This happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the control of Phar′aoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods, they followed the customs of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the Israelites, and they followed the customs that the kings of Israel had established. The Israelites were pursuing the things that were not right according to Jehovah their God. They kept building high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city. They kept setting up for themselves sacred pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree; and on all the high places they would make sacrificial smoke just as the nations did that Jehovah had driven into exile from before them. They kept doing wicked things to offend Jehovah. They continued to serve disgusting idols, about which Jehovah had told them: “You must not do this!” Jehovah kept warning Israel and Judah through all his prophets and every visionary, saying: “Turn back from your wicked ways! Keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law that I commanded your forefathers and that I sent to you through my servants the prophets.” But they did not listen, and they remained just as stubborn as their forefathers who had not shown faith in Jehovah their God. They continued rejecting his regulations and his covenant that he had made with their forefathers and his reminders that he had given to warn them, and they kept following worthless idols and became worthless themselves, imitating the nations all around them that Jehovah had commanded them not to imitate. They kept leaving all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and they made metal statues of two calves and a sacred pole, and they bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served Baal. They also made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and looked for omens, and they kept devoting themselves to do what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah, to offend him. So Jehovah was very angry with Israel, so that he removed them from his sight. He did not let any remain but the tribe of Judah alone. Even Judah did not keep the commandments of Jehovah their God; they also walked in the customs that Israel followed. Jehovah rejected all the descendants of Israel and humiliated them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them away from before him. He ripped Israel away from the house of David, and they made Jer·o·bo′am the son of Ne′bat king. But Jer·o·bo′am caused Israel to stray from following Jehovah, and he caused them to commit a great sin. And the people of Israel kept walking in all the sins that Jer·o·bo′am had committed. They did not depart from them until Jehovah removed Israel from his sight, just as he had declared through all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken into exile from its land to As·syr′i·a, where they remain to this day. 2 Kings 17: 7-23 Jehovah gave up on Israel, they had strayed so far away from him that even he could not bring them back. It is possible for you also to do the exact same thing. Do not follow the lead of Israel, put away the false gods, and the false beliefs, and serving gods that cannot talk or walk or move, that you must pick up and serve food to them, that they never eat, let them go, serve the living God. Listen to his people, they will guide you.

Jehovah went on speaking to Moses, saying: 2 “You are to say to the Israelite’s, ‘Any man of Israel and any foreigner who resides in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Mo′lech should be put to death without fail. The people of the land should stone him to death. 3 I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Mo′lech and has defiled my holy place and has profaned my holy name. 4 If the people of the land should deliberately close their eyes to what that man does when he gives his offspring to Mo′lech and they do not put him to death, 5 then I myself will certainly set my face against that man and his family. I will cut off that man from his people along with all who join him in prostituting themselves to Mo′lech. 6 “‘As for the person who turns to the spirit mediums and the fortune-tellers so as to commit spiritual prostitution with them, I will certainly turn against that person and cut him off from his people. 7 “‘You must sanctify yourselves and become holy, because I am Jehovah your God. 8 And you must keep my statutes and carry them out. I am Jehovah, who is sanctifying you. Take a moment to read this carefully and to think about it. What did God say to do to those parents who burned their children in the outstretched appendages of that stone god Molech. How do you understand the phrase ” stone him to death ” to mean. Did you get out of that, that you should send out invitations, and well wishes for this event to all of your friends?? Ya, that’s it, I just threw my kid into the fire, lets have a party and celebrate !!! That you should string lights representing suns around your home ( Molech being a sun god ) ?? Did you get out of it that , that somehow God was going to bring you ” Blessings and Good Tidings ” for doing exactly what he told you he would kill you if you did it??? He warned you, that if you throw your children into the fire, he would have you put to death, I guess he never in a million years thought for a second that humans would intellectually disintegrate, and become so morally corrupted to the point that they would translate that into, ” Let’s Party”. Or else he would of went on to say, ” And oh by the way, if you just happen to be there watching the parent throw their child into Molech’s arms and set them on fire, then by all means, celebrate it, have a good time, enjoy the holiday” NO, notice what he went on to say, ” If the people of the land, deliberately close their eyes to what that man does when he gives his offspring to Molech and they do not put him to death, than I myself will certainly set my face against that man and his family along with all who join him in prostituting themselves to Molech “!!! Need I remind you, that having Jehovah set his face against you, is not the best place to be. He held accountable, not only the parent of the child, but all who knew about it or witnessed it first hand. They were to die as well. Jehovah took child sacrifice seriously and he held accountable to the crime all who knew of it, including their families. If a man did not stone a person to death for sacrificing his child to Molech, his family and the residents of the land would be cut off, and being cut off by Jehovah, is not a conversation you want to have with him. It was serious, either you kill that person, or you and your family and your neighbors suffer the consequences. No one should take away from that scripture, that Jehovah sanctions , approves of, and encourages celebrations of Child Sacrifice. AS the scripture indicates, even if you know about it, if you do nothing, you are guilty as well, so the argument that well I don’t look at it like that, is allot like Eve saying, forget you God, it is just a piece of fruit to me. Or Lot’s wife saying, ” I have eyes and I can look at anything I want” . Jehovah says, kill anyone who does this, and kill anyone who thinks it is alright. Satan comes along and says, ” This is absolutely normal behavior, if you do not participate in it there is something really wrong with you. In fact, to prove the point with you, I am going to have my government pass laws that say your even going to pay for it.” When you show up at a party celebrating human sacrifice, you are there representing the enemy of God. Jehovah is the giver of life, Satan is the god of death, you cannot celebrate both at the same time, pick one, or god will pick one for you.

Philip ran alongside and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet, and he said: ‘Do you actually know what you are reading?’ He said: ‘Really, how could I ever do so unless someone guided me?’” Acts 8:30, 31 We need help to understand the scriptures, it is Jehovah’s way that we teach each other. Remember the scripture that we read where Jesus said, ” Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, TEACHING them to observe all the things I have commanded you, and look, I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.” You can read the Bible all of your life, and yet never understand it without a guide. Before Jesus came, there were scriptures here. Jesus was referred to as the great teacher because he taught us what the meaning of the scriptures were. Anyone can be taught to read, but understanding takes explanation, that is the responsibility of the disciple, listen to them, learn from them, become one yourself, and teach others.

So this is what Jehovah says, ‘Here I am handing this city over to the Chaldeans and into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and he will capture it. 29 And the Chaldeans fighting against this city will come in and set this city on fire and burn it down along with the houses on whose roofs the people offered sacrifices to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods to offend me.’ 30 “‘For the people of Israel and of Judah have done only what was bad in my eyes, from their youth on; the people of Israel keep offending me by the work of their hands,’ declares Jehovah. 31 ‘For this city, from the day that they built it down to this day, has been nothing but a cause of anger and wrath to me, so that it must be removed from before my face, 32 because of all the evil that the people of Israel and of Judah have done to offend me they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, and the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 They kept turning their backs to me, not their faces; although I tried to teach them again and again, none of them would listen to receive discipline. 34 And they put their disgusting idols in the house that bears my name, in order to defile it. 35 Furthermore, they built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, in order to make their sons and their daughters pass through the fire to Molech, something that I had not commanded them and that had never come into my heart to do such a detestable thing, causing Judah to sin.’ Jeremiah 32: 28-35

A·hi′jah took hold of the new garment he was wearing and ripped it into 12 pieces. 31 Then he said to Jeroboam: “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘Here I am ripping the kingdom out of the hand of Sol′o·mon, and I will give you ten tribes. 32 But one tribe will remain his for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. 33 I will do this because they have left me and are bowing down to Ash′to·reth the goddess of the Sidonians, to Che′mosh the god of Mo′ab, and to Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways by doing what is right in my eyes and observing my statutes and my judgments as his father David did. 34 But I will not take the entire kingdom out of his hand, and I will keep him as a chieftain for all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, because he obeyed my commandments and my statutes. 35 But I will take the kingship out of the hand of his son and give it to you, that is, ten tribes. 36 To his son I will give one tribe, so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself as the place to put my name. 37 I will take you, and you will reign over all that you desire, and you will become king over Israel. 38 And if you obey all that I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my statutes and my commandments, just as David my servant did, I will also be with you. I will build you a lasting house, just as I have built for David, and I will give you Israel. 39 And I will humiliate the offspring of David because of this, but not always.’” 40 So Solomon tried to put Jeroboam to death, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shi′shak the king of Egypt, and he remained in Egypt until Solomon’s death. 41 As for the rest of the history of Solomon, all that he did and his wisdom, is it not written in the book of the history of Solomon? 42 The length of Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem over all Israel was 40 years. 43 Then Solomon was laid to rest with his forefathers and was buried in the City of David his father; and his son Rehoboam became king in his place. 1 Kings 11: 32-43

It was then that Solomon built a high place to Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, on the mountain in front of Jerusalem and to Mo′lech, the disgusting god of the Ammonites. 8 That was what he did for all his foreign wives who were making sacrificial smoke and sacrificing to their gods. 9 Jehovah became furious at Solomon, because his heart had inclined away from Jehovah the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice 10 and had warned him about this very thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not obey what Jehovah had commanded. 11 Jehovah now said to Solomon: “Because you have done this and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes as I commanded you, I will surely rip the kingdom away from you, and I will give it to one of your servants. 12 However, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it in your lifetime. I will rip it out of the hand of your son, 13 but I will not rip away the entire kingdom. One tribe I will give to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.” 1 Kings 11: 7-13

But King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. 2 They were from the nations about whom Jehovah had said to the Israelites: “You must not go in among them, and they should not come in among you, for they will surely incline your heart to follow their gods.” But Solomon clung to them and loved them. 3 And he had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 concubines, and his wives gradually inclined his heart. 4 In Solomon’s old age, his wives inclined his heart to follow other gods, and his heart was not complete with Jehovah his God like the heart of David his father. 5 And Solomon followed after Ash-toreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah, and he did not follow Jehovah completely as David his father had done. 1 Kings 11 : 1-6

You must be holy to me, because I, Jehovah, am holy, and I am setting you apart from the peoples to become mine. 27 “‘Any man or woman who acts as a spirit medium or is a fortune teller should be put to death without fail. The people should stone them to death. Their own blood is upon them.’” Ezekiel 16 : 26,27

‘You must not allow any of your offspring to be offered to Molech. You must not profane the name of your God in that way. I am Jehovah.Lev 18: 21 Jehovah went on speaking to Moses, saying: 2 “You are to say to the Israelite’s, ‘Any man of Israel and any foreigner who resides in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech should be put to death without fail. The people of the land should stone him to death. 3 I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech and has defiled my holy place and has profaned my holy name. 4 If the people of the land should deliberately close their eyes to what that man does when he gives his offspring to Molech and they do not put him to death, 5 then I myself will certainly set my face against that man and his family. I will cut off that man from his people along with all who join him in prostituting themselves to Molech. Lev 20 : 1-5

It is well known that this country as well as many other countries have underground breeding clubs for the sole purpose giving live birth, or of aborting the child in the latest moments of gestation as possible. To sacrifice the child to their Gods, if you have the guts, investigate it. I am not commenting on the medical necessity of abortions and am not entering that argument, so do not even try to draw me into that quagmire, I will not play with you there. This is about the deliberate breeding of human life for the sole intended purpose of sacrificing it in religious rites and rituals to the god of death.

In addition to this, there is a spike of abortions in this country during the month of December, this has been going on for along time. Those aware of the pagan practices and their views of life and human sacrifice have of course been aware of this, but as always Satan has his media hide it from main stream America, off of the news and off the presses. But Doctors are aware of it, abortion clinics have a drastic increase of patients in December. The reason ? The pagan religious belief system of Saturnalia which includes child sacrifice, the same as India, except here sex of the child does not mater. The main day of the celebration of Saturnalia is December 25

To those of you that think that Child Sacrifice is something of our Historical past that is written in stone and not something that any of us can do anything about, except perhaps take the good parts of it and celebrate those ( although for the life of me, I cannot see any good in sacrificing our children ) I invite all of you to tune in to CNN next Sunday at 10 AM and listen to Fareed Zakaria . India is a very religious country with millions of god’s. There are 45,000,000 single men looking for wives. India is steeped in false religious belief systems, the sacrifice of children is just one of them. The slaughtering of children for religious beliefs, goes back at least all the way to Nimrod, Nimrod came along after the flood, it is quite possible that child sacrifice was happening before the flood as well, certainly every other sort of vile thing was. In India still to this very day, child sacrifices are performed ritually and daily. The difference between Satan and Jehovah is that Satan hides some of his activities to trick people into going along with the program, where as Amos 3:7 says, ” For the lord Jehovah will not do a single thing unless he has revealed his confidential matter to his servants the prophets.” God always tells mankind what he is going to do before he does it so that they are not surprised. Women in India go to doctors to sacrifice their children. If the child is a girl, they kill it. This has lead to an imbalance of gender equality in India between available men and the shortage of females, so much so that the government claims that there are 45,000,000 marriage minded men, and no women available to marry. I am just wondering if this also does not have something to do with the astronomical rape problem in India, although nothing can excuse that behavior and it out to be dealt with in the most severe manner possible. I want you to watch this, so that you do Not think that my writing is off the wall, that I have lost my mind and am off the deep end.

Deuteronomy 12:29-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes “When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.

Christmas Decorations Christmas decorations are big business for retailers throughout the entire world, and those that sparkle with glitter will fly off the retail shelves this coming holiday. As the winter season approaches and holiday fan-fair arrives, that old holiday spirit will grow in anticipation of the celebrated season. These products are a large part of the festive traditions surrounding December 25th, and most homes across the American nation will have halls decked with holly and mistletoe atop doorways. The holiday just wouldn’t be the same without the green and red Christmas ornaments for the tree. Most Christians celebrating the season recognized as Christ’s birth have no idea how many of the original holiday traditions evolved. Interestingly, some Christmas decorations represent religious practices that are directly opposed to the Christian belief that Christ was born and died to save the world. Christians may want to know why their purchases could be symbols that do not glorify Christ. The tree decorated with Christmas ornaments is derived from a religious practice that dates back to before Christ’s birth. In Jeremiah 10:2-5, the prophet Jeremiah warns God’s people to not partake in a pagan ritual of cutting down a tree and decorating it with silver and gold. “For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold: they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not” (Jeremiah 10:3-4). It appears that decorating a tree is derived from a religious practice long before the birth of Christ and this practice has made its way to modern day Christmas ornaments. The original practice of cutting down and decorating a tree is found in the traditions of the pagan worship of the sun-god Nimrod. A log, known as a Yule-log, was placed on the fire in a home to symbolize the death of Nimrod, and a tree was resurrected in the home the next day to symbolize Nimrod’s “rising” again in his son, Tammus. The trees in the home were decorated with small red berries and other ornamental balls to symbolize the sun and the god of the sun they worshiped. Today, Christians place Christmas ornaments on green trees and Christmas decorations of red berries and balls are found throughout the home. And while most Christians innocently have no idea what these symbols mean, a study and examination of why we do what we do could help us focus more intently on Christ. There are many more holiday traditions based on religious practices that have roots in paganism and religion. Christians should evaluate their holiday traditions, including Christmas decorations, and what each truly stands for. As Christmas becomes more and more secularized across the nation, the opportunity to assess our reasons for the season are at hand.

A dramatic voice emanates from the television: “The cross is revered throughout Christianity as a symbol of faith in Jesus. We are pleased to present this beautifully detailed 24-karat gold cross with matching gold chain. It will bring you great joy while you proudly wear it as a symbol of your faith. Let it inspire you in your Christian walk. Place your order now by calling the number shown on the screen, and we will rush you your very own cross for three easy payments of $39.95. Quantities are limited, so do not delay!” Stirred to action by the presenter’s words and images of a sparkling golden cross, a TV viewer picks up the phone and dials the number. Like millions of others, he wants to wear this display of his religion. He wants others to know he is “Christian.” The cross is venerated and admired across the wide spectrum of traditional Christian churches. It is a cornerstone symbol—supposedly representing the message of Jesus Christ and how He died for the sins of humanity. Worn around the neck, placed on the dashboard of a car, hung from a wall, neatly lined in cemetery rows, placed on top of church steeples, or found along highways either alone or with two slightly smaller crosses on each side, this icon is made of varied materials and found in different shapes, forms and places. Most display the simple cross—an upright stake with an intersecting crossbeam located about a third of the way down from the top. Some have two crossbeams; others have an oval shaped circle on top. Still another type, called a crucifix, has an image of “Jesus” affixed to it. The shapes, sizes and configurations are seemingly endless, with “something for everyone.” While the King James Version of the Bible speaks of the “cross of Christ” (Gal. 6:12), does this mean a Christian should use this symbol as a physical manifestation of his faith? Since Jesus warned His followers against blindly following the traditions of men (Mark 7:6-7), you must not make assumptions. Do not just accept or assume that the cross is biblical—demand proof! Constant Reminder? Symbols carry significance and meaning. Often, they are used to invoke feelings or thoughts in the mind of the viewer. Some bring remembrance of events, places or people: national flags, war memorials, monuments to famous persons, or grave markers. The image of a cross is no different. Yet few people consider what meaning this symbol has for God. Many questions flow from this: Does God want you to wear a cross and display it where you live? Does God want to see this instrument of cruelty hanging from Christians’ necks, on the wall of their homes, or placed on the dashboard of their cars? Does He want to look upon a symbol that reminds Him of when He had to completely turn from His Son? (Read Matthew 27:46, II Corinthians 5:21, and Isaiah 53:6; 59:2.) And would you wear a constant reminder of how your child was put to death? Think about this! Consider further. If Christ were put to death with a. 38 Special handgun, would you wear this around your neck? If Jesus were put to death in an electric chair, would you place a miniature one on your dashboard as a sign of faith? What if by lethal injection? Would you have its representation prominently placed on the wall of your home? Why venerate—give honor to—an instrument used in Christ’s death? Are you certain God desires this? Before Christ The cross was not widely used in mainstream Christianity until the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine—about 270 years after Christ established His Church on Pentecost AD 31. None of the apostles or first-century Christians used it or accepted it as a “Christian” symbol. The Classic Encyclopedia, based on the famous 11th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, states: “From its simplicity of form, the cross has been used both as a religious symbol and as an ornament, from the dawn of man’s civilization. Various objects, dating from periods long anterior to the Christian era, have been found, marked with crosses of different designs, in almost every part of the old world. India, Syria, Persia and Egypt have all yielded numberless examples, while numerous instances, dating from the later Stone Age to Christian times, have been found in nearly every part of Europe. The use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre-Christian times, and among non-Christian peoples, may probably be regarded as almost universal, and in very many cases it was connected with some form of nature worship.” According to Babylon Mystery Religion by Ralph Woodrow, “Ages ago in Italy, before the people knew anything of the arts of civilization, they believed in the cross as a religious symbol. It was regarded as a protector and was placed upon tombs.” This symbol is still placed on graves today! The book continues, “In 46 B.C. [Before Christ], Roman coins show Jupiter holding a long scepter terminating in a cross. The Vestal Virgins of pagan Rome wore the cross suspended from their necklaces, as the nuns of the Roman Catholic church do now.” According to Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, the shape of the cross “had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt. “By the middle of the third century A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system, pagans were received into the churches…and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence, the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the cross of Christ.” Who was this Tammuz? Anciently, he has been known by many names: Baal, Molech, Osiris. The Bible identifies him as Nimrod: “He was a mighty hunter before [in place of] the Lord” (Gen. 10:9). The famous Jewish historian, Josephus, records in Antiquities of the Jews important evidence of Nimrod’s role in the post-Flood world. Notice: “He also gradually changed the government into tyranny…He [Nimrod] also said he would be revenged on God, if He should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach…Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God.” Ezekiel 8:13-14 records a picture of the women of Israel “weeping for Tammuz.” This Tammuz (the god of fire) of the Babylonian mystery religion is none other than Nimrod. The etymology of the word Tammuz bears examination: tam means “to make perfect” and muz “fire.” In other words, to make perfect through burning in fire! Ancient Israel fell into worshiping Tammuz. Again, he was also known as Baal or Molech: “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind, that they should do this abomination…” (Jer. 32:35). These practices were so terrible that God says they never entered His mind—they were unimaginable to Him! If a symbol was first used for a pagan god—one tied to child sacrifices—should you still wear it around your neck? Also notice what the Davis Dictionary of the Bible states about the origin of the cross: “The pre-Christian cross of one form or another was in use as a sacred symbol among the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and many other…nations. The Spaniards in the 16th century found it also among the Indians of Mexico and Peru. But its symbolic teaching was quite different from that which we now associate the cross.” How was its meaning different? It was used as a symbol of fertility. “Various figures of crosses are found everywhere on Egyptian monuments and tombs, and are considered by many authorities as symbolical either of the phallus [a representation of the male sex organ] or of coition…In Egyptian tombs the crux ansata [cross with a circle or handle on top] is found side by side with the phallus” (A Short History of Sex-Worship). Clearly, the cross symbol in its various forms has pagan origins—and meanings—outside of Christianity. Origins that long predate the birth of Jesus Christ—and the Church He founded. It was “Christianized” and brought into mainstream Christianity. What Did It Look Like? What did the instrument of Jesus Christ’s suffering look like? What was its shape? There are differing opinions. Professing Christianity has traditionally taught that Christ died on a two-beamed cross—His feet nailed together, with arms outstretched. The gospel accounts do say that Christ was nailed to a cross. Yet closer examination is warranted. The word “cross” is translated from the Greek word stauros. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words states that this word “denotes primarily, ‘an upright pale or stake.’ On such [criminals] were nailed for execution. Both the noun and the verb stauros, ‘to fasten to a stake or pale,’ are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed cross.” Interestingly, other scriptures record that Christ was nailed to a “tree” (I Pet. 2:24; Acts 5:30, 10:39, 13:29). The Greek word used in these verses, xulon, means “timber, stick, club, tree or other wooden article or substance.” Anciently, Roman soldiers would crucify people using wooden structures of various shapes. Sometimes they used upright stakes or poles. Other times they used wooden crosses by attaching beams either at or just below the top. The Bible does not specify the exact shape of the “stauros” or “xulon” on which Christ was crucified. But in light of the historical meanings of “stauros” and “xulon,” it was likely on a stake or upright pole, not on a two-beamed cross.

According to Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, the shape of the cross “had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt. “By the middle of the third century A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system, pagans were received into the churches…and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence, the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the cross of Christ” (p. 256). Also notice what the Davis Dictionary of the Bible states about the origin of the cross: “The pre-Christian cross of one form or another was in use as a sacred symbol among the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and many other…nations. The Spaniards in the 16th century found it also among the Indians of Mexico and Peru. But its symbolic teaching was quite different from that which we now associate the cross” (p. 159).

Saturnalia and Christmas are the same holiday simply renamed by the Catholic Church, nothing else was ever changed. Inside the walls of some Catholic churches have been found the skeletal remains of hundreds of children. Brings to mind what Jesus said about the religious buildings of his day, ” Outside indeed they appear beautiful, but inside they are filled with dead men’s bones ” I said it before, the most horrible organization that earth has ever seen is Catholicism. You cannot celebrate the event, and then claim independence from it, if you celebrate it, you accept it and agree with it. If you celebrate Christmas in reality you are celebrating Saturnalia, part of that celebration then, and today, yes today it it still very much alive, you are actually participating and agreeing in the celebration of Child Sacrifice, are you absolutely certain that you want to do that. It would be disobedient to God to have any celebrations in His name that he did not instruct you do do. If you are going to invent a celebration, why not just make a celebration that has nothing to do with God. But to deliberately form and create a celebration surrounding and including everything he specifically told you that he hated is no way to win his favor. He does not create life, just to hand over to you to destroy.

