1. We, the American people have begun the countdown to our next Shemitah! Based on the date of 12 Oct 2013 we have 693 days, let me repeat 693 days to our next Shemitah on 9-13-15, the 29th of Elul 5775 on the Hebrew calendar. Friends prepare yourself. Time is running short. Let me remind you, America faced its first harbinger on 9-11-01 with the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. Our second harbinger occurred on 2008 with the financial meltdown. Harbingers occur every 7 years if a people or nation refuses to repent. To date we have refused to repent before our God. In fact, Tom Daschle and John Edwards and Obama all defied God and said the people of the U.S. would build bigger, better and stronger. This caused Daschle’s and Edwards downfall. Look carefully at the date September 13, thirteen, of course, is Satan's number. Let me say it again, we a little less than 2 years to repent.
Rabbi Cahn, who wrote the book above, says our next Shemitah will be financial in nature. Obama is facing his personal shemitah, if he does not repent God will cause his downfall. I do not know how or when that downfall will take place but it will happen. If you wish to read more about harbingers and the Shemitah See Watchman Report 13-109 concerning Blood Moons, tetrads and solar eclipses.
Since the 1970s, our economy has doubled its energy productivity.
We’re producing twice as much for each unit of energy that we use.
America
has witnessed a revolution on the supply side, thanks to advances in drilling techniques such as “fracking,” which allow producers to reach
previously untapped shale deposits. Rayola Dougher,
a senior economic adviser for the American Petroleum Association, says that
domestic oil production has come roaring back since bottoming
out five years ago.
“It’s
been a real stunning reversal of fortune in terms of the amount of oil and natural gas we’re able to bring to the market,”
she says. “Last year, we brought on a million new barrels a day, which is the
biggest increase we’ve ever done in the history of the United States.”
This
year, the U.S. is expected to surpass Russia as the world’s largest producer of
oil and natural gas. Economic historian Daniel Yergin, who writes about
energy in his books The
Prizeand The
Quest, says the boom in homegrown oil and gas is
supporting more than 2 million jobs, while saving money for consumers on their
electric bills.
“What’s happened with oil and gas has been the most positive thing
to happen in our economy since the downturn began in 2008,” he says.
U.S.
reliance on imported oil has dropped from 60
percent eight years ago to less than 40 percent today. Historian Yergin was thinking about that change as he
watched the messy debt ceiling drama unfold in Washington this week.
Friends,
A large part of the Pacific Ocean is dying from the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami. Ivan Macfayden's story seems to be fulfilling Bible prophecy.
Revelation 8:8 And the second
angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into
the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which
were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were
destroyed.
Re 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil
is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but
a short time.
Re 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon
the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died
in the sea.
Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The
waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.
And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and
scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.
What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all
previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.
The birds were missing because the fish were missing.
Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen
had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he’d had to do
to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a
baited line.
“There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when
we didn’t catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice,” Macfadyen
recalled.
But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total
catch was two.
No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all.
“In years gone by I’d gotten used to all the birds and their
noises,” he said.
“They’d be following the boat, sometimes resting on the mast
before taking off again. You’d see flocks of them wheeling over the surface of
the sea in the distance, feeding on pilchards.”
But in March and April this year, only silence and desolation
surrounded his boat, Funnel Web, as it sped across the surface of a haunted
ocean.
North of the equator, up above New Guinea, the ocean-racers saw a
big fishing boat working a reef in the distance.
“All day it was there, trawling back and forth. It was a big ship,
like a mother-ship,” he said.
And all night it worked too, under bright floodlights. And in the
morning Macfadyen was awoken by his crewman calling out, urgently, that the
ship had launched a speedboat.
“Obviously I was worried. We were unarmed and pirates are a real
worry in those waters. I thought, if these guys had weapons then we were in
deep trouble.”
But they weren’t pirates, not in the conventional sense, at least.
The speedboat came alongside and the Melanesian men aboard offered gifts of
fruit and jars of jam and preserves.
“And they gave us five big sugar-bags full of fish,” he said.
“They were good, big fish, of all kinds. Some were fresh, but
others had obviously been in the sun for a while.
“We told them there was no way we could possibly use all those
fish. There were just two of us, with no real place to store or keep them. They
just shrugged and told us to tip them overboard. That’s what they would have
done with them anyway, they said.
“They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day’s
by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else
was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and
night and stripped it of every living thing.”
Macfadyen felt sick to his heart. That was one fishing boat among
countless more working unseen beyond the horizon, many of them doing exactly
the same thing.
No wonder the sea was dead. No wonder his baited lines caught
nothing. There was nothing to catch.
If that sounds depressing, it only got worse.
The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco
and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a
degree of fear.
“After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead,”
Macfadyen said.
“We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of
rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its
head. It was pretty sickening.
“I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to
seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this
time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.”
In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.
“Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a
couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable
load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it’s still out there, everywhere
you look.”
Ivan’s brother, Glenn, who boarded at Hawaii for the run into the
United States, marvelled at the “thousands on thousands” of yellow plastic
buoys. The huge tangles of synthetic rope, fishing lines and nets. Pieces of
polystyrene foam by the million. And slicks of oil and petrol, everywhere.
Countless hundreds of wooden power poles are out there, snapped
off by the killer wave and still trailing their wires in the middle of the sea.
“In years gone by, when you were becalmed by lack of wind, you’d
just start your engine and motor on,” Ivan said.
Not this time.
“In a lot of places we couldn’t start our motor for fear of
entangling the propeller in the mass of pieces of rope and cable. That’s an
unheard of situation, out in the ocean.
“If we did decide to motor we couldn’t do it at night, only in the
daytime with a lookout on the bow, watching for rubbish.
“On the bow, in the waters above Hawaii, you could see right down
into the depths. I could see that the debris isn’t just on the surface, it’s
all the way down. And it’s all sizes, from a soft-drink bottle to pieces the
size of a big car or truck.
