I was only a young man of just 18 years of age when I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as being my saviour and deliverer. At that time I had accepted the son of God who had come upon the earth in the form of a mortal man to save us from our sins. Also at that time I had barely began to read the Bible.
As such, I was almost completely unaware of the general meaning of the majority of the Bible prophecies. Also at that time, I was also unaware that the son of God came here to the earth as a Jew. Moreover, that he had walked in the Holy Land which later on became the land of Israel.
Next month there is a very strong possibility that Israel is going to be divided up into two to make way for a separate Palestinian state?
Knowing that now is of a small relevance, or any concern to me at all. Even if I had known that was going to be the case all of those years ago it certainly would not have affected my decision to become a Christian. Just as I am sure that it does not affect the decision of the millions and millions of others who have decided to become Christians?
Even if they had known at the time of that decision Israel was going to be divided up, which I am sure most of those who make a decision for Christ simply would not know, would that have affected what they had decided to do? I think not!
There are some who have been saying that as the son of God walked here on the earth as a Jew (there is no disputing that though) and that furthermore there is a Jew sitting on the throne in Heaven.
However, as Judaism is nothing more than a religion, that cannot be the case. Otherwise, it would seem that the Jews are held over in favour above all other creeds and races right throughout the entire world which cannot be so, or else God would be thought of as being partial, (or biased) towards the Jews only?
That is not to say because his son walked here on the earth as a Jew, there are some who have been quite fond of saying that even as God has given the land of Israel over to the Jews to keep forever, he has also given a very severe warning in his scriptures about dividing the land of Israel up into two portions.
However, that is a statement that I simply cannot be in agreement with.
Additionally, some are saying that following that decision there is going to be an horrific world war in which there are going to be enormous casualties on both sides. They say there are several Bible verses which suggest that this is going to be the case. Nevertheless, in saying this I am not referring to the battle of Armageddon.
However, is this fact alone only the order of sequence of events for the fulfilment of the Bible prophecies, which has nothing at all to do with Israel being divided up?
After all, given the current state of the world economy the solution to the world's financial woes has always been to start a world war to get things going again? That has nothing at all to do with Israel being divided up into two portions.
Additionally, if there were a world war that starts after Israel is divided up then this can be nothing more than what has been suggested above, just the order of events, and really nothing much more than that at all?
There needs to be some sort of a compromise deal reached between the Israelis and the Palestinians over a sovereign state for the Palestinians ASAP.
Otherwise there can never ever be a viable and long lasting peace settlement reached that is going to end the current conflict that has been going on over in the region for the past few decades.
The idea that there be a separate piece of land set aside right next door to Israel is never going to work simply because if there were ever any type of infringement from either side onto the land rights of the others the problems would commence once again almost right away.
Accordingly, both parties would then be back to square one and the current and past difficulties would once again inflame the region.
There has been a load of talk recently that there is going a meeting in September of the respective parties that is effectively going to reach some sort of a compromise deal over a separate Palestinian state. That's next month for those who are as yet unaware of just what month we are in at the moment?
At the stage of this writing there are no real details available as to just what is going to be put forward to resolve the difficulties in the region. The whole point being there is really no one who knows at all with any real certainty if there is going to be any positive outcome as a result of those talks at all?
However, bearing in mind what else is going on in the world the facts seem to point to a successful conclusion to the conflict and if that is the case then there will be a Palestinian state created as a result, and out of these talks.
Even though I am running ahead of myself here slightly, if there is a successful result that comes out of these talks then there is also an extremely good chance there will be some form of a covenant (or treaty) reached that is also going to see an end to the decades long conflict in the region.
For those who are unaware of just what I am referring to is that what I think may be the result of a deal that is reached over a separate Palestinian state, (if there is to be one at all) will be the covenant of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27, confirmed by the Antichrist.
King James Version
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
There is no way at all that the writer of this piece is either pro Israeli or pro Palestinian. As far as favoring either one of the other of the respective parties concurrently warring -- I am neutral. As such do not side with either one of them.
To do so would be to be nothing more than bigoted against the side that I am not favouring, which is not unlike a lot of so called Christians who seem to favour Israel in the conflict for whatever reason I cannot understand. There is really nothing at all in the word of God that says they should do so.
There is news that is now beginning to come through there may be some form of a deal reached by Israel creating a Palestinian state in Jordan. If that were the circumstances of the matter then the compromise deal that I have mentioned above may as yet just come to pass after all? Now read on....
Israel may create the Palestinian state in Jordan?
The Hashemite dynasty in Jordan is ripe for overthrow, and Israel should push it. Democratic elections will empower a Palestinian majority in Jordan; two-thirds of Jordanians are Palestinian, and Jordan is by all logic a Palestinian state. Few monarchies survive, and it is wishful thinking to hope the Jordanian dynasty friendly to Israel will last. A reckless government in Iraq or Syria might try to annex Jordan. In an Arab-Israeli war, Jordan would be of little use to Israel as a buffer; even if technically neutral, it could not stop Iraqi troops from crossing its territory.
The Jordanian dynasty is the lid on the simmering kettle of Jordan's Palestinian society. The Palestinian majority in Jordan resents its inadequate status. The dynasty relies increasingly on brute force and seeks both American guarantees and fundamentalist Islamic approval to shore itself up. That precarious balance will not last. If a Palestinian majority seizes power in Jordan, Israel should exploit the situation while she can.
Israel should re-evaluate the earlier plan of establishing a Palestinian state in Jordan, reducing the Israeli-Palestinian dispute from Palestinian statehood to the inclusion of the West Bank in their state. A Palestinian state in Jordan could be viable, unlike an insultingly small state in the West Bank, and not the source of perpetual anti-Israeli sentiment among Palestinians. Israel could promise secretly to help Palestinians stage a Putsch in Jordan in return for annulling Palestinian claims to Jewish Judea and Samaria. A semi-democratic, popularly supported Palestinian government in Jordan would be better for the West than an unstable, unpredictable monarchy. Now Israel has a chance to promote the coup: Jordan's Palestinian population is increasingly hostile to Western influence. Polls indicate the support sinking to four percent after the second Iraqi war. The Jordanian government listens to its Palestinian subjects, even to the extent of refusing to air the Shared Values commercials designed to convince Muslims that America is after Islamic terrorists, not Islam. Jordan does not curb anti-Israeli and anti-Western propaganda in its press and universities. It accommodates Israel because it fears reprisal and the United States for protection against Iraq. With Saddam gone, Jordan has little reason to side with the United States.
The West supported Kurdish independence from Iraq, at least autonomy, but is content for Turkish Kurds to remain Turkish citizens. The same logic applies to the Palestinians: transform Jordan or part of it into the Palestinian state and leave the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip under Israeli sovereignty. Chomsky’s argument—that resettling Palestinians in Jordan is akin to suggesting Jews have their own jurisdiction in New York—is off base. Jews are not a majority in New York. Even if they were, they could not make it secede. New York is much farther from Israel than Jordan is from Palestine. Relocating a few dozen miles to Jordan does not affect Palestinian national aspirations. Insisting on a separate Palestinian state in the territories is like the Jews demanding a piece of New York for an independent Jewish state, in addition to the one they have in Israel. The Jordanian option is by far the most practical solution of the Palestinian problem.
