"...nation will rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
And there will be famines,
pestilences, and earthquakes in various places."
Matthew 24:7
"... in
the last days perilous times will come: For
men will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without
self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong,
haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying
its power. And from such people turn away!
"...all who desire
to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But
evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being
deceived. But you must
continue in the things which you have learned..."
2
Timothy 3:1-14
December 2005
Iraq's not-so-good neighbor:
"Holocaust denial and calls for Israel's destruction are commonplace in
the Middle East. They can be seen every day on Hezbollah TV, in Syrian media,
in Egyptian editorials appearing in semiofficial newspapers. But none of
these aspiring mass murderers are on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons
that could do in one afternoon what it took Hitler six years to do -- destroy
an entire Jewish civilization and extinguish 6 million souls.
"
Everyone
knows where Iran's nuclear weapons will be aimed.... And everyone knows
that if the button is ever pushed, it will be the end of Israel. But it
gets worse.... Like Judaism and Christianity, Shiite Islam has its own version
of the messianic return -- the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam."
See
Four Faces of
Islam
President alludes to Christ
at National Christmas tree lighting: "Flanked by the first lady,
as well as members of Congress and the Cabinet, Bush told the public, 'The
lighting of the National Christmas tree is one of the great traditions in
our nation's capital. Each year, we gather here to celebrate the season
of hope and joy – and to remember the story of one humble life that lifted
the sights of humanity. Santa, thanks for coming. Glad you made it.'"
God's Way versus Our ways
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
by
Anne Rice,
popular author of occult novels: [Reviewed by George Barna] "...as thrilled
as I was to learn of Ms. Rice’s
reconnection
with Christ... I opened this book with minimal expectations.
I need not have worried.... Ms. Rice did not merely conduct exhaustive research
on Jesus’ early life. She created a moving and credible portrait of the
young Lord and His family.... It is a simple but powerful tale of the emergence
of the Savior as He probes His own humanity and divinity....
"...there are captivating scenes such as the riot outside the walls of the
Temple in Jerusalem. Other episodes provide riveting insight, such as the
family influence on life, Jesus’ exercise and discovery of His powers....
Some scholars and religious leaders will probably demonize this book as
'fabricated history' or 'bad doctrine.'”
It
is "bad doctrine" to present a mythical view of Jesus that goes
far beyond His revealed Word. It's believable since it stirs emotions and
guides the imagination, which makes it all the more deceptive. Where did
she do her research? In the
Gnostic Gospels?
See the next link --
and remember that the His first miracle documented in the Bible happened
in Cana (John 2:1-11).
Signs of the times.
Christ the Lord, for you:
"It's told first person by the seven-year old Jesus, whom we first meet
in Egypt with his family. Most of the book follows them back to Nazareth,
describing the horrors of Roman persecution they encounter along the way.
Alongside all of this is Jesus' slowly evolving sense of who he is.... The
issue is basically 'power.'
"The novel
opens with the account from the
infancy gospel of St. Thomas,
of Jesus killing a little boy and bringing him back to life. At other points
in the novel, Jesus prays for snow, and it snows, etc. There are flashes
he describes of being surrounded by angels, by power, of seeing through
the veil of reality to greater reality and so on...."
November
2005
Means and Opportunity:
"While the Civil Rights Movement was very 'in your face,' this movement
is known as the quiet transformation of America, a.k.a., the quiet revolution.
Whether quiet or 'in your face,' it is still Marxism in all its glory (and
its eventual outcome: tyranny). ... Christianity can tolerate dissention,
Marxism can not and will not.
"Marxism, by its very
construct, demands complete subjugation (the infamous 'all' we hear repeatedly)
of the body politic to the world view (religion) on which Marxism is based:
humanism, the idea that 'no deity will save us' we must save ourselves (Humanist
Manifesto, 1973). This world view is also the basis of humanism's sidekick:
New Age God is man and man is god. ...
"When Nikita Khrushchev
stated that America would fall without a shot being fired, most Americans
laughed at the stupidity of this man."
See
Conforming Humanity to Socialist
Solidarity
October 2005
Teaching children about brave
new families
:
"...there are 30 to 40 couples waiting for each healthy newborn. No wonder
mothers-to-be are being offered college scholarships to give away their
baby. Despite these facts, many people think that the supply of babies is
much higher than the demand. My former co-worker was under the impression
that she would be helping the world more by adopting an infant than by having
her own."
Quake kids sold to sex trade:
"Six-year-old Aisha loves the orange blouse and jeans given to her by the
kind woman who rescued her from the chaos of the Kashmir earthquake. She
snuggles up to the woman, trying to forget the devastation of her village
home and the deaths of her parents 16 days ago. What Aisha does not know
is that the woman, Kausar, is a prostitute who has bought her from relatives
for 50,000 rupees ($1500) and plans to put her to work in the sex trade
as soon as she reaches puberty."
See
Moral
corruption
Bratty, boorish behavior is
getting young pupils expelled:
"Networks have hit a gold mine with shows like Super Nanny and Nanny 911,
in which hideously ill-behaved tots — and their witless parents — are eventually
brought to heel. Teachers who have these tiny terrors in class aren't finding
the behavior entertaining at all.... Unclear on what's causing the swearing,
biting, scratching, kicking and throwing of objects — and unable to physically
restrain or discipline the unruly — instructors are ousting kids before
they get to kindergarten....
"'I
think kids are definitely crueler now than they used to be. There's stronger
language and 'I hate you' a lot earlier than I remember.'
"Why are these
children who can barely tie their shoes nonetheless applying their feet
— and their fists, and their teeth and the occasional chair — to other children
and teachers?"
See
Signs of the times
and the 4th and 5th lines
of this
chart:
Total transformation
September 2005
Turning Point Ministries Pulls
Radio Program from Network:
"Dr. Jeremiah personally notified VCY America Radio that he is pulling his
program from the 16-station network immediately. ... There had been hope
that the warnings issued to Dr. Jeremiah by the Christian Research Service,
Eastern Regional Watch and Lighthouse Trails Research regarding the New
Age endorsements and affiliations of
Ken Blanchard would be heeded, but the
hopes were clearly in vain. ...
"We need to
pray for all national Christian radio ministries.... I have witnessed the
downward spiral of so many once faithful programs....The Bible, they say,
isn't enough today. It has to be jazzed up, spiced up, flavored, re-interpreted,
re-worded, added to, subtracted from and ultimately denied in order to appeal
to this sophisticated generation of postmodern kids."
Americans drowning in personal,
national debt: "That
'I want it now' mentality is apparent in Americans insatiable appetite for
stuff - clothes, cars, cell phones, computers. Most of that stuff is imported
from other countries, which contributes to the national trade deficit....
"The government’s budget
surplus of $236 billion in 2000 evaporated into a $412 billion deficit in
2004. While the deficit is projected to go down to $331 billion in 2005,
that’s still a mind-boggling number.... Other nations actually purchase
that U.S. debt in the form of treasury bonds and notes. If Japan and China,
the two biggest holders of U.S. debt, stopped buying U.S. securities or
even started dumping them, that could send the dollar plummeting."
See
The Power of Suggestion
August
2005
Dad's Parental Rights Fight
Polarizes Lexington
:
"David Parker and his wife Tonia had asked for parental notification and
the ability to 'opt-out' when transgender and same-sex issues are broached
to their [6-year-old] son by authority figures at Estabrook School in Lexington.
But... when Parker vowed not to leave Estabrook's premises until his request
was granted, school officials had him arrested for trespassing. In addition
to the criminal charge he is now facing, the concerned father is also fighting
a decision by the state and the town of Lexington to bar him from all school
property. ...
"Even Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney has expressed support for the beleaguered parent. In a televised
statement, Romney pointed out that schools under the state's parental-notification
law are required to inform parents
of 'matters relating to human sexuality that may be taught in the classroom
and to allow that child to be out of the classroom....'"
But
the new education establishment has little tolerance for those who would
"opt out" of its social inclusion program. Biblical values are increasingly
labeled as extremist and intolerant. Read more about this case in
No Freedom without Compliance
'Learn Not the Way of the Heathen':
"In 1897 John Dewey wrote that the teacher is always 'the true prophet of
the true God, and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.' But what 'God'
... is Dewey talking about?... His idea of God is the
union of the 'ideal' and the
action or experience that supports the realization of that ideal....
"In A Common Faith, Dewey
writes: '...It is this active relation between ideal and actual to which
I would give the name 'God.' His god being now the creation of man’s own
experience as he works toward realizing his own ideals, Dewey destroys any
foundation for the existence of an absolute truth."
See
Chronology of the NEA
July
2005
Psychology's Misguided Ideas:
"...Hundreds of studies have failed to show that self-esteem training produces
lasting positive results. ...merely feeling good about yourself doesn’t
necessarily make you more effective. What’s more, recent studies suggest
that self-esteem training may be harmful—that it leads many students to
overestimate their abilities....
"Scientific American reports that teenagers 'with high self-esteem
are less inhibited, more willing to disregard risks and more prone to engage
in sex'...
"...numerous Christians still believe in promoting and fostering
self-esteem, even though it is an unbiblical goal. The Bible clearly says
that we are not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought
(Romans 12:3).... In
spite of all the verbal juggling to justify self-esteem, it still boils
down to pride." See
Self-esteem
and
Pride
The Gay Agenda vs. Family Values:
"Marriage between one man and one woman, and the nuclear family have forever
been cornerstones of civilized society....They desperately cling to, and
repeatedly cite various 'studies' which seem to support the 'born that way'
theory. They entirely disregard the fact that to date, there has been no
credible, empirical evidence to support the theory....