“We saw a factory chimney sticking out of the water, with some
kind of boiler thing still attached below the surface. We saw a big
container-type thing, just rolling over and over on the waves.
“We were weaving around these pieces of debris. It was like
sailing through a garbage tip.
“Below decks you were constantly hearing things hitting against
the hull, and you were constantly afraid of hitting something really big. As it
was, the hull was scratched and dented all over the place from bits and pieces
we never saw.”
Plastic was ubiquitous. Bottles, bags and every kind of throwaway
domestic item you can imagine, from broken chairs to dustpans, toys and
utensils.
And something else. The boat’s vivid yellow paint job, never faded
by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off
Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way.
BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with
the shock and horror of the voyage.
“The ocean is broken,” he said, shaking his head in stunned
disbelief.
Recognising the problem is vast, and that no organisations or
governments appear to have a particular interest in doing anything about it,
Macfadyen is looking for ideas.
He plans to lobby government ministers, hoping they might help.
More immediately, he will approach the organisers of Australia’s
major ocean races, trying to enlist yachties into an international scheme that
uses volunteer yachtsmen to monitor debris and marine life.
Macfadyen signed up to this scheme while he was in the US,
responding to an approach by US academics who asked yachties to fill in daily
survey forms and collect samples for radiation testing – a significant concern
in the wake of the tsunami and consequent nuclear power station failure in
Japan.
“I asked them why don’t we push for a fleet to go and clean up the
mess,” he said.
“But they said they’d calculated that the environmental damage
from burning the fuel to do that job would be worse than just leaving the
debris there.”
If you ask most people how to get to heaven, their response will
be something like this:
"If you do more good things than bad things, God will
probably let you into heaven."
This false idea has caused untold
numbers of people to go to hell. There is nothing
that you can do on your own that will erase the sins that you have committed.
That is the reason Jesus
willingly shed his sinless blood in a perfect blood atonement on the cross to
pay for your sins. He came to save you from the guilt of past sins and the
power of sin over your life. Because of Jesus/Yeshua all of your sins past,
present and future are forgiven. You are about to read the most important
information that you will ever read. It is called the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The word "gospel"
means "message." The
gospel is God's message to mankind. If
you will yield to the gospel, you will be reconciled to God and you will escape
eternal damnation in hell and the lake of fire. You will have abundant life
right now as you walk with God in spite of all the pain and suffering that is
in the world. If you are doubtful that the Bible is true, ask God for the faith
to believe it and for help to understand the gospel.
Many people refer to the
gospel as "good news" but it is only good news for those who receive
it. To those who reject the good news, the gospel is the stench of
death...eternal death. Revelation 14:6-7 tells us the message of the
everlasting gospel--
"Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his
judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and
the fountains of waters."
There is only one way to do
this--through the blood of Jesus Christ. Repent ye and believe the gospel!
The Bible says that no one is good enough morally to qualify to
enter heaven. Each one of us has a sinful nature and all of us have broken
God's commandments. You have personally lied and committed other sins.
For all have sinned, and come short
of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
Let God be true, but every
man a liar...( Romans 3:4)
The number of good deeds you have
done, including giving large amounts of money to church or charities, will not
make you acceptable in the sight of God. The Bible says that you are
spiritually dead in your tresspasses and sins. Your good deeds do not commend
you to God in any way. You have ignored God by living our life in the way that
you have seen fit.
But we are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)
According to the above verse, we still come up short even when we
try to do good deeds because we are not doing them under God's authority. Doing
good deeds in your own strength and under your own authority is an unclean thing
in the sight of God.
"But I never killed
anybody and I'm not a dope addict!" In God's sight you are still
spiritually undone and wicked in his sight. You have broken the greatest
commandment in the Bible and you are as guilty as a harlot, a whoremonger, a
murderer, a thief and a liar. What is the greatest commandment?
"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus
said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with ALL thy heart, and with
ALL thy soul, and with ALL thy mind. THIS is the first and great
commandment." Matthew
22:36-38
It is easy to see that you
have broken this commandment every day of your life. Loving yourself and
putting yourself first comes naturally. Those who are not yet reconciled to God
do this as a matter of course.
If good deeds could pay for
your sins then Jesus died for nothing:
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Galatians 2:21)
God is Holy. We are sinful.
By His very nature, God cannot have fellowship with us sinners. There is no
amount of "good" that we can do to make up for our crimes against
God. They must be punished. And the wages of sin is DEATH- physical death (the
casket) and spiritual death (when the soul is separated from God and cast into hell).
The wages of sin is death...(Romans
6:23)
God does not want to remain your
enemy and He does not want you to go to Hell.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I
have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his
way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die...
(Ezekiel 33:11)
The Lord is...not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (II Peter 3:9)
In spite of your wickedness and
rebellion, God loved you enough to send His only begotten Son to die for your
sins:
"... thou shalt call his name
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." (Matt 1:21).
Jesus did not die so that you could
keep sinning and go to heaven. He came to save you from the guilt and the power
of sin. Jesus destroyed the works of the devil on Calvary (I John 3:8). Before
you surrender in faith to Jesus Christ, sin dominates you. Sin is your master
and you are its servant.
You are under the wrath of a holy
and just God. Murderers, thieves, fornicators, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God, rebels, and all other spiritual lepers will not inherit the
kingdom of God. The blood of Jesus is the propitiation for our sins. That means
if we will turn in faith to Jesus Christ his blood will take way the guilt of
the sins we've committed and it will usher us into a Father-child
relationship with God. Through the blood of Jesus, we are to serve sin no more.
Again, the Father sent His only begotten Son, Jesus who is God, to die in your
place. Remember that the wages of sin is death--that is why He died, to pay
YOUR wages. The Lord Jesus Christ died in your place in order to pay for your
sins and mine.
The world's greatest love story is summed up in the
following verse--
For God so loved the world, that he
gave his ONLY BEGOTTEN Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. (John 3:16
Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13) How can you show more
love than giving your very life for someone else's life? You can't. What is
more amazing is that Jesus died for us WHILE WE WERE HIS ENEMIES! I mean vile,
wicked, pitiful, wretched, unclean, unholy, ungodly, prideful, spiritually
leperous.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.
...Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)
God demonstrated his love
for you on the cross over 2,000 years ago! God is not hateful; He is loving. He
gave His Son for you even though you are dead in your sins.
2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came
to this earth to:
(1) save you from the GUILT and POWER of your sins and
(2) RECONCILE you unto God. Through
faith in the blood of Jesus you will escape the wrath to come and joyfully look
forward to heaven--and you'll live an overcoming life. God will be your Father
instead of your enemy--but only through the blood of Jesus.
..the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 1:7)
For the wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
After His death, the Lord's body
laid in the grave three days, but praise be to God, it did not remain there. On
the third day Jesus arose from the dead and was seen by over 500 people (I
Corin 15:6) before He went back to heaven.
Please remember that Jesus was not some victim or just a baby in a
manger--He was and is the eternal God and Savior who came to earth and gave His
own blood for your sins. After He accomplished this tremendous feat, He rose
from the dead like He said He would:
"Therefore doth my Father love
me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it
from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again..." (John 10:17-18)
...Christ died for our sins...and
he was buried, and...he rose again the third day... (I Corinthians 15:3-4)
Are you ready to repent of your
sins? To repent means to forsake your evil ways and listen to God. All your
life you've been your own authority concerning what is right and what is wrong.
You've made your own decisions while ignoring what the Lord says in His holy
word, the Bible. You've served yourself and not God. To repent means that you
turn to GOD AND THE BIBLE AS YOUR AUTHORITY. It means you can say, "Lord
everything you say in the Bible is right. If my feelings contradict the Bible I
AM WRONG. Lord I want to live under YOUR AUTHORITY, not my own."
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where
to REPENT. (Acts 17:30)
...TURN TO GOD, AND DO WORKS MEET FOR REPENTANCE. (Acts
26:20)
Repentance must be from the heart. Are you prepared to exercise
your will to live for the Lord? Jesus said:
"And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me,
cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:27)
You must be willing to give up your own authority over your life
and surrender it to Jesus Christ. If you want to come to Jesus Christ to be
saved you must be willing to live God's way. He will give you the strength to
live for him but you have got to be willing for him to tell you what to do. You
must turn from living in the way that leads to death. Do you want God to be
your Father rather than your enemy? Do you want the Lord and His holy ways? Do
you want to be delivered from the powers of darkness you have invited into your
life by sinful living? If you do, you are ready to come to Jesus Christ and be
saved.
Jesus waits with
open arms for those that want life. The choice is yours. If you're sick of
being alienated from God, if you're tired of what this wicked and perverse
world has to offer, if you want Jesus Christ as Lord of your life, if you want
to be reconciled unto your Creator, if you want to go to heaven, if you want to
escape hell -- put your faith in the one who can do something about it! Do you
believe that Jesus Christ died for you? Do you believe that He rose from the
dead? Do you repent of your sins? Do you want to follow Jesus?
If so, REPENT and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The only one who can save
you is the Lord Jesus Christ. You
must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved:
When he asked, "Sirs, what MUST I do to be SAVED?" (Acts
16:30)Paul and Silas said, BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31)
If you will place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be
saved from your sins and be born into the family of God:
By grace are you saved, through faith, For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God Ephesians 2:8
If you have placed your
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ you will begin your new life of freedom and
obedience to the Lord. Now you need to (1) start reading the Bible. I would
suggest you begin reading the gospel of John because John was Yeshua’s/Jesus’s
best friend. and (2) you need to get yourself into a Bible-believing church so
you can get baptized and discipled in the way of Christ.
We are nearing the Rapture
and the “End Times” the time of the falling away from the faith of Jesus. (See 2 Thessalonians 2:3) There are very
few churches that are scriptually sound to associate with because so many
deviate from the scriptures and promote false doctrines. Put serious and
careful thought into choosing a Bible based church because there are so many
false churches in the world.
We also want to warn you that once you get saved, the devil will
try to make sure that you encounter false doctrine. When you first become a
Christian your faith is like a tender shoot and you will be prone to believe
anything people tell you about the Bible. Get into a Biblically sound Bible
study and read your Bible everyday. I guarantee you, God will amaze you when
you open His book. If you have any questions, please write me and I will direct
you to the appropriate scriptures. Please heed the following warnings:
1. Don't let anybody tell
you that you have to "speak in tongues" to show that you are saved.
These people take passages in the Bible out of context and make false doctrine
out of them.
2. Don't let anyone tell
you that water baptism saves you only genuine acceptance of Jesus Christ,
Yeshua Hamaschiach save you. I am baptized but my wife and I did it as a publc
declaration that we believe with all our hearts in Jesus/Yeshua. Saved people
are children of obedience (Heb 5:9). The gospel and baptism are separate--I Cor
1:17. You are baptized in order to outwardly identify with the death, burial
and resurrection of Jesus Christ and to symbolically show the washing away of
sins. Coming out of the water is a symbol of rebirth in Jesus Christ. So if you are trusting in your baptism to save
you, you are wrong. An unrepentant sinner will go down a dry sinner and come
out a wet sinner.
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure
whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth
of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
3. Don't let anybody tell
you that you're going to hell if you don't go to church on Saturday--Colossians
2:16, Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or
of the new moon, or of the
sabbath days.
If you have not surrendered to Jesus Christ, I hope that you won't
continue to reject His offer of eternal life. You are in a dangerous position.
John 3:36 says, "...he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but
the wrath of God abideth on him." You will not make it into heaven on your
own "good merits" or by your own conception of Who and What God
should be like. He always has His way--the choice is yours to obey Jesus Christ or reject Jesus
Christ.
When you attended church,
yesterday, did your pastor talk about the evils of abortion spelled out under
Obamacare? Did your pastor tell you about drone strikes that kill children? Did
your pastor tell that under Obamacare, they have plans to have everyone take a
chip, the mark of the beast? If your pastor does not routinely address these
and many more critical issues, then your pastor is a fraud and serves the
government over God and you need to leave your church immediately in order to
save your soul and get the Bibilical truth before it is too late for you and
your family.