The idea has legal sanction. Everyone understood that the initial arrangement under the British mandate established a Jewish Israel in all the territory of the mandate, including Jordan, but in 1922 the Council of the League of Nations excised what was to become Jordan from the Jewish homeland. Only when a British-affiliated tribal dynasty usurped power in Jordan was it necessary to carve out additional territory for the Palestinians living on land already allocated to Jewish Israel.
Sharia also sanctions ethnically homogenous states. Quoting the Prophet’s dictum, “Let there be no two religions in Arabia,” Caliph Umar relocated the Jews to Palestine and made it an preserve for non-Islamic groups in the region. Since most Islamic scholars say pious Muslims cannot live among infidels, Palestinians have no stake in the territory Umar gave to Jews—and, theoretically, to Christians as well.
The Pentecostal movement is another of but the many heretical groups that became a result of the schisms and divisions within the so-called indivisible Roman Catholic cult. Although many of these groups are opposed to Catholicism but both are hellish doctrines in themselves. Here are some of the problems of the Pentecostal movement:
Note: I am not here to advocate a hatred against Pentecostals but rather against their doctrine. and to show them the truth that will set them free from the bondage of their religious, legalistic system.
1.) They teach the idea of a dictator god- Pentecostals believe in salvation initially by faith then it must be maintained by works. They uphold dangerous teachings like you can't show me one verse in the Bible you are still saved when you sin (using false dilemma against the proponents of eternal security) in which a Christian is taught they are needed to do good works to STAY SAVED- either way it is still self-righteousness. Note that Ephesians 2:8-10 differentiates the root vs. the fruit. Christians are called to discipleship, they are called to sin no more but these DO NOT contribute to salvation but rather, to rewards and leading others to salvation!
2.) They have strange ideas about God to the point that they got divided into Oneness vs. Trinitarian groups. The Oneness group denies the Trinity and teaches that Jesus Christ is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit denying the substantial Bible evidence that the Trinity is One God existing as Three Persons- that each one is NOT the other yet each one is God.
3.) Many of them become conspiracy theorists. Pentecostals claim to be born again Christians and when they get exposed and singled out, they immediately label the person to be a dangerous infiltrator and making false judgments- resulting to the logical fallacy of poisoning the well. Many of them do expose the New World Order but they make up stories about people who expose their works of darkness such as so and so is actually a Jesuit in disguise with little or no proof. This is similar to how the Seventh Day Adventist cults also operate. These conspiracy theories by Pentecostals serve to cash in a LOT of money. It's best to STAY AWAY from their websites to minus a supporter daily plus we won't list them down as not to give them any more soapboxes than they already have.
4.) They teach the dangerous heresy of baptismal salvation. This dangerous teaching has it that one must be baptized in "Jesus' name" or one is damned. They demand water baptism to be saved. Baptism CANNOT save.
5.) It's all about cashing in by other swindling methods. Aside from the conspiracy stories, Pentecostal groups also have resolved to the "fake healing services" as their "faith healing" is really FAKE HEALING. There have been several fake testimonies (and man, they did learn from fake pharmacists too huh?) in their own shows. I remembered watching certain Pentecostal programs where somebody claimed he was suffering from leukemia and was cured instantly by the prayer of the pastor. Another example is the "speaking on tongues" which they DO NOT. They are speaking in confusion, NOT other languages. Again it's also used to cash in more cash!
6.) Many of these groups end up creating more parody churches. In the first place, these Pentecostal assemblies are REALLY just as sick as cults like the Landover Baptists, Westboro Baptists and Roman Catholicism. These parodies are really SICK, SICK and SICK. It's best not to even bother finding out all of them. Some of these people were expelled from Baptist schools for their misbehavior. Also some of these are agnostics turned offensive Pentecostals- just converted from one side to another but both LEADING TO HELL!
7.) Some of these groups have already fallen into the heresy of ecumenism as a result of not being saved. How true. We have seen how some anti-Catholic Pentecostal groups later end up yoking with Rome. We cannot say they were secretly Jesuit controlled BUT falling away into Rome's claws is expected for unsaved people in these last days. Plus, we could care less about the Jesuits and their spies who try to destroy us, we care more about their souls that they will get saved that includes THEM.
If there is mention in the word of God of a Rapture then there will be a Rapture,
However, as there is no mention of the word Rapture then there is not a Rapture.
There is nowhere in the word of God that the word Rapture is ever mentioned, which can only lead me to believe that as the word is not mentioned there cannot be a Rapture.
The facts of the matter are that the word of God does not teach a Rapture but teaches the resurrection of the dead instead.
As that is the case, then the Rapture is nothing much more than a myth. The verses that those who believe in the Rapture say refer to a Rapture do not refer to a Rapture, but instead refer to the day of the Lord.
On the day of the Lord those who are still alive will meet the Lord in the air.
However, this is not a Rapture in the strictest sense of the word. Nonetheless, if one is to consider the day of the Lord as being a Rapture, as there is no one who knows when the Lord is going to return, then there is no one who knows the timing of the Rapture either.
Now there are going to be some who are going to read this and then come up with a load of verses to suggest the word of God does teach a Rapture.
Nevertheless, I dare anyone to show me a verse that says there will be anyone taken alive up into Heaven who are going to proceed the dead in Christ first.
The European Union is considering giving the Permanent Chairman of the European Council, the Fleming Herman Van Rompuy, the task of being the so-called “face” of the Eurozone. The news that Mr Van Rompuy’s remit is to be expanded comes from Wednesday’s edition of the daily ‘De Standard’ and is based on what the paper describes as “reliable sources”.
The Euro has come under pressure in recent months due to the severe economic problems in Greece. Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy are other Eurozone countries whose economic dire straits have served to undermine confidence in the Euro.
The lack of a united voice in times of crisis has had an adverse effect on the Euro.
To rectify this, the European Union is said to be planning to expand Herman Van Rompuy’s remit and make him responsible for representing the Euro on the world stage.
At present, the Finance Ministers of the Eurozone form a committee, chaired by the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Junker. This is currently the legally-defined representation of the Eurozone. However, the two heavyweights within the Eurozone, France and Germany, are now prepared to work towards a kind of economic government for the Eurozone.
It is believed that this would serve to restore confidence in the Euro and would also enable swifter action and better communication in times of crisis. Any decision to extend Mr Van Rompuy’s remit would be likely to be taken at the EU summit in October.
At the time of this writing, there has been three nations who have been offered the bailout packages by the newly elected president of the EU, Herman Van Rompuy, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. That fact alone fulfills the prophecy to a tee of the three nations the Antichrist subdues as he comes to power. Even though there are a couple of others mentioned below those nations have not been given bailout packages just yet.
For the world to accept the Antichrist there must be some sort of a crisis that would cause he can come forth to rectify. After all, if everything is dinky dory then there would be no reason at all for those who are quite comfortable with their present circumstances to want to hand their whole lives, and indeed their souls, over the Man of Sin to begin with.
Accordingly, then there would have to be an especially designed crisis for that to happen. Does that make sense to those who are reading this or is there something wrong with the manner in which it has been said?
