The Supernatural Worldview

Examining Paranormal, PSI, and the Apocalyptic
by Cris Putnam

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PART 14 - Demons & the Ghost Hypothesis

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; " 1 Tim. 4:1

One of my schools is the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, now known as BIOLA University, where I earned a certification in Christian apologetics.[i] A few years back, the BIOLA magazine ran a very interesting article called “Exorcizing Our Demons.” I was surprised to read that Dr. Daniel B. Wallace (1974, BIOLA)—one of the top New Testament scholars, Greek textbook authors, and professors at Dallas Theological Seminary—was asked to perform a house blessing/exorcism that became overtly supernatural. A wealthy Christian homeowner had reported poltergeist phenomena that began when his elderly father moved in, and he asked Wallace to bless the house. As Wallace and a colleague prayed through the rooms, objects began to move with no apparent cause. The BIOLA article reads:

“It was small objects, like magnets on the refrigerator flying clear across the room. It was really remarkable,” said Wallace, who once doubted that demonic activity occurs today. He’s now writing a book arguing that many evangelicals have become unbiblically antisupernatural.[ii]

Wallace no longer doubts the Supernatural Worldview, and this impressed me, because it’s not often that a big name like Wallace (from a cessationist seminary like Dallas) will openly speak about such activity. I wrote Dr. Wallace, and he personally confirmed the above to be accurate, except for the part about the book, entitled Who’s Afraid of the Holy Spirit?, which was already written. Not only that, he also confirmed the overt poltergeist activity to me personally:

Cris, it has been awhile but I can say this regarding the items that flew in the house. There was an elderly gentleman living there who was dying. His son owned the home. It’s a very large home, and the father was upstairs in the “mother-in-law apartment.” Besides the father and son, the son’s wife and one baby lived in the house. No teenagers. Husband and wife in their 40s at the time. When the items flew, we were in the kitchen—about the farthest place from the mother-in-law apartment (which was on the third floor, I believe).[iii]

I had him asked about teenagers and who else lived there because most parapsychologists try to explain poltergeist-type activity as psychokinesis from a living agent present in the haunted location. Usually a teenager is the culprit, and poltergeist activity is labeled RSPK (recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis), which sounds scientific but explains very little. However, because there were no typical RSPK agents present, this case excludes it and strongly supports the demonic hypothesis for this activity, as the objects were flying across the room in response to Wallace’s blessing the house. Thus, demons are immaterial beings who can affect the physical world, perhaps even reading and implanting ideas in our minds (Luke 8:27–29; Mark 9:22) and empowering false religions and some psychic phenomena. The demonic is all but dismissed under the delusion of scientism as per Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,[iv] and is still controversial amongst purported believers, as 59 percent of professing American Christians do not believe Satan is real.[v] The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, indeed.

Is the Trickster Really Satan?

Recalling the “trickster” mentioned by parapsychologist George Hansen (discussed earlier in this series): “The paranormal encompasses everything from levitating monks to ESP, from spirits to cattle mutilations—an incredible and unsavory hodgepodge. The mix seems incoherent. But the trickster makes sense of it.”^[vi] Hansen believes that paranormal events, the manifestation of strange creatures, UFO sightings, and ghosts occur when the society is in transition. Most interestingly, he forecast that during the transition, “Charismatic leaders may arise who demonstrate paranormal powers, attracting followers, and challenging the legitimacy of the establishment.”[vii] Pope Francis is seen by prophecy scholars as matching the description, and the book by myself and Tom Horn, Petrus Romanus [FREE THIS WEEK ONLY WITH $300 IN OTHER BOOKS, VIDEOS, AUDIOS, E-BOOKS & MORE], details how he satisfies a nine-hundred-year-old prophecy pointing toward the False Prophet or second beast in the biblical Apocalypse (Revelation 13:11). Pope Francis is confirming this identity by asserting universal salvation: “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!”[viii] Of course, the idea that atheists are redeemed is contrary to the teaching of Jesus (Matthew 7:13–14) and the New Testament in general (Galatians 2:16; Hebrews 11:6). Whether or not Pope Francis is the False Prophet remains to be seen, but it is indisputable that he is a false prophet. We’ve seen plenty of evidence for the transition—the paranormal paradigm shift—but who is the trickster?

In mythology, folklore, and religious studies, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal that plays tricks that defy the rules and conventional behavior. Often this deceptive behavior is cast as heroic. Brer Rabbit from American folklore and Bugs Bunny from Warner Brothers Cartoons are the tricksters from a purely literary standpoint. Popular folklore posits the trickster as a high-ranking angel indulging in some off-the-clock fun. On the CW network’s television show Supernatural, there was a villain known as “The Trickster” appearing in seasons 2, 3, and 5. In the show, the Trickster was revealed to be the archangel Gabriel, who allegedly used the Trickster persona to indulge certain personal desires. Gabriel was killed by Lucifer, but he managed to leave a video that eventually helped the two brothers to defeat Lucifer. Who says the age of myth is dead?

While it isn’t possible to say with any authority whether or not the trickster is objectively real, Scripture does seem to offer a few hints. Satan is said to blind the minds of unbelievers (2 Corinthians 4:4); his mission is to deceive (2 Thessalonians 2:9) and to disguise himself as “an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:4). Hansen also sees sexual perversion as a trickster attribute: “There is another component of the trickster constellation—sexuality. I have not addressed the sexual imagination, but it is a powerful force. So here we have the trickster elements of deception, sex, and psi, which are all closely associated with the imagination.”[ix] Of course, Satan and demons are associated with sexual temptation (1 Corinthians 7:5; Jude 6–7).