Clar Sisk, Child Sacrifice was common in that world, it even took hold in the Jewish nation, but it was always condemned by God, it was never sanctioned or supported by him. He does not force his will on mankind. He created us all as free moral agents, even those Israelite’ s living under the mosaic law covenant, were free to break those laws if they chose, and many of them did choose to participate in child sacrifice. One of the necessary features of the bible, is that it reveals the human condition, all of it, the good, the bad, and the ugly, it hides nothing, so that we will have forever this record, of how things were, when we turned our backs on God, and from the initiation of his kingdom rule, we will support Him in every action of His judicial decisions in that world he is preparing for us, and never again will we challenge his right to rule over us. Under the rulership of Jesus, in Gods kingdom, that was the theme of Christ preaching, there will be issued new laws governing the conduct of man. In that kingdom, enforcement of those laws will be from the heavens, they will be swift, the executions of God’s laws will not be delayed by the judicial processes of man. God is able to read our hearts, not our defenses or wicked reasoning’s. At that time no one will make a defense or excuse for the disobedience of Gods laws, ever again. We cannot now, nor can we ever, create celebrations in direct conflict with God’s laws and principles, no mater how small the infraction, let alone the gross practice of Child Sacrifice. Simply because man has free moral agency, does not mean that all of his morality is approved by God, and it is certainly not acceptable for anyone to chose to touch upon or shake hands with, unspeakable cruelties, and try in some sick way, try to justify them as being approved of by God, when in every form and way, he spoke against them as detestable to him. It is just madness that this author tried to persuade his audience that it was actually Jehovah demanding child sacrifices, rather than condemn them is of itself an abomination. God revealed in his writings that the Jewish nations engaged in Child Sacrifice, was to expose them to not only those alive in those generations, but for all generations to come after them to time indefinite, we will have this record of the atrocities that men committed against men, so that we never go down this path again. But having a written record of the atrocities that man has committed against man is no license to initiate celebrations for those very atrocities. But rather is is all the more reason to never even wink at them, not in our mins and not in our hearts, God can read both, let us all be cautious of the words we write to God. Toasting the death of a child, at any age, is not a display of rejection of the act, it is rather a display of accepting of it, and a statement of allegiance, and alignment with the practice. Building our own private monuments to child sacrifice in our homes and offices and public squares, are not a tribute to our rejection of the most horrible of all crimes against humanity, but rather a complete admission to the acceptance and encouragement of this most vile of all celebrations. These are my words, Clar Sisk

Both Phoenician and Punic materials designate multiple recipients for the Molech sacrifice, just as Philo attests. These deities include Eshmun, Baal Hamon and Tannit (=El and Asherah[27]).[28] Other classical sources, including Diodorus Siculus, also indicate that such sacrifices were performed for Kronos (=El).[29] New Kingdom war reliefs in Egypt also depict Levantine peoples performing child sacrifices during times of war.[30] Archaeological evidence from Punic Carthage also attests to child sacrifice and burials, although some scholars have argued that the practice of human sacrifice was still quite rare there, contrary to popular polemic in the ancient world.[31] Other sites of child sacrifice are known from the ancient Mediterranean world, all the way from Spain, to Sicily, to Sardinia, and possibly Tyre.[32] Additionally, there is archaeological evidence in Late Bronze Age Ammon in Transjordan of burned children’s bones, probably indicating a cult of human sacrifice there.[33] This fact, in turn, lines up well with the biblical account of 2 Kings 3, where the kings of Judah, Israel, and Edom ally together and attack king Moab of Mesha, driving him back to his city. In verse 27 king Mesha sacrifices his son upon a wall bringing “great wrath” on Israel—presumably because the god of Moab was summoned to Mesha’s defense via the sacrifice—and they (the Israelite’s) fled back to their own land. This story is also of note because it agrees with Philo of Byblos and Porphyry, as well as what we saw in Egyptian war reliefs: namely that these sacrifices were offered by the royal or ruling classes during times of great trouble, including war.

You are absolutely correct on your point, the scriptures clearly reveal Gods hatred for human sacrifice, some will be quick to point out the story of Abraham and Issac, but he stopped that and did not allow it, it was a foreshadow of what he was about to do with his firstborn son himself. When God makes a law he does not break it either. The law called for a life for a life, this act of Abraham and Issac, showed to all onlookers, especially the angels of heaven, the heart wrenching display of love given to the entire universe by God and his son Jesus would eternally lead to the end of death once and for all time for everyone. 

Babylonian Cylinder Representing Sacrifice of a Child.(From Menant, “Glyptique Orientale.”) From the fact that I Kings xi. 7 calls Molech the “abomination of the children of Ammon” it was formerly assumed that this worship was an imitation of an Ammonite cult. But so little is known of the Ammonite religion that more recent scholarship has looked elsewhere for the source. Because of the mention in II Kings xvii. 31 of Adrammelech (= Adar-malik) and Anammelech (=Anu-malik) as gods of Sepharvaim transplanted to Samaria, it has been inferred that this form of worship was borrowed from Babylonia (comp. Bäthgen, “Beiträge zur Semitischen Religionsgesch.” pp, 238 et seq.).

Nature of the Worship. —Critical View: The name “Molech,” later corrupted into “Moloch,” is an intentional mispointing of “Melek,” after the analogy of “bosheth” (comp. Hoffmann in Stade’s “Zeitschrift,” iii. 124). As to the rites which the worshipers of Molech performed, it has sometimes been inferred, from the phrase “pass through the fire to Molech,” that children were made to pass between two lines of fire as a kind of consecration or februation; but it is clear from Isa. lvii. 5 and Jer. xix. 5 that the children were killed and burned. The whole point of the offering consisted, therefore, in the fact that it was a human sacrifice

MOLOCH (MOLECH). Table of Contents —Biblical Data: Nature of the Worship. —Critical View: Motive of Sacrifices. —Biblical Data: In the Masoretic text the name is “Molech”; in the Septuagint “Moloch.” The earliest mention of Molech is in Lev. xviii. 21, where the Israelite is forbidden to sacrifice any of his children to Molech. Similarly, in Lev. xx. 2-5, it is enacted that a man who sacrifices his seed to Molech shall surely be put to death. Then, curiously, it is provided that he shall be cut off from the congregation. In I Kings xi. 7 it is said that Solomon built a high place for Molech in the mountain “that is before Jerusalem.” The same passage calls Molech an Ammonite deity. The Septuagint as quoted in the New Testament (Acts vii. 43) finds a reference to Moloch in Amos v. 26; but this is a doubtful passage. In II Kings xxiii. 10 it is stated that one of the practises to which Josiah put a stop by his reform was that of sacrificing children to Molech, and that the place where this form of worship had been practised was at Topheth, “in the valley of the children of Hinnom.” This statement is confirmed by Jer. xxxii. 35. From II Kings xxi. 6 it may be inferred that this worship was introduced during the reign of Manasseh. The impression left by an uncritical reading of these passages is that Molech-worship, with its rite of child-sacrifice, was introduced from Ammon during the seventh century B.C.

Because child-sacrifice was a prominent feature of the worship of the Phenician Malik-Baal-Kronos, Moore (in Cheyne and Black, “Encyc. Bibl.”) seeks to prove that the worship of Moloch was introduced from Phenicia. The evidence of its existence in Phenicia and her colonies is especially strong. Diodorus Siculus (xx. 14) tells how the Carthaginians in a siege sacrificed two hundred boys to Kronos. Burning was an important feature of the rite. Bibliography: W. R. Smith, Rel. of Sem. 2d ed., pp. 372 et seq.; Bäthgen, Beiträge zur Semitischen Religionsgesch. 1888, pp. 237 et seq.; Moore, The Image of Moloch, in Jour. Bib. Lit. 1897, xvi. 161 et seq.; M. J. Lagrange, Etudes sur les Religions Sémitiques, 1903, pp. 99-109.

Baalbek Temple and Human Sacrifice worship to Baal Posted on July 18, 2012 Human Sacrifice including child Sacrifice as worship to the God Baal at the Baalbek Temple When we turn to mythology to help understand these calamities we find some puzzling insights. The Greek writer Homer told how the mighty sky god Zeus cast thunderbolts on the earth and tumbled the walls of Troy with his earthquakes. The inhabitants of Baalbek feared Baal. This God was their name for Zeus also known as Jupiter and Amon. Humans were sacrificed in an attempt to pacify him and prevent huge destructive earthquakes. They believed by their actions they could control and manipulate the Gods. In the mysterious tablets of Ugarit, discovered by Claude Schaeffer, Baal is the God of rain, thunder, and extraordinary bolts of lightning. The worship of Baal extended in this region to the Jews, Canaanites and the Phoenicians. But Herodotus informs us the God was also known under many other names such as Jupiter of the Romans. Zeus of the Greeks, Mazda of the Persians and Amon of the Egyptians. Priests instructed the people that the bright sky god Baal was responsible for droughts, plagues, earthquakes and other calamities. People were often worked up into great frenzies at the prospects of displeasing Baal. In times of great turbulence human sacrifices, particularly children, were made to this father of the gods! Since the Phoenicians also were superb ship builders the religion and cults of Baal spread throughout the Mediterranean world. The cult was put down at times, but was never permanently stamped out. Kings and other royalty of the ten Biblical tribes worshiped the god. The god’s images were erected on many buildings. The religion spawned numerous priests and priestesses with their ceremonies including the burning of incense and offering burnt sacrifices, occasionally consisting of human victims. The officiating priests danced around the altars, chanting frantically and cutting themselves with knives to inspire the attention and compassion of the god. The Bible places Baal as Beelzebub, one of the fallen angels of Satan. King Ahab was one of the most notoriously wicked king’s of the bible. Under the influence of his wife, Jezebel, Ahab built altars to Baal. In the Old Testament we read of king Heels rebuilding of Jericho wherein he sacrificed his first born son Abiram his youngest son Segub. This is an explicit reference to what are called foundational sacrifices. Common enough in the Canaan of biblical times, these rituals sacrificed humans, typically children, to the patron God of the city. The bodies of these victims were placed under the foundations or in the walls of the structure.

Every year after Thanksgiving, most people’s thoughts turn to Christmas. It is the time when professing Christians are supposed to focus on Jesus Christ. After all, it is the “Christ-mass” season! Christmas is thought by most to be a wonderful time, focusing the participants on giving, family togetherness, beautiful music and decorations, feasting on special foods and singing Christmas carols throughout the neighborhood (as my family did every year). All of this is supposedly centered around the worship of Christ. Surely the Bible instructs us to do all this—right? The answers will shock you! Why do people think that Christmas is wonderful? Most never reflect on why they believe what they believe or do what they do. We live in a world filled with customs, but few ever seek to understand their origin. We generally accept them without question. Most people basically do what everyone else does—because it is easy and natural! Let’s carefully examine the roots of Christmas. Let’s look at why people follow the customs associated with it. Why is it kept on December 25th? Did the early New Testament Church keep it? This article is filled with facts from history that, when placed together, paint a complete picture. Let’s avoid all assumptions and only accept what can be PROVEN! Pagan Origin In 1990, the Solon, Ohio (a Cleveland suburb) school board banned all nativity and other Christmas scenes on any school property because they felt it violated the separation of church and state. They were challenged in court when outraged parents opposed them, feeling that Christmas was being stolen from their children and the community. The board lost the case! The citizenry had contended that Christmas was a worldwide tradition that was not part of, and transcended, religion. It was deemed to be secular—a part of virtually all cultures worldwide. The court decision affirmed that Christmas has no Christian roots! However, the court’s opinion also noted that bible reading and prayer obviously are associated with Christ-ianity—a remarkable admission! The court concluded that Christmas-keeping and manger scenes could remain because they are not really part of either Christianity or religion—but prayer and Bible reading, which are, must remain excluded from schools! Nearly all aspects of Christmas observance have their roots in Roman custom and religion. Consider the following admission from a large American newspaper (The Buffalo News, Nov. 22, 1984): “The earliest reference to Christmas being marked on Dec. 25 comes from the second century after Jesus’ birth. It is considered likely the first Christmas celebrations were in reaction to the Roman Saturnalia, a harvest festival that marked the winter solstice—the return of the sun—and honored Saturn, the god of sowing. Saturnalia was a rowdy time, much opposed by the more austere leaders among the still-minority Christian sect. Christmas developed, one scholar says, as a means of replacing worship of the sun with worship of the Son. By 529 A.D., after Christianity had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian made Christmas a civic holiday. The celebration of Christmas reached its peak—some would say its worst moments—in the medieval period when it became a time for conspicuous consumption and unequaled revelry.” Consider these quotes from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, under “Christmas”: “Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church…the first evidence of the feast is from Egypt.” Further, “Pagan customs centering around the January calends gravitated to Christmas.” Under “Natal Day,” Origen, an early Catholic writer, admitted, “…In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners (like Pharaoh and Herod) who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world” (emphasis mine). The Encyclopedia Americana, 1956 edition, adds, “Christmas…was not observed in the first centuries of the Christian church, since the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth…a feast was established in memory of this event [Christ’s birth] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered the feast to be celebrated forever on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun and at the close of the Saturnalia, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ’s birth existed.” There is no mistaking the origin of the modern Christmas celebration. Many additional sources could be cited and we will return to this later. Let’s begin to tie some other facts together. It was 300 years after Christ before the Roman church kept Christmas, and not until the fifth century that it was mandated to be kept throughout the empire as an official festival honoring “Christ.” Can Christ Be Honored by Christmas? The most common justification that one will hear regarding Christmas is that people have replaced old pagan customs and intents by asserting that they are now “focusing on Christ.” I have heard many say that they are “honoring Christ” in their Christmas-keeping. The problem is that God does not say this is acceptable to Him! Actually, He plainly commands against it! Keeping Christmas dishonors Christ! He considers everything about it to be an abomination! We will soon see why. Christ said, “But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matt. 15:9). Christmas is not a command of God—it is a tradition of men. Christ continued, “Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition” (Mark 7:9). Every year, throughout the world, on December 25th, hundreds of millions do just that! We will see that God plainly commands, “Follow not the way of the heathen.” But most people do not fear God, and He allows them to make their own decisions. Human beings are free moral agents—free to obey or disobey God! But woe to those who ignore the plain Word of God! Was Christ Born on December 25th? Christ was born in the fall of the year. Many have mistakenly believed He was born around the beginning of winter—December 25th! They are wrong! Notice the Adam Clarke Commentary, volume 5, page 370, New York edition: “It was custom among Jews to send out their sheep to the deserts about the Passover [early spring], and bring them home at the commencement of the first rain.” The first rains began in early-to-mid fall. Continuing with this same quote: “During the time they were out, the shepherds watched them night and day. As…the first rain began early in the month of March-esvan, which answers to part of our October and November [begins sometime in October], we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. And as these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks, it is a presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were out in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were still in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by night in the fields is a chronological fact…See the quotations from the Talmudists in Lightfoot.” Luke 2:8 explains that when Christ was born, “there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.” Note that they were “abiding” in the field. This never happened in December. Both Ezra 10:9-13 and the Song of Solomon 2:11 show that winter was the rainy season and shepherds could not stay on cold, open fields at night. Numerous encyclopedias plainly state that Christ was not born on December 25th! The Catholic Encyclopedia directly confirms this. In all likelihood, Christ was born in the fall! A lengthy technical explanation would prove this point. Since we now know that December 25th was nowhere near Christ’s actual birthdate, where did the festival associated with this date come from? Now read this quote under “Christmas”: “In the Roman world, the Saturnalia (December 17) was a time of merrymaking and exchanging of gifts. December 25 was also regarded as the birthdate of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness. On the Roman New Year (January 1), houses were decorated with greenery and lights, and gifts were given to children and the poor. To these observances were added the German and Celtic Yule rites when the Teutonic tribes penetrated into Gaul, Britain and central Europe. Food and good fellowship, the Yule log and Yule cakes, greenery and fir trees, gifts and greetings all commemorated different aspects of this festive season. Fires and lights, symbols of warmth and lasting life, have always been associated with the winter festival, both pagan and Christian” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., vol. II, p. 903). A final quote about the selection of December 25th as the birthdate of Christ is necessary. Note an article in The Toronto Star, December 1984, by Alan Edmonds, entitled, “We owe a lot to Druids, Dutch”: “The Reformation cast a blight on Christmas. By then, of course, clever ecclesiastical politicians had adopted the Pagan mid-winter festival as the alleged birthdate of Jesus, of Nazareth, and thrown in a few other Pagan goodies to make their takeover more palatable.” December 25th was not selected because it was the birth of Christ or because it was even near it. It was selected because it coincided with the idolatrous pagan festival Saturnalia—and this celebration must be carefully examined. In any event, we do not know the exact date of Christ’s birth. While God certainly could have made it known, He chose to hide it from the world’s eyes! What About Santa Claus? Parents reason that they owe the whole Christmas myth to their children! Christmas traditions are focused primarily on kids, and they are certainly the center of most of what happens. I know because I kept seventeen Christmases. My older sister and younger brother and I were the recipients of much and the givers of very little on that day—and it all started with the Santa Claus lie. Some years ago, a priest in New Jersey told his Sunday school class that Santa was a myth. The outrage from parents and his supervisors was swift. He had “killed Santa!” He had “destroyed family tradition!” He had “usurped family authority,” the article continued. He was officially censored by his superiors for being “overzealous and insensitive.” His crime? He told the truth! According to Langer’s Encyclopedia of World History, (article “Santa”), “Santa” was a common name for Nimrod throughout Asia Minor. This was also the same fire god who came down the chimneys of the ancient pagans and the same fire god to whom infants were burned and eaten in human sacrifice among those who were once God’s people. Today Santa Claus comes from “Saint Nicholas.” Washington Irving, in 1809, is responsible for remaking the original old, stern bishop of this same name into the new “jolly St. Nick” in his Knickerbocker History of New York. (Most of the rest of America’s Christmas traditions are even more recent than this.) “Old Nick” has long been recognized as a term for the devil. In Revelation 2:6 and 15, we read about a “doctrine of the Nicolaitanes,” which Christ twice tells His Church “[He] hates.” Let’s analyze the word Nicolaitane. It means “follower of Nicholas.” Nikos means “conqueror, destroyer.” Laos means “people.” Nicolaitanes, then, are people who follow the conqueror or destroyer—Nimrod. If you have believed that following Christmas is an innocent Christian custom, let this truth sink in! Is It Scriptural to Exchange Gifts? Merchants regularly report that over 60% of their annual retail sales occur during the Christmas shopping season. This represents a tremendous amount of gift buying. Most today believe that gift-giving comes from the Bible example of the “three wise men” (the Bible gives no number) presenting gifts to Christ. Is this true? Where did exchanging gifts come from, and what does God’s Word say about it? The Bibliotheca Sacra states, “The interchange of presents between friends is a like characteristic of Christmas and the Saturnalia, and must have been adopted by Christians from the pagans, as the admonition of Tertullian plainly shows” (Vol. 12, pp. 153-155). Like every other aspect of Christmas, the shocking truth is that even this supposed Christian custom does not come from the Bible. It is an irony that people love to believe they are following the custom of the wise men giving to Christ, when actually they are giving almost exclusively to each other! What hypocrisy! Christ is completely forgotten. The Bible actually teaches that Christians should not keep birthdays. Numerous scriptures make this principle clear. (Read our article “Are Birthday Celebrations Christian?”) However, what if you went to a birthday party that had been prepared for you and everybody gave gifts to each other and you were left out? The idea is ridiculous! If this happened, you would say that people were being selfish and forgetting you. In fact, most people give to others on Christmas merely because they expect to receive gifts themselves! Let’s briefly return to the “wise men” who gave gifts to Christ. The scripture describing this is Matthew 2:1-11: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews?…And when they were come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” It is commonly supposed that these were birthday presents for “baby Jesus.” But is this what the Bible actually says? Absolutely not! First, it is important to note that they did give the gifts to Jesus. They did not stand in his presence and exchange gifts among themselves or give them to others. The gifts were “presented unto Him.” Also, they arrived well after his “birthday.” This is another reason these could not have been “birthday presents.” A long-standing, ancient custom of the East was to present gifts when coming before a king. These men understood they were in the presence of the “King of the Jews.” The Bible carries many examples of people sending gifts to kings or presenting them upon arrival into their presence. This custom is common today when ambassadors or others come into the presence of a world leader. Finally, notice what the Adam Clarke Commentary, volume 5, page 46, states about what really happened on this occasion: “Verse 11. They presented unto him gifts. The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. This custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Seas Islands.” Gifts were customarily presented to kings. What could be more plain? Origin of the Christmas Tree No article about Christmas is complete without some explanation of the “Christmas tree.” We have touched on it without directly focusing on it. The modern Christmas tree originated in Germany. But the Germans got it from the Romans, who got it from the Babylonians and the Egyptians. The following demonstrates what the Babylonians believe about the origin of the Christmas tree: “An old Babylonish fable told of an evergreen tree which sprang out of a dead tree stump. The old stump symbolized the dead Nimrod, the new evergreen tree symbolized that Nimrod had come to life again in Tammuz! Among the Druids the oak was sacred, among the Egyptians it was the palm, and in Rome it was the fir, which was decorated with red berries during the Saturnalia!” (Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs, p. 242). Frederick J. Haskin’s Answers to Questions states, “The Christmas tree is from Egypt, and its origin dates from a period long anterior to the Christmas Era.” Did you know this—that the Christmas tree long preceded Christianity? Most aspects of Christmas are not referred to in the Bible. Of course, the reason is that they are not from God—they are not part of the way He wants people to worship Him. The Christmas tree, however, is directly mentioned in the Bible! Turn to Jeremiah 10:2-5, “Thus says the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen…For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.” This plain description of the modern Christmas tree is clear. God directly refers to it as “the way of the heathen.” Just as directly, He commands His people to “learn not the way of the heathen,” calling these customs “vain.” Verse 23 adds a remarkable and powerful statement: “O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his [own] steps.” God must teach people how to live. Man simply cannot figure out God’s ways for himself. There is no room in Jeremiah 10 to believe, as some have tried to suggest, that because these trees are powerless of themselves, it is not really forbidden to have a Christmas tree. God condemns the putting up of pagan (Christmas) trees with this plain Bible command! The Source of Holly Wreaths, Yule Logs and Mistletoe The Encyclopedia Americana states, “The holly, the mistletoe, the Yule log…are relics of pre-Christian time.” In other words, paganism! The Yule log was commonly used in a rite of Teutonic nature worship. Frederick Haskin further states, “The use of Christmas wreaths is believed by authorities to be traceable to the pagan customs of decorating buildings and places of worship at the feast which took place at the same time as Christmas.” The Encyclopedia Britannica, under “Celastrales,” exposes the origin of the holly wreath: “European pagans brought holly sprays into their homes, offering them to the fairy people of the forests as refuge from the harsh winter weather. During the Saturnalia, the Roman winter festival, branches of holly were exchanged as tokens of friendship. The earliest Roman Christians apparently used holly as a decoration at the Christmas season.” There are dozens of different types of holly. Virtually all of them come in male and female varieties—such as “Blue Prince and Blue Princess” or “Blue Boy and Blue Girl” or “China Boy and China Girl.” Female holly plants cannot have berries unless a nearby male plant pollinates them. It is easy to see why the holly wreath found its way into pagan rituals as a token of friendship and fertility! Christmas is incomplete to many unless it involves “kissing under the mistletoe.” This pagan custom was natural on a night that involved much revelry done in the spirit of drunken orgies. Just like today, this “kissing” usually occurred at the beginning of any modern Saturnalia/Christmas celebration. I will never forget having to always kiss my friends’ mothers upon entering each of their houses every Christmas. It was the first thing that we did. I hated it—but it was something I “had to do”! Mistletoe was considered to have special powers of healing for those who “reveled” under it. The Encyclopedia Britannica, under “Santalales,” states, “The European mistletoe is thought to have had special ritual significance in Druidical ceremonies and lives in folklore today, its special status as the Christmas mistletoe having come from Anglo-Saxon times.” Mistletoe is a parasite that lives on oak trees. (Recall that the Druids worshipped in oak tree groves.) The ancient Celtics (associated with the Druids) used to give mistletoe as an herbal remedy to barren animals to make them fertile. It is still referred to as “all healer” in Celtic. Like mistletoe, holly berries were also thought to be sacred to the sun god. The original “sun log” came to be called the yule log. “Yule” simply means “wheel,” which has long been a pagan representation of the sun. No wonder people today commonly speak of the “sacred yule-tide season.” What Should You Do? Finally, let’s examine what God told His people they should do and the way they ought to teach their children. Human beings do not want to obey God (Rom. 8:7). They would rather follow their own “imagination.” They do not understand that God wants their lives to go “well.” He wants happiness, joy and blessings to flow into people’s lives. All these are the results of obeying Him. God inspired Moses to warn parents of the grave responsibility that they have in what and how they teach their children. Notice His instruction in Deuteronomy 6:1, 6-7, 20-21, 25: “Now these are the commandments…which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go to possess it…And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up…And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you? Then you shall say unto your son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand…And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.” God took Israel out of Egypt—out of the customs of the world around them and revealed His Law to them. He does not want His people going back to the traditions, customs and ways from which He has called them. When all of the interconnected traditions, filled with the symbolism of worshipping an ancient pagan, humanly devised god, are taught, this is not worshipping the true Creator.

