Eye-Opening Revelations and Forbidden Knowledge About Israel, the Jews, Zionism, and the Rothschilds

By Texe Marrs

"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea... And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast..."
— Revelation 13:1,4

It’s taken many years of exhaustive research. I have examined literally thousands of documents, manuscripts, and books—many quite rare and difficult to find. But finally, after years of fact-finding and burning of midnight oil, my newest book is here!

It’s title is Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star; perhaps more illuminating, however, is the book’s subtitle: Eye-Opening Revelations and Forbidden Knowledge About Israel, the Jews, Zionism, and the Rothschilds.

I invite you, my long-time friends of Power of Prophecy Ministries, to order one of the first copies of this incredible book. I am sure you won’t be disappointed. Like my recent volumes, Codex Magica, Mysterious Monuments, and Conspiracy World, this new work is huge and encyclopedic in scope. Almost all of the material is fresh and new. Some would say “shocking” as well. I also include a number of selected articles from my monthly newsletter that truly deserve reprinting.

I do not believe that anywhere, at any time, has a revealing book such as this come forth. Never before has the Judaic religion and Zionist conspiracy—thoroughly satanic and serpentine—been put under the microscope and examined with such clarity. Never before has there been such mind-boggling documentation of the crimes, plots, and schemes of many of the world’s most influential—and wealthy—Illuminati elitists.

Famous Men Illuminate Us on the Dangers
Evangelist Billy Graham, in private conversations with President Richard Nixon, spoke of the Jews’ “stranglehold” on America. He warned of the evil power held by the Jews of the “Synagogue of Satan.” The Communist founder Karl Marx, inspirer of the Rothschilds and of Barack Obama, admitted that the God of his fellow Jews is “Money” and their religion is “cash” and the “bill of credit.”

President Harry Truman, who once took a two million dollar bribe from the Jews, said that no-one can be more “selfish.” When the Jews have power, Truman cautioned, “neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.”

Bobby Fischer, World Grand Chess Master, often called “the greatest genius on planet earth,” boldly proclaimed that, “America is totally under control of the Jews.”

“They’re just unbelievably wicked,” Fischer added, “they’re a criminal people.”

All of these men and more you will encounter in the incomparable Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star. Order it today and discover for yourself the amazing facts about the “culture-distorters,” as twentieth century philosopher Francis Parker Yockey called the Jews. You will also find in the book the grave words of Protestant reformer Martin Luther. Luther at first befriended the Jews but eventually, to his dismay, found out the horror that lies sunk within the Jewish mind. Luther reported that while Christians pray for and bless the Jews, they themselves harbor only the most despicable of intentions toward Gentiles. The Jews among us, said Luther, wish Gentiles and Christians the most abominable fate: “They steal and mutilate our children, poison our water, curse us, and thirst after our blood. They even call Jesus ‘the child of a whore.’”

The Jews’ religion, Luther reluctantly concluded, “is worse than that of the heathen.”

They’re Working to Destroy and Crush Us
More recently, we see that the Jews, Israel, Judaism, and the Rothschilds are working incessantly to destroy Christianity, overthrow our Constitution, undermine our way of life, and rob us through their incalculably greedy Wall Street shenanigans. America is being put in a Communist vise and unmercifully crushed.

Do not think for a moment that this pitiful fate of a once great nation is due to unavoidable circumstance. The smackdown and bleeding of America is a deliberate and planned series of events. And Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star explains exactly who is behind this monstrous plot to savage and unravel America and throw us onto the dust heap of history.

As I disclose in Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star, the astonishing secret doctrine of the Jewish rabbis is that their coming Messiah is said to be a great Holy Serpent and Dragon. The rabbis boast that in the last days, this great beast will rise up from the bottomless pit (the sea of chaos) to conquer and vanquish the enemies of Zion. Is it not remarkable that in Revelation 13:1 the Apostle John gave us this striking prophecy: “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea.”

The Number 666 Discovered in the Six-Pointed Star
Please, take just a moment and cast an analytical eye at the cover of my new book, Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star. See the prophesied beast (the Red Dragon) rising up out of the sea of chaos? And make note of the “Star of David,” the symbol of the Jews and of Israel and Rothschild. Count the number of triangles on the Star. Count also the number of outer points of the Star and the number of lines of the hexagon within the Star. Do you not come up with the numbers “six-six-six”?