The devil is a trickster in that he lures and entices with promises of great success and fantastic pleasure, but, in the end, the results never truly satisfy. Peter Jones writes, “The paranormal world of the occult is real, and practitioners have regularly spoken of the cruelty with which they are treated by demonic powers.”^[x] He then cites Helena Blavatsky, founder of the occult Theosophical Society, who late in life wrote to an old friend and declared: “I would gladly return, be Russian, be Christian, be Orthodox. I yearn for it. But there is no returning; I am in chains, I am not my own.”^[xi] This is an astonishing admission of enslavement coming from such an infamous occultist. While such deceptive entrapments are consistent with the trickster archetype, it is still hard to make a definite identification. Nevertheless, Hansen’s inferences about the trickster making sense of the paranormal do loosely fit the biblical data about Satan and demons and, even more so, match the end-time parapsychological agenda forecast by Watchman Nee that people “who develop their soul power cannot avoid being contacted and used by the evil spirit.”[xii] In my new investigation (released this week by Defender Publishing under the title The Supernatural Worldview) I provide fresh and compelling evidence that someone like the trickster is enticing people including Christians through such things as yoga, meditation, and pantheistic monism. Did Watchman Nee anticipate this so well in the early 1930s, or was his warning divinely inspired? One way or the other, it is coming to pass. But let us now examine the identity of the adversary. While it is relatively clear in the New Testament that Satan is a rebel archangel adversarial to Christ and humanity (Matthew 25:41; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:9), the origins of his brood are less clear.

The Origin of Demons

The original Greek term daimon from which we render “demon” in the New Testament had a wide range of meaning. In fact, in popular Koine Greek, the word commonly referred to human ghosts. According to a leading scholarly lexicon, “So far as concerns popular belief and its animistic basis we may simply say that demons are fundamentally the spirits of the departed.”^[xiv] This is rooted deep in antiquity as Hesiodus of Ascra (c. 700 BC), the oldest Greek poet to emerge as a tangible figure, called the souls of the departed daimones.^[xv] This is generally consistent with Jewish beliefs.

In the Hebrew Bible, the spirits of the dead consulted in witchcraft are called elohim, as seen in the invocation of the witch of Endor, who marveled: “I saw gods (elohim) ascending out of the earth” (1 Samuel 28:13). What we want to know is what the New Testament authors meant when they used the Greek term daimon. The problem is that because we have very little data on the origin of demons and evil spirits in the Bible, we just do not know with any certainty. Theologian Millard Erickson conceded, “The Bible has little to say about how evil angels came to have their current moral character and even less about their origin.”^[xvi]

Furthermore, there could be truth in more than one theory. There is no reason they all must be the same. Some of these entities could have started out as humans and others angels. Thomas Horn lists seven possibilities held by various scholars: 1) Spirits of a pre-Adamic race; 2) Otherworldly beings (extraterrestrials, as unpacked in our co-written book, Exo-Vaticana -- also available FREE this week only); 3) Offspring of angels and women (the nephilim-origin hypothesis); 4) Spirits of deceased wicked men; 5) Fallen angels; 6) Several of the above; 7) None of the above (demythologization). Of the seven, I fall under the broad area of number six, concerning which Horn wrote:

The proponents of this hypothesis believe a singular concept for the origin of “demons” is a mistake, that in fact what is routinely considered “the demonic realm” could be made up of several of the explanations above, and that this might demonstrate the hierarchy of demons as outlined in the book of Ephesians. In this view, “fallen angels” might rank above the “spirits of Nephilim” and so on, with each being a distinct part of the army of darkness. Just as privates in the United States military serve under sergeants who serve under majors, Satan’s forces consist of wicked spirits (poneria: the mass of common demon soldiers comprising Satan’s hordes) under rulers of darkness (kosmokrators: martial spirits that influence or administer the affairs of earthly governments) and powers (exousia: high-ranking officials whose modes of operation are primarily battlefield ops). Above these are principalities or archons (arche: brigadier generals over the divisions of Satan’s hosts). Satan, who reigns as supreme commander and king, is the “prince of the powers of the air.” (Ephesians 2:2)[xvii]

There seem to be a variety of evil spirits at work, and too many unknowns plague our knowledge. As discussed previously, we live amongst a widespread resurgence in occult practices, including witchcraft and magic. More disturbingly, satanic cults have arisen, resulting in ritual murders by conscience-seared adults and misguided teenagers. The reality of demonization no longer seems fanciful, but it is probably still too often explained away by mental illness. Many Americans are falling prey to devices of deceitful supernatural entities, mainly through ignorance. The most advanced books of demonic magic, spiritism, and witchcraft are readily available to anyone on the Internet and in the teen books sections of mega-retailers like Barnes & Noble. The flood of supernaturalism in America is beyond the control of law-enforcement agencies and organized churches, but it is not beyond the sovereignty of God. In The Supernatural Worldview I provide an entire expedient section on how to expand your worldview in preparation for what many believe to be an unprecedented rise in demonic activity prior to the return of Christ. Before moving into speculative territory regarding the origins of the tricksters behind this Spiritual Warfare, I want to clarify what we can be confident in. 

 

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So WHO Was the First President of the United States?

Amazing how the things we are taught in school just aren't true.  Try a little historical truth on here for the first President of the United States.

 

Why are we not told about the 13 missing years of the American history. We are told George Washington was the First President. He was elected President in 1789, the Country began in 1776, why are missing 13 years? This is a brief video about the true story. Why was John Hancock's Signature the LARGEST and at the bottom? Was he really the President and was he the first president? Did you know there were eight presidents before Washington?

Strange Video of "Chem-Bomb" Exploding as it Descends Through Chemtrails

How strange does it get in the skies above us?  Just watch...

Please see the update of this clip. After watching many vids sent to me I found a device in the red falling object in my clip. Knowing this I am changing the title of this clip as it has caused way too much fear - I wanted to create awareness of chemplanes. For that I am sorry and will strive to better title my work.