Over a number of years there are some that have been saying that the Final World Empire before the return of the Lord has to be the United Nations. Interestingly enough, those sort of suggestions are not uncommon from those who are residing in the United States. In doing so, those who are making such claims are generally to be considered to be saying the Final World Empire before the return of the Lord is going to be the U.S?
However, if the state of the U.S. economy is any consideration at all then that type of analogy is now generally considered not to be accurate. What I have also said in the past was that the U.S. economy would be deliberately destroyed so that it could be moved over to the EU under the control of the Antichrist. If that were to happen then what we would see would be China and Japan to be responsible for all manufacturing, just as what we are seeing taking place at the moment.
As that is the case, then what the world is seeing at the moment with the current uncertain economic circumstances, possibly leading after wards onto a total collapse of the current system. The probability of that happening is now more rife than ever before?
As that is the case, then there really could be no other reason than that for the planners behind this especially designed event to want to hand the total control of the entire globe over to this one man - the Biblical Antichrist.
Then there are those who have been coming out with all other types of theories relating to the origins of the Antichrist. Now more than ever those type of theories seem to be remote a possibility than ever before of coming to pass?
What seems to me to be happening is that what we are seeing at the moment is a specially designed global crisis in confidence relative to the current economic system. It looks very much to me that what is going to happen is that everything is going to be handed over to Van Rompuy to rectify and in doing so he will instigate a third world war, and win it, reducing the world's population down to just 500 million.
From thereafter set himself up as global dictator of types AND THAT HAS BEEN THE PLAN ALL ALONG - SO THAT THOSE WHO REMAIN WILL BE NOTHING MORE THAN SLAVES FOR THEIR TYRANNICAL MASTERS.
The attached article is more of the same as what has just been posted. That is, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition.
There has never ever been a more exciting time now for those who have been watching the fulfillment of the Bible prophecies than what we are seeing unfolding at the moment. That is the only reason that I have decided to go over the same ground again relative to the aforementioned.
Right now, the world watches and waits to see what is unfolding in the Middle East with the very distinct possibility we Christians may at last see the Antichrist revealed by his confirmation of the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27.
Daniel 9:27
King James Version (KJV)
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
When that happens the world will at last be in the final week of the 70 weeks of Daniel. But there is still a lot more to come after that before we see the Lord Jesus Christ return back to the earth, including the 42 month brutal terror reign of the Antichrist himself.
Nonetheless, it is with a great deal of interest that I have noted that because we are right at the moment in time when we will see the Antichrist revealed by the confirmation of the aforementioned treaty, there are some who are saying that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is not the treaty that has been mentioned in the prophecy.
That would be those who are operating under the mistaken belief that they are suddenly going to vanish off the face of the earth in a magical event known as the Rapture of the Church, before the fulfilment of the aforementioned prophecy, when there is no mention anywhere in the word of God of any such event ever occurring.
Nevertheless, there will be a separate Palestinian state by the end of this year and once that has been agreed upon there will be no impediment at all for the treaty of Daniel to be confirmed. It is a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, despite what some may say to the contrary.
There are truly historical times ahead for mankind as we now enter into the final seven years of mankind's history here on the earth. Now read the following article as we now eagerly await the return of the Lord in our lifetimes.
Netanyahu May Accept U.S. Peace Talks Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government may be willing to accept a U.S. proposal to resume peace talks that uses the 1967 borders as a basis of negotiations in order to counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition.
Israel is prepared to accept a U.S. plan drawn up after Netanyahu’s visit to Washington in May that would include land exchanges on both sides, an Israeli official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The draft calls for Israel and the Palestinians to use the 1967 lines as a starting point in talks, while recognizing that “demographic facts on the ground” will mean the final result will differ, Israeli broadcaster Channel Two said yesterday.
Netanyahu may have shifted his stance on the border issue since rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to use the 1967 boundaries as a starting point for negotiations on May 21. Days later, he conceded that Israel is ready to make “painful compromises.” He may now be moving further as Palestinians push ahead with their plan to ask the UN to recognize their statehood next month. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat dismissed the reports as a “public relations” game.
“It’s important for Netanyahu to shore up American support heading into September,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political scientist at Bar Ilan University outside Tel Aviv. “The U.S. proposal is a compromise that incorporates Obama’s statement that negotiations have to be based on the 1967 lines, and Netanyahu’s concern that the final result has to take into account demographic changes - meaning the settlements - and can’t be a return to those lines.”
Talks Stall
Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations stalled in September after Netanyahu refused to renew a 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he wouldn’t return to talks unless a total moratorium was called. The Palestinians seek an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“Why can’t we hear what Netanyahu said in his own voice, why can’t we hear him saying two-state solutions on the 1967 borders and I will stop settlements?” Erakat said. “Without hearing this, this is another public relations and linguistic game.”
The draft of the latest proposal reported by Channel Two also refers to Israel as a Jewish state, a formulation that the Palestinians have said they won’t explicitly support.
Statehood Bid
The U.S. and the other members of the so-called Middle East Quartet - the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - are looking for ways to get the sides talking again before the Palestinians go ahead with the bid for statehood.
Full UN membership would require approval by the Security Council.
The Obama administration has said it would use its veto in the council to block the measure.
Differences that remain between Israelis and Palestinians are too great for negotiations to restart anytime soon, a U.S. official said on July 11 after a meeting of the Quartet failed to agree on a formula for talks.
More than 300,000 Jews live in West Bank settlements amid 2.5 million Palestinians on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. The UN has declared the settlements illegal and Palestinians have refused to return to peace talks unless Israel stops construction within the enclaves.
Another 200,000 Israelis live in parts of east Jerusalem that were also captured in 1967. Israel considers those areas part of its sovereign territory and says it will never give them up. Palestinians want to make east Jerusalem the capital of a future independent state.
The Middle East peace process received major boost on Monday night after Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, dropped his long-standing objections to a Palestinian state based on the existing boundaries of the West Bank.
There have been some that have been saying the current French president is negotiating a Middle East peace treaty, therefore he must be the Antichrist. There are no doubts that he is doing just that, just are half the world are at the moment, including the U.S; - but does that make Barak Obama the Antichrist? The answer to that is a definite NO!
The facts of the matter are that the Antichrist does not design a seven year peace treaty but simply signs off on what others have already worked out beforehand. Accordingly, we shall not know the Antichrist until he signs off on a treaty and at no time before that shall we know his correct identity. Any other suggestion relative to his correct identity is really nothing much more than speculation at this point in time.
That is not to say that there are wheels that are now moving at an incredible rate towards the fulfillment for the remainder of the Bible prophecies. With the likelihood is that there will be a solution to the current by pass in the Middle East before the end of the year with a two state solution. More than likely that will result in the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 being confirmed. The result of that is going to be that the correct identity of the man of sin being revealed at last.
Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 (KJV)
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The rest of this article is the result of what has been reformatted from an article by Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem
In a development as dramatic as it was unexpected, Mr Netanyahu appeared to succumb to US pressure by accepting a proposal put forward by the Obama administration that could represent a significant step towards resuming long-stalled peace talks.
Despite having engaged President Barack Obama in a very public argument on the very same point in May, Mr Netanyahu conceded for the first time that he was prepared to accept a Palestinian state that roughly follows the 1967 ceasefire lines demarcating the West Bank and Gaza.