“Yes we do and we have a good time. Just because something bad happened in the past, doesn’t mean we can’t reclaim the holiday as our own to celebrate with great joy and good tidings.” 14 hours ago · Like This comment by my dear friend, whom I love, pretty much sums up how the entire world feels about celebrating Holidays. The civil governments of the entire world make provisions for their celebrations by providing civil servants to decorate the streets and buildings with the decor required of each celebration. So the people of the world and the governments agree with her views. But I want to point out and underscore the comment. ” Just because something bad happened in the past, doesn’t mean we can’t reclaim the holiday as our own to celebrate with great joy and good tidings. ” When you celebrate these holidays, that is exactly what you are doing, you are reclaiming them as your own. I repeat myself to you, is the celebration of the slaughter and human sacrifice of innocent newborn babies, and then eating them, a cause for you to reclaim this celebration for yourselves and make it into your own celebration. Is the slaughter of innocent human lives, something you want to remember with great joy and good tidings. Take a moment to really think about this, because she is absolutely right, when you celebrate these holidays, you are making them your own, make sure that you really want to do that, because your creator, whom you are doing this in his name, is watching you, and reading the tablets of your heart, so go ahead, and drink up, the priest of old did. Blood of the babies, that is, perhaps they also did it with great joy and good tidings.

Awhile back I ended something that I wrote with the final comment that ” Holidays ( ” Holy Days ” ) are celebrations of oppression of the most brutal kinds. As expected I received some negative comments on my views. I welcome them because at least they read them. If anyone has read anything I offered yesterday, I cannot imagine that your view could be anything different than mine. The celebration of slaughtering children to a false god, and painting it any other color but the worst form of brutality, would be devoid of all reason and in want of heart. The celebration of Easter, is the second most horrible, holiday on calenders, topped only by it’s big sister, Christmas. There is nothing worse that a person could say or do to me that would be more offensive to me than to invite me to a celebration that honors human sacrifice to false gods. How is it, that, anyone could possibly participate in this form of idolatry where live human babies are slaughtered as a ritualistic sacrifice to a god made of stone. This has all the classic earmarks of the enemy of God and Man, Satan written all over it. There is no end to the pretty packages and window dressing and re-gifting that Satan offers up to all of us, to conceal, distract, deceive, disguise, his endless quest and goal of the leading to destruction of as many souls as he possibly can in the most horrific ways possible. Satan could come up with ways of snuffing out our lives in more human ways, but he never does that. He devises ways that are the most horrible and hideous imaginable. Take a look sometime at the tools the Catholic Church used in the inquisitions, they were not meant to be implements of administering a peaceful death just for owning a bible, they were meant to cause the most excruciating pain imaginable, until death was a welcome relief. The Churches of today, while they occupy different titles and different buildings, teach all of the doctrines of Catholicism, they are all Catholic, just re-packaged, the contents are identical. All of them, all of them, claim to be Christian, but are anything but. It is impossible to be a Christian, and celebrate the destruction of innocent lives to a rock. Hold your though if you are about to tell me that you are not doing that, save it, because in a different writing I will address the none participatory clause offered up as innocence to the crime of celebrating oppression and brutality just because you make the claim that that is not what the holiday means to you. If the holiday does not mean to you all of what history reviles it is, than why would anyone ever participate in it. If you feel the compulsion to celebrate something, than make a celebration of something that is truly worthy of celebrating. Giving Satan an “at ta boy”, and patting him on the back for a job well done, winks, smiles, gestures of approval, by attending his commemorative ceremonies, can never be construed by any observer as a display of your own person disapproval of the act being commemorated. If you show up at the party and drink the wine, and eat the food, and clap your hands in applause, bring guest and gifts, you are celebrating, who are you kidding, certainly not the one who is watching from above. And about oppressive brutality, I cannot image how horrible it must have been to live in a world where the State sponsored priest could come into your home, take your baby out of your arms, and throw it into a fire. Anyone who can defend their right to celebrate such brutality, has lost all reasoning ability. Right this moment, Muslims are still to this very day, hacking up children in Africa with machetes, while the rest of us sit on our sofas, and drink our beer, and watch a ball being bounced around in its various forms, and chuckle at sit com’s. A friend said, ” “Yes we do and we have a good time. Just because something bad happened in the past, doesn’t mean we can’t reclaim the holiday as our own to celebrate with great joy and good tidings.”  This comment by my dear friend, whom I love, pretty much sums up how the entire world feels about celebrating Holidays. The civil governments of the entire world make provisions for their celebrations by providing civil servants to decorate the streets and buildings with the decor required of each celebration. So the people of the world and the governments agree with her views. But I want to point out and underscore the comment. ” Just because something bad happened in the past, doesn’t mean we can’t reclaim the holiday as our own to celebrate with great joy and good tidings. ” When you celebrate these holidays, that is exactly what you are doing, you are reclaiming them as your own.

The Steeple and the Asherah Pole The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible tells us that an Asherah pole was always erected at the altar of Baal. In fact, absolutely every single alter of Baal had an Asherah pole beside it, which was an upright, denuded tree! This type of phallic pole has always been associated with sun worship. (Interestingly, nearly twenty different tribes of American Indians performed the “Sundance” around a “sun pole.”)

It is interesting that the cross was the ancient symbol of the sun god. Baal’s symbol was the cross. In Hatzor, in Northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered an incense alter to Baal with the symbol of a cross on it. The article describes “a basalt offering table, pillar-shaped, with a carved symbol of the storm god Baal on its side. That symbol was a circle with a cross in the center” Just as Pagans always seem shocked that the Catholic Church practices so many of their customs…in the same vein, Catholics are always shocked to find Pagans “imitating” them. It is said that “Catholics were outraged to find that “their” cross was a sacred symbol to Native Americans.” “There is hardly a Pagan tribe where the cross has not been found.” In an article called Mesoamerican Symbology, we read “But what really surprised the conquistadors, or those few among them with eyes to see, was nothing less than the symbol of the cross, present everywhere… In fact, the symbol of which we are speaking is certainly Pre-Christian.” At a Tophet at Carthage, where Baal was worshipped, 20,000 cinerary urns were discovered with children’s ashes in them, and they found puzzling “cross motifs” at the site. Before the time of Jesus, the cross represented the sun god. “Crosses with arms of equal length were used frequently since time immemorial in pre-Columbian America, the Euphrates-Tigris region, and other parts of the world. That cross seems to have been associated with the sun and the powers that controlled the weather…..Sometime during the first centuries of the Western calendar the Latin cross was adopted by the Christian ideology. Still being associated with heavenly, and almighty lords both and even more so the sun god’s staff.” Speaking of the cross, Bullinger in The Companion Bible says, “crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god…” “The evidence for its pagan origin is so convincing that The Catholic Encyclopedia even admits that “the sign of the cross, represented in its simplest form by a crossing of two lines at right angles, greatly antedates…the introduction of Christianity. It goes back to a very remote period of human civilization.”.

Yet for thousands of years before Christianity, people have observed a sunrise service on Easter morning and took the “bloodless sacrifice” of a round sun shaped wafer as part of Easter observance. On the wafer, then and now, exist three initials. They are I.H.S. These initials are still commonly used over the alter of many modern day churches and you would be told it stands for “Iesus Hominum Salvator,” or “Jesus, the Savior of Men.“ Ancient idolaters would have told you something quite different. They would have explained to you that their round, sun shaped wafers with the initials I. H. S., stood for “Isis, Horus, Seb” that is, “the mother, the child and the father of the gods,” or the Egyptian TRINITY. Another “trinity” is Astarte, Bel, and Baal. Another trinity is Semiramis, Nimrod and Tammuz.

This “Queen of heaven” was considered much “kinder and gentler” than her consort the Canaanite Baal. It was said that she “tempered judgment with mercy” and the people favored her over Baal. She did not require a bloody sacrifice of firstborn children during her festival like her husband, nor did she require the ritual cannibalism that went along with Baal worship. By the way, do you know where the word cannibal comes from? The word Cahna means “the priest of” and bal means “Baal.” According to Hislop, in “The Two Babylons,” the priests of Baal were “required to eat of the human sacrifices, and thus it has come to pass that Cahna-bal, the priest of baal is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh.” Babylon is the source of cannibalism, sun worship and Satan worship.

We know that “soft core” Baal worship minus the human sacrifice, was adopted by the Catholic and Protestant churches but there is scriptural evidence that hardcore pure Baal worship actually evolved into modern witchcraft. The Bible clearly states in I Corinthians 10:20, “the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.” “Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan…” Psalms 106:37-38 The Satanic Bible lists Baal and Moloch as two of the many names for Satan! “Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD” Deut. 18:10-12 In fact, Satan worship, which is purported to sometimes include human sacrifice, is identical in every way to the purest, original form of Baal worship. some information about satanic sacrificial ritual requirements on December 24th and 25th. Why would people who call themselves Christian want to have anything in common with satanic religion? Some truly love that old time religion. What harm is it that the children are dressing up like witches and demons…but how does God feel about it? Have you ever wondered why there are six references in the book of Revelation to the word “Babylon”….all referring to it’s total destruction? Babylon represents Satan’s religion on this earth. It represents Satan’s alternative to God’s way. Speaking of Babylon in Revelation, there is a serious warning to “come out of her”, “that you receive not her plagues,” as there will be nothing left of this false religion when God gets finished with it. We shouldn’t cleave to it or desire it, because in effect, we would be siding with Satan against God. In Revelation, the Bible speaks of “MYSTERY, BABYLON, THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH…” (Rev.17:5) “For years, Protestant Christians have rightly understood the Great Whore to be the Catholic Church, which reigns on the seven hills of Rome (Rev.17:9). What Protestant Christians have altogether missed however is that the Whore (who is also called “the mother of harlots”) has daughters. Who are this harlot’s “daughters”? Who are the offspring of the Catholic Church, and where are these daughters today?” The protestant churches are the daughters of the Catholic church and they have followed her lead on Sunday worship and holidays…” Does it make any sense that most modern “Christian” churches keep the exact same holidays that Satanists and Pagans keep, with the only difference being that Pagans kept these holidays first? The Pagan “Wheel of the Year” outlines the movement of the sun over a year’s time, showcasing the most important holidays to a Satanist or Pagan…and amazingly you will find that Catholics and Protestants alike also keep these festivals. Of course, not by the same names! While Pagans observe Ostara, Samhain and Yule, churchgoers call them Easter, (held first Sunday after the spring equinox) Halloween (held exactly between the Solstice and Equinox) and Christmas! (held on the Winter Solstice) Yes, even December 25th is kept by the Satan worshipper, resplendent with all the trimmings and merriment, including the fir tree, gift giving, mistletoe, Yule logs, you name it! Don’t think for a minute that Satan worshippers or Pagans keep these holidays in reverence for God. They actually laugh at churches for keeping these ancient Pagan sun worshipping holidays and calling them Christian! Around three or four hundred years after the death of Christ, an apostate church “joined up” with Pagan religion. Some might say, “What’s so bad about that?” The answer is that keeping anything connected to this Babylonian system is a flagrant violation of the first commandment…“You shall have no other gods before me.” Baal’s sign was the cross, followers were promised that they would go to heaven for coming to the alter, and those who refused were threatened with eternal punishment in the nether world, there was an upright “steeple” (Asherah Pole) near each alter, they kept their dead near their places of worship…and that mankind still prefers Satan, and his form of religion. At some point, God wants every person to come out of this long-lived religious system that originated in Babylon. It is packaged so smartly that it is acceptable to church goers and Satan worshippers alike, with all the basic foundational tenants shared in common.

Semiramis died and was later deified, just as Nimrod had been. Some of the names used to worship this female fertility goddess are Astarte, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Ostara, Eostre, Isis, etc…but modern churches prefer to use the word Easter! Her much beloved fertility symbols of eggs and bunny rabbits are still featured in the spring holiday of the same name, held at the time of the Spring Equinox. Look up Easter in any Bible encyclopedia. Here’s a quote from Nelson’s Bible Dictionary, “Easter was originally a pagan festival…The only appearance of the word Easter in the Bible is a mistranslation of pascha, the ordinary Greek word for Passover.” Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says, “The term “Easter” is not of Christian origin.” The word Easter is nowhere mentioned in the Bible except as a mistranslation of Passover. Wouldn’t God have mentioned Easter somewhere in the Bible , at least once, if He had wanted people to keep it? Yet for thousands of years before Christianity, people have observed a sunrise service on Easter morning and took the “bloodless sacrifice” of a round sun shaped wafer as part of Easter observance. On the wafer, then and now, exist three initials. They are I.H.S. These initials are still commonly used over the alter of many modern day churches and you would be told it stands for “Iesus Hominum Salvator,” or “Jesus, the Savior of Men.“ Ancient idolaters would have told you something quite different. They would have explained to you that their round, sun shaped wafers with the initials I. H. S., stood for “Isis, Horus, Seb” that is, “the mother, the child and the father of the gods,” or the Egyptian TRINITY. Another “trinity” is Astarte, Bel, and Baal. Another trinity is Semiramis, Nimrod and Tammuz. This “Queen of heaven” was considered much “kinder and gentler” than her consort the Canaanite Baal. It was said that she “tempered judgment with mercy” and the people favored her over Baal. She did not require a bloody sacrifice of firstborn children during her festival like her husband, nor did she require the ritual cannibalism that went along with Baal worship. By the way, do you know where the word cannibal comes from? The word Cahna means “the priest of” and bal means “Baal.” According to Hislop, in “The Two Babylons,” the priests of Baal were “required to eat of the human sacrifices, and thus it has come to pass that Cahna-bal, the priest of baal is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh.” Babylon is the source of cannibalism, sun worship and Satan worship.

The Cross symbol too??? It is interesting that the cross was the ancient symbol of the sun god. Baal’s symbol was the cross. In Hatzor, in Northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered an incense alter to Baal with the symbol of a cross on it. The article describes “a basalt offering table, pillar-shaped, with a carved symbol of the storm god Baal on its side. That symbol was a circle with a cross in the center” Just as Pagans always seem shocked that the Catholic Church practices so many of their customs…in the same vein, Catholics are always shocked to find Pagans “imitating” them. It is said that “Catholics were outraged to find that “their” cross was a sacred symbol to Native Americans.” “There is hardly a Pagan tribe where the cross has not been found.” In an article called Mesoamerican Symbology, we read “But what really surprised the conquistadors, or those few among them with eyes to see, was nothing less than the symbol of the cross, present everywhere… In fact, the symbol of which we are speaking is certainly Pre-Christian.” At a Tophet at Carthage, where Baal was worshiped, 20,000 cinerary urns were discovered with children’s ashes in them, and they found puzzling “cross motifs” at the site. Before the time of Jesus, the cross represented the sun god. “Crosses with arms of equal length were used frequently since time immemorial in pre-Columbian America, the Euphrates-Tigris region, and other parts of the world. That cross seems to have been associated with the sun and the powers that controlled the weather…..Sometime during the first centuries of the Western calendar the Latin cross was adopted by the Christian ideology. Still being associated with heavenly, and almighty lords both and even more so the sun god’s staff.” Speaking of the cross, Bullinger in The Companion Bible says, “crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god…” “The evidence for its pagan origin is so convincing that The Catholic Encyclopedia even admits that “the sign of the cross, represented in its simplest form by a crossing of two lines at right angles, greatly antedates…the introduction of Christianity. It goes back to a very remote period of human civilization.”. I found some general information on the cross in several excerpts from the Companion Bible . The English word “cross” comes from the Latin word crux, which is not the word used in the Bible . The actual Greek words used in the Bible are “stauros or xulon”, which were incorrectly translated “cross” by Catholic translators. Bullinger states, “The Greek stauros no more means a crux than the word “stick” means a “crutch”. Homer, a Greek writer, uses the word stauros of an ordinary pole or stake, or a single piece of timber. And this is the meaning and usage of the word throughout the Greek classics….It never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle, but always of one piece alone. There is nothing in the Greek of the New Testament even to imply two pieces of timber.” “In the Greek New Testament two words are used for “the cross” on which the Lord was put to death.” “1. The word stauros; which denotes an upright pole or stake, to which the criminals were nailed for execution.” “2. The xulon, which generally denotes a piece of a dead log of wood, or timber, for fuel or for any other purpose…this latter word xulon is used for the former stauros, it shows us that the meaning of each is exactly the same. (The verb stauroõ means to drive stakes…”) “Christ” is never represented (in the catacombs at Rome) “hanging on a cross”…In the Egyptian churches the cross was a pagan symbol of life, borrowed by the Christians, and interpreted in the pagan manner… In his Letter from Rome, Dean Burgon says : “I question whether a cross occurs on any Christian monument of the first four centuries”….The evidence is thus complete, that the Lord was put to death upon an upright stake, and not on two piece of timber placed at any angle.” The Steeple and the Asherah Pole The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible tells us that an Asherah pole was always erected at the altar of Baal. In fact, absolutely every single alter of Baal had an Asherah pole beside it, which was an upright, denuded tree! This type of phallic pole has always been associated with sun worship. (Interestingly, nearly twenty different tribes of American Indians performed the “Sundance” around a “sun pole.”) There are many supposedly Christian traditions that have suspicious origins. Most people never consider where the tradition of having a steeple on top of a church comes from….Do churchgoers ever wonder why almost every church has a steeple on top of it? Read from The Customs of Mankind by Eichler, “There are still in existence today remarkable specimens of original phallic symbols… steeples on the churches …and obelisks …all show the influence of our phallus-worshiping ancestors.” Baal worship involved phallus worship, so it is no surprise that all of Baal’s churches would have a phallic steeple.. The stone obelisk was another phallic symbol. “The word ‘obelisk’ literally means ‘Baal’s shaft’ or Baal’s organ of reproduction’.” (Page 341 Masonic and occult symbols illustrated. Dr. Cathy Burns) “Baal was a very common name of the principal male god…Among the Babylonians, he was called Bel” The obelisk is associated with sun-worship. According to Babylon, Mystery Religion, The erect upright pointed column represents the phallus, the male sex organ, of Baal (Nimrod). God specifically told Israel not to put a phallic pole next to his alter. Deut 16:21 “Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the LORD your God…” God didn’t want it because this upright “steeple” tells you that you’ve just located an alter of Baal.

