Feast of Tabernacles (a week long Feast of God beginning in 15 days.) This is found in the minor prophet Zechariah 14:16-19:

16 Then all of the survivors from the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go there each year to worship the King, the LORD(Jesus) of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD(Jesus) Almighty (of hosts), on them there will be no rain.

 

18 If the Egyptians refuse to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles, then they will be struck by the same disease that the LORD(Jesus) will send on every nation that refuses to go.

 

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

20 On that day even the harness bells of the horses will be inscribed with these words: SET APART AS HOLY TO THE LORD. And the cooking pots in the Temple of the LORD will be as sacred as the basins used beside the altar.

 

21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in all Judah will be set apart for use in the worship of the LORD(Jesus) Almighty. The people who offer sacrifices will use them for boiling the meat of the sacrifices. When that time comes, there will no longer be any merchant in the Temple of the LORD(Jesus) Almighty.

So goes the argument that the Holy Days have been abolished! Right? Maybe that is why Paul kept them feast! See Acts 18:21 for the New Testament proof of God's Holy Days.

A problem does occur however, and that is the calendar of God. The Bible is not clear concerning the particulars of the calendar and a brief search into the subject will bring to light that in Jesus' time, each faction that controlled the Temple used different calendars! The Essenes of the Dead Sea Scrolls fame, had themselves a radically different calendar than did the Sadducees and Pharisees. The later used a LUNAR Calendar, the Essenes used a solar calendar. Therefore the dating of these holidays will never be exactly known until the return of Christ. He will re-institute the Law, the Holy Days, The Sabbath AND the true solar calendar.

After many years of study, I came to the conclusion that the calendar that Jesus was following was the same one instituted by Moses, and originally devised by God Himself during the time of Adam and Eve. In a nutshell, the real Calendar given to Moses was a SOLAR based one starting each new year on the spring equinox. I often are asked by non-Jewish people (Jews understand many of the Hebrew words and their meaning) how do we know that the first month of the year falls on or near the spring equinox. It does state in the English Bible when the new month starts. However, in Exodus 34:18 we are told that the first month of the year is ABIB. That is a Hebrew word meaning- the “month of ear-forming, of greening of crop, of growing green.” It is during Abib-springtime, that the month of exodus and passover (March or April) occurs. This is a timeframe NOT controlled by the moon, but rather by the spring equinox.

Moses was raised as an Egyptian. The Egyptians who also followed the SOLAR and not a Lunar-Solar Year, was familiar to Moses. The Hebrew Calendar given to Moses by God was the same as the Egyptian calendar, but started in a different month-- the month of springtime! The year started on the spring equinox (March 20-21) instead of the summer solstice (The Egyptian new year about June 21). The Bible shows beyond any shadow of a doubt that God's calendar only has 12--- 30-day months (which is only 360 days) After the flood, when world calendars were found to be longer than before, the Egyptians added an additional 5-1/4 days of each year. These days are simply NOT COUNTED! This is how God did it too! They had 12--- 30-day months and 5 to 6 extra non-counted days each year and the year ended on the day before the equinox. It's just that simple. The new year was the only thing "fixed". It is fixed on the equinox to make sure that ABIB falls each year in the springtime. So, in Moses' calendar that "fix date" is the spring equinox to make sure Passover always fell on the same solar day! Proof of a 12 month 30 day month year? Revelation says that 1260 days equal 3-1/2 years OR 42 months! Do the math! In the modern Hebrew lunar calendar, 3-1/2 years contains 43 months and not 1260 days! It is PLAIN and simple. In every example given in the Bible, a year only consist of only 12 months and 360 days! The Bible answers all of it's own mysteries. Do you want proof that Jesus did not follow the Jewish Calendar lunar calendar of His day? His Passover was 1 Day BEFORE the Jewish Passover! Nobody ever notices that fact..... He was following another Passover! No, he was not following a “special Passover”, a day earlier, as some say-- READ THE WORDS IN THE BIBLE:

Matthew 26:17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?"

The first day of the feast, Passover (the 14^th of the month) was the day of the last Supper! This obviously implies, the next day, when the Jewish Passover would start, they were following a different date for the time of Passover!

For a Real Scholarly Article on the real Calendar date:CLICK HEREWARNING BORING!! But good...

 

NEW YEARS DAY- In the spring – even in America

Believe it or not, before January 1, 1752 AD New Years Day was celebrated on March 25 in America and England! This is true for England and the British Empire including the American colonies. This fact can be verified by looking at any good almanac or encyclopedia under the entries for March, Calendar, New Year’s Day, January etc. There were both secular and religious calendars in the past, as is still the case today. And these varied from place to place. In many other countries the secular calendars were standardized into the present format in the year 1582. Although, the tradition of January 1 being New Year’s Day goes back to Julius Caesar and his calendar in 46 B.C.

 

The tradition of celebrating the New Year in the Springtime goes back to an ancient Jewish tradition of celebrating it in the month of Nisan, which corresponded to the month of March. It was during this month that the Passover Feast was celebrated. Although the Jews currently celebrate New Years at Harvest time, they used to celebrate it in the Spring according to their ancient Passover tradition. See Exodus chapter 12.

 

Exodus 12:1-11

“The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ‘This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. … every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb … it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight. … you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD.’ ” [This month is called Abib, Exodus 23:15 – or Nisan, Babylonian name Neh. 2:1, – or March. It occurred in the Springtime near the vernal equinox]

 

“In fact, an ancient Passover poem, used in synagogue liturgy, depicts four great events in salvation history occurring on the same calendar day as Passover: the creation of the universe, the covenant with Abraham, and Israel’s deliverance from Egypt all occurred on the night of the Passover. And it was on this night that the future messianic king was expected to bring redemption.” [ Edward P. Sri’s article “The Heart of the Home” in CFR, (Steubenville: Emmaus Road, 1998) edited by Hahn and Suprenant, pages 165-166, in a reference to poem called the “Poem of the Four Nights,” found in the Jewish targum Neophyti, cited in Lucien Deiss, It’s the Lord’s Supper (London: Collins, 1975), 35.] (SOURCE)

U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack

English: Orthographic map of Libya (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bob Barney: Before this latest news, last night I republished articles on why we need to always be watching events in the Middle east. Our Bible, yours and mine, regardless of the translation warns us that the end of man's rule will be in the Middle East.

For years many religious experts and ministers have taught that the plagues described in the Bible (Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation) as already happening. However these experts have made a serious error concerning these prophecies. They are correct to say that we are living in the "end times" but honestly the first century Church and the epistles of the Bible tell us that! We have been living in the "end times" now for about 1900 years! Jesus, in his famous Olivet prophecy (Matthew 24) gave exact clues to help us pinpoint the times right before he returns to earth. Although he goes on to say that no man (including Jesus) would know the exact time, if we look for certain signs, we will have an idea about when these times are very close.

 I have been warning people that many things must still occur before the return of Jesus. Here is a short list of what HAS NOT happened yet:
 
1) The rise of the King of the North (Assyria)
2) The rise of the end time King of the South (Saudi Arabia and the entire Muslim world)
3) The rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem
4) The near destruction of Israel.
5) The revealing of the false prophet and the beast (as a part of this King of the North)
6) The plagues of Matt 24 and Revelation

The events in Egypt, Syria and Libya are just a start of the formation of the God predicted "King of the South," which will be a kingdom of Muslim states that will make war with the King of the North (Europe). America, on the other hand, and Canada and Britain will be at the end time, in captivity and no longer a world power (read this incredible prediction here.) STAY AWAKE! YOU ARE WITNESSING GOD'S PREDICTIONS THIS VERY DAY!

 

Gunmen had attacked and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of last year's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, late on Tuesday evening as another assault was mounted on the U.S. embassy in Cairo.

The California-born ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was trying to leave the consulate building for a safer location as part of an evacuation when gunmen launched an intense attack, apparently forcing security personnel to withdraw.

"The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets in their direction," a Libyan official in Benghazi told Reuters. Airport sources said the bodies were due to be flown from Benghazi to Tripoli.

The attack was believed to have been carried out by Ansar al-Sharia, an al Qaeda-style Sunni Islamist group that has been active in Benghazi, a Libyan security official said. Witnesses said the mob also included tribesmen, militia and other gunmen.

The attack raised questions about the future U.S. diplomatic presence in Libya, relations between Washington and Tripoli, the unstable security situation in post-Gaddafi Libya and whether more protests might take place in the Muslim world.

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The Plain Truth about Obama, Egypt and Treason.

By Bob Barney: Editor - The Plain Truth Reprinted from Feb 2011

  The sordid history of American presidents trying to overthrow enemy countries and assassinate leaders of those nations is not new. In fact, there was a strong case at one time for presidents to do whatever they had to do to protect American interests and democracy. To the left, these claims are seen as propaganda coming from fascist right-leaning Americans and antagonistic to the facts. You see, it appears that these liberals constantly refer to Nixon and his wars when making their claims about right-winged schemes to demolish democratically elected governments that at are odds with United States capitalistic and business interests. Let's examine the truth about such claims and see whether or not presidents from both parties saw a need to meddle in foreign countries internal affairs. The follow experts are from Wikipedia:

 

JFK and Vietnam: “The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, then president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d’état led by General Dương Văn Minh in November 1963. On the morning of November 2, 1963, Diệm and his adviser, younger brother Ngô Đình Nhu, were arrested after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) had been successful in a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. The coup was the culmination of nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in South Vietnam. Discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface, and exploded with mass Buddhist protests against long-standing religious discrimination after the government shooting of protesters who defied a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag.

 

When rebel forces entered the palace, the Ngô brothers were not present, as they had escaped the night before to a loyalist shelter in Cholon. The brothers had kept in communication with the rebels through a direct link from the shelter to the palace, and misled them into believing that they were still in the palace. The Ngô brothers soon agreed to surrender and were promised safe exile; after being arrested, they were instead executed in the back of an armoured personnel carrier by ARVN officers on the journey back to military headquarters at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base.

 

While no formal inquiry was conducted, the responsibility for the deaths of the Ngô brothers is commonly placed on Minh’s bodyguard, Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, and on Major Dương Hiếu Nghĩa, both of whom guarded the brothers during the trip. Minh’s army colleagues and US officials in Saigon agreed that Minh ordered the executions. They postulated various motives, including that the brothers had embarrassed Minh by fleeing the Gia Long Palace, and that the brothers were killed to prevent a later political comeback. The generals initially attempted to cover up the execution by suggesting that the brothers had committed suicide, but this was contradicted when photos of the Ngôs’ bloodied bodies surfaced in the media.