Now recall also that the Holy Bible forewarns, “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 (666).”

“Let the Wise Understand”
John also wrote, “And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit” (Revelation 9:1). Who is this “star,” and who is the “man” with the terrifying number 666?

You will find the answers in Conspiracy of the Six-Pointed Star. And when you do, I am confident that, like me, you will conclude, “Here is wisdom...” Indeed, this book will inspire and prepare you for some very tough days that lie ahead. The beast is fast rising , and when he leaps into action, the world as we know it will be at an end. Let the wise understand (Daniel 12:10).

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.

The Jewish Peril - The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

By Texe Marrs

Protocol No.5
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished."
Protocol No. 6
"In order that the true meaning of things may not strike the Goyim (Gentiles) before the proper time, we will mask it..."

Hitler, too, is said to have been aware of the Protocols. History shows, in fact, that he sought to warn the world of the satanic evil the Protocols of Zion presented to humanity. Germany at the time had one of the world’s most effective intelligence services. Thus, the Nazi leader well knew of these manifestly black magical Protocols and how masterfully Lenin, Stalin and others had used them.

By the time Hitler rose to become Chancellor of Germany, the Jewish Communists—Lenin, Trotsky, Kaganovich, Yagoda and others—had already carried out the most diabolical and gruesome holocaust and series of death purges ever perpetrated on a suffering humanity.

Thousands of Gulag prison camps, mobile gas chambers, and blood-spattered police interrogation centers were in full operation throughout the Soviet Union. According to noted Russian researcher Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author of The Gulag Archipelago), some sixty-six million men, women, and children were arrested, imprisoned, bludgeoned, tortured, and executed. Still, Lenin kept howling at associates: More...More blood...More terror. Do it! Now!

For over fifty years I have made it my life’s occupation to study the abomination that took place in Soviet Russia, followed by the lethal chaos and pain in Eastern Europe and Red China. The immensity of these brutal crimes cannot be overestimated. Any offenses committed by Hitler—and I do not paint over such offenses—were puny and minor compared to what took place in the Soviet Empire from 1917 to 1984.

How did these Communist spiritual predators and ancestors of Barack Obama, Lord Rothschild, George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Ben Bernanke and today’s Wall Street bankers do it? How were they able to grip scores of nations by the throat and yank out the jugular vein of tens of millions of innocent people? I am convinced it was because Lenin, Stalin and the others were well-grounded in the Protocols of Zion.

The Protocols Were Their “Bible”—Pure Babylon

This was their “Bible,” their operating manual. Its prescriptions had emerged from centuries of meticulous research and experimentation. Its conclusions had been tested by the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, by Marx and Hegel. Never had a manual of discourse so perfectly meshed with the labyrinth rules and laws set forth in the rabbis’ Talmud. The Protocols were Pure Babylon, authored by human devils inspired by Beelzebub, Azazel, and all the other demons from the bottomless pit of the Jews abyss of Abaddon.

Seeing as I did the vast significance of the Protocols of Zion, I knew I must make them available to as large an audience as possible. Let me be clear. The Protocols of Zion is the most banned book in the world. The tyrants and killers do not want you to read this incredible volume. They are the book burners, the censors, the would-be despots of humanity who intend to herd you, me, and all of humanity into the cattle pen of slavery and humiliation. The Protocols is their blueprint, their roadmap.

The Protocols have been outlawed in nation after nation so that today, it is extremely difficult to obtain a copy. But necessity of survival and freedom of speech dictate that this book be made available to all who seek truth. That is why I have chosen to publish this latest edition, complete with my new Foreword.

Is This Not the Devil’s Doing?
Please, read the Protocols and decide for yourself. Is this not the Devil’s doing? More than that, ask yourself these momentous questions:

Will the global conspirators use these same repugnantly wicked Protocols of Zion that so viciously devastated human hopes and brought such horrific tragedy in past decades to unleash the fury of an entirely new and even more bloody assault on human beings in this, our present-day era?

Is America, in this year, 2012, destined to replay and repeat this sad, torturous history as Satan’s Zionist, Communist agents once again crank up their funeral engines of death and ignite with demonic passions their long pent-up, jack-booted Red Terror?

It is, indeed, wisely said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And so it is that the hoofbeats of the horsemen of the Apocalypse can already be heard not too far off in the distance. Prepare for their coming. Get ready. Study the profoundly revealing Holy Bible’s book of Revelation; then carefully, very carefully, read and become forewarned of the Devil’s stratagems and plan as revealed in the Protocols of Zion.