To understand where religious traditions come from, and why people do what they do, we must go back to man’s early history and examine it with a fine toothcomb. Let’s start with the history of December 25th, and see what we can discover about this date, since it is perceived to be a Christian holiday yet it is also observed by Satan worshippers, Pagans, ancient Baal worshippers, by the Mayan and Incan Indians, the Pueblo, the Anasazi and other Indian tribes. Astoundingly all these groups and so many more revere December 25th. Bible scholars may not agree on everything but they all agree that Christ was definitely not born on December 25th. Just one simple proof of this is that at the time of Christ’s birth, there were shepherds in the fields with their flocks…and historically, they brought the sheep in around the end of October. Hislop states, “There is great unanimity among commentators on this point…that December 25th could not be the right time of our Lord’s nativity…Indeed, it is admitted by the most learned and candid writers of all parties that the day of our Lord’s birth cannot be determined, and that within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the third century, and that not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance.” “The choice of December 25 was made by the Pope Julius I in the fourth century AD because this coincided with the pagan rituals of Winter Solstice, or Return of the Sun.” Connection Between December 25th…and the origin of Human Sacrifice Astronomically, the winter solstice falls on or around December 21st, or 22nd, but the naked eye can’t discern the return of the sun until December 25th…. Thus, the 25th was considered the birthday of the sun to the ancients. Each year, as the sun seemingly halted in the sky, sun worshipers truly desired to entice the sun to come back. It “dismayed” them to see the sun “stall” in the sky. Human sacrifice began to be practiced with the belief that it “re-energized” the sun with life. One of the ancient European names of the December 25th holiday, we now call Christmas was Midvinterblot, meaning “midwinter blood” or “midwinter sacrifice”. In South America, “the Maya believed that the heavenly bodies needed human help, which was provided through rituals such as self-mutilation, torture, and human sacrifice. To the Maya, offering this help was simply the price to be paid for the continued survival of the universe.” “When Cortez arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, in 1519, the natives were practicing human sacrifice. He was shown the spot where victims had waited in a line two miles long to be sacrificed at the dedication of the Temple of the Sun, and there were four lines!” “The Aztecs believed that it was necessary to feed the gods with human hearts in order to ensure that the sun would rise every day.” (That puts a new slant on the phrase “give your heart to the Lord.”) Catholic sources state that in just one high day, over 10,000 Aztec children were sacrificed at the temple of the Sun at Tenochtitlan. “The Aztec Emperors made a point of inviting foreign dignitaries to witness the mass sacrifices, which occurred at certain festivals, most particularly the solar ones.” (Ingham, 1984). Evidence is pretty clear that human sacrifice and the winter solstice go hand in hand. William Sansom, in “A Book of Christmas,” states that human sacrifice actually originated during the winter solstice, which we now call Christmas. “The giving of presents, particularly candles and dolls, called Sigillaria also derives from the insistent origin of human sacrifice at this time of year.” “Winter solstice” traditions included giving dolls to children. Scholars believe that the term doll is derived from the word idol and may specifically refer to the “dolls” or clay effigies that were placed under evergreen trees in the home, imitating the actual sacrifice of children made under a grove of evergreen trees. The winter solstice was celebrated with candles, which represented “energizing the sun with sacrificial fires.” So after all is said and done and every ritual examined closely… sun worship seems to be “the reason for the season”. But what does the Bible say about the subject of human sacrifice and sun worship? Amazingly, a lot. Most people do not begin to realize the extent of the worship of sun gods…even by the children of God in the very nation of Israel! The sun god worshipped by Israel and Judah according to Nave’s Topical Bible went by the name “Baal” or the plural “Baalim”. These two words are mentioned in the Bible over 80 times! THE GREEN TREE CONNECTION… Sun Worship, Baal and the Evergreen Tree What is the importance of evergreen trees to sun worship? One of Baal’s many names, interestingly enough, was “Baal-bereth,” meaning “Lord of the Fir tree”. The evergreen tree is without doubt connected to the worship of Baal the sun god. In Jeremiah 2:20-23 it says, “For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot… A verse or two down it says, “How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?” They went after Baal and their descendants did too, and they forgot the true God and true religion. You can look from front to back but you won’t find any requirement for evergreen trees in God’s religion. Literally millions of them are cut down every year and placed devotedly in homes, yet where is this particular practice commanded by God in the Bible? Make a search my friend, but you won’t find it. Nor was all this harmless paganism. Thousands and thousands of firstborn children were sacrificed to Baal under evergreen trees. They were the “gifts under the tree.” If you keep this holiday, you are bowing before a false god. WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT GIFTS UNDER TREES… Christmas may not be mentioned by name in the Bible but the words “gifts” and “tree” are in the same context with the sacrifice of children and the worship of idols. Read the following passage to see what God has to say about “gifts and trees.” Ezekiel 20:26,28, 31 “I let them become defiled through their GIFTS—the sacrifice of every first-born…” vs. 28 “When I brought them into the land that I had sworn to give them and when they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices…” vs.31 “When you offer your GIFTS -the sacrifice of your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all of your idols to this day…” In The New English Translation of the Bible , there is a notation about the phrase “every leafy tree”. They inform us that this expression refers to evergreens, “because they keep their leafy foliage throughout the year, providing apt symbolism for nature cults such as those practiced in Canaan.” Anciently, the worship of Baal involved rites of human sacrifice of firstborn children up to the age of five by causing them to “pass through the fire to Molech.” “They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech…” Jeremiah 32:34-35 The word Molech simply means King. The idol Molech had the shape of a bull and in fact, the English word bull is a corruption of the Hebrew Bal or Baal. Read from the Mythology of all Religions, vol. 5. “Living infants and children were BURNED IN THE FIRE to the god Molech during this time. This was the time of the winter solstice (Dec. 25th) when those heathen were dismayed at the signs of heaven!” Let’s examine Baal worship in detail, since according to the Bible, it was the very cause of the rejection of both Israel and Judah. “And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree….And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire….Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. II Kings 17:10, 16-20 Note that Baal’s places of worship were set up “in every high hill, and under every green tree” The two most important requirements for the alter of Baal were elevation and evergreen trees. If the land was flat, they would construct manmade “high places” called stepped pyramids, Ziggurats or Sun Temples. And according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the “green tree” mentioned here wasn’t just any old tree. They state that it means “any kind of evergreen tree, in its native soil.” LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN Jeremiah 10 certainly does sound like a description of the modern Christmas tree! But rather than commanding us to put a tree in our house, it says, “Thus says the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; (the winter solstice of December 25th) for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain, for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it moves not….” Jeremiah 10:2-4 In fact, the whole book of Jeremiah mentions Baal or Baalim 13 times altogether and it is in connection with Baal worship that God is stating, “learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. (The signs of heaven that he alludes to is the December 25th winter solstice!) Sun worshippers were astronomers who clocked the movements of the sun, moon and stars as part of their religion. The winter solstice was fear provoking to them….. Ever wonder why would people hang gold and silver balls on a tree? An article on Origins of Christmas Traditions gives an eye opening explanation! “Since the earliest of times, the pagans worshiped trees, especially evergreens. To them it represented life and freshness. Since it was EVERgreen, it always had life. The trees were worshipped as symbols of life, fertility, sexual potency, and reproduction. The evergreen tree represented a “PHALLIC” symbol (the man’s sexual organ of reproduction) set in an upright position. Any wonder why people hang round balls on a tree?” Jeremiah 2:23 “How can you say, ‘I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals’? …. (27) Saying to a tree, ‘You [are] my father,’ And to a stone, You gave birth to me.” It appears that the Christmas tree meant a whole lot more to them than we understand, vs. 27 infers that they felt this phallic symbol “was their father…. the author of their being, their god.” The Christmas tree must have represented Baal. Thus if the children were being sacrificed in honor of Baal, it makes sense that they would do it under the tree that represented him. It makes no sense, but false religion obviously has a connection to evergreen trees and stone images. The words “green tree” (evergreen tree) are used 10 different times in the Bible in connection with idolatrous worship and, in four cases, with child sacrifice. Baal worship required firstborn children to be burned alive by “passing through the fire to Molech” under a grove of evergreens. Can it be a coincidence that four different scriptures directly place child sacrifice and the evergreen tree in this same context? People who want to say that, yes Christmas may have pagan origins, but we have “Christianized it,” need to remember that it was a time of child sacrifice. That can never be sanitized or made acceptable! CHILD SACRIFICE AND EVERGREEN TREES 1. Isaiah 57:5 “Enflaming yourselves with idols, under every green tree slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks…” The valley it is speaking of here is most likely The Valley of Ben Hinnom and according to Biblical Archaeology Review, this particular place of child sacrifice was near some overhanging cliffs. Molech was located there, which was a molten idol with a cow’s head at the top and a fire pit below. Outstretched arms held the victim. There was a pulley system that slowly raised the arms up to heaven and the child was dropped into the fire pit below! The sacrificial alter was located in a grove of evergreen trees. This scripture clearly depicts the act of child sacrifice. Most people would be appalled if they knew the origin of the tradition of “gifts” under evergreen trees. Then, even as now, this winter solstice holiday was perceived as a time of great “peace on earth”. Baal was supposedly satiated with these yearly sacrifices and all was well in the world. 2. II Kings 16:3,4 “he…made his son pass through the fire according to the abominations of the heathen…. and he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills and under every green tree.” 3. II Kings 17:10,16, 17 “and they set them up images and groves in every high hill and under every green tree.” “…and made them molten images, even two calves and made a grove (Asherah pole), and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal.” “and they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire…” 4. II Chronicles 28:3,4 “Moreover he burnt incense in the Valley of Hinnom and burnt his children in the fire….” “he sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.” What sort of powerful religious coercion could have persuaded mothers and fathers to sacrifice their own children? One reason for this unnatural act was something modern people understand very well…. simple peer pressure, but fear was the primary factor influencing the ancient mindset. They were taught that human sacrifice was required or the sun god would avenge his anger upon them catastrophically and no sun—-no crops—-no life! This was used like a whip and it was true “fear religion”. But for those sacrificing their children, the proverbial icing on the cake, which lured them to the alter, was that the belief that all who were sacrificed at the “gate” of the winter solstice bypassed the nether world and went straight to “heaven”. Imagine the poor reluctant parents standing before the alter of Baal. Can you see the priest of Baal striding before the alter, compelling the people to “come to the Lord”? Baal does means “lord” by the way. Can you see the priest soften his voice to remind parents of the immortal life their children would have, if they would just…come to the alter. Seeing the reluctant not coming forward, they gave a powerful hellfire and brimstone speech threatening how the children would have to go to the nether world for eternal torture, if they refused to bring them to the alter. This was surely the original alter call. Loud music or drums were played to hide the sounds of dying children from their mothers. The drums also drowned out the terror filled cries of parents who tried to change their minds at the last minute.

There is a saying that a conservative is just a liberal that has not been mugged yet.

Just a note to say thanks for reading the things I have been writing. I am sorry that you feel the way that you do, but here is the deal. Who you should be upset with is not me. Every single word I say, on every single subject , is absolutely true. I am staying away from all topics that have no clear definitive, provable answers or solutions. All the information I offer is traceable. Your anger should be directed at those who have lied to you. I have told you the truth, no one should be upset with the truth or those who bring it. Let go of the things that you know are false, embrace the things that you have learned are true. Had you read what I wrote, you would not of and could not of said what you said. You cannot expect to learn everything you need to know in this world, by reading one sentence. Read what I wrote then offer your opinions, I welcome them. What you just said is that everyone has the right to believe and worship God however they want too.  Tell that to the 6,000,000 Jews who visited Hitler at his exclusive resort, that Hitler was simply exercising his beliefs, and that he has every right to believe what he wants. Let me know what they tell you.

To those of you who have been following my post, today I am merely pointing out conflicts around the globe between religious ideologies, their governments and each other. Much of Africa is embroiled in religious conflict, much of it enmeshed in the opposition between Islamist groups, and some of it Muslim against Christians. In the Ukraine the country is divided east and west by two different forms of Christianity and then there is also thrown into the mix Russian Orthodoxy. These conflicts are not going to go away. They are going to expand, and eventually the entire world will be involved in this struggle. When will this happen ? Humans have not been given that date, we were only promised that it WOULD happen. If someone comes forth and says that they know a specific time, they are lying, because Christ himself said that he did not know, only the Father knows when. But he gave us specific signs to look forward to to indicate the period of time, the generation that would see it. It is the generation that would see the entire world at war, earthquakes in one place after another, famine, pestilence, anguish of nations, and this defining marker to mark the end was this point, ” And this good news about the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” That , as we all know, is being completed as we speak. There have been religious conflicts since Cain and Abel, as we mentioned earlier and as Christiane Amanpour mentioned last night, most all of the conflicts she has covered, have religion as the source of conflict, so what makes these religious wars and different than the ones that have gone on for 6 thousand years ??? Because this time, it is going to be the entire world against the religious systems, and it happens at the tail end of the preaching work which is being completed right now, the entire world knows them by name who is doing this work, so no one can claim ignorance, we all know that the preaching about Gods kingdom is being done, and we all know who is doing it, and it certainly is not the churches, they do not talk about Gods kingdom, their is no need for them too, they are sending you to sit in his lap or they are sending you to do the Devils dance, either place has no use for a Kingdom that Christ is ruling over. Our heavenly Father has the heavens all under control, you need to trust him on that, he does not need your help up there. The Kingdom that the bible speaks about is to rule over the earth and its inhabitants. Some so called Christians claim that the kingdom was figurative, it was not a real kingdom. Well perhaps to you it is not real, but to every single character of the scriptures, it was very real. God promised Christ that he would be king of that kingdom, it was the entire theme of the preaching work that Jesus did, he instructed his followers to pray for it, so to Jesus and his Father and all of the Apostles and the disciples and those early Christians who face the lions in the Roman arenas for the sake of the kingdom, it was very real. If you want to go on believing that Gods kingdom was a myth and that all of them were lying about it, if you want to be included in the company of so many who so willingly refer to Jesus and his Father as liars, denying the kingdom promise will purchase your membership in that group. The two prophesies to be fulfilled in the period of time spoken of as “the end”, one is nearing it completion, and the other is being staged right now. As earths religious systems continue to move against their respective governments, that day gets closer, pay attention to the news, listen for it, look for it, pay attention to religious conflicts, this time in history it is different. You might think that the United States is immune to religious conflicts. Let me remind you of the Civil War, this was over religious issues, and let me also remind you of September 11, when the current Muslim sects that are terrorizing all of Africa, and other parts of the world, paid us a visit too, so that we didn’t feel left out. In 1962 and again in 1992 we burn Los Angeles Down over issues that never had to happen. One single fight, can spread like wildfire, and really really fast. People claim that Islam is a peaceful religion, and perhaps it is, but some of the folks who practice it are anything but peaceful, and it is very curious that the Muslim community as a rule are silent when those folks who they claim have hijacked their faith act up. Their are an awful lot of Muslims in the world, one forth of the world are Muslim, if they were so peaceful, they would all go down to Africa and straighten out their brothers, but instead, they all remain silent. Doesn’t this strike you as odd ???

December 14th, 2013 09:05 PM ET Why Ukraine is in turmoil For more What in the World watch Sundays at 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. ET on CNN By Global Public Square staff Take a look at the extraordinary images from Ukraine in the video. Protesters in Kiev knocking down a giant statue of the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians cheering them on as they hack the fallen statue with hammers. The incident last Sunday was one of the most symbolic moments of the protests underway in Ukraine. At the heart of these protests is a widespread frustration not only with the government in Kiev, but more so with Russian interference. To some, the moment recalled another defining moment, from 1989. That was the year Communism fell across eastern Europe, leading to the end of the Soviet Union, and, of course, to Ukraine’s independence. But you need to go much further back in history to understand what’s really going on in Ukraine. First, here’s what sparked the crisis. In November, President Viktor Yanukovych pulled out of a proposed deal to forge closer ties with the European Union. Why? Well, one reason was that he had another offer, from Moscow. Russia wants Ukraine to join its Eurasian Customs Union, which already includes Belarus and Kazakhstan. This is not a new story. The tug-of-war over Ukraine is rooted in history. In his book The Clash of Civilizations, the political scientist Samuel Huntington pointed out that the divide between Western and Eastern Christianity runs right through the heart of Ukraine. And that divide, between two kinds of Christianity and thus two paths of political development, dates back to the Middle Ages – and it resonates in Ukraine’s politics to this day. Take a look at the map in the video, from Ukraine’s 1994 presidential elections. Shaded in grey on the left are the provinces that voted for the incumbent, Leonid Kravchuk. On the right, those for the pro-Russian Leonid Kuchma. Both took 13 provinces each: an even split reflecting Ukraine’s deep historical, cultural divide.

Ukrainian customs are heavily influenced by Christianity, which is the dominant religion in the country.[217] Gender roles also tend to be more traditional, and grandparents play a greater role in raising children than in the West.[255] The culture of Ukraine has been also influenced by its eastern and western neighbours, which is reflected in its architecture, music and art. A collection of traditional pysanky from Volyn The Communist era had quite a strong effect on the art and writing of Ukraine.[256] In 1932, Stalin made socialist realism state policy in the Soviet Union when he promulgated the decree “On the Reconstruction of Literary and Art Organisations”. This greatly stifled creativity. During the 1980s glasnost (openness) was introduced and Soviet artists and writers again became free to express themselves as they wanted.[257] The tradition of the Easter egg, known as pysanky, has long roots in Ukraine. These eggs were drawn on with wax to create a pattern; then, the dye was applied to give the eggs their pleasant colours, the dye did not affect the previously wax-coated parts of the egg. After the entire egg was dyed, the wax was removed leaving only the colourful pattern. This tradition is thousands of years old, and precedes the arrival of Christianity to Ukraine.[258] In the city of Kolomya near the foothills of the Carpathian mountains in 2000 was built the museum of Pysanka which won a nomination as the monument of modern Ukraine in 2007, part of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine action.

Clar Sisk A few months ago I was writing to expose the tensions and strife between the religious systems and the governmental systems of earth that have been going on since Cain and Abel, Adam and Satan and Eve were the first, it was a challenge made by an enemy of God, over a spiritual obedience issue and Gods right to rule and inform, in a loving parental way, what is best for the continuance of life of our first parents. That issue begun with a very small thing, just taste this, just touch this, that’s all. If you touch this, you will die. They touched it, and they died. You see their belief system told them that they could believe anything that they wanted, no one had the right to tell them what they were going to do or believe. The thing is though, Satan was actually goading them, telling them that it was ok to do exactly what God just got finished telling them not to do. Don’t touch. Touching is a physical act, it is done with deliberate intention, a reaching out for something. Not all forms of deliberate intentions are ok with God, as we can clearly see from the recorded event at the home of earths first pair. How does it make you feel, when you tell your child not to do something, and then they turn around and with willful intention do right in your face, what you just got finished telling them not to do ??? Some parents might actually reach out and give their kids a swat. Doing what you just got finished telling them not to do, is not ok with the parent. Is this any less true, when the obedience instruction is a matter of life or death to the child ??? There are things and events in life, where little things matter. they might not matter immediately to you, but they matter to someone. There are physical things all around us, in this physical world that we live in, where invisible obedience to the laws set for them is crucial to the entire structure of this wonderful universe we live in. The laws of atomic structure are so obedient to the rules set for them that their behavior can be mapped out to billions of years. Our Atomic clock, in Boulder Colorado, for instance. You cell phone is set to it. Everything that your eye can see, what you feel, hear , taste, touch, are constructed of atomic particles, that behave according to the instructions given them. They are not here by accident, and neither are you. The smallest things, are important to God, they may have no meaning to you at all because you have never given them a thought, but to God, every single particle and how they are aligned, to him, they matter, the Bible tells us, that he even remembers your thoughts, and the reason for that is because when he brings you back to life, he will download them into your brain, and all of your life’s experiences will still retain their value and your life under the oppression of Satan’s governments and religious systems, will never be forgotten by you. In this age of computer science, we are all aware, that the shift of one bit, shifts all bits. So the reassembling of our data into our minds, to the last bit, is critical. Small things matter to God. And I cannot even comprehend the intellectual argument some may present, that make a claim for an opposing view. To attempt to make a claim, that things do not matter to God, and by this supreme reference, nothing really does, or should, matter to anyone, this individual, has obviously had their bits scrambled. There are examples of worlds of people, both human and spiritual, that allowed their thinking and beliefs, to carry them to absurd rejections of all realities, that even God could not help them with, and for the sake of those who at least tried to remain reasonably responsive to realities and intellectually absorbent, removed by force the corruptible and corrupt beings polluting the minds and hearts of those who desired a normal life of reasonable civil order. False beliefs, corrupt reasonable civil order. And false beliefs can start out with very small deviations from realities. For instance, don’t touch. These beliefs, that are not based upon reality, then corrupt, those things that are very real, much like that misplaced bit, that 0 or 1 in software code can corrupt the entire file and operating systems, of not only the original source of the error bit, but it spreads throughout the entire world, through the networking of computers we call the internet. One little misplaced digit, con corrupt the entire data base on earth. There is a scriptural example of just such a corrupting example of one single letter, being left out, changed the meaning of one scripture, and an entire religious doctrine was reinforced by the misleading of that omission, found at John 1:1, and that letter was the letter a. We talked about that before , remember. John 1:1 reads, ” In the beginning, was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. ” This rendition of that scripture, is one of Christendoms pivotal scriptures, attempting to prove their Trinity Doctrine. The Trinity Doctrine is the foundational doctrine of all of the so called Christian religions on earth. To be a member of the world council of Churches, you must teach this doctrine. The correct translation of the scripture at John 1:1 reads ” In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.” Letters matter in literary accuracy, and entire meanings can be inferred be the addition or deletion of letters and their placements. There is that letter “a” that we spoke of, that the churches delete to reinforce their belief that God does not exist, but that Jesus is actually God, in essence, calling both Jesus, and Jehovah his Father, liars, claiming that neither one of them is actually who they say that they are. When Jesus claims that he is God’s son, the Churches call him a liar when they say that he is actually God, By claiming that Jesus is God Almighty, they are in reality making the claim that Jehovah does not exist. When Jesus claims that he HAS a Father, and the Churches teach, that that is not true, because Jesus IS the Father, it is calling Jesus a liar. Do you want to continue supporting and attending an organization, who makes no pretense of preaching from their pulpits, that both Jehovah and Jesus are impostors and not who they claim to be. And what is worse, is that they have made every attempt to remove from the scriptures every reference to Jehovah. The 28,000 letters in the scriptures that identify our creator, the supreme sovereign of this universe, and the Father of Jesus Christ, Christendom removed. Archaeologist however have found those letters that make up the Tetragramaton, carved in stone. The point is that little things matter to God, even if you do not understand all of the things that are important to God, you should at least be respectful of him enough to believe that he has his reasons, and that before you stand up to him and tell him that he is wrong, first rise to his level of understanding, then you will be in a better position to address him eye to eye, and with the exact intellectual capacity, until you do, it is in your best interest, to submit yourself to his teachings, rather than contradict his. The contradiction of Gods teachings is the reason we continue to be faced with the violence projected upon humanity by the false beliefs taught to man by Gods enemy through the religious institutions on earth. What is happening in Africa, is going to expand out of the denominations and sects of Islam to include all of the religions on earth, even those in America. The conflict of Religion against the governments , in large scale, will most likely hit America and Great Briton last, the reasons for this are because these two countries offer the greatest movements of religious freedoms and civil liberties necessary to the wide spread effort to reach the entire world with the message of Gods impending Kingdom establishment on earth. When this has been completed to God’s satisfaction, he will allow the religious conflict against the governments to explode here in America as well. This is coming to your door, you will not escape its influence, this is going to affect you. It all happens lightning fast, the bible says it comes as a surprise to the entire earth. Remember the point made about thought, and how God even remembers our thoughts. This is a good time, to develop and learn about God, so that when that day arrives, God can pier into your mind and heart and discern which side you are taking, his side, or the side of his enemy. You must choose now, develop your relationship with God right now. Put aside those teachings that you already know to be lies about God. Don’t continue to hold the lies about God more precious to you than the things that you already know to be true about him. After you lay down those things that you yourself do not even believe in, then begin to add to your knowledge of things that are true about God. That opportunity to learn things that are true about God are being delivered to your door, but this will not continue forever. These signs of religions fighting against the government are exactly the signs that Jesus gave us as the clear indication that we are in the time he spoke of, when the end of both false religion and man made governments would be destroyed along with all of those people who supported them and held them dear. Do not continue to take the side of Gods enemy, choose God, listen to his teachings.

The things I wrote today from the writings of Alexander Hislop is very difficult reading, being that it came from the 1800’s so just read it slow. The reason that it is so important to have this information is because it ties so many things together, it helps you to understand historical religious developments over the past 4,000 years. Many people who go to Churches do not realize that the cross that they wear around their necks, and that decorate their buildings and mantles is really a symbol of their dedication to Satan, they have the conviction, that the cross is something that Jesus died upon, when the truth of the matter is that Jesus did not die upon a cross at all, but merely an upright stake. I will offer the proof of this later, but in today’s writing you will find a brief reference to the cross in Alexander Hislop’s book. We cannot hold ourselves responsible for what we do not know in all circumstances, but when we do know and we make deliberate decisions to take our stand, we should always want to stand on God’s side, not the side of his enemy. God’s enemy is also your enemy. God wants you to live, God’s enemy wants you dead. Don’t help him.

