FUTURE WORLD

THE ENEMY WITHIN

"A nation can survive its' fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor--He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation--he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city--he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."(Emphasis mine)

Cicero, 42 B.C., Roman Statesman, orator, and author.

The "Wise Men" have all the bases covered.

Don't be deceived!

Steve

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REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY AND ISRAEL

From Hope For The World Update we learn the devastating effects of Replacement Theology(1)

During the last two decades a strong disdain for Israel has taken hold on our country. The growing acceptance of Replacement Theology, I believe, is one of the key reasons for America's changing views.

Replacement Theologians believe that God is forever finished working with or through the physical nation Israel. They maintain that any references to Israel in the New Testament are strictly allegorical and are intended to mean the church - the collective body of Christian believers wherever they may be in the world - which has replaced Israel.

If we begin to doubt the validity of the bible then where do we draw the line? What is true and what is allegory? We must look to God's word for the answer. It is found in the book of Psalms.

"As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless." Psalm 18:30 NIV (emphasis mine). Since God tells us his word is flawless we need not concern ourselves with determining what is allegory. He tells us it is all true.

To argue their point they [replacement theologians] cite well known passages such as Colossians 3:11 and Galations 3:26-29 which state that Jewish and Gentile believers are all one in Christ and are Abraham's seed. While some New Testament passages such as Romans 11: 25-29 and Ephesians 3:6 make reference to an Israel composed only of Abraham's literal offspring.

Context is the key to understanding passages of scripture.

Upon examining the Old Testament it becomes clear that many prophecies concerning "physical Israel" had not yet been fulfilled when the Church era began. Since the Bible is never wrong we must therefore conclude that these prophecies must be fulfilled prior to the second coming of Christ. One example is found in Isaiah 11:11-12. Isaiah prophesied:

Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the the islands of the sea. And He will lift up a standard for the nations, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.(emphasis in original)

This passage reveals that there would be not one, but two regatherings of the Jewish people. The return to Jerusalem of a remnant from Babylonian captivity in 535 B.C. represented the first regathering. In it, the dispersed of Judah were not brought back from "the four corners of the earth." The second regathering - which is global in scope - began in the last century and is still in progress. It has been visible for all to see.

Amazingly, replacement theologians believe that the re-establishment of Israel in our times is either a huge coincidence or the result of a plot by the Jews to rule the world from there. The possibility of physical Israel somehow fitting into God's sovereign plan for the endtimes is dismissed as nonsense.

Such widely respected apologists such as R.C. Sproul, J.I. Packer and Hank Hanegraff are squarely in the replacement camp. Other prolific authors from Robert Schuller and Rick Warren to D. James Kennedy and John Piper have for the most part side-stepped the issue, leading many to believe they too have embraced replacement teachings.

With the exception of several prominent Christian voices such as Pastor Chuck Smith - founder of Calvary Chapel, David Jeremiah of Turning Point and authors like Dave Hunt and Hal Lindsey, few Christian leaders are willing to tackle the subject of Israel from the literal biblical perspective. Why? It may be because it is politically incorrect to do so, and they will experience strenuous peer pressure if they put themselves on the line in this regard.

Replacement Theology has been taught for centuries by the the Roman Catholic Church.(emphasis mine) By the late 1800's, however with the call for a Jewish homeland gaining serious consideration, Bible believing Christians began to study the prophecies of scripture with a new vigor. They began to realize that the unfulfilled Old Testament prophecies concerning Israel - which had long been explained away as being allegorical - could in fact be fulfilled literally.

However, by the 1980's Replacement Theology began to make a comeback. Ever since, as the concept of unification with Catholicism has grown in popularity, more Evangelicals each year have climbed aboard Catholicism's replacement bandwagon. Today, it is actually fashionable in some "Christian" circles to degrade and denounce Israel and the Jews. These developments are very reminiscent of the days preceding the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany.

But even the most hardcore adherents to replacement teachings would have to agree that the manner in which Jewish settlers were removed from Gaza in August was deplorable. More than 8,000 Jews from 21 settlements were forced from their homes. The victims included women, children, and the elderly - everyone! Within several days of being evicted, their houses were leveled to the ground to ensure they would have no reason to return. Even the graves of their deceased loved ones were dug up and the bodies removed. Animals in most parts of the world, are not treated with such cruelty.

Yet, most of the international community - including many professing Christians - silently looked on as the Jews were forcefully extracted. Some political and religious heads went so far as to applaud these efforts.

And now we get to the main point of Gary Kah's article which in my view is: Who is behind this atrocity?