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/10/21/save-your-soul-by-leaving-your-government-controlled-church/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsbgqTCS9ZQ#t=32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdmtJCEWPA&feature=youtu.be
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/10/21/save-your-soul-by-leaving-your-government-controlled-church/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsbgqTCS9ZQ#t=32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdmtJCEWPA&feature=youtu.be
Under Obamacare, you have no choice but to participate. Under
Obamacare, you will soon be required to take a chip which some say is the
infamous mark of the beast. Do I need to state the obvious? One of the tenets
of Obamacare is falling right into line with Satan’s main plot to destroy
Christianity.
What
does the Bible say about taking about the mark of the beast? Well, if you know
your Bible, you already know the answer to this question. Interestingly, the Obamacare
chip can track your every moment and more importantly, the chip can even be
used to kill you. Yes, that is right a human kill switch.
This
information is publicly available and requires no interpretation. If your
pastor did not speak to you about this travesty, this slap in the face of God,
your pastor is either woefully ignorant or is a willing participant which
encourages their flock to participate in a practice which invites eternal
damnation. The sad part is that we don’t even need the “Chip of Satan” to
make the case that your pastor has more than likely sold you and your fellow
Christians out.
Churches
Are In Decline for Very Good Reasons
It
is a well known fact that the power and viability of churches are in noticeable
decline. Not only is religious affiliation and church attendance in decline,
many of the leaders of our religious institutions can no longer be trusted to
preach the word of God versus espousing the new American religious mantra,
which is to falsely interpret Romans 13 in
which these “new age pastors” are calling for blind obedience to their
“God-chosen” governmental leaders. Church attendance is in decline because of
the following considerations:
§
What
kind of Pastor would tell his flock to simply ignore the American Holocaust
which has witnessed the murder of over 56 million American babies, since Roe v. Wade, in 1973?
§
What
kind of pastor would not speak out against unjust wars in Syria, Iraq, and
Afghanistan that have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of millions of human
beings?
§
What
kind of pastor would not fail to speak out and to condemn the secret detentions
and the potential murder of American citizens under the NDAA.
§
What
kind of pastor would not speak out against the execution and extermination of
all Christians in Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, N. Korea,
Nigeria, and Syria? Why does our
government support groups that are exterminating and persecuting Christians?
§
What
kind of pastor would command his flock to serve a government that seeks to
eviscerate the Bible as the literal word of God?
Any
pastor who encourages complete obedience to a corrupt government has taken a
big step towards accepting the Mark of the Beast. This is a very dangerous
precedent, and this could potentially imperil the salvation of millions if
Christians allow this false doctrine to expand across our nation’s churches.
Does Your Pastor Secretly Play
On the Government’s Team?
It is
very likely that religious leaders who do not truly serve God are repeating the
mantra set forth by them from the Clergy Response Team, whose new mission is to continually remind their flock of
their Romans 13 duty to serve the wishes of their government.
The Clergy Response Team falls under the umbrella series of
programs known asNational Voluntary
Organizations Active in Disaster (NOVAD) which is a non-profit, member organization which shares
knowledge and resources throughout a disaster. The organization helps to
prepare, respond, recover and to mitigate the damage caused by some unknown
disaster presumably which lies in the future of humanity.
NOVAD claims to be a “faith-based” coalition which is structured
as a non-governmental organization and operates on a national scale and is
supported by tax dollars funneled to DHS. Instantly, Bible believing Christians
should smell a rat. Since when has the federal government ever sponsored
organized religion? The answer is not since well before the advent of the
atheist activist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, who was successful in banning prayer
in the public schools in 1963. Then why would the government suddenly fund and
support a “faith-based organization” on a national scale? The simple
answer is that Homeland Security is seeking to control our churches and
ministers, before the impending train wreck comes to fruition inside of America.
DHS desperately is seeking to control all Christians through the perversion of
Romans 13 and this is one of two cornerstones in this movement designed to
control Christian leaders. What is the impending train wreck that I am
referring to?
Christians Under Attack By DHS
Ron
Trowbridge, a sheriff with the Prowers County, Colo., Sheriff’s Office detailed
a presentation, on behalf of Homeland Security (DHS) in which Colorado State Patrol Trooper, Joe Kluczynski,
gave a two hour presentation on the “sovereign citizen” movement.
The
DHS inspired message was clear to all in attendance. If Christians take the
Bible too literally, they should be considered to be a domestic terrorist
threat under the label of what DHS is referring to as being a sovereign
citizen. The movement is the same method consisting a thinly veiled attempt to
divide Christians into two camps. One group of Christians, which follow their
false prophet leaders who believe in a perverted interpretation of Romans 13
that espouses that Christians condone all actions of government, no matter what
these actions consist of. These are to be considered the “good Christians” and
will be tolerated by NWO lap dogs, namely the DHS. There is a second group of
Christians which pose a threat to DHS because they take the word of God
literally and recognize His laws as taking precedent over the laws
of mankind. The latter group of Christians are ones that need to be, and will
be, dealt with.
Obama Leads the Charge Against
Christianity
As
Supreme Commander of the military, Obama has encouraged/permitted the United
States military to participate in the persecution of Christians.
A recent Army briefing was given by Lt. Col. Jack Rich to a reserve unit in
Pennsylvania which identified several organizations and movements as extremist
groups. First on the list of his slides presented in the briefing listed evangelical Christians including Catholics,
which was subsequently followed by Hamas, al-Qaida, Nation of Islam and the Ku
Klux Klan.
Lt. Col.
Rich warned his
subordinates to not
back down from bad Christian behavior for “when they see behaviors which are
inconsistent with Army values, don’t just walk by. Do the right thing before it
becomes a problem.” Further, the warning has been given to flag Christians and
put them on no buy lists for guns. Rich’s briefing dovetails with the same kind
of anti-Christian rhetoric recently presented to Colorado law enforcement
officials in La Junta, Colorado in which Christians were prominently displayed in as domestic
terrorists if the take the Bible too literally. And in the
recent, so-called government shutdown, Christian military clergy were
prohibited to minister to their flock during the shutdown or they faced court
martial.