"...perhaps the most
troubling aspect of the homosexual lifestyle in general, is its destructive
nature.... All of these things considered, and given that the cost to treat
an AIDS patient averages nearly $350,000, the homosexual lifestyle shares
responsibility... for... skyrocketing health care costs."
1 Cor 6:9-11
Hospital infections killed 1,800
in Pa. last year: "Pennsylvania hospitals say more than 11,600
patients last year developed potentially deadly infections while admitted,
but a state agency on Tuesday warned the true number could be much higher
because hospitals are likely underreporting."
Signs
Returning to earth worship,
Part 1: "Though few
Christians are aware of it, the cry to 'save the earth,' 'be sustainable'
and 'live in harmony with nature' is rooted in the ancient pantheistic religions
that dominated the Egyptian, Babylonian, Grecian and Roman Empires. Former
Vice President Gore even promotes them in his book
Earth in the Balance,
'...the prevailing ideology of belief in prehistoric Europe and much of
the world was based on the worship of a single earth goddess, who was assumed
to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony among all living things...."
See
The Allure of the Goddess
&
Welcoming the Goddess
June
2005
Anti-Christian Tendencies in
UN and EU: "The authors accuse the European institutions
of largely ignoring the persecution of Christians. While the human rights
commission of the European Parliament, for instance, has denounced the suppression
of the religious Falun Gong movement and of Buddhists in China, it kept
silent about the oppression of Christians. The EU was critical of Islamic
countries only with regard to the discrimination of women but not of Christian
minorities.
"A report issued in 2003
by the EU human rights commission had described religion as one of the worst
enemies of human rights and as a danger for world peace."
Signs
Internationalizing U.S. roads:
"We’re not just talking about isolated instances of privately-built toll
roads with foreign management, as we’ve seen in Southern California. We’re
talking about networks of toll roads that may be built by foreign builders,
managed by foreign operators, function primarily to accommodate foreign
goods, and connect U.S. roads to similar networks in Canada, Mexico and,
later, Central and South America."
See
The Merging of the Americas in a New Global Order
Rare sexually transmitted disease
surfaces in Canada: "A potentially fatal sexually transmitted
disease that rarely appears in industrialized countries has popped up in
Canada, raising fears of an outbreak. So far, 22 cases of lymphogranuloma
venereum have been reported ....The infection is endemic in parts of Africa,
Asia, South America and the Caribbean. ... Cases among men who have sex
with men popped up in the Netherlands in 2003, followed by cases in Belgium,
France, Germany, Sweden, Britain and the United States."
Sensuality
Australia running dry in worst
drought for century:
"A vast swathe of the country, from South Australia to Queensland, is already
bone dry after four consecutive years of low rainfall. ... 'It's bloody
tough and it's wearing people down,' said Tony Morrison, who farms 7,000
merino sheep...."
Signs
May
2005
Christian singer returning to
pop: "To
hear clearly the words he felt God
wanted to put in his heart,
[Michael W.] Smith said he had to get away from it all. He retreated
to George Lucas’ secluded Skywalker Ranch in Nicasio, Calif. 'Sometimes
you just have to leave town to keep focus,' said Smith, a big 'Star Wars'
fan. 'And I wanted to go to Skywalker’s house.'"
Three kinds of
temptation
Public prayer? Where's the outrage!:
"We pray to give thanks for our freedom, the President said. 'Freedom is
our birthright because the Creator wrote it into our common human nature.
No government can ever take a gift from God away.' ... He reminded us that
in our nation's supreme founding document, the Declaration of Independence,
'...our Founders ... declared it a self-evident truth that our right to
liberty comes from God.'"
Yes, our
freedom does come from God, but it is not unconditional. When a nation turns
from God and twists His Truth, He withdraws His blessings and leaves us
at the mercy of enemies who destroy both rights and freedom."
Deut 8:10-20
Scourge of '30s resurges --
Whooping cough cases rise
:
"...Rita Giles' son couldn't stop coughing. After three weeks... he finally
was diagnosed with whooping cough, known by the scientific name pertussis.
By that time, the 14-year-old already had exposed dozens of classmates....
"A major cause of illness and death among infants and young children in
this country before vaccines were introduced in the 1940s, the bacterial
affliction dropped to a record low of 1,010 cases in 1976. But nationwide,
figures have soared in the past two decades."
April
2005
Hospital to the world welcomes
illegals & contageous diseases: "Many illegals who skulk across
our borders have tuberculosis (TB). That disease had disappeared from America
thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful modern drugs such as Isoniazid
and Rifampin. TB’s swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60% of those
infected. The culprit is the new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)....
The mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major TB drugs.
Ordinary TB usually is cured in six months with four drugs (that cost about
$2000). MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive drugs with toxic side
effects (that cost around $250,000)....
"Chagas Disease has no known cure.... Suddenly, in the past three
years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. ... Malaria was obliterated
but now is re-emerging in Texas and other states. ... Hepatitis A, B, and
C are resurging....
"Terrorists are buying so-called 'weapons grade' strains of disease
organisms for bio-warfare."
Signs of the times
Girl Power as Boy Bashing: Evaluating
the Latest Twist In the War of the Sexes: "Seventeen-year-old
Bryan Blase sees girls at school wearing T-shirts that announce: 'Boys are
stupid. Throw rocks at them!' Bryan, who lives in suburban Detroit, isn't
offended.... 'We are stupid,' he says. 'Girls should throw rocks at us.'
...
" 'This is
not humor. This is sarcasm as a weapon,' says Ted Braude, a psychologist
in Royal Oak, Mich., who works with boys. ... My 15-year-old daughter notices
that most teen magazines for girls depict boys as jerks. 'It's always, 'He
did this to me. He did that to me.' Rarely do I read a story where a boy
does something nice,' she says. ...
"Madeline
Gobbo, 14, of Hood River, Ore., sees that advertisers woo girls through
boy-bashing. She's amused by ads for Skechers sneakers, which show kicking
or whip-wielding females and cowering males. 'Girls used to try to be equal
to boys,' says Madeline. 'Now they're trying to be better. The media is
picking up on that.'"
See
Mine is the Power
and
Isaiah
3:5-12
Domestic violence series substitutes
emotions for facts:
"DOJ statistics show that roughly 1,300 women are murdered by intimates
each year. Yet domestic homicide is hardly a one-way street....
"...evidence
suggests that there are actually as many wives and girlfriends who murder
their male partners as vice versa. ... For one, women generally use less
detectable methods to murder intimates than men do, including poisonings,
which are often mistakenly recorded as 'heart attacks' or 'accidents.' Also,
women are much more likely than men to convince their extramarital intimates
to do the killing, or to use contract killers. ...
"...criminologist
Coramae Richey Mann found that 60% of female murders of male intimates were
preplanned, and 70% of the killings were done while the victim was asleep,
bound, helpless or inebriated."
See
A Twist of Faith, Chapter
8
Outpouring for Pope masks Europe's
spiritual crisis:
"They stood in a line that stretched at least a mile, sometimes 30 abreast....
The funeral of this modern pope has become the greatest Christian pilgrimage
of all time. Accordingly, images out of Rome this week give the impression
of a still-vibrant European Christianity.
"...while believers have
not disappeared (particularly in the newly free countries of Eastern Europe),
they have become a distinct minority in a continent that is decidedly post-Christian."
See
Re-inventing
the World
Liberal attitudes
(Thomas Sowell):
"Liberals may think of themselves as people who believe in certain principles
but, if you observe their actual behavior, you are likely to discover that
most liberals have a certain set of
attitudes, rather than principles.
Liberals may denounce 'greed,' for example, but in practice it all depends
on whose greed."
The next link shows
reasons why such subjective attitudes are replacing objective knowledge.
The Pied Pipers of Purpose:
"David Hornbeck was possibly
one of the most controversial figures in grassroots America during the late
1980s and early 1990s. As an education reform consultant he traveled to
approximately 30 states marketing a plan to 'transform' education. In these
nearly identical state plans Hornbeck referred to children as 'human capital.'
His recommendations called for sweeping changes in the education of children,
including databanking, standards, results ('outcomes'), and assessments....
"Hornbeck re-defined education away from traditional academic subjects (that
require rational thinking) towards affective education – attitudes, opinions,
beliefs and values.... Education reform plans reveal that 'human capital'
is more heavily oriented towards exhibiting the proper attitudinal attributes
and work skills than esteeming a person’s actual cognitive knowledge. Hornbeck
also envisioned the local school as the 'hub' of a community, offering day
care, social services, medical care, food stamps, welfare, mental health,
recreation, job training, parent training – a 'one-stop-shop' to meet all
human needs from cradle to grave."
Now large churches
are beginning to provide the same kind of "one-stop-shop" training and service.
See
Social Change and Communitarian
Systems
March 2005
'Israel' erased from Canadian
passports: "Under
a new passport policy in Canada, 'Israel' cannot be specified as the country
of birth for Canadian citizens born in Jerusalem.... A 2004 ruling by the
U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. mirrors the Canadian policy. The
court ruled American consular offices in Israel need not register the birthplace
of an American citizen born in Jerusalem as 'Jerusalem, Israel,' but merely
as 'Jerusalem.'''
Paying by Fingerprint at the
Supermarket: "Customers
of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their shopping
by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out, saving the time spent
scrabbling for coins or cards."
See
No Place to Hide?
B.C. not P.C. for students:
"Educators' move to change 'Before Christ' to 'Before Common Era' sparking
outrage.... In what's perceived as a case of political correctness trumping
history and everyday usage, students in Australia are now seeing the calendar
term B.C. – which stands for 'Before Christ' – being replaced with BCE,
meaning 'Before Common Era.'...