Always remember: It is the prudent man, steeped in the incomparable Word of God, but keenly aware of the Devil’s crafty devices, who will remain safe and secure as mankind passes through the coming days of deception and despair.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.

Book Review: The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Book Cover

So remarkable has been the rise and rise of Vladimir Putin in Russian politics, and so brutal has his reign been to maintain power, that there has never been a more likely contender for the Beast of Revelation to have appeared on the world scene for quite a long time. It is a small wonder that there are those out there who would choose to label the man in question for what he is - a dictator of types. Even though there is not usually a time when I would choose to give someone a free kick for a book and support any book that person may have written, because of the accuracy of "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" this is one of those rare occasions. As there has been times when I may have thought that Putin was as I have suggested above that he might be, that alone is reason enough for publishing this book review by Nadir Hassan at this BlogSpot. However, in doing so there is still no way that I am being suggestive of Putin being the Antichrist when the facts of the matter speak for themselves.
 
Reviewed by Nadir Hassan
The remarkable and sudden rise of Vladimir Putin to the zenith of Russian politics from a place of obscurity will ring a bell for Pakistanis. Here was a man chosen by the embattled Boris Yeltsin not because of his political nous or sparkling charisma; rather the complete opposite was the case. Putin was dull, grey and seen as an obedient yes-man who would protect those who had elevated him. Instead, he embarked on an orgy of violence and score-settling. It took only the merest hint of dissent for Putin to lash out, often violently and sometimes through cooked-up trials, at his former patrons. The parallels with Generals Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf are quite eerie and speak to the natural human tendency to be corrupted by absolute power.

Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, in her brave and valuable portrait of the less seemly aspects of Putin in The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, posits that the man he has become in power is the man he was all along. Growing up in a one-bedroom apartment with his family, a place that would be his home till his mid-twenties, Putin was a thug from the start. He sought fights as a kid and personal enrichment as a KGB employee. His first KGB posting in Dresden was notable only for his desire to accumulate material goods, snatched from benefactors without so much as a thank you.

Gessen also dismantles the self-created myth of Putin as the dashing young spy fighting the good fight during the Cold War. According to her, he was little more than an office drone, gathering information no one wanted and writing reports that would never be read. Gessen also believes that Putin, while fiercely nationalistic, had no particular attachment to the Communist cause. Thus, in her opinion, Putin could play a secret role in supporting the hardliners in their 1991 coup attempt, distance himself from the aspiring coup-makers once their failure was guaranteed and then align himself with the non-Communist politician Anatoly Sobchak in Leningrad.

Of the incredibly risky reporting Gessen has undertaken, none is as impressive as her investigation into the $90 million Putin siphoned off while serving under Sobchak. She tracks down a woman who had looked into this matter and then fled to an almost uninhabited town after being threatened by Putin’s regime. The scheme goes something like this: with Leningrad facing a severe food shortage, Putin was responsible for selling raw materials to Germany in exchange for food. Nearly $100 million in raw materials was sold but almost no food arrived. Putin, as it transpired, purposely prepared legal documents for the import/export that were so flawed they would have no standing in court.

Peering behind the image of Putin as a nationalist who has brought prosperity to Russia, in The Man Without a Face, Gessen exposes a web of criminality and gangsterism that can all be traced back to Putin. She writes in painstaking detail about the various ways in which he took over the largest companies in Russia, simply arresting his opponents on fraudulent charges or intimidating them into leaving the country and abandoning their businesses.

Then there is the pile of corpses. The victims include journalists Anna Politkovskaya and Yuri Shchekochikhin, former patron-turned-critic Sobchak and secret service defector Alexander Litvinenko. Gessen goes a step further and accuses Putin of masterminding a string of terrorist attacks which were then used to brutally subjugate the Chechen people, including apartment bombings and the Moscow Theatre hostage situation of 2002. Given the diminished life expectancy of Putin critics, collecting all these theories in one book testifies even further to the courage of Gessen, who has lived in Moscow since 1991.

Gessen is equally scathing in her assessment of Putin’s rapacious appetite for wealth. She estimates that his fortune may be as high as $40 billion. One anecdote in particular illustrates her claim that Putin is motivated by a need to take what belongs to others. During a meeting with the owner of American football team, Putin was shown a Super Bowl ring that had 124 diamonds. He looked at it keenly and then simply pocketed it. After a few days of controversy, the man simply had to say that he had intended to give the ring to Putin just to diffuse a potentially fraught international situation.