 

Kennedy learned of the deaths on the following morning when National Security Council staffer Michael Forrestal rushed into the cabinet room with a telegram reporting the Ngo brothers' suicides. According to General Maxwell Taylor, "Kennedy leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face which I had never seen before."[20] Kennedy had planned that Diem would be safely exiled and Arthur Schlesinger recalled that the U.S. president was "somber and shaken".[20] Kennedy later penned a memo, lamenting that the assassination was "particularly abhorrent" and blaming himself for approving Cable 243,[20] which authorised Lodge to explore coup options in the wake of Nhu's attacks on the Buddhist pagodas.[20] Forrestal said that “It shook him personally...bothered him as a moral and religious matter. It shook his confidence, I think, in the kind of advice he was getting about South Vietnam.”[21] When Kennedy was consoled by a friend who told him he need not feel sorry for the Ngo brothers on the grounds of despotism, Kennedy replied “No. They were in a difficult position. They did the best they could for their country.”[21]

SOURCE

 

Here is what Wikipedia writes about the Nixon/Allende affair:

“Salvador Isabelino del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Allende Gossens (Spanish pronunciation: [salβaˈðoɾ aˈʝende ˈɣosens]; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in the Americas.[1]

 

“The possibility of Allende winning Chile's 1970 election was deemed a disaster by a US government who wanted to protect US business interests and prevent any spread of communism during the Cold War.[40] In September 1970, President Nixon informed the CIA that an Allende government in Chile would not be acceptable and authorized $10 million to stop Allende from coming to power or unseat him.[41] The CIA's plans to impede Allende's investiture as President of Chile were known as "Track I" and "Track II"; Track I sought to prevent Allende from assuming power via so-called "parliamentary trickery", while under the Track II initiative, the CIA tried to convince key Chilean military officers to carry out a coup.[41]

 

“During Nixon's presidency, U.S. officials attempted to prevent Allende's election by financing political parties aligned with opposition candidate Jorge Alessandri and supporting strikes in the mining and transportation sectors.[42]

 

“After General Pinochet assumed power, United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon that the U.S. "didn't do it," but "we helped them...created the conditions as great as possible." (referring to the coup itself).[48] Recent documents declassified under the Clinton administration's Chile Declassification Project show that the United States government and the CIA sought the overthrow of Allende in 1970 immediately before he took office ("Project FUBELT"), but claims of their direct involvement in the 1973 coup are not proven by any publicly available documentary evidence, although many documents still remain classified.”

SOURCE

 

So what are the two above examples really about and what does it mean concerning what is going on now in Egypt? The facts, as I will explain this is shocking, and I believe a case for impeachment of President Obama based on treason is in order. Treason?

 

Michael Savage wrote the other day, "Barack Obama has been playing a critical role in making sure that Egypt, one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East, is positioned to become the next member of the Union of Iranian Radical Islamist Republics headed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Every single word out of the president’s mouth, every single move he’s made has had the effect of stabbing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the back, of opening the door to Islamist radicals taking another step on their way to restoring an unholy caliphate in that region."

 

I wrote that the other day concerning the farce going on in Egypt and how the Media and the Obama administration are forcing the overthrow of a sovern government on the basis of a few demonstrators, that if the truth were told would be seen to be "planted" and not even Egyptians.  80 million Egyptians are being screwed!

 

It can be claimed honestly that both Kennedy and Nixon did what they did, maybe against the spirit of American ideology, in the best interest of the American people. Those who see only Nixon's actions as un-American are just blind to the fact that Roosevelt, Eisenhower and John Kennedy did the same things. Eisenhower overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in the 1950's in-order to place the Shah back on the throne of that nation in insuring the flow of cheap oil. There is no dispute that this is the case. Jimmy Carter, in turn, plotted the toppled of the Shah in his moronic belief that Americans should support only democracies, even if those nations turned out to be enemies of our people. Naïve yes, treasonous no. Being stupid is not a treasonous act and Jimmy Carter is probably the dumbest moron to ever sit in the White House. Next to him, King George II (aka President Bush) looks like a NASA scientist.

 

When it comes to this latest Egyptian crisis, we are not witnessing a naïve response from a weak moronic president. I believe we are witnessing a cold calculated destruction of American interest and safety by a “Manchurian candidate” who was planted in the White House by evil leftist anti - American, Marxist and Communist to destroy the nation. They chose a constitutional illegal candidate on purpose as a sign of this total hatred to the American Constitution and our way of life! What President Obama has done to our allies is a purposeful plan of destroying American power in the world, and making us vulnerable to attack by our enemies, something I fear will end up causing the deaths of perhaps MILLIONS of Americans in the next twenty years! That, my friends, is TREASON.

 

Here are my examples of a purposeful plan:

 

1. ENGLAND our closest ally EVER: Obama Sells Out Another American Ally. Turns Britain’s Nuclear Secrets over to Russia This alone is treason, but he did it.

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      1. Barack Obama sends bust of Winston Churchill on its way back to Britain

      2. Obama snubs the Queen, Prime Minister and English people.

2. ISRAEL: Obama sells Arms to Arabs – NOT Israel.

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      1. Israel to extend freeze of Jewish construction

      2. Obama-tied group: Mosque opponents 'intolerant'

      3. Obama officials working against Netanyahu?

      4. Was Hillary appointed to trick Israel?

      5. Obama's plan for Mideast peace: Strip Israel bare

      6. Has Obama cut off information to Israel?

      7. Obama promises Arabs Jerusalem will be theirs

      8. Obama confronting Israel to appease Arab world?

      9. Obama working against Israel on Capitol Hill?

      10. Obama refuses public photo ops with Netanyahu

      11. Secret Obama deal for Palestinian state?

3. Blame America First- Absolve Muslims always: Pentagon official blames U.S. for al-Qaida attacks

4. EGYPT: FROM 2 YEARS AGO: Middle East 'moderates' plot to wreak havoc in Egypt

   Does this not shock you to see what is happening right now?

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      1. Egypt now fears Obama a 'Manchurian President'

      2. Arabs blame U.S. for Egypt violence

      3. Rush Limbaugh: Send Obama to be head of Egypt

      4. Ayers, Obama and the destabilization of Egypt

      5. Middle East turmoil called win for Iran

5. Love of Islam, hatred for America:

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      1. Obama family member plans Muslim pilgrimage

      2. Obama speech quoted jihad verse from Quran

      3. Obama: U.S. 'one of largest Muslim countries'

6. COMMUNIST OBAMA: Obama: Top Red's dream come true

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      1. Is Obama constitutionally eligible to serve?

      2. Obama tied to Ayers ... at age 11

      3. Obama's radical pal slams racist 'American empire'

      4. Rush Limbaugh: 'We have an increasingly lawless president'

      5. Rush Limbaugh: What if shooter were named Muhammad?

      6. Health-care 'trickery' called overthrow of Constitution

      7. 'It's time to impeach Obama for high crimes against U.S.'

 

Honestly, this list could go to 200 pages long! The facts are evident and plan is clear- Obama and “friends” want to end your way of life as you know it and replace it with anything that is not American in origin. This president is not attempting to overthrow the nations that are our enemies, instead he is overthrowing our ally's governments! The same administration that never raised a word concerning the slaughter of thousands of Iranians last year, now can't stop dictating to our ally just how they should handle their internal problems!

 

Obama is the real life movie from the 80's called 'TRADING PLACES' where two rich brothers bet one dollar that they could turn a street, dope peddling thug into a Wall Street investor. It appears George Soros and friends made the same bet - picked a former drug peddler (yes this IS a picture of Obama to the left in his drug selling days) and turned this Kenyan born illegal into the the president. In the process, these billionaires made a fortune, when they robbed you of all of your wealth! You just haven't realized it yet!

 

It is time for Congress to do their job, and frankly, time for US to do OUR JOB and SPEAK OUT FOR AMERICA and for IMPEACHMENT.

 

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Lest we forget... The Numbers, The Dead

Many have died for you and me to be free.  Do not forget them, or the cause of liberty, freedom and our Constitution!

 

The table below has information about the total number of service members, battle deaths, and nonmortal woundings in wars from 1775 to 2011; such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I and II, Vietnam, and more.

American Revolution (1775–1783)
Total servicemembers	217,000
Battle deaths	4,435
Nonmortal woundings	6,188
War of 1812 (1812–1815)
Total servicemembers	286,730
Battle deaths	2,260
Nonmortal woundings	4,505
Indian Wars (approx. 1817–1898)
Total servicemembers	106,0001
Battle deaths	1,0001
Mexican War (1846–1848)
Total servicemembers	78,718
Battle deaths	1,733
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	11,550
Nonmortal woundings	4,152
Civil War (1861–1865)
Total servicemembers (Union)	2,213,363
Battle deaths (Union)	140,414
Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union)	224,097
Nonmortal woundings (Union)	281,881
Total servicemembers (Conf.)	1,050,000
Battle deaths (Conf.)	74,524
Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.)	59,2972
Nonmortal woundings (Conf.)	unknown
Spanish-American War (1898–1902)
Total servicemembers	306,760
Battle deaths	385
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	2,061
Nonmortal woundings	1,662
World War I (1917–1918)3
Total servicemembers	4,734,991
Battle deaths	53,402
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	63,114
Nonmortal woundings	204,002
Living veterans	fewer than 251
World War II (1940–1945)3
Total servicemembers	16,112,566
Battle deaths	291,557
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	113,842
Nonmortal woundings	671,846
Living veterans	3,242,0001
Korean War (1950–1953)
Total servicemembers	5,720,000
Serving in-theater	1,789,000
Battle deaths	33,741
Other deaths in service (theater)	2,833
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	17,672
Nonmortal woundings	103,284
Living veterans	3,086,4001
Vietnam War (1964–1975)
Total servicemembers	8,744,000
Serving in-theater	3,403,000
Battle deaths	47,424
Other deaths in service (theater)	10,785
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	32,000
Nonmortal woundings	153,303
Living veterans	7,286,5001
Gulf War (1990–1991)
Total servicemembers	2,225,000
Serving in-theater	665,476
Battle deaths	147
Other deaths in service (theater)	382
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	1,565
Nonmortal woundings	467
Living veterans	1,852,0001
America's Wars Total (1775–1991)
Military service during war	41,891,368
Battle deaths	651,030
Other deaths in service (theater)	308,800
Other deaths in service (nontheater)	230,279
Nonmortal woundings	1,431,290
Living war veterans	17,456,0004
Living veterans	23,442,000
Global War on Terror 5
Total Servicemembers (Worldwide) (as of Dec 31, 2010)	1,429,367
Deployed to Iraq (Operation New Dawn) (as of Dec. 31, 2010)	85,600
Deployed to Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)(as of Dec. 31, 2010)	103,700
Battle Deaths (as of May 12, 2011)	4,724
Other Deaths (In Theater) (as of May 12, 2011)	1,294
Non-mortal Woundings (as of May 12, 2011)	43,399

1. Veterans Administration estimate as of Nov. 2008.

2. Estimated figure. Does not include 26,000–31,000 who died in Union prisons.

3. Years of U.S. involvement in war.

4. Approximately 1,065,000 veterans had service in multiple conflicts. They are counted under each conflict, but only once in the total.