"The
headline in the Telegraph declares: 'Mad' bureaucrats censor Jesus Christ.'"
See
Re-inventing
the World
February
2005
Scientists face challenge assessing
bird flu risks: "The
'very frightening' outbreak of virulent bird flu in Asia could lead to the
most devastating human pandemic in history - or it could continue just to
produce isolated deaths...."
Colonias, disease and danger:
"As more illegal aliens sneak past our borders without being screened for
diseases, they disperse throughout our country carrying a backpack full
of Center For Disease Control consequences. Within the past few years, leprosy,
tuberculosis, hepatitis, Chagas disease and even malaria have jumped over
our borders from Mexico on the backs of an average 10,000 illegal aliens
daily, seven days a week.... The tapeworm had previously been eradicated
in U.S. pork via animal husbandry techniques.... Since that world is immigrating
into America at an unprecedented rate of speed, the parasite is moving along
with them....The most sobering aspect of Third World traditions is the lack
of handwashing as a normal aspect of personal hygiene."
American
minute - February 13:
"'Man has forgotten God, that is why this has happened,' was Solzhenitsyn's
response when questioned about the decline of modern culture. A Russian
author, Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for eight years by Joseph Stalin. He
wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago' for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1970, but the Communist government would not allowed him to
leave the country to accept it. Finally, under international pressure, the
Soviet Union expelled him on this day February 13, 1974.
"While in Washington, D.C., in 1975, Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned:
'I...call upon America to be more careful...because they are trying to weaken
you...to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this
fearful threat - one that has never been seen before in the history of the
world.'"
Deut 8:10-20
Goal is Israel's destruction:
"As Israel and the Palestinians agree to a cease-fire setting the stage
for peace talks, official Palestinian Authority television continues to
communicate the ultimate goal of eliminating the Jewish state. In the official
Friday sermon broadcast last week, senior Muslim figure Ibrahim Mudyris
explained that the diplomatic process can only achieve a return to the borders
Israel had before the 1967 war. The final stage, he said will be the destruction
of Israel 'the way Muhammad returned there as a conqueror.' "
See
Chronology of Conquests in
the Name of Allah
NYC Health Officials Find New,
Virulent HIV Strain:
"New York City doctors have discovered a man with a previously unseen strain
of HIV that is resistant to three of the four types of anti-viral drugs
tcombat the disease, and progresses from infection to full-blown AIDS in
two or three months...."
January 2005
Unbelieving 'born-agains'
:
"Secularists, liberals, and Muslims do not need to fear conservative Christians,
says Dave Shiflett in The Wall Street Journal.... He cites poll data from
Christian researcher George Barna that
26 percent of born-agains believe all religions
are essentially the same and that
50 percent believe that a life of good works will enable a person
to get to heaven.... More than one in three (35 percent) born-again Christians
do not believe that Jesus rose physically
from the dead....
"It is all right to be religious, according to the dictates of postmodernism,
as long as your faith exist in your head. If you start claiming that...
what you believe is objectively real and valid for everybody, then you are
an intolerant menace to society....
"Preachers sometimes exhort people to 'invite Jesus into your heart' without
proclaiming who Jesus is and what He has done for sinners. This is evangelism
that forgets to preach the gospel. The result will be 'non-evangelical born-agains.'"
See
Widening the gate to
the Kingdom
Omaha [man] offers forehead
as Billboard: "With
all the advertising around us, it's not always easy coming up with a message
consumers will notice. One Omaha man wants to use his head to get the word
out.... Twenty-year-old Andrew Fischer is leasing his forehead on e-Bay.
'I'm basically going to be a billboard for 30 days.'"
December 2004
People-tracking closer to reality
- Deal forged to equip VeriChip with global positioning satellite:
"Applied Digital has created and successfully field-tested a prototype of
an implant for humans with GPS, or global positioning satellite, technology.
... Once inserted into a human, it can be tracked by GPS technology and
the information relayed wirelessly to the Internet, where an individual's
location, movements and vital signs can be stored in a database for future
reference."
Revelation 13
November 2004
Erasing religion
:
"'It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty
God... to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection.'
— Thanksgiving Day proclamation by George Washington.
"Students
attending public school in Mary land will never see the above quote. The
religious component of the first thanksgiving meal is 'not allowed' to be
mentioned."
The (forgotten) Ten Commandments
(2001)
:
"According to a new British poll, the country is quickly forgetting the
Ten Commandments.... Less than half of the population remembered the admonitions
not to steal, murder or commit adultery, but it appears that commandments
such as 'don't take the Lord's name in vain' are fast becoming a distant
memory. Only 9 percent of those polled recalled the commandment not to lie.
Worst remembered of all the commandments was 'keep the Sabbath day holy,'
which was correctly identified by only 4 percent of those polled."
Chart: Paradigm Shift: Total
transformation
Vatican fears Christianity under attack by new 'inquisition':
"...of all the ills afflicting the modern world, none is causing deeper
concern than the rising tide of what Vatican officials call 'militant secularism'
washing over Europe.... For the ailing Pope John Paul II, whose 26-year
papacy has been marked by a dramatic expansion of the Vatican’s authority
worldwide, Catholicism’s waning influence in Europe is a source of deep
dismay." See
Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
Woman Charged After Saying She
Would Sacrifice Children:
"Police were called to St. Mary's Church on Lowell Street by church officials
who said Nicole Mancini, 29, and her boyfriend, John Thurber, 35, were trying
to force their way into the empty church. 'They said there was a couple
there who wanted to sacrifice one of their children.'"
See
The Fall and Rise of
Human Violence
God worse than terrorism?
"Robert Reich, the former U.S. labor secretary under President Bill Clinton,
believes people who follow God pose a more significant threat to the modern
world than terrorists do. 'Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we
face,' writes Reich in a column titled "Bush's God" published in the American
Prospect. ... "The true battle will be between modern civilization and anti-modernists;
between those who believe in the primacy of the individual and those who
believe that human beings owe their allegiance and identity to a higher
authority; between those who give priority to life in this world and those
who believe that human life is mere preparation for an existence beyond
life; between those who believe in science, reason, and logic and those
who believe that truth is revealed through Scripture and religious dogma.
Terrorism will disrupt and destroy lives. But terrorism itself is not the
greatest danger we face."
See
The Enemy
of The People?
Girl allegedly beats 4-Year-Old
friend to death:
"A 12-year-old girl has
been charged in the beating death of a 4-year-old family friend.... 'Our
prosecutors are confronted with the raw emotion of these tragedies day after
day,' said Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman for the state's attorney's office.
'They are weary from the grief that is shared by the families in our community.
They wonder 'Are we losing this battle?'...
"'...it does point
out that girls are unquestionably becoming more violent,' he said, noting
charges against several women and girls earlier this year in the brutal
beating of a 12-year-old girl at a birthday party."
See
A Twist of Faith, Chapter
8 - "Deliver us from evil"
and
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Overspending on AIDS killing
us
:
"While about 16,000 Americans died from AIDS in 1992, over twice that many
die annually just from flu. A half million succumb yearly to cancer, with
the death rate for incurable pancreatic cancer alone about twice that as
for AIDS.... It’s obscene that almost a fifth of Americans still consider
AIDS our prime health problem when our biggest killer, heart disease, reaps
700,000 Americans annually....
"Jaffe worries that high-risk behavior continues
among homosexual men as evidenced by syphilis outbreaks among them; but
this is merely an inevitable reaction to the good news. The medicines are
now so incredibly effective that while HIV infection was once seen as a
death sentence, it’s now viewed as an inconvenience.... Further, with so
much money involved and with AIDS the prima donna of federal spending, corruption
became inevitable. Embezzlements, junkets and other misspending were documented
in the liberal Washington Monthly by, of all people, a co-founder of the
AIDS activist group ACT-UP."
See
The Mainstream Media
GOP questions 'immigrant voters
guide': "Hoping to decipher the state's perplexing ballot propositions,
a coalition of advocacy groups has published an unprecedented 'immigrant
voters guide' for tens of thousands of foreign-born citizens across California.
While the coalition claims to be nonpartisan, its guide might create a different
impression."
October 2004
Jews, Israel and America:
"'Many Iraqis have so much distrust for U.S. forces we found they've come
up with a nickname for our troops,' Scott said. 'They call American soldiers
'The Jews'....
"But such talk is also indicative of a trend in the
Arab media, after a century of Arab-Jewish strife, where if you want to
brand someone as illegitimate, just call him a 'Jew.' ... Now you find a
steadily rising perception across the Arab-Muslim world that the great enemy
of Islam is JIA - 'Jews, Israel and America,' all lumped together in a single
threat. This wider trend has been fanned by Arab satellite TV stations,
which deliberately show split-screen images of Israelis bashing Palestinians
and U.S. forces bashing the Iraqi insurgents."
The U.S. mainstream media shows
some similar biases -- but against Christian values.
See
The Mainstream Media
Millions face bleak future as
pensions crisis is revealed
(UK): Workers will suffer a
30 per cent cut in their retirement income unless urgent action is taken
to tackle the pensions crisis.... More than 12 million people over the age
of 25 are not saving enough for their retirement."
Social welfare may win votes but destroy diligence and personal responsibility.
Today's dumbed-down education emphasizing collective thinking doesn't help.
See
Chart: Total transformation
Not a simple answer’ for desert’s
syphilis problem
:
"Palm Springs alone has a syphilis rate of 81.8 per 100,000 people in 2003,
twice the rate of the nation’s No. 1 city for syphilis, San Francisco. ...
The disease, health officials say, is being spread in the desert almost
exclusively by gay men, many of whom are also HIV-positive. ...Left unchecked,
syphilis can cause blindness, neurological damage, heart disease and death....