So thorough is Gessen in her indictment of Putin as an evil force and so courageous is her willingness to do this freely, it seems a bit churlish to point out a couple of inadequacies in her book. Still, it is a bit jarring just how willing Gessen is to excuse the Russian people, who after all have consistently returned Putin to office, for tolerating and even supporting Putin. She overlooks the fact that Russia under Putin enjoyed a robust economic boom, sparked primarily by record-high oil prices and that this in itself could explain why a blind eye has been turned to Putin’s kleptocratic and murderous regime.

The other jarring moment is the epilogue to the book. After 250 pages of unremitting gloom, Gessen suddenly turns naively optimistic. She writes of a few protests that started to take place in 2011 and begins predicting Putin’s downfall. Gessen starts believing in the power of Facebook status updates and the white ribbons that come to symbolise opposition to Putin. Just a few short months after these protests, however, Putin’s grip on power does not seem to have loosened a bit. This is something anyone could have figured out just by reading the rest of Gessen’s book. That she does not do so, shows just how strong her hatred of Putin really is and just how badly she wants to believe that his rule may soon come to an end.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.

SHOP NOW with the MARK OF THE BEAST using PAYPAL on your SMARTPHONE

The Matrix Data Barcode - the Mark of the Beast

The Mark of the Beast money system for buying and selling is being introduced over here in Australia via the mobile phones. Moreover, this is happening without the average Aussie even being aware of what is going on.

For years and years, I was amongst the chorus of those who thought that the mark was an RFID chip. That is, until the Matrix Data Barcode started to appear everywhere I looked. As we have been buying and selling with barcodes for years and years anyway, it was at that point that I then came to the realization that the mark of the beast has been with us all for that amount of time anyway, but that is was just that we did not know that it was already here.

Can we then say the same thing when it comes to the correct identity of the beast; the suggestion is that he may have already achieved his power base without the average Christian even being aware that he is already in power. That may be the case even though there may be those who already suspect just who he is by naming who he is in some instances.

Data Matrix code is a two-dimensional matrix barcode consisting of black and white "cells" or modules arranged in either a square or rectangular pattern. The information to be encoded can be text or numeric data. Usual data size is from a few bytes up to 1556 bytes. The length of the encoded data depends on the number of cells in the matrix. Error correction codes are often used to increase reliability: even if one or more cells is damaged so it is unreadable, the message can still be read. A Data Matrix symbol can store up to 2,335 alphanumeric characters.

The 2D Matrix Barcode Scanner

Data Matrix symbols are rectangular in shape and usually square and are composed of "cells": little squares that represent bits. Depending on the coding used, a "light" cell represents a 0 and a "dark" cell is a 1, or vice versa. Every Data Matrix is composed of two solid adjacent borders in an "L" shape (called the "finder pattern") and two other borders consisting of alternating dark and light "cells" or modules (called the "timing pattern").

Within these borders are rows and columns of cells encoding information. The finder pattern is used to locate and orient the symbol while the timing pattern provides a count of the number of rows and columns in the symbol. As more data is encoded in the symbol, the number of cells (rows and columns) increases. Each code is unique. Symbol sizes vary from 10×10 to 144×144 in the new version ECC 200, and from 9×9 to 49×49 in the old version ECC 000 - 140.

Some us who like to receive what most would label as being junk mail in their letterboxes. Just the other day I happened to receive a Good Guys (a local electrical retailer) catalogue in the mail. On the front page was pictorial representation of a mobile phone with a clearly marked drawing of the mark of the beast right in the centre of the illustration. Around this illustration were the words SHOP NOW with PAY PAL via the mobile phone.

The mark of the beast is already then on the Smartphone in the form of an application with the next phase sure to be that it will soon start to appear on the skin. From that point onwards, once buying and selling begins, there can be no doubts at all that what will be looking at will be the Mark of the Beast.

The banking elitists, or the Jews behind the New World Order like to introduce dramatic changes slowly so that those who are having any new system foisted upon them do not become aware of what is taking place until after it is too late. That is exactly what is taking place right now, slowly but surely. After all, that was how the GST was brought into law over here, slowly but surely. Furthermore, there may yet be other infrastructure, such as the National Broadband Network, that still needs laid down before the mark can start to go onto the skin for buying and selling.