5. For the most current GWOT statistics, visit: href="http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf", and href="http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MILITARY/history/hst1012.pdf"

Source: Department of Defense and Veterans Administration.

See also Post-Vietnam Combat Casualties.

Read more: America's Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004615.html#ixzz1NgkQYgNo

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Do you believe in God?

God creating the Sun, Moon and Earth, Michelangelo, from the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Bob Barney
One of the aspects of The Plain Truth website is our statement and belief that God, the God of the Bible, is an unseen hand behind many world events.  This doesn’t mean that we believe that everything that happens in the world has God’s fingerprints on it.  We do think, and the Bible tells us, that many things in the news are attributable to God working out His plan on earth for His eventual return, which is promised in the pages of the Bible.  That is why our mission is to bring  world ,local, and national news together and whenever possible show what these stories have to do with God.

Most of the readers of this site, I am sure, believe in God. Yet, due to the skepticism found in modern thought, and the evolution-based contemporary educational system, most of us do not attribute much of what's happening to Him.  This is not the case however, when we are dealing in our own personal matters, when in times of deep trouble, drama, death and despair, most of us go to God in prayer for guidance and salvation.  Almost nobody would fault someone praying to God to save the life of their child, yet if a world leader was to ask for a prayer to solve a war, that person would be ridiculed beyond comprehension.  Therefore, God seems to matter more to us in personal and private matters than in the world and national matters that we read about in newspapers and watch on our TVs every day.

In an earlier article, I mentioned the fact that God does not have that much to do with this modern world.  I know that’s a shocking and almost unbelievable statement to make, but it’s exactly what the Bible says.  According to the bible, the identity of the god of this world is no other than Lucifer, known as Satan the devil. Except for a few extraordinary or lucky people in  the past, God has had little to do with the daily running of man‘s society.  Long before men existed on  Earth, the Bible tells us that there was a world before the world of Adam and Eve.  Whenever I go into these subject most people are totally surprised to hear that I do not believe that the earth is 6000 years old as most fundamentalist Christians teach.

 

Creation of the World

The Bible is very clear that there was a world before the flood, and that God re-created the world that we now live on today. Some of the misunderstanding comes from the translation of the modern English Bible. In Hebrew Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 reads a little different than is translated, and you can prove it. “in the beginning,” as the Bible begins, “God created the heavens and the earth.”  That event does not imply that the very next paragraph immediately follows the creation of the heavens and the earth.  The reason most misunderstand that timeframe is due to a mistranslation of the next verse, or actually the continuation of the first verse.  “And the world was formless and void.”  That’s how your Bible reads, but as I will show you it is not the right translation. The correct translation is “and the earth became formless and void.”  That is a major difference in the meaning of the first verse of Genesis chapter 1 . Instead of thinking that God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was formless and void, implying this happened all at once, the correct rendering of Genesis shows a time frame of the creation of this modern world.  How we should understand goes something like this.  God thousands, if not millions or billions of years ago created the heavens and the earth, and we know that everything that God creates is created in a perfect state. God is not the author of confusion, God’s creative ability does not create confusion.  God created a world that was ruled by an Angel of light named Lucifer, the most beautiful angelic being in all of God’s creation.  The Bible tells us that Lucifer was created perfectly until lawlessness was founded in him. Read This link for a total explanation.

 

 Lucifer's Story

God placed Lucifer in command of this world as it’s King before Lucifer fell from glory. We see in some instances elsewhere in the Bible where Lucifer rebelled against God, goes to heaven to God’s own throne, and tries to dispose God and become God himself.  Now there is something else that you have to understand in order to comprehend the word “God” in the Bible.  God is a pagan word for the deity, of Germanic origin.  The original Hebrew word for God was the word Elohim. Elohim is a plural word.  The words church, school, family, group, and congregation are all plural words yet implying a singular form.  There is the Barney family.  The Barney family consists of more than one individual all with the last name “Barney“, just like there is a family called Jehovah or Yahweh, that collectively is known as Elohim or God in English. In the very first chapter of the book of John, we read the actual beginning of time. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning  with God.  All things were made by Him; Furthermore, without Him was nothing made that was made……. and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us, ( and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

The Plain Truth about God's Creation is simple
 

It is plain to see that the God that created the heavens and the earth was more than one being comprised of a God the father and a God the Word.  When we read in Genesis “and God said let there be light,” this is what It meant: The WORD who became Jesus Christ said “let there be light” and God the Father made it happen.  The two work in unison as one, together in the creation of everything; One speaking  and the other doing.  It’s like your brain thinks and speaks to itself to go buy some food and your body does the actual work.  It’s that simple.    Click Here for explanation of God's name

Getting back to the point of the creation of the earth, the idea that the earth became formless and void implies that it was at an earlier time in a perfect state.  As I will show you Lucifer was in command of  Earth before the earth we live on today was reformed.  Lucifer then went to war with the God and lost. He  was cast down to earth and was banished from heaven.  Lucifer as we see in the book of Job can go to heaven to ask God’s permission to do certain things, but he cannot appear in heaven without approval.  At the time of this battle, the entire universe which was created in perfection, was destroyed in a Star Wars type heavenly battle between God and His angels and Satan and his demons.  This is why there are craters on the moon. Scientist tries to tell us that these craters form from meteors over billions of years, but it is a falsehood. No scientist has seen one crater occur throughout all histories! The reason is that  the moon and the stars and the heavens were destroyed in a single moment of time long ago when Satan and his demons waged war against God and his angels and lost, cast down to earth until the end of time.

God then destroyed this earlier world with water. After many years, and the Bible does not tell us how long or how many years it was, God re-created both the heavens and the earth, allowing some of the scars to appear in heaven as a sign of this earlier war, and on earth in the form of ancient times before the time of Adam.  God then created mankind in their own image.  Notice the Bible says that God did not create man in his image, God said “let us create man in our image after our likeness after our own kind.” Unlike the animals that were created in their image after their own kind, thus giving a species of animals that can only mate within their own kind, man was not created after “the mankind.” We were created after the God kind.  I understand how impossible those words must seem, but it is what the Bible says.  We are God’s children. We look like God, we think, we feel, we sense, and we comprehend like God.  The Bible says that God has nostrils, the Bible says that God has ears that God has eyes, and that God has a face like ours, arms like ours and even feet!  We are now a little lower than the angels, but we will be greater than angels when we are resurrected from the dead and born again into the Kingdom of God. Born from our mortal bodies into our immortal spiritual bodies into the God family of Yahweh. (1 Cor 15)

Adam sin made a Messiah necessary
 

Adam, sinned, and the definition of sin is breaking God’s laws. (1John 3:4)   The Devil became the first sinner and Adam and Eve became the first human sinners. If Adam did not sin and disobey God’s laws, Adam would have replaced Satan as the King and the ruler of Earth.  This is why we read in the New Testament that Jesus is called the second Adam (Romans 5:12).  Jesus came the first time as a man and not God in order to prove to the everyone in heaven and on earth that man can follow God’s laws and live a sinless life.  This then qualified Jesus to replace Adam and to replace Satan as king and God of this world upon His return, as King of Kings and Lord of lords. (Romans 5:14 and 1 Cor. 15:45)

When Adam and Eve sinned against God, this first couple decided to hide from God in fear.  God walking through the garden, looked for Adam and called out to Adam, and wondered why Adam was hiding from Him.  Adam said that they were hiding because they knew they were naked, and then God knew that they had sinned. Since that time, except for certain chosen people, God has not been involved in the world as much as he would have been if man had obeyed Him.  Therefore, there were certain people that God called and chose to be his friend, to walk in the presence of the Almighty.  Noah, Abraham, David, and every single Christian that choose Christ over this world, are all God’s friend and are watched over daily by the Host of Heaven.  There are also people, the entire nation of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, that are also chosen by God and watched over by Him and protected throughout history. The Jews, from the tribe of Judah with some of the tribe of Benjamin and Levi included,  know  their identity. Unfortunately, the nations of England, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and the United States of America do not realize that they are also Jacob’s children.  What has become known as the lost 10 tribes of Israel are these western nations with the British and the Americans mainly being from the tribe of Joseph. ( e-mail us for our free article on the identities of all the major nations of the world)  You can not truly understand prophecies of the Bible if you do not know who the nations of the world are identified in your Bible.  To understand world events today, one must know who the players are, and they are all mentioned in the Bible.  Yes, you can be a Christian, and be saved, for the lack of a better word, and become born-again on the resurrection into a immortal life, in the family of God, and never fully understand who anyone is in the world today.  In fact you can live your entire life never understanding world events, the news, and everything going on including maybe your  death, and as long as you have the blood of Jesus Christ forgiving your sins,  you will be a part of God’s kingdom to come--You have made it!  However, when you are being put to death during the tribulation or times leading up to the tribulation, it might be nice to know why and who is responsible for your martyrdom!  The purpose of The Plain Truth is to give you that knowledge.

One really has to be an idiot not to believe in God, and an even bigger idiot to believe in God and not understand that God is in control of his people.  Therefore, any news agency, be it a newspaper, TV, radio or web site that does not include the hand of God, and the possibility of the hand of God in world events, is doing you no service whatsoever.  Fox News, CNN, the New York Times and all other media that do not include God in their news are simply leaving out the most important aspect of the world we live in.  We try, whenever possible, to give you the important news, much of which you will not read on any other website or media source, so you can truly understand why these things are happening and that there is a God involved in our lives.

