And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death. (Rev. 12:11) Watch, and pray
Jun 30, 2012
Noctilucent Clouds - Manmade or Simply New Nature?
By Rob Waugh
A photographer caught a glimpse of the most distant clouds in the atmosphere shining an electric blue from 50 miles up as the skies cleared over Edinburgh at dusk this week.
The 'night shining' clouds are normally invisible, but shine at twilight when ice crystals in the high-altitude clouds are lit up by the sun as it sets.
The clouds are especially bright here at the height of Edinburgh's summer.
A photographer in Fife captured the rare clouds over the Forth Rail bridge as the skies cleared after a week of storms.
The clouds are the highest in atmosphere at around 50 miles above the Earth's surface.
The 'noctilucent' or 'night shining' clouds are often photographed from aircraft in flight, from the Space Station.
The recent activity has been captured by photographer Adrian Maricic, from Fife over the Forth Road and rail bridges as twilight decended across the Firth of Forth earlier this week.
The clouds - called 'polar mesospheric' clouds or 'noctilucent' clouds are visible in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, and peak during their respective late spring and early summer seasons.
Polar mesospheric clouds form between 47 to 53 miles above Earth’s surface when there is sufficient water vapour at these high altitudes to freeze into ice crystals.
The clouds are illuminated by the Sun when it is just below the visible horizon, lending them their night-shining properties.
While the exact cause for the formation of polar mesospheric clouds is still debated - dust from meteors, global warming, and rocket exhaust have all been suggested as contributor - recent research suggests that changes in atmospheric gas composition or temperature has caused the clouds to become brighter over time.
Space Station astronauts also captured images of the clouds earlier this month as the craft passed over the Tibetan Plateau.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166528/Rare-blue-night-shining-clouds-pictured-dusk-Edinburghs-landmark-rail-bridge.html#ixzz1zFf9CVG4
A photographer caught a glimpse of the most distant clouds in the atmosphere shining an electric blue from 50 miles up as the skies cleared over Edinburgh at dusk this week.
The 'night shining' clouds are normally invisible, but shine at twilight when ice crystals in the high-altitude clouds are lit up by the sun as it sets.
The clouds are especially bright here at the height of Edinburgh's summer.
A photographer in Fife captured the rare clouds over the Forth Rail bridge as the skies cleared after a week of storms.
The clouds are the highest in atmosphere at around 50 miles above the Earth's surface, captured here by photographer Adrian Maricic, from Fife over the Forth Road and rail bridges
The 'noctilucent' or 'night shining' clouds are often photographed from aircraft in flight, from the Space Station.
The recent activity has been captured by photographer Adrian Maricic, from Fife over the Forth Road and rail bridges as twilight decended across the Firth of Forth earlier this week.
The clouds - called 'polar mesospheric' clouds or 'noctilucent' clouds are visible in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, and peak during their respective late spring and early summer seasons.
Polar mesospheric clouds form between 47 to 53 miles above Earth’s surface when there is sufficient water vapour at these high altitudes to freeze into ice crystals.
The clouds are illuminated by the Sun when it is just below the visible horizon, lending them their night-shining properties.
Normally too faint to be seen, the clouds are visible only when illuminated by sunlight from below the horizon while the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the Earth's shadow
While the exact cause for the formation of polar mesospheric clouds is still debated - dust from meteors, global warming, and rocket exhaust have all been suggested as contributor - recent research suggests that changes in atmospheric gas composition or temperature has caused the clouds to become brighter over time.
Space Station astronauts also captured images of the clouds earlier this month as the craft passed over the Tibetan Plateau.