Gary States:

Along with some of the leaders in the Bush Administration, the parties most responsible for pushing the Gaza withdrawal were the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Vatican, the World Council of Churches [they should be most ashamed of all the groups listed, italics mine], and Europe's top leaders, along with various Islamic terrorist groups and Arab organizations. It is worth pointing out that these are the very same groups we have been exposing for years because of their involvement in promoting the one-world agenda. This fact alone should cause my replacement theology friends to reconsider their position. It seems clear that Satan is the one who is mobilizing the world against Israel.(emphasis mine)

Had the Palestinian people been removed from their villages in a similar fashion, you can rest assured there would have been deafening outcries from every part of the globe. In fact, such actions against the Palestinians would have probably triggered World War III. But because these victims were Jews, hardly anyone lifted a finger in their defense. Isn't interesting how history keeps repeating itself?

Israel: America's Blessing or Curse?

Sadly, it was the Bush administration - under pressure from the international community - that led the way in forcing Jews from Gaza. To ensure that Jewish soldiers would obey orders to remove their own people, the US quietly stationed special military troops in Israel. (Most Americans were unaware of this fact as none of our media covered this development). Thus it was ultimately the US that was responsible for the evacuation of Gaza.(emphasis and italics mine)

This is a sad day for America. Can God's judgment be far behind?

On Monday, August 22, the last Jewish settlement in Gaza was evacuated... The next day, August 23, the day after the completion of the Gaza evacuation, the government of the Bahamas issued a tropical storm warning for central and northwestern Bahamas...By Wednesday, August 24, the newly formed tropical depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Katrina; and by Thursday, August 25 at 5 pm, Katrina became a hurricane. In a period of only 72 hours, tropical depression 11 developed and hit southeast Florida ... as a hurricane.(2)

Conclusion

Throughout history God has severely judged those nations and empires that have opposed or plotted against His people Israel. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, and Rome, as well as, The Third Reich of Nazi Germany were all brought low, at least in part, because of their treatment of God's chosen people.

In Genesis 12:3 God declares, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee." Contrary to the teaching of Replacement Theology this promise of God still holds true today, because it came attached to an everlasting[italics in original] covenant, and God will not go back on His word. The Lord's promise to Abraham is recorded in Genesis 17:7-8:

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. [emphasis in original].

God clearly warns us that he will not tolerate those nations who deal unjustly or harshly with Israel. Zechariah 12:2-3 proclaims:

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut to pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Does this not perfectly describe the current scene? In spite of every apparent effort to mediate a peaceful solution in Jerusalem, the situation only seems to get worse. This is because the leaders of the world are working against God's covenant. They are experiencing the frustration and turmoil - the burdensome stone - that results from violating God's purpose.

God warns the nations again in Zechariah 12:9, "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."(italics in original) By forcing Israel to give up its land for so-called peace, and by flaunting our immorality before the world, America has pitted itself directly against the Lord.

To read the whole article including more examples of God's judgment on this country you may subscribe to Gary Kah's Newsletter Hope For The World Update.

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End Notes

(1)Gary Kah, "Has America's Judgment Begun?" Hope For The World Update, Fall 2005.
(2)Bill Koenig, "Gaza to Katrina - A Devastating Two Weeks," Koenig's International News, Update and Commentary, September 5, 2005
(http://watch.org/showprint.php3?idx=71101&mcat=1&rtn=/index.html)

AT THE THRESHOLD

From the Salt Lake City Tribune we read:

ATLANTA - Federal scientists say they will consider requests to ship the recently re-created 1918 killer flu virus to select U.S. research labs.

There are 300 non-government research labs registered to work with deadly germs like the Spanish flu, which killed millions of people worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consider requests for samples from those labs ''on a case-by-case basis,'' CDC spokesman Von Roebuck said Wednesday.

Dangerous biological agents are routinely shipped through commercial carriers like FedEx or DHL, following government packaging, safety and security guidelines.

Last month, U.S. scientists announced they had created - from scratch - the 1918 virus. It was the first time an infectious agent behind a historic global epidemic had ever been reconstructed. (Emphasis mine)

Researchers said they believed it would help them develop defenses against the threat of a future pandemic evolving from bird flu, which was found to have similar characteristics to the 1918 virus.

About 10 vials of virus were created, each containing about 10 million infectious virus particles. CDC officials said at the time the particles would be stored at a CDC facility in Atlanta, and that there were no plans to send samples off campus. (Emphasis mine)

But that statement did not mean there was a policy against sending samples elsewhere, Roebuck said.

Are these government scientists nuts! Can you imagine if the virus gets misplaced and the vial opened inadvertently or intentionally in the wrong place! This virus is reported to have killed up to 40 to 50 million people in 1918.

From Cutting Edge Ministries November 12 newsletter we read:

What was the reaction by one knowledgeable doctor to this news that the most dangerous flu virus might be shipped through FedEx or DHL? Writing to Rense.com, Dr. Patricia Doyle lamented:

"This is extremely bad news. If this thing gets out, and, as I believe merges with H5N1 we WILL have the pandemic that the Bush cabal seems to be 'expecting.'
How easy it will be for someone to release a chimera now and say it was an accident, or simply H5 recombining. I think that this is why all those brilliant scientists were killed off."