For example, we know that the Middle East is the spot that Christ will return to and save us from ourselves in an event known as the battle of Armageddon.  So, whenever we see news from  the Middle East, we must keep our eyes on those events in the light and knowledge and understanding of the Bible.  We know that the Bible predicts the revival of the fourth beast of Daniel (Daniel 2:40) and that beast is the Holy Roman Empire (Revelation Chapter 13), most likely under the leadership of Germany (Isaiah chapter 8 and Hosea 9:3). We know this because we know the identity of Germany  is Assyria.

The End Times

The Bible says that in the end time the beast will be from Assyria.  We also know that the end time beast will be a 10 nation revival of the Holy Roman Empire, and since we know that France and the Netherlands are really part of lost Israel, they can never be leaders in this union. Just like in World War II, they will be conquered by the beast, but they will never be the beast.

We also know from the Bible that eventually the entire Arab world will be ruled by an end time beast Antichrist figure called the King of the South in Daniel.  The leader of Europe is also Antichrist figure called the King of the North, and he gets his power from a world religious leader that is based in Rome (Rev. 17:9)  I’m  the sorry, if I offend, but there really isn’t any other way to understand the prophecies of Revelation and the book of Daniel. I am not alone. Martin Luther, and all of the early Protestant leaders believed  that same thing that I do.   Therefore, we can better understand why George Washington, in  his famous farewell speech called for America to stay out of European affairs because he understood fully that Europe was a danger to America. Do yourself a favor, do a Google search and open up the year mind to the truth, the plain truth?

So friends, any news that does not include God in it is really folly.  News that only tells you what happened yesterday, and doesn’t tell you why it happened or what will happen tomorrow, doesn’t do you any good.  It’s a total waste of your time.  It’s much like a farmer that depends on the weather forecasts from the day before and what it is doing in the present, but not understanding what the weather will be like tomorrow!  That kind of weather forecasting does you no good, and neither does news without the knowledge of God in it. 

The power of national prayer
 

It may not be fashionable to pray to God for miracles like in times past like when King David prayed to God for deliverance from his enemies. I realize that if a president or a serious world leader would proclaim that we need to place our hopes in God and not ourselves that the media and scholars would call for the person to be committed. Could you imagine if after 9-11, President Bush said that the most important thing we could do to stop terrorism  was the nation to come together and pray? The man would have been driven out of office by what has become the godless mainstream media. How we have sunk in the past 70 years from the nation whose leaders were never ashamed to pray to God FIRST over anything else. Please, view and listen to this speech from FDR right after D-Day and ask yourself honestly, could any president make this speech today? The answer is obvious to most, and the reason why God no longer is listening to America and protecting us from our enemies. The second our national leaders return to God in humble prayer, will be the instant that God returns and defends our land. So I ask this: Do you believe in God?  You should know, God does believe in you!

 

Text of FDR Speech:

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Water, the miraculous proof of God's existence

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By Bob Barney: Do you believe in a creator God? Did the universe arise from  chaos? Are there clues that prove that a DIVINE FORCE was behind the creation of the universe and what are they? Most atheists' arguments, arises from a deep Ignorance of Natural Law! Here is a small lesson on the Divine design behind water! Most of our  planet  is  covered with water. Oceans and seas make up three fourths of the earth's surface while the land itself contains countless numbers of rivers and lakes. The snow and ice on the planet  is water in its frozen form. A substantial part of the earth's water is in the sky, just as the Bible claims in Genesis chapter 1.

 

 

You see, every cloud contains millions–of tons of water in the form of vapor.  From time to time, some of this water vapor turns into drops of liquid and falls to the ground: in other words, it rains. Even the air you're breathing now contains water vapor. Life could not exist with water - everyone admits that, but are you aware that water itself has miraculous properties that without those properties, life could not exist on earth? The most comprehensive analysis of the suitability of water for life was to come from Lawrence Henderson, a professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry of Harvard University. In his book, "The Fitness of the Environment", which some were later to call "the most important scientific work of the first quarter of the 20th century", Henderson makes these observations about water:1) Except for water, every other known solids decrease in size as they grow colder. This is true of all known liquids as well: as their temperatures decrease, they lose volume. As volume decreases, density increases and thus the colder parts of the liquid become heavier.

 

 

This is why the solid forms of substances weigh more (by volume) than they when they are in liquid form. There is one case where this "law" is violated: water. Like other liquids, water contracts in volume as it grows colder, but it only does this down to a certain temperature (4°C) thereafter–unlike all other known liquids–it suddenly begins to expand and when it finally solidifies (freezes) it expands even more. As a result, "solid water" is lighter than "liquid water". According to the normal laws of physics, solid water, which is to say ice, ought to be heavier than liquid water and should sink to the bottom when it forms; instead, it floats. 2) When ice melts or water vaporizes, it absorbs heat from its surroundings. When these transitions are reversed (that is, when water freezes or vapor precipitates) heat is released. In physics the term "latent heat" is used to describe this.  All liquids have a latent heat of some sort or other but that of water is among the highest known. At "normal" temperatures, the only liquid whose latent heat when freezing is superior to that of water is ammonia. In terms of its latent heat properties at vaporization on the other hand, no other liquid can compare with water. 3) The "thermal capacity" of water, that is, the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of water by one degree, is higher than the great majority of other liquids. 4) The thermal conductivity of water, its ability to convey heat, is at least four times higher than any other liquid. 5) The thermal conductivity of ice and snow, on the other hand, is low. What does this mean?   Simply, the significance of each of them is enormous because life in general and our own life in particular is possible in this world just because these five properties are what they are.   Let's now take a look at them one by one. Other liquids freeze from the bottom up; water freezes from the top down. This is the first unusual property of water mentioned above and it is crucial for the existence of water on the surface of the earth. Were it not for this property, that is, if ice didn't float, much of our planet's water would be locked up in ice and life would be impossible in its seas, lakes, ponds, and rivers.

 

When does the day begin?

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By Bob Barney

 Christ warned us to be aware of false religion, customs and laws. These warnings have basically fell on deaf years but the most important "sign" that we can look for, as to the coming of Jesus again back to this world is the spread of false religion and religious practices that are contrary to God. Over the years, God's Law (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS) has been replaced by man's law. Our theologians call it "saved by grace" when truly nothing of the sort is biblically true.

Christmas, Easter, Sunday worship actually pre-date the earthly ministry of Jesus! Yes you read that correctly, these holidays have nothing to do with Christ and were being followed long before GOD became a man and walked among us. Even in the garden of Eden, the very first religious lie promulgated was the "immortal soul" doctrine. To this day, we believe the devil and that "we shall not die, but be like God" and live forever as some spirit in heaven or hell. That is Satan's lie and almost every false religion has adopted it.

In Jesus' time, the Jewish nation, after years of captivity, began to adopt Babylonian ways. They took on the Babylonian calendar and "lost" God's true perfect one, and at the same time began the truly pagan observance of "evening days."  This simply means that, like the Babylonians, they began to start their day at sunset rather than sunrise. Like everything else, the theologians of the day twisted a few scriptures which may imply evening days and ignored hundreds of scriptures that proved that God's day starts in the morning. Most Sabbath keeping churches to this day follow this pagan start of the day and continue the practice of those lawless religious leaders that killed Christ! The same ones he declared at his arrest were those who worshipped the DARKNESS, when evil reigns! Yes, the nighttime is darkness, and God IS NEVER in darkness. We read in Revelation that when Christ returns to Jerusalem, that where He is will always be in light! There will be no nighttime in the Holy City! Yes, it's in the same Bible that we all read. Revelation 21:23 "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof."

In the very first chapter of the Bible we read "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." 

When did this happen, in the evening time? Is there light at night? Read on..."And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. " So called the light DAY! So when GOD said "Let there be light" it became day! It was dawn!

 

Alexander the Great Reads About Himself in the Book of Daniel

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Are you aware that the rise of Alexander the Great was foretold in the Bible BEFORE Alexander was even born?  This is not widely known, and the Hollywood movie made several years ago did not mention it, but the famous Jewish historian Josephus records that Alexander accompanied the priest of the Living God to the Temple into Jerusalem, where he "offered sacrifice to God, according to the high priest's direction, and magnificently treated both the high priest and the priests."  Josephus lived in the first century AD and his history of the Jewish people are read to this day.

We are often told that the Old Testament prophecies are mainly "fairy tales" that never really were fulfilled. They were actually written after the events happened and then written down after the fact, claiming to be written at an earlier time. This is a total lie propagated by historians in an attempt to make the Bible an error filled uninspired book of men. 

These historians know that Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and the known world of his day.  Josephus says that he was told about Daniel, and the fact that his reign was predicted some 200 years earlier by the great prophet, Daniel!  Alexander was no doubt impressed! So impressed that he did not only visit the Temple in Jerusalem, but made a sacrifice to the God of Israel!

In 332 B.C. Alexander conquered the cities of Tyre, Jerusalem and Gaza in his march toward Egypt, and demanded that men and supplies be provided to his troops by the Jews, who were under the rule of Alexander's mortal enemy, King Darius of Persia (modern Iran).  The high priest wavered, saying that while Darius lived, they would respect their promise to Darius and not support Alexander.  This infuraited Alexander who immediately traveled to Jerusalem to force his will upon the Jews. Josephus writes about Alexander's meeting with the Jewish high priest, Jaddua. Understanding the misfortune his people were in, Jaddua appealed to the people to pray to God for His mercy and protection. Then, says Josephus, Jaddua had a dream as to how to plead with Alexander. He and the other priests wore their priestly robes and, accompanied by others dressed in white garments, formed a procession that went out of the city to a chosen place to meet the king. Alexander then did the unexpected. Alone, he approached the high priest and members of the procession and greeted them!