"...about
75 percent of the gay men infected with syphilis also have HIV. ... 'They
think ‘If I get AIDS, it will be like I have diabetes. All I have to do
is take a pill every day.’"
Rampant Cheating Forces College
to Change Honor Code:
"A university affiliated with the Church of Christ has changed its honor
code after an anonymous student survey showed nearly half of its students
admitted to cheating."
2 Timothy 3:1-14
The Degradation of Language
and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care: "There was a time not
long ago when an elaborate command of the English language was considered
part of the fabric of American culture. In 1863 orator Edward Everett kept
a crowd at Gettysburg hanging onto his every word during his three-hour
speech.
"Three
hours? Yes, because he was an excellent orator in a time when American society
valued excellent orators. Even during the first half of the 20th century,
a command of spoken and written English on a level that would confound many
of today's college students was required by the time one finished the eighth
grade. Besides that, it was the social norm; ain't so anymore....
"The
Hegelian dialectic happens to be the most popular model of thinking today...."
See
Reinventing the World
- Part 2: The Mind-Changing Process
September 2004
The young put their faith in
mysticism: "Young
people have more faith in mysticism than in the Church and the Bible, according
to research which suggests a revival of the 'Age of Aquarius'. Nearly two
thirds of 18- to 24-year-olds believe in the power of horoscopes, compared
to just over a third who swear by the Bible, a survey of 3,000 people has
found. ...
"The findings... will
refuel concerns among Church leaders about an emerging interest among young
people in New Age beliefs and fringe religious movements such as Kabbalah,
which has attracted celebrities like the singer Madonna."
See
Popular Occultism
Teacher In Trouble For Ripping
Bible: "An Idaho English teacher is in trouble for ripping up
a Bible in class. Burley High's Karen Christenson said she was trying to
illustrate a point about censorship, as her sophomore students read Ray
Bradbury's novel 'Fahrenheit 451,' which is set in a future society that
commands all literature be burned."
Today's belief
that people must learn what's right from wrong by the virtual (or imagined)
experience of evil has a negative effect; it eventually makes evil seem
normal rather than abhorrent.
Psalm 101:3
August 2004
Esoteric Christianity: "...this
dynamic individual was now actively trying to persuade me of the validity
of his experience and spiritual position. More than that, his ultimate aim
was to lead me into a similar experience so that I too could come 'face
to face with Jesus' within my own soul.
"'...we don't need the Bible, just put it on the shelf'
was something he repeated on many occasions. Why?... Moreover, God was revealing
this new soul-reality by doing 'a new thing' through fantastic (mystical)
experiences....
"Throughout the course of our time together, my guest continuously
referred to fearing God - not that we were to fear God, but just the opposite.
The claim was simple: in order to know God fully, man must shed any fear
of God, for the fear of the Lord breeds pride, lust, and anger. This fear
of God, my guest explained, was the root of pride and sin....
"Be aware of wolves in sheep's clothing, be aware of experienced-based
teachings which counter or twist God's Holy Word, be aware of those who
proclaim an 'esoteric' version of Christianity - rightfully teaching that
Jesus was divine, but adding to it the message of an internalized 'Jesus
spirit' and/or self-deification.'"
See
Forgetting the Fear of the Lord
and
Mark 13:5
Outbreak of RFID tagging at
medical facilities:
"The Jacobi Medical Centre in New York is tagging patients with RFID chips
in a pilot project run with Siemens Business Services. The chips are incorporated
into the wrist bands issued when a patient is admitted. The idea is that
the chips will cut down on patient misidentification, and make accessing
medical records faster.... Medical staff will carry RFID readers and tablet
style PCs with Wi-Fi access to the medical network.... The patient record
is connected to the labs, pharmacy and, perhaps most usefully for hospital
administrators, to billing."
Revelation 13
Talk about getting religion!
"Rub your eyes. Did we just see a Democratic convention brimming with flag-waving
patriotism, respect for the military, and references to God and values?
...The Boston convention was a festival of values that the Democratic Party
either does not hold or does not want mentioned much in the public arena.
...
"Perhaps
the most jarring of the 'values' themes in Boston was the convention’s attempt
to identify with religious voters. Come to the Democratic convention and
sing 'Amazing Grace.' Many religious people, of course, are Democrats. But
the secular elites who control the party have worked long and hard to marginalize
religion in America and to banish it from the public square."
See
Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
July 2004
Jesus actor mistaken for the
real deal: "James
Caviezel has been swamped with requests to perform miracles by Mexican fans
who believe he really is Jesus Christ. The 35-year-old actor, who played
Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, was on a one-week tour
of the east Mexican state of Veracruz. According to Mexican newspaper Reforma,
dozens of residents from villages throughout the state, one of the poorest
in the country, asked Caviezel to heal the sick and perform other miracles
as he passed through."
Caviezel doesn't claim to be
Christ, but his image as Christ deceives many.
Luke 21:10
and
Mel Gibson's
"Passion"
Danish minister in trouble for
denying God, afterlife: "The Danish government today upheld the
clerical suspension of a Lutheran minister who proclaimed last year that
there was no God or afterlife, and he now could be fired or fined for declaring
his beliefs in the pulpit.... About 85 percent of Danes belong to the state
Evangelical Lutheran Church, though just 5 percent attend church services
regularly." See
Postmodern thinking
Europe in Deep Depopulation
Trouble as 1 in 5 Women in UK Sterilized:
"...in the U.K. 20.8% of women used sterilization as a means of contraception
and the figure for Germany is 16.2%. It was also found that women in the
U.K. chose to be sterilized two to three years earlier than in other countries
where the average age for sterilization was found to be 32."
2 Timothy 3:1-14
June 2004
Boy Scouts still under heavy
fire: "One of the
most outrageous injustices occurring in our society is the homosexual activists'
relentless assault on the Boy Scouts of America, all because the BSA will
not conform its standards to accommodate their lifestyle. It's not enough
that even the liberal United States Supreme Court ruled in Boy Scouts of
America v. Dale that the Constitution guarantees the BSA's right to exclude
homosexuals from leadership positions in its organization. Homosexual activists
will not take no for an answer. Their brand of tolerance insists that no
tolerance be accorded the Scouts."
Matthew 24:9
Postmodernism: "Whereas
modernism is thought to be the culmination of the Enlightenment's quest
for an authoritatively-rational aesthetics, ethics, and knowledge, postmodernism
is concerned with how the authority of those would-be-ideals (sometimes
called metanarratives) are subverted through fragmentation, consumerism,
and deconstruction."
2 Timothy 4:3-4
May 2004
Iranian official threatens U.S.
Suicide: "'We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of
Anglo-Saxon civilization and for the uprooting of the Americans and the
English.... Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization,
and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will
launch our missiles at their cities and installations....
"'...the
global infidel front is a front against Allah and the Muslims, and we must
make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front.... There
are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied
on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them."
Matthew 24:7
and
Psalm 27:1-4
Christians look to form 'new
nation' within U.S.
:
"Burnell is leading the charge for a peaceful secession of one state from
the union.... According to the ChristianExodus website, which is slated
for a major relaunch next month, 'Christians have actively tried to return
our entire land to its moral foundation for more than 20 years. We can categorically
say that absolutely nothing has been achieved."
The "world" will never conform to God's guidelines. It can't.
Jesus came to change the hearts and lives of people, not the world system.
See
1 John 5:19
CAIR's war on conservative radio:
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations won't condemn Muslim fanatics,
but it has declared war on outspoken Americans who will.... CAIR, which
calls itself 'America's largest Islamic civil liberties group,' has lately
focused its wrath on conservative radio talk show hosts.... CAIR fights
dirty -- fabricating quotes, taking comments out of context, indulging in
the cult of victimology and exploiting a gullibly sympathetic press. By
manufacturing an anti-Muslim hate epidemic that doesn't exist, CAIR obfuscates
its own suspicious role in fomenting anti-American extremism....
"The
ever-feisty Dr. Laura stood her ground, refusing to apologize for advising
a mother not to let her daughter attend a field trip to a local mosque unless
it was "one that has done its best to rout out terrorists in its midst."
See
Can Global
Oneness Save the Earth?
April 2004
Religious materials banned for
B.C. home schooling: "Home-schooling parents are fuming after
the B.C. Education Ministry ordered thousands of them to stop using faith-based
materials -- or any other 'unofficial' resource -- when teaching their children
at home.... Nagle is one of many home-schooling parents lured into the public
school system in recent years through an electronic distance-education program.
After starting as a pilot project with 2,200 kids, the program ballooned
to 6,800. ...'Districts must ensure that students are not using religious
materials or resources as part of the educational program and that parents
are not being reimbursed for using religious materials or resources with
students.'"
A warning to those who promote school "choice" funded with state monies:
"He who pays the piper calls the tune."
Proverbs 22:6
and
Col 2:8
ABC airs biased 'Jesus and Paul'
Special: "Monday
night ABC-TV aired a three-hour special 'Jesus and Paul—The Word and the
Witness.' ...The program presented the 'expert' analysis from liberal theologians
and carried an underlying worldview of distrust in Scripture and Jesus'
divinity. According to Focus on the Family's Tom Neven, 'Jennings repeatedly
refers to 'the Jesus movement' as if it were just another political party
or faction. They also pit Paul against Jesus, as if the apostle taught things
that contradicted Jesus, and some refer to Paul as 'the founder of Christianity.'"
2 Thessalonians
2:9-12
Treasures in sinland:
"You see, a watchman is called to warn God’s own of impending danger, not
make people feel better about themselves through motivational speaking and
writing with humorous anecdotes, heartwarming stories and psychotherapy
– a practice that has not only become commonplace in the pulpits of America
but has turned Christianity into consumeranity."
