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- "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
shall not come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition;" (2
Thessalonians 2:3 KJV)
- "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the
flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,
to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous
wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your
own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw
away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that
by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night
and day with tears." (Acts 20:28-31
KJV)
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like to introduce ourselves. George and Rita Williams, who founded
this ministry, were Mormons (Temple Mormons part of the time)
for 20 years. We prayed to God in 1992 to allow us to do a ministry
speaking out against Scientology. Six months later God led us
to the truth: out of the cult of Mormonism. We did not know at
the time we were in a cult. No-one had witnessed to us in 20
years.
- The Holy Spirit brought us to information about all the cults
and the present development of the New World Order. We began
bringing our research to you. Because all the research was already
done, we decided to build a library within Cephas Ministry.
- We are fundamental Bible students and have left all worldly
organizations.
- The focus of these newsletters is to prove why we had
to leave the world system. We are called 'Watchmen on the
Wall' which God always had during the Old / New Testament Times.
- To understand what is happening, one has to know the Bible
to compare notes.
- The first section is about the church.
The news about churches is unedited unless indicated by Ednotes.
The church as we knew it, is undergoing disintegration. This
began on a fast track in the early nineteen sixties when the
Catholic Church produced liberal Vatican II to replace Vatican
I.
- The trend since then has been ecumenical which is truly what
the word 'Catholicism' means: a universal religion all
inclusive and multicultural. The Bible calls for a final church
which doesn't resemble what Jesus taught. The Word of God has
undergone many changes to fit the present mode. The Bible calls
for a falling away from the truth before Jesus
comes back for His Bride, the true believers called 'Ekklesia.'
Our newsletters prove this fact and prove that the Bible is true
from beginning to end.
- The second section is about globalism
where we bring your attention to the social, political and global
trend to prove that we are moving to closure of the times of
the Gentiles.
- The third section compliments End Time
teachings with what is happening in Israel. We describe and watch
for signs of the coming Tribulation to confirm that we are moving
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Lord and Savior, Jews first and then Gentiles. We expect to be
raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God the Father,
God His Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, who are ONE
GOD in three persons, forever.
We pray the Lord will bless you with a thirst for truth and a
desire to serve Him exclusively, in Christ Jesus, Nicholas A.
Stivers, NicholasScrolls and Rita Williams, Cephas Ministry /
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- THE GREAT FALLING AWAY IS UPON US (2 Thess 2:3)
- Dear Andy, Saw your article about a Baptist Church in Texas
meeting with Bahai. Here is one just as disturbing. Senior Pastor,
Jim Denison, of Park Cities Baptist Church invited Monsignor
Don Zimmerman of Christ the King Catholic Church to be the guest
speaker for the opening session of his men's Bible study for
the fall. While the wolf in sheep's clothing had the attention
of nearly 300 Southern Baptist men, he delivered a message entitled:
Christians, Pagans and Paul. This is just another tragic example
of how the evangelical church has selfishly forgotten the Reformers,
who were brutally tortured and murdered for exposing the fatal
flaws of Rome's gospel.
- When I was made aware that a Catholic priest would be teaching
Baptist men, I could not help but remember Paul's warning to
pastors. He wrote: "Be on guard for yourselves and for all
the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers,
to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own
blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come
in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own
selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away
the disciples after them. Therefore be on the alert, remembering
that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease
to admonish each one with tears" (Acts 20:28-31). As I contemplated
this admonition I knew I had to warn the pastor of Park Cities
Baptist Church. Here is my letter: For the rest of the letter
click on: http://www.cephas-library.com/baptists/baptists_falling_away_is_upon_us.html
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- NOTE THIS LETTER HAS BEEN REMOVED DUE TO THE FOLLOWING REQUEST.
IF READERS ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS PLEASE REQUEST THE LETTER
SUBMITTED. CEPHAS MINISTRY DID NOT WRITE THE LETTER. IT WAS SUBMITTED
BY A MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH.
- From: George.Williams@fluor.com
Date: 02/01/05 14:32:54
To: r421@earthlink.net
Subject: PECAN GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
AFTERNOON,
I BELIEVE THAT A CHURCH IS REALLY CALLED GOD'S CHURCH NOT OURS!
PECAN GROVE IS A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH, BELIEVERS IN GOD'S
WORD, ONLY.
WE ARE IN A TRANSITION PERIOD, LEAD BY GOD FOR HIS NEW PASTOR
OF THE SHEEP. GOD AND HIS FOLLOWERS AT PECAN GROVE WOULD APPRECIATE
YOU REMOVING YOUR LETTER PECAN GROVE AND PURPOSE DRIVENED CHURCH.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST,
GEORGE
REFERENCE IS TO THIS LETTER:
- A LETTER TO PECAN GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
- The Purpose Driven Church Program - September 2, 2003
- Dear Pastor Scott –
- It is with great sorrow and great emotion that I am writing
this letter to you.
- I really enjoyed your message this past Sunday, as I have
the previous Sundays that I have visited Pecan Grove Baptist
Church.
- Some of our friends that have visited with us have decided
to go elsewhere, and my wife Sonja has decided that she does
not want to join PGBC. I was heavily leaning toward joining,
that is, until the past several weeks.
- First, let me say that I have enjoyed the services very much,
especially your teaching / preaching. So, it's "not the
preacher." Rather, it's the "program" about to
be implemented at the church – the Purpose Driven Church
program. The rest and link to the whole letter was removed
on 2.2.2005.
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- THE POPE ACCEPTS RELIC BLOOD OF MOTHER TERESA
- "Pope accepts relic blood of Mother Teresa", by
Sify.com, 10/14/03, http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=13283195
- "Vatican City: Drops of blood from the body of Mother
Teresa, who will be beatified next Sunday, are to be presented
in a reliquary to Pope John Paul II, church sources said today.
The pontiff will receive the relic during the beatification ceremony,
Canadian priest Brian Kolodiejchuk told AFP. The reliquary would
be be placed in the popes private chapel, said Father Kolodiejchuk,
a missionary from a charity working with the postulator, or advocate
presenting the case for beatification. The blood was taken from
the body of Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, by a doctor acting
under the supervision of ecclesiastical authorities when the
body was exhumed for beatification." No blood-washed Church
of the Living God would place so much emphasis upon relics as
we see demonstrated here. [ www.cuttingedge.org Newsletter October
03 ]
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- MOTHER TERESA BEATIFIED, SOLD
- The Tampa Tribune, October 18, 2003 - Nun is recognized in
ceremony today... Mother Teresa postcards are on sale along Rome's
Via della Conciliazione, the stree that leads to Vatican City.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be beatified by Pope John Paul
II today.
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- THE $AINTHOOD OF MOTHER TERESA
- You may also wonder how Teresa was distributing the immense
quantities of money that were donated to her order of nuns..
Susan Shields writes:
- “The order’s bank account was already the size
of a great fortune and increased with every postal service delivery.
Around $50 million had collected in one checking account in the
Bronx. The donations were deposited in the bank but had no effect
on our ascetic lives or on the lives of the poor we were trying
to help. Our constitution forbade us to beg for more than we
needed but the money in the bank was treated as if did not exist.”