When asked by one of his generals why he welcomed this group, Alexander replied: "I did not adore him, but that God who hath honored him with his high priesthood; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very habit [garment], when I was at Dios in Macedonia, who, when I was considering with myself how I might obtain the dominion of Asia, exhorted me to make no delay, but boldly to pass over the sea thither, for that he would conduct my army, and would give me the dominion over the Persians; whence it is, that having seen no other in that habit, and now seeing this person in it, and remembering that vision, and the exhortation which I had in my dream, I believe that I bring this army under the divine conduct, and shall therewith conquer Darius, and destroy the power of the Persians, and that all things will succeed according to what is in my own mind" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11, chap. 8, sec. 5, William Whiston translation, 1981).

It appears the God Almighty Himself, answered the people's prayers and told Alexander to show His people mercy. He obeyed, and was honored by God, by being shown that God ordained his rule over the world long before Alexander was ever born!  What a treasure bestowed to this man. It appears, he understood how great this treasure was!

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  It is very unfortunate that so many people have had their minds obfuscated with false religious dogma concerning sex and what God really wants us to know about the subject. You will see that God is no prude when it comes to sex and actually has given us a guideline on how to enjoy it without any guilt!    In Genesis, God creates man and woman after the GOD kind. Notice that all other created beings are created after their own kind, but man was created after God’s own kind. Note also that God says “Let US make man in OUR image”. At least two beings are talking together, and they claim to be God  (see the meaning of the word God here  ). What is the very first thing that God realized about man? “It is not good for the man to be alone.”  God does not want us to be alone. He wants us in a union with another human, just as God is one, he wants us to be one, with the helpmate that God gives us. Next notice the first command God gave to Adam and Eve. Gen 1:28   God blessed them and told them, "Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters over the fish and birds and all the animals."  Then we read a little later this: Gen. 4:1   “Now Adam slept with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant.” (NLT translation).    So sex was made for us to enjoy and to recreate after our own kind! We are meant to become part of the God Family. However, this command to have sex does not give us the license to have it with just anyone. Here are just SOME of the Biblical restrictions:

America, Civil war and Armageddon

In recent Top News stories, I have been posting articles concerning the possibility of a civil war coming to America. We have had actually two civil wars in our past. We had one with England, which resulted in the formation of the United States, and of course; we had the war between the states, which pitted the northern states against the southern states. However, the history of civil wars for our people is an ancient one. Most simply do not know who we are in history. Ironically the Chinese knows their history, so do the Arab nations and the Jews, but for America, we simply do not know anything about the identity of our nation in history. This may sound unbelievable but our citizens, educators, newspaper editors, newscasters, and leaders do not understand the real meaning of the world news they report, analyze and discuss. Heads of government are utterly unaware of the true importance of the world-shaking events with which they deal and will be dealing with soon. They have no conception of where these events are leading because they do not truly believe that the Bible's prophecies are real! If we claim to believe in God, and if we believe that God is the author of the Holy Bible, then we must accept His word and His predictions! One-third of the Bible is prophecy that HAS NOT YET occurred! If we claim to believe what God says, then we must believe God's prophecies! Winston Churchill declared before the United States Congress: “He must indeed have a blind soul which cannot see that some great purpose and design is being worked out here below of which we have the honor to be the faithful servants.” Are you going to be blind to this great purpose being worked out? 

  We were put on this Earth for a purpose! Yes, God Almighty has a purpose for you and every other member of creation. However, the human race has rejected the revelation and the guidance and has preferred to ignore what our God has told us. Believe it or not, the Bible is as current and relevant today as the day when it was first written. The fact is that it is even more relevant today because much of what was predicted by the prophets was meant for today and beyond and not for the time these men were living! The hard-to-pronounce nations mentioned in the pages of prophecy written so ,long ago still exist, and you can prove it to yourself! God has given us tools to understand His predictions for our world and has had uncanny accuracy that nobody could ever duplicate without divine influence.

God has rightly predicted:  -the fall of Babylon 

-The fall of Assyria 

-The fall of Alexander 

-The fall of Rome 7 times (it has now fallen five or six times depending on what expert you believe!) 

-The Pope 

-Radiation poisoning 

-Chernobyl by name!!! 

-Global man-made pollution  -The Muslim religion and their fight with Europe known as Crusades and the final yet to come conflict between these two powerful regions 

-The rise of England and the USA to be two most powerful nations ever to exist on this planet! 

-That England would have a monarchy, and that monarchy would claim to be David's descendants, and that they would sit on his literal throne over the same rock that David himself was crowned over. 

-The #13 would be important to the United States of America and that our form of government would be by election and not by a divine monarchy from the line of David. 

-The increase in knowledge all within the span of one generation. Has there ever been an increase of knowledge since the foundation of the world to equal 1930-2050 (taking the Biblical 120 years as the generation of a man) 

-Worldwide famine and diseases unlike ever to have occurred in the history of the world 

- A great false Christianity that would rule the world when at the time predicted, the name of Christ was known but by few people on earth and that knowledge could actually get you killed! 

- That Jerusalem would always be the center of world conflict... Name any other city in the world that always been in the center of world conflict? Name any city? This prophecy concerning Jerusalem was made over 2500 years ago!  -That mankind would never live longer than 120 years old. Has modern science been able to change this fact told to us by God 4,000 years ago? 

-African slavery, and also a blessing to black people! 

-Communism as a "new" form of government that would fool and sweep throughout the world, except Muslim nations. 

These are the predictions that God has made and most have already come true and the fact of their accuracy cannot be honestly intelligently disputed. So what about the future? What does the Bible and God have to say about what is still yet to happen? To understand, we must be able to identity the nations of the Bible and who those people are today and where they live. You will see that the major nations of today are indeed the same nations called by different names in the pages of God's word.  

AMERICA in BIBLE PROPHECY:

It is well known that the number “13”is the symbol of the United States of America. We began as 13 colonies. The original US flag had 13 stars, representing the initial 13 states. It contained 13 stripes, 7 red and 6 white. The American seal bears witness to the number 13 in its composition.      Over the bust of the eagle on the United States seal is a shield; the shield of FAITH. It has thirteen stripes or bars, red and white, signifying the number 13; In the eagle's beak, there is a scroll, representing the proclamation of liberty and freedom, and justice for all: the Constitution of the United States, based on the laws of God and the Torah which God gave to ancient Israel.    The motto "E Pluribus Unum" means "One from Many," or "Out of many, One." It represents UNITY; the FIFTY united States of America! This One nation combines the peoples and ethnic groups of many different nations and peoples from around the world: out of many, ONE. And if we remained faithful to the laws of God, this national UNITY would be preserved forever. However, if we BREAK God's laws, then the very unity we possess will become disunity and division - the "unity" will become a memory, a distant dream, forgotten in onrushing calamity and cataclysm.  

Here comes the shock. All Jews are Israelite, but not Israelites are Jews!   Moses was not a Jew.  Joseph, Samson and Joshua were not Jews.    A Jew came from the tribe of Judah (this would later include Benjamin and Levi to make up the modern Jewish race). Israelites were originally ten distinct tribes or nations, ten of which became missing! The Bible actually tells us where all ten of these tribes are today.

Abraham was given two blessings from God. Blessing No.1 was that his seed (RACE) would be the greatest nations to ever exist. Blessing No. 2 was the promise that through him would come the Messiah. IN RED is the promise of RACE (greatest nation) and in PURPLE is the promise of the Messiah. "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Genesis 12:1-3). Promise No. 1: Great nations and wealth.   Promise No. 2: the Messiah.   We read in Genesis how both blessings were given to Isaac and later, Jacob (even though through deception).

Jacob, however, split this blessing. Notice carefully. To Judah was given the blessing of Grace, or the Messiah: "The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people" (Genesis 49:10). Scepter denotes kingship. Remember, the Messiah is the King of Kings. To his son, Joseph, Jacob gave the promise of Race, or the promise of being the greatest nation in the world! "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren" (Genesis 49:26)

Earlier, we saw that the northern tribes called "Israel" was taken away and became "lost" to history. Their identity was lost and believe it or not, the Bible tells us why and this will surely shock you when you find out. Ultimately, the southern House of Judah was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, more than a century after its cousins from the northern ten-tribe nation of Israel had gone into captivity. Now, the "Jews" of Judah were to endure seventy years of captivity, but unlike the ten-tribe nation of Israel, the Jews were able to maintain their identity and return as prophesied to  to the land of Palestine. They did so, following the decree of Cyrus, under Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel.

 

The Bible tells us why Israel lost their identity and the Jews did not! The plain simple fact is that God said that if His people were to keep the Sabbath holy, they would remain known to God and the world as His people. It was the "sign" commandment mandated on all the people, kept by the Jews, but rejected by Israel. Exodus 31:13- "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you."  This verse also shows once again that the Sabbath points to "who the LORD is", that "He is the one who sanctifies" (separates or makes holy) His people who obey His commandments. It also tells us that the Seventh-day Sabbath IS A SIGN of who His true followers really are! Israel was told to keep the Sabbath because it was a "sign" to them from God so that they might "know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you." Anybody who keeps the Sabbath and walks uprightly before God is sanctified by the LORD.

In Isaiah 56:2 -"Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil. 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him."

Nothing can be clearer that Israel became lost because they did not keep their Sabbath day, but changed it to the Assyrian holy day of the week, which was Sunday.

The Jews have never been more than one nation. They are not, and never have been, many nations, as God declares that Israel would be. “By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD (who is Jesus), for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies [or, as correctly translated in the Revised Standard Version, “And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.” The Fenton translation renders it: “And your race shall possess the gates of its enemies”—so far the material, national promises of race]; And in thy seed [Christ] shall all the nations of the earth be blessed [this promise is spiritual, of grace]; because thou hast obeyed my voice” (Genesis 22:16-18).

This promise by God was and is unconditional! God has sworn so! God does not promise these things that He does not fulfill! His promises then to Abraham could not be broken or annulled. If they could be, then no promise in the Bible is sure!

Notice an additional detail of the promise—the nations who are Abraham’s racial descendants are to possess the gates of their enemies. A gate is a narrow passage of entrance or exit. When speaking nationally, a “gate” would be such a pass as the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar. The Golden GATE Bridge is the gateway to the Pacific Ocean. It is simple to understand.

Abraham’s descendants would possess vital geographic passageways of their enemies—“those which hate them.” This has never been fulfilled in the Jews, nor could it be fulfilled after Jesus Christ returns to rule the nations and establish world peace. This promise could only be fulfilled in the present world or else we must deny the Bible as God’s revealed Word. We must look for a people forming more than one nation—yet all one people, children of Abraham—either now or in history who possess the sea gateways of the world, or we must deny the Word of God. It is a test of the inspiration of the Bible and of God’s power to rule this world!