I now think this is a device dropped from a chem plane that helps them track their efforts in some way. All that debris looks like metallic particles that might help the tracking - or maybe we just do not know. It is a bit shocking to see this over houses though.

Thank you all for getting this clip out as it did cause many to think about what is being dropped and sprayed over our heads. PLEASE FILM THESE PLANES AND POST WHAT YOU SEE - IT IS NOT RIGHT!

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Air Force Admits Weather Control via HAARP and New Tech

 

By Susan Duclos

While HAARP and weather control has been called a conspiracy theory by the mainstream media and government officials, during a Senate hearing on Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, dropped a bombshell in answer to a question asked by Lisa Murkowski in relation to the dismantling of the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer.

 

Walker said this is “not an area that we have any need for in the future” and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. “We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,” he said. “To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed.”

Many believe HAARP was created and has been used for weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes and comments such as this bring about the question of whether conspiracy theorists are more on target than anyone has admitted to date.

This is not the first time a public official has acknowledged that HAARP and weather control is not only possible, but has been and continues to be, used as a “super weapon,” as evidenced by a statement in 1997 by former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen, where he said “Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts.”
Is it still just a conspiracy theory if public officials admit it is true?

Watch the question and answer session below:

 

Read the rest of the article at - http://www.zengardner.com/air-force-admits-weather-control-via-haarp-new-tech/

Triangular Stealth Aircraft Filmed in the Skies Over West Texas

'Flying Dorito' in West Texas skies

Byron Harris
WCNC.com

What's that in the sky over Amarillo?

"It was the strangest thing I've seen, as far as aviation," said Dean Musket, part of the motley crew of airplane buffs who sits down at an airport restaurant in this West Texas city and looks up.

"They are aviation junkies," waitress Erin Williamson said. "They love it."

And they are seeing things you can't see anywhere else.

Military aircraft cruise over Amarillo like sharks looking for baitfish.

"If you're flying east, west, or vice-versa across the United States, you're probably flying over Amarillo," Steve Douglass said.

A group that might be called the "interceptor club" watches everything military that flies over. But back in March, they spotted three craft they'd never seen before, about six miles up.

"We had captured something completely unique," Douglass said.

© WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth
A group of plane watchers saw three unidentified aircraft flying in formation above Amarillo, Texas, in March. The Air Force has not said what the aircraft were.

    

It was trianuglar, like a stealth bomber... but not a stealth bomber.

"The back edge was smooth like a Dorito," Douglass said. "It wasn't jagged."

A few weeks later, the same shape was snapped by another spotter in Kansas.

"This is when we first saw it flying in formation from the backside of the airport," said Douglass, who is something between an aircraft enthusiast and a fanatic.

He's sitting in what he jokingly calls "Kitch Com," a nook of his kitchen crammed with electronic gear to monitor aircraft traffic. He's got a special antenna to pick up satellite transmissions.

"On this side, it's my bunker, and on this side, it's my kitchen, which is microwave ovens and food," he said.

On the day the mystery planes were spotted, Douglass recorded air traffic controllers giving the aircraft a clear lane through the sky. The Air Force confirms nothing.
Read the rest of the article at - http://www.wcnc.com/entertainment/strange-news/258814271.html

Bankers killing bankers for the insurance money and another look at insider trading around 9/11

 Max Keiser
RT                  

© Reuters / Brendan McDermid

 

    

Two big, macabre stories came out of Wall Street recently: the rash of banker deaths by apparent murder and/or suicide, and speculation that bank CEOs themselves are behind the trend to cash in on the insurance.

It turns out that banks take out life insurance policies on their employees, and those policies pay out death benefits to the banks - not the families. In other words, to add to the banks' other crimes, they appear to also be involved in the "suicides" and deaths of their own, as a way to fatten their bottom line and bonuses.

Should we be surprised by this banker-on-banker death scam? After all, wasn't this what 9/11 was all about?

A new book by James Rickards, 'The Death of Money' (read: 'Death of Bankers'), opens with a timeline starting three days before the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers and describes them from a first-person account from inside the CIA, which was monitoring trading on airline stocks (specifically 'put options'), from traders who were profiting from the 9/11 disaster.

 

Read the rest of this article at - http://www.sott.net/article/279176-Bankers-killing-bankers-for-the-insurance-money-and-another-look-at-insider-trading-around-9-11

Welcome to Brazil! Brazil unveils scary 'Robocop' suit to protect super-elite police unit during World Cup

 Donna Bowater
The Telegraph
       

© AFP/GETTY
The paramilitary police riot body armour.

 

    

There will be a RoboCop style to the face of policing in Rio when football fans turn up for the World Cup in Brazil next month.

Members of a special unit set up for the tournament and the 2016 Olympics in Rio have been given 200 sets of the 22lb "RoboCop" protective equipment, which is flame resistant to up to 427C.

It includes a helmet and vest that protects the back, chest and shoulders, plastic shin pads, a pepper spray mask and a belt for a.40 calibre pistol, stun gun, handcuffs and baton.

The Major Events Police Battalion, a branch of the military police, was formed in January this year in response to widespread public demonstrations during last year's Confederations Cup.

That tournament was marred by ugly clashes between police and demonstrators as thousands protested against public spending on the World Cup. Rio de Janeiro will host seven games during the competition, including the final on July 13.

Jose Mariano Beltrame, the state secretary for security, cited "the need to give the military police specialized, efficient and intelligent instruments for patrolling, aimed at the preservation of public order in public places where there is the presence of a crowd of people gathered together".

Lt. Col. Wagner Villares, the commander of the unit, which has 600 officers, said the equipment would protect officers from missiles such as a firecracker that killed Santiago Andrade, a photographer, earlier this year.

"The plastic uniform is resistant to knocks and blows," he told news website Ultimo Segundo.