- Her Religious integrity;
- Mother Teresa and her co-workers never tried to convert to
Jesus Christ the dying folks for whom they cared, on the contrary
Teresa declared, “If I’m coming face to face with God,
we accept him in our lives, then we become a better Hindu, a
better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are..
What God is in your mind, you must accept.” For the whole
story go to:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/catholic/catholic_the_sainthood_of_mother_teresa.html
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- VATICAN: U.S. CATHOLIC SEX SCANDAL WAS OVERSTATED
- VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - October 10, 2003 The media has exaggerated
a sex scandal that has shaken the U.S. Roman Catholic Church
and unfairly tainted thousands of priests with overzealous coverage,
Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II's top aide said Friday.
- "The scandals in the United States received disproportionate
attention from the media," Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo
Sodano told Reuters in an interview. "There are thieves
in every country, but it's hard to say that everyone is a thief."
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- COLLEGE CLASS DELVES INTO HARRY POTTER
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- Frostburg, Md - The Tampa Tribune - October 2003 - Harry
Potter is in college - as a subject, not a student. The Science
of Harry Potter, a three-credit honors seminar new this fall
at Frostberg State University, offers fantasy novels an opportunity
to study the links between magic and science. Can antigravity
research produce a flying broomstick?
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- WHAT DOES HARRY POTTER HAVE IN COMMON WITH THE TRENCH COAT
MOFIA AT COLUMBINE HIGH?
- "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and
worse, deceiving, and being deceived." (2
Timothy 3:13)
- Mothers came to our ministry for clues as to what happened
at the Columbine Highschool in Littleton Colorado. We were very
involved in the event on April 20, 1999 when two highschool kids
gunned down a whole number of their school mates and teachers.
At the time we did not put together a research because of the
nature of involvement of the young men that seemed to be at work.
It involved homosexuality, the Nazies and Satanism. We know they
were visiting a website, closed down after the incident, run
by a young man who was a racist and used the Swastika to represent
his cause. Hitler wanted a pure German race. He was an occultist
and it is believed that he was homosexual by Americans although
he had a girlfriend and according to Mormons had a wife. Some
in Europe believe that the Gothic movement which is of satanic
origin had an influence. It apparently ties into Hitler also.
The Gothic movement is popular among teens. Some believe that
heavy metal music and games were involved and made Marilyn Manson
responsible. He is a satanist. Following is what we found.
Click on the link for the story:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/saveourchildren/save_our_children_columbine_highschool_1.html
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- HARRY POTTER'S TRENDS TO DESTRUCTION
Washington, October 30 2003 - Aside from Lord Voldemort, the
Forbidden Forest and the Dementors, young fans of the popular
Harry Potter books apparently have one more thing to worry about:
‘‘Hogwarts Headaches.’’
- Howard J. Bennett, a pediatrician in Washington D.C., was
alerted to the peril when three patients, ages 8 to 10, came
to him in June complaining they had been suffering from a headache
for the past two or three days. ‘‘In each case, the
headache was dull and the pain fluctuated throughout the day,’’
Bennett wrote in a letter published in Thursday’s issue
of The New England Journal of Medicine . One of the patients
also complained of neck and wrist pain, but none had a fever
or any other symptoms that would suggest they were suffering
from something serious, he said. ‘‘On further questioning,
it was determined that each child had spent many hours reading
J.K. Rowling’s latest book in the Harry Potter series,’’
Bennett wrote in the letter, which journal editors titled ‘‘Hogwarts
Headaches — Misery for Muggles’’.
- Hogwarts is the name of the school for witches and wizards
that the bespectacled Potter attends in Rowling’s books.
Muggles is the wizard name for regular humans. ‘‘The
presumed diagnosis for each child was a tension headache brought
on by the effort required to plow through an 870-page book. The
obvious cure for this malady — that is, taking a break from
reading — was rejected by two patients, who preferred acetaminophen
instead,’’ Bennett wrote, referring to the pain-killer
sold as Tylenol and other brand names. For one of Bennett’s
patients, Lillie Lainoff, 8, the headaches started the night
that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth installment
in the series, arrived in bookstores. Lainoff and her mother
rushed out to buy a copy as soon as it became available, and
the Potter fan spent the next several hours devouring the wizard’s
latest adventures.
- ‘‘I would read for a time and I would feel a pain
in my head and it would keep going and going and it would keep
getting worse,’’ Lainoff said in a telephone interview.
At first, Lainoff’s mother was uncertain if the headaches
were caused by the heft of the book or the suspense of waiting
to find out which character was going to die. Bennett told Lainoff’s
mother that the headache was in all likelihood brought on by
the size of the book, and suggested Lainoff take 20-minute breaks
to keep headaches at bay, just as exclaiming ‘‘expecto
patronum’’ protects Potter and his friends against
the evil Dementors.
- Reluctantly, Lainoff complied.
In all three cases, the headaches went away one or two days after
the patients had finished plowing through the book, said Bennett.
Bennett, who had not seen similar cases ‘‘with any
of the previous Harry Potter tomes,’’ noted that each
of Rowling’s books has been bigger than the last. ‘‘If
this escalation continues as Rowling concludes the saga, there
may be an epidemic of Hogwarts headaches in the years to come,’’
he wrote. Amy Spengler, a spokeswoman for Rowling’s publisher,
Scholastic Trade Books, said neither the company nor the author
had any comment on Bennett’s letter. http://www.thebereancall.org/weekly-email/2003/44/segment_2.htm
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- THE WHITE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE HENRY HYDE COMMEMORATES POPE
- C-SPAN - 10.20.03 - Henry proudly stated that the Pope received
the Medal of Honor in January of 2001 and was the first Pope
ever to attend a service in a mosque and a synagogue and that
the Pope is a great man of moral authority. Honoring Pope Paul
II's 25th year, a year of Jubilee to the House Representative
of Florida, who is also a Catholic, added that the Pope is totally
submitted to the Virgin Mary. Where does that leave Jesus Christ.
Jesus, who was not mentioned in this address. If it is not the
moral authority of Jesus Christ, whose is it? [CMI]
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- BIBLICAL IMPLICATIONS? SUDDENLY NO MORE TIME?
 Dr. Larry Spargimino was inspired
to do a chart about the population growth and what it implies.
In his book "Suddenly No More Time" out of print but
still available used at SouthWest Radio, www.swrc.com and used
at Amazon, showed an interesting curve. From the birth of Christ
to A.D. 1800, earth's population increased 1/2 billion. From
1800 to 1930, earth's polulation rose 1 billion. From 1987 to
2000, just 13 years, earth's population increased 1 billion a
year, then a billion a month, then a billion a day, then a billion
an hour. The greater the spread of disease, more violence, more
crime, etc. Does the Bible give us the answer?
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- ACCORDING TO BENNY HINN & GWEN SHAW THE REVIVAL HAS BEGUN?
Germany - September 8, 2003 - The "revival" has finally
begun! At least that is what Benny Hinn said today. Benny is
in Germany and had on Gwen Shaw who is very old now but heads
up the cult called End Time Handmaidens. She prophesied to Benny
that the world wide revival has begun with Benny's meetings there
in Berlin and will spread all through Europe. It was good for
the followers consumption and they were all ecstatic and shouting.