2 Cor 2:17
March 2004
Sharon has opened the gates
of hell: "Hamas
leaders vowed Monday to 'cut off' the head of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,
after their spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed in a missile
strike by Israeli helicopter gunships in Gaza City.... 'Words cannot describe
the emotion of anger and hate inside our hearts,' said Hamas official Ismail
Haniyeh."
Matthew 24:7
After Sheik Is Slain, Hamas
Picks Fiery Figure as Its Leader in Gaza:
"'The Israelis will not know security,' Dr. Rantisi told the crowd at a
memorial service on Tuesday for Sheik Yassin. 'We will fight them until
the liberation of Palestine, the whole of Palestine.' And in remarks directed
at the 'military wing' of Hamas, he said: 'The door is open for you to strike
all places, all the time and using all means.'"
(New York Times, registration required)
Prophecies concerning Jerusalem
Brewing interest in teens?
"Alcohol companies offer games and interactive
features on their websites, although minors are not supposed to enter these
sites. A new study of 74 such sites calls them 'kid friendly.'...
"'We know that young people are highly susceptible and impressionable,'
says Mrs. Goodwin, who started speaking out against underage drinking 15
years before her daughter's death. 'Alcopops? They're just like the tobacco
industry's Camel Joe. They're creating gateway behaviors. The first step
to get someone to drink is making them comfortable with the concept.'"
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Man treated after attempting
to nail himself to cross:
"A Hartland man was treated at a Pittsfield hospital after he nailed himself
to a cross. The 23-year-old man apparently was trying to commit suicide."
Colossians 2:8
'Why do they hate us?'
"The idea that what goes around
comes around applies not only to individuals but to nations and whole civilizations.
It was just a few centuries ago -- not long, as history is measured -- that
China had the highest standard of living in the world and the Dutch were
the world's largest exporters, while North Africans were enslaving a million
Europeans.
"Nowhere have whole peoples seen their situation reversed more visibly or
more painfully than the peoples of the Islamic world."
See
Four Faces of Islam
But America is changing
as well:
America's Spiritual Slide
VeriChip:
"VeriChip is a miniaturized, implantable
radio frequency identification device (RFID) that has the potential to be
used in a variety of personal identification,
security, financial, and potential healthcare applications. About the size
of a grain of rice, each VeriChip product contains a unique verification
number..."
Revelation 13
It's the heart versus the Bible:
"I recently interviewed a 26-year-old Swedish student about her views on
life. I asked her if she believed in God or in any religion. 'No, that's
silly,' she replied. 'Then how do you know what is right and wrong?' I asked.
'My heart tells me,' she responded. In a nutshell, that's the major reason
for the great divide within America and between America and much of Europe.
The majority of people use their heart -- stirred by their eyes -- to determine
what is right and wrong. A minority uses their mind and/or the Bible to
make that determination."
See
A Twist of Faith, Chapter
10
The Beginning of Sorrows:
"Ten years ago, the whole world was focused on AIDS, the new disease ravaging
every continent except, perhaps, Antarctica.... Now the birds have the flu,
the cows are going mad, we look at our meat with a questioning eye.... The
mosquitoes may be carrying West Nile and every animal is a potential carrier
of something besides rabies.... France had a recent Richter 5.1 and
Gibraltar topped it the next day with a Richter 6-plus."
Matthew 24:7
Is Europe the New ‘Dark Continent’?
"...there are signs that Europe's Christian era has come to an end.... Less
than half of the British public can name any of the four New Testament Gospels.
Almost a third of all Dutch no longer know why we have Christmas day. There
is a new ‘dark continent’—the land that used to be known as Christian Europe.
Today, many of its cathedrals are simply large museum pieces. They are ‘artifacts
of an ancient religion, and a dead faith.’....
"'The
loss of faith, in Europe, is like an ‘unseen black star’ that still has
a tremendous gravitational pull. They don't understand why their culture
is failing. They don't understand why divorce rates and suicide rates are
so high.... This is the impact of the death of real Christian belief in
Europe.' Yet the European media never tires of mocking America's high church
attendance as 'something weird'....
"...secularism
has created a spiritual void, a vacuum in Europe that beckons faith to return.
There is a real worry that if Europe tires of this spiritual chaos, then
the religion they will turn to is Islam."
Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
Reversal of Culpability:
"...'A painting that featured the words Israel and the United States and
replaced each ‘s' with a Nazi swastika was removed from an Oslo [Norway]
art exhibition.' How is it possible to confuse the tiny Jewish state
with the vast Nazi empire that attempted to exterminate the Jews? And how
is it possible to confuse the United States, which liberated Europe from
Nazi shackles, with the Nazis themselves? Nor was this an isolated incident.
Just last month in neighboring Sweden, there was another 'art exhibit,'
this one honoring a woman who murdered 22 people in a Haifa restaurant last
fall.
"Meanwhile, a shelf of new books has been published in Europe arguing that
America is the real 'evil empire.... Where does this extravagant hatred
for, and slander of, America and Israel come from?"
Galatians 5:19-26
&
Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
Many Americans Support TV Executions:
"Two-thirds of Americans polled last month said they support the idea of
televising executions -- and 21 percent said they'd pay to watch Osama bin
Laden put to death. Eleven percent said they would pay to see Saddam Hussein
executed." Does that
remind you of ancient Rome when watching executions was popular entertainment?
'Biblical' locust plague threatens
Mideast: With the
Passover celebration just weeks away, a locust plague of biblical proportions
could threaten parts of the Middle East and Africa, according to a United
Nations agency....
"Another plague of locusts
in the Bible was recounted by the prophet Joel, who said they made the fig
tree 'clean bare; the branches thereof are made white.'"
Habakkuk 3:17-19
February 2004
Toxic tests on humans can be
justified: "Dosing volunteers with
toxic pesticides and pollutants for scientific purposes is justified only
under strict conditions and with careful review, a National Academy of Sciences
panel said Thursday. ...[I]ntentional dosing studies in humans should be
considered only if all of a set of conditions are met. ...The possible
benefits to society from the research must
outweigh any anticipated risks to participants."
Charts: From Christianity
to Globalism
Palestininian leader says "Israel
is Satanic offspring:" Ahmad
Nasser, Secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council, asserts that Israel
cannot exist 'among human beings' because it was 'founded on the basis of
robbery, terror, killing, torture, assassination, death, stealing land and
killing people.... The interview also cites 'The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion,' the infamous Russian forgery that was presented as
the Jews' secret plan to rule the world, as the basis for the recent exchange
of 400 Arab prisoners for one Israeli and the bodies of three soldiers."
Intel Says Chip Speed Breakthrough
Will Alter Cyberworld:
"It will... make possible a new class of computing applications based on
the possibility of transmitting high-definition video and images hundreds
or even thousands of times faster than possible on today's Internet....
One potential application... would be an interactive digital television
system allowing viewers to watch a sporting event from multiple angles,
moving the point of view at will while the game is being played."
House Democrats claim prayer
is 'disrespectful':
(No admittance
to this page without giving information):
"Rep. Doug Quelland, R-Phoenix, caused a stir on Tuesday when he delivered
a prayer on the House floor that took aim at multiculturalism, welfare,
abortion and 'alternative lifestyles.' It was a prayer that has made the
rounds on the Internet since 1996 when it was delivered before the Kansas
House of Representatives. Offended Democrats filed an official protest,
saying the prayer was partisan, disrespectful and divisive."
It may have been this prayer:
Opening Prayer
January 2004
Fear over 'lab-grown' embryos:
"Mice born from embryos cultured in the laboratory showed behavioural differences
from normal mice, according to a study. The mice showed signs of less anxiety
- and performed worse in memory tests."
Brave New World
The Mark of the Beast:
"The new EU strategy is to penalize Israel with higher tariffs on fruits,
vegetables and other products from the 'settlements'.... The aim is to use
the EU’s enormous economic leverage as blackmail and force Israel to capitulate
to Europe’s definition of 'peace.' ...In effect, the EU is imposing economic
sanctions on Israel while financing the Palestinian terror war....
"Eleven years ago, when our first granddaughter, Eden, was born,
we opened a savings account for her in Switzerland.... Many grandparents
do the same....This year when we wanted to register two more grandchildren,
the bank teller already knew of my 'status.' Yet, when she entered the name
'Israel' in the computer, it set off an error message, ejecting her from
the program!
"...we’ve arrived
at a time when it’s getting harder for Israelis to buy and sell as others
do. It always begins with the Jews, but it doesn’t stop there. First, the
Jews were sent to the death camps, but then those Christians who rejected
Nazism suffered the same fate. Eventually, Jews and Christians who don’t
carry the special 'mark' will not be able to conduct business in the marketplace.
It could happen sooner than we expect."
Revelation 13
Study Says Old City Most at
Risk in Quake (Jerusalem):
"The Bible tells of earthquakes splitting open the hills of this holy city
with apocalyptic fury, adding to the mayhem of battles and punctuating Jesus'
crucifixion. Now, a geological survey says the heart of biblical narrative
- Jerusalem's walled Old City - would be among the worst hit parts of the
city in the event of another earthquake because it rests on layers of debris,
not solid rock."
Matthew 24:7
Greeting Big Brother With Open
Arms: "For 50 years, Big Brother was an unambiguous symbol of
malignant state power, totalitarianism's all-seeing eye. Then Big Brother
became a hip reality television show, in which 10 cohabiting strangers submitted
to round-the-clock camera monitoring in return for the chance to compete
for $500,000..... Today, more than twice as many young people apply to MTV's
'Real World' show than to Harvard.... Clearly, to a post-cold-war generation
of Americans, the prospect of living under surveillance is no longer scary
but cool."