 

Read this article at -   http://www.sott.net/article/279224-Welcome-to-Brazil-Brazil-unveils-scary-Robocop-suit-to-protect-super-elite-police-unit-during-World-Cup

Signs Of Change The Past Month Or So 2014 - April/May

64 cows dead from the lightning strikes in one storm? 

The earthquake uptick continues all over the ring of fire. At the center of these changes, the United States deals with historic flooding which was nearly a one-in-500 year event!

So much more has taken place the month or so than this video shows. The deluge continues to hit heavily populated areas! Be prepared for large scale disasters in your area. It has and it will continue to worsen whether we like or not. Stay safe and thanks for watching!

This should be the last of the monthly installments of this series. Look for them a little more often!

These videos are best viewed with good sound or headphones.

*This series does not mean the world is ending! These are documentaries of series of extreme weather events that are leading to bigger earth changes. If you are following the series, then you are seeing the signs.

*Soundtrack*
Atomic Mix Lab - Serenta
Impact Trailer Music - Fountain Of The Sacred
KPM Music- The Offering
8dawn Music - Globus

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Revelation: The Fuel Project Guide (Part 15 - The Fifth Trumpet - Demons Unleashed)

When the fifth trumpet is blown a demonic horde is unleashed to cause torment and suffering amongst the peoples of the world...

Nigerian Father Refused to Recant Faith Before Boko Haram Killed Him

"He told him that he would rather die than to go to Hellfire," –Deborah Peters
(Washington, DC)—In an effort to raise more awareness and gain help for the 200+ Nigerian girls kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, Nigerian teen, Deborah Peters came to Washington, DC, this week, to share her own experience. (Photo via Christian Post)

Peters, 15, told of how the same terrorist group came to her home in Chibok—the same place the kidnapped girls are from.

Three of the terrorists entered Peters' home, and demanded that her father—who was a Christian pastor—renounce his faith.

According to the Christian Post report, he refused, saying that “he would rather die than to go to Hellfire."

They shot him three times, killing him, and then they shot and killed her brother because they reasoned that he might grow up to be a pastor too.

Others were present at the event held on Tuesday, who had experienced similar atrocities at the hands of the Boko Haram terrorists; they were part of a panel hosted by the Hudson Institute of Washington, DC.

Read more at - http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=13847

Pentagon Plan for Zombie Apocialypse

There's a fascinating piece of Bible info about halfway through this video regarding the demonic horde "Legion" that Jesus cast out in Mark 5:1-20.

This is not a test, but a real military plan by the Pentagon to stop the undead in a "Zombie Apocalypse" http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com also http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2...

MERS Spreads - Is This the First Genetically Engineered Flu Aimed at a Particular People Group?

If you have heard of the "dead scientists list" from about 10 years past, you probably heard the story about "someone" killing off scientist who may have worked on a government sponsored program to genetically engineer a virus or flu that would affect only a particular people group.  Like say, those of Middle Eastern descent.  So far, MERS has fit the bill.  It's only been spread to people of Middle Eastern Descent.  As you will see below, even those cases in other countries have been Middle Eastern peoples.  More information may change this idea, but so far, MERS fits the bill.  Engineered pestilence, the ultimate weapon of war against a region.

MERS outbreak becomes more urgent, WHO says – Saudis reports 5 more deaths, 22 U.S. airports put on alert

Posted by The Extinction Protocol

May 2014 – DISEASE – Saudi Arabia reported five more deaths on Wednesday from a mysterious respiratory virus that first appeared there two years ago and has since spread to at least 16 other countries, including the United States. The Saudi Health Ministry said the latest fatalities from infections caused by the virus, known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, brought the total in that country to 157. Saudi Arabia accounts for the vast majority of the 171 deaths and 571 infections from the virus globally. The Saudi announcement came as the World Health Organization said in a statement that its concern about MERS “had significantly increased,” but that there was still “no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission” of the virus. –NY Times

Two more cases in US – Two health workers in the U.S. are now showing signs of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) after exposure to an infected Saudi resident. CBC News Canada reports that the two workers have already been isolated, one is being treated in the hospital while the other is isolated in his home where he is being monitored. These two workers have been isolated because they are showing flu-like symptoms, which is how MERS starts. Florida’s method of response has been to isolate potential MERS patients first and then confirm or refute that they are carrying the virus after. As a result, these two have already been isolated. Additionally, there are 15 other workers at the hospital the Saudi resident visited that came into contact with him. They have been asked to stay home until they are cleared.

These new suspected cases come less than two weeks after the first U.S. case. On May 2, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first confirmed U.S. case of MERS.  Public health officials are assuring citizens that there is very low risk to the general public.  Still, the Daily Herald reports that CDC officials are contacting individuals that may be at risk and will respond if others are showing symptoms. MERS is a coronavirus of the same family as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).  The World Health Organization reports that MERS suddenly appeared and started infecting people in September 2012 and may have a higher mortality rate than SARS. However, CBS News reports that SARS infected healthy and unhealthy people at comparable rates, while MERS seems to affect vulnerable people at a drastically higher rate. -CNN

 

Read more at - http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/mers-outbreak-becomes-more-urgent-who-says-saudis-reports-5-more-deaths-22-u-s-airports-put-on-alert/

Pope Benedict XVI on German Radio Issues Warning About Vatican Agenda - Alien Agenda

by Joseph P. Farrell

It seems, according to this article, that former Pope Benedict XVI (Josef Cardinal Ratzinger) has broken his post-retirement silence to issue a warning about curious dealings inside the Vatican:

Former Pope Warns of Vatican Alien Agenda

If true, then it sets the “space news” that has been going on during the previous month into an even more curious light, for Benedict is confirming what most Vatican watchers have long sensed was taking place: a real struggle between two factions, one intent on preserving what remains of Catholic identity and culture in the wake of the Vatican II revolution(which Ratzinger himself, in his function as a priestly peritus or expert during that council, helped to lead), and the other intent on completely transforming the church into the agency of something ultimately completely foreign to any form is historically rooted Christianity, Roman Catholic or otherwise. Many, including former Vatican watcher, the late Fr. Malachi Martin, himself a former Jesuit, shared those concerns. For the record, it is worth recalling that Martin wrote a book about the subversive influence of the Jesuits, and requested Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Cardinal Montini) to release him from his vows to the order, which the Pope did.