Until now, he has consistently rejected Palestinian demands to state how much of the occupied West Bank he is prepared to cede under a peace deal.
The Obama administration declined to react to the report, while an official at the State
Department said it would wait until Mr Netanyahu or a senior member of his team commented publicly on the claims.
The development will raise hopes that the peace process can be rejuvenated after months of acrimonious stalemate. But while potentially providing much-needed momentum, it is likely to prove more an incremental step than an epoch-making breakthrough.
It could even be rejected flat out, and many of Mr Netanyahu's sceptics are likely to see the offer as ruse, proposed because it is likely to prove unacceptable to the Palestinians.
The offer was couched in terms that, for the moment, appear to cross many of their red lines.
Although Mr Netanyahu has agreed to reopen negotiations based on the contentious 1967 lines, thereby fulfilling one of the Palestinian leadership's principal demands, he has demanded two uncomfortable concessions in return for the resumption of talks.
The Palestinians would be expected to retract their application for statehood, which is to be presented before the United Nations General Assembly next month, an Israeli official told The Daily Telegraph.
They would also have to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, the official added.
Any withdrawal of the statehood bid is likely to prove politically costly for Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, who would face a domestic backlash were he to cave in.
And while the Palestinians say they are prepared to recognise Israel as a Jewish state once a peace deal has been signed, they insist that to do so sooner would effectively mean having to give up on the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes in the Holy Land.
On Monday night, the Palestinians denied having received any offer from Israel and even officials in Jerusalem appeared wary of predicting an imminent breakthrough.
"The Palestinians have not yet accepted the offer," one said, refusing to be drawn on whether the Palestinians had, in fact, rejected it altogether.
Despite the appearance of deadlock, the Palestinian leadership is now likely to come under pressure to make some kind of counter-offer and it is this fact alone that makes yesterday's announcement highly significant.
For nearly a year, neither side has been prepared to budge, much to the frustration of Mr Obama, who has accused them both if intransigence. Now that the Israelis have blinked, or at least given the appearance of blinking, the Palestinians may well feel that they have to respond in kind.
Some within Mr Abbas's inner circle are said to be looking for a face-saving way in which to drop their statehood bid after the US Congress threatened to cancel aid to the Palestinian Authority if they went ahead.
Yet even if they were prepared to compromise on this issue, it is hard to see the Palestinians also agreeing to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. That would be seen as making two concessions in exchange for one.
For his part, Mr Netanyahu, who has staked his reputation on an uncompromising attitude to the peace process, is likely to face recriminations of his own from the Israeli right, his traditional constituency, which will claim that he has betrayed his principles by wilting under US pressure.
Daniel Levy, a former negotiator for the Israeli government now at the New American Foundation, said: "The language that Netanyahu accepts is both 1967 and not 1967. He appears to show flexibility but the formula he proposes, which has been supported by the Obama administration, shifts the emphasis in Israel's direction to accommodate demographic changes – the settlements."
During his visit to Washington in May, the Israeli leader was involved in an angry contretemps with Mr Obama after his host became the first US president publicly to propose that a Palestinian state should be based on the 1967 lines – essentially the present day West Bank and Gaza Strip, both captured and occupied by Israel in the Six Day War that year.
Mr Obama's proposal was, in fact, only a public iteration of long standing US policy. The president later defused some of the tension by clarifying that the border would also be based on "mutually agreed land swaps", a formula under which Israel would annex its larger settlements in the West Bank in exchange for some of its own territory.
But many on the Israeli right, backed by their powerful supporters in the US, believe that the occupation of most of the West Bank should never be ended.
To their fury, Mr Netanyahu, who only accepted the principle of a Palestinian state for the first time in 2009, has effectively shattered their dream by essentially accepting Mr Obama's framework, despite the storm he kicked up while in Washington.
But even if negotiations do resume, the prime minister is likely to prove less generous than his more centrist predecessors, who offered the Palestinians more than 90 per cent of the West Bank during earlier negotiations.
The emergence of Mr Netanyahu's offer provided the first concrete evidence that informal contacts between Israel and the Palestinians have been taking place.
Formal negotiations between the two sides were suspended last September in a row over
Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank.
Mr Netanyahu's settlement policy has led to frequent spats with the US. His relationship with the Obama administration, and particularly with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has suffered as a result. Earlier this year, George Mitchell, Mr Obama's special representative to the peace talks, resigned in frustration at the lack of progress. He is understood to have held the Israelis to be largely responsible for the impasse.
But Monday night's development suggested that the US has remained heavily invested in the peace process. Mediation efforts are likely to have been led by Dennis Ross, a key Middle East adviser at the State Department who is one of the few members of the Obama administration with strong sympathies for Israel.
By AF
National bankruptcy is the big story, in America, Europe and elsewhere. I have repeatedly said: We are heading for the buffers in a slow motion train wreck.” Well, the buffers are just ahead, in my opinion. Read on: there are steps you can take. Above all, get right with God. Terrifying times are just ahead. You don’t have to be too clever to see what’s gone wrong.
Here’s what Texan Ron Paul, one of the few fiscally literate Congressmen, said this week: “When a country is indebted to the degree that we’re indebted, the country always defaults. We will default because the debt is unsustainable. This default will not be because we don’t send out the checks. We will send out the checks. It will be a default because people will get their money back, or they will get their Social Security checks, and they won’t buy anything.”
In other words, you will be repaid in more or less worthless “funny money.” No wonder the Chinese - big creditors of the US –are so twitchy. Once you get a majority of the population taking from government rather than paying taxes, when you have about 43 million Americans getting food stamps, once you build a constituency armed with begging bowls, as Obama has done, there is no way back. Take the goodies away and outcome the mobs - as in Greece. Greece, of course, "did a deal" this week. A lot of people foolish enough to lend them money have lost 21 per cent of it - so far. But the deal solves nothing. It buys time, perhaps a year or two, but the problems remain.
I suspect that many of the world’s large banks are in fact broke. Just like Freddie and Fannie - I’m glad I don’t own any of their ‘assets’. Open up the vaults containing their so-called “assets” and a nasty smell emerges. That’s why banks have become the largest commercial and residential property owners in the world: if they dump all these redundant properties at once on the market the value of these “assets” would be revealed for what it really is – perhaps a third of what the books say.
The reason Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner and “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke are so nervous about the refusal of Congress to increase the debt ceiling is that America is just Greece writ large. I’ll restate my central point: There’s no way any of these debts are going to be repaid; they couldn’t possibly be. If you take in all the unfunded liabilities, the debt load on every household in America is well over $500,000. How much do you have in your piggy bank?
There’s no way it can be paid. Go on to the links on this website and click on to the Debt clock to see the latest figures on US debt. They’ve had riots every day in Greece and politicians are too scared of the mob to do the right thing, and the right thing is often nothing. Let the crash come; let it all happen, because if you keep putting it off, reality crashes in whether you like it or not, and by then it is even worse.
We have been in a period of unreality since 2008, when the stock markets crashed, housing slumped - but funny money was created and pumped into the faltering machine.. It’s like dream time. Very few people will actually tell the truth, because it’s scary; it’s very frightening. And even if politicians know what they should do, they have a hard job getting it past their parliaments.