With a process like time setting one runs a distinct risk of any date that has been set of passing by without the predicated event-taking place. Knowing the scum of human nature, the only result of that can be is that I would be labelled as a False Prophet, terminology that passed the lips of so many quite frequently. Accordingly, I am then not going to pin point a date and say with without any doubts at all that this is going to be the time when we are going to see what now is nothing much more than a Smartphone application go onto the skin. It only those who are in the higher up echelons of the New World Order who are ever going to know exact dates and times. The rest of us will find out after the event has taken place.

A bizarre coincident? concerning the barcode is the Greek word charagma translated 'mark' in Revelation. Here's how Robert Van Kampen, in The Sign describes this coincident:

"It is interesting to note that the Greek word translated 'mark' is charagma which comes from the Greek word charax, which means 'a palisade, like a picket fence.' When one realizes that this specific word was used back in the first century, and we see today the use of the computer-related bar code, we find the possibilities becoming more than a reality in our day and age." (Robert Van Kampen, The Sign, 1992, p. 231)

Here's the explanation: The Greek "root" word for charagma (translated "mark") is charax. One of the meanings of charax is "a palisade" which is like a "picket fence, or vertical lines". The "idea" is, the reason John used the Greek word charagma, rather than stigma, etc., is because he was describing a 'mark' with vertical lines — a "bar code".

The barcode did something very important to help bring in 666: The mark of the Beast. . .

The barcode opened the door (in fact, it not only opened it, it kicked the door down) to the "digital world". Everything is now a number. Everything gets a barcode. As someone truly said, "If it exists, bar code it". I remember when barcodes first started appearing. I began telling people back then, the barcode was preparing the world for 666: the Mark of the Beast. Was I ever laughed at. . . even by the Christians. I can still remember their laughing and ridicule, "You mean to tell me, everything is getting one of those "marks". You mean, I'll go even to the local "7-Eleven" and they'll have laser scanners and they'll scan these "marks". No way. It would be too obvious what was happening. Everybody would know the mark of the beast is coming".

But isn't it amazing 25 years later. . . and nobody gives the "mysterious" barcodes even a "second thought".

Satan very carefully and subtlety (see Genesis 3:1 and 2 Cor. 11:3) indoctrinated us to our wonderful, convenient, new "digital world".

Take a close look at any electronic devices, whether it is an automotive keyless entry system or home audio equipment, and you will come across a unique coding standard called Data Matrix which is used by current product manufacturers.

The drive behind the integration of this standard is to help manufacturers build an automated tracking system which is long lasting, machine readable, and creates a unique identification of each product during its entire life cycle.

The ECC 200 2D Data Matrix codes are made through laser marking. They are a cost-effective method for distinctive identification and tracking of products during the manufacturing cycle, sales distribution and after-sale warranty verification stages.

All that I am able to do is to hazard a guess, as sheer speculation is all that it is going to be, I will say that we should see the matrix data barcode go onto the skin sometime within the next ten years or so.

That may sound like good news to those who are older. (I fit into the older category) However, to those who are still quite young that type of news is not so good, as what it then means that those same persons are going to see the Antichrist in full flight.

Furthermore, those same persons will also have to take the mark of the beast if they have not yet accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their saviour and deliverer. If there are those who reading this and have not yet accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their saviour there is no better time than right now to do just that by reciting the believers prayer of redemption out loud. See the HOW TO BE SAVED page below.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.

Raeptius and Harpazo

There would have been literally dozens and dozens of books written on the Rapture of the Church. In fact, there would have been so many it is therefore not surprising that there has been so many who have been thus far fooled by something that is not even mentioned in the word of God to begin with.

Most of those reading this would have a
basic understanding of the original meaning of the word Rapture. Nevertheless, there are those who say that when used in Biblical terms the word Rapture is supposedly an English word used in place of the Latin word raeptius, which is taken from the Vulgate version of the BIble, which in turn is a translation of the Koine Greek word harpazo, found in the early Greek New Testament manuscripts of 1 Thessalonians 4:17.

As one may have gathered from the above there those who claim that even though the word Rapture is never mentioned in the word of God some claim that due to an incredible metamorphous the word Rapture has been handed down to us in this modern day and age.