But what Benedict XVI has done is to warn of an “alien agenda.” The question is – assuming the comments as reported in the above-linked article are true – is what Benedict really meant by that phrase “alien agenda,” for “alien” can simply mean foreign, i.e., something intrinsically non-Roman Catholic or perhaps something non-Christian, or, in its current colloquial usage, can mean “non-terrestrial” or “non-human.” And in the Catholic context, that could be taken to mean also something spiritual and demonic.

Given the rather strange space news we’ve been tracking on this site over the past month or so, however, the context does seem to argue that Benedict is indeed warning about the sudden turn of events in the Vatican. Whereas previously Vatican spokesmen have commented on the possibility that non-human intelligent life could be baptized, implying the view that such life could and should be evangelized and converted, more recent pronouncements have jettisoned this possibility for the well-known meme of welcoming our “space brothers” as being inevitably “closer to God” than humanity, since on this view they would not have fallen. This, as I commented in a previous blog, is a fundamental abandonment of the cosmic dimensions of the doctrine of the Fall, a dimension shared by all traditional expressions of that doctrine, be they Protestant, Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Orthodox.

But the real significance here is the obvious one: a former pope, the first to retire and resign from office in almost 600 years, has issued a warning about something going on inside the Vatican. I strongly suspect, that with the stories that continue to swirl around the Vatican bank, the continuing clergy sex scandals (and its suppression), rumors of even more “black practice” among various groups of clergy and hierarchs, and now the strange flip-flop on the “space brothers” issue from the Vatican, that for Benedict to break silence and comment on affairs while his successor is still alive, is a huge – nay, gigantic – breach of protocol and ecclesiastical courtesy. We may be indeed looking at a constellation of developments that formed the real reason for Benedict’s resignation.
And that can only mean that Benedict is quite alarmed.

Read the article at - http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/05/high-strangeness-pope-benedict-xvi-german-radio-issues-warning-vatican-agenda/

U.S. Becomes Chief Enabler of Christian Persecution

by Raymond Ibrahim

"We are looking for the bishop of this church to slaughter him -- we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making." — Church elder quoting Muslims who attacked a priest, Zanzibar.

"Muslims wanted to punish [him]...because he had recently organised a demonstration against violence in Islam." — Local priest of a murdered Christian, Bangladesh.

"O people of the Scripture [Christians]. Do not exceed the limits of your religion....Cease! It will be better for you...." — Koran, 4:171, Billboard in Nazareth, Israel.

Human rights organization Open Doors published its 2014 World Watch List in January, highlighting and ranking the top 50 nations that persecute Christians. The overwhelming majority of countries making the list—and nine of the top-ten worst offenders—are Muslim, and include nations from among America's allies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) and its contenders (Iran); from among economically rich nations (Qatar) and poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); from among "Islamic republic" nations (Afghanistan), "democracies" (Iraq), and "moderate" nations (Malaysia and Indonesia).

The report also indicates that every Muslim nation that the U.S. has helped "liberate," including during the "Arab Spring," has become significantly worse for Christians and other minorities. Previously moderate Syria is now ranked the third-worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four receive the worst designation in the ranking process: "extreme persecution."

Three of these countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—were "liberated" in part thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring "freedom fighters" against the regime. Many of these "freedom fighters" have been responsible for any number of atrocities—including massacres, beheadings, and the crucifixion of Christians, and others.

Despite this track record of interfering in Islamic nations, only for the human rights of minorities to plummet, and despite the fact that Syria has gotten dramatically worse for Christian minorities, Secretary of State John Kerry declared in January that, if only Bashar Assad goes away, "I believe that a peace can protect all of the minorities: Druze, Christian, Isma'ilis, Alawites—all of them can be protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights of all people are protected."
The same was predicted of Iraq over a decade ago, yet today, well more than half of the Christians are either dead or have fled, after years of constant attacks on their churches and persons once the Arab dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted.

Libya offers a more recent precedent. Since U.S.-backed "rebels" overthrew Qaddafi, Christians—including Americans—have been tortured and killed (some for refusing to convert), churches bombed, and nuns threatened.

January's roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.

Read the rest of this article at - http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january

Revelation: The Fuel Project Guide (Part 14 - The First Four Trumpets)

The Day of Wrath begins with four disasters that affect the earth, the salt water oceans, the fresh water rivers and springs, and the sun, moon & stars...

Cold War, Act Two: The Mysterious Flight Groundings and The View from RT...

Posted by Joseph P. Farrell

I’ve been concerned lately, watching the developing news about exo-geopolitical competition, the emergence of the BRICSA entente, and post-9/11 US “unipolarism,” that we are watching the emergence of Cold War, Act Two. From the point of view of Realpolitik, the “war on terror” has been, in a certain sense, a fizzle. People aren’t buying it, and a more powerful “adversary” is needed in the Hegelian dialectical scheme of things, and what better “rival” than a “resurgent Russia”(with all the appropriate demonizations of the Russian leadership in the Western press), a “threatening China”, and a BRICSA bloc intent upon challenging western post-war international financial structure? In a certain sense, the moves by the BRICSA nations are predictable blowback against what I and others have been calling post-9/11 “unipolarism,” so aptly announced by former president G.W. Bush: “if you’re not with us, then you’re against us.”