George Osborne, Britain’s top money man, is no fool. He knows what needs to be done, but who wants to vote for belt tightening, austerity, working longer hours, working more years before a pension, maybe pay cuts? Instead, the easy thing to do is what many nations of the world are doing, including Britain and America: borrowing money to pay the interest on the debt. Oh dear. Hands up anyone who thinks this can last.
Austerity is not a very appealing package; no votes in that. People have got used to what they regard as ‘rights’ and they don’t want to know about responsibilities. In the west life’s been pretty good for the most people, but it’s often been done on borrowed money. Now we’re coming to a time when the world at large is going to have to face reality and if we don’t let the train wreck happen, maybe in a controlled way, it will happen in an uncontrolled way, and that will be much more devastating. Of course, today's political poltroons hope they will be out of office, on fat pensions, before the final great crash.
It would have been better if we had let it happen in 2008; it would have brought discipline into banking for a start. If you know you’re going to get bailed out, what not take risks? There’s got to be personal pain; that’s what teaches us discipline and responsibility. Life doesn’t come as a sugar coated pill. I don’t think they can keep these financial balls in the air too much longer. I was expecting the crash in or around 2006. I could see the state of companies, councils and countries, dancing in a fools' paradise of credit.
We expected the meltdown then, two years before it started. Anybody could have worked it out; people were living beyond their means in every street – new cars, crates of wine being delivered – their wages hadn’t risen to pay for all that. There’s going to be a lot of tears. We should just follow the principle of living within our means and be satisfied with a simple lifestyle. As someone who grew up in poverty I can tell you that the greatest luxuries are 1) Enough food to eat 2) A house with a roof that doesn't leak 3) Central heating and 4) Hot water.
I will never forget when, after I had worked hard, saved and bought my first house, how wonderful it was to have a hot shower and to be warm in winter. Until then I had lived in landlords' properties, in the days when such places were primitive, with outside toilets, no bathrooms, no heat and no hot water. Until I was 24, I had to heat up water and bail it into a bath. You have to know what it was like to realize how good people have it today. Furthermore, when I grew up food was rationed, which is why we had to grow much of our own. We survived and it made us appreciative. I am a man truly grateful for what we have.
We don’t have to have the latest electronic toys. We’re not babies. We don’t have to have a mega house. Think of what was good enough for your grandparents, your parents. Learn to cook and garden; stop eating out except as a special treat. Use your head: above all, keep it above water! Finally – find a good church, that teaches sound Bible doctrine. Get involved, learn God’s way to live. That is the only way for a true solution to any problem.
"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." John 16:1-3
The following article is from the Lighthouse Trails Research Group on the recent attacks by Norwegian Anders Berhring Breeivik.
Lighthouse Trails wishes to express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the Norway shootings and bombing.
The man who committed the atrocities on Friday, July 22, 2011 in Norway is being called a “Christian fundamentalist,” and already, stories are hitting the mainstream media telling the world to look out for Christian fundamentalists. Frank Schaeffer, son of theologian Francis Schaeffer, has likened the Norway killer to those who oppose abortion in his article on Saturday titled "Christian Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway’s in the US," saying “the terror unleashed on Norway” is “the sort of white, Christian, far right terror America can expect more of.”
But is the Norway killer a fundamentalist Christian (someone who follows the fundamental teachings of the Bible)? The answer to this is a resounding no, for there are no teachings in the Bible that would condone these merciless acts of violence. The killer of over 90 people in Norway cannot claim the name of “Christian” regardless of what he or the media say.
We know that many in the world will now blame “Christian fundamentalism” on this act in Norway. In time, and escalated because of these types of violent acts driven by demonic forces, Bible believing Christians will be told they can no longer say Jesus Christ is the only way to God. It will be a hate crime. As was the case in the 911 terrorist attack in 2001, the Norway shootings will be used to further the progress of a one-world unified religion that will have no place for the Bible-believing Christian.
In 2006, Rick Warren helped set the tone for animosity and marginalization against Bible-believing Christians (Fundamentalists) when he stated that fundamentalism will be “one of the big enemies of the 21st century. . . . Muslim fundamentalism, Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism, secular fundamentalism – they’re all motivated by fear. Fear of each other.’”1 Less than a year earlier, he defined what he means by Christian fundamentalism when he spoke at the Pew Forum on Religion and said:
Today there really aren’t that many Fundamentalists left; I don’t know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren’t that many Fundamentalists left in America … Now the word ‘fundamentalist’ actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity. Quote by Rick Warren, May 2005
The fundamentals of the Christian faith include things like the deity of Jesus Christ, the blood atonement, and the inerrancy of Scripture. It is a sad day when the world, the media, and “America’s pastor” think Christian fundamentalism is an enemy and a threat in the way they mean. The Christian fundamentals are the Gospel. One following these fundamentals will care about the souls of the unsaved that they might be saved through faith in Jesus Christ. A true Christian fundamentalist remembers the words of Scripture: “[t]he Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (II Peter 3:9).2 In truth, according to 1 John, love is meant to be the motivating factor in sharing the Gospel. Obviously, Anders Behring Breivik did not have love or the salvation of the people he killed in mind on Friday.
Many people, when trying to discredit Christian fundamentalists, refer to the Inquisitions; but it was the Christian fundamentalists who were being murdered during Inquisitions (by the Catholic church) – not the other way around. On Anders Behring Breivik’s blog, according to one article, he stated: “Today’s Protestant church is a joke. . . . I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic.”1 So like the ancient Inquisitioners, Anders Behring Breivik, a fundamentalist of his own making, is opposed to Christian fundamentalists and certainly cannot be labelled as one himself. The acts of violence he committed are not that of a Christian fundamentalist but rather that of a religious tyrannist, which is the spirit of antichrist.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. [the Gospel] 1 John 4:8-9
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 1 John 2: 18
Below, I have posted two articles for further thought and consideration:
Article #1:
“Norway Bombing: Attacker, Shooter Anders Behring Breivik a Christian?”
By Jeff Schapiro
The Christian Post
One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests,” is the only post on the Twitter account of Anders Behring Breivik, the man who has been arrested as the possible culprit of Friday’s bombing in Oslo, Norway, and for opening fire on a nearby youth camp. The tweet was inspired by a quote by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill.
So far, 92 deaths have been reported, 85 of which were from the youth camp rampage, but the total number may increase as the day wears on. . . .
OnlineSocialMedia.net reports that on Breivik’s Facebook page he listed his interests as body building, hunting, freemasonry, stock analysis and the Modern Warfare 2 video game. Breivik said he had completed “3,000 hours of study in micro and macro finance, religion,” and describes himself as being both Christian and conservative. . . . .
Larry Keffer of the Biblical Research Center and Norwegian evangelist Petar Keseljevic spoke to The Christian Poston Saturday about the attacks and about Breivik. . . . Keffer warns that people should not think that just because Breivik says he is a Christian that he actually is one.
“When I was out in Norway,” he said, “the people there thought they were Christian because they were Norwegian.” Many people in the so-called “Christian nation,” he says, claim the faith but haven’t necessarily been genuinely converted.
“A true Christian would not go and … shoot people in a camp or blow up buildings,” he said. “That’s not what a Christian does. So just because a man claims to be a Christian, or even believes that he is a Christian, does not necessarily make him so.”