So this is it! The real one. Benny had them screaming a "mighty
praise" to God for what He was going to do. They of course
paraded the "healings" like thyroid and repairing vocal
chords. Of course they had to translate it all into German -
the tongues were not working. Regarding my back problems I had
my first injections but no change. I guess I have to get to a
Benny meeting. I have 2 more injection appointments over the
next month. I think I would rather try that. [ PF]
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- PLAINTIFFS ACCEPT 85 MILLION BOSTON CHURCH DEAL
By Denise Lavoie AP - October 20, 2003 - The Boston Archdiocese's
record-breaking $85 million settlement with hundreds of alleged
victims of child-molesting priests has won the 80 percent approval
needed to take effect, a church lawyer said Monday. The archdiocese's
lawyer, Thomas Hannigan Jr., said he received signed agreements
from more than 442 of the 552 plaintiffs. The 80 percent threshold
was reached three days before Thursday's deadline, set in September
when the archdiocese agreed to the settlement.Now, each victim
will tell his or her story to a mediator, who will decide the
amount the person will receive, within the range of $80,000 to
$300,000 set by the agreement. That process is set to begin Tuesday,
said Mitchell Garabedian, who represents 120 plaintiffs. Alexa
MacPherson, 28, said she signed the agreement to get on with
her life. "This will be something that will always be with
me, but I don't want it to run my life any longer," she
said. "I've carried a lot of guilt and pain, and been ashamed
and embarrassed. It's time for that to be put aside." Those
who opt not to sign the agreement are planning to take their
cases to trial, said plaintiffs lawyer Roderick MacLeish Jr.
http://www.rr.com/v5/2/news/frame/0,2331,,00.html?34~ap~1~9000_523744
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- 789 CHILDREN ABUSED BY PRIESTS SINCE 1940 SAYS MASSACHUSETTS
BOSTON, July 23 — By Fox Butterfield - At least 789 children
and probably more than 1,000 have been sexually abused by 250
priests and other church workers in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Boston since 1940, according to a 16-month investigation by
the Massachusetts attorney general that was made public today.
- The attorney general, Thomas F. Reilly, described the clergy
sexual abuse scandal that has rocked Boston since early 2002
as "the greatest tragedy to children in the history of the
commonwealth."
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- VATICAN: U.S. CATHOLIC SEX SCANDAL WAS OVERSTATED
- VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - October 10, 2003 The media has exaggerated
a sex scandal that has shaken the U.S. Roman Catholic Church
and unfairly tainted thousands of priests with overzealous coverage,
Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II's top aide said Friday.
- "The scandals in the United States received disproportionate
attention from the media," Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo
Sodano told Reuters in an interview. "There are thieves
in every country, but it's hard to say that everyone is a thief."
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- GAY CLERGY ISSUE PROVOKES 'NEW DIFFICULTIES' BETWEEN VATICAN
AND ANGLICANS
Rome (ENI). A strengthening of relations but also the recognition
of new problems marked the first official visit of Rowan Williams,
the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Communion,
with Pope John Paul II. In spite of the cordiality of the meeting
between the two spiritual leaders, the Pope suggested
new difficulties in the dialogue between the two churches concerning
the role of homosexual clergy in the churches of the Anglican
Communion, which counts more than 75 million members.[ENI-10-06-2003]
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- NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING; IT MAY BE TOO LATE TOMORROW
- Antipas Papers by: S.R. Shearer - September 26, 2003 - "...
CHOOSE you this day whom ye will serve ..." Josh. 24:15
As I look around today - even among those who are biblically
oriented and seem to genuinely grasp what's happening insofar
as the unfolding events of the "end of the age" are
concerned - I am UTTERLY appalled at how ill-prepared people
are both psychologically and spiritually for what awaits them.
There seems to be no way to get through to people; to convince
them that NOW is the time for action, not tomorrow or the next
day or the day after that.
- Most Christians today seem to be helpless prisoners of the
"here and now," and though from time to time they may
be excited by a particular calamity that augurs for the "end
of the age" such as 9-11 or the American invasion of Iraq,
once the commotion of the event dies down, they tend to gravitate
back to their old habits of doing things and their old ways of
thinking.
- Yes, they understand how hopelessly apostate today's Christianity
is; how inextricably bound the church is to George Bush's American
New World Order System (please see our article, "A Woman
Rides the Beast"); and yes, they're planning on leaving
their churches and starting a house church in their homes - but
not today; maybe tomorrow.
- And yes, they're planning on passing out our literature and
our flyers - that is, when they get a convenient opportunity
to do so. And yes, the Lord has been telling them to begin re-ordering
their lives (and their priorities) in the light of the prophetic
Scriptures and even helping the ministry out financially so that
it can continue on with its work - but that too must wait until
a more opportune time. Not now. Not today.
- There are more pressing "responsibilities" to be
taken care of: there are payments to be made on visa and mastercards,
mortgages to be met, businesses to run; there are "responsibilities"
to children and aged parents - and on and on and on; and in taking
care of all these things they forget the admonition of the Scriptures
concerning "Last Things:" that we who "know His
will" concerning the "end of the age" are to "prepare
ourselves for it" just as Noah did with regard to the Flood
(cf. Luke 12:45-47).
- The fact is, it was the little, routine "responsibilities
of life" that hindered the people of Noah's day from responding
to God's warning, and so it is with Christians today:
- "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be. "For as in the days that were before
the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, "And
knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matt. 24:37-39)
Listen dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, none of these things
- "eating," "drinking," "marrying"
and "giving in marriage" - are "bad things."
They're not sins - they're the legitimate "responsibilities
of life" - but, again, it was precisely these things that
prevented the people of Noah's time from responding to God's
warning; and it is exactly these things that are hindering Christians
today.
- God help you if you are letting these kinds of things prevent
you from taking action now. The people of Noah's day weren't
spared, and I somberly warn you (no! - not I but the Lord) neither
will you be spared either. As I said in the Antipas Papers:
- "Prophecy is nothing more than a roadsign telling us
of the danger that's ahead and warning us to take corrective
action BEFORE we get to the danger. If we do nothing until we
finally get there, it will be too late. Thus, if the only reaction
the ANTIPAS PAPERS can elicit from someone who has read the book
is 'Wow! - what a wonderful book' - then we have utterly failed
in what we set out to do, and that person has missed the point
of the book altogether. KNOWLEDGE WHICH DOES NOT PRODUCE ACTION
IS WORTHLESS. [We URGE you, if you have not already, to take
the time to read the ANTIPAS PAPERS.] Fast Connection - http://www.endtimesnetwork.com/oldnews/current.html
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW LAW RE: PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION
- In NEWS1829 (www.cuttingedge.org), entitled, "Another
Look At The Horror of the Bill To 'Prohibit' Partial Birth Abortion",
we collaborated with a Born Again practicing obstetrician, Dr.
Mark Lowney, whose office is in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr.
Lowney pointed out that the language of this bill goes from a
bad definition of Partial Birth Abortion to such a bold re-definition
of what constitutes the procedure that children can still be
murdered without it being called, "Partial Birth Abortion".
Listen to excerpts of NEWS1829, as Dr. Lowney explains!
- "Sec. 1531. Partial -birth abortions prohibited ...
This subsection does not apply to a partial -birth abortion that
is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered
by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury,
including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or
arising from the pregnancy itself."