Thus the grand Thimblerigger, by dexterously shifting the peas, through means of men who began with great professions of abhorrence of his character, got himself almost everywhere recognised as in very deed “the god of this world.” So deep and so strong was the hold that Satan had contrived to get of the ancient world in this character, that even when Christianity had been proclaimed to man, and the true light had shone from Heaven, the very doctrine we have been considering raised its head among the professed disciples of Christ. Those who held this doctrine were called Ophiani or Ophites, that is, serpent-worshippers. “These heretics,” says Tertullian, “magnify the serpent to such a degree as to prefer him even to Christ Himself; for he, say they, gave us the first knowledge of good and evil. It was from a perception of his power and majesty that Moses was induced to erect the brazen serpent, to which whosoever looked was healed. Christ Himself, they affirm, in the Gospel imitates the sacred power of the serpent, when He says that, ‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.’ They introduce it when they bless the Eucharist.” These wicked heretics avowedly worshipped the old serpent, or Satan, as the grand benefactor of mankind, for revealing to the m the knowledge of good and evil. But this doctrine they had just brought along with them from the Pagan world, from which they had come, or from the Mysteries, as they came to be received and celebrated in Rome. Though Teitan, in the days of Hesiod and in early Greece, was an “opprobrious name,” yet in Rome, in the days of the Empire and before, it had become the very reverse. “The splendid or glorious Teitan” was the way in which Teitan was spoken of at Rome. This was the title commonly given to the Sun, both as the orb of day and viewed as a divinity. Now, the reader has seen already that another form of the sun-divinity, or Teitan, at Rome, was the Epidaurian snake, worshipped under the name of “Aesculapius,” that is, “the man- instructing serpent.” * * Aish-shkul-ape, from Aish, “man”; shkul, “to instruct”; and Aphe, or Ape, “a serpent.” The Greek form of this name, Asklepios, signifies simply “the instructing snake,” and comes from A, “the,” skl, “to teach,” and hefi, “a snake,” the Chaldean words being thus modified in Egypt. The name Aselepios, however, is capable of another sense, as derived from Aaz, “strength,” and Khlep, “to renew”; and, therefore, in the exoteric doctrine, Aselepios was known simply as “the strength-restorer,” or the Healing God. But, as identified with the serpent, the true meaning of the name seems to be that which is first stated. Macrobius, giving an account of the mystic doctrine of the ancients, says that Aesculapius was that beneficent influence of the sun which pervaded the souls of men. Now the Serpent was the symbol of the enlightening sun. Fig. 59: The Serpent of AEsculapius, and the Fly-Destroying Swallow, the Symbol of Beel- zebub From Pompeii, vol. ii. p. 141 252 Here, then, in Rome was Teitan, or Satan, identified with the “serpent that taught mankind,” that opened their eyes (when, of course, they were blind), and gave them “the knowledge of good and evil.” In Pergamos, and in all Asia Minor, from which directly Rome derived its knowledge of the Mysteries, the case was the same. In Pergamos, especially, where pre-eminently “Satan’s seat was,” the sun-divinity, as is well known, was worshipped under the form of a serpent and under the name of Aesculapius, “the man- instructing serpent.” According to the fundamental doctrine of the Mysteries, as brought from Pergamos to Rome, the sun was the one only god. Teitan, or Satan, then, was thus recognised as the one only god; and of that only god, Tammuz or Janus, in his character as the Son, or the woman’s seed, was just an incarnation. Here, then, the grand secret of the Roman Empire is at last brought to light–viz., the real name of the tutelar divinity of Rome. That secret was most jealously guarded; insomuch that when Valerius Soranus, a man of the highest rank, and, as Cicero declares, “the most learned of the Romans,” had incautiously divulged it, he was remorselessly put to death for his revelation. Now, however, it stands plainly revealed. A symbolical representation of the worship of the Roman people, from Pompeii, strikingly confirms this deduction by evidence that appeals to the very senses. Let the reader cast his eyes on the woodcut herewith given (Fig. 59).We have seen already that it is admitted by the author of Pompeii, that the serpents in the under compartment are only another way of exhibiting the dark divinities represented in the upper compartment. Let the same principle be admitted here, and it follows that the swallows, or birds pursuing the flies, represent the same thing as the serpents do below. But the serpent, of which there is a double representation, is unquestionably the serpent of Aesculapius. The fly-destroying swallow, therefore, must represent the same divinity. Now, every one knows what was the name by which “the Lord of the fly,” or fly- destroying god of the Oriental world was called. It was Beel- zebub. This name, as signifying “Lord of the Fly,” to the profane meant only the power that destroyed the swarms of flies when these became, as they often did in hot countries, a source of torment to the people whom they invaded. But this name, as identified with the serpent, clearly reveals itself as one of the distinctive names of Satan. And how appropriate is this name, when its mystic or esoteric meaning is penetrated. What is the real meaning of this familiar name? Baal- zebub just means “The restless Lord,” * even that unhappy one who “goeth to and fro in the earth, and walketh up and down in it,” who “goeth through dry places seeking rest, and finding none.” From all this, the inference is unavoidable that Satan, in his own proper name, must have been the great god of their secret and mysterious worship, and this accounts for the extraordinary mystery observed on the subject. ** * See CLAVIS STOCKII, “Zebub,” where it is stated that the word zebub, as applied to the fly, comes from an Arabic root, which signifies to move from place to place, as flies do, without settling anywhere. Baal- zebub, therefore, in its secret meaning, signifies, “Lord of restless and unsettled motion.” ** I find Lactantius was led to the conclusion that the Aesculapian servant was the express symbol of Satan, for, giving an account of the bringing of the Epidaurian snake to Rome, he says: “Thither [i.e., to Rome] the Demoniarches [or Prince of the Devils] in his own proper shape, without disguise, was brought; for those who were sent on that business brought back with them a dragon of amazing size.” When, therefore, Gratian abolished the legal provision for the support of the fire-worship and serpent-worship of Rome, we see how exactly the Divine prediction was fulfilled (Rev 12:9) 253 “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the DEVIL, and SATAN, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” * * The facts stated above cast a very singular light on a well known superstition among ourselves. Everybody has heard of St. Swithin’s day, on which, if it rain, the current belief is, that it will rain in uninterrupted succession for six weeks. And who or what was St. Swithin that his day should be connected with forty days’ uninterrupted rain? for six weeks is just the round number of weeks equivalent to forty days. It is evident, in the first place, that he was no Christian saint, though an Archbishop of Canterbury in the tenth century is said to have been called by his name. The patron saint of the forty days’ rain was just Tammuz or Odin, who was worshipped among our ancestors as the incarnation of Noah, in whose time it rained forty days and forty nights without intermission. Tammuz and St. Swithin, then, must have been one and the same. But, as in Egypt, and Rome, and Greece, and almost everywhere else, long before the Christian era, Tammuz had come to be recognised as an incarnation of the Devil, we need not be surprised to find that St. Swithin is no other than St. Satan. One of the current forms of the grand adversary’s name among the Pagans was just Sytan or Sythan. This name, as applied to the Evil Being, is found as far to the east as the kingdom of Siam. It had evidently been known to the Druids, and that in connection with the flood; for they say that it was the son of Seithin that, under the influence of drink, let in the sea over the country so as to overwhelm a large and populous district. (DAVIES, Druids) The Anglo-Saxons, when they received that name, in the very same way as they made Odin into Wodin, would naturally change Sythan into Swythan; and thus, in St. Swithin’s day and the superstition therewith connected, we have at once a striking proof of the wide extent of Devil- worship in the heathen world, and of the thorough acquaintance of our Pagan ancestors with the great Scriptural fact of the forty days’ incessant rain at the Deluge. If any one thinks it incredible that Satan should thus be canonised by the Papacy in the Dark Ages, let me call attention to the pregnant fact that, even in comparatively recent times, the Dragon–the Devil’s universally recognised symbol–was worshipped by the Romanists of Poictiers under the name of “the good St. Vermine”!! (Notes of the Society of the Antiquaries of France, SALVERTE) Now, as the Pagan Pontifex, to whose powers and prerogatives the Pope had served himself heir, was thus the High-priest of Satan, so, when the Pope entered into a league and alliance with that system of Devil- worship, and consented to occupy the very position of that Pontifex, and to bring all its abominations into the Church, as he has done, he necessarily became the Prime Minister of the Devil, and, of course, came as thoroughly under his power as ever the previous Pontiff had been. * * This gives a new and darker significance to the mystic Tau, or sign of the cross. At first it was the emblem of Tammuz, at last it became the emblem of Teitan, or Satan himself. 254 How exact the fulfilment of the Divine statement that the coming of the Man of Sin was to be “after the working or energy of Satan.” Here, then, is the grand conclusion to which we are compelled, both on historical and Scriptural grounds, to come: As the mystery of godliness is God manifest in the flesh, so the mystery of iniquity is–so far as such a thing is possible–the Devil incarnate. Conclusion I have now finished the task I proposed to myself. Even yet the evidence is not nearly exhausted; but, upon the evidence which has been adduced, I appeal to the reader if I have not proved every point which I engaged to demonstrate. Is there one, who has candidly considered the proof that has been led, that now doubts that Rome is the Apocalyptic Babylon? Is there one who will venture to deny that, from the foundation to the topmost stone, it is essentially a system of Paganism? What, then, is to be the practical conclusion from all this? 1. Let every Christian henceforth and for ever treat it as an outcast from the pale of Christianity. Instead of speaking of it as a Christian Church, let it be recognised and regarded as the Mystery of Iniquity, yea, as the very Synagogue of Satan. With such overwhelming evidence of its real character, it would be folly– it would be worse– it would be treachery to the cause of Christ–to stand merely on the defensive, to parley with its priests about the lawfulness of Protestant orders, the validity of Protestant sacraments, or the possibility of salvation apart from its communion. If Rome is now to be admitted to form a portion of the Church of Christ, where is the system of Paganism that has ever existed, or that now exists, that could not put in an equal claim? On what grounds could the worshippers of the original Madonna and child in the days of old be excluded “from the commonwealth of Israel,” or shown to be “strangers to the covenants of promise”? On what grounds could the worshippers of Vishnu at this day be put beyond the bounds of such wide catholicity? The ancient Babylonians held, the modern Hindoos still hold, clear and distinct traditions of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Atonement. Yet, who will venture to say that such nominal recognition of the cardinal articles of Divine revelation could relieve the character of either the one system or the other from the brand of the most deadly and God-dishonouring heathenism? And so also in regard to Rome. True, it nominally admits Christian terms and Christian names; but all that is apparently Christian in its system is more than neutralised by the malignant Paganism that it embodies. Grant that the bread the Papacy presents to its votaries can be proved to have been originally made of the finest of the wheat; but what then, if every particle of that bread is combined with prussic acid or strychnine? Can the excellence of the bread overcome the virus of the poison? Can there by anything but death, spiritual and eternal death, to those who continue to feed upon the poisoned food that it offers? Yes, here is the question, and let it be fairly faced. Can there be salvation in a communion in which it is declared to be a fundamental principle, that the Madonna is “our greatest hope; yea, the SOLE GROUND OF OUR HOPE”? * * The language of the late Pope Gregory, substantially endorsed by the present Pontiff. The time is come when charity to the perishing souls of men, hoodwinked by a Pagan priesthood, abusing the name of Christ, requires that the truth in this matter should be clearly, loudly, unflinchingly proclaimed. The beast and the image of the beast alike stand revealed in the face of all Christendom; and now the tremendous threatening of the Divine Word in regard to their 255 worship fully applies (Rev 14:9,10): “And the third angel followed them, saying, ‘If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, poured without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.’” These words are words of awful import; and woe to the man who is found finally under the guilt which they imply. These words, as has already been admitted by Elliott, contain a “chronological prophecy,” a prophecy not referring to the Dark Ages, but to a period not far distant from the consummation, when the Gospel should be widely diffused, and when bright light should be cast on the character and doom of the apostate Church of Rome (vv 6-8). They come, in the Divine chronology of events, immediately after an angel has proclaimed, “BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN.” We have, as it were, with our own ears heard this predicted “Fall of Babylon” announced from the high places of Rome itself, when the seven hills of the “Eternal City” reverberated with the guns that proclaimed, not merely to the citizens of the Roman republic, but to the wide world, that “PAPACY HAD FALLEN, de facto and de jure, from the temporal throne of the Roman State.” * * The Apocalypse announces two falls of Babylon. The fall referred to above is evidently only the first. The prophecy clearly implies, that after the first fall it rises to a greater height than before; and therefore the necessity of the warning. Now, it is in the order of the prophecy, after this fall of Babylon, that this fearful threatening comes. Can there, then, be a doubt that this threatening specially and peculiarly applies to this very time? Never till now was the real nature of the Papacy fully revealed; never till now was the Image of the beast set up. Till the Image of the beast was erected, till the blasphemous decree of the Immaculate Conception was promulged, no such apostacy had taken place, even in Rome, no such guilt had been contracted, as now lies at the door of the great Babylon. This, then, is a subject of infinite importance to every one within the pale of the Church of Rome–to every one also who is looking, as so many at present are doing, towards the City of the Seven Hills. If any one can prove that the Pope does not assume all the prerogatives and bear substantially all the blasphemous titles of that Babylonian beast that “had the wound by a sword, and did live,” and if it can be shown that the Madonna, that has so recently with one consent been set up, is not in every essential respect the same as the Chaldean “Image” of the beast, they may indeed afford to despise the threatening contained in these words. But if neither the one nor the other can be proved (and I challenge the strictest scrutiny in regard to both), then every one within the pale of the Papacy may well tremble at such a threatening. Now, then, as never before, may the voice Divine, and that a voice of the tenderest love, be heard sounding from the Eternal throne to every adherent of the Mystic Babylon, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” 2. But if the guilt and danger of those who adhere to the Roman Church, believing it to be the only Church where salvation can be found, be so great, what must be the guilt of those who, with a Protestant profession, nevertheless uphold the doomed Babylon? The constitution of this land requires our Queen to swear, before the crown can be put upon her head, before she can take her seat on the throne, that “she believes” that the essential doctrines of Rome are “idolatrous.” All the Churches of Britain, endowed and unendowed, alike with one voice declare the very same. They all proclaim that the system of Rome is a system of blasphemous idolatry…And yet the members of these Churches can endow and uphold, with Protestant money, the schools, the colleges, the chaplains of that idolatrous system. If the guilt of Romanists, then, be great, the 256 guilt of Protestants who uphold such a system must be tenfold greater. That guilt has been greatly accumulating during the last three or four yeas. While the King of Italy, in the very States of the church–what but lately were the Pope’s own dominions–has been suppressing the monasteries (and in the space of two years no less than fifty- four were suppressed, and their property confiscated), the British Government has been acting on a policy the very reverse, has not only been conniving at the erection of monasteries, which are prohibited by the law of the land, but has actually been bestowing endowment on these illegal institutions under the name of Reformatories. It was only a short while ago, that it was stated, on authority of the Catholic Directory, that in the space of three years, fifty-two new converts were added to the monastic system of Great Britain, almost the very number that the Italians had confiscated, yet Christian men and Christian Churches look on with indifference. Now, if ever there was an excuse for thinking lightly of the guilt contracted by our national support of idolatry, that excuse will no longer avail. The God of Providence, in India, has been demonstrating that He is the God of Revelation. He has been proving, to an awe-struck world, by events that made every ear to tingle, that every word of wrath, written three thousand years ago against idolatry, is in as full force at this day as when He desolated the covenanted people of Israel for their idols, and sold them into the hands of their enemies. If men begin to see that it is a dangerous thing for professing Christians to uphold the Pagan idolatry of India, they must be blind indeed if they do not equally see that it must be as dangerous to uphold the Pagan idolatry of Rome. Wherein does the Paganism of Rome differ from that of Hindooism? Only in this, tha t the Roman Paganism is the more complete, more finished, more dangerous, more insidious Paganism of the two. I am afraid, that after all that has been said, not a few will revolt from the above comparative estimate of Popery and undisguised Paganism. Let me, therefore, fortify my opinion by the testimonies of two distinguished writers, well qualified to pronounce on this subject. They will, at least, show that I am not singular in the estimate which I have formed. The writers to whom I refer, are Sir George Sinclair of Ulbster, and Dr. Bonar of Kelso. Few men have studied the system of Rome more thoroughly than Sir George, and in his Letters to the Protestants of Scotland he has brought all the fertility of his genius, the curiosa felicitas of his style, and the stores of his highly cultivated mind, to bear upon the elucidation of his theme. Now, the testimony of Sir George is this: “Romanism is a refined system of Christianised heathenism, and chiefly differs from its prototype in being more treacherous, more cruel, more dangerous, more intolerant.” The mature opinion of Dr. Bonar is the very same, and that, too, expressed with the Cawnpore massacre particularly in view: “We are doing for Popery at home,” says he, “what we have done for idolaters abroad, and in the end the results will be the same; nay, worse; for Popish cruelty, and thirst for the blood of the innocent, have been the most savage and merciless that the earth has seen. Cawnpore, Delhi, and Bareilly, are but dust in comparison with the demoniacal brutalities perpetrated by the Inquisition, and by the armies of Popish fanaticism.” These are the words of truth and soberness, that no man acquainted with the history of modern Europe can dispute. There is great danger of their being overlooked at this moment. It will be a fatal error if they be. Let not the pregnant fact be overlooked, that, while the Apocalyptic history runs down to the consummation of all things, in that Divine foreshadowing all the other Paganisms of the world are in a manner cast into the shade by the Paganism of Papal Rome. It is against Babylon that sits on the seven hills that the saints are forewarned; it is for worshipping the beast and his image pre-eminently, that “the vials of the wrath of God, that liveth and abideth for ever,” are destined to be outpoured upon the nations. Now, if the voice of God has been heard in the late Indian calamities, the Protestantism of Britain will rouse itself to sweep away at once and for 257 ever all national support, alike from the idolatry of Hindoostan and the still more malignant idolatry of Rome. Then, indeed, there would be a lengthening of our tranquility, then there would be hope that Britain would be exalted, and that its power would rest on a firm and stable foundation. But if we will not “hear the voice, if we receive not correction, if we refuse to return,” if we persist in maintaining, at the national charge, “that image of jealousy provoking to jealousy,” then, after the repeated and ever INCREASING strokes that the justice of God has laid on us, we have every reason to fear that the calamities that have fallen so heavily upon our countrymen in India, may fall still more heavily upon ourselves, within our own borders at home; for it was when “the image of jealousy” was set up in Jerusalem by the elders of Judah, that the Lord said, “Therefore will I also deal in fury; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.” He who let loose the Sepoys, to whose idolatrous feelings and antisocial propensities we have pandered so much, to punish us for the guilty homage we had paid to their idolatry, can just as easily let loose the Papal Powers of Europe, to take vengeance upon us for our criminal fawning upon the Papacy. 3. But, further, if the views established in this work be correct, it is time that the Church of God were aroused. Are the witnesses still to be slain, and has the Image of the Beast only within the last year or two been set up, at whose instigation the bloody work is to be done? Is this, then, the time for indifference, for sloth, for lukewarmness in religion? Yet, alas! how few are they who are lifting up their voice like a trumpet, who are sounding the alarm in God’s holy mountain– who are bestirring themselves according to the greatness of the emergency–to gather the embattled hosts of the Lord to the coming conflict? The emissaries of Rome for years have been labouring unceasingly night and day, in season and out of season, in every conceivable way, to advance their Master’s cause, and largely have they succeeded. But “the children of light” have allowed themselves to be lulled into a fatal security; they have folded their hands; they have got to sleep as soundly as if Rome had actually disappeared from the face of the earth–as if Satan himself had been bound and cast into the bottomless pit, and the pit had shut its mouth upon him, to keep him fast for a thousand years. How long shall this state of things continue? Oh, Church of God, awake, awake! Open your eyes, and see if there be not dark and lowering clouds on the horizon that indicate an approaching tempest. Search the Scriptures for yourselves; compare them with the facts of history, and say, if there be not reason after all to suspect that there are sterner prospects before the saints than most seem to wot of. If it may turn out that the views opened up in these pages are Scriptural and well- founded, they are at least worthy of being made the subjects of earnest and prayerful inquiry. It never can tend to good to indulge an uninquiring and delusive feeling of safety, when, if they be true, the only safety is to be found in a timely knowledge of the danger and due preparation, by all activity, all zeal, all spirituality of mind, to meet it. On the supposition that peculiar dangers are at hand, and that God in His prophetic Word has revealed them, His goodness is manifest. He has made known the danger, that, being forewarned, we may be forearmed; that, knowing our own weakness, we may cast ourselves on His Almighty grace; that we may feel the necessity of a fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost; that the joy of the Lord being our strength, we may be thorough and decided for the Lord, and for the Lord alone, that we may work, every one in his own sphere, with increased energy and diligence, in the Lord’s vineyard, and save all the souls we can, while yet opportunity lasts, and the dark predicted night has not come, wherein no man can work. Though there be dark prospects before us, there is no room for despondency; no ground for any one to say that, with such prospects, effort is vain. The Lord can bless and prosper to His own glory, the efforts of those who truly 258 gird themselves to fight His battles in the most hopeless circumstances; and, at the very time when the enemy cometh in like a flood, He can, by His Spirit, lift up a standard against him. Nay, not only is this a possible thing, there is reason, from the prophetic word, to believe that so it shall actually be; that the last triumph of the Man of Sin shall not be achieved without a glorious struggle first, on the part of those who are leal- hearted to Zion’s King. But if we would really wish to do anything effectual in this warfare, it is indispensable that we know, and continually keep before our eyes, the stupendous character of that Mystery of Iniquity embodied in the Papacy that we have to grapple with. Popery boasts of being the “old religion”; and truly, from what we have seen, it appears that it is ancient indeed. It can trace its lineage far beyond the era of Christianity, back over 4000 years, to near the period of the Flood and the building of the Tower of Babel. During all that period its essential elements have been nearly the same, and these elements have a peculiar adaptation to the corruption of human nature. Most seem to think that Popery is a system merely to be scouted and laughed at; but the Spirit of God everywhere characterises it in quite a different way. Every statement in the Scripture shows that it was truly described when it was characterised as “Satan’s Masterpiece”–the perfection of his policy for deluding and ensnaring the world. It is not the state-craft of politicians, the wisdom of philosophers, or the resources of human science, that can cope with the wiles and subtle ties of the Papacy. Satan, who inspires it, has triumphed over all these again and again. Why, the very nations where the worship of the Queen of Heaven, with all its attendant abominations, has flourished most in all ages, have been precisely the most civilised, the most polished, the most distinguished for arts and sciences. Babylon, where it took its rise, was the cradle of astronomy. Egypt, that nursed it in its bosom, was the mother of all the arts; the Greek cities of Asia Minor, where it found a refuge when expelled from Chaldea, were famed for their poets and philosophers, among the former Homer himself being numbered; and the nations of the European Continent, where literature has long been cultivated, are now prostrate before it. Physical force, no doubt, is at present employed in its behalf; but the question arises, How comes it that this system, of all others, can so prevail as to get that physical force to obey its behests? No answer can be given but this, that Satan, the god of this world, exerts his highest power in its behalf. Physical force has not always been on the side of the Chaldean worship of the Queen of Heaven. Again and again has power been arrayed against it; but hitherto every obstacle it has surmounted, every difficulty it has overcome. Cyrus, Xerxes, and many of the Medo-Persian kings, banished its priests from Babylon, and laboured to root it out of their empire; but then it found a secure retreat in Pergamos, and “Satan’s seat” was erected there. The glory of Pergamos and the cities of Asia Minor departed; but the worship of the Queen of Heaven did not wane. It took a higher flight, and seated itself on the throne of Imperial Rome. That throne was subverted. The Arian Goths came burning with fury against the worshippers of the Vir gin Queen; but still that worship rose buoyant above all attempts to put it down, and the Arian Goths themselves were soon prostrate at the feet of the Babylonian goddess, seated in glory on the seven hills of Rome. In more modern times, the temporal powers of all the kingdoms of Europe have expelled the Jesuits, the chief promoters of this idolatrous worship, from their dominions. France, Spain, Portugal, Naples, Rome itself have all adopted the same measures, and yet what do we see at this hour? The same Jesuitism and the worship of the Virgin exalted above almost every throne on the Continent. When we look over the history of the last 4000 yeas, what a meaning in the words of inspiration, that “the coming of the Man of Sin” is with the energy, “the mighty power of Satan.” Now, is this the system that, year by year, has been rising into power in our own empire? And is it for a moment to be imagined that lukewarm, temporising, half- hearted Protestants can 259 make any head against such a system? No; the time is come when Gideon’s proclamation must be made throughout the camp of the Lord: “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead.” Of the old martyrs it is said, “They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.” The same self-denying, the same determined spirit, is needed now as much as ever it was. Are there none who are prepared to stand up, and in that very spirit to gird themselves for the great conflict that must come, before Satan shall be bound and cast into his prison-house? Can any one believe that such an event can take place without a tremendous struggle–that “the god of this world” shall quietly consent to resign the power that for thousands of years he has wielded, without stirring up all his wrath, and putting forth all his energy and skill to prevent such a catastrophe. Who, then, is on the Lord’s side? If there be those who, within the last few years, have been revived and quickened–stirred up, not by mere human excitement, but by the Almighty grace of God’s Spirit, what is the gracious design of this? Is it merely that they themselves may be delivered from the wrath to come? No; it is that, zealous for the glory of their Lord, they may act the parts of true witnesses, contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, and maintain the honour of Christ in opposition to him who blasphemously usurps his prerogatives. If the servants of Antichrist are faithful to their master, and unwearied in promoting his cause, shall it be said that the servants of Christ are less faithful to theirs? If none else will bestir themselves, surely to the generous hearts of the young and rising ministry of Christ, in the kindness of their youth, and the love of their espousals, the appeal shall not be made in vain, when the appeal is made in the name of Him whom their souls love, that in this grand crisis of the Church and of the world, they should “come to the help of the Lord–the help of the Lord against the mighty,” that they should do what in them lies to strengthen the hands and encourage the hearts of those who are seeking to stem the tide of apostacy, and to resist the efforts of the men who are labouring with such zeal, and with so much of infatuated patronage on the part of “the powers that be,” to bring this land back again under the power of the Man of Sin. To take such a part, and steadily and perseveringly to pursue it, amid so much growing lukewarmness, it is indispensable that the servants of Christ set their faces as a flint. But if they have grace so to do, they shall not do so without a rich reward at last; and in time they have the firm and faithful promise that “as their day is, so shall their strength be.” For all who wish truly to perform their part as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, there is the strongest and richest encouragement. With the blood of Christ on the conscience, with the Spirit of Christ warm and working in the heart, with our Father’s name on our forehead, and our life, a well as our lips, consistently bearing s “testimony” for God, we shall be prepared for every event. But it is not common grace that will do for uncommon times. If there be indeed such prospects before us, as I have endeavoured to prove there are, then we must live, and feel, and act as if we heard every day resounding in our ears the words of the great Captain of our Salvation, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father on His throne. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Lastly, I appeal to every reader of this work, if it does not contain an argument for the divinity of the Scriptures, as well as an exposure of the impostures of Rome. Surely, if one thing more than another be proved in the previous pages, it is this, that the Bible is no cunningly devised fable, but that holy men of God of old spake and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. What can account for the marvellous unity in all the idolatrous systems of the world, but that the facts recorded in the early chapters of Genesis were real transactions, in which, as all mankind were involved, so all mankind have preserved in their various systems, distinct and undeniable 260 memorials of them, though those who have preserved them have long lost the true key to their meaning? What, too, but Omniscience could have foreseen that a system, such as that of the Papacy, could ever effect an entrance into the Christian Church, and practise and prosper as it has done? How could it ever have entered into the heart of John, the solitary exile of Patmos, to imagine, that any of the professed disciples of that Saviour whom he loved, and who said, “My kingdom is not of this world,” should gather up and systematise all the idolatry and superstition and immorality of the Babylon of Belshazzar, introduce it into the bosom of the Church, and, by help of it, seat themselves on the throne of the Caesars, and there, as the high-priests of the queen of Heaven, and gods upon earth, for 1200 years, rule the nations with a rod of iron? Human foresight could never have done this; but all this the exile of Patmos has done. His pen, then, must have been guided by Him who sees the end from the beginning, and who calleth the things that be not as though they were. And if the wisdom of God now shines forth so brightly from the Divine expression “Babylon the Great,” into which such an immensity of meaning has been condensed, ought not that to lead us the more to reverence and adore the same wisdom that is in reality stamped on every page of the inspired Word? Ought it not to lead us to say with the Psalmist, “Therefore, I esteem all Thy commandments concerning all things to be right”? The commandments of God, to our corrupt and perverse minds, may sometimes seem to be hard. They may require us to do what is painful, they may require us to forego what is pleasing to flesh and blood. But, whether we know the reason of these commandments or no, if we only know that they come from “the only wise God, our Saviour,” we may be sure that in the keeping of them there is great reward; we may go blindfold wherever the Word of God may lead us, and rest in the firm conviction that, in so doing, we are pursuing the very path of safety and peace. Human wisdom at the best is but a blind guide; human policy is a meter that dazzles and leads astray; and they who follow it walk in darkness, and know not whither they are going; but he “that walketh uprightly,” that walks by the rule of God’s infallible Word, will ever find that “he walketh surely,” and that whatever duty he has to perform, whatever danger he has to face, “great peace have all they that love God’s law, and nothing shall offend them.”