“The Bible says that ‘you know them by their fruit.’” Click here to continue reading.
Note: In another Christian Post article, it states that Anders Behring Breivik said: “Today’s Protestant church is a joke. Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like minimalist shopping centres. I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic.”
Article #2:
“Is Christianity the Reason the World is in Trouble?”
by Roger Oakland
As the world continues to plunge into further darkness and despair, emerging church leaders say it is the church’s fault, particularly that of rigid Christians who won’t bend their beliefs or convictions. While Christians certainly are not without sin, true believers are not causing the world to fall apart. It is happening for one reason alone … man’s sinful condition. We are each responsible for the sin in our own lives. The Bible is clear that the penalty for sin is death. We all, each and every one of us, have had a death sentence meted out to us. But we have also been offered a free gift of salvation.
As Christians, God expects us to reach out to those suffering and in need. When Jesus dwells in a human being, He convicts and He communes with that individual. He has saved us from destruction, and He desires to live in us and fellowship with us. And He compels us to live righteously and care about those less fortunate than ourselves.
The world is in trouble because of sin. And Jesus commissioned us as believers to go out into the world and preach the wonderful Good News of His free gift of salvation to all who come to Him by faith. Satan hates this Gospel message, and he hates the messenger, the church. Is it any wonder that as this new, self-deifying reformation takes form, its followers will grow increasingly hostile to those who preach the biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Ironically, the emerging church, who says its main goal is to help the suffering and to help eradicate the world’s problems, is not pointing the world to Jesus Christ and His body. Rather it is rejecting the atonement, locking arms with a religion (Catholicism) that teaches we are justified by works rather than by grace alone, embracing mystical practices and altered states of consciousness, and pulling these suffering lost souls further and further away from the only thing that will ever help them—a personal one-on-one relationship with Jesus Christ, who explains very clearly who He is:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. (John 10:7-11) (from Faith Undone, chapter 13)
By David J. Stewart
Is the Book of Enoch really a lost book of the Bible? A born-again Christian who has been reading the Bible for several years only needs to read the "Book of Enoch" briefly to know that something is very wrong. There are so many obvious flaws with this alleged missing book of God's Word. It is clear to me that someone copied from the Bible and wrote this garbage. The same type of mumbo-jumbo can be readily observed in the Qur'an. I do NOT believe that Enoch, who lived during the time period of Genesis, wrote this manuscript. Evidently the King James translators didn't either, and for good reason. The Devil is working relentlessly to corrupt God's Word, as he has been doing since the Garden of Eden, when he caused Eve to doubt God's Word. Satan is so shrewd that he even tried to confuse our Lord by misinterpreting the Scriptures in Matthew 4:1-10. In these apostate times, the Word of God is under attack like never before. The reason why is simple... if Satan can pervert the Word of God into a lie, then he can control the masses!
The Book of Enoch Teaches Heresy!
To the Biblically ignorant reader, the Book of Enoch might have an appeal; but to a believer grounded in the Scriptures, the Book of Enoch is packed full of heresy. For example:
We read in chapter 40 of the Book of Enoch...
1 And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, I saw a multitude
2 beyond number and reckoning, who stood before the Lord of Spirits. And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel that went with me made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.
3 And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory.
4 The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
5 And the second voice I heard blessing
6 the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits. And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7 And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord
8 of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: ‘Who are these four presences which I have
9 seen and whose words I have heard and written down?’ And he said to me: ‘This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’
10 And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.
The Bible never mentions an angel named Phanuel, let alone an angel who is set over the repentance of those who inherit eternal life. What blasphemy! That statement in itself contradicts everything the Word of God teaches. We read in 1st Timothy 2:5 that Jesus Christ is the ONLY Mediator between God and men, not some angel named Phanuel... "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Repentance is strictly between a man and Jesus Christ alone. Only Jesus died for our sins, and shed His blood to pay for them (1st Peter 1:18-19); therefore, we must be diligent to guard and defend against LIARS and imposters who would lead people to believe otherwise. 1st John 2:22 clearly indicts all Christ-deniers as LIARS, guilty before God.
Here's chapter 48:1-3...
1 And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness Which was inexhaustible: And around it were many fountains of wisdom: And all the thirsty drank of them, And were filled with wisdom, And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect. 2 And at that hour that Son of Man was named In the presence of the Lord of Spirits, And his name before the Head of Days. 3 Yea, before the sun and the signs were created, Before the stars of the heaven were made, His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
Was the Son of Man named? When was Jesus named in Heaven? This is an attack on the deity of Jesus. Jesus Himself claimed in Revelation 1:8, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." Jesus is Eternal, without beginning or end. Head of Days? Lord of Spirits? These terms are NOT found in the Bible. IF the Book of Enoch were valid, composing well over 100 chapters, there should be numerous New Testament references to it; but there aren't. Although some people claim that the Bible quotes the Book of Enoch over 100 times, this is simply not true. Just as the Qur'an, the Book of Enoch borrows from the Word of God. In sharp contrast to the Book of Enoch, the New Testament often quotes the Book of Genesis.
We read in the Book of Enoch, chapter 69:8-12...
8 ...And the fourth was named Penemue: he taught the
9 children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them all the secrets of their wisdom. And he instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to
10 eternity and until this day. For men were not created for such a purpose, to give confirmation
11 to their good faith with pen and ink. For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have taken hold of them, but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power
12 it is consuming me.
What ... man's wisdom came from a demon named Penemue? That's crazy! Did ink and paper cause the fall of the human race? Whoa ... I'd better through all my fine-point pens away immediately! It was Adam's sin that brought sin into the world (Romans 5:12); not evil literature. Mankind is inherently evil of himself, prone to the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21). The Charismatics (Pentecostals) give far too much credit to demons for the sinful actions of men. They believe that every sin a person commits is evidence of demon-possession. That is absurd! Men and women sin because they are sinners! (Romans 3:10,23). Although demons definitely influence mankind to do evil, the ultimate decision is OURS. The Devil cannot force anyone to sin. People need to stop blaming demons and the Devil for their sins, and start looking into the mirror. God has promised to help His children live right... "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1st Corinthians 10:13). No excuses!
The Book of Enoch Speaks Mumbo-Jumbo
As you read the Book of Enoch, you will notice a big difference between it and the genuine Word of God. The Bible is readable, from cover to cover, it tells a story. In sharp contrast, the Book of Enoch appears to be mocking the Word of God, quoting phrases here-and-there from the Bible, without any meaningful logic or order. This, coupled with a bunch of added mumbo-jumbo, makes the Book of Enoch a ridiculous piece of literature to even consider inspired by God. As a person progresses deeper into the Book of Enoch, they will eventually find the Books of Adam and Eve fascinating as well, and then they will be into New Age occultism without even realizing it. Don't be fooled friend, the Book of Enoch is occult material that will lead you into the senseless mysticism of pagan religion. The fact that it's being paraded to the public nowadays on Walt Disney's History Station as a SHOCKING revelation, should be a clear warning sign where this is all headed. The credibility of the Word of God is under malicious attack. Here's what the History Station is teaching people about Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Book of Enoch uses unfamiliar terminology, referring to the "Lord of Spirits" and the "Head of Days." These terms are foreign to the Word of God. The messiah is NOT directly mentioned. The ambiguous mention of what may or may not be the Lord Jesus in the Book of Enoch, is eerily reminiscent of Freemasonry (who worship the "Great Architect" ...an undefined, ambiguous, universal god). This is the false god of New Age. It is worthy to note that Christ's deity is not evidenced in the Book of Enoch.