Dr. Lowney has practiced obstetrics for 15 years and cannot recall
even one instance in which modern obstetrics did not have the
answer to a health complication arising during pregnancy. Whatever
health complications might arise, modern medicine has the answer
that will save the life of the mother and usually the life of
the baby as well. Obstetric textbooks do not even mention that
a Partial Birth Abortion might ever be necessary in any condition
to save the life of the mother! Nowhere in Obstetrics training
is Partial Birth Abortion mentioned as an alternative to save
the life of the mother.
- Therefore, the very fact that this abortion "prevention"
bill includes a loophole scenario which does NOT exist in the
real world of Practicing Obstetrics leads Dr. Lowney to conclude
that this scenario was placed in this bill for a non-medical
reason, i.e., to deliberately allow Partial Birth Abortions to
continue!
- Let us examine yet another troubling portion of this bill:
- "`(b) As used in this section--
`(1) the term `partial -birth abortion' means an abortion in
which--
`(A) the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally
vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first
presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the
mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the
fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother
for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows
will kill the partially delivered living fetus."
The key phrase is: "the entire fetal head is outside the
body of the mother"
- Once again, Dr. Lowney is mightily puzzled. This section
incorrectly defines what a Partial Birth Abortion is, i.e., when
"the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother".
This is NOT the correct definition of a partial birth abortion!
A partial birth abortion occurs when a doctor allows only a partial
part of the head to come outside the mother before he pulls back
the vaginal skin, jabbing sharp medical scissors into the back
of the baby's head, twisting it so that the brain stem is destroyed.
If the doctor waits until the head is completely outside the
body of the mother, that doctor cannot then legally insert those
sharp scissors into the back of the skull, because he/she would
be killing a live baby who has just been born -- according to
currently existing law!
- In other words, by defining a Partial Birth Abortion incorrectly,
describing the procedure as occurring when the head is "outside
the mother", this means that a doctor can still legally
kill the baby if the head is NOT completely "outside the
mother". This cleverly written incorrect definition allows
partial birth abortions to continue just as they always have,
simply because this bill incorrectly defines -- or redefines
-- what a partial birth abortion is!
- This official incorrect definition transforms instantly into
a "redefinition" of Partial Birth Abortion.
- http://www.cuttingedge.org/newsletters/
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- AN EMAIL TO NICHOLAS
- Dear Messenger Nicholus A. Stivers,
- Greetings and Shalom to you and all scattered brethren abroad.
I hope that this e-mail will find you well in field of discernment
ministry. It was joyful and happiness to receive your e-mail
of scrolls letters Volume 1-8 and your wonderful teachings and
the doctrines of Jesus Christ. We have photocopied scrolls letters
Volume 1-8 all leters from you and we have started using them
in our Bible study fellowship .Thank you for the wonderful teachingsa
we have read from you. It was God's plan to meet with you because
we have seen that through you, we will stand firm for the fundamental
teachings and doctrines of Christ Jesus. Help us to be numbered
with you . Learn to trust Him and be obedient to the word of
God.
- We are a very young fellowship here in Kenya who are very
much interested to carry a sharp two edged swords for the spiritual
battle field like you. We do our fellowships every Sundays and
Bible studies during week days. We do our fellowships under tree
shades . Pray for us God to open ways for many souls t rust in
God through Christ Jesus. We are praying for you to send us Shipping
costs so that you may send us many books and offering materials
useful for our study.
- We will continue holding up all teachings we receive from
you and if God willing send us missionaries to come and teach
us the true doctrines of Christ Jesus. Pray for me , my family
. Receive much greetings from them. Hope to hearing from you
.
- Yours Brother in Christ,
- George N. Mokebo.
- 2nd Thessalonians 3:1-2
- For the Scrolls go to: http://nicholasscrolls.cephasministry.com/archive_of_nicholas_scrolls_letters.html
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 BARBIE JOINS THE WITCHCRAFT PARADE
FOR TEENS
- VI. Mattel Toys introduces a new Barbie Doll, the "Casting
Spells" Barbie! This doll is straight out of the Harry Potter
story line. Listen as Target Stores advertises this doll. Listen
to what she can do, remembering that this doll is suggested for
little girls 3 years of age and up.
- "Features
• Transforms from school girl to Secret Spells Barbie
• Comes with many fun accessories
• Includes 2 mixes for 'potions' you can really drink
- "Product Description
An ordinary schoolgirl by day, this Secret Spells Barbie transforms
at night. Open the included book to discover the mysterious compartment
holding her secrets. Includes fun, potion-making accessories,
including 2 mixes for making magic 'potions' you can really drink."
Notice this picture depicts "Casting Spell Barbie"
-- Barbie the Witch -- holding a typical phallic shaped magic
wand with a snake coiled around it. Our children are being terribly
conditioned to accept Witchcraft!
- Now your little daughter can learn the elementary facts about
Witchcraft, and get enthused about practicing it, when she is
only 3 years old! Since I was a Toy Buyer for over 10 years and
a Toy Manufacturers Representative for 15 more, I can tell you
authoritatively that Mattel brings a new item to market only
after she has conducted extensive market research; only after
this market research has determined that a sufficient reservoir
of demand is in place does Mattel bring a new item to market.
A key part of this research is to place potential products into
the hands of the youngsters to whom it will be aimed to see if
they enjoy playing with the toy. This type of research also may
lead to many refinements of the new product well before Mattel
commits dollars to actual production in the Orient.
- Therefore, Mattel's research told them that enough young
girls would be interested enough in "Casting Spell"
Barbie to warrant bringing it to market. But why should we be
surprised? We have been warning for years now that Harry Potter,
Bewitched, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and other Satanically-based
movies and books were exciting the young to become witches. While
many secular people and even some undiscerning Christians have
scoffed at this possibility, this doll from one of the largest
toy companies in the world demonstrates that Satan has, indeed,
worked his "magic" against our precious children.
- http://www.cuttingedge.org/newsletters/
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- PASTOR AND 2 OTHERS ARE KILLED IN SHOOTING AT ATLANTA CHURCH
By Jefferey Gettleman [excerpt] published: The New York Times
October 6, 2003. Atlanta, Oct. 5, 2003 — A woman killed
her pastor, her mother and then herself in an Atlanta church
on Sunday morning, the police said, as children were sitting
in Bible class and churchgoers were beginning to flow up the
steps. [The church is turning 104 years old.] The police said
the woman, Shelia W. Chaney Wilson, 43, and her mother were preparing
the communion table in the chapel of Turner Monumental A.M.E.
Church when Ms. Wilson pulled out a .44 caliber pistol and shot
the minister, the Rev. Johnny Clyde Reynolds, at the altar. The
news of the killings spread quickly across the church grounds,
knocking some parishioners to their knees, and leaving stunned
families rubbing their eyes as if to try to erase the scene in
front of them.
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- CONSUMER ALERT:
Pleae note: last January, Jim Moran, who operated Light Of
Truth Ministries - a site critical of The Local Church,
which is a cult of Christianity - died of a massive heart attack.
It now turns out that since Jim died without a will The Local
Church has managed to gain control over Jim's files, computer
records and domain names.
