We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.

We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity.

We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power, as no other nation has ever grown.

But, we have forgotten God...and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all of these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Abe Lincoln 1863

Writing again posting soon
Mark

Pope and The New World Order

There are several views with which people interpret the book of Revelation.
Sort of like colored glasses through which one sees.
The least popular of these is the Idealism, where the prophecies are seen only in a personal spiritual context. It usually goes something like: Revelation is about the battle within us, overcoming and kicking out the evil in our own life, and setting up Christ on the throne of our heart. Idealist deny that any of Revelation will actually take place in the physical world with a real man known as the AntiChrist or a man who is The False Prophet.

More popular views are the Historist and Futurist eschatology. The historists try to tie prophecy's to actual past/present events and the futurist says, "they are yet to happen. Historists have often tried to paint the Pope as the Antichrist. They point to the ruthless way the Pope tried to exterminate the protestant reformation and the apostasy that lead to the reformation.

To answer the Historists attacks on the Pope, Jesuit Luis de Alcasar expounded upon the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 263 – 339) where he states what happened to Israel at the hand of the Romans was a fulfillment of the teachings of Jesus. By making all prophecy to be fulfilled upon Israel in the past it took the blame off the Pope.

Indeed some of Jesus' prophecies about Israel, such as the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple were no doubt fulfilled in 70 A.D. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command sacked Jerusalem, burned the Temple and overturned every stone to get the gold that had melted and run down in the cracks. However many other prophecies were left unfulfilled. The numbers of the armies, the bowls of wrath, The need to "cut the days short...or no-one would have survived", etc.

That brings us to the Futurist interpretations. The futurist believes that most of the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation are yet to occur at some time in the future. Premellenial dispensationalism is probably the most popular of futurist interpretations today. This is where I would pitch my tent. And that brings me to why I write this piece today.

I have never ever thought that the Pope was or would be The Antichrist. I however have often cast a side glance his way when considering the person of The False Prophet. Here is why.
1) When the Pope sits in his chair and speaks "ex cathedra" he is considered infallible.

means(from the chair), chair also meaning as a leader in a position of authority. The infallible part is that he claims to be speaking the very words of God. That is what a prophet does when he he speaks, "thus saith the Lord...."!
2) Revelation speaks of a Dragon and ,two great beasts one from out of the sea....and another from up out of the earth. The Dragon is Satan. The first beast is The Antichrist the second beast is The False Prophet. Notice that the second beast performs signs and wonders and causes worship. This is what a biblical prophet often did. Think of Elijah as he confronted the 500 prophets of Baal.

REV 13:1 And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast. 4 Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

REV 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. 6 He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
REV 13:11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. 12 He exercised all the authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.


With these things in mind carefully consider the news link

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/24/vatican-calls-for-new-world-economic-order/?test=latestnews

Three Communions

Our Church has a Communion service the first Sunday of every month. This is the revelation recieved from two of those services and one that I read in the paper.

The first one that caught my attention was a little snippet in the Newspaper. President Obama took his family on vacation to Hawaii. The article said, "Obama was the first worshipper to take communion, dipping the wafer in wine before placing it in his mouth". http://blackchristiannews.com/news/2010/12/president-and-first-lady-take-communion-at-church-extend-well-wishes-to-those-who-celebrate-kwanzaa.html

Now all I could think of was Judas at "The Last Supper". Jesus dipping his symbolic "body" into the symbolic "blood", and serving it to his betrayer!

It cannot be missed how anti-Christian The President has been since that trip. He has announce that America is not a Christian nation, tried to force The Catholic Church (as well as others) into offering insurance with birth control included. (That would include abortion)! He has told Muslim audiances that he was "born a Muslim, raised a Muslim, and still is a Muslim"! He has gone on to announce that he will fight for Gay marriage. No doubt he will eventually try to force Christian Churches into performing these rituals.

Imagine what is actually taking place at one of these Homosexual Marriages. Two People are standing before God vowing to never, "till death do they part", repent of the sin that God has called detestable.

Could it be that Obama used that Communion in Hawaii to denounce Christainity and betray Christ as Judas? The purpose being the love of this present World? Remember him, at the Brandenburg Gate saying, " I'm proud to be an American, but more proud to be a citizen of the World"? We are humbly the citizenship of Heaven, not of the World!