See
Brave New World
Christianity versus Psychology:
"In the last days 'people will be lovers of themselves' so the Bible warns
us in 2 Timothy 3:2. I wonder how many Christian churches realize that they
might be helping to fulfill this prophecy. One of the biggest threats to
Christ's church today is the religion of psychology.... Freud called religion
inherently evil and said it was a form of neurosis. Jung called religion
a mental illness and said it was just an imaginary coping mechanism. Both
of these men dabbled in mysticism and the occult.
"...psychology tells us to focus on - ourselves. It teaches that our unhappiness
comes from OUR unmet needs. It's about how WE feel, about OUR plans and
OUR desires."
Judges 17:6 and 21:25
December 2003
36-foot Jesus sparks outrage:
"While a 36-foot promotional poster of Jesus sporting a CD halo and a price
tag on his head was meant to remind shopper of the true meaning of Christmas,
the commercial additions to the image have sparked protest... '[Jesus] doesn't
symbolize shopping. This is a stupid idea, and it won't get us to buy more,'
16-year-olds Cathrine Eckbo and Sandra Hansen told the paper." With prompting
from the schools and Hollywood every aspect of Christianity is trivialized
these days.
See
The Cross: Feared,
Banned, Trivialized... yet Triumphant
When Cash Is Only Skin Deep:
"A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow
consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their
skin."
Revelation
13
November 2003
Future's bright for terror betting:
"A futures market first proposed by the Pentagon that allows speculators
to bet on assassinations, coups and acts of terrorism is to be set up without
government involvement, it emerged yesterday.... Retired vice admiral John
Poindexter, who served as Ronald Reagan's national security adviser, headed
the office overseeing the project. His association with it contributed to
the furor, and he later resigned."
Remember, Pointdexter headed
up the DARPA project (below) as well. It was stopped after much public protest:
The American Inquisition Has
Begun: "Moore's attorneys
had some 20 pieces of evidentiary material that they could have presented.
This was denied. There were also several credible witnesses, including former
Alabama Governor Fob James, that could have been called to testify on Moore's
behalf. This was also denied....
Chief Justice Roy Moore
was removed from the bench, not for committing any crime, not for participating
in unethical conduct, and not even for posting the Ten Commandments in the
Alabama Judicial Building. He was removed from office for acknowledging
God!...
"Not
only was he commanded to recant his public acknowledgment of God, the trial
itself was conducted out of public view. No television cameras or recording
devices were allowed. Obviously, the inquisitors did not want the American
people to see and hear for themselves what took place inside the Alabama
Judicial Building on that day."
Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
Walt Disney, Henry Ford, and
the Founding Fathers:
"I am certain that the Founding Fathers would be distressed at the way we
have allowed their carefully constructed, much debated words have been twisted
so as to kick God and the Bible out of our schools and to protect the purveyors
of obscenity.... Today, neither George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
John Adams, nor James Madison could be elected to Congress in any of the
states from which they hailed two centuries ago."
Isaiah 66:3-5
Judge to Christian mom: No 'homophobic'
teaching: "Cheryl
Clark, who says she is a Christian, has been ordered by Denver County Circuit
Judge John W. Coughlin to 'make sure that there is nothing in the religious
upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered
homophobic.' The directive arose from the decision to award joint parenting
responsibilities for her daughter to a practicing homosexual."
Psalm 36:1-3
October 2003
Single Global Currency Association
- Welcome: "...the
Single Global Currency Association, which is dedicated to the goal of implementing
a single global currency by 2025. We shall achieve this goal through education
and persuasion.... The single global currency would be managed by a single
international central bank, with a representative governing board; and member
countries would be required to abide by agreed-upon fiscal discipline standards."
Revelation 13
Chronology Towards a Single
Global Currency:
"This schedule is proposed to add realism to the idea that the goal of a
single global currency is achievable by the year 2025."
Norwegians least religious in
Europe: "Professor Harald Hegstad at the University of Oslo said
Norwegians are 'spiritually lazy.' Earlier studies have suggested that while
the vast majority of Norwegians are members of the state church because
they're automatically born into it, only around 4 percent regularly attend
church services. 'We have a sort of ritualized Christianity here that doesn't
demand much of people,' he said."
But years
ago, Norway sent out more missionaries per capita than any other nation.
But it changed.
Revelation
3:15
September 2003
War and Red Ink:
"Are we prepared to spend
less on domestic programs like Social Security, welfare, and education?
Are we prepared to raise taxes? Can we continue to borrow money abroad?"
Deut 28:15
California’s Bustamante, MEChA
and the media (Michelle Malkin):
"MEChA members in the University of California system have rioted in Los
Angeles, editorialized that federal immigration 'pigs should be killed,
every single one' .....MEChA’s symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick
and machete-like weapon in its claws; its motto is... 'For the race, everything.
For those outside the race, nothing.'
"The
MEChA Constitution calls on members to 'promote Chicanismo within the community...
for the purpose of liberating Aztlan.' 'Aztlan' is the group’s term
for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon
down to California and Arizona and over to Texas....
“In
their tactics to advance Latinos and ‘La Raza,’ many of its activists have
directed racist attacks against not only white-skinned Anglos but also against
blacks, Asian-Americans and Jews — in fact, against every non-Latino group.”
See
John 2:24-25
Bustamante won't renounce ties
to Chicano student group: "Instead, Bustamante, who is running
to be governor of California, praised the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan,
or MEChA, and said he still supports it."
August 2003
Teens have right to have sex,
lawyer argues: "When an Oak Creek woman found her 14-year-old
daughter nude in the woman's bed with a 14-year-old boy, the teens didn't
strike her as being overly concerned. 'They both freely admitted that their
intention was to have sex,' records quote the woman as saying. They 'were
confrontational and remorseless.' The teens even 'challenged' the woman
to call police. So she did.
"
...a
lawyer for one of them contends 14-year-olds have a right to privacy that
allows them to consent to sex with each other, and has challenged the constitutionality
of the law."
Makes sense!
Children learn to define right and wrong according to their own limited
understanding, their subjective feelings and group consensus. Parents are
told to negotiate rather that set firm standard based on God's law. No wonder
today's teens oppose traditional moral boundaries. And since "all is good
that feels good," they can't grasp the nature of sin or repentance -- or
God's gift of redemption.
Jeremiah
6:10
Will fact match fiction as scientists
start work on thinking robot?
"Scientists have been given
the biggest ever grant to build a 'conscious robot'. The work will not only
bring the scores of intelligent, self-aware machines that populate science
fiction a step closer, it could also provide valuable clues on how human
consciousness develops.....
"'Consciousness is perhaps the last remaining mystery in understanding what
it is to be human,' said Owen Holland, who will lead the work at Essex University.
'By attempting to build physical systems which can produce a form of artificial
consciousness, we hope to learn more about the nature of consciousness.'
...
"Instead
of blindly following their programming, conscious robots would be better
able to react dynamically to their environment, adjusting their behaviour
on any information they could gather."
Who will program the "minds" of these "conscious" robots how to react to
their environments? Whose values will they learn? How might they serve their
human masters in the planned global society where consensus rules and contrary
views are banned?
See
Huxley's Brave New World
and
Genesis 11:4-9
UCLA plans to survey students'
religious habits: "Researchers plan to ask how many students
are 'actively searching and curious about spiritual issues,' how often they
attend religious services and which rituals or religious behaviors are most
attractive to students. Researchers also want to know what role doubt plays
in students' spiritual journeys, and whether school or peer pressure 'get
in the way' of spiritual development."
Do you wonder why the tax-supported
University of California would "spend $1.9 million" to survey the religious
habits" of their students?
Loss of e-mail 'worse than divorce':
"A week without e-mail is more traumatic than moving house or getting divorced,
say techies. ...Electronic
mail is playing such a key role in companies that most people start to get
annoyed after just 30 minutes without e-mail access, the study found."
Your heart
July 2003
Teenagers traded for slave labour
and sex: "Funmi is the face of a hidden problem in Britain. Her
story is like that of hundreds of other girls trafficked to Britain for
either domestic servitude or sexual exploitation. A story of children trapped
in rooms with no papers, no identity, where they are nothing but a commodity
traded for slave labour or tawdry sex, and living under the fear of voodoo."
With globalization and the corruption of the church, slavery returns.
See
The Fall and Rise of Human
Violence
House defeats anti-UNESCO amendment:
"Rep. Paul's proposal would have withheld funding from U.N. group....
"UNESCO meddles in the education affairs of its member countries and continues
to attempt to construct a global school curriculum for American schools,
including radical notions of the family and bizarre sex education programs."
It does more
than "attempt"... It actually guides and coordinates education around the
world -- with much behind-the-scenes support from USA.
See
Molding
Human Resources for the Global Workforce
and the second half of
The International Agenda.
"UNESCO has designated 47 U.N. Biosphere
Reserves in the United States covering more than 70 million acres, without
congressional approval. This project has led to the confiscation of private
lands and restrictions on the use of public land."
To understand UNESCO's values and agenda, read
World Heritage "Protection"?
Fury, God and the Pastor's Disbelief
(Registration Required):
"Thorkild Grosboll, a popular Lutheran
pastor in this village by the sea, drags on his pipe and clarifies once
and for all: 'I do not believe in a physical God, in the afterlife, in the
resurrection, in the Virgin Mary.... I believe that Jesus was a nice
guy, who figured out what man wanted.'
"Mr.
Grosboll... has prompted many here to ask: must a minister believe in
Christ and the resurrection to be a good pastor? Isn't it enough to
spread Christian values and help people in need?...
'I
want the focus to be on the here and now, as a cultural factor,' he explained.