The clouds can only be seen from aircraft in flight, from the Space Station, or rarely from the ground at twilight - and shine at night because the ice crystals are lit up by the sun from beneath the visible horizon
Night-shining clouds seen from County Kerry, Ireland: In both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, during their respective late spring and early summer seasons, polar mesospheric clouds are at the peak of their visibility
The clouds can only be seen from aircraft in flight, from the Space Station, or rarely from the ground at twilight - and shine at night because the ice crystals are lit up by the sun from beneath the visible horizon
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166528/Rare-blue-night-shining-clouds-pictured-dusk-Edinburghs-landmark-rail-bridge.html#ixzz1zFf9CVG4
"Prometheus" - A Lesson in Illuminati Religion
"Spoiler Alert" In the exposition of the subtleties and symbolism of this movie, the writer gives away much of the plot line. If you don't want to know the ending, or most of it, skip this. But if you want to know what the "chosen ones" in Hollywood are trying to instill into our brains, then read on brave travelers, the truth awaits you.
Left - The Alien lifecycle by satanist H R Giger.Why should the alien be drawn inside an Illuminati pyramid, eye of houris and all ? Also notice vagina representation on top of pyramid.
Prometheus is a movie where there are simply too many Illuminati signals to ignore, or dismiss as coincidence. It is a message of what is coming our way.
----We are living in the times of occultist Alice Bailey's Externalization of the Hierarchy, a time when the satanic plan for humankind would not be the property of a few initiates, but would be promoted openly.
by Marcos
(henrymakow.com)
Fans all over the world were anxiously waiting for the prequel of the Aliens movies, where actress Sigourney Weaver killed serpent-like aliens in what is considered some of the best horror/action movies of all time.
Unfortunately, fans were bitterly disappointed with what looked like a confusing, boring movie, full of plot holes. Was it possible that Ridley Scott, one of the best directors of our time, simply forgot how to make a good movie ?
Of course not. In reality, Scott was not concerned in entertaining people. He was supposed to pass a message, and he's performed his task very well.
PLOT
The movie starts with a humanoid alien in a primordial planet (Earth?) drinking some DNA-changing black goo, which makes himself explode and create life in the oceans from strands of his chromosomes.
Fast forward to 2089. Some archeologists, including a Christian named Liz Shaw find several ancient paintings depicting a particular star system.
Peter Weyland, trillionaire CEO of the largest company on Earth, decides to send a spaceship to a planet on that star system, looking for the alien gods that visited Earth long ago.
Once there, the astronauts find a star-ship loaded with jars of the black goo and several dead giant human-looking aliens, the Engineers. It is revealed that the Engineers were on a journey to destroy Earth with the goo weapon, when something bad happened 2000 years ago that prevented the mission. Somehow, the evil serpent-like aliens grew from the goo and killed the humanoid aliens.
The astronauts wake up the last sleeping Engineer, who in turn, in an attempt to resume his mission, kills everybody with the exception of Liz, only to die later at the tentacles of a monster alien from the Aliens franchise.
Liz, with the help of David, an android built by Weyland, take control of another abandoned alien spaceship and instead of coming back to Earth to warn people, decide to go to the alien-gods planet in order to convince them not to exterminate humankind.
The movie touches many complex issues, but two subjects are the most important:
TRANSHUMANISM
Weyland is a super genius, the richest man on Earth who probably would be presiding the Bilderberg meetings, knighted by the Queen and offered the Rothschild's daughters as brides. There is an interesting TED speech done for the promotion of the movie, where a young Weyland says that we are now gods because we can create cybernetic life, like the man-like robot David.
This is a very common theme in all Illuminati-driven movies and music: cyborgs, nanotechnology medical bots, all kinds of improvements on the "imperfect" body that God gave us, especially reserved for those few who can afford it.
However, fast forwarding some 50 years to the time of the movie, we see that even with his science, Weyland is dying.
Cybernetics can only go so far, and if man wants to live forever, he needs to evolve his DNA. The Engineers were the ones who created humankind, so Weyland thinks that they are the key for the continuation of our evolution, our next "jump".
However, he is arrogant in his demand for eternal life and the Engineer kills him instead. One can't approach a god this way.
The first message is this: humankind can only take the next step in evolution when it complies with (worships) the Engineers' plans and intentions.