This means that any information currently posted under the
domain names thelocalchurch.org, ltm.org, biblesforamericaexposed.org,
and recoveryversionexposed.org now is provided
by The Local Church - the cult whose teachings and actions
Jim Moran worked hard to expose.
The material produced by Jim Moran will soon be placed online
again. Links to Jim's former sites will soon be adjusted.
Note: The Local Church (specifically, "The
Church in Fullerton") has now posted lies about the late
Jim Moran's former website - which they claim they have 'lawfully
acquired' (including "all of the copyrights, trade names,
and trademarks to Mr. Moran's works, including this website").
http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/l40.html
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- "NO DOUBT WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS": BIBLE FOR FEMINISTS
September 29, 2003 - © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com ~ You've come
a long way, Virgin Mary?
- To demonstrate there's no glass ceiling in heaven, the German
Evangelical Church has undertaken the ambitious project of retranslating
the Bible in gender-neutral terms.
- Ananova reports more than 50 translators are hard at work
on a new edition of the holy book. They're rewriting passages
seen to discriminate against women, using "unbiased and
unjust" language.
- Specifically, the term disciple is to be changed to "disciples
and disciplesses." Translators will also remove references
to "Lord" and "Our Father." The project is
expected to take up to a year. Gueterslohe publishing house is
expected to print 10,000 copies of the revised Scriptures.
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- THE BAHAI RELIGION IS AN OFFSPRING OF ISLAM
A Baptist church in Texas has been holding joint meetings with
Baha'I practitioners. "What separates us when we have supposedly
the love of God in us?" argues the church's pastor. However,
some of his flock are confused by the meetings. The Baha'is have
a tendency to prefer different terminology, such as using the
word "mistake" instead of "sin." They also
believe all religions are one-but this does not faze the Baptist
leader: "Some of the people at our church still don't understand.
They think (Baha'is) don't think the way we think. God made us
all. We're all the same, see." (Austin American-Statesman,
8/17/03)
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- MILITANT FUNDAMENTALISTS
- Most TV news directors and newspaper editors believe "that
Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians 'have too much power.'"
A third think that these groups are "a threat to democracy."
Just four percent think nonbelievers wield too much cultural
clout. (Beliefnet, 7/23/03)
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MUSLIMS IN EUROPEAN SCHOOLS
- The New York Times: October 8, 2003 Europe - The question
of whether Muslim women can wear head scarves in European state
schools keeps coming back. A French school recently suspended
two girls for covering their heads, while Germany ruled in favor
of a teacher who insisted on wearing her head scarf in class.
Cases like the one in France have been portrayed as a defense
of the secular state — the need to keep overt religious
symbols out of state schools. This seems a false pretext. Following
the dress or dietary codes of one's faith is an exercise of freedom
of conscience so long as the exercise does not amount to proselytizing
or otherwise infringing on the freedoms of others. The laws,
their rationale and their enforcement differ from country to
country, even school to school. But the fact is that any such
regulation is inherently discriminatory because the targets are
likely to be members of faiths that mandate outward signs. The
scarf of a Muslim woman, the skullcap of an observant Jew and
the turban of a Sikh cannot be concealed.
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- DUTCH ROMAN CATHOLICS URGED TO PRAY FOR SUCCESS OF PROTESTANT
MERGER
Amsterdam (ENI). Dutch Roman Catholics have been asked to pray
for the successful completion of a three-way merger of Protestant
churches. The Catholic Association for the Ecumenical Movement
Athanasius and Willibrord (Katholieke Vereniging voor Oecumene
Athanasius en Willibrord) has called on Catholic faithful to
support the union of three Protestant denominations working to
form a single church called the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.
[ENI-10-9-03]
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- FROM SUPREME COUNCIL WEBSITE MASONS ARE OFTEN MEMBERS OF
CHURCHES
- In writing about a member of the Lodge, this member is also
a member of the First United Methodist Church of Baton Rouge,
Seale has been active for over 30 years as a teacher of adults
and youth in Sunday School, Youth Coordinator, and a delegate
to the Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
- His past civic involvements include service on the Board
of Directors of the American Cancer Society in Baton Rouge and
the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Sheltered Workshops.
He holds a private pilot's license and is active in amateur radio...
http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/news-9-17-03.htm
- Freemasons should not be attending Christian churches because
of the following Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 10:21 "Ye
cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot
be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils."
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- TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE MASONIC TEMPLE IN WASHINGTON D.C.
- http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/temple.htm
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- THE ROSETTA STONE WHICH EXPOSED JOSEPH SMITH'S HYROGLYPHICS
AS A FRAUD The Rosetta Stone was unearthed in 1799 by a group
of Napoleon's troops stationed along the west bank of the western
mouth of the Nile. Students of history not only need to know
how to define a major event, idea or term, but why it is important,
how it is significant, and what are its consequences. Simply,
the Rosetta Stone, a basalt stele (from the Greek term for a
commemorative pillar or inscribed cylinder) permitted the decipherment
of Egyptian hieroglyphics by Jean Franüois Champillion,
the younger (1790-1832). He is regarded today as the founder
of Egyptology. The Rosetta Stone sets down a decree composed
by priests assembled at Memphis who had a signal measure of political
influence, for they were endorsing publicly the potentially doomed
Ptolemy V Epiphanes (204-181 BCE).
- The message is chiseled in hieroglyphic and vernacular Egyptian
as well as Greek. Translating the Greek first, then working backwards,
a small team of scholars discovered by the 1830s the solution
to one of the oldest written languages in human history. The
dramatic moment also gave birth in the modern west to a deep
popular fascination with all things Egyptian, particularly as
decorative motifs in public buildings. Nineteenth-century Jews
in western Europe and the United States, for instance, showed
a remarkable affinity for Egyptian symbolism, while more typical
building structures of the period derived clearly from Greco-Roman
patterns. The American architect and Freemason William Strickland,
a worthy successor to his teacher Benjamin Latrobe, also a Mason,
designed Philadelphia's first large synagogue (Mikveh, Israel)
which, surprisingly, had a front end sanctuary marked by a free
adaptation of Egyptian ideas. Strickland's temple was dedicated
in 1825.http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/temple.htm
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- THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, OBELISK IMMORTALIZES US 1ST PRESIDENT
- Cemeteries all across America a century ago exploited vague
Egyptian preferences in the construction of mausolea, sarcophagi,
elaborate memorial markers, and obelisk monuments.3 Then, of
course, there is in our nation's capital the Washington Monument,
a towering obelisk immortalizing America's first President and
foremost Freemason. While the late
Renaissance hermetic traditions of Europe had already placed
great stock in Egyptian wisdom and religion as an "imperfect
harbinger" of Christianity (controversial beliefs for which
the Italian Dominican priest, Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, was
executed by the Inquisition), the seeds for a modern Egyptian
revival sprouted more generically in the Enlightenment's scientific
curiosity about ancient esoteric religion and allegorical legends.
- http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/temple.htm
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- PHILIPPINES 'NUN OF THE POOR' AND STAUNCH HUMAN RIGHT ADVOCATE
DIES. Manila (ENI). A nun who could have opted for a life of
wealth and comfort but chose instead to devote her life to the
poor of Manila, fought for human rights during a period of martial
law and took on a corrupt president, has died. Sister Christine
Tan, a nun for more than 40 years, was a member of the Good Shepherd
order. She had served on the Ecumenical Movement
for Justice and Peace and on a list of Filipino human rights
organizations, but succumbed to cancer on 6 October. She was
72. [ENI-10-09-03]
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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - A NEW JEREMIAH VIDEO BY JACK T CHICK.