'God is not an argument. God is only a question."
Judges 17:6
and
Luke 18:8
Doctor
must pay to raise boy: "The High Court stunned doctors yesterday
with a landmark finding that a surgeon who bungled a woman's sterilisation
is liable for the cost of bringing up her child to the age of 18.... Mrs
Melchior told the doctor she had already had her right fallopian tube removed
during an an appendectomy when she was 15, so he only operated on the left
tube. In fact, she still had her right fallopian tube and in 1997 gave birth
to a healthy son, Jordan. She then successfully sued the doctor and the
Queensland Health Department for medical negligence."
Matthew
24:12
From Angels to Aliens':
"Who knew that Harry Potter, 'The X-Files' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
would be changing the spiritual culture of teens in America?
"Lynn
Schofield Clark is an assistant research professor at CU and she has spent
15 years researching the psyche of American teens and how modern media has
affected them.... 'Years ago I was working with teens at a religious organization
and a young man told me he wasn't going to church, because they didn't speak
'his language.' It then became clear to me, that our popular culture has
become the language for teens. I found that it's very important for adults
to learn about this culture, so they can engage in a dialogue,' explained
Clark....
"Potter,
Buffy and the X-Filers have become the mythical heroes for this generation.
The generation-next heroes are all on missions to save the world and they
all delve into the world of supernatural powers. The myths of today are
found in pop culture.... [They] take place in a circle of strong friendships
and they have a supernatural twist.'...
"The
author found three separate groups of teen believers in her research; the
Resistors who wanted to be anti-establishment and opted for fantasy
shows like Buffy, the Mystics who are ambivalent to organized religion
and borrowed language and popular culture from shows like 'Touched by an
Angel,' and the Intrigued who fall somewhere between organized religion
and the supernatural....
"'We're going to be mixing and
matching a lot of spiritual beliefs in America, and it might lead to some
tension."
2 Timothy
4:3-4
Space aliens? In Solano? The
mystic set comes 'round to see crop circles, feel the healing energy:
"True believers, visionaries, psychics and people in purple robes lay down
Wednesday in the middle of a Solano County wheat field where vortexes were
converging and all things were possible. 'I feel like I'm melting right
into the earth,' said Lily Kyle. 'It's intense. There's a coalescence, no
doubt about it.'"
See
Aliens, Monsters and Creepy
Creatures
Scientists create human ‘she-males’:
"Scientists in the United States have created hybrid human 'she-males,'
mixing male and female cells in the same embryo, in a move that has outraged
fertility experts and anti-abortionists. ... But their work provoked revulsion
when they presented it to the annual meeting of the European Society of
Human Reproduction and Embryology...
"Their work also sparked
outrage from abortion opponents who described it as run-away science. 'This
is gross manipulation of human life,' said Nuala Scarisbrick of the British
anti-abortion group Life."
Apart from God's moral standard,
there is no limit to the unwise projects people will pursue.
Genesis 11:4-9
Couple to have first 'Internet
baby': "A married
couple from the South-East conceived the child using sperm bought from a
website. After paying a fee to browse the site, they were able to check
criteria such as race, eye colour, height and weight of prospective donors...."
Have babies
become a business -- just one more marketed product? What about God's Word
and will?
June 2003
UK babies may be genetically
screened:
"Every child born in the UK could be genetically screened
and the data stored to plan their future healthcare under government proposals
for a massive expansion of genetic testing. ... 'Increasing understanding
of genetics will bring more accurate diagnosis, more personalised prediction
of risk, new gene-based drugs and therapies and better targeted prevention
and treatment'....
[Abortion?
Selective breeding?]
"Josephine
Quintavalle of ProLife Alliance said the plans amounted to a blueprint for
weeding out physical imperfection. 'We have to be very careful. We don't
have enough money to treat all the diseases we know about, so who is going
to get it? Inevitably it will be the healthy child.'"
See
Brave New World
Beyond Cute - Exotic Pets Come
Bearing Exotic Germs:
"Where some people see a cute and cuddly ball of fur, scientists like Dr.
Osterholm see a vector: a ball of disease-causing viruses, bacteria, parasites
and who knows what other germs....
"The worldwide trade in so-called exotic
pets has done two things that are practically a recipe for spreading exotic
diseases. First, the trade has transported animals like giant Gambian rats
across oceans and brought them together with species that they would never
encounter naturally.... Second, the trade has brought people close to animals
— and to diseases — they had little or no contact with before."
Matthew
24:7
Jews flooding into Germany:
"The turbulent relationship between Jews and Germany is taking yet another
stunning turn. Seventy years after Hitler's ascendance to power and 60 years
after the Holocaust, more Jews are flooding into Germany than into any other
country, Israel included. This makes Germany the one nation with the fastest-growing
Jewish community in the world. Ironically, one reason for this state of
affairs is the anti-Semitism in their countries of origin."
Israelis Leery on Eve of Latest
Peace Summit: "..most Israelis seem to be keenly aware that the
struggle Americans view as an Israeli-Palestinian issue is, in fact, much
larger—which President Bush acknowledged by visiting Nazi death camps at
Auschwitz and Birkenau before the latest 'peace summit.'...
"Skepticism is the norm on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Almost
no one really believes peace is imminent. They’ve been teased with the promise
of a truly normal life too many times before."
Malibu Babs - Snapshots of an
eco-hypocrite: "People who live in 10,000-square-foot oceanfront
mansions shouldn't throw stones. That hasn't stopped Barbra Streisand from
lecturing her fellow Californians about their energy use ('We must make
concrete changes in our lifestyles to help solve this energy crisis... try
to line dry [clothes]... only run your dishwasher when it is fully loaded
. . . ') and lambasting President Bush's environmental policies....
Now, this multiple home-owning, custom-built SUV-riding, California coastline-hogging
diva has lobbed a $50 million lawsuit at an eco-activist who posted photos
of her massive estate on the Internet. ...
"It's what the photos of Streisand's mansion don't show -- no windmill-powered
generators, no electric cars... no hemp curtains in the windows of
her eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, no Scaasi evening gowns hanging outside
to dry on clotheslines that should be strung between her precious parasols
-- that expose the truth of her eco-hypocrisy best."
See
Saving the Earth
May 2003
God kept out of EU constitution:
"The long-awaited preamble to the document used the words 'spiritual', 'religious'
and 'humanistic' to describe Europe's heritage and references traditions
in Europe 'nourished by the Greek and Roman civilizations.'"
Mark 8:38
Even feeding birds draws a summons:
"That black license plate frame that came with your car? Illegal. $55 fine.
Taking up two seats on a train? $50. Feeding pigeons in the park? Another
$50. It used to be that most cops wouldn't bother writing a ticket for minor
and obscure infractions. But with the city hurting for money, ordinary citizens
suddenly are finding themselves shelling out hard-earned cash to pay fines
for things they didn't even know were against the law."
John 16:33
Gender gap persists in teenagers'
writing skill: "Boys
are catching up to girls on a national writing test, but almost half of
the country's 16-year-old boys write with so many errors their answers are
barely comprehensible."
This tragedy is a feminist dream
come true. See
Mine is the Power
and
Isaiah
3:5-12
Women in Combat:
"Many are calling for President Bush to change the Clinton policies
that put women into combat areas. And well he should. However, those who
value the role of women as mothers and nurturers, have already lost the
next generation who are enrolled in the indoctrination camps called public
schools...."
Brainwashing in America
(A new perspective on last
week's news)
Evangelical leaders condemn
anti-Islam comments: "Leading
evangelical Christians for the first time have publicly condemned assaults
on Islam
by the Rev. Franklin Graham and other fellow religious conservatives and
pledged to heal rifts with Muslims that threaten missionary work overseas.
The evangelicals said that the derisive comments endangered Christians working
in the Muslim world [and] strained already tense interfaith relations...
"Paul
Marshall, senior fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom, a human rights
group, said anti-Islam comments serve only to antagonize people. 'Exactly
what is to be achieved by that except boosting the ego of who said it?'
he asked....
"The evangelical
group and the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a conservative Christian
organization, are drafting guidelines to begin
interfaith dialogue with Islamic leaders."
Christians are called
to speak the truth in love, always ready to reach out to those who are outside
God's family. Graham and others who expose the truth about Islam help balance
the government and media message that Islam is a "good" and "peaceful" religion
which worships the Biblical God. As followers of Jesus, we must share His
love for the lost and refuse to bend to a politically correct
interfaith "consensus."
See
Twisting Truth through Group
Consensus
and
Chronology of Conquests in
the Name of Allah
and
Faith under Fire in Sudan
Four arrested in Italian baby
organ scandal: "Italian police have arrested four Ukrainians
believed to be part of an international crime ring in which women gave birth
to babies in order to sell their organs.... One was the mother of a baby
born just days ago. The gang had attempted to sell the baby to undercover
officers for 50,000 (£35,844). The four have been charged with attempted
enslavement as well as other crimes."
Another
sign of the sinking depravity of man separated from God and His moral standards.
Human life has no worth beyond its market value or its use for sexual gratification.
See
Deut 28:15
Ministers Asked to Curb Remarks
About Islam: "Evangelical Christian leaders from across the country
called yesterday for fellow ministers such as Jerry Falwell, Franklin Graham
and Pat Robertson to stop making broad, inflammatory remarks about Islam.
'Since we are in a global community, no doubt about it, we must temper our
speech," said the Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association
of Evangelicals, which organized the gathering of about 40 pastors, missionaries
and heads of religious charities that are active in Muslim countries.