Dr. Doyle has said two things which deserve to be highlighted:

1) She called this re-created Spanish Flu Virus a "chimera" -- My Tormont Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary gives this definition: "An animal or plant product produced by genetic engineering, in which DNA from two distinct parent species is artificially combined to produce an individual with a double chromosome complement."

Have you noticed how many weird, never-before-seen viruses have been unleashed upon the planet since genetic scientists announced that they had broken the genetic code? Successive discoveries were announced throughout the decade of the 1960's, and during the 1970's, DNA sequencing techniques were developed. I remember well following these discoveries with a feeling of dread, for I knew the Biblical teaching that the heart of man is inherently evil...... I knew that only evil could come out of any human scientist breaking God's genetic code.

Now, fully forty years later, my worst fears are realized. Mankind is now facing the type of deadly, incurable diseases of which the Bible foretells which will be part of God's Tribulation-era judgments.

Cutting Edge has posted a new article on the subject of Avian Bird Flu which reveals that this Bird Flu is nothing more than SARS Virus renamed. NEWS2088 --"Death By Plague". (Note: You must pay the $25 membership fee to be able to access this new article).

Cutting Edge continues:

Notice the key prophecies which foretell this type of deadly, incurable plagues at the End of the Age.

"There will be ... pestilences (plagues: malignant and contagious or infectious epidemic diseases which are deadly and devastating)" - [Luke 21:11; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]

"When the Lamb broke open the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature call out, Come! So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse, black and blue as if made so by bruising, and its rider's name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth." (Revelation 6:7-8; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]

2) Dr. Doyle postulated that, perhaps, all those brilliant scientists had been murdered, so they could not use their unique expertise at a time of world pandemic. Do you remember the spate of mysterious deaths and murders of especially brilliant, cutting-edge scientists throughout the world, beginning shortly after the 9/11 attacks? We covered this story in NEWS1592 , but please allow us to reprint a portion of that report here.

Israeli author, Barry Chamish, started matters off by declaring that top Israeli scientists were being murdered, in a secret war!

NEWS BRIEF: "Israeli biological and nuclear scientists being knocked off in covert war", email by Barry Chamish, 12/5/2001.

"Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off one by one and this covert war is going unnoticed. A plane carrying scientists to Russia's biological warfare center at Novosibirsk was blown up over the Black Sea and no one questions that the Ukrainian missile that supposedly did the job was a hundred miles out of range. Then a Swissair Corsair crashes killing the head of Ichilov Hospital's Hematology department, as well as directors of the Hebrew University School Of Medicine and the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and not a word of suspicion is raised. After that, one of the country's most prominent nuclear scientist, Baruch Zinger,is assassinated and still, no one is putting the pieces together. Your front line against nuclear and biological attacks is being picked off in a covert murder campaign and your government is taking no security precautions to stop the intellectual slaughter ..."

"Intellectual Slaughter" is a tough couple of words, but they do describe what was occurring in those heady days after 9/11. But, then, key scientists and researchers began to drop dead all over the world. Let us quickly review them; more details are provided in NEWS1592.

* Dr. Don C. Wiley, 57 -- Harvard biologist, world's leading researcher into Ebola, HIV and influenza. (November 16, 2001)

* Dr. Schwartz - Well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA sequencing analysis (December 12, 2001)

* Set Van Nguyen, 44 -- Australia had just lost a microbiologist specializing in animal diseases -- but, his real expertise specialist was biological weapons.(December 12 2001)

* Dr. Benito Que - cell biologist working on infectious diseases like HIV (December 13, 2001)

* Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik -- the foremost Soviet Biopreparat scientist who was responsible for aerosolizing plague and was the successful developer of binary weapons known as the 'Novichok group' of weapons (November 23, 2001)

Since this rash of "mysterious deaths" in November - December, 2001, other leading scientists and/or researchers in various fields have also turned up missing. Dr. Doyle gave her theory as to why these men had been murdered, and in light of Avian Bird Flu and other exotic diseases, her original concept seems more valid than ever before.

Dr. Patricia Doyle thinks each of these scientists shared a common knowledge about a brand new biological warfare weapon just now being developed. "Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed researchers, geniuses by many accounts, specializing in infectious diseases, as well as DNA sequencing have been found dead or have gone missing. I believe these scientists were unaware of their participation in the developing of a genetic bioweapon that will wipe out as much as one third of the population on planet earth." [Rense.com, 12/13/2001, http://www.rense.com/general18/returb.htm )

At a time when our newspapers are full of dire warnings of possible imminent terrorist attacks using biological and/or chemical weapons, we would need the best minds possible standing ready to direct a response that would save lives. If you have ever watched a movie in which the plot is infectious disease, you will notice that authorities immediately contact the most influential and cutting-edge medical scientists. These top scientists usually become the star of the movie.