The Inspiration by the DHS to
Destroy Christians
Consider
the following quote from David Spangler of the United Nations.
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make
a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take
a Luciferian Initiation.”
David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations
Even
Obama promises to build a kingdom on earth, not God’s kingdom, but his own
kingdom.
If you fall under the DHS label of being a sovereign citizen
because you have an uncompromising Christian worldview, then you need to adopt
strategies which will, in some measure, take you out of harm’s way.
The first step you should take in order to preserve your soul is
to leave your government controlled church. Withdraw all financial support to
the church. Take what is left of the Christian doctrine (i.e. the Bible) and
take your religion underground.
You need to begin a small bible study involving 6 or 7 adults. Do
not announce your meeting so that the local authorities cannot pass zoning laws
against this practice as the communists did in the former Soviet Union.
By engaging in small Bible study groups, you will not need to
worry about money, tax exempt status, being a member of the Clergy Response
Team or any other DHS practice. Avoid appointing leaders who will interpret the
word of God because as we see here, these pastors can and will be compromised.
Inevitably, however, when leaders do emerge, ask yourself the following
questions regarding their dedication to the tenets of true Christianity.
§ Does your religious leader
teach from the Bible?
§ Does he/she apply the lessons
of the Bible to daily living and does not shy away from controversy when the
actions of government violate the laws of God?
§ Does your church renounce evil
in all forms? Does your clergy encourage their congregations to oppose evil, by
being faithful to the word of God in all areas?
§ Does your church organize its
followers to carry the word and the will of God to society as a whole in an
effort to save the misled?
§ Does your pastor denounce
abortion, unjust wars, thievery, murder and all behaviors which violate the Ten
Commandments?
If your clergy is not clearly addressing these issues, then it
would be prudent to find a church, or preferably a home study group, in which
the word of God is honored and unquestionably supersedes the word of government
when the two conflict.
Today’s religious leaders who bow down to the holy temple of
Homeland Security are bought and paid for at a very cheap price. What does a
church gain by accepting a 501 (c)(3) tax exemption? Ten Percent? Twenty
Percent off from its tax obligation? This makes the thirty pieces of silver
that Judas took to betray his Lord, look like a good deal. Compromised pastors
should take warning of Judas’s ultimate fate. And if you sty loyal to the
pastoral sell-outs, you will no doubt suffer the same fate as Judas. Choose
now, while still have a choice!
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Below are some important verses from God via his "Amazing Book" the Bible. Browse through these verses and see what God is telling you today. Enjoy and learn brothers and sisters. The number on the left correlates to the supporting verses at the bottom of the graph.
There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They
are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there
is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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There is no one who does good.
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6
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Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our
iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Sin makes even your
"righteous" acts filthy.
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7
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Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear.
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Sin has separated you from God.
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3
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8
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[Revelation 20:10-15] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:
and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books,
according to their works. And whosoever was not found written in the
book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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Sin will send you to the lake of
fire.
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9
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John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one
that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge
him in the last day.
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God will judge you according to
the Bible.
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BUT...
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4
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10
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Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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God loves you.
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11
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Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
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Jesus shed his blood for your
sin.
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12
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Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood;
and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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Jesus shed his blood to meet
God's requirement.
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13
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Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us.
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Jesus made a perfect sacrifice to
redeem you.
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5
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14
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Hebrews 10:12, 14 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins
for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; For by one offering he
hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
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Jesus makes perfect forever
those who are sanctified.
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15
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John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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Jesus is your only way to heaven.
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6
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16
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Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Eternal life through Jesus Christ
is God's gift.
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7
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17
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John 1:12, 13 But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which
were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God.
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You must receive Jesus.
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18
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[John 3:1-7] Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be
born again.
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You must be born again.
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19
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[1 Corinthians 15:1-4] ...I declare unto you the gospel...By which also ye are
saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed
in vain...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he
was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
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You must believe the gospel.
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20
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John 8:24, 58 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins:
for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I
am.
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You must believe Jesus is God.
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8
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21
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Luke 13:3, 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish. I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish.
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You must repent.
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9
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22
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Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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You must confess.
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10
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23
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Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved.
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You must call on the Lord to be
saved.