To that end, it appears that RT (Russia Today), is picking up on the meme, and either that Russia is “playing its scripted roll,” or that it is reacting quite reasonably to a geopolitical situation, or both:

US pushes to complete ‘project for military domination of entire planet’

The article is correct: the USA is the only nation on earth whose military has divided up the globe into area commands. (For those of you into the military symbolism, that would be the equivalent of putting seven “x’s” over your headquarters units, with eight reserved for the Pentagram in Washington. In other words, we’re way beyond army groups and theater commands even of World War Two.)

But there have been curious setbacks along the way: Russia has not rolled over and played dead. In fact, it has vigorously opposed American interventionism, first in South Ossetia in 2008, more recently in the Crimean peninsula, and, if the Russian version of the story is to be believed, in the USS Donald Cook incident, where a Russian Sukhoi-24 bomber apparently quite convincingly demonstrated Russia’s ability to jam our most sophisticated missile defense system radars.

More recently, there was a grounding of civilizan airliners in the American southwest, and we now have three different versions of that story(sort of like all the versions of what really happened to Malaysia Air Flight 370). We were told, first, that the grounding occurred because of a computer glitch in a regional air traffic control facility. Then we were told a second story, that the system was affected by the overflight of an American U-2 spy plane. This story didn’t really have wings, since U-2s fly all the time without apparent affect on the air traffic control system(if they fly any more at all).

Now there’s a third possibility making the rounds on the internet, and it made me sit up and take notice:

Russian Strategic Bombers On West Coast: Did They Take Down LAX Air Traffic Control Systems?

Of all the stories floating out there about the grounding of flights in the Southwestern USA, this is the one that makes the most sense to me, and, following as it does the USS Donald Cook incident, it makes sense: if true, then it would mean a further demonstration of Russian capabilities, which, in the light of the equally mysterious take-downs of the Russian GLONASS satellites (Russia’s equivalent system of GPS satellites), suggests two things: (1) America is not the “sole superpower,” and (2) the two countries are once again in Cold War mode, poking sticks into each other’s cages to see what the other side is capable of.

So what’s the bottom line?

I think the answer is simple: we’re watching the curtain being raised on Cold War, Act Two. But there’s a difference this time, and it should give everyone pause: this time, in the eyes of world opinion, and even in the eyes of many Americans, it is the US power oligarchs, and not the power oligarchs in Moscow, who are “the bad guys.” This time it is not “the evil empire”, but the Pentagram empire, that is at fault, and the usual tricks of the trade – television programs extolling American heroism and military prowess and technology – are simply not working. At best, they are holding actions to maintain the intellectual grip on that portion of the American population that still believes in the Warren Report, and that there’s nothing wrong with the system, while the protection racket expands even as popular support rapidly diminishes.

It’s a recipe, as the Soviet Communists discovered, that is counter to their own long term interests.

Read this article at - http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/05/cold-war-act-two-mysterious-flight-groundings-view-rt/

CHEMTRAILS: There is NO Debate!

So why respond like there is?

Those who deny the existence of chemtrails are either willfully ignorant or dangerously arrogant, or both; therefore, why bother debating with them? Of course, there are those who run Facebook pages who are paid government agents or corporate shills with a vested interest in the multi-billion dollar global chemtrail program.  Then there are the simple folks who refuse to believe because of a bad case of lifelong cognitive dissonance, or an unshakable faith in trustworthy government, or a serial neglect of skywatching (as in never looking up at the sky).

Lastly, there are the legions of scientists and academics, researchers and writers, from whom the faculty of human reason has completely fled.  These pseudo-scientists are not only devoid of common sense; they lack the ability to apply objective and unbiased critical thinking.  For many of these lost causes, years of university study have force-fed them incorrect science theories, taught them flawed scientific methodology and encouraged their blind allegiance to defective scientific paradigms.

These ‘hard science’ PhD types have often been exposed to years of intense and purposeful indoctrination.  Erroneous information and incomplete knowledge, that is incessantly reinforced by professors and reference books alike, ensures that they will never leave such an intellectually-challenged reservation.  They also know quite well who funds their various grants and scholarships, and how not to put them in jeopardy.  Furthermore, the relentless doctoral conditioning and/or post-doctoral brainwashing virtually guarantees that they will always side with the “system”.  

Read the rest of the article at - http://stateofthenation2012.com/

Muslim Man Repents of Christian Hatred when Jesus Visits Him in a Dream

Open Doors Staff

How could he leave Islam? But when he finally fell asleep again, he had the same dream a third time. Waking up from this third dream, he could not escape the conviction that Jesus Christ was the only true God.

EDITOR'S NOTE: There have been many testimonies in recent years, of the Lord Jesus revealing Himself to members of Islam through dreams. I have also heard that dreams are one of the main ways that Muslims believe God will speak to them. I pray that many more Muslims will receive revelations of Jesus as they sleep. Our God is faithful to reward those who seek Him; perhaps even when they don't realize it's HIM they are seeking. –Aimee Herd, BCN.

A Modern Day Paul in Iran
Before he became a Believer, the Apostle Paul dragged Christians out of their houses to imprison or kill them. A modern day Iranian named Taher was no better; he even threatened to kill his own family because they became Christians. Like Paul, he received a vision of the Lord that turned his life upside down. (Photo via Open Doors USA)

Taher was the last one anyone expected to convert to Christianity. He was well respected as a Haji, a pilgrim who had made the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. His wife was a Haji-eh; she had also made the pilgrimage. So when his daughter came to Christ, Taher was very angry. When his wife became a Believer in Christ, he grew even angrier. When even his son turned his back on Islam and accepted Christ, his anger turned to rage.

He tried to force his family back into Islam in every way he could. He quoted the Koran; he forbade them to visit the church; he beat them; and he threatened to inform the secret police. At one point he even threatened to kill them with his bare hands. His efforts were to no avail. His family didn't leave Christ; instead they left him and fled abroad.