OCCULT
Prometheus relies heavily on the works of Erich Von Daniken, the author of The Chariots of Gods and other works that affirmed that aliens created men. It also defends the views of people like Zachariah Stichin, who say that Sumerian gods from outer space, the Anunnaki, created men.
In their worldview, there is no space for the Christian God, judged to be a human fable. Obviously, in their perspective, these Engineers would return some day to help us save humans from ourselves.
Two particular scenes show the anti-Christian character of the movie. First, Jesus is depicted as an alien, who was sent to observe us but was instead killed.
That's why the punishing mission was started 2000 years ago. Ridley Scott confirmed this in interviews. Later, at the end of the movie, Liz, the Christian, takes back her crucifix necklace and is said to have had her faith returned.
In fact, she changed her faith, from a Jesus who is God, to a Jesus who is an alien. That's why she heads to the Engineer's planet, to meet this new Jesus.
So there we have it. Our real gods are aliens, and we need to drop our old religion and start worshiping them. Those who are worthy will receive a DNA boost that will make them become gods as they already are. This is the gift of Prometheus, the god who brought fire to humankind in a self-sacrificing manner.
We can't forget that other partners in this movie are also involved with Illuminati themes. James Cameron is the director of Avatar, The Abyss and Dark Angel, and is an insider activist for the new world order.
H. R. Giger, left, the creator of the alien monster, is a self-professed Satanist, and his works, such as the Necronomicon, are blasphemous and pornographic. According to author Bill Schnoebelen, Giger is a member of the Swiss branch of Aleister Crowley's OTO, a Satanic organization. This did not stop Scott from saying that meeting Giger was the best thing that ever happened in his life. We just wonder what Giger taught Scott.
WHAT THE ILLUMINATI ISN'T SAYING
We are living in the times of occultist Alice Bailey's Externalization of the Hierarchy, a time when the satanic plan for humankind would not be the property of a few initiates, but would be promoted openly. However, the poison inside the plan will never be advertised.
The aliens who have been contacting the occultists don't come in material form; they don't land a ship in their backyards. They come as spirits, as demonic entities who possess mediums in order for them to write their books. The orbs we see in Youtube are not solid UFOs; they are apparitions. It is a spiritual phenomenon.
Another thing they won't say is that only a few elect will be chosen to participate and lead the New World Order. Not everybody will merit the enhancements. In fact, most of humankind is useless and will have to be disposed of, especially if they don't agree to serve the masters.
According to the Bible, aliens already visited the planet and messed with our DNA (Genesis 6:1-4). They were fallen angels who had intercourse with women and generated hybrids called Nephilim. These turned out to be utterly evil creatures who had to be exterminated by God in the Flood in order to protect human genetic purity, and the eventual birth of Christ.
Some Christian authors like Douglas Hamp and L. A. Marzulli believe that Satan will eventually deal the same trick in the end times, with the goal of polluting humankind's genoma, perhaps with some kind of DNA tampering substance linked with the mark of the Beast (a beast is not a pure man).
If we think that Jesus Himself said that the time of His coming would be like the times of Noah, when Nephilim roamed the earth, we should listen to what they have to say.
Also in the Bible we read about a coming Great Delusion, some kind of lying trick so huge that only God's hand can protect people from believing in it. The number of Illuminati sponsored movies such as Knowing, with the elite's darling Nicholas Cage, and Mission to Mars, along with the huge media attention to UFOs suggest that some alien contact is on its way.
These guys, who are really demonic beings in disguise, will require that we throw away all old religion and embrace them, and the man of their choosing, the anti Christ, as savior.
CONCLUSION
There is a great chance that the Satanic elite is programing us to accept some kind of genetic tampering with the promise of a quick evolution progress, freedom from disease or paranormal powers.
They will say this is a gift from the aliens who created our DNA in the first place. Perhaps these aliens will be there to vouch for this claim. Remember that the Bible says that there are aliens; they are called holy and also fallen angels.