hen our children are small they go through various stages that seem to be shared by all of them, because all of them are human, with human characteristics and traits and abilities. They go through this stage called the terrible two’s, because now they are mobile and can begin to explore the world around them. Then they drift into the why period, they begin to question everything around them. That causes some parents to question , WHY, themselves, do they do that. It is because of how humans are designed. Among the species, humans have the greatest capacity and need for reason, the ability to rationalize. And even little children, start out life, by seeking out the intellectual comfort of reasonability. When an animal comes across a log in the forest, they just jump over or go around it, humans want to question it’s position and do something about it. We want to know the why of things, not just the how, and we are not satisfied with a “Just Because ” answer. It is important for humans to gain understanding, not only from the accumulation of knowledge, but that knowledge must be alloyed with reason. Even in the accumulation of knowledge we must also understand the reason for it’s necessity. WHY do we need to learn ??? Jesus said to us, at John 17:3 ” This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge, of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you have sent forth, Jesus Christ.” The Churches of the world do not teach about God, they sometimes talk about Jesus, and according to their doctrine’s, when they do mention the term God, they are talking about Jesus. You will not gain life, unless you learn about the person whom Jesus refers to as his Father, the only true God. Because it is the Father of Jesus Christ, that is the giver of life. No where in the Bible does it say that Jesus did not have a father, no where in the Bible does it say that Jesus was the Father. In the sense that Adam was our father, and Abraham was our father, and Paul says we have many fathers and many mothers in the whole association of brothers and sisters in the faith, Jesus became also an eternal father in the sense that his sacrificial body paid the ransom sacrifice, and gave life to mankind without end. All of the writing that I have been doing recently when my health allows is to answer the extreemly important question of why, why, why, is it that Christians do not celebrate holidays, and every thing that I have written so far, is one more piece of that puzzle. We who are alive today, came into a world already filled with it’s traditions and customs, and just like merging onto a freeway, we joined right in, not knowing or even caring where we were headed, because we did not have the knowledge. The tragedy is however that the traffic on the freeway is unknowingly, unwittingly headed for destruction. Like cattle stampeded off of a cliff, mankind in the face of all warnings, remains steadfast, stubbornly blinded to the cliff of destruction that most of them are beginning to see a glimpse of. Sometimes in a runaway herd, headed for a cliff, some of the cattle on the outside of the herd, will sense the danger ahead and turn aside in spite of the momentum of the masses, these are very rare individuals. they are the ones, who ask why are we going in this direction, and they demand a reason for it. Those who take God into consideration, are like those cattle who turn away from the herd and live. The person who asks why, is in a much better standing than the person who says, ” I do not want to know ” . To those, who in spite of all evidence, just like Pharaoh of Egypt, continue heading in a course that they already know and can clearly see is wrong and nothing but destruction lies ahead, it is not to late to ask for directions. But be forewarned, you yourself, right now, see that cliff ahead, if you choose to continue on your path, in-spite of being warned, in spite of believing what you already know, and what your very own eyes can see, then there is a cliff waiting for you to traverse, and this time, the death will be at your own stubborn will. Ask, Listen, Learn, Act Upon what you Learned, Teach Others, those things are the bridge. Please, take the bridge, don’t take the cliff. Things that are celebrated are often celebrated for a reason. Like that innocent child, we need to ask why !!!! Why are we celebrating this ??? What does this celebration mean ???? Where did it come from ??? How did it originate ??? Who are we celebrating ??? In whose honor or what honor are we celebrating ??? What is the real purpose of the celebration ??? And finally, Does this Celebration bring honor to God in any way ??? Or is it something that he despises, and said so from the very beginning! . The characters we have talked about so far, Abel Abraham Lot Noah Nimrod Jesus Paul John Moses These faithful men of old set the foundation for understanding the holidays and celebrations of our time. They tell us where these days that have been set aside for revelries, where they come from, who they honor, what they mean, and the most important thing to understand is how are they viewed by God, what did God say about these holidays. The holidays in celebration today are not new, the foundations of them are thousands of years old, they existed long before any of us were born. But that does not make them harmless. God does not rearrange his principles and laws to fit the whims of each and every newborn, to satisfy their perspective of right and wrong. If mankind wants to go on surviving, they must comply with the laws and principles that God has established. Just because a person may not have heard, read or understand a law or principle that has been established, does not by default mean that it does not exists. Some people truly believe that the only rules to life and living that are valid are the ones that the themselves make up as they go along, and are subject to change upon their whim. I for one am certainly happy that God does not change the laws of the universe on a daily basis depending upon his attitude that day, like some kind of Caligula or Nero. He is dependable Malachi 3:6 says ” For I am Jehovah, I have not changed” He is the same person that he always was, he has not changed, his qualities will forever be the same, and if we are to receive our life from him, shouldn’t we take a moment to investigate how he feels about celebrations that use his name in conjunction with them???? If we are claiming a celebration in Gods honor, shouldn’t it honor God ? And if it doesn’t, should perhaps we consider re naming it to reflect its true identity ??? . The internet and other publications are filled with information about the origin of holidays, and I will be pointing those out. What I am doing first, is something that cannot be found anywhere on the internet or in any library of the world. I am first pointing out the position of God and what he wanted written down concerning celebrations and their meanings, and the bible has allot to say about them. The Churches do not speak of the meaning and origins of holidays, because they are the sponsor of them. There is not one single holiday mentioned in the scriptures, if it was so important to God, don’t you think he would of told us ? Remember the question was why is it that Christians do not celebrate holidays, and the foundation of the Christian belief system is found in the Bible, and so that is the beginning of our foundational reference system for our faith in God and an understanding of his guiding principles. So I will get back to writing about this subject.

This is a skeletal remains of the Nephilim that we talked about in earlier writings. Archaeologist and Geologist have uncovered many of these, so this is not an anomalous finding, they are common. When the disobedient angels came to earth and had sex with women, the resulting offspring were giants. Genesis 6:1-4

In the ancient world, a Shaman was an individual, who could pass through a portal into another world. In the world that existed between Adam and Noah, the earth was filled with disobedient angels who took on materialized human bodies and could transmigrate between the spirit world, and the material – physical world. They really did exist, they even took wives and had children, the children were called Nephilim. See Genesis 6:4

At John 17;3 we read, ” This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you , the only true God, and of the one you sent forth, Jesus Christ. ” These are words from Christ. He is the designated king of God’s kingdom for one thousand years. You will eventually memorize this scripture, reading the things I write to you. . At Isaiah 54:13 reads, ” And all your sons will be persons taught by Jehovah.” . At John 8:28 we read Jesus’s words, ” But just as the Father taught me I speak these things.” Notice that even Jesus submitted himself to being taught by Jehovah, so be careful if you find yourself thinking that you do not need to learn, about the Father. . Jehovah, in his loving kindness, established a means of communication with his human family after they insisted that they no longer needed him. Mostly he spoke through angels to faithful servants of old. after the death of the apostles even that stopped. The main mediator between Jehovah and man is Christ and it will remain that way until mankind is once again all brought to a perfect sinless state. Jesus will have the aid of 144,000 men and women who have been bought from earth to serve as Kings and Priest with him in heaven for the thousand years, and undoubtedly they will play a role in the dissemination of knowledge to mankind, exactly as they do now. As with everything that Jehovah does, this method of man teaching man how to be obedient to Jehovah, will ultimately be unimaginably perfect, both now, and forever more. The submission of ourselves to each other, to acquire and exchange knowledge that saves lives now, in this system of things, and leads to everlasting life under the rulership of Gods Kingdom, is the arrangement that Jehovah has established, and until we are perfect and sinless and he can deal with us directly, this is what he expects of us, to present ourselves willing to be obedient to his arrangements, both in this current system, so that he can identify us as belonging to him, and in the new system of things that he is preparing for us, to guide us on the path, that will eventually lead us to eternal life. That is a long sentence , right? Remember what Jesus said would be our responsibilities as Christians. At Matthew 28: 18,19,20, ” And Jesus spoke to them, saying: ” All authority has been given me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.” 1. Jesus has the authority in heaven and on earth to carry this teaching and preaching work out. 2. It wasn’t would you please, it was ” Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations. It was marching orders, this must be done ! Isn’t that what you get out of that ! A disciple is a student, teacher, mentor, and that is what we all need to be, to each other, and to the rest of the world. 3. Jesus said to teach them to observe all of the things that he commanded. So we are supposed to teach to others the things that he taught to us. We are not to teach to others things that we know to be untrue, that would mislead the person that we are supposed to be teaching. If we are teaching things that mislead others away from Christ’s teachings, who exactly are we serving then. We would be serving the person that the Bible claims is misleading the entire inhabited earth. If we do that, we should expect no less than to share in the reward he gets. 4. The Apostle Paul once said at Acts 20:20, ” While I did not hold back from telling you any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house. ” Who do you know that has an international reputation throughout the entire world for doing just that ?? Listen to them. Jesus was sent to teach us, he is referred to in scripture as the great teacher. If all we needed for salvation was to possess a copy of the Bible, and never read it, then it was a waste to send him. But that is not at all what the scriptures teach. If all that was required of us was to believe, than we might find ourselves in the company of this group mentioned at James 2:19 ” You believe there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder. ” Belief in God alone is not enough, even the demons believe but are destined for destruction. And James 2: 24, 25, 26 ” You see that a man is to be declared righteous by works, and not by faith alone. In the same manner was not also Rahab the harlot declared righteous by works, after she had received the messengers hospitably and sent them out by another way? Indeed, as the body without spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead. ” At Romans 10:1- ” Brothers, the goodwill of my heart and my supplication to God for them are, indeed, for their salvation. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God; but not according to accurate knowledge; for , because of not knowing the righteousness of God but seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness. For Moses writes that the man that has done the righteousness of the Law will live by it. But what does it say? ” The word is near you, in your own mouth and in your own heart”, that is, the “word” of faith, which we are preaching. For if you publicly declare that ” word in your mouth,’ that Jesus is Lord, and exercising faith in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one exercising faith for righteousness, but with the mouth one makes public declaration for salvation. For the Scripture says: ” None that rest his faith on him will be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for there is the same Lord over all, who is rich to all those calling upon him. For ” everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” However, how will they call on him whom they have not put faith? How, in turn, will they put faith in him of whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent forth? Just as it is written: ” How comely are the feet of those who declare good news of good things ! ” ” Nevertheless, they did not obey the good news. For Isaiah says: ” Jehovah, who put faith in the thing heard from us?” So faith follows the thing heard. In turn the thing heard is through the word about Christ. Nevertheless I ask, They did not fail to hear did they? Why, in fact, ” into all the earth their sound went out, and to the extremities of the inhabited earth their utterances.” Once heard it is important not only to put faith in the good news about God’s coming Kingdom, but to obey that good news, did you catch that point? Obedience to the things that God tells us is crucial if we want to remain alive, God is not one to be ignored or mocked or disobeyed. But always obedience to God is not difficult, it is actually enjoyable, and nothing in life brings more comfort and contentment then a good relationship with your creator.

These are things that the Bible teaches that are true. 1. Jehovah is Gods personal name that he gave himself. . 2. Jehovah is the creator of all things, we humans did not make ourselves. . 3. Jehovah made man to live, not die. . 4. Obedience is required of all creation. Flesh as well as physical and spiritual. . 5. An angel made himself an enemy of Jehovah. His name is Satan the Devil. . 6. Satan set out to destroy all of Jehovah’s creation in heaven as well as earth. . 7. Satan especially focused on the first born of all creation, Jesus Christ. . 8. Satan lead man to disobedience, causing the death of all men. . 9. Upon death, man and all other life, return to the earth from which they were taken. . 10. All men and animals do not go to heaven when they die. . 11. The heavens are for Jehovah, the earth he made for man. . 12. Hell is simply the common grave of mankind, not a place of eternal torment. . 13. Jehovah’s ways are perfect, his solution to disobedience will also be perfect. . 14. Satan’s angels came to earth, took all the women they wanted, ruined everything. . 15. The flood of Noah wiped the earth clean of Satan’s corruption of flesh. . 16. Once again, man reached out for Jehovah, and he heard them. . 17. Jehovah began to organize faithful men, leading up to the ransom of Jesus Christ. . 18. The Law Covenant delivered by Moses was a tutor leading up to the Christ. . 19. Upon Jesus Christ death, the Jewish Law Covenant was ended. 20. Mankind proven once and for all time, unfit to rule over man. . 21. Jehovah moves all government over man to the heavens. 22. Man will never again rule over man, God’s kingdom will rule from heaven forever. . 23. Jesus Christ will be the King of Jehovah’s kingdom, ruling from heaven. . 24. Jehovah chooses 144,000 people from earth to rule as kings and priest with Jesus . 25. They will rule from heaven with Christ, they proved faithful all the way to death. . 26. Abel, Noah, Moses, Abraham, Mary, Joseph, David, John, do not go to heaven. . 27. Good news of God’s kingdom preached to the entire inhabited earth at same time. . 28. This is in progress as we speak, and nearing it’s end, earth has heard of Jehovah. 29. Nations of the earth will destroy the religions of the world. Moving toward this now. . 30. Political systems attack the religions, shockingly fast, an leave the world stunned. . 31. After destruction of religions, great tribulation sets in, worst world has ever seen. . 32. Jehovah steps in and destroys political systems, establishing His Kingdom. . 33. There will be survivors going through all of this and enter into God’s Kingdom, but . 34. As with Noah, most people do not believe, and reject Jehovah and his Kingdom. . 35. Jesus has warned of this day, for 2,000 years, man has had enough time to hear. . 36. Jehovah’s plan of earth a paradise home for man finally established by Christ. . 37. Once paradise restored, billions of the dead are systematically resurrected to life. . 38. All those destroyed by Jehovah at Armegedon, stay destroyed, don’t be one !!! . 39. Jesus and the 144,000 men and women from earth, will administer kingdom rule 40. Everyone alive at that time will subject themselves to being taught by Jehovah. . 41. Obedience to God’s kingdom will not be an option, never again will a Satan arise. . 42. Animals will be at peace with man and each other, a little boy will be leader over. . 43. Animals will no longer kill animals, and death will be no more. . 44. Death will no longer be the enemy of man, no one will get sick, we can live forever . 45. The desires of every living creature will be satisfied by Jehovah. . 46. Jesus leads mankind back to perfection, then hands the keys of the Kingdom . 47. Over to Jehovah, now that man is perfect, Jehovah can deal with us directly. . 48. It is at that moment , that you can talk directly with God and he will talk back to you directly, he will answer every question you can come up with, so start writing them down. Be there to ask him, he’s hoping to see you there. As the Bible tells us, Jehovah does not want anyone to be destroyed, but he wants all to attain to repentance. It is not too late right now. But just as in the days of Noah, when Jehovah himself closed the door to the ark before the rain came, so too, today, we know the moment is coming when the ark of today will be closed, get on that ark.

We have learned that Jehovah is the giver of life, at Romans 6:23, says ” For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life” . We learned that Satan was a manslayer in the beginning and continues to this very day. . It is Satan who gave birth to death. . The dead, are not alive. At Ecclesiastes 9:10 we read, ” All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” . Ecclesiastes 3:19 says, ” For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast” This scripture fits all of the rest of the scriptures once you begin to believe what God says, rather than what the preachers of Churches say. The churches teach that when a person dies they go to heaven. If man and the animals have the same spirit and eventuality, and are not superior, than the animals would go to heaven as well when they die, and there are those that firmly believe that their Fido is in heaven right this minute. The Bible however does not teach that, notice the scripture above, we go to a place called Sheol, it did not say heaven, it said Sheol, and there is no way anyone could translate that to mean anything other than what it says. Animals also go to Sheol when they die. . Ecclesiastes 9:5 says, ” For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.” . Psalms 104:29 says, ” If you conceal your face, they get disturbed. If you take away their spirit, they expire; And back to their dust they go.” . Psalms 146:4 says ” His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish. If he went out, and went to heaven, wouldn’t his thoughts go with him ??? . Genesis 3:19 says ” In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” This scripture does not say that Adam would go to heaven or hell, it said that he would return to the dust. According to the beliefs of Christendom, no one on earth deserved to go to hell more than Adam, because he killed all of us, but there is no fiery place of torment, that is just another one of the lies taught by the schools of Satan. . Romans 5:12 says ” That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned” . Romans 6:16 says ” Do you not know that if you keep presenting yourselves to anyone as slaves to obey him, you are slaves of him because you obey him, either of sin with death in view or of obedience with righteousness in view ? There is that obedience word again. . Hebrews 2:14,15 says ” Therefore, since the “young children” are sharers of blood and flesh, he also similarly partook of the same things, that through his death he might bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the Devil; and that he might emancipate all those who for fear of death were subject to slavery all through their lives.” . 2 Corinthians 11:3 says ” But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent seduced Eve by it’s cunning, your minds might be corrupted away from the sincerity and the chastity that are due the Christ.” . John 13:2 says ” So, while the evening meal was going on, the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him.” Once again, Satan not there to help in life, but only to facilitate the death of a righteous person. . James 3:14,15,16 says, ” But if you have bitter jealously and contentiousness in your hearts, do not be bragging and lying against the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes from above, but is the earthly, animal, demonic. For where jealously and contentiousness are, there disorder and every vile thing are.” key word = truth . Psalms 13:3 says ” Do look upon me; answer me O Jehovah my God. Do make my eyes shine, that I may not fall asleep in death.” John 11: 11-14 says ” He said these things, and after this he said to them: ” Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.” Therefore the disciples said to him: ” Lord, if he has gone to rest, he will get well.” Jesus had spoken, however, about his death. But they imagined he was speaking about taking rest in sleep. At that time, therefore, Jesus said to them outspokenly: Lazarus has died.” Noticed Jesus referred to death as sleep, not in heaven, or hell. . 1 Corinthians 15: 20,21 says ” However, now Christ has been raised up from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep in death. For since death is through a man, resurrection of the dead is also through a man.” . Judges 16:30 says ” And Samson proceeded to say: ” Let my soul die with the Philistines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it, so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.” . Ezekiel 18:4 says ” All the souls to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son- to me they belong. The soul that is sinning- it its self will die. ” Notice once again, that a soul can and does die. The soul is the human body, it is not a separate entity that cannot die. The Bible is clear, souls die. . Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that is sinning-it itself will die. A son himself will bear nothing because of the error of the father, and a father himself will bear nothing because of the error of the son. Upon his own self the very righteousness of the righteous one will come to be, and upon his own self the very wickedness of a wicked one will come to be. ” Again this scripture says that souls die, not live on. There is at least one religion that teaches that they can absolve the sins of others by getting baptized again in the name of that person they are trying to save, even and especially since, they are dead and cannot do it for themselves, this scripture proves that that is a false doctrine according to the Bible, each person is responsible only for themselves. . Jonah 4:3 says ” And now, O Jehovah, take away, please, my soul from me, for my dying is better than my being alive.” . These scriptures show for a certainty that the Bible is very clear, it is possible for man to die, and that once a man dies he returns to the dust, he does not go on to some other life form, as regards death, animals and man both die and return to the ground. . Later when we have time, we will talk about the resurrection promise to bring man back to life underneath God’s kingdom. But as we all know, Gods kingdom is not here yet. Even when the kingdom has arrived and destroyed the false religious systems and the other kingdoms of the earth, first we who are alive on earth at that time must restore the earth to paradise conditions, then the resurrection will take place, remember, Jesus promised the evil doer next to him ” truly I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise”. Let’s all be there to greet him back !!

So this person that man and history refers to as God, goes back in the history of man for 6000 years. His name has been found carved in stone, and if he goes back 6000 years and man has had relationships with him over those years, why would it be impossible to believe that he was even older than 6000 years ??? More that 2000 years after the flood, that history and geology testify too, we read of Noah at Hebrews the 11 and 12th chapters and I suggest you read both of them. Not only Noah, but Abel, Enoch, Abraham Sarah, Isaac, Jacob Esau Joseph, Moses,Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, all mentioned as faithful men of old. . History is filled with people and events, that if we care enough and want to know the truth about them we can find out. I did not know Abraham Lincoln my self, I never met him, I never talked with him, but I have no doubt that he existed. I never met George Washington, but I believe he existed. I did not know John Kennedy, but I know that he existed. I did not know my great grandparents, but who am I to argue the point with my grandparents, that I did know, that perhaps their parents did not exist, simply because I did not personally know them, can you see how ridiculous that logic is, if it can even be called logic. Earth, and man and God have a history that predates all of us alive today, that is the point of today’s writing, there were people on this earth long before us, and we have no reason to believe that they and all of the history about them is all on big lie to us all. . If we can agree that there is a history before we came along, then we can move on in this discussion. I do want to say while I am on this point that there are those folks who come under the definition of Solipsist, who believe that nothing exist or is knowable outside of their own minds, some even believe that even their own bodies do not exist, only their conscientiousness. And no other conscientiousness exist except their own. . God is very old, as a matter of fact the bible called him at Daniel 7:9 ” Ancient of Days” In another place, beyond the scope of human understanding, it refers to him as without beginning and without end. . God views mankind as his children, he loves us, we are referred to as his human family, when earth was made the bible tells us in Job that the angels burst in applause. Stories of him are in every nook and cranny on this earth, even painted in caves, and in the interiors of the pyramids of Egypt. He is called the living God by nations outside of Egypt and Israel, because they witnessed him in action. . Words carved into stone by the finger of Jehovah have found themselves duplicated in stone and adorn many governmental and civic buildings around the world. . He told Noah and Abraham, and Lot, and Moses, that he watched the oppression and affliction of man and he was going to do something about it and he did, and history testifies to it and that goes back some 4000 years ago. So Jehovah has seen the evil that men do to men and in one scripture he said it was like someone touching his eye. . As a parent how do you think that you would feel to see one of your offspring, tortured and murdered right before your eyes, tell me, how would you feel.?????

Some points to think about in getting more familiar with God and the things we have been reading. The goal of all of this current writings are to build a foundation to underpin the reasons why a christian would want to learn as much as possible about the things that please God and stay away from the things that displease him, and the only way you can know what those things are is by getting to know him, just like we are doing. You know more about him now than you did when we started, so lets continue to learn. First thing to learn, he means what he says. . At the garden of Eden he said, do not touch that tree, you have the entire rest of the earth and all the trees in it, only this tree, do not touch it. Jehovah was serious, it cost them their lives. . The generation of Noah, he told them to get on the ark, for fifty years Noah told the people to get on the ark. When they saw Noah leading the animals up the ramp and into the ark, they could of got on the boat. Jehovah was serious, it cost them their lives. . Babylon became the center of false worship. . The angels told Lots family DO NOT LOOK BACK, the wife could not resist and it cost her her life. Jehovah was serious. . Just because we do not think it is important when it comes to the principles that God has spoken, doesn’t mean that he views them as unimportant, every single example that we have in the scriptures indicate, that he always means what he says. Listen to God, and live. . Nothing he tells us is difficult to comply with, absolutely nothing, it takes nothing away from us, it is always simple. Don’t touch that tree !! Get on the boat !!! Do not look back !!! Do not worship the other gods of Babylon !!!