After the initial anger over his family's flight subsided, Taher began to feel lonely. In his growing despair, he memorized Koran verses and focused on Allah, whom he served so passionately. "Please show me your face," he begged. The resounding silence made him doubt. What if this god he was serving didn't exist after all and his family was right? He didn't know if he should believe Allah or Jesus, the Bible or the Koran. In desperation he cried out, "I will believe in the God who reveals Himself to me."

The living God answered his prayers through a dream. In his dream, a Man riding a donkey came toward him. He had never seen the Man before, but the Man hugged him and said, "I will clean you from all your sins; you are free. I will give you rest. Believe in Me." Taher asked, "But what will happen if I sin again?" The Man on the donkey replied with the same words, "I will clean all your sins." Then the Man on the donkey left, leaving Taher dumbfounded. Another man approached him in his dream. "Do you know the man on the donkey?" the man asked. "No, I don't, Taher replied. "He is Jesus Christ," the man said. "He cleans your sins."

Taher woke up and mulled over the dream. When he went back to sleep, the same dream played before him. Waking up a second time, he became afraid. He had served Allah for 45 years. He was a Haji. How could he leave Islam? But when he finally fell asleep again, he had the same dream a third time. Waking up from this third dream, he could not escape the conviction that Jesus Christ was the only true God.

Read the rest of the article at - http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=13831

Pope says baptism for all - even Martians

It's a "tongue-in-cheek" article, but it's simply following up on what the Jesuit scientists have been sharing in interviews and lectures.  Get ready for an alien Messiah, and get ready for a new age that will be beyond the Bible.

Pope Francis during his weekly audience in St Peter's Square earlier this month. Photo: AFP
 

Vatican City: Pope Francis has declared everyone has the right to be baptised, even aliens should they come knocking on the church's door.

Christians cannot "close the door" to all those who seek baptism even if they are "green men, with a long nose and big ears, like children draw," the pope said at his daily mass on Monday, according to Vatican Radio.

"If tomorrow, for example, an expedition of Martians arrives and some of them come to us ... and if one of them says: 'Me, I want to be baptised!', what would happen?" Francis said in another display of his lively sense of humour.

The Argentine pontiff known for his down-to-earth style has often used colourful and humorous expressions to make his points on the direction of the Roman Catholic Churc
On baptism Francis has stressed that it should not be refused, especially to children whose parents may be breaking Church rules such as living together as an unmarried couple.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/pope-says-baptism-for-all--even-martians-20140513-zraqo.html#ixzz31ZQjtg00

Revelation: The Fuel Project Guide (Part 13 - The Seventh Seal - Preparations for the Day of Wrath)

The seventh and final seal is opened and preparations for the Day of Wrath are put in place. God announces that the time for justice has arrived with a thunderstorm and an earthquake...

Chief Rabbi Rejects Reports Israel Giving Away King David's Tomb...Sort of...

As you read through the article you can see that apparently the issue hasn't been decided yet, but likely will soon, as the Pope is about to arrive in about a week.  This is very compelling stuff.

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says transfer request for King David's Tomb to Vatican 'never happened,' would not be considered at all.

By Shimon Cohen and Tova Dvorin

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef

 

The office of the Sephardi Chief Rabbi, the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, utterly rejected Sunday all reports stating that Israel is considering giving away King David's Tomb to the Vatican.
Last week, MK Nissim Ze'ev (Shas) claimed in an Arutz Sheva interview that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu himself asked Rabbi Yosef about the halakhic [Jewish law] ramifications of giving away the tomb, which sits on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu later rejected the claim as "baseless"; the Rabbi's office stated that no such request had been handed to them by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) at all and that any such requests would not even be investigated in principle. 

Foreign Ministry officials recently claimed, once again, that a request had been submitted to the Rabbinate - amidst a flurry of tensions over the issue and several rumors stating that the land is still on the negotiating table. Rabbi Yosef's spokesman, David Amar, replied Sunday by stating that "never happened" and that "there was no appeal."

Amar added that the issue has also been discussed with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the Western Wall Rabbi and the legal and religious authority in Israel for a number of holy sites. The Rabbi rejected the concept outright, saying it was "out of the question."

Concerns over a possible transfer of the property have been raised multiple times over the past several months. Last month, an Israeli diplomatic source told Arutz Sheva that the Israeli government has no intention of transferring control over the site to the Church.

However, Rabbi Yaakov Sevilia, an activist for King David's Tomb, told Arutz Sheva that there is a deal in the works - which would see David's Tomb given to Christians, and the Temple Mount to Muslims. He cited journalist Gulio Meotti, who contributes regularly to Arutz Sheva, as the source for this knowledge.

MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) has also written a stern letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over the issue, noting its political significance in terms of Israel's history and heritage.

"It is inconceivable that this place will be transferred to foreign hands, such the Torahs and the Star of David will be swallowed in a sea of crosses," the Deputy Minister wrote.

''Transferring the rights to the gravesite of David to Christian hands would be similar to Moshe Dayan's decision to entrust the keys to the Temple Mount to the Jordanian Waqf."

Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook, Rabbi of Rehovot and member of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, warned recently that the government relinquishing David's Tomb to the Vatican would be a "national disgrace." 

He added that the issue has incredible religious implications. "Who knows if this could cause a wave of conversions [to Catholicism]?" he continued. "What will happen in the World to Come when we have to testify [before G-d] and say that we lived in a generation which handed over King David's Tomb? A government who does such a thing is forbidden to belong to the people of Israel, this is an anti-Israeli government."

Read this article at - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180498#.U3BOsZtOWM8

Awareness In Spiritual Warfare... Russ Dizdar

Preparing for the present and all that is to come.