HOWEVER IF THOSE ORIGINAL WORDS HAD THE MEANING IT IS CLAIMED THEY DO THEN WHY WERE THEY NOT TRANSLATED INTO THE MODERN VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE SO THAT THE WORD RAPTURE IS PRESENT IN THE MODERN VERSIONS. THERE IS A VERY SIMPLE REASON WHY THE WORD RAPTURE IS NOT PRESENT IN THE MODERN TRANSLATIONS. THE ORIGINAL MEANINGS OF THOSE WORDS RAEPTIUS AND HARPAZO ARE NOT WHAT THEY CLAIM TO BE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT MEAN A RAPTURE AT ALL.

I for one would have no idea at all when it comes to reading the original Greek or Latin versions of the Bible. Therefore, how can I take that as being the correct information that is really nothing much more than second hand information at the best of times.

Nonetheless, there are those who say that "The "Rapture" event itself is the name given to a Biblically revealed event in which Jesus Christ descends from Heaven, accompanied by the spirits of all the saints who have passed on prior to this event, and then the bodily remains of these saints are transported from the earth to meet the Lord and be rejoined with their corresponding spirits in the air.

Adding to that it is claimed in many modern English translations of the Bible, harpazo is translated; "caught up", or "taken away". The meaning of "harpazo"[ har-pad'-zo Koine Greek;] is= "forcibly snatched away", "taken for oneself". Christians, alive and dead, are therefore "forcibly snatched away" by Jesus at some time known only to God the Father, and taken to Heaven to be with Jesus forever. The Bible then says, "Comfort one another with these words. (1 Thess 4:18 KJV).

The word of God does not say that the Christians will be taken up into Heaven to be with the Lord forever. Quite clearly, the word of God says that the dead in Christ will be raised first and then we who are still alive will be gathered together to meet the Lord in the air, with there being a distinct difference between the air and Heaven.

There is a great deal of scriptural verse that so many quite commonly use to verify their rapture doctrine. However there is still nothing at all that describes anything other than the Day of the Lord which really has very little to do with a Rapture. Nevertheless, the Day of the Lord and the Rapture of the Church are one in the same event as there are not two separate events.

If there is anyone, out there in cyber land who would like to show me a verse that they claim refers to a Rapture of the Church then I would be quite happy to retract that statement. However, I won't have to because no such verse exists.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.

Windows 8 and Some Obvious Conclusions It Now Draws.

Just to gain some sort of an idea of a comparison between windows 7 and windows 8 I have installed the latest version on one of my computers.

What I have found is that there is very little or no difference at all between the either one of the operating systems but that there are a what they label as being apps (short for applications) on the start page of the windows 8 computer when it is first switched on.

The apps have been quite prevalent on other similar devices for quite some time and now and because of the latest Microsoft operating system, they are all prevailing in the world of computers as well.

That then beggars the question as to why we are having apps foisted upon us in the first place when there are those of us who have been quite happy to do without them.

The answer to that question just may lay in the reality of the mark of the beast being introduced over here in Australia via the applications on the iphone -- and that those of us who have resisted the Iphone are now having the apps foisted upon them anyway.

That statement does not seem to be all that far removed from the truth when a minimal price is being charged for windows 8 and that it can be installed on any computer hardware going right back to the early days of XP.

In the past whenever a new operating system came out from Microsoft it involved hundreds and hundreds of dollars, alternatively, the cost of a new operating system involved the purchase of a new computer with the latest operating system already installed.

Of course, there is no one who is forcing anyone to go out and buy this latest version of windows.

However, for the reasons mentioned above they are making it so attractive to do so that anyone with an old computer would be foolish not to do so.

The reality of what I have mentioned above verifies that the Mark of the Beast is an application tattooed onto the skin and that it is being very cleverly foisted upon us over here in Australia even as I write this piece.

What is taking place is also a true testament to the true cunning of Satan and to the foolishness of those who have not yet accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their saviour and deliverer.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.

Myths of a Muslim Antichrist

by Jeremy Stevens
Ever since the followers of Mohammad stormed across the Middle East in the 6th century, Christians have feared this aggressive religion. Aside from the three hundred year struggle of the Crusades, Christians and Muslims have clashed time and again. Wherever Islam grows, the established Christian society finds itself besieged by the resilience of Islamic culture, and occasionally by the power of Muslim armies.