The tampering with the genome is obviously in disobedience to God's command to not harm the body, which is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, which should be used it to honor God (1 Cor 6:19-20). We already see a growing trend in piercings, tattoos, scarring and horrible mutilations today, which contradict this command.
An injection of mutating DNA is only the next step. Maybe that is why those who receive the mark of the Beast can't be redeemed anymore, because they cease to be fully human.
Prometheus is a movie where there are simply too many Illuminati signals to ignore, or dismiss as coincidence. It is a message of what is coming our way.
They want us to think that Prometheus (Lucifer) is a benevolent, self sacrificing god who is giving us the light. In truth, we should regard Prometheus as a drug dealer who gives us the gift of crack cocaine. Caveat emptor.
Left - The Alien lifecycle by satanist H R Giger.Why should the alien be drawn inside an Illuminati pyramid, eye of houris and all ? Also notice vagina representation on top of pyramid.
----We are living in the times of occultist Alice Bailey's Externalization of the Hierarchy, a time when the satanic plan for humankind would not be the property of a few initiates, but would be promoted openly.
by Marcos
(henrymakow.com)
Fans all over the world were anxiously waiting for the prequel of the Aliens movies, where actress Sigourney Weaver killed serpent-like aliens in what is considered some of the best horror/action movies of all time.
Unfortunately, fans were bitterly disappointed with what looked like a confusing, boring movie, full of plot holes. Was it possible that Ridley Scott, one of the best directors of our time, simply forgot how to make a good movie ?
Of course not. In reality, Scott was not concerned in entertaining people. He was supposed to pass a message, and he's performed his task very well.
PLOT
The movie starts with a humanoid alien in a primordial planet (Earth?) drinking some DNA-changing black goo, which makes himself explode and create life in the oceans from strands of his chromosomes.
Fast forward to 2089. Some archeologists, including a Christian named Liz Shaw find several ancient paintings depicting a particular star system.
Peter Weyland, trillionaire CEO of the largest company on Earth, decides to send a spaceship to a planet on that star system, looking for the alien gods that visited Earth long ago.
Once there, the astronauts find a star-ship loaded with jars of the black goo and several dead giant human-looking aliens, the Engineers. It is revealed that the Engineers were on a journey to destroy Earth with the goo weapon, when something bad happened 2000 years ago that prevented the mission. Somehow, the evil serpent-like aliens grew from the goo and killed the humanoid aliens.
The astronauts wake up the last sleeping Engineer, who in turn, in an attempt to resume his mission, kills everybody with the exception of Liz, only to die later at the tentacles of a monster alien from the Aliens franchise.
Liz, with the help of David, an android built by Weyland, take control of another abandoned alien spaceship and instead of coming back to Earth to warn people, decide to go to the alien-gods planet in order to convince them not to exterminate humankind.
The movie touches many complex issues, but two subjects are the most important:
TRANSHUMANISM
Weyland is a super genius, the richest man on Earth who probably would be presiding the Bilderberg meetings, knighted by the Queen and offered the Rothschild's daughters as brides. There is an interesting TED speech done for the promotion of the movie, where a young Weyland says that we are now gods because we can create cybernetic life, like the man-like robot David.
This is a very common theme in all Illuminati-driven movies and music: cyborgs, nanotechnology medical bots, all kinds of improvements on the "imperfect" body that God gave us, especially reserved for those few who can afford it.
However, fast forwarding some 50 years to the time of the movie, we see that even with his science, Weyland is dying.
Cybernetics can only go so far, and if man wants to live forever, he needs to evolve his DNA. The Engineers were the ones who created humankind, so Weyland thinks that they are the key for the continuation of our evolution, our next "jump".
However, he is arrogant in his demand for eternal life and the Engineer kills him instead. One can't approach a god this way.
The first message is this: humankind can only take the next step in evolution when it complies with (worships) the Engineers' plans and intentions.