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Salvation Made Plain
Supporting Verses
1
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Psalm 139:13-14, Isaiah 44:2,
Jeremiah 1:5
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2
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Nehemiah 9:6, Psalm 36:6, Hebrews
1:3, II Peter 3:7
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3
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I Chronicles 29:11, Romans 14:8,
Ezekiel 18:4, Deuteronomy 32:6, Exodus 19:5
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4
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Hebrews 10:30, Psalms 96:13, John
5:28-29, Matthew 10:26, Romans 14:10-12, Psalms 22:29
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5
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Ecclesiastes 7:20, Jeremiah 17:9,
Romans 7:18-24, Romans 3:23, James 2:10, Matthew 5:28, I John 3:15, I John
1:8-10, Proverbs 20:9, I Kings 8:46, Psalm 24:3-4, James 4:17, I John 5:17,
Psalm 5:3-5
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6
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Psalms 14:3, Psalms 53:2-3, Ezra
9:11, I John 3:4, Exodus 34:7, Job 10:14
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7
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John 9:31, Genesis 2:22-24,
Proverbs 15:29, Micah 3:4, Proverbs 28:9, Psalms 66:18, Zechariah 7:12-13,
Habakkuk 1:13
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8
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Revelation 21:8, Revelation
19:20, II Peter 2:4-6, II Thessalonians 1:8-9, Matthew 25:41, Matthew
13:40-42, Psalms 9:16-17, Psalms 11:6, II Peter 3:7, Mark 9:42-48
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9
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Romans 2:16, Hebrews 12:25
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10
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I John 3:16, I John 3:1, John
16:27, Ephesians 2:4
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11
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Ephesians 1:7, Colossians
1:14,20, Romans 5:9, Isaiah 53:4-10, Revelation 1:5
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12
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Hebrews 9:7, Leviticus 17:11,
Genesis 3:21, Exodus 12:13
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13
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Hebrews 10:10, Romans 5:10, II
Corinthians 5:18, I Peter 2:25, Hebrews 9:24-28, II Corinthians 5:14-15, I
Peter 3:18, Romans 6:10, I John 4:9-10, I John 2:2, I John 3:5, Romans 3:25,
Galatians 3:13, Titus 2:4
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14
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Colossians 1:20-22, II
Corinthians 5:21, Romans 4:5-8, Romans 6:6-8, Romans 8:1-2, John 5:24, John
11:25-26, II Corinthians 5:19, Colossians 3:3, Hebrews 10:17-18, Psalms
32:1-2, Psalms 103:12, Jeremiah 31:34, I Peter 2:24
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15
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Acts 4:12, John 10:1,7-9,
Galatians 1:8-9, Mark 8:36-37, Romans 3:19-20, Titus 3:5, II Timothy 1:9,
Acts 8:20, Hebrews 2:3, John 3:17, Acts 16:30-31, Ephesians 2:8-9
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16
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II Corinthians 9:15, John 4:10, I
John 5:11, Romans 8:32, Romans 5:15, Romans 3:24
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17
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Galatians 4:6, Matthew 7:7-8,
Luke 11:9-10, Revelation 3:20, John 14:16,17,20
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18
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I Peter 1:23, Matthew 18:3, I
Corinthians 2:14, Romans 8:8, John 6:63, I Corinthians 1:29, Hebrews 2:9,
Ephesians 2:5, I John 5:4-5, I John 3:9, I John 2:29
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19
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Hebrews 11:6, John 3:18, John
3:36, Romans 3:27-28, Romans 9:30-33, John 3:16, John 20:31, Acts 10:43
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20
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Exodus 3:14, John 5:23, Isaiah
9:6, Isaiah 43:11, Acts 13:23, I John 4:14, I Timothy 4:10, Luke 2:11, I
Timothy 1:1, I Timothy 2:3, John 10:30-33, John 14:7-9, Isaiah 7:14, Micah
5:2, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 4:8-10, Matthew 9:18-19, Revelation 22:8-9, Psalms
50:6, Psalms 9:7-8, John 5:22, Romans 14:10-12, I John 5:7, Colossians 2:9,
Colossians 1:16, John 1:1-3, Isaiah 44:24, I John 3:16, Acts 20:28, I Timothy
3:16, John 1:14, John 1:10
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21
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Acts 17:30, Acts 3:19, Mark 1:15,
Luke 24:47, Luke 15:7, II Corinthians 7:9-10, Job 33:27-28, II Peter 3:9
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22
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Matthew 10:32-33, Luke 12:8-9,
Philippians 2:11-13, I John 4:2-3, I John 4:15, II John 7, John 12:42-43
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23
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Acts 2:21, I Corinthinas 1:2,
Psalms 55:16
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If you think that our multi-billion dollar electrical power grids
are secure and capable of withstanding a coordinated attack, think again.
According to one group of engineers, the grid is so vulnerable
that it wouldn’t even require a skilled hacker to compromise. In fact,
when Adam Crain and Chris Sistrunk decided to test some new software they
were developing they identified a vulnerability so serious that it could
literally blind operational controllers to such an extent that they would be
locked out of monitoring systems and unable to maintain grid integrity.
The consequences, according to the engineers who note they are in
no way security specialists, could be a total downing of the national power
grid with nodes across the nation being taken over all at once. Moreover, the
same systems used to maintain the U.S. power grid are also being used in other
industries, like water treatment facilities.
You’d think that such a vulnerability would be a top priority for
the Department of Homeland Security, considering they are spending millions of
dollars and promoting their coming Grid Ex exercise in November.
But you’d be wrong. The kicker is that when Crain and Sistrunk
advised the DHS Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team,
they got what essentially amounts to no response. It took Homeland Security a
full four months before they even acknowledged the problem.
When outgoing DHS head Janet Napolitano suggested that a cyber attack on the nation’s power grid is imminent, she meant it.
They know that these systems are vulnerable, and the steps needed to protect the grid from cyber attacks and other potential hazards like a Super EMP or a severe geo-magnetic event would cost in the multiple billions of dollars to fix.
The fact of the matter is that DHS and the vendors who produce these software control systems are dragging their feet, leaving the entire country vulnerable.
Crain and Sistrunk are not hackers or security experts. They are software engineers and they were able to compromise our entire national power grid and water utility systems from remote locations.
What do you think China, Russia, and rogue hackers are capable of doing?
If you don’t think they’ve mapped our entire grid and its vulnerabilities you are kidding yourself.
This is deadly serious.
And when we say deadly, we mean it, because according to a report from the Center for Security Policy presented to Congress in 2010, if our power grid were to be taken offline for an extended period of time, 9 out of 10 Americans would be dead within a year.
There would be no way to transport food because gas stations pumps would be inoperable. And even if they did work, the commerce systems which makes the exchange of goods possible would be offline. Couple that with water utilities not functioning due to lack of electricity, and we’re talking about a worst-case scenario so bad that this country may never recover.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/report-massive-vulnerability-detected-in-national-power-grids-there-is-no-way-to-stop-this_10202013
Former Congressman Roscoe Bartlet has urged
those who can to move out of major cities for this reason. Watchman comment: I
do not know where former Congressmen Bartlett thinks millions upon millions of
people would go. When the End Times come specifically the last 3 1/2 years of the anti-christ's reign there will be no escaping God's wrath.
| A child gives the double handed 666 sign |
Pew Research reported on October 18, 2013 that Public trust in the
government, already quite low, has edged even lower in a survey conducted just
before the Oct. 16 agreement to end the government shutdown and raise the debt
ceiling.