Lebanon, Nigeria, Egypt, Syria – all of these countries have seen their Christian minorities oppressed as Islamic birthrates continue to dominate their Christian adversaries. In the 21st century, Americans are rightfully afraid of the terror wrought by radical Islamist groups. From the recent killing of our ambassador in Libya to the terror of 9/11, Americans are on the front line of the War on Terror.

With Muslim birthrates soaring across predominantly Christian strongholds from Europe to Sub-Saharan Africa some sociological experts have Islam replacing Christianity as the world’s largest religion soon—real soon. There are simply not enough Dugger families in the Christian world to keep up with the Duggers of “Islamistan”.

What does scripture say about Islam’s future? Should Christians be so fearful of the world’s second largest religion? Additionally, there has been a growing movement in evangelical circles to pin the ethnic/religious background of the future antichrist as a Muslim.

Arguments for a Muslim Antichrist
No, the antichrist was not Hitler. Neither was the antichrist George Bush or Barack Obama. It’s not even Lady Gaga. Some in the evangelical world believe the antichrist will come from the Muslim world, not the Western world.

In his book The Power to Make War, the late great evangelist Zane Hodges believed the antichrist would be a Muslim due to the reference of “the Assyrian” found in Isaiah. Because that particular reference was discussing the antichrist, the Bible must be indicating that the antichrist will be an Assyrian. Since the Assyrian empire was founded in the Middle East, the Assyrian antichrist must also be a Muslim.

Philip Goodman, in his work The Assyrian Connection, also points to the reference of “the Assyrian” in Micah 5:5 as evidence for an Assyrian antichrist. Goodman speculates that there will be a revived Assyrian Empire founded in the Middle East.1 This Assyrian Empire will spawn the antichrist and will invade the globe from the Middle East.

Joel Richardson, author of Antichrist: Islam’s Awaited Messiah, believes the fourth world empire of Daniel’s dreams was not Rome and its descendants, but rather, the Ottoman Empire.2 This revived Ottoman Empire will create a caliphate across the Middle East, and will lead a host of nations against Israel.

Richardson also cites the similarities between the Shiite last Imam in Islamic eschatology with the antichrist of Scripture -- beheadings, conquest, and an intense dislike for Christians and Jews.

Do these authors have valid arguments for an Islamic antichrist? Given the recent surge in Muslim population across the globe it may appear so. Despite their claims, there are many issues with this theory. I have limited these problems to six major flaws below.

Why the Antichrist will NOT be a Muslim
1. “The Assyrian” reference in scripture does not necessarily refer to the antichrist

Dr. David Reagan, of Lion/Lamb ministries explains in his article, "The Antichrist: Will he be a Muslim?" that the reference found in Micah 5:5 to the “Assyrian” is located squarely in a Millennium passage of Micah. During the Millennium, Dr. Reagan asserts that God will protect Israel from all their enemies (Assyria was the enemy of Israel at the time Micah was written).3

Similarly, references in Isaiah to “the Assyrian” are attributed more to the character of the antichrist rather than the ethnicity. Similar types of antichrists are found throughout scripture. Sennacherib the Assyrian king who besieged Jerusalem was certainly a type. As was the Egyptian pharaoh of the Exodus. The most famous antichrist type was Antiochus Epiphanes, highlighted in Daniel 8 and again in Daniel 11.

“The Assyrian” must be a reference to his character as an enemy of God’s people and a terrible person overall.

2. Assyrians are predominantly Christian anyway

Even if the “antichrist-will-be-Assyrian” crowd is right, Assyrians today are predominantly Christian and not Muslim. Yes, most of them reside in present day Iraq, Syria, and Turkey (all overwhelmingly Muslim nations) but Assyrians themselves are over 90% Christian today. This counters the claim that an Assyrian antichrist would have to be Muslim.

3. Daniel predicted a Roman antichrist not a Middle Eastern one

In the famous “seventy weeks” passage of Daniel 9 the Old Testament prophet predicts the coming Tribulation as well as the ethnicity of the antichrist. Daniel 9:26b states, “…and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary…”

Daniel prophesies that this same “prince” in verse 26 will make a treaty with Israel in verse 27. He will then break that treaty and set up the abomination that causes desolation during the middle of the Tribulation. The “people” of this prince (the antichrist) were predicted to destroy the city (Jerusalem) and the sanctuary.