Through Abraham came Isaac, and through Isaac came Jacob, through Jacob came, the tribe of Judah, and it is through the tribe of Judah that Jesus Christ was born. . Abraham had a brother whose name was Haran, who had a son named Lot, Lot was Abraham’s nephew. . Genesis 13; 11,12,13, reads, ” Then Lot chose for himself the whole district of the Jordan, and Lot moved his camp to the east. So they separated the one from the other. 12. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, but Lot dwelt among the cities of the District. Finally he pitched tent near Sodom. 13. And the men of Sodom were bad and gross sinners against Jehovah. . Lot was referred to in Second Peter 2: 8 and at Luke 17: 26 reads, ” Moreover, just as it occurred in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of man; 27. they were eating, they were drinking, men were marrying, women were being given in marriage, until that day when Noah entered into the ark, and the flood arrived and destroyed them all. 28. Likewise, just as it occurred in the days of Lot, they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. 29. But on the day that Lot came out of Sodom it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. 30. The same way it will be on that day when the Son of man is to be revealed. 31. ” On that day let the person that is on the housetop but whose movable things are in the house not come down to pick these up, and the person out in the field, let him likewise not return to the things behind. 32. Remember the wife of Lot.” . In Genesis the 19th chapter we have the story of Lot and his daughters and his wife. The scriptures tell us that Jehovah sent two angels to take Lot out of Sodom and Gomorrah because the outcry of complaints about the sins of those cities cause Jehovah to look down and see what the problem was, he vowed to destroy those cities. Abraham pleaded for righteous Lot, Jehovah’s angels came and told Lot to get out of the city with his wife and daughters and DO NOT LOOK BACK. His son in laws did not go because they thought he was joking. Jehovah rained down fire and sulphur upon the entire District. Lot’s wife looked back upon the city and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Through the lineage of Noah, we have his son Shem. Shem was alive for about 100 years before the flood. Through his line came the Syrians, the Chaldean’s, the Hebrews, the Assyrians and others. He was born when Noah was about 500 years old. At Genesis 9: 26 Noah refers to Jehovah as ” Shem’s God ” . Abraham descended through Shem’s son , Arpachshad. Abraham was born in 2018 B.C.E. three hundred and fifty three years after the flood. His father was Terah, he was born in Ur of the Chaldean’ s, 150 miles south east of Nimrod’s city of Babel or Babylon as it became known. Abraham and Shem’s life over lapped by 150 years. In the book of Romans 4:11 speaking of Abraham he was referred to as, we read, ” the father of all those having faith “, in verse 12 it reads, “For it was not through law that Abraham or his seed had the promise that he should be heir of a world, but it was through his righteousness by faith. ” Abraham exercised faith in Jehovah, Genesis 14:22, ” At this Abram said to the king of Sodom; ” I do lift up my hand in an oath to Jehovah the Most High God, Producer of heaven and earth.” At Genesis 24: 3 we read, ” Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth” Abraham knew Jehovah and used his name.

Just a few more words that I forgot to mention yesterday in regards to the disobedient angels materializing and taking human bodies. It is not good to go beyond the things that are written in the scriptures, and I am not doing that now, this is just pure speculation. Remember at the garden of Eden Satan animated a serpent to speak to Eve. It might not be a stretch to imagine that he and the other angels continued this with other animals as well, during the time they occupied earth and took on human bodies, why is it not possible that they also took on other fleshly bodies as well. Mankind imagined and made gods for themselves in the image of and likeness of all types of animals and figures. Is it possible that they were just emulating the stories that were recanted to them, of life in the world before the flood when Satan and his demon angels, freely roamed the heavens and earth. If Satan could make a snake talk, why is it that he could not make any animal talk that he wanted to, or any other angel for that mater. When the plagues were issued against Egypt, they were specifically aimed at the gods that Egypt worshiped to show that they were powerless. It is not difficult to imagine that in a world where the only powers displayed were those of the demonic angels and their superhuman, and perhaps super animal displays of indestructible power and abilities and unimaginable intelligence and knowledge. Man has made countless gods to vent his desire to worship a higher power.

It is possible that from the time of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden until Noah’s flood Satan and his angels ravaged the earth and all of mankind in it. Giving not a moments peace to anyone. They did not come down to earth to establish pure worship, they came to destroy everything within their power that God held dear. Satan, by making Eve feel like she was about to do something that God wanted her to do, was mislead by Satan, he never dropped that format of misguiding man to do the things that God specifically told them not to do. Satan delights in twisting up the hearts and minds of men, to lead them into direct opposition to the expressed will of God. It seems, as though, that whenever God explains to man what he expects of him, Satan is right there to make sure they do the exact opposite, and mankind has aided Satan by establishing Satanic Universities to teach each other how to disobey God, in unimaginably creative ways. From the very first bite of the fruit that God said do not touch Satan lead Eve to eat it, he continued on, and led men to actually eat each other, very creative indeed. Satan makes things look at first so innocent, so child like, oh, how cute, we are only doing it for the children, as he has us march our children into the fire, claiming all along that it is to God that we are offering up our children in sacrifice. We do not have to do things such as burn each other up in fire, or throw each other off of cliffs, or cut out our hearts and hold them, while still beating, up to the sun as an offering to the sun god, to be disapproved by God in our form of worship, all we have to do to be disapproved by God is simply to touch something that he told us not to. All the rest, is overkill. So if touching something was enough to cause the loss of life of Adam and Eve, what must God be thinking right now ???? And how many of us are there on earth that even care about what God thinks??? . Christendom, in case you did not know, is that religious empire, that claims to be under and subordinate to Christ domain, but the proof is, that they are the exact opposite of being under Christ. Everything that Christ told his followers to believe and do, Christendom does the exact opposite. . In answer to the question of who cares what God thinks, Christendom even took Gods name out of the book he authored. The King James Bible of 1611 contained Gods name in 4 places, now it has been removed all together, that is how much Christendom cares about what God thinks, they do not even want to know or hear his name, they actually get annoyed or even angry at the very mention of Gods name. In the Bible book of Matthew we read at 10:22 ” And you will be objects of hatred by all people on account of my name,” Gods name is Jehovah, and it is written 6,828 times or 6,973 times in the Bible’s Hebrew scriptures alone depending upon the translation, in its original form called the tetragrammaton. There is no way that the tetragrammaton can be translated into God or Lord or Jesus or Christ. Satan had his followers do everything that they could to remove Gods name from earth. How would you feel if you wrote an auto biography, and publishers decided to remove your name from the entire book, all the while claiming to have your best interest at heart. How about you, how important is your name, what if everyone started calling you anything that they wanted except your birth name, how would that make you feel, and how confusing would it be to those who were looking for you. . The religious organizations that have removed Gods name from his own book, does not have your best spiritual interest at heart. They do not want to help you get to know God, they want to prevent you from getting to know God, why else would they hide his name. Isn’t that the very first step in getting to know someone, learning and referring to them by name. So many of you who go to places that have the word Church on the building, never hear Gods name uttered from the pulpits, a place that is supposed to be teaching you about him, a place that is supposed to represent him. Some Churches even forbid uttering his name. Do you really believe in your heart, that Jehovah’s organization would forbid the use of his name ??? Christendom is the religious organization on earth that creates the belief systems they associate with the Bible but upon examination are found no where in the Bible. The principles and instructions for obedience to God found in the Bible, Christendom teaches from its pulpits the exact opposite, or ignores completely. We will be going through each and every one of these teachings one at a time

Remember the analogy of correlating the accumulation of bible truths with a jig saw puzzle. well here is where a lot of the pieces begin to fit. It comes from really thinking about just one verse, Genesis 6:2 ” then the sons of the true God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good looking, and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose.” For the sake of this conversation, there is a difference between the identity of the sons of men, and the sons of God, sons of men are born of human parents, male and female, human parents. You might think I am being ridiculous by stipulating this, but there are those who argue that this scripture means something different than what it says. Remember what I said earlier, you will never understand the Bible or it’s author until you stop arguing with him about what he said, and just listen and learn. Listen to God, then everything starts to make perfect sense. The sons of God refer to those beings that God gave birth to, created in heaven, angels are referred to in the bible as sons of God, get it, there are sons of man, and there are sons of God, for the sake of this discussion. It is also important to keep in mind this, the bible’s instructions are to not go beyond the information contained in it. There is enough information in the bible to keep us busy doing the will of Jehovah. We read at Galatians 1; verses 6-9 that there is only ONE good news of Gods kingdom, not multiple ways of looking at the same thing, remember, Jehovah and his Son Jesus are not confused in how they think, it is Satan who has twisted the minds of men, teaching them that it does not matter how we think about God, but that has never been the case with God, Satan may think it does not matter, but God has proven over and over again that it is Gods view of things that is important, not ours. So as this discussion continues, the bible mentions the subject in only one verse, and that is all it says about it, what I am going to say now is just thoughtful elaborations and conjecture that the bible is silent about. . So we read in Genesis 6:2 that angels from heaven came down to earth materialized into human bodies and took wives for themselves, the scripture says, anyone they wanted. . Think about that for a moment, picture in your mind just that scene, you are standing on your lawn, and suddenly you see angels coming down, and developing human bodies right before your eyes. These angels took human male forms, because they wanted women, right, ” they saw the daughters of men” and they wanted them. . The bible goes on to say, ” namely all whom they chose” they took any woman that they wanted too, and who could stop them? The bible also says that they ” took them as wives” so you can just bet that more was involved than cooking and cleaning. Because the bible also goes on to say that ” they produced offspring” and in those days there was only one way to do that, they did not have invetro in that time period. It had to be done the time tested and proven method. Which is what they were after anyway. . It is safe to assume also, that marriage arrangements and age restrictions were probably completely ignored by them, since the scriptures says that they took all whom they wanted, so more than one woman could have been gathered into their stable. And any husband trying to fight for his wife or daughters stood no chance. . It could of been the reverse also, that one woman was shared, because there were not enough women to go around. The bible also does not say how many angels came down from heaven, but the numbers could be staggering, and could of easily out numbered the population of earth and far exceeded the number of available females. But most likely, monogamous relationships were the farthest things from their moral compass, they left all morality when they abandoned their positions in heaven, and directly violated all of Gods righteous principles. The bible tells us that because of them, the earth became filled with violence. Many wars have been fought over a woman, so the demand for available women was also most likely a cause of discontent. . The decay of the moral fabric of society at that time in human history must have been horrible, it was in such a state, that God said ” all flesh has ruined itself ” it was beyond fixing, it could not be retried from the brink, even by God, so that had to be really bad. . I am continuing to write;

So a thought that a thinking person might take away from what I just wrote is this, killing innocent men women and children by the millions and letting the person who murdered them walk free, is not rational, it is not reasonable, it is not just, it it wrong on every level, and then to celebrate all of those who support this way of thinking shares an equal and indistinct guilt.

A few days ago in the things I have been posting we learned that regardless of what man says, the Bible teaches that it is Satan that is the ruler of this world and all of the nations belong to him. He is joined in co-rulership by un- totaled billions or perhaps trillions of angels that took his side in the rebellion that took place in heaven that got all of them cast down and confined to the vicinity of the earth. The scripture in Revelations told us, woe for the earth, and particularly since world war 1 in 1914, that has been true. . Through the ages earth has had many kings rise up, and dominate mankind, the results were not always good and kind. The details of the wholesale slaughter of man over riches and land and power and religion, can and do fill our libraries. But something happened in our lifetime that dwarfs even those horrible atrocities. . Once in the history of man, one man stood up in the world, and told the rest of the world to pick up arms and slaughter each other, and we did it. One man. People by the tens of millions were slaughtered on the battlefields of the world at the suggestion of one man. Now that is real power, for a human. He was one of the governing agents in one of the kingdoms of earth. We learned from the Bible, that the kings of the earth are under the rulership of Satan. And when a person investigates the crimes against humanity committed by the actions of this one man and all of those who participated in his play, who of sound mind, could argue any other view, than this whole event was orchestrated by something very, very, evil. World War II could of been stopped by stopping one man, but that did not happen. Remember the scripture that we read that says that Satan blinds the minds of men. That is never more true than in war. The world as a whole aimed their weapons on everyone else except the very person who was causing the problem. This entire war could of been prevented, it never had to happen, all it would of taken is one person, to stand up and do the right thing. Impossible to calculate how many innocent men women and children lost their lives in the most horrible of ways, simply because the political leaders of the earth, those governments ruled over by Satan, refused to do anything about the tyrant who terrorized earth, and instead, raised and pointed their weapons at innocent people, and pulled the trigger. And what is the name we give them !!!!!! When men go to war, we say that they are doing their duty. Millions of soldiers went to war in World War II, if only a fraction of that number would of pointed their weapons at the person causing the trouble, instead of innocent combatants, everyone could of went back home to their families. Over simplification, perhaps, but this approach to war, that is taking out of the formula the instigator rather than innocent men women and children, makes a lot more sense to me. In Japan, the trouble was not at Hiroshima and Nagasaki it was Hirohito and the city was Tokyo and Nagano, if bombs were going to be dropped, it was there that the seat of the Japanese government was being run, not the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But still, an atomic bomb cuts a very wide swath, and is bound to at least nick, innocent bystanders, who were just cooking diner and mowing the lawn, and we vaporized hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children, because we needed the leaders alive and untouched to attend the celebrations of victory and sign peace agreements and stand proud erect and tall for the photo ops. . The Killing fields of Cambodia at the hands of the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot cost the lives of three million innocent humans, and all it would of taken was one carefully placed piece of lead about the size of a dime. . Robert Mugabe of Africa, one of dozens of African leaders that terrorize and slaughter the innocent people of Africa, the solution is elementary, but mankind is blind and paralyzed by the false and obscene laws regulating the war machine, all of it is deliberately designed for the profitability of war, it is not about right and wrong, right and wrong requires no thought, it is clear to everyone, war is about making money at the expense of the innocents. . Syria, the problem is the Assad family, solution is simple. The common statement that is made every single time this issue comes up, the excuse for not acting is, ” We don’t know that we might just get some one worse in power”, Well that is exactly why the Walther made the PPK come with a silencer and 6 rounds, and I am willing to bet that after the first three, the rest will fall right into step. . You get the point. This nation will spend 57% of its budget this year, about 3 Billion dollars figuring out ways to blow people up. The rest of the world will not be far behind. The expenses generated by the collective efforts of our global community to militarize earth will exceed the total GDP of the United States. If that effort were redirected to the improvement of the human condition, rather than the destruction of all life, in the words of John Lennon, Imagine what we could accomplish. Just eliminating the destruction of earths natural resources alone by the destructive forces of war would go along way to improve life for countless. And all it would take to offer global security for all of us, is one man, with some heat, and impunity. Like every thing I write here, every word is true, it is a different way of looking at things that most never have. But if you can set aside the emotion responses and let this sink in, you will see that it is a very reasonable approach, while we are left here on earth to fend for ourselves under the rulership of Satan and his Demons. . When we look and listen to the descriptions of Hell that the Churches teach,, from their pulpits, it is really a terrifying place that no one in their right minds would want to go. The description of being in a place without water, with heat and fire all around, the misery and despair of everyone there, the pain and the suffering and the torments and proddings of the demonic angels, to me it all sounds like the ovens of Germany, the killing fields of Cambodia, the jungles and napalm of Vietnam, the shores of Normandy, the battle fields of the American civil war. The descriptions of hell by Christendom perfectly match what Satan and his Demons do every single day for the last six thousand years, not underneath the surface of the earth, but right on the very top in plane view of every one, including the giver of life.

What we learned today was this, that the bible is very clear on who the ruler of the governments on earth is, and who is not. To link Jehovah or His son Jesus to the political systems of earth, I cannot even imagine a more disgusting, despicable thing that could be said about them. To think for one moment, that with all of their power, if they were in control of the governments on earth, that they would allow, the killing fields of Cambodia, the drug wars of Mexico and South Central, the atrocities of Germany, and the vaporization of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the Civil War of hundreds of countries, the Inquisitions, the Crusades, Ireland, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, the workings of the Taliban, you get the point, this list could go on for days. These crimes against humanity are done by a person that is the sworn enemy of Jehovah, His son Jesus and all of mankind that has ever lived. Why, with all of his power does God allow this??? The Bible also gives a clear and easy to understand answer to that question. Notice how simple and easy to understand the scriptures are that we have learned already, this question likewise has an answer. We will be discussing it as well as other topics that demand attention, but first I must answer a question for someone extreemly important to me, which is the reason for this recent group of writings. The question is, ” Why is it that Christians do not celebrate holidays? ” It might be a stretch for you to imagine what all of this body of writing has to do with the celebration of holidays, but if you will continue to follow along, and add each days knowledge to your portfolio, it will all fit together, in an indisputable, unquestionable collage of scriptures that will serve you not only as a reference for the origin of holidays but are useful bible truths for teaching, and setting things straight on many other questions as well. Notice so far, in everything that we have talked about, how simple and easy to understand the bible truly is, when we simply take God at his word, and not try to fabricate explanations of what we think God might have meant, instead of just believing him at his word. All of the things we will talk about will be just like that, promise, simple, easy, straight forward, no mistaking it for anything else. So where I am headed with all of this current writing is to explain why a Christian, would never celebrate holidays, but along with that explanation, look how much we are learning about other things as well. If you are honest with yourself, you know that the things that you have picked up here you have not heard of or been taught these things in the churches you have went to your entire life. Your Church did not teach you that this government belongs to Satan, but you clearly see that that is exactly what the Bible teaches, and in no way can anyone brush it off as a translation error, it is clear and unmistakable. Look at the facts, don’t be blinded by emotional belief systems, look at all of the evidence at your disposal, you cannot erase all of the historical facts, and come away from the examination table with the conclusion that the Bible is wrong. It is Satan and his angels that mislead mankind to commit these atrocities against each other, only a madman, an insane man, a blasphemous man, could believe and teach the God or his Son, had any part in mans wars at all. They promise to end them. Be there, on their side, instead of death on the battlefield, they will offer you everlasting life.

Even though mankind does not want to know about God, they cannot deny their desire too. Mankind was designed ( even if you feel that you designed yourself, as your own body AND higher power ) to acknowledge a higher power, and there is not one single group of people on planet earth, that does not have some sort of religious belief system. It is a part of the human psyche, and as much in need of satisfaction as all other cravings of life, food, water, breath, sexuality, companionship. These things must be satisfied in the human. Absent of accurate knowledge of the higher power, mankind has set out on it’s own to create an endless number of higher powers to direct their reverence toward. Indian gods alone run into the millions. Without God’s guidance, direction and interaction, mankind began to form belief systems that would appease themselves. The entire idea of religion was never God’s idea, it was never a thought in his mind that someone would ever stand up toe to toe against him and call him a liar to his very face, there was not a need for any religion at that point, Jehovah was the Supreme Sovereign of the universe and their was no question about it in anyone’s mind. Eventually we will get back to that point, and when we do this subject of religion will be that of John Lennon’s song. Once again, and still, Jehovah, will be, and is, the Supreme Sovereign of the universe, and there will be no religious beliefs to contest that. . A return to worship of Jehovah began right outside the garden of Eden when Abel offered up to Jehovah firstlings of his flock. Cain offered up fruit. Jehovah looked favorably upon Abel’s offering the Bible tells us at Genesis 4:4. Because of this Cain killed him, the first murder over religious beliefs, after our first parents of course. Satan got them murdered, even though they did not die that moment, they did die within the day that Second Peter 3: 8 tells us “However, let this one fact not be escaping your notice beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” Adam died at 930 years, Genesis 5:5. . This was not an offering contest set up by Jehovah, he despises a competitive spirit. There was not a requirement for any sacrificial display for either person or any other human for that mater at that time. Cain was counseled to calm down, get a grip, Abel is not hurting you or anyone else, let this go, I merely appreciate his efforts, you on the other hand brought me a banana, and that’s nice, but we do not have to go to war over this, relax. Cain couldn’t, and let it fester until he killed his baby brother, and over what? False religious ideology, a belief system that God told him, did not exist. Cain believed something in his own mind that was not true to satiate his desire to please God. This is important to understand so let us read the entire account, word for word beginning at Genesis 4:1-7, ” Now Adam had intercourse with Eve his wife and she became pregnant. In time she gave birth to Cain and said; ” I have produced a man with the aid of Jehovah.” Later she again gave birth, to his brother Abel. And Abel came to be a herder of sheep, but Cain became a cultivator of the ground. And it came about at the expiration of some time that Cain proceeded to bring some fruits of the ground as an offering to Jehovah. But as for Abel, he too brought some firstlings of his flock, even their fatty pieces. Now while Jehovah was looking with favor upon Abel and his offering, he did not look with favor upon Cain and upon his offering. And Cain grew hot with great anger, and his countenance began to fall. At this Jehovah said to Cain; ” Why are you hot with anger and why has your countenance fallen? If you turn to doing good, will their not be an exaltation? But if you do not turn to doing good, there is sin crouching at the entrance, and for you is it’s craving; and will you, for your part, get the mastery over it? ” Cain didn’t get the mastery over his anger and he lead his brother off and killed him over his false beliefs. Notice all of the wording there, where Jehovah was trying to reason with Cain, but Cains belief system had such control over him, that to even save his own life, he could not control his blind rage over a belief that did not even exist. Jehovah was appealing to him, to do good and turn back from sin. We can be assured that Satan was crouching there with Cain in his cross-hairs. . Eve gave birth to another son, she mentioned, ” to replace Abel, because Cain killed him.” She named him Seth. Seth had a son who was named Enosh, and at Genesis 4; 26 we read ” At that time a start was made of calling on the name of Jehovah.”. So by the 4th chapter of Genesis mankind turns his attention to the true God, Jehovah, with a desire to serve him, and to be obedient to him, they began to listen to Jehovah.