The numbers provided below
are staggering. These numbers are so low you would think they apply to Third
World countries being governed by an unpopular dictator!
19% say that they trust the
government in Washington to do what is right just about always or most of the
time, down seven points since January ... The share of the public saying they
are angry at the federal government has ticked up to 30%. Another 55% say they
are frustrated with the government. Just 12% say they are basically content
with the federal government.
The Federal Government
evidently is the Executive Branch -- the President. This next statistic
measures public approval of Congress, the Legislative Branch.
The latest national survey
by the Pew Research Center, conducted Oct. 9-13 among 1, 504 adults, finds that
just 23% have a favorable opinion of Congress, while 73% have an unfavorable
view. Dissatisfaction with Congress also is seen in record anti-incumbent
sentiment.
While these negative
numbers are toward the lawmakers, and the President, responsible for the
government shutdown and the fight over the debt ceiling, if the public
continues to hold this view for very long, voters are going to start feeling
negative toward our institution itself. Then, they would be more open to
dissolving our Constitutional Government and moving to a completely different
system of governance.
And, this is the Illuminati
Plan. As Doc Marquis stated so well in his DVD "The
Illuminati Is Fulfilling Bible Prophecy", he stated that government
officials should be so shockingly incompetent that, when the Masonic Christ
does arise, amidst his supernatural signs, voters will accept the plan to
dissolve the Constitution and institute the "Benevolent Dictatorship"
of the Antichrist.
Therefore, I take this turn
of public opinion against our political leaders as representing one more sign
that the appearance of Antichrist is getting close. Are you ready?
CNN News reported on October
21, 2013 that according to their survey, 54% say it's a bad thing that the GOP
controls the House, up 11 points from last December ... Only 38% say it's a
good thing the GOP controls the House, a 13-point dive from the end of last
year.
This news is really bad for
the Republicans as they seem headed for a permanent place as a minority party
shut out of meaningful political office in Washington, D.C. GOP leaders like
Senator John McCain repeatedly warned Speaker Boehner and Tea Party Republicans
that this shutdown of the Federal Government, the fight over ObamaCare and the
debt ceiling battle was a fight that they could not win; they could only damage
their party's reputation with voters.
Unfortunately, this warning
has proven to be all too accurate. Conservatives have long dreaded the day when
Liberals controlled the White House and the Congress so overwhelmingly that
they could not stop the complete transformation of America into the anti-christ
system as God’s book the Bible prophesies.
Watch the video below about the danger of the flu vaccine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuXgpl2Sxg&feature=youtu.be
"On pages 107 and 128 of the Affordable Care Act, Christians who participate in healthcare sharing ministries are exempt from the “individual mandate” to obtain health insurance.
The legislation reads, “…Exemptions from Individual Responsibility Requirements — (A) In the case of an individual seeking exemption based on the individual’s status as a member of an exempt religious sect or division, as a member of a health care sharing ministry… Such term shall not include any individual for any month if such individual is a member of a health care sharing ministry for the month.”
However, in order to be eligible for the exemption, the healthcare sharing ministry must have been in operation since 1999. There are only three organizations nationwide that qualify under these terms: Samaritan Ministries, Christian Healthcare Ministries and Medi-Share."
Check out Christian Healthcare Ministries @ www.chministries.org
Here is their Gold Plan:
Gold = $150.00 per unit, per month
$500 personal responsibility per unit, per year. Total bills incurred per incident must exceed $500.
Includes:
• inpatient and outpatient hospital incidents* and surgery
• medical testing
• maternity (click here for more information)
• physical therapy and home health care (up to 45 visits)
• incident-related doctor's office visits
• incident-related prescriptions
“We have to pass the health care bill, so you can find out what’s in it,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It’s a good thing doctors don’t practice medicine that way. Imagine sending patients to major surgery and then checking to find out what is in their medical record!
Those intent on a government takeover of medicine missed one item that is found in the bill. Tucked in there, around page 327, is the provision that exempts members of the health care sharing ministries in existence before the year 2000 from the mandate to buy the federally qualified health insurance. About 100,000 people are currently enrolled in such plans, one of which helps members pay $40 million in bills per year. They are Christian Care Medi-Share, Samaritan Ministries and Christian Healthcare Ministries.
The Eck family has enjoyed membership in such an organization since May 1997. Back then our story made the front page of our local paper, complete with photo of my husband John, our five children, and me, with the headline “NJ Family Abandons Private Insurance for Aid of Christian Health Plan.” Two physicians completely abandoning health insurance was news. At that time, we went from paying $585 to $75 per month to secure very reliable help should we have a catastrophic health care event. Today, instead of $3,200 or so per month for health insurance here in NJ, our family share comes to $350.
The qualifications for membership are strict. Enrollees have to agree to avoid tobacco, illegal drugs, and excess alcohol use. They have to keep their body weight at an acceptable level and cannot expect to have help with any pre-existing conditions. Members must agree to live a Biblical lifestyle (no sex outside of marriage) and must attend church regularly. These rules actually eliminate 70% of disease and members are “equally yoked” with others who choose to follow a healthy lifestyle.
We are free to access whatever medical care we choose, and the members vote on what expenses they will share, up to $5 million for a family over their lifetimes. Members are responsible for their own wellness and routine care, such as checkups, immunizations, and screenings.
Since we joined, our savings have amounted to well over $100,000.
The mandate we follow lies in the Biblical passage of Galatians 6:2- “Bear ye one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ.” Yet the ensuing verse 5 tells us to “carry our own loads”—to accept personal responsibility.
In 1998 my husband and I were called before our state Department of Banking and Insurance to defend our promotion of this faith-based program. We were accused of “selling insurance without a license,” even though we received no commission. The outcome: the faith sharing group was not considered “insurance” and was thus exempt from government oversight. In 2004, I testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, explaining the reasons why insurance was so expensive in New Jersey, and telling of the success of the health-sharing ministry.