These are the types of scientists who were murdered. Can you see the deadly, infectious, and incurable diseases of which the Bible speaks forming on the prophetic horizon? If the CDC does send vials of the deadly Spanish Flu of 1918, the scenario can develop whereby it can be claimed that some the vials were broken open during shipment and is starting to spread throughout the population. Wouldn't this make an ideal scenario by which authorities can point to as to how the disease broke into the general public?

One other matter is worthy of mentioning: If this disease is part of the Seal #4 prophecy of Revelation 6, 1.5 billion people must die. Even if the UN estimates of 150 million deaths to Avian Bird Flu are correct, that number falls far short of the required number of deaths in this judgment. Many people will remain healthy, even during the most horrific plagues; their bodies will be resistant to the disease or they will simply be fortunate. How do these people get killed?

They are scared enough to step forward to take the offered vaccination, which will contain lethal ingredients. When the time comes for this disease to sweep through the world, do not be foolish enough to take the vaccination. The Plan calls for "Death by Vaccination"; more people will likely die from the vaccination than from the disease itself! Just as the Illuminati spread the initial AIDS virus through deliberately tainted UN vaccinations to specific African regions, so will death be spread from Avian Bird Flu vaccinations.

My thoughts? God's knowledge of human nature written below.

“O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Jeremiah 5:3 KJV.

May our Lord, Jesus Christ keep you in the palm of his hand.

Steve


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LET NO ONE FORGET!

On July 7, Pennsylvania's General Assembly increased its own pay by a whopping 16 to 34 percent. This action was taken in the middle of the night, in the form of an amendment attached fifteen minutes before the bill came to the House floor, with no public notice or debate.(1)

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Sound familiar? It should! Pennsylvania's Congressmen and Senators took a page right out of history. The same tactics were used to pass the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913 in the middle of the night with no debate.

For some legislators, the raise itself exceeds $32,000, more than many Pennsylvanians earn in an entire year. This despite the fact that our Commonwealth regularly ranks near the bottom of the heap for economic progress when compared with other states.(2)

Yet the pay raise bill increased Pennsylvania legislators' base salary to $81,050, the second highest in the nation!(3)

The legislative raises do not take effect until December 2006, but a majority of the 253 lawmakers began collecting the extra money right away through a controversial mechanism called "unvouchered expenses."(4)

Of 253 total seats in the General Assembly, 228 will be up for grabs in 2006.(5)

These Pennsylvania lawmakers and judges knew there would be public outrage; that is why they attached the pay raise as an amendment to a bill fifteen minutes before the bill came to the House floor with no notice given or debate allowed. They play us for suckers taking our hard earned dollars and spending our money as they wish to glorify their ego for their next re-election bid. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

What's this rumor I am hearing? They are having some second thoughts? Oh my! Politicians developing a conscience!

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer we read:

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Responding to months of public uproar, the Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday unanimously voted to repeal a July law that gave big pay raises to lawmakers, judges and senior executive branch officials.

The repeal's sponsor, Democratic Sen. Sean Logan, said the action would "restore some integrity" that lawmakers lost in passing the bill in the middle of the night without debate or public notice.

The law enabled lawmakers to immediately collect raises of 16 percent to 54 percent if they chose, despite a constitutional ban on midterm raises.(Italics mine, Steve).

There was no immediate word on what action the House might take on the repeal bill.

Gov. Ed Rendell's press secretary, Kate Philips, said the governor had not yet seen the bill or decided whether to support it.

Don't bet for one moment that Pennsylvania Senators have suddenly developed a conscience. There is always more here than meets the eye.

Notice that Gov. Rendell has used plausible denial (has not yet seen the bill) by his press secretary, so that he can hold his finger to the political winds before he decides to support the pay raise repeal. Just maybe the opposition is not as powerfull as the public opinion polls suggest. Just maybe, in the meantime, his staffers can find a way to justify this outrageous abuse of power and make it seem palatable.

As for me and my house we will not give them a second chance. We will not forget! They have had many opportunities to serve our best interests and yet in the dead of night they abused that privilege, the public trust, by raping the honest taxpayers of this commonwealth. I'll say it again; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

There is an old saying about politicians during elections. When in doubt, vote them out; and let them learn how the honest taxpayer makes a living.

Steve

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End Notes

(1) Op-Ed by Russ Diamond, Operation Clean Sweep: The Only Real Solution.
(http://www.pacleansweep.com/oped080705.html)
(2)Ibid.
(3)Marc Levy, Pa. Senate approves repeal of pay raise, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 2, 2005(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Pay_Raise.html)
(4)(Ibid.)
(5)Op-Ed by Russ Diamond, Operation Clean Sweep: The Only Real Solution.