This new feature-length gospel film by Jack T. Chick is now available
in both VHS and DVD formats. Presenting Jesus as both Creator
and Redeemer, it will be a powerful soul-winner in your church.
This film is not done as live action, but rather uses 360 extraordinary
oil paintings, with music and narration, much like documentaries
on the well-known "History Channel." This soul-winning
film is not entertainment, although those who have seen it more
than once tell how it still grips their heart, often bringing
tears. This is an evangelism tool, to be used in your home and
church to tell people about Jesus. The emotional narration by
David Jeremiah, along with the moving original musical score
by composer John Campbell, brings many viewers to tears as they
see what Jesus did for them. Many have been saved in just the
first three public showings of the film.
- At the film premiere, held in a large auditorium, the audience
watched the emotional and tragic story of the crucifixion and
then, as the music and narration built powerfully to the resurrection,
they broke out in spontaneous and emotional applause, for JESUS,
as they saw the magnitude of what He had done. This presentation
of the gospel grabs both mind and emotion, bringing conviction
and faith. Show it in your church, and things will never again
be the same. For those who live outside the US, both the VHS
and DVD are currently available only in the US-standard format
of NTSC. A PAL edition will be released by the end of the year.
To learn the story behind the film, read this interview by a
newspaper reporter who was one of the first to see "Light
of the World." You will find the story here: Running Time:
78 minutes VHS and DVD Format http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/LOTW.asp
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- APOSTASY AT DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
- October 13, 2003 www.WayofLife.org - by Broster Cloud - The
following is by Dr. Thomas M. Strouse, Dean, Emmanuel Baptist
- Theological Seminary, 296 New Britain Ave., Newington, CT 06111
-
- Professor Daniel Wallace, Associate Professor of New Testament
Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, wrote an article on his
web site in 1997 entitled "Mark 1:2 and New Testament Textual
Criticism." He defends the erroneous "mistake"
that Mark attributed the citations from Mal. 3:1 and Isa. 40:3
to having been written "in Isaiah the prophet" instead
of the biblically accurate "in the prophets" (as we
find in the Received Text and in the KJV). His arguments for
defending "errancy" in the original follow these lines
of reasoning:
- 1. The "oldest and best manuscripts," including
codex sinaiticus and codex vaticanus read "in Isaiah the
prophet."
- 3. He rejects the notions that the errant reading was either
accidental (i.e., dittography) or intentional (i.e., first century
conspiracy to undermine the text; although note 2 Peter 3:15-16
for the Biblical response).
- 4. He avers "do we dare call it original? All the evidence
points in that direction." Thus he claims that the error
was in the original scripture text.
- 5. He rejects the view that says, "Start with the presupposition
of inerrancy."
- 6. He affirms that "theology must never be divorced
from history."
- 7. He concludes that those opposed to historical evidence
are arrogant. Wallace posits faith in historical evidence over
and against faith in Biblical promises of the perfectly inerrant,
inspired Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:16). One must place utmost confidence,
according to him, in textual critics, who as historians, although
they usually reject inerrancy, certainly do not have "mere
theological convictions" about inerrancy. Wallace would
rather defend an errant codex sinaiticus and codex vaticanus
behind the modern versions than the inerrant textus receptus
behind the KJV. Wallace teaches the liberal, apostate position
of "errant inerrancy" relative to the original text
of the New Testament. This theological modernism is an example
of apostasy at Dallas!
- This is where modern textual criticism always leads, eventually
and unavoidably. It has destroyed the faith of every church and
Bible training institution it has ever entered. Modern textual
criticism is promoted by Evangelicals and even by many Fundamentalists,
but it was not invented by them. It was invented in the 19th
century by theological liberals and Unitarians; and to this very
day the chief fathers of it continue to be the Bruce Metzgers
and Kurt Alands and Carlo Martinis, men who deny the infallible
inspiration of Holy Scripture. We thank the Lord for men like
Dr. Strouse and for institutions like the Emmanuel Baptist Theological
Seminary that stand in the old paths and that approach the Bible
strictly on the basis of faith and that do not bow the knee to
the "science falsely so called" of modern textual criticism.
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- A POPULAR "CHRISTIAN" ROCK BAND
- In fact, P.O.D. doesn't have to worry about people judging
the Gospel preached through their songs, because it isn't there.
Note the following two examples of their lyrics:
- "I see you people babble on and on and on graven/ Images,
golden idols and false icons I'm seeking/ Wisdom like Solomon
but my antennae keeps on/ Picking up evil transmissions at headquarters
I/ Receive my mission blow up the ruler of the air (Eph 2:2)/
Like nuclear fission so I analyze my weapons laser/ Guided rifles
that shoot spiritual wisdom I think I see/ Enemy warriors fragile
heathens tryin' to run stuff/ Like mayors so with brotha's that
snuff punks I set up/ Time bombs to destroy the strongholds of
babylon" (P.O.D., "Breathe Babylon").
-
- "What's the problem son? You said you wanted some/ But
when I started rocking POD got the job done/ My Lord said hard,
hard is how you hit 'em/ One blow with the mic and the quickness
is how I get 'em/ Alternative thrash can you deal with it?/ Funk
and groove with a hip hop feel to it/ Giving you a style with
a different kind of sound/ So keep on rockin even when we bring
it down/ Bring it down, bring it down, bring it down ya'll/ Bring
it down, bring it down, bring it down/ Bring it down, bring it
down, bring it down ya'll/ But don't change the funky funky sound"
(P.O.D., "Can You Feel It?").
-
- I challenge anyone to find the biblical gospel in those lyrics,
and they are representative of all of their songs. The main message
in "Can You Feel It" is that you can keep on rocking
no matter what and that God Himself loves rock music. The message
to "Breathe Babylon" is so obscure that it is meaningless.
It is obvious that it is the hard rock music itself that really
matters to P.O.D. and their followers. P.O.D.'s platinum-selling
album The Fundamental Elements of Southtown didn't even mention
the name of Jesus Christ, let alone give a clear presentation
of the gospel. Furthermore, the lyrics of P.O.D.'s music are
difficult to impossible to discern because of the loud rock music.
- That is absolute blasphemy. Jesus Christ was not a rebel.
A rebel is a lawbreaker. Christ was the lawgiver, and He came
to earth to fulfill the requirements of His own law (Matt.
5:17-19).
- Christ was not crucified for rebellion; He was crucified
for testifying that He was God (John 10:33).