Know your enemy.... Know your defence....
Will you stand and fight in this battle or just fade away....

http://www.shatterthedarkness.net

These Psychological Operations Are Being Used On You

By: Jay

The Amerikan and global populace have no conception of the level of advanced, high-tech psychological operations they are under.  The field of psy ops, which used to be a tool of governments and military strategists against rival nations has now been turned upon the masses by the emerging global government.  For the last century, thousands of think tanks have perfected the use of propaganda through fields like advertising, neurological research, psychology, etc.  The father of modern advertising and Defense Department brain Edward Bernays, opened his classic Propaganda in 1928 with the following:

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.

They govern us by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure. Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.”

It is crucial to consider that our nation is not a democracy, but as it was socially engineered from a republic to a so-called “democracy,” the normal state of a “democracy” is shown to be an oligarchy.  Bernays is explaining that very fact – a nation of enforced egalitarian democracy ends up being an oligarchy run by billionaire manipulators and con artists.  Those that rule end up being the best as swaying mass man by appealing constantly to his baser desires.  In this system, the only telos is to constantly drive any and all of society towards those base desire to increase material consumption and production.  The system itself has no end, other than the propagation of the parasitical system.   Modern psy ops has only refined this technique.    Retired Major Ed Rouse writes of modern psychological operations:

“Another part of the answer to this question lies in the attitude of people towards psychological operations. To some, it produces images of government controlled communications/mass media, telling the people only what the government wants them to hear. To others, it raises the horrid specter of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, practicing the technique of the “big lie” which has incorrectly become synonymous with “propaganda”. Still to others, the mere mention of “psychological” operations or warfare invokes visions of “mind control” through some mysterious means of brainwashing.

It should be clear that modern psychological operations, or PSYOP, is none of those things. On the contrary PSYOP is not unlike the public advertising that we are all exposed to wherever we go, every day, through all kinds of mass media. However the negative connotation that some people attach to the word psychological” prevents many people from recognizing the simple truth. Everyone knows that if you do not have a good product to sell, people will not continue buying it, no matter how much you advertise. The same applies to the points of view advertised through the use of psychological operations. Thus we have no reason to fear PSYOP, but we do have ample reason to respect it for what it can do.”

There is no reason to fear Psy Ops, we are told, because it is a humane weapon.  Infowar has ever been the major focus of warfare, back to Sun Tzu, who wrote that warfare’s goal was to change the enemy’s mind, not destroy his army.  If the target could be changed in his thought pattern, what use in expending tremendous effort and resources on fighting a physical battle?   But that was an older time, when nations and tribes battled one another for regional dominance and natural resources.  While this still goes on today, the top players are different: Major power blocs are battling for control of the new world order.  The dominant power bloc in our world today is the Anglo banking empire, and their method of control is largely through mass media, which, as we’ve seen from the quotes above, is the same as mass advertising.  This is why the “news” has a uniform presentation globally.  The governing structure above the “government” level is that of international corporations, themselves governed by the major banking houses.  Thus, the government/corporate “news” is always the same, all the way down to the local affiliate broadcasting the same laughable tabloid and warm fuzzy pieces about local kitten shelters and pharmaceutical salvation.

This was recently illustrated in a masterful way by Conan’s late night show, where pieces of local news stations were clipped together, from supposedly different stations, reading from the exact same script, nationwide.  These scripts are written and sent out to the news agencies by the Pentagon and corporate central think tanks to engineer the populace into mindless abandon.  “You don’t need us to tell you gas prices are back on the rise!”

 

Read the full article at - http://jaysanalysis.com/2014/05/10/two-major-psy-ops-documents-you-must-read/#more-4974

Artificial DNA, Alien DNA, or Something Else?

BACK TO THE X FILES: “THE EHRLENMEYER
by Joseph P. Farrell

For reasons that we’ll get into presently, I decided to select the RT (Russia Today) version of the story, so, without further ado, here’s the story:

Discovery of ‘alien’ DNA hailed by scientists, raises ethical concerns

As the article states, and as any high school biology textbook would show(or, if you’re in the good ole USSA, any graduate textbook), there are four basic proteins in DNA: guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, abbreviated G,A,T,C respectively. A binds with T, and C with G, forming the four base pairs AT, TA, CG, GC. Four. That’s it. No more, no less.

Thus, back in the day, one could speculate: if one encountered some new proteins, say, Nonexistine and Frankenine, then by the nature of the case, one was dealing with something that didn’t originate here. The idea became the theme of an episode from the 1990s Sci-Fi hit, The X Files, and an episode called “The Ehrlenmeyer Flask.” Mulder and Scully manage to steal a sample of a liquid from a bio-research lab, and Scully takes the sample to be tested. The bewildered geneticist who tests the sample informs Scully that the sample contains two new and entirely unknown base pairs. Scully asks what that means, and the geneticist tells her in no uncertain terms that they didn’t originate on earth, and would perforce “have to be extraterrestrial.” Predictably, the geneticist ends up suicided the next day.
Which brings us to our RT article:

“American scientists have for the first time ever made it possible for an organism to survive with artificial DNA, making it more likely new medicines can be developed, while raising ethical concerns among some advocates. 

“For researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California the breakthrough, published Wednesday in the Nature science journal, was 15 years in the making. 

“The announcement is so remarkable because, for billions of years, all life has been made up of DNA subunits categorized by four letters: A, T, C and G. Scientists have now added two new DNA building blocks to E. coli bugs, which then reproduced as normal with the two extra letters in their genetic code. 

“The research could eventually lead to the production of completely new proteins that could be used either for medicinal purposes or industrial products. It also lends credibility to the theory that life in outer space could exist entirely without the DNA found on Earth.” (Emphasis added)

Precisely…which was the point of the X Files episode.

Read the rest of the article at - http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/05/back-x-files-ehrlenmeyer-flask/