THE “American” Civil War in Ancient Israel

I am sure practically nobody knows that in ancient Israel, twelve tribes (which became 13) were twelve nations, and only under the reigns of King Saul, King David and King Solomon were all thirteen united! After the death of Solomon, a GREAT CIVIL WAR occurred in Israel, and the NORTH (The northern ten tribes names Israel) went to war against the SOUTH (the Kingdom of Judah, or the Jews) and became two new nations! The northern tribes never reunited with the Jews. They were taken into captivity by Assyria (modern-day day Germans) and led away into captivity. The Assyrians were themselves forced to flee from the Middle East by the Persians and traveled through the Caucus Mountains (hence the name Caucasian comes from) and ended up in Europe. Today's European nations are either the descendants of Assyria or Israel!

Now here is an interesting point... The northern nation of Israel became very similar to modern America because its leaders were no longer the offspring of David, but were "elected" by the elite. They are called "kings" but they are more like "presidents for life." Our Civil War between the North and the South was a symbolic repeat of the one after Solomon! In the later case, we stayed united, whereas in Ancient Israel, we did not. In the Book of Ezekiel, one little known prophecy informs us that the nation of Israel will reunite with Judah (the Jews) AFTER the return of Christ!

Why We Lost our identify:

The following explanation by Herbert W. Armstrong in his classic work “The United States and Britain in Prophecy” sums up the reason for this best:

“It is not generally known or recognized that the Eternal made with His people, while still at Mt. Sinai, a separate, special, eternally binding covenant, providing for a sign of identity.

At this juncture, it must be pointed out that these people Israel were the only people on Earth with whom God then dealt personally as His people.

Remember, Adam and Eve had rejected the symbolic tree that represented God’s Holy Spirit, and a Father-and-son relationship with Him. Their descendants, cut off from God, strayed so far from His ways that by the time of Noah the Earth was filled with corruption and violence.

After the Flood, within two generations the world as a whole was following the apostate ways of Nimrod (Genesis 10:8-12; 11:1-9), and his mother-wife founded the apostate pagan religion that has engulfed and deceived the world ever since. This apostate religious system, started by Semiramis, flowed into all nations. In its perversions of truth, it evolved into different varieties and appeared under different national names in different nations. But it was the same basic system of apostasy. It cut the world off from God! And it grips a deceived world today—in its various forms, called by the names of various religions.

God selected these children of Israel because of the obedience of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. While they were in servitude and slavery He called them as His people, to whom His truth—His true religion and way of life and intended destiny for mankind—should be revealed.

God’s truth and God’s way revealed to these Israelites is simply God’s truth and His way for all peoples in all times and ages! Israel, had they followed God’s ways, was intended to be a living example to all nations.

Jesus came, not to do away with God’s truth or God’s way, not to bring a new religion, but to reveal additional truth about the coming Kingdom of God and how we may be born into it.

True, Old Testament Israel was given certain sacrificial rites and rituals which served merely as a reminder of sin (Hebrews 10:1-4; 9:10), only as a temporary substitute for Christ—until He should come. When the reality came, the substitute was dropped. But God’s truth and way remain eternally! Therefore God was revealing to Israel what His way is for all people of all time—including today!

This special identifying covenant, then, ordained forever, applies to all Christians today—to all who are reconciled to God as His people!

This special eternally binding covenant is found in Exodus 31:12-17. It has to do with one of those two test commandments, which, we saw in the last chapter, Israel was driven out and deprived of the birthright for violating.

The Identifying Sign

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep …” (Exodus 31:12-13).

Notice which day is “the Lord’s day.” The Eternal calls the Sabbaths “my sabbaths.” The Sabbaths are His—they did not belong to Israel—they are not our days, but the Lord’s. They are not “the Jewish Sabbaths” or “the Gentile Sabbaths.” The Sabbath is a space of time. That time, whenever it arrives, is not ours, but God’s.

And it applies the same to us today as to our forefathers then. If we appropriate it for ourselves—for our own use, whether work, pleasure, or whatever—we are stealing that time from God!

Notice again! He said: “My sabbaths ye shall keep.” In Exodus 20:8 He commanded us to “keep it [the Sabbath] holy”—God made it holy time and commanded us to keep it holy—not to profane what is holy to God.

Now study this special covenant a little further: “… for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD (who is Jesus) that doth sanctify you” (Exodus 31:13). What tremendous meaning is packed in that portion of this sentence! Yet most people read right past it, failing to get the vital truth it contains!

Notice! Here is the purpose of the Sabbath: “… for it is a sign ….” What is a sign?

You walk down a main street in the business section of a city. Everywhere you see signs identifying stores, offices, factories. If you want to know what a sign is, just turn to the word in the Yellow Pages (the classified business listings of your telephone directory). You will find such names as “Jones Neon Sign Company” or “Smith Brothers Signs.” If you call one of them on the telephone and ask, “What do you make or sell?” he will tell you that they make signs for business firms, institutions, or professional individuals to hang in front of their places of business. The sign identifies whose establishment, institution or office is inside.

A sign is a badge, symbol, or token of identity. You see the sign, “A. B. Brown, Furniture and Furnishings.” The sign identifies the owner. It tells you what kind of business he owns. Webster’s dictionary defines a sign thus: “A publicly displayed notice on a building, office, etc. to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm conducting it. Something indicating the existence of a thing; a token.” And, of course, there are the special technical meanings in mathematics, medicine, astronomy.

The word which Moses wrote in the Hebrew language which is translated “sign” is ‘ôwth, and the Hebrew-English dictionary defines it as “signal, as a flag, beacon, monument, evidence, etc.—mark, miracle, sign, token.” A flag identifies a nation. A beacon is a signal to announce the existence of something warned about. A token is a visible sign; something that serves as an identifying signal to make something known, as a white flag is a token of surrender.

God commanded His people to keep His Sabbath as a sign. It is a sign between God’s people and God: “… a sign between me and you,” the commandment says. It is a badge or token of identity. It advertises, or announces, or proclaims certain identifying knowledge. But what knowledge? God answers: “… that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.”

Who Is God?

Note those words carefully! It is the sign that identifies to them who is their God! It is the sign by which we may know that He is the Lord! It identifies God!

But doesn’t everybody know who God is? Absolutely not! This whole world is deceived—so says your Bible.

This world has a god—a false god—Satan the devil! He pretends to be “an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). He has his religious organizations—his churches. Not all are Buddhist, Shintoist, Taoist, Confucianist. Many have appropriated the very name “Christian,” but their ministers, says your Bible, actually are Satan’s ministers: “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness …” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

But do they actually call themselves the ministers of Christ? Read the verse just before the two just quoted—verse 13: “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.” Yes, Satan is the great counterfeiter. He palms himself off as God. He is called, in your Bible, the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). He palms off his ministers as the ministers of Christ—and they accuse the true ministers of Christ of being “false apostles” to divert suspicion from themselves!

Does this world’s “Christianity” really know the true God? It is deceived into believing it does, and a deceived world may be sincere in that false belief. One’s god is the one, or the thing, whom he serves and obeys. But the true God is the one whom we should obey.

This world is not taught to obey God! Its false “Christianity” teaches that God’s law is “done away.” It actually puts human conscience, actuated by Satan’s false teaching, in place of God’s law! It does not teach, as did Christ, that we must actually live by every word of God—all of the Bible! It obeys Satan by sinning! Satan, therefore, is this world’s god!

The Purpose of the Sabbath

God gave man His Sabbath for the purpose of keeping mankind in the true knowledge and true worship of the true God. But how does the Sabbath identify God—how does it point to the true God, rather than the false? Does not Sunday do just as well? Positively not!

Notice verse 17 of this special Sabbath covenant: “It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed” (Exodus 31:17).

It was on the seventh day of that creation week that He rested from the work of creation. Not Sunday, the first day of the week. Only the seventh day of the week points back to creation.

How does that identify who God is?

If you believe anyone else or anything else is God, I will prove that my God is the true God, because whatever else you may think is God was made or created by the true God. He who created and made everything else is greater than whatever He made—superior to anything else that could be called god.

Creation is the proof of God—of His existence. It—the act of creating—identifies Him!

So God took the most enduring, lasting, imperishable thing man can know—a recurring space of time—the only day that is a memorial of the act of creating. He took the only day which points, constantly, every seventh day of the week, to God’s resting on the seventh day of creation week from creating; which points to the existence of the almighty, all-powerful, all-ruling God—the Creator!

And God set that particular day apart from others as His day—God made that particular day sacred and holy to Him—designating it as the very day on which He commands His people to assemble for worship—the day man is commanded to rest from his own work and physical pleasure—and to be refreshed by assembling with other obedient worshippers in spiritual fellowship!

No other day is a memorial and reminder of creation. True, Satan has deceived a deluded world into supposing Christ’s resurrection occurred on Sunday morning at sunrise—the very time which has always been the time of pagan sun worship. But this supposition is not true!

The resurrection of Christ actually occurred on the Sabbath, not on Sunday! And, further, nowhere in the Bible does God tell us to celebrate the day of Christ’s resurrection! That is a pagan custom of men, on apostate man’s authority alone—contrary to the commands of God!

Identifies People of God

So here we find a great purpose in the Sabbath. It identifies God! The very day which God set aside for assembly and worship points as a memorial to whom we are to worship—the Creator-Ruler of all that is!

But that is not all! The Sabbath also was given as a sign which identifies who are the people of God and who are not! Notice! Not only does this special covenant say, “… that ye may know that I am the Lord …” but read the remainder of that sentence: “… that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you” (Exodus 31:13).

Notice the tremendous meaning of that!

What does the word “sanctify” mean? It means “to set apart for holy use or purpose.” On the seventh day of the very creation week, the Eternal sanctified—that is, He set apart for holy use—the Sabbath day. But now we see that God says it is a sign that He, the Eternal, also sanctifies—sets apart from other people as His, for His holy purpose—those who are His people.

In Old Testament times His people were the people of Israel. In New Testament times, His people are those of God’s own Church—the truly converted, Spirit-begotten Christians!

But how does the Sabbath set them apart—separate them—from those who are not God’s own true people?