The Bible says rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (1
Sam. 15:23). See what these Christian rockers are saying
about the holy Lord Jesus Christ! The wicked rock scene and the
true churches of Jesus Christ do not go hand in hand, they stand
in direct contradiction to one another. In fact, P.O.D. doesn't
have to worry about people judging the gospel preached through
their songs, because it isn't there. Note the following two examples
of their lyrics: http://www.wayoflife.org/catalog/catalog.htm
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- BAPTIST SAYS PROTESTANT GROUPS IN BELARUS BEING FORCED UNDERGROUND
- Warsaw (ENI). Protestant communities in the former Soviet
republic of Belarus say they are being forced underground due
to a law imposing curbs on religious activities. The law, passed
in October 2002, bans religious services in private houses and
restricts educational and charity work to churches that have
had a minimum of 10 registered communities in Belarus for at
least 20 years. Viktor Krutko, general secretary of the country's
Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists, claimed the law had
forced some Protestant groups underground. [ ENI-10-14-03]
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Jesus' disciples were of common Hebrew stock. They became Apostles
through their tenacity and were firm in their commitment. They
developed groups of believers called churches (gatherings). They
were a minority then as God's appointed ones are today, not following
mainstream ideals, but clinging steadfastly to Christ's teachings
and enduring persecution for their unwavering faith. The rest
of the world at that time was as deceived and enslaved as the
world is today. Their world suffered under siege by secular powers,
just as our world today is at the mercy of the same models of
Government.
- Sadly, the many-divided houses of God promote
their own brand of elitism and partiality. Many Christian authorities
are largely tolerant of sensual deviance and abhorrent authority.
Religion has (in part) lost its zeal because the message has
been so watered down that it fails to keep the believers faithful.
Today, hypocrisy is an epidemic. So many are backsliding and
falling into pits. The message herein brings you back to the
fundamental "Gospel of Christ crucified" in a contemporary
context. This book is for those who have been thirsting and hungering
for the righteousness of God. What many people need is encouragement
to follow Jesus' example.Take courage now and share the experience
of salvation and fresh revelation with a brother in Christ. Highly
recommended by Cephas Ministry
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GLOBAL / LOCAL
POLITICS
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- Americans locked out of jobs
-
- FACTORY LAYOFFS SEEN ENDING, BUT FUTURE IS GRIM
U.S. National - Reuters November 28, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- by Andrea Hopkins - After a bloodletting that cost 2.8 million
jobs in just over three years, U.S. factory payrolls are expected
to soon start inching higher, economists believe. But many manufacturing jobs may never come back.
- "The declines are just about over," said UBS economist
Jim O'Sullivan. He predicted the first rise in factory employment
since July 2000 could come as early as next week, when November
payrolls are released, or perhaps one month later.
- While employment outside of manufacturing has begun to grow
after a long jobless recovery from the recession, factory jobs
have remained elusive -- particularly in rust-belt states which
could be key to President Bush in the 2004 election.
- But the pace of factory layoffs has finally begun to ease.
During the slump, job cuts averaged 134,000 a month. Since August,
that has dropped to just 30,000, and October's 24,000 decline
was the smallest in nearly three years.
- Factory data also suggest jobs are poised to expand, with
the Institute for Supply Management's employment index hitting
47.7 in October -- inches from the break-even mark of 47.8. O'Sullivan
said payrolls tend to rise when the index is above 47.8 and fall
when it is below.
- But just try telling that to an unemployed factory worker.
- Kerry Battles, 51, was laid off from his job at a Boeing
Co. aircraft plant in Wichita, Kansas, in May 2002 after 12 years
with the company.
- His wife, Mary, an electrical panel assembler at competitor
Raytheon Co., worried she too, would lose her job. The factory
cut costs, and six months ago the couple began to hope Mary had
escaped the massive layoffs devastating the industry. But this
month the ax fell, and Mary was laid off too.
- "It's not getting better, it is getting worse. It is
definitely getting worse," said Kerry Battles. "All
three of the aircraft companies here in town are still laying
off, still sending work out of the country. It's not good."
-
- A DYING SECTOR
- Economists agree most of the factory jobs lost during and
since the 2001 recession are gone for good
and warn that no one should expect a huge rebound in employment
even when the layoffs finally come to an end.
- Goldman Sachs economist Andrew Tilton said while about a
million jobs have gone to cheaper overseas labor markets, most
layoffs can be chalked up to a 12.8 percent gain in productivity
in the last three years, allowing employers to eliminate more
than a tenth of the factory work force.
- "Nearly two-thirds of the jobs lost did not 'go' anywhere;
they simply disappeared as more efficient production processes
reduced the labor needed to produce a given amount of goods,"
Tilton said.
- O'Sullivan believes factories will rehire long enough to
allow businesses to restock depleted inventories, boosting payrolls
for a few months into early 2004. But in the long run, he warned,
jobs will remain hard to come by.
- "I think it's like farming -- where over time, a smaller
and smaller share of the population are in manufacturing, even
though output continues to grow rapidly, helped by stronger productivity,"
O'Sullivan said.
- The decline of the factory sector is not lost on Kerry Battles.
After his layoff, he returned to school to study computer science
and will soon have a degree. In the meantime, he's found a short-term
job with the Machinists Union helping newly unemployed workers
grapple with retraining options.
- "Every day, all my clients are laid-off aircraft workers,
and there's thousands of them. Probably after the first of the
year, or maybe even before then, we're going to have so many
people we're not going to be able to take care of them,"
he said.
- "And if they don't turn things around soon, this whole
town's just going to be nothing."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&ncid=1896&e=
- 1&u=/nm/20031128/us_nm/economy_manufacturing_dc_1
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TALES OF MIND CONTROL AND WORLD TYRANNY
- January 6, 2003 - By Henry Makow Ph.D.
MY MIND CONTROLLED GENERATION
- I was born in 1949. Until recently, I was confused and somewhat
dysfunctional. In retrospect, I think my whole generation was
subject to a mind control program. I suspect it was developed
by the Tavistoke Institute for Human Relations in England and
administered through the CIA and Rockefeller foundations through
their control of education and the mass media. The London-based
Tavistock Institute is the central coordinating body for the
cabal's mind control network. It was founded in 1922 by the British
military to wage psychological warfare. Techniques developed
for enemy populations were soon deployed at home. For the very
wealthy, we are the enemy.
- The mass media is used to maintain domestic psychological
control. According to Dr. John Coleman, the directors of the
US TV networks, major newspapers and publishers were all handpicked
by British intelligence (which organized the CIA.) For example,
before becoming head of CBS, William Paley was trained in mass
brainwashing techniques at Tavistock. (The Committee of 300;
pp. 248-249)
- As a youth, I used to lie in bed at night reading magazines
like Time and Newsweek from cover to cover. Somehow I became
dysfunctional. I learned there was something unbearably corrupt
and empty about social values and institutions, especially capitalism,
Christianity and the family. I could not participate in such
a society.
- Anything wholesome ("straight") was derided. I
was bored with anything "normal." I was only attracted
to "crazy" women. Feminism relieved me of responsibility
to support and lead a family. I didn't understand masculinity
or know how to relate to women. In a developmental limbo, I was
free to search for "truth." Occasionally I had moments
of lucidity: "Shouldn't I try to become part of the establishment
instead of fighting it?" Due to the pressures of conformity,
I quickly dismissed these intuitions. As part of the "anti
war" movement and "counterculture" I imagined
I was fighting the "establishment" when in fact I was
its pawn.
- The New York Times and Washington Post and the TV networks
promoted the anti-war movement. These newspapers are instruments
of the British-based Anglo American cabal and its CIA and CFR
branches. When they don't want to promote something, they don't
cover it. The Vietnam War was a trap designed to weaken the United
States, demoralize its people and enrich the banking and defence
cartels. (I see the misguided war against the Muslim world in
similar terms.)