Our church does care about those with pre-existing conditions, or those who have succumbed to activities that contribute to their illnesses. We have set up the Acts 4 Project to help such people share bills and giving others with generous hearts the opportunity to donate. In addition, the Zarephath Health Center is a local clinic that helps the poor and uninsured get free medical care. Utilizing all volunteer physicians, nurses, and support staff, this clinic cheerfully provides care at one-tenth the cost of the federally qualified clinic in the next town.
The government cannot provide care; it can only mandate, restrict, coerce, punish, and control–causing insurance companies to raise rates and lower payments to physicians and hospitals. As the new rules drive insurance companies out of business, and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid head for bankruptcy, sharing ministries will offer a beacon of hope– a literal escape route.
We hold out a glimmer of hope that Congress will tear down the wall that prevents other innovations from bringing affordable, freely chosen care to all Americans.
Watch the video below about the danger of the flu vaccine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuXgpl2Sxg&feature=youtu.be
"On pages 107 and 128 of the Affordable Care Act, Christians who participate in healthcare sharing ministries are exempt from the “individual mandate” to obtain health insurance.
The legislation reads, “…Exemptions from Individual Responsibility Requirements — (A) In the case of an individual seeking exemption based on the individual’s status as a member of an exempt religious sect or division, as a member of a health care sharing ministry… Such term shall not include any individual for any month if such individual is a member of a health care sharing ministry for the month.”
However, in order to be eligible for the exemption, the healthcare sharing ministry must have been in operation since 1999. There are only three organizations nationwide that qualify under these terms: Samaritan Ministries, Christian Healthcare Ministries and Medi-Share."
Check out Christian Healthcare Ministries @ www.chministries.org
Here is their Gold Plan:
Gold = $150.00 per unit, per month
$500 personal responsibility per unit, per year. Total bills incurred per incident must exceed $500.
Includes:
• inpatient and outpatient hospital incidents* and surgery
• medical testing
• maternity (click here for more information)
• physical therapy and home health care (up to 45 visits)
• incident-related doctor's office visits
• incident-related prescriptions
Below are the links to the Christian health care
“We have to pass the health care bill, so you can find out what’s in it,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It’s a good thing doctors don’t practice medicine that way. Imagine sending patients to major surgery and then checking to find out what is in their medical record!
Those intent on a government takeover of medicine missed one item that is found in the bill. Tucked in there, around page 327, is the provision that exempts members of the health care sharing ministries in existence before the year 2000 from the mandate to buy the federally qualified health insurance. About 100,000 people are currently enrolled in such plans, one of which helps members pay $40 million in bills per year. They are Christian Care Medi-Share, Samaritan Ministries and Christian Healthcare Ministries.
The Eck family has enjoyed membership in such an organization since May 1997. Back then our story made the front page of our local paper, complete with photo of my husband John, our five children, and me, with the headline “NJ Family Abandons Private Insurance for Aid of Christian Health Plan.” Two physicians completely abandoning health insurance was news. At that time, we went from paying $585 to $75 per month to secure very reliable help should we have a catastrophic health care event. Today, instead of $3,200 or so per month for health insurance here in NJ, our family share comes to $350.
The qualifications for membership are strict. Enrollees have to agree to avoid tobacco, illegal drugs, and excess alcohol use. They have to keep their body weight at an acceptable level and cannot expect to have help with any pre-existing conditions. Members must agree to live a Biblical lifestyle (no sex outside of marriage) and must attend church regularly. These rules actually eliminate 70% of disease and members are “equally yoked” with others who choose to follow a healthy lifestyle.
We are free to access whatever medical care we choose, and the members vote on what expenses they will share, up to $5 million for a family over their lifetimes. Members are responsible for their own wellness and routine care, such as checkups, immunizations, and screenings.
Since we joined, our savings have amounted to well over $100,000.
The mandate we follow lies in the Biblical passage of Galatians 6:2- “Bear ye one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ.” Yet the ensuing verse 5 tells us to “carry our own loads”—to accept personal responsibility.
In 1998 my husband and I were called before our state Department of Banking and Insurance to defend our promotion of this faith-based program. We were accused of “selling insurance without a license,” even though we received no commission. The outcome: the faith sharing group was not considered “insurance” and was thus exempt from government oversight. In 2004, I testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, explaining the reasons why insurance was so expensive in New Jersey, and telling of the success of the health-sharing ministry.
Our church does care about those with pre-existing conditions, or those who have succumbed to activities that contribute to their illnesses. We have set up the Acts 4 Project to help such people share bills and giving others with generous hearts the opportunity to donate. In addition, the Zarephath Health Center is a local clinic that helps the poor and uninsured get free medical care. Utilizing all volunteer physicians, nurses, and support staff, this clinic cheerfully provides care at one-tenth the cost of the federally qualified clinic in the next town.
The government cannot provide care; it can only mandate, restrict, coerce, punish, and control–causing insurance companies to raise rates and lower payments to physicians and hospitals. As the new rules drive insurance companies out of business, and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid head for bankruptcy, sharing ministries will offer a beacon of hope– a literal escape route.
We hold out a glimmer of hope that Congress will tear down the wall that prevents other innovations from bringing affordable, freely chosen care to all Americans.
Dr. Alieta
Eck, MD graduated
from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy in NJ and the St. Louis School of Medicine
in St. Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has been in private practice with her
husband, Dr. John Eck, MD in Piscataway, NJ since 1988. She has been involved
in health care reform since residency and is convinced that the government is a
poor provider of medical care. She testified before the Joint Economic
Committee of the US Congress in 2004 about better ways to deliver health care
in the United States. In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health
Center, a free clinic for the poor and uninsured that currently cares for
300-400 patients per month utilizing the donated services of volunteer
physicians and nurses. Dr. Eck is a long time member of the Christian
Medical Dental Association and in 2009 joined the board of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons. In addition, she serves on the advisory board
of Christian Care Medi-Share, a faith based medical cost sharing Ministry. She
is a member of Zarephath Christian Church and she and her husband have five
children, one in medical school in NJ.
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