Well, if you have begun to keep God’s Sabbath holy, as He commands, you have found the answer already, by actual experience. If you haven’t, just start keeping God’s Sabbath holy as He commands you—and you’ll soon learn that you are automatically set apart from all other people! The world, people you know—some of your family and relatives, business associates, or contacts—they will set you apart!

The Sabbath is God’s sign, which identifies not only God as Creator-Ruler, but it also identifies those who are truly His people!

The Real Test Commandment

How significant! The Sabbath command is the only one of the 10 which is a sign identifying who are the real and true Christians today! It is the real test command!

A man may be honest and upright in his dealings with others—he may have a reputation of not lying or stealing. But that does not identify him—set him apart—especially as a Christian!

Many non-Christians honor their parents—at least so far as other people know. Many are regarded by others as truthful, true to husband or wife; many do not swear or use profanity; and most are not murderers—in the eyes of others.

But their supposed conformity to these commandments does not stamp them as different—as being God’s people! Actually, few keep even these commandments in the spirit, but that is not obvious to the world. But it is very obvious to the world when one keeps God’s Sabbath!

That’s why few do! People don’t want to be identified as being apart from the world—as belonging to God, apart from the world! People want to be identified, in the eyes of others, as belonging to the world—but feel ashamed to be identified, in the eyes of friends, business contacts, relatives, as belonging to God.

The people of the world are willing to acknowledge the other nine commandments—but the Sabbath command is the one they positively rebel against! It is the one that is the crucial test of obedience! It identifies those who have surrendered their wills to God—who obey God, regardless of persecution or cost!

Oh, it sets you apart, all right! What a sign!

It identifies the true God on the very day He set apart for assembly and worship. It identifies the real people of God! It identifies those who keep the Sabbath as being God’s people—to the world, that is! Actually, few Jews really keep the Sabbath holy! It may not identify them to God as His people, spiritually! But they do at least acknowledge that particular day! And even though in God’s sight they profane it, it identifies them to the world!

God’s sign is one you accept voluntarily—of your own volition, or not at all. But the “beast” (symbol of the coming resurrected, so-called Holy Roman Empire in Europe) has a mark, which is soon going to be branded on, by physical force! And it has something to do with “buying or selling”—trading, business, earning a living, having a job (Revelation 13:16-17; Revelation 13 and 17). Yes, this is the test command—the one on which your very salvation and eternity depend!

I have said that God made the Sabbath a separate, eternal, and perpetual covenant entirely separate and apart from what we term “the Old Covenant” made at Mt. Sinai. How, then, is it a covenant?

But Is It a Covenant?

Let’s define the word “covenant.” Webster defines a covenant as: “An agreement between persons or parties. A solemn compact.” A covenant is a contract, or agreement, by which one party promises certain rewards or payments in return for certain stipulated performance by the other party.

The Old Covenant between God and the children of

Israel made at Mt. Sinai imposed upon the people certain

terms and conditions to be performed: obedience to the Ten Commandments. It promised the reward of making Israel a nation “above all people.” The promises were purely national and material, for this world. The New Covenant is founded on better promises (Hebrews 8:6), which consist of an “eternal inheritance” (Hebrews 9:15).

Once a covenant is signed, sealed, or ratified—confirmed—it cannot be added to (Galatians 3:15). Anything appearing beneath the signature is not legally any part of

the covenant. You read of the actual making of the Old Covenant and sealing it with blood in Exodus 24:6-8. And notice (verse 8), it concludes with the words “the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you.” It was then already made—completed.

We do not come to the making of this special eternal Sabbath covenant until seven chapters later. It is, therefore, no part of the Old Covenant!

But, again, is it a covenant?

The wording in your Bible says it is! Notice Exodus 31:16: “Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.”

“Perpetual” means continuous and unbroken. But was it to last forever? Read the following verse: “It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever ….”

Now what is the condition to be performed? The keeping holy of the Sabbath! “It is holy unto you,” says God (verse 14). And what is the reward promised upon performance of the condition? It is not only a sign, but also a compact or covenant “between me and you,” says God, “that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you” (verse 13).

There it is! God promises to sanctify them—He will set them apart as holy—as His holy people! Can you ask for a bigger promise?

Yes, it is a covenant! It is a separate, totally different covenant. Even if one tries to argue that the Old Covenant is “abolished” and that therefore the Ten Commandments are abolished, he cannot argue that this covenant was to last only until the cross. The covenant is binding “throughout your generations” (verse 13); “a perpetual covenant” (verse 16) and “for ever” (verse 17).

Sign for Israel Only?

“Yes,” says the rebellious one who would argue his way out of obedience, “but it is between God and the children of Israel. It is throughout Israel’s generations; it is between God and the Israelites forever.”

Oh—then you admit it is binding forever on Israelites—and throughout their generations? There are two answers to that argument that will condemn you, if you so argue, to the lake of fire!

1) No one can deny that this absolutely binds the people of Israel to keep the Sabbath forever, and throughout their generations perpetually. Their generations are still going on. Therefore it is binding on them today.

Also you have to admit that salvation and Christianity are open to Jews and all Israelites. The gospel “is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16).

So then the Jew can be a converted Christian! Indeed, the Church at the beginning was nearly altogether Jewish! So the Jew, even though a Christian in God’s Church, is bound to keep God’s Sabbath as a perpetual covenant, throughout his generations, forever!

Now, does God have two kinds of Christians? Is it sin for a Jewish Christian to break the Sabbath, and sin for all others to keep it? Must Jewish Christians assemble on the Sabbath, and those of other nationalities on Sunday? Didn’t Jesus say a house divided against itself would fall?

Are there two kinds of Christians? Read Galatians 3:28-29: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye [Gentiles] be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

So, since the Sabbath is binding today on the Jewish part of God’s Church, and there is no difference—we are all one in Christ—it is also binding on Gentiles!

We Are Israel

2) But there is another answer to this argument: The peoples of the United States, the British Commonwealth nations, and the nations of northwestern Europe are, in fact, the peoples of the ten tribes of the house of Israel. The Jewish people are the house of Judah.

But if the Sabbath is God’s sign to identify His people Israel, then why don’t our nations keep it today?

The answer to that question is the answer to another: Why are the 10 tribes of the house of Israel called “the lost 10 tribes”? And why do our nations think they are Gentiles? Why don’t they know their true identity?

Ah, now we have a staggering, startling, surprising truth to reveal! Here’s a dumbfounding truth, far stranger than fiction!

Here are facts, hidden for centuries, more intriguing than a mystery novel! Why is the Sabbath called, disrespectfully, sneeringly, “the Jewish Sabbath”? Why does the world think all Israelites are Jews, and that the Jews are all of the Israelites?

Here’s an astonishing surprise to those who have believed that! The Jews are only a small minority of the Israelites.

Israel Lost Sign

Nowhere in all the Bible are any of the 10-tribed nation of Israel called Jews. That name—Jews—applies only to the kingdom of Judah. Jews are Israelites, truly—but only part of the Israelites are Jews!

Almost immediately on being made a king, Jeroboam became afraid that, when his people journeyed to Jerusalem to attend the annual festivals, they would see and desire Rehoboam again for their king. He took swift action to protect his own position.

The tribe of Levi composed the priesthood. They were the leaders—the best educated. The Levites, living off the tithes, had enjoyed incomes two or three times larger than the other tribes. With one swift stroke, Jeroboam demoted the Levites, set the lowest and most ignorant of people to be the priests. He could control them! Thus he would control the religion, like Gentile kings had always done. Thereupon many, if not most, of the Levites went back into the kingdom of Judah—and became known as Jews.

So immediately Jeroboam set up two great idols for his people to worship. He ordered the fall festivals to be observed in the eighth month, at a place of his choosing north of Palestine—instead of in the seventh month, and at Jerusalem as God ordered (1 Kings 12:28-32). Also Jeroboam changed the Sabbath day from the seventh to the eighth—that is, to the day following the seventh day, which, of course, was actually the first day of the week. Thus he set the day for worship to coincide with the pagan day of the sun, now called Sunday!

Through the rule of 19 kings and seven successive dynasties, the 10-tribed house of Israel continued in the basic twin sins of Jeroboam: idolatry and Sabbath-breaking. Several of the kings added other evil and sinful practices.

But in 721-718 b.c., God caused the house of Israel to be invaded and conquered by the kingdom of Assyria. These Israelites were removed from their farms and their cities and taken to Assyria on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea as slaves. But the house of Judah—the Jews, a separate and different nation—were not invaded until 604 b.c.

Two or three generations after the captivity of Israel, however, the Chaldeans rose to world power, forming the first world-ruling empire. Under Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldeans (Babylon) invaded Judah (604-585 b.c.).

The Assyrians—before 604 b.c.—left their land north of Babylon and migrated northwest—through the lands that are now Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, and into the land that is called Germany today. Today the descendants of those Assyrians are known to us as the German people.

The people of 10-tribed Israel also migrated northwest. Though the Assyrians had taken Israel into captivity, the Israelites did not remain as slaves of the Assyrians in Europe. They continued on a little further—into Western Europe, the Scandinavian peninsula, and the British Isles!

Now why did they come to be known as the “lost 10 tribes”? They had lost their national identifying sign!

King Jeroboam had changed their day of worship from the seventh to the first day of the week—the day of the sun—Sunday! All succeeding kings followed this practice, as well as idolatry!

As long as they remained in the land of Israel and called themselves “the kingdom of Israel” their identity was known. But in Assyria they were no longer a nation with their own government and their own king. They were mere slaves. They took up the language of the Assyrians as succeeding generations grew up. They lost the Hebrew language as biblical prophecy said they would. They lost all national identity.

After several generations, the tribe of Joseph, divided into the two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, came to call themselves British. They retained a few Hebrew earmarks. Berith or b’rith in Hebrew means “covenant,” and ish means “man.” Thus, in Hebrew, British means “covenant man,” which, truly, they are.

The tribe of Reuben settled in the country that is France today. They had lost their national identity. But the French have the very characteristics of their ancestor, Reuben.

The ten tribes, known as the house of Israel, lost their identifying tag—God’s Sabbath.

That is why they lost their national identity!

Why Jews Are Recognized

But Judah kept the Sabbath! They did not continue long to keep it holy, or to keep it God’s way—but they did recognize it, as they do today, as the day of rest they acknowledge and observe. Result? All the world looks on them as the chosen people of God! The world thinks they are Israel—not merely Judah!