In 70 AD, almost five hundred years after Daniel’s prediction, the Roman Empire annihilated the Jewish people. A culmination of three Jewish uprisings, this last assault on Jerusalem would kill over a million Jews and send millions more into slavery across the Roman world.

Jerusalem has only been destroyed one time after Daniel’s prophecy and it occurred almost 2,000 years ago at the hands of the Romans. Therefore we can conclude that the antichrist, the prince of the Romans, will be a man of Roman descent -- not Assyrian.

4. The Fourth Beast of Daniel’s dream is Roman/Western, not Islamic/Middle Eastern

Daniel’s four world Gentile empires found in chapters 2 and 7 of his book describe four world empires in chronological order. Please look up these passages as you are reading this article.

a. Babylon (lion, head of gold)

b. Persia (bear, silver arms)

c. Greco-Macedonian (leopard, (bronze torso/legs)

d. Roman (iron beast of Rome, two legs (Eastern and Western Rome, and the future ten-toes/feet of antichrist’s rule)

It is plain to see in Daniel’s visions that neither Islam nor the Ottoman Empire were represented. Chronologically, there are no gaps in Daniel’s dreams other than the one separating the iron beast of Rome with its ten-toed counterpart during the Tribulation.

Babylon was quickly replaced by Persia in 538 BC, while Persia was swiftly routed by Alexander in 332 BC. After Alexander died, his generals divided the empires amongst themselves, only to eventually succumb to the power of Rome in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Rome dominated the world for another seven hundred years until its eventual collapse in 476 AD. The East wouldn’t collapse until 1453 AD.

Islam is also a relatively modern phenomenon, arriving in the 6th century AD. Islamic warriors never conquered the globe, nor are they expected to do so. The Islamic world of today is a conglomerate of different cultures, governments, and peoples, not a united Gentile world empire like Babylon, Persia, Greece, or Rome.

The Ottoman Empire is even younger. The Ottoman Turks made their debut in the Middle Ages against the Christian Crusaders, but wouldn’t grow to their full height until the 16th and 17th centuries AD.

The Ottoman Empire was impressive during its time, but fell apart after WWI. Scripturally and geopolitically, Turkey is not predicted to conquer the earth any time soon. Yes, Turkey is making a comeback today. Turkey may be involved in the Gog/Magog fiasco of Ezekiel 38 and 39, but Turkey will not spawn the antichrist or conquer the entire earth.

Those who claim the two legs of Daniel’s dream represent the two legs of the Ottoman Empire (Shiite and Sunni) have forgotten to account for nearly 1,000 years of Roman domination, the basic chronological outline of Daniel, as well as the nature of Islamic society and culture itself. Ah yes, one more thing – the Ottoman Empire was predominantly Sunni and not Shiite. The vast majority of Muslims practice Sunni and not Shiite Islam. Unless Daniel’s end-times beast was hobbling around on one leg, his visions cannot represent Sunni and Shiite Islam. The end-times world government will be a Roman/Western government, not an Eastern/Islamic one.

5. Lots of people enjoy be-headings (not just radical Islamists)

British and French people beheaded their monarchs. Japanese Samurai preferred beheadings as an honorable death. Mexican drug cartels are also known for the gruesome practice. Yes, there is a similarity between the end-times Shiite eschatology and that of Scripture – both the Imam and the antichrist love lopping off heads. Then again, so do a lot of different peoples and cultures today.

6. Imagine a Muslim antichrist blaspheming Allah… and living to tell about it

The Bible doesn’t hold back when describing the personality of the antichrist. He will be the worst human being in world history. Think about that for a moment. Perhaps the most telling indication that the antichrist will not hail from a Muslim land is found in Daniel 11:37,

“He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.”

Could you imagine the response of a devoutly Islamic nation like Egypt or Iran after their leader says, “I am god, there is no other god but… me! You will now bow down and worship… me!” This declaration would be both a direct blasphemy against Allah and a death sentence. Even in secular Turkey a man who claimed to be god would find himself thrown in prison at best.

No, the antichrist will not come from a Muslim land. The biblical, cultural, and historical evidence is too strong against the prospect.

More likely, the antichrist will come from the heir of the Roman Empire – the Western world. Rather than declared a heretic and beheaded, the antichrist’s blasphemous opinions will be welcomed with open arms in post-Christian Europe as trendy and edgy. If you’re planning to take that once-in-a-lifetime getaway trip to Europe with your spouse, do it sooner than later.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.