It appears that many statements in the Book of Enoch were taken from the Bible, and then built around with mumbo-jumbo. Many terms from the Biblical Book of Revelation are quoted in the Book of Enoch; but without any sense or reason (in sharp contrast to the Bible). All 66 Books of the Word of God perfectly intertwine with each other, presenting a clear prophetic picture. The Book of Enoch doesn't offer anything of doctrinal value, because it's bizarre teachings stand alone (i.e., unable to be supported with Scriptures). Some defenders of the Book of Enoch contend that Jesus often quoted from the Book of Enoch. Prove it! Every Scripture Jesus ever quoted is found in the Old Testament, without any reference to a Book of Enoch. The strongest argument in favor of the Book of Enoch is found in Jude 1:14, "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints." Since this quote is NOT found in the Old Testament, some scholars have used this fact in an attempt to legitimize the entire Book of Enoch. We read in chapter 1:9 of the Book of Enoch...
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
However, there is no Biblical record of a "Book of Enoch." There is NO doubt that Enoch made these statements as Jude 1:14 confirms; but that doesn't necessarily mean that he authored the entire Book of Enoch (or ANY of it for that matter). It's a question of who copied who? And remember, the Author of the Bible is GOD; not men... "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2nd Peter 1:21). To elevate the Book of Enoch to the level of God's Word is dangerous, unless it is truly God's Word! If Enoch did write the Book of Enoch, it raises the natural question of whether or not the work was inspired by God? The King James translators,48 scholarly men skilled in the Hebrew and Greek languages, DIDN'T! Many godly men today write good books; but they are still flawed human beings, prone to sin, who aren't always doctrinally correct in every area. It would be a great evil to recognize their writings as EQUAL with God's Word (the Bible). Jesus condemned following the TRADITIONS of men over the commandments of God (Mark 7:6-13). Even king David warned against trusting men rather than God (Psalm 118:8). This is why Seventh-Day Adventists are a false religion, because they elevate the writings of Ellen G. White as EQUAL with the Bible. Scientologists do the same, by elevating the writings of Ron Hubbard as EQUAL with the Bible. Catholics are woefully guilty of elevating the teaching of the Vatican, fabricated over the centuries, as EQUAL with God's Word. Regardless of whether Enoch wrote the Book of Enoch or not, it is abundantly clear to the Biblically-sound believer that it is NOT inspired by God. It is also possible that Enoch's preaching was exploited and deliberately misconstrued after his death. The FACT of the matter is that the Book of Enoch is clearly a watered-down, heretical, manuscript filled with mumbo-jumbo. Unlike the Bible, the Book of Enoch doesn't appear to be going anywhere.
The Book of Enoch is a square peg which just doesn't fit anywhere. The wording is vague--a popular method of deception which Satan uses! Listen to the average televangelist these days and you'll get a watered-down sermonette; but hear no clear Gospel presentation. The occult is all about confusing people, which is why so many otherwise decent men join such a Satanic organization as Freemasonry. Benny Hinn's website appears to present the basic Gospel; but he is a known Catholic, who believes good works are necessary for salvation. You'll NEVER hear Benny Hinn condemn Catholicism or teach that ADDING good works to faith alone is a road to Hell. If you ADD anything to the simple Gospel, you've perverted it (Galatians 1:7). Every hellbound Catholic believes that Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, and that the blood of Jesus takes sin away. Tragically, they are also trusting the sacraments (baptism, Eucharist, etc), the Rosary, the Virgin Mary, the Church, good works, etc, etc, etc. Religion NEVER saved anybody. Don't give me the old-time religion--GIVE ME JESUS!
People 450-Feet Tall?
Are you really gullible enough to believe that fallen angels had physical intimacy with earthly women that produced offspring 450-feet tall? I don't think so! We read in chapter 7:12-15 of the Book of Enoch...
7:12 Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them;
7:13 When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them;
7:14 And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood.
7:15 Then the earth reproved the unrighteous.
A "cubit" is 1.5 feet. The ark which Noah built was 300 cubits long (Genesis 6:15). Do you mean to tell me that some women had children who were as tall as the ark was long? You've got to be joking! Such foolish conjecture is a violation of the simplest teachings of the Bible. In Genesis 6: we read, "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." I think Pastor J. Vernon McGee interprets this Scripture exactly right...
It says, “There were giants in the earth in those days,” but it does not say they are the offspring of the sons of God and the daughters of men. It does say this about the offspring: “the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” These were not monstrosities; they were men. The record here makes it very clear that the giants were in the earth before this took place, and it simply means that these offspring were outstanding individuals.
Humanity has a tremendous capacity. Man is fearfully and wonderfully made—that is a great truth we have lost sight of. This idea that man has come up from some protoplasm out of a garbage can or seaweed is utterly preposterous. It is the belief of some scientists that evolution will be repudiated, and some folk are going to look ridiculous at that time.
Evolution is nothing in the world but a theory as far as science is concerned. Nothing has been conclusive about it. It is a philosophy like any other philosophy, and it can be accepted or rejected. When it is accepted, it certainly leads to some very crazy solutions to the problems of the world, and it has gotten my country into trouble throughout the world. Anyone would think that we are the white knight riding through the world straightening out wrongs. We are wrong on the inside ourselves! I do not know why in this country today we have an intelligentsia in our colleges, our government, our news media, and our military who think they are super, that somehow or another they have arrived. It is the delusion of the hour that men think that they are greater than they really are. Man is suffering from a fall, an awful fall. He is totally depraved today, and until that is taken into consideration, we are in trouble all the way along.
Then what do we have here in verse 4? As I see it, Genesis is a book of genealogies—it is a book of the families. The sons of God are the godly line who have come down from Adam through Seth, and the daughters of men belong to the line of Cain. What you have here now is an intermingling and intermarriage of these two lines, until finally the entire line is totally corrupted (well, not totally; there is one exception). That is the picture that is presented to us here.
SOURCE: McGee, J. Vernon, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 2000, c1981.
We also read in 1st Corinthians 15:39-40, "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another." There you have it ... celestial (heavenly) and terrestrial (earthly) are NOT compatible. Just as a fish cannot breed with a horse, or a cow with a whale, so cannot a fallen angel breed with a woman. Also, Jesus clearly taught that the angels are NOT given in marriage (Matthew 22:30). We know that there were giants in the Old Testament; but as seen with Goliath the Philistine (1st Samuel 17:4), he was only 9' 6" tall (not 450 feet). Giants in the Old Testament were NOT the result of fallen angels marrying human women. And think about this, if fallen angels did have physical relations with earthly women, then why doesn't it occur today? There is no such thing as a succubus or an incubus (i.e. sexual relations between demons and humans). Furthermore, how could a woman give birth to a normal size baby that would then grow to be as tall as half the length of a football field? 'Com on, please be real. Although the Bible does contain may miraculous and startling events (e.g., the flood), they are all explainable and have rationale. Where are the skeletal remains of those 450-feet tall monsters? It is clear that many unsaved scholars today are trying to discredit the Bible as a book of fables, which is what the Book of Enoch certainly is. The Word of God is untouchable, unchangeable, and incorruptible!