"The conference...
represented the first organized effort by fundamentalist Christian groups
to rein in their rhetoric and agree on guidelines about what -- and what
not -- to say about Islam. The primary motivation, speakers made clear,
is concern that remarks intended for a domestic constituency have reverberated
through the Islamic world, inflamed Muslim governments, sparked riots, endangered
Christian aid workers and made missionary efforts harder....
"What we have to
do as evangelical leaders is offer a constructive critique of these sweeping
generalizations about Islam that are either fawning on one end, or hostile
on the other," said Richard Cizik, vice president of the NAE."
We want to serve,
not endanger, God's mission and His faithful missionaries. That means "speaking
the truth in love," asking God's guidance and letting His Word and Spirit,
not human politics and pressures guide our message. Pray that this cultural
globalization will
not restrict our freedom to express
Biblical truth.
Matthew
10:16-22
and
Four Faces of Islam
Chicago's Rain of Meteorites:
"...residents of several Midwestern states witnessed a dazzling — and, to
many, frightening — spectacle in the sky. A brilliant fireball appeared
over central Illinois and moved north, ending its fiery descent through
the atmosphere in at least two bright flashes just south of Chicago. Powerful
sonic booms soon shook the landscape.... Residents have found meteorites
on roads, on lawns, and in woods. One 3-kilogram chunk crashed through a
resident's roof and kitchen floor...."
Luke 21:10
For information about solar flares
and geomagnetic storms as well as meteor showers, visit
spaceweather.com
World Sees Explosion of Infectious
Diseases: "SARS is
just one of three dozen infectious diseases that environmental, economic,
social and scientific changes have unleashed on the world in just the past
30 years. Others include such horrors as Ebola, AIDS, Hantavirus, West Nile,
Nipah and Hendra.
“'This period from the
1970s is without precedent in the history of the annals of medicine,' [said]
Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of Harvard Medical School’s Center
for Health and Global Environment."
Matthew 24:7
Why I hate WAL-MART:
"Wal-Mart is the nation's (and the world's) biggest retailer.... Only a
company of their size can buy direct from manufacturers, cutting out the
distributor. They buy so cheaply they can resell to other stores at cheaper
than wholesale. Thus they can ruin the competition through PREDATORY PRICING....
If a town
declines to welcome GodzillaMart, the next town over will take it, pulling
trade and tax dollars out of local coffers. The town has no choice - the
terms are dictated by the retail giant from afar. Is this right, fair, or
decent? ...
"No more
mom and pop stores....The concentration of ownership and power, along with
treaties like GATT and NAFTA, means more and cruder exploitation of workers
everywhere. Jobs flee America.... [Wendy Diaz in Honduras described] what
it was like to earn 31 cents an hour, allowed to go to the bathroom only
twice a day, be cursed and screamed at, and be able to do nothing about
it."
A nation that no longer tolerates the Ten Commandments
in public places, that promotes pagan rituals but forbids Christian expressions
in its schools, that spreads corrupt entertainment around the world, and
that that kills its unborn babies cannot expect God's blessings.
See
Establishing a Global Spirituality
and
Don't
Mention Jesus.
God warned us that if a people
would reject His guidelines, He would reject their nation.
See
Deut 28:15
April 2003
The liberal arts of stars and
stripes: "Mrs. Elliott prides herself on having actively imparted
to her children a 'healthy skepticism;' raised them to realize the world
is 'rarely black-and-white;' and strived to bring 'current affairs into
our living room.' But she's out to lunch when it comes to figuring out where
her eldest son, Oliver, picked up his rancorous attitudes."
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Is
the Bible hate literature?
"Some Christians... are concerned about
a proposal to add 'sexual orientation' to the hate propaganda law of the
[Canadian] Criminal Code....
"Rev.
Dr. Martin Kreplin of St. Andrew's, Moncton, says that would make reading
and discussing certain scriptural passages about homosexual activity
a hate crime. 'The Scriptures speak specifically about homosexuality,
and it might be construed as hateful,' he said. 'To be allowed to preach
on some subjects but not other subjects because it's considered hateful
is a serious concern. It impinges on freedom of speech as well as religion.'...
"Ruth Ross,
executive director of the Christian Legal Fellowship... cites two cases:
Mark Harding, who was convicted in Ontario for hate crimes for literature
he printed on Islam, and Hugh Owens, who was fined under the Saskatchewan
Human Rights Code for an advertisement featuring several biblical references
on homosexuality."
Mark Harding's daughter attends
a school in Toronto that
has banned
Christian prayer but provides a special room for Muslim prayer. When the
concerned father published and distributed a brochure that exposed this
preferential treatment, he apparently was charged with 'hate crime' and
‘sentenced to 340 hours of Islamic indoctrination.'
See
Matthew 10:16-22
Sewage Puts a New Spin on SARS:
"Hong Kong's health secretary, Dr. Yeoh Eng-kiong, said this week that sewage
is responsible for SARS infecting 321 people at the Amoy Gardens high-rise
apartment complex in Hong Kong.... Health officials have reported that SARS
patients who live in Amoy Gardens are coming down with particularly virulent
cases of the disease, as are health-care workers who have caught the virus
from those patients."
Matthew 24:7
and
Psalm 32:7
World Views & Earth Day:
"If God is God, then we are creatures who are created by Him. We are contingent
beings. He is non-contingent. He makes the rules. We follow them....
[by His wonderful
grace, not by our own strength.]
1 Thess 5:24
"There are other world views, of course, like atheism. If God does
not exist, it seems to me there are other pieces to the package, too. If
God does not exist, there is no justification for morality and morality
is simply what people choose to decide at any given point. Next week they
can change it. That's part of the package. ..."
Charts: Three cultural
paradigms
Japanese firms curb travel to
Singapore and other SARS-infected areas:
"Many Japanese firms are now restricting travel by employees to Singapore
and other Asian cities infected with the deadly SARS virus. Sony is banning
all business travel to Hong Kong and southern China, and asking staff to
postpone or limit trips to Singapore, even private visits."
Matthew 24:7
March 2003
Fear of new virus grows as Hong
Kong 0fficial falls ill: "Other Asian countries are also becoming
increasingly worried, with Singapore announcing tonight that it would use
a seldom-invoked law to quarantine 740 people in their homes for 10 days,
with the threat of stiff fines if they venture out....
"The disease has particularly infected doctors and nurses, apparently
because patients become extremely infectious when they are very ill, and
Dr. Ho had been visiting sick doctors and nurses at the hospitals he oversees."
Matthew 24:7
Schools Ask Parents to Hide
Kids From Military Recruiters:
"Two school districts in California have encouraged families to adopt a
'don't tell' policy with their children...."
Matt
24:7
Do-gooder fired:
"A single mom was fired from her part-time job delivering pizza after rushing
to the aid of a gunshot victim while she was still on the clock.... The
man who was lying on the floor had been shot in the stomach, and police
or ambulance officials were yet to arrive. McAulay said she quickly made
the decision to do what she could to help....
"'I can't leave the scene,
I've been asked to help. It was my civil duty,' she said. 'I hope someone
would do the same for me.' She sat with the victim, kept him awake by talking
to him and pressed pillows on his wound to slow the bleeding."
Acts 5:29
Superbug strain hits the healthy:
"A drug-resistant superbug that spreads by skin contact is infecting thousands
of people across the US and may now have reached Europe. The MRSA bacterium,
or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, can be resistant to many
antibiotics....
"Most of those infected are gay men, but the superbug is certainly not restricted
to this group. Athletes, schoolchildren and newborns have all fallen victim."
Matthew
24:7
February 2003
British TV appoints Muslim as
head of religion: "Channel 4 said yesterday that while there
had been no 'conscious decision' to appoint a Muslim, it was committed to
encouraging religious and ethnic diversity at the station....The corporation
provoked an outcry in 2001 when it broke with tradition by appointing an
agnostic, Alan Bookbinder, as its head of religion and ethics. His predecessor,
the Rev Ernest Rea, had resigned seven months earlier, accusing the BBC
of sidelining religion and 'dancing to a secular tune'."
An interesting progression:
from Christian to agnostic to Muslim.
See
Chart: Three Cultural
Paradigms
Video Shows People Doing Nothing
To Aid Shooting Victim: "Police have released a videotape showing
witnesses doing nothing to help a man after he was fatally shot at a gas
station. The station surveillance tape shows the Jan. 31 slaying of Allen
Price, 43. It also shows one man continuing to pump kerosene after looking
briefly at the body. He then pays for the kerosene and drives off."
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Crybabies in the courtroom:
"Now, if this all had happened in 2003, and if my mom and I had been properly
brainwashed by the cult of victimology, we all know where my little tale
would have ended: In court. In the 21st century, no bad slur goes unlitigated.
No playground bully goes un-subpoenaed. No hypersensitive wallflower goes
uncompensated. Can't take a dumb joke? Sue."
New World Trade Center Site
Design Concepts:
"Two Designs Under Consideration."
Look at the next two links
and see how globalist leaders are using this opportunity to promote their
ideology.
1.
Rebuilding Ground Zero:
"The moral obligation in rebuilding Ground Zero is not just how best to
remember those who perished in this tragedy, but how to make their memory
the inspiration for a better future.... Ground Zero should emerge from this
tragedy as the first truly Global Center, a place where people can gather
to celebrate cultural diversity in peaceful and productive coexistence."
This fits the stated
vision of Episcopal Dean Morton, spoken during the 1996 UN conference in
Istanbul. See
Solidarity
2.
Daniel Libeskind:
"...We have to be able to enter this hallowed, sacred ground while creating
a quiet, meditative and spiritual space."
January 2003
Biology Professor Refuses to
Recommend Students Who Don't Believe in Evolution: "A biology
professor who refuses to write letters of recommendation for his students
if they don't believe in evolution is being accused of religious discrimination...."
See
What Darwin didn't know
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