- The assassinations of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King traumatized
millions of people. When the cabal ordered Lyndon Johnson not
to seek re-election in 1968, the steam went out of the anti war
movement. Demonstrations at the Democratic Party convention in
Chicago were brutally repressed by Mayor Daley's cops.
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- WHY ARE WE BRAINWASHED?
- We are being prepared for the tyranny of one world government.
No armies from abroad are invading us. We are being subverted
from within. "Prove it!" people say. When I return
home to find my house ransacked and my possessions stolen, I
don't need to prove I was robbed. I can see the evidence all
around me. I can see the destruction of the family and the resultant
suffering due to the deceitful government attack on heterosexual
identity. I can see the media convincing women that they will
find fulfillment in careers instead of families. I can see that
civic values are no longer taught in schools; religion, national
identity and history are also suppressed. People are distracted
by sports, entertainment and trivia, junk food for the soul.
There is little honest discussion of our predicament, little
effort to educate and uplift.
- Communist (feminist) impostors have taken over the humanities
at universities. Who would study with professors who think truth
is a function of power, and unknowable? Education by definition
is the pursuit of truth. The intelligentsia has sold out. Most
artists and novelists wander in a desert of their own subjectivity.
The mass media offers little reportage on the elites and on the
new world order. Dissenting voices are marginalized.
- Did anyone ask if we wanted globalization, official feminism,
diversity and multiculturalism? Were these ever election issues?
These directives were delivered to politicians and media by the
CIA and elite foundations. http://www.savethemales.ca/060103.html
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- TEMPORARY JOBS ON THE RISE
- The new Fed survey found some hopeful signs on the jobless
front, noting that "labor market conditions generally stabilized
after an extended period of weakness," with layoffs slowing
and demand rising for temporary workers. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031126/ap_on_bi_ge/fed_economy_5
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- ACTIVIST KATHY KELLY 'HOGTIED & ABUSED BY ARMY AT SOA
PROTESTS
Voices in the Wilderness, November 28th, 2003 - Voices in the
Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly is  'hogtied'
and abused by the Army after she was arrested for committing
peaceful civil disobedience outside Ft. Benning in Gergia where
10,000 protesters had gathered to demand the closure of a U.S.
training camp known by critics as the School
of the Assassins.
Over ten thousand people gathered this weekend outside the gates
of Fort Benning, Georgia to protest the US Army School of the
Americas, a combat-training school for Latin American soldiers.
It was recently renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation (SOA/WHISC).
- The protests culminated with a "funeral" procession
to symbolize the thousands of people killed by soldiers trained
at the school. More than 30 people were arrested after entering
the base in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. They took
this action knowing they could face 3-6 months in federal prison.
In years past, the arrests at the SOA protests have been coordinated
with the police. Those wanting to be arrested simply crossed
a yellow line and were then escorted to police buses. But this
year it was different.
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- PRISONS TO BEGIN TO CHARGE DAILY FEE TO DEFRAY COST
- Washington Times - 11.28.2003 ".. In July, the Virginia
General Assembly authorized local governments to charge each
inmate a daily fee of up to $1. The fees have been implemented
in jails in Portsmouth, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
The program is about to get started in Harrisonburg, Va.
Rockingham County Sheriff Don Farley said he expects to start
charging jail fees as early as January. He said the $1 fee his
office plans to charge will help defray the cost of the county
jail in Harrisonburg, near the West Virginia state line.
The Rockingham jail now holds 15 federal and 245 state and local
prisoners.
"I first got the idea in Colorado when I learned they have
[automated teller machines] in their prisons," Sheriff Farley
said.
Federal rules prohibit the $1 daily charges, so federal inmates
won't have to pay the fee, Sheriff Farley said. Indigent prisoners
also will be exempt, but they won't be allowed to use the canteen,
where prisoners can buy snacks, magazines and other leisure treats.
"The canteen is just a luxury," Sheriff Farley said.
Still, the jail could earn as much as $245 a day from state and
local inmates, he said.
Arlington County charges receiving fees, but not the $1 daily
fee as the new law allows, Deputy Sheriff Maj. Karen Albert said.
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20031127-102245-6556r.htm
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- UK AND THE EU CONSTITUTION
BBC News Online political correspondent 25 November, 2003 - by
Nick Assinder
- If the British public isn't already confused about the significance
of the new European constitution, it probably is now.
 Prime Minister said
constitution essential
In the latest twist, it is claimed Tony Blair is playing the
hard man and is ready to wreck the entire project if he doesn't
get his way... Mr Blair described it as "essential"
if the soon-to-be-enlarged EU was to function... Later, in a
question time clash with then Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith,
he said the outcome of the negotiations around the constitution
would be "absolutely fundamental" to the UK's relationship
with the rest of the EU.
Now, however, a senior government source has described the
constitution as "highly desirable" but not essential.
Blair believes enlarged EU needs a constitution
And, for the first time, it has been suggested the government
would be willing to torpedo the entire project by wielding its
veto unless it gets its way on all its "red line" issues.
Previously, a government spokesman appeared to switch tack
by suggesting that, if the red lines were breached, the  government might, after all, hold
a national referendum... The Tories insist the red lines, on
tax harmonisation for example, are entirely fake as there are
no plans in the constitution that breach them... In other words,
the Tories say, the government is engaged in all the usual spin
and manipulation, setting up false battles so it can claim victory
at the end of the day. Red herrings
- The red lines are more like red herrings and, in fact, there
is no way the government will ever wield its veto, Mr Ancram
said. So, Tony Blair: hard man or soft touch? There can be little
doubt which one the prime minister would most like to be seen
as - particularly at home. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3235828.stm
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- UK 'COULD VETO EU CONSTITUTION'
BBC - November 25, 2003 - Shadow foreign secretary, Michael Ancram
- Crucial talks on the EU take place this week Britain might
not reach an agreement with its European Union partners about
a new constitution, the government has indicated. It signalled
it was ready to veto the idea unless it gets its way on issues
like tax, defence and social security.
- But the source said that if necessary Europe could function
with the voting procedures agreed in the Nice treaty three years.
The chancellor said the EU must be ready to embrace reform
- "Europe will only maximise the benefits of globalisation
- and solve its problems of low growth and high unemployment
- by becoming more efficient and increasing its productivity,"
he said. go.
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- EURO HITS RECORD AGAINST DOLLAR
- BBC - See the latest euro - dollar prices : The euro has
hit a record high against the dollar, defying recent political
squabbles over the single currency and upbeat US economic data.
The euro continued a long upward run to hit $1.20 in lunchtime
trading,
 up three quarters
of a percent, mainly at the expense of a weakening dollar. Faith
in the US has been undermined by concerns over mounting deficits
despite evidence of a return to growth. Global security concerns
have also made markets wary of the US currency.
- European trading: The 12-country currency hit $1.2015 in
European trading - the highest since it was introduced on January
1, 1999, then slipped back to $1.1995... The record performance
also means a coming of age for the 5-year-old euro, proving robust
enough to ride out recent concerns about political factors interfering
with the currency's launch criteria. Recent data and economic
forecasts suggest that goal is being achieved, with annualised
growth in the three months to September soaring 8.2%. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3245956.stm
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