OCCULT
Prometheus relies heavily on the works of Erich Von Daniken, the author of The Chariots of Gods and other works that affirmed that aliens created men. It also defends the views of people like Zachariah Stichin, who say that Sumerian gods from outer space, the Anunnaki, created men.
In their worldview, there is no space for the Christian God, judged to be a human fable. Obviously, in their perspective, these Engineers would return some day to help us save humans from ourselves.
Two particular scenes show the anti-Christian character of the movie. First, Jesus is depicted as an alien, who was sent to observe us but was instead killed.
That's why the punishing mission was started 2000 years ago. Ridley Scott confirmed this in interviews. Later, at the end of the movie, Liz, the Christian, takes back her crucifix necklace and is said to have had her faith returned.
In fact, she changed her faith, from a Jesus who is God, to a Jesus who is an alien. That's why she heads to the Engineer's planet, to meet this new Jesus.
So there we have it. Our real gods are aliens, and we need to drop our old religion and start worshiping them. Those who are worthy will receive a DNA boost that will make them become gods as they already are. This is the gift of Prometheus, the god who brought fire to humankind in a self-sacrificing manner.
We can't forget that other partners in this movie are also involved with Illuminati themes. James Cameron is the director of Avatar, The Abyss and Dark Angel, and is an insider activist for the new world order.
H. R. Giger, left, the creator of the alien monster, is a self-professed Satanist, and his works, such as the Necronomicon, are blasphemous and pornographic. According to author Bill Schnoebelen, Giger is a member of the Swiss branch of Aleister Crowley's OTO, a Satanic organization. This did not stop Scott from saying that meeting Giger was the best thing that ever happened in his life. We just wonder what Giger taught Scott.
WHAT THE ILLUMINATI ISN'T SAYING
We are living in the times of occultist Alice Bailey's Externalization of the Hierarchy, a time when the satanic plan for humankind would not be the property of a few initiates, but would be promoted openly. However, the poison inside the plan will never be advertised.
The aliens who have been contacting the occultists don't come in material form; they don't land a ship in their backyards. They come as spirits, as demonic entities who possess mediums in order for them to write their books. The orbs we see in Youtube are not solid UFOs; they are apparitions. It is a spiritual phenomenon.
Another thing they won't say is that only a few elect will be chosen to participate and lead the New World Order. Not everybody will merit the enhancements. In fact, most of humankind is useless and will have to be disposed of, especially if they don't agree to serve the masters.
According to the Bible, aliens already visited the planet and messed with our DNA (Genesis 6:1-4). They were fallen angels who had intercourse with women and generated hybrids called Nephilim. These turned out to be utterly evil creatures who had to be exterminated by God in the Flood in order to protect human genetic purity, and the eventual birth of Christ.
Some Christian authors like Douglas Hamp and L. A. Marzulli believe that Satan will eventually deal the same trick in the end times, with the goal of polluting humankind's genoma, perhaps with some kind of DNA tampering substance linked with the mark of the Beast (a beast is not a pure man).
If we think that Jesus Himself said that the time of His coming would be like the times of Noah, when Nephilim roamed the earth, we should listen to what they have to say.
Also in the Bible we read about a coming Great Delusion, some kind of lying trick so huge that only God's hand can protect people from believing in it. The number of Illuminati sponsored movies such as Knowing, with the elite's darling Nicholas Cage, and Mission to Mars, along with the huge media attention to UFOs suggest that some alien contact is on its way.
These guys, who are really demonic beings in disguise, will require that we throw away all old religion and embrace them, and the man of their choosing, the anti Christ, as savior.
CONCLUSION
There is a great chance that the Satanic elite is programing us to accept some kind of genetic tampering with the promise of a quick evolution progress, freedom from disease or paranormal powers.
They will say this is a gift from the aliens who created our DNA in the first place. Perhaps these aliens will be there to vouch for this claim. Remember that the Bible says that there are aliens; they are called holy and also fallen angels.