The Jews’ identity has not been lost! And since their identity as racial descendants from ancient Israel is known—and that of the far more numerous “lost 10 tribes” is not known—the world supposes that the Jews are Israel, instead of Judah. The Jewish people believe it themselves! And so, here again, the whole world is deceived, even as to the true identity of who really are the chosen birthright people of God!

Yes, the Sabbath, God’s day—the true Lord’s day—is, after all, the day for our people doubly: first, because it is for all people of God, even Gentile-born people who are now Christ’s; secondly, because racially, even by fleshly birth, it is God’s day which He gave our own forefathers and commanded to keep holy forever!

Why Israel Made Slaves

Do you know why the kingdom of Israel was invaded by Assyria, conquered, removed from their land as slaves in 721-718 b.c.? Do you know why the Jews (kingdom of Judah) were later taken captive and scattered over the world? Both houses of Israel were sent into national punishment and banishment from Palestine because they broke God’s Sabbath!

Does it make any difference? It certainly made a lot of difference to God! And He says He has not changed—He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! (Hebrews 13:8).

First, see why the Jews were invaded, conquered by Nebuchadnezzar and taken into Babylonian captivity during the years 604-585 b.c.

Seventy years after that captivity, according to Jeremiah’s prophecy (Jeremiah 29:10), many of the Jews returned to Palestine to rebuild the temple and restore the worship there. The Prophet Nehemiah tells why they had been driven into captive slavery 70 years before: “In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. … Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath” (Nehemiah 13:15-18).

There it is in plain language! Sabbath-breaking was a prime cause of Judah’s captivity! It was so important to God that He punished His own chosen people with this most severe national punishment—defeat in war, being taken from their land and made slaves in a foreign land! Sin is defined by God as the transgression of His law (1 John 3:4). His law says: “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. … [T]he seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God ….” To work on the Sabbath, to defile it by your own pleasure seeking, doing business, etc. is a major sin, punishable by eternal death!

Jews Were Warned

The Jews were without excuse. They had been warned by the prophets. Notice the warning through Jeremiah: “Thus saith the [Eternal]; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day … neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. … But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched” (Jeremiah 17:21-22, 27).

That was the warning. The Jews did not heed it. Now see what happened!

“Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard [today we would call him general of the armies, or field marshal], which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, And burned the house of the [Eternal], and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire” (Jeremiah 52:12-13).

When God warns, the punishment is sure!

Why Israel Defeated

Now see what happened to the other nation of Israelites, the kingdom of Israel, 117 years before Judah’s captivity.

God had laid down the choice to these people in the days of Moses, long before they were divided into two nations. This was fully covered in the previous chapter, regarding Leviticus 26. Now see what God said about it through the Prophet Ezekiel.

Ezekiel was given a message from God to the house of Israel (not Judah—the Jews). Ezekiel was among the Jewish captives after their captivity, which occurred more than a hundred years after Israel’s captivity. By that time the Assyrians had long since left their land on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea and migrated northwest, finally settling in the land today called Germany.

The people of the house of Israel also migrated northwest across Europe. But they did not stop in Germany. They continued on farther west and north—into Western Europe—France, Belgium, Holland, the Scandinavian countries, and the British Isles—where they are to this day, except for the tribe of Manasseh, which much later migrated to North America and became the United States.

The Prophet Ezekiel was commissioned to go from where he was, among the Jews, to the house of Israel. “[G]o speak unto the house of Israel,” said God (Ezekiel 3:1), and again: “[G]o, get thee unto the house of Israel” (verse 4).

But Ezekiel never took that message to the lost house of Israel. He couldn’t. He was a slave among the Jews.

Yet he is taking it to them, today, by means of having written it in his book in the Bible—and by the fact that it is being taken to those very people today by the Plain Truth and the World Tomorrow broadcast!

It is a prophecy! It is a message for our peoples today! You are reading it now! God help you to heed!

Prophecy to Us, Today

Speaking first of ancient Israel, God says, in Ezekiel 20: “Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them” (verses 10-12).

Notice, this passage repeats the exact wording of the forever-binding Sabbath covenant of Exodus 31:12-17! Now continue: “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments … and my sabbaths they greatly polluted …” (verse 13).

Then God pleaded with their children, a generation later: “But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the [Eternal] your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the [Eternal] your God” (verses 18-20).

The entire emphasis here is differentiating between God’s statutes, judgments and sabbaths on the one hand, and their fathers’ different sabbaths, statutes and judgments. They were observing a different day from God’s Sabbath! They had already turned to the pagans’ day, today called sunday—the day of the sun and sun worship!

“Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me,” continued God, through the Prophet Ezekiel. “[T]hey polluted my sabbaths …” (verse 21).

So what did God finally do—generations later?

He scattered them, in national captivity and slavery (verse 23). But why?

“Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols” (verse 24). That’s why! Did it make any difference?

But now continue on in this amazing prophecy! Notice the prophecy for us, today!

Speaking of a time, sometime soon, in our time, God says to our peoples: “As I live, saith the Lord [Eternal], surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you” (verse 33).

The expression “fury poured out” refers to the seven last plagues, at the very time of the Second Coming of Christ (compare Revelation 16:1). The time when Christ will rule over us is at and after His Second Coming. So this, then, is a prophecy for our time!

Every prophecy in the Bible showing where our people (Israel) will be, at the Second Coming of Christ and the coming great exodus back to Palestine, pictures them in captivity and slavery once again.

Continue the prophecy: “And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered … with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people [coming exodus—Jeremiah 23:7-8], and there will I plead with you face to face” (verses 34-35).

Notice it! This is the Word speaking—Christ! He will then be on Earth again in person! And then He is going to plead with our people face to face.

It’s time to awake to the imminency and the stark seriousness of this!

Perhaps only one lone voice is warning you! But God used one lone voice to warn the world in Noah’s day; one lone voice in Elijah’s day; one lone voice in the day of John the Baptist; and after John the Baptist was put in prison, one voice in the person of Christ Himself! If you rely on the majority of sinning people, you will suffer their penalties with them!

Notice how He will plead!

“Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord [Eternal]. … And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me … and ye shall know that I am the Lord” (verses 36-38).

How did He plead with them? He pleaded: “Hallow my sabbaths, instead of your fathers’, so that you may know that I am the Lord.” And those of us who do go into Palestine shall know He is the Lord.

How shall we know?

By His Sabbath sign!

Read verses 42-44 in your own Bible! He says our people, when they are no longer rebellious and who will then be keeping His Sabbath, shall remember their ways in which they were defiled and shall loathe themselves for their Sabbath-breaking! This is pretty strong teaching! It is the Word of God speaking to you!”

AMERICA’S COMING DESTRUCTION:

If you believe the Bible, then you must believe the warnings and the predictions that is made concerning Israel. You must also understand that the Jews never fulfilled the requirements promised to Abraham of the nation of Israel, and that it would be the greatest nation on Earth! Only the United States and Great Britain fulfill this. Now the terrible news. The Bible also predicts the defeat of America and our coming captivity just before the coming of the final Antichrist. 

 

In Micah 5:7-15, we read the fate of modern Israel. “And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people [nations] as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.” 

Another prophecy shows that at the very time we were receiving God’s blessings, we are thumbing our noses to God by rejecting His Laws! “For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s (Jacob was renamed Israel and he put his name of our people) trouble …” (Jeremiah 30:5-7).   The apostles had asked Jesus privately when His Second Coming would occur—and the end of this world and the beginning of the happy World Tomorrow. Jesus said the sign by which we might know when this is very near would be that His original gospel of the Kingdom of God would be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations (Matthew 24:14). But what else—just before His coming?

Jesus continued: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved [alive]: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22).

Here is described the greatest time of trouble—tribulation—in all history, or ever to be. Jeremiah described it as “Jacob’s trouble,” so great “that none is like it.”

Now back to Isaiah 47. God says “I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand,  and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke. ⁷ You said, ‘I am forever — the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

⁸ “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself,‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow  or suffer the loss of children.’⁹ Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells. ¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ ¹¹ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

¹² “Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries,     which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed,     perhaps you will cause terror.¹³ All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!  Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.¹⁴ Surely they are like stubble;  the fire will burn them up.”

That yoke of slavery without mercy is to be laid on the U.S. and Britain by the coming united nations of the new Europe! It has started already, through the economic EU that will give rise to a new political union called in the Bible the King of the North. So far they have been unable to bring about full political union. This will be made possible by the “good offices” of the Vatican, who alone can be the symbol of unity to which they can look. Two popes already have offered their “good offices” toward such union.

The prophecy does not literally say so, but in all probability, by present indications, the head of this new world power will be in Central Europe. And it will precipitate World War III. And this time it will be allowed to succeed!

What will be the eventual fall of America and Great Britain? The rejection of God, will lead to our slavery. The loss of freedom will occur, as we are seeing in Washington today. The Tea Party may help our generation live a little longer. This coming election will be vital to our nation, and if civil war is coming, which will break our nation into factions and ultimately destroy us and render us helpless to the world's tirants. We can stop this from happening if we wake up and take back our nation and put it under God, for our time. We cannot stop it forever, as we know the ultimately the Bible will prove to be right, and we will fall as the greatest nation to have ever existed - a gift from our God! An undeserving one at that!  

The middle class of this nation will not allow their freedoms to disappear without a fight. We are becoming mad at our leaders, and those who want to continually rob what we have earned from us and give it to others that refuse to work. We are sick and tired of the laws, and regulations meant to punish us and imprison our freedom. We are sick of the alien living among us that have more rights than we do. We are tired of minorities stealing from us, and a government helping them do so. We are fed up with both parties in Washington, but essentially the Democrats who want to take every foundation of liberty away from us, and give our future over to those who hate us and want us dead. We are furious at a president who is only the president for queers, blacks and liberals. We are even more furious at the Republicans, who do not fight this all the way to victory. We want to rid ourselves of the liars and cheats which for too long have set burdens upon us that we cannot bear. In short- we want to take our country back so that the majority rules again - yet protect the rights of everyone! We want the nation that our founders envisioned and OUR GOD GAVE US!  If we do not accomplish this, then a war is coming. I do not want it, nor should any of us want it, but we are willing to fight it, if it comes. The end of this will either give us more time to continue living in God’s blessing, or bring about the end of this age….

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