The Bible has a scripture that says, ” To the making of books there is no end. ” Ecclesiastes 12:12. So when we, in our virtual minds, view the collective libraries of the world, over the eons, we still find that the Bible is the only book on earth that points out the cause of the human condition, some of the results of it, and the final solution to all of the problems that have been afflicted upon mankind, including the eradication of death itself, and a return to life of those who have fallen asleep in death. This is the only book that explains how we got into this mess and how we are going to get out of it. Sounds easy when we put the cause and solution in one sentence like I just did. The truth of the matter is that getting all of mankind into this mess was caused by disobedience, getting us out of this mess is going to require obedience. Let us assume for a moment, that we would all like to get out of the mess that the earth and mankind are in right now, that we want to stop dying, and that we want to see our dead ones come back to life, how do we do that? By being obedient to the person who is the giver of life. You might be saying to yourself, ” OK I am game, what do I do to be obedient to the giver of life, so that I have it, and once again it is returned to my fallen loved ones? ” The only book on earth that teaches all of us about the creator and sustainer of all life, both in heaven and on earth, is the Bible. There are some wonderful books that guide us through that literary masterpiece we know as the Holy Scriptures, but, they are just that guides. But they are also invaluable as guides in understanding the scriptures, but it is the Bible itself that they are teaching us about, and the bible is the key to our understanding how life got this way, and when and how it will get better. . At Hebrews 5:8 we read, ” Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered; and after he had been made perfect he became responsible for everlasting salvation to those obeying him,” this scripture was about Jesus. Read this scripture carefully, think about what it says, ponder over it. While you are pondering this scripture, I am going to highlight some points for you to think about with it’s consideration. 1. Notice the scripture says that Jesus was a ” SON ” not the Almighty God. 2. He learned obedience from the things he suffered. He had to learn obedience. Did you catch that point? He was faced with such overwhelming obstacles that no other human or spirit creature before or since has ever faced, and obedience was crucial to the success of his mission, the gaining back of human life, and the vindication of his fathers great name. 3. Once again, He learned obedience through the things he suffered. Our obedience will also come through our suffering. This point is off topic at the moment, but think about it as your life goes on, one of the reasons for God allowing mankind to go on with their lives after the rebellion at the garden of Eden, is that through our suffering, we will learn obedience. Because we have suffered, and learned from it, if any such or similar suggestion of being disobedient to God comes up at any time in our everlasting future, because of the experience of our suffering, we will forever more be obedient to God in every way. For 6,000 years mankind has been disobedient to God, it hasn’t went that well for me, how about you? 4. He became, ( Jesus ), responsible for the everlasting salvation to those obeying him. There it is again, that everlasting salvation was contingent upon our obedience to him. 5. Jesus became the responsible person for our everlasting salvation. First, notice that salvation without end, everlasting, was possible, if we remain obedient to him. 6. Remember the scriptures we read in earlier writings, ” This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you , the only true God and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.” 7. So to be obedient, we need to know what we are supposed to be obedient too !!!!! Right? Doesn’t that make sense? So we must take in that knowledge about God and his Son, and the book that we find that knowledge in, is the Bible, that is our book of reference, to learn about our creator, and what he expects of us. 8. God told Jesus what were the requirements to remain faithful and obedient to him. In turn Jesus told us, what was required of us, to be faithful and obedient as well. Remember in the previous writing we mentioned a scripture at Matthew 28: 19,20 ” Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things. ” 9. This was a command by Christ, something he told us to do, and to be obedient, we need to do this as he said we must. Notice what the command was, ” Go therefore to all the nations” . The commands that Jesus gave to the original disciples, was to be taught to others and then spread to the entire inhabited earth as we read in Matthew 24: 14, ” And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” 10. The message that was to be carried to the entire inhabited earth contained the things that Jesus commanded to the disciples to preach. What were those things commanded? Well the apostles wrote them down, so that there would be no guess work or confusion, and we find those things in the Christian Greek Scriptures. And we will begin to talk about those things soon. 11. Notice one more thing about obedience in this scripture. It says that Jesus learned obedience, as if he necessarily needed to be obedient to someone with greater power than himself. If Jesus were God Almighty, like Christendom teaches that he is, why would he need to be obedient to anyone? If he was God Almighty, like all of the religions in the World Council of Churches teach, how could he ever learn obedience, and who would he need to be obedient too ???? Why would God ever need to be obedient to anyone other than himself. ????? . The very first thing that we need to learn about being obedient to God, is to stop arguing with him about everything he says, which is exactly what Christendom does, they argue with God about every word out of his mouth. This is no way to be obedient. One way for us to learn obedience to God is to begin to listen to him, and believe in what he says, not what we think he said, not what we want to believe he said, but to actually begin to think and believe that God is not confused about himself, but that he means just what he says. . The Bible is very clear, Jesus made it very clear, that he was the Son of God, and that he HAD a Father, he never said at any time that he WAS the Father. The Father said to John the Babtist when Jesus was baptized, from the heavens he said, ” This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved!!” The voice from heaven did not say, to John the baptist, ” This is me, God, I have approved of myself, for you to baptize me, in my own name !! How ridiculous does that sound and it makes no sense at all does it. To continue to spread lies about God and his Son Jesus Christ from the pulpits across this country and around the world is no way for mankind to find favor with God. Calling God and his Son liars to their face by saying that they are not who they claim to be, is not a sign of submitting to obedience.

The Bible !!! Of all of the books ever written, why should a person give this particular book any importance ? Why does this book even matter ? Why do I need to know the information it contains, what does this book have to do with me ? There are many things contained within the writings of this book that are unique to it and found in no other. The first thing that bears mention is that the Bible is not in any way a book of fiction, it contains only information that has real meaning and value. . In every human ( even if only to, or within themselves ), in every tribe, in every culture, in every land, there is this recognition of a higher power, and an unquenchable desire to know and understand that higher power.The Bible is the only book, that explains, why that is, and how that happened, how it can be satiated now, and when it will be satisfied completely. . Every human wants to know their family, all of them. We want to know about our family that came before us. The craving for familial ties is most frequently drowned out, by the complexities of our modern lives, where times of pause and reflection are extremely restricted, by the mundane pressures of simple survival. But for those who have an interest in their family, the Bible is the only book, that traces our family roots back to our first parents. . In the past 100 years man has had more social interaction with other cultures in the world, in the driest deserts, the highest mountains, the most distant islands, the deepest forest. One common thread exist among all of them, they all have similar stories to tell of their tribes beginnings, of the first human pair in a beautiful garden where even the animals were at peace, and a flood of water that covered the earth. The Bible is the only book that explains the origin of these events. . The Bible is the only book in all of the history of man, including up to our present day, that contains prophecy. Prophecy is a foretelling of future events, that have yet to occur. God does not scare us by surprising us with catastrophic events without a warning, and a pathway to safety. In every case, like Amos 3:7 says, he does not do anything unless he reveals his confidential matters to his servants the prophets. Noah preached for forty years that it was going to rain, the people were warned, they could of got on the boat, instead they just laughed. There does not even exist one societal group of people on earth who do not have that reality passed on to them by their forefathers. It bears mention here that a biblical prophecy is being fulfilled in our own time, and you are witnesses to it, you are seeing it with your own eyes, and you are hearing it with your own ears, and just like in the days of Noah, most people would not and did not listen to the message and take refuge in the ark that God was providing for them. In the case of the current Bible prophecy under fulfillment as we speak, there is as always a provision by God for the safety of man, should any want. The prophecy under fulfillment in our modern times is extreemly unique, it’s fulfillment is contained within its proclamation. The prophecy is this, Jesus was sitting on the mount of Olives in Jerusalem and his disciples approached him and asked him point blank, “Tell us when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things.” At Mather chapter 24: 14 we read, ” And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth, for a witness to all of the nations, and then the end will come” This was written by Mathew in Palestine and completed in the year 41, almost 2000 years ago. Today, you are witnessing its fulfillment. There is only one group of people on earth today who make the claim, that it is only with the establishment of Gods Kingdom on earth, that the issues plaguing mankind will be resolved. We all know who they are, their is no question in the minds of anyone left on earth, who does not recognize who it is that bring the message of God’s kingdom right to your very door. 2000 years ago Jesus promised this day would come, and right before your eyes it is happening, this message that Jesus promised that would be delivered to all people of the earth, is indeed being delivered to your own very door, how are you responding to it? Do you find yourself, saying, ” I am just not interested in God’s kingdom” ? This kingdom message that Jesus said would be preached to the entire inhabited earth would have an end, did you catch that part? ” And then the end will come” as in the days of Noah, there would come a time when the rain would begin to fall, by that time, the people would have made their choice. The Bible tells us that God himself, closed the door to the Ark. Today is no different, Jesus said, As in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man” This welcoming that is being extended to mankind of aligning themselves with Gods Kingdom will not go on forever, it will have an end. You have already experienced what it is like to live under the rulership of Satan’s kingdoms, why not give God a chance? . The most famous man in all of history had his story told first in Scripture. His arrival upon the earth was prophesied, the activities he would perform on earth was prophesied, his lineage from which he would be born was prophesied, and even his death was prophesied, this Jesus whom you impaled. The greatest man who ever lived had his story written about him in one of earths oldest book. No other book could make that claim. He is the most controversial person who ever walked earth, wars have been fought in his name, a man who spoke of little but peace. Nations have been built upon his name, but he himself said he was no part of this world, and that all governments and kingdoms of this world, did not belong to him, but belonged to the wicked one. He said ” The entire world is laying in the power of the wicked one” 1 John 5:19. John 14:30 says ” The ruler of the world is Satan. The Bible is very clear, that the governments of this world have nothing to do with Gods Kingdom in any way, except in one very important aspect, and that is found at Daniel chapter 2: 44 and it reads ” And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin, it will crush and put an end to all of these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite” . Yes God’s kingdom will destroy all of the kingdoms of the earth, because, as Jesus said, all of these kingdoms in reality belong to Satan. Notice, that there was not a man made government singled out as being different from the rest, Jesus said all of the world, Daniel said all of the kingdoms would be destroyed, only Gods kingdom would be left over, and it would remain forever. Here is where you might want to ask yourself a question, how much support should I be giving to a nation that God promises to destroy? And you can rest assured that God is not going to ” Bless ” any nation that he promises to destroy. Keep in mind this very important point, Jesus promised that sometime during the period of time that the preaching work was being done to the entire inhabited earth, the end would come for the kingdoms of the world, and his kingdom would rule over the earth without end. It would behoove all of us to pledge our allegiance to the kingdom who through example offers us life, rather than a kingdom who marches us into the battlefields of death, ruled over by Satan according to Jesus and the entire scriptures. There is no scriptural support for any other view, other than, the person who created this earth and all that is in it, is the only one who has the right to rule over it. The Bible is the only book that informs us that the real ruler of the kingdoms on earth is Satan himself. No mater how much our political leaders want to order God around, by telling him to bless this and bless that, the bible is very clear, no earthly government has anything to do with God, all of them belong to Satan, all of them. Revelation 12:9 ” Devil and Satan who is misleading the entire inhabited earth” . So why is the bible important to you? Right now you are in the middle of a bible prophecy that was spoken about by the most famous person who ever lived, 2000 years ago, that should strengthen your faith a little. If you were to take just a few moments of time, you could also Google to find out that every single other prophecy that the Bibles spoke came true as well, in great detail. So if you can prove all of the past and current prophecies were fulfilled, that could result in the building up of your faith that the prophecies that are in the very near future will without a doubt also be fulfilled. Why is that important to all of us? . It is important because it means our lives, just that simple, whether we live or die. The kingdoms of the earth are being reserved for destruction just as soon as God decides that the preaching work about his kingdom is complete to his satisfaction, and all of those who would want to submit themselves to his kingdom rule, are doing just that. Those that have decided that they will take their stand alongside the nations of the earth, against God’s Kingdom, will get their wish and rewards of those actions, or even inaction. At Noah’s flood, if you wanted to live, you got on the Ark. Notice that God did not offer to build separate Arks, for each person, so likewise, God does not have a divided kingdom today. God’s kingdom is unified, it is one organization. . The Bible tells us all we need to know about the actions we need to take to meet Gods approval to become under the protective umbrella of his kingdom power. But notice the wording I used, ” We need to know ” If you did not know what the Ark was, or even where it was you could not get on it even if you wanted to. God knows that. And in his loving way, as always, throughout this entire world, all at the same time, all with the exact same message, he brings what you need to know, right to your very door. Your invitation to get on that modern day Ark, is being delivered to your own home, listen to it, head the invitation to learn about this modern day ark, then get on it. To do that, knowledge is required, at John 17:3 says,” This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you have sent forth, Jesus Christ.” So to receive everlasting life we must first submit ourselves to taking in knowledge of God and of the Christ. The opportunity to do that very thing, is delivered to your door and is always offered for free. Read that scripture carefully to extract the true and complete meaning of it. Taking in knowledge, is a requirement for life under gods kingdom. If you are the type of person that has what the bible refers to as an ” Unteachable spirit ” you need to check that at the door, this is not a program for debate, where you get to tell God how things are, this is an opportunity for you to sit down and listen and learn the things that you do not know, and have not been taught, so that you may acquire the knowledge that is required before you may gain life in Gods kingdom. Life in Gods kingdom is conditional, knowledge is required, it is not an option. Adam and Eve thought that they could go it alone without God, don’t you make that same mistake. . So ok how is this done? By Jesus remaining faithful to his Father, all the way to his very death, the Keys of Gods Kingdom were handed over to him, and he could begin to build and establish God’s Kingdom toward the earth by first gathering willing obedient subjects that would submit to doing all that they could to develop and advance the Kingdom of God. We mentioned earlier how these loyal subjects of God’s Kingdom would faithfully preach about this kingdom to the entire world. What would they preach about? At Mathew chapter 28:18,19,20 we read this, ” And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: ” All authority has been given me. In heaven and on the earth. Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things. So the commission of the disciples that Jesus gave them was this, make disciples of people of all the nations, and ” Teaching them all of the things that I have commanded you” So the preaching work was commissioned by Christ to be expanded to the entire world, and those people that listen to that teaching of Christ would become his disciples as well. But noticed that these people of all the nations would be taught the things that Jesus taught his original disciples, they were not to claim that they were Christ’s disciples and go out and teach whatever they wanted, whether it was true or not, no, they were instructed to teach the teachings that Christ taught them, not their own ideas, but the teachings of Jesus Christ. We all must make sure that the things we are taught and believe have provable scriptural support. Willfully believing lies about God, caused Adam and Eve to loose their lives. If you willfully believe and practice things that you know to be untrue and lies about God, you will also fall out of favor with God, and maintaining blind ignorance will not find you favor with God either, remember, it is knowledge about God that gets you life, failure to learn about God will not reward your life in any way. When God sends his disciples to your door for the expressed purpose of teaching you about him, and you tell Gods disciples that you are not interested in learning about Him, well, let’s just say that it is raining, and that is not the first step to take toward the ark. Steadfastly refusing to learn about God will result in Gods disapproval, not the best place to be standing. . Learning about the Bible can lead to life everlasting, without end, that is the reason that the Bible is so important to you. No other book can do this for you, none, do not be mislead, by the force that is misleading the entire inhabited earth, there is only one book that can guide you to everlasting life, if you submit to being taught about it by Gods disciple, because that is the way that Jesus set it up, to be obedient to him, we must do things the way that he instructs us, and that is that we are taught by his disciples and then we in turn go out and teach others what the Christ taught us, so that we all have the exact same teacher, and we learn the exact things that he taught us, we do not teach something that Christ did not teach us, it is enough to learn the truth about god from his son Jesus Christ, let us never mix those teachings with the teachings of Gods enemy Satan the Devil. ,

Some one messaged me about my posting yesterday and were not sure whether or not I was one of those people who believed that God created all life but was incapable of writing a book. I want to assure everyone, that I believe every word spoken in the scriptures was inspired of God, it could not of been written any other way. Almost without fail in discussing the bible with people, they believe that the bible was written for them to interpret any way that they wanted to. They are at liberty to mix and match the verses in any way that might please them, the ones that they disagree with they are at liberty to ignore, and ignore they do, from the very first words to the very last words, they ignore what the bible has to say. From the platforms of Churches around the world, Preachers build entire religious systems, from thoughts and ideologies, that they claim are found in the Bible, but the truth of the matter is, not even a hint of that doctrine is found in the Bible, not one word of it. So they mislead people to believe their entire lives in things that God never said at all, and what is perhaps even worse, they teach that it is only the preacher you should listen to, because the Bible has been altered, mistranslated, , it is not in its original form, that is not the original copy, so it cannot be trusted, it has been translated so many times that it cannot possible be correct, so there is no need for you to even read it, and don’t even try to understand it, it is way to complicated, and you do not understand Hebrew or Greek anyway so you could never understand the original meaning of the Bible. In pews around the world, the Bible is almost never referenced to, there is no encouragement to bring your own copy and look up the cited text and the speaker actually wait until he hears the pages quite turning before he begins to read the cited text. At one time in the world if you were caught by the Catholic Church reading a Bible, or owning one, or even having one in your home, you would be executed. What is it about the Bible that causes men to be so afraid of it’s contents ? Why is it that they refuse to accept the things that it says, even when they read the words themselves. And why is it that they cling to teaching that are not even mentioned in the Bible, and most of their teachings, the Bibles counsel is in direct opposition to those teachings. I once showed my aunt Gods name in her own coffee table size Bible, and the comment was to me, ” Well, I don’t know how that got in there. ” The answer to all of life’s most perplexing problems are found in the pages of that most wonderful of all books. Different than all other books, not one word is fiction, it either did happen or it is going to happen. God had this book penned to introduce himself to man as their father. And as a father would, he would write to his children in ways that they could understand and relate to. He would write to them about things that he really wanted them to know about. Sometimes when we are young in the world, we have a hard time understanding the things our parents are telling us, only when they are gone do we begin to long to hear even one simple word spoken from their mouths. We can develop a longing for Gods word, beginning with the very first of them. For as long as I am able, I will continue to guide you through this, the greatest book that was ever written, all the while directing you to those that taught me.

If you are a person who still bows down to worship stones, than this posting is probably not going to make much sense to you. If you are also a person who believes that those ants that you are stepping on, in your garden and on your sidewalk, are your relatives that have passed on to another life form and are working their way through penance up the evolutionary chain, and are their protecting you, you putting them to death again is only helping to speed their progression along, once again this posting will only confuse you. Whenever I speak with someone about the Bible or about our creator, almost always one particular argument is raised. When we look across the expanse of this magnificent universe in its infinite array that appears to go on forever with out end, expanded in all directions, and how perfectly it is organized, how precisely it moves, so accurate that we are able to predict interstellar positions out to the billions of years. And all of it, it does in absolute silence. The current scientific community seems to be all in agreement, that the position of the earth in relation to the other planets and our sun, has remained constant for 4.5 Billion years, ( their numbers not mine.) (could even be longer, we do not know.) How perfectly the position of our sun and our moon are in relationship to our earth, they are exactly where they need to be, any closer or any farther away, would have devastating results for the earth. The physical benefits that both of these heavenly bodies provide for the earth are so numerous that they are still to this very day being discovered. It would not be unreasonable to conclude, that a catastrophic occurrence at the galactic level could have far reaching effects upon the entire universe, but fortunately, it is all held in perfect order, under construction, yes, a little saw dust, yes, the creative process we are told does not cease. Our upper atmosphere is a very effective vacuum cleaner. How perfect the heavenly bodies all properly positioned in perfect harmony to exact the most good, but especially the relationship between the earth, the moon and the sun. The relationship of these heavenly bodies allows life to flourish on earth. The earth seems to of, in some way, either was deliberately designed to support life, or it spontaneously generated itself to support life, either way we can agree that supreme intelligence was needed to make it all come together so perfectly. Either someone pretty smart and powerful made it, or the earth itself was pretty smart and powerful and made itself, but we all can agree that earth has a pretty intelligent design no matter who made it. ( in case you are wondering, I believe our creator of this entire universe also made the earth ) When we look around us, we see this magnificent planet teaming with life, life in such array and abundance both past and present, that we still have not cataloged its variety to this very day. And when we look into the sea, scientist are claiming that we have only perhaps discovered 2% of the seas variety of species. Upon examination and investigation of any life form on earth, even what is deemed the simplest forms, scientist are still baffled and amazed at the complex structure and organization, of life’s simplest components. Even a blade of grass contains thousands of pages of DNA codes, and a blade of grass is so precisely constructed that it never replicates itself to become anything else but a blade of grass. As with all species of life on earth, they all only replicate within that species. An orange never converts itself into an apple. A potato never becomes a carrot A crow never becomes an owl And contrary to what our schools teach our children, that frog that swims out of our ponds, does not crawl off into the bushes and change itself into a creature resembling Halle Berry or Sandra Bullock or Brad Pit. A frog never becomes anything but a frog. Speaking of Sandra Bullock, what a magnificently beautiful creature she is, how perfectly she is formed in every way. When we study and investigate and research the human body, what most thinking scientist and doctors all agree on is that this life form is no accident, this life form did not self generate out of the midst of a gigantic explosion. We have never been able to demonstrate that detonated charges of several tons, results in the formation of beautiful well constructed buildings completely equipped with elaborate infrastructures and equipped for all of the business it was formed for. Usually what happens when we set off an explosive charge of C-4 into a building it results in a pile of rubble, never once has a beautiful well constructed building been the result of blowing one up. And even in the desert when explosive charges have been set off, by the millions, both by scientist and the military, not even one single example of any life form has been generated from those examples, indeed what has always been the result of such explosions, is the destruction of life, not the creation of it. The big bang theory, says that all matter in the universe, established itself as we find it today, including all life on earth, with all of the reproductive abilities of each kind intact and completely functional. Those believing this are the same ones who prostrate themselves before wood and stone gods that they themselves have made, perhaps praying that one of them will blow itself up and assemble the resulting rubble into that new home and car they have been dreaming of. The ability of all life on earth to perform its intended design is astonishing and astounding in ever way. King David remarked in a scripture, ” How wonderfully I am made” When I am able to walk across a room with a cup of coffee and not spill a drop, when I am driving down a freeway at seventy miles an hour and all of the other cars are going the same speed all turning with the road in unison, all slowing at the same time when needed, when a surgeon can apply his collective knowledge in an operation to restore a human brain to proper function, the workings of the human body astound me every day of my life I am in awe of this crowning creative achievement, “and then he rested” When we research and study the DNA codes, the gnomes of life, I wonder how far into space that code would reach, if every stream of code were placed end to end of every life form that has ever been formed on earth. And if that could be even imagined, just to think that each particle of that code of all DNA would have to remain in that same position to be that particular life form. Well sometimes in my discussions with people about God and Creation, they completely agree that he did all of these magnificent things. Created the universe, earth and all life in it, Create all of the languages that we speak, but the person who had the intelligence and power to do all of things, was not capable of himself, nor could he oversee the writing of a BOOK.

You are never going to learn about God going to the schools of Gods enemy. 2 Corinthians 11: 13,14,15, says, ” For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps transforming himself into an angel of light. It is therefore nothing great if his ministers also keep transforming themselves into ministers of righteousness. But their end shall be according to their works. “

You might think that I am way out of line here, that this could never happen, well let us straighten this out right now, it has happened already, hundreds of times, perhaps thousands of times.  Islam, was blamed for attacking America, 4000 died or have you forgotten already, but beyond that, thousands of business went down and lost with those buildings and all that those buildings contained. What kinds of records and memorabilia do you keep in your office. You say that America would never go after a religion? You have got your head in the sand. The United States went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, Islamic countries, both governments ran by Muslims, Islam is a religion. We are staring down Syria as we speak. Mexico kicked out the Catholic Church once upon a time. Russia kicked out all so called Christen faiths. So the world already has a history of Political nations going after religious systems, so before you offer up your denials, check the facts first, I already told you that I was not going to offer up anything that you could not verify, so before you criticize me, verify it for yourself. That is the entire reason that I feel that this is necessary at this moment, because people are just like lambs led to the slaughter, they just believe anything they are told, I do not want you to do that, I want you to check it out, that way you will know for sure, for yourself. My contention is this, that this time it is different, mankind is positioned and ready for this event in Syria, and Arab Spring to spread to other religions besides Islam, it is time for this to happen, it may not happen with Syria right now, no one knows, not me, not anyone, but the stage is set for the conflict that is engulfing all of the continent of Africa to blow up and explode to engulf other religious conflicts with governments as well. Something happens, we do not know exactly what, that causes all of the religions on earth to become embroiled with their governments.

Back to the next three prophesies spoken of in the Bible to be fulfilled in chronological order. 1. The collective man made governments, or kingdoms, of the earth wake up out of their drunken stupor from drinking from the cup of Religion, and all together, at one time, move against the religions of the earth and are successful at destroying them. This shocks the world, wondering how this was even possible, but it happens none the less. This happens very fast in historical terms. Removing the yoke of oppression from the necks of man, that has dominated them since Cain and Abel spirals the earth into chaos. 2. The vacuum left behind caused by the absence of religious restraint plummets the world into the worst tribulation that the world has experienced and will never happen again. This tribulation will be so bad that the Bible tells us that unless God were to step in and stop it, no one would survive it. But He does step in to stop it so that the people he has chosen out from among mankind will survive and go on living. 3. God will step in and stop the great tribulation by the scripture at Daniel 2:44 , ” And in the days of those kings the God of Heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin, And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people, It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it it self will stand to times indefinite. ” The kingdom of God will never again have its authority released to any other people. Man will never again rule over man, we have all experienced the result of that. Now I will give the scriptural reinforcement for those comments. All of this happens in a relatively short period of time after the man made governments move against the religious systems. The urgency in my writing to you is this. While the Bible is very clear, that no one knows the day and hour that these things are going to begin, we were given signs to look for when it was about to happen. Only God says when to set these things in motion, but he always warns us when he is about to do something. As we speak the nations of the earth are posturing against religion with military force, this has happened before, and it is happening again, soon the nations get tired of this game, and they figure out what the score is, and end it once and for all. If there was a tortuous hell, it is on the surface of this earth, and religion has been the rack master. the most horrible atrocities imaginable have been committed against man at the hands of religion, eventually, man figures this out, and does something about it.

If you have chosen not to be interested in knowing what God’s name is, or that he even has one, why on earth should He want to know yours either.