This First Communion represents persons and Churches that have betrayed Christ and denounced the truth for the love of a lie and love of this world.

The second Communion happened to me about two months ago. The elements are passed out and we all take them together. So first the bread is ushered around and then the cup. I sit near the front, next to the aisle. When the usher recieved the plate and turned he kind of turned with his back to me. I got skipped for the bread. On the next round I got the cup. I did not think much of it at the time. A month later however, I had my head down when the cup was passed and only got the bread. I instantly knew that an important message had been give to me but, I did not know what.

After the service I sat in the car and just prayed, "what is this about"?

Here it is: The Communion without the bread are those people and Churches that have received Christ and his sacrifice, but not become part of the body. They are holiday or Sunday Christians, but rarely fellowship or get involved with the business of family of God. They are alive inside , but dead outside.

The Communion without the blood are those people or churches that are active works and do gooders, who have not actually recieved the Blood of Christ sacrifice, through faith, against thier sins. They are salvation by works people. and are dead inside.

You all know people and churches that fit into the three communion catagories. God knows them too!

Back at the desk

I've got much more to write. I'll be about it soon.

Prodigal American Son

I saw one of the many "God Bless America" bumper stickers the other day and it got me thinking again about how Americans want God's blessings, but don't want anything to do with God. Isn't that the story of the prodigal son?
"Give me the inheritance, and I'll be on my way"! The father reluctantly agrees and bids him farewell. The son like blessed America parties down on riotous living, until the money bag is empty.
Isn't that about where we are now. Taking jobs for $8-$10 per hour from Walmart and McDonalds, waiting for Uncle Sam to give us some more pig slop? Well, we're not there yet, but we're falling fast. So many would rather sell their soul to the global socialists movement than return to the father and work with full blessing.
When will America seek the Father again? When there is nothing but tattered rags for clothes, barefoot, and eating pig slop!

Chrisalm

There is a new ecumenical blending of religion taking place under the lie that "we all worship the same God, and that there are many paths to that God". It is called Chrislam.
It probable origin is Muslim born Shamsuddin Saka of Nigeria ” it was after returning from a Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca that he was inspired – he says instructed by God – to launch his new ministry: “That was about 19 years ago. I was praying and I [laid] down and the Lord told me, make peace between Christian and Muslim.”

Now let me stop here to say that Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me". John 14:6 That should settle the matter that there is only one path, not many. There is no possible way that Islam is compatible with Christianity. This is nothing more than the continuing emergence of The Great Harlot of Revelation:
REV 17:3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 This title was written on her forehead:

MYSTERY
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

REV 17:6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
Many years ago I was reading a book on cults. I notice that they all had certain similarities. One of which I called the "preparation for the AntiChrist". They were all looking for, or had claimed to have found, a future leader/messiah/savior. They were preparing their converts to accept and worship the coming AntiChrist of the Bible.
How does that relate to Islam/Chrislam? Islam too is waiting a future leader/messiah/savior. Shiite Islam's spiritual leaders are called Imams. They are supposed to be able to trace their bloodlines back to the Prophet Muhammad's cousin Ali. There is a prophecy of a comming "twelfth Imam - Muhammad al-Mahdi". Here is a list of the things the he is supposed to do and be. the relation to the Bible's version of the AntiChrist is obvious:

1.Islam's primary awaited savior
2.Descendant of Muhammad
3.Caliph and Imam of Muslims worldwide (at present there are many)
4.Unparalleled political, military, and religious world leader
5.Revealed after a period of great turmoil and suffering on earth
6.Establishes justice throughout the world
7.Leads a revolution to establish a new world order
8.Will go to war against all nations who oppose him.
9.Makes a seven year peace treaty with a Jew of priestly lineage
10.Conquers Israel for Islam and leads final battle against the Jews
11.Rules for seven years in Jerusalem
12.Causes Islam to be the only religion on earth
13.Discovers biblical manuscripts that convince Jews to convert
14.Brings Ark of the Covenant from the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem
15.Has power from Allah over wind, rain, crops
16.Will possess and distribute great wealth
17.Face will shine like a star and will be loved by all
Randall Price. "The Second Coming of Islam." World of the Bible News and Views 8, no.1 (Summer 2006);3.

Here is an excellent site that describes what Chrislam is and where it probably originated. It is worth the read.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/10/what-is-chrislam-and-does-anybody-really-preach-it.php