We read in the Book of Enoch, chapter 69:4-6...
4 The name of the first Jeqon: that is, the one who led astray [all] the sons of God, and brought them
5 down to the earth, and led them astray through the daughters of men. And the second was named Asbeel: he imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel, and led them astray so that they defiled
6 their bodies with the daughters of men. And the third was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed [the weapons of death to the sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons.
Without a doubt, the primary claim of the Book of Enoch is that fallen angels had sex with human women and produced 450-feet tall giants upon the earth. This teaching is ridiculous, unscriptural, and has no solid evidence to support it (Biblically or scientifically). This is another good reason why the Book of Enoch should continue to be rejected. It is nonsense. Also, notice in 69:6 above that the Book of Enoch claims that a demon named Gadreel led Eve astray and introduced weaponry to mankind. How absurd. The Bible identifies the serpent which deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden as Satan (Ezekiel 28:13).
Conclusion
The reason why the early church fathers and the King James Bible translators rejected the Book of Enoch as inspired of God, WASN'T to hide the truth; BUT, because it isn't the truth. The Book of Enoch is a fraud, an imposter, and straight from Hell. I triple-dog dare you to try cross-referencing the Book of Enoch with the Word of God ... good luck! When I read in chapter 1:9 of the Book of Enoch that an angel named Phanuel is "set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life" ... I knew the Book of Enoch was fraudulent. Salvation is found ONLY in Christ Jesus, "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." King David said in Psalm 62:6, "He (Jesus) only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved." Phanuel... you're a fraud! Jesus is the ONLY Way, Truth, and Life (John 14:6).
The truth is that Satan is a murderous thief, who's sole purpose of existence now is to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10). Satan hates the Word of God, because It is his greatest enemy in this world. Therefore, Satan seeks to destroy the Bible. If he cannot destroy the Bible, then he tries to corrupt the Bible by changing it (Romans 1:25; 2nd Peter 3:16). If Satan cannot destroy or corrupt the Bible, then he tries to introduce "new" so-called "lost books" of the Bible to confuse people. It is NO coincidence nowadays, in this time of great apostasy--when homosexuals are being given in marriage, when babies are being murdered by the hundreds-of-millions worldwide through abortion, when witchcraft is all around us, when booze and gambling are commonplace, when sexual sins and lasciviousness have saturated society, when churches are silent concerning sin and false religion--that we should see all these "new" so-called revelations concerning the Bible. Here's an article I wrote exposing the Book of Judas, and another exposing The Jesus Papers. Don't be fooled, the King James Bible is a complete Book, and a Fine Book indeed. By the way, if you are using a New International Version, please throw it away! God promised in Psalm 12:6,7 to preserve His Word unto all generations, and He wonderfully has, in the precious King James Bible.
There are a lot of fellows floating around the world scene at the moment that one could possibly classify as being the Man of Sin? Already on this blog I have made a few comparisons between some of those possible suspects.
That being said there are some who are saying that we shall not know just who the Antichrist is until he moves into the newly built temple in Jerusalem, when the word of God quite clearly says that we shall know just who he is a long time before that date once he confirms a seven year Middle East peace treaty between the Jews of Israel and the Palestinians.
The correct Bible verse for that is Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27
King James Version (KJV)
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Over in Australia at the moment we have BRITISH climate change sceptic, Lord Christopher Monckton, preaching to the unsaved with his series of talks on various subjects such as the World Government, Global Warming, and so on.
Christopher Monckton is a man of many talents and I may not be overestimating him to call him an extremely intelligent man, if not sheer genius?
While having enormous success with his endeavours, there is something that is beginning to raise alarm bells relative to the man in question.
Who is he, and what does he want? Is it simply money, or is there really a lot more behind this man than meets the eye? You decide for yourself as the world awaits the arrival of the saviour, the man of peace, the economic mastermind etc.
Is this the man the world has been waiting for or is all of this just another one of the figments of my fertile imagination?
Already on this blog I have made several references to the Christopher Monckton but as has been mentioned above there is really something that is beginning to twig comparative to this man, even though he seems from outside appearances to be a saviour, but is that really the case at all?
A good link to look at is this one as it describes Christopher Monckton past and current history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley#European_integration
In Revelation Chapter 13, Verses 16 to18 there is a very clear mention in the word of God which speaks of a new system of buying and selling right at the end of the age known as the Mark of the Beast.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
We are also told in Revelation Chapter 14 the punishment for those who take the Mark of the Beast is eternal Hellfire. That alone is a fairly good reason to avoid taking it. Perhaps, but only just perhaps, that is the reason I sense a great deal of fear and trepidation from those who claim they are Born Again Christians relative to the Mark of the Beast?
9: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10: The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out 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:
11: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12: Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
After all, we all have to buy and sell in some form or another to live.
It seems to me that the general foreboding that I am sensing from not only some of those who have left comments on various blogs relative to the subject matter, but the general community of Christians in general, seems to stem from the sense of uncertainty some must be feeling as to whether they will be able to live in the world once the Mark becomes compulsory.
Or more correctly, how they will be able to still live in the world by buying and selling AND AVOID TAKING THE MARK once it becomes compulsory...
Of course, there are going to some that are going to disagree with these comments and that certainly is their prerogative to do so.
However, the answer to the aforementioned dilemma is relatively simple; those who truly belong to the Lord will not have to take the Mark of the Beast because they will miraculously be provided for even when it becomes compulsory.
And secondly, it has already been tried on Born Again Christians and it does not work.
So how is the Antichrist going to brainwash someone whose mind he cannot control?
The answer to that is relatively straightforward, he cannot.
Choose against the Mark of the Beast
Every person will be required to choose between 2 options. Please carefully consider these 2 options:
1. Get the mark of the beast – You will be worshiping the beast. The beast is Satan claiming to be God. You will be able to buy and sell. Many people will like you. You can keep your job and your house. But you will soon receive the full wrath of God, poured out without mercy. You will die forever.
2. Refuse the mark of the beast – You will not be able to buy or sell. People will hate you. You will lose your job, your house and most likely your life. But God will have mercy on you and if you believe in Him and worship Him you will live again, forever.
Worship God or Satan?
Every person on earth will worship one of two beings. Either it will be the true God of heaven or it will be the beast, who is Satan claiming to be God.
There is only one way to receive eternal life and one name to believe in to receive salvation.
“the name of Jesus Christ . . . Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name
under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:10-12
There are many ways to be lost and many false gods to worship. The beast will have 666 approved names that all claim to be God but are all false.
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." Matthew 7:13,14
Each person will either take God’s name or take one of the beast’s 666 names. God has only 1 name and 1 way – the right way. Satan has 666 names, 666 ways – all wrong.
Whose way will you choose? Whose name will you choose? Whom
I was only a young man of just 18 years of age when I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as being my saviour and deliverer. At that time I had accepted the son of God who had come upon the earth in the form of a mortal man to save us from our sins. Also at that time I had barely began to read the Bible.