The tampering with the genome is obviously in disobedience to God's command to not harm the body, which is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, which should be used it to honor God (1 Cor 6:19-20). We already see a growing trend in piercings, tattoos, scarring and horrible mutilations today, which contradict this command.
An injection of mutating DNA is only the next step. Maybe that is why those who receive the mark of the Beast can't be redeemed anymore, because they cease to be fully human.
Prometheus is a movie where there are simply too many Illuminati signals to ignore, or dismiss as coincidence. It is a message of what is coming our way.
They want us to think that Prometheus (Lucifer) is a benevolent, self sacrificing god who is giving us the light. In truth, we should regard Prometheus as a drug dealer who gives us the gift of crack cocaine. Caveat emptor.
Labels:
Hollywood Satanism
Muslims Stone and Assault Christians in Dearborn Michigan While Police Watch
The video below is 22 minutes, but you can see the assaults start immediately in the video. Continually the police do all they can to try and force the Christians to leave instead of asking the attacking crowd to stop or disperse. Clearly, being openly Christian in Muslim Dearborn is not okay. If cursing offends you, turn off the sound, because the Christians are berated throughout, and there is plenty of swearing.
Mystery sound felt or heard in all corners of San Diego County leaves experts puzzled
Posted by The Extinction Protocol
June 30, 2012 – SAN DIEGO – Residents from Chula Vista to Oceanside reported a large rumble around 12:45 p.m. Friday. The mysterious sensation was described by some people as sounding like a door slamming while others said it was strong enough to rattle windows. A check of the U.S. Geological Survey website showed no earthquake activity. NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar Midcap was in Del Mar at the time and described it as a “Sonic rumble” She tweeted, “according to my contacts at USGS, not seismic but rather sonic.” Two months ago, when San Diegans heard a similar sound, there was evidence of chaff on weather radar. Chaff is a material sometimes emitted during military exercises. On Friday, however, Tina Stall with the National Weather Service said there was no visible chaff in the area at the time the noise was reported. The mysterious sound had both residents and experts scratching their heads. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Kristoffer Walker said he felt it too, and looked into microphones recorded from MCAS Miramar. Evidence from his research revealed an answer. “There was indeed an atmospheric tremor, or “skyquake,” Walker said. “The likely cause of these ‘skyquakes’ is routine military activity very far off the coast of San Diego (at least 50 miles away) in zones that are designated military training zones.” Typically, we don’t hear these “skyquakes.” But when the wind reaches speeds of over 100 miles per hour, the sound can reach parts of San Diego, Walker said. A spokesperson from Camp Pendleton said Marines are not training with anything unusual. They often train with various military equipment and will be training with tanks both Saturday and Sunday. -NBCSD
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Strange Anomalies
Mysterious bubbles and houses are shifting in Bayou Corne, Louisiana
A brief message here of thanks to BP. You poisoned and nearly (or completely?) destroyed the Gulf of Mexico, robbing thousands of Americans of their livelihood and much of America of clean seafood. Your supporting Americas Olympic athletes in your pathetic commercials more than makes up for your destruction of our health and lives. Here's to BP! May you soon enjoy the judgment that you so richly deserve. Now, is this the latest of their destructions?
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Posted by The Extinction Protocol
June 30, 2012 – ASSUMPTION PARISH, LA – Mysterious bubbles are rising up out of an Assumption Parish bayou. Officials are trying to figure what’s causing them. Take a ride down Bayou Corne, and there are bubbles of all sizes along the waterway. “We have reported on May 30th a pipeline leak, which started us coming out and investigating a bubbling in Bayou Corne,” said Assumption Parish Homeland Security Director John Boudreaux. Since then though, pipeline officials have not ruled that out just yet, but said it’s unlikely. So now, investigators are going through the process of elimination. By coincidence, since the bubbling began, many in Assumption Parish are worried. “Our houses are shifting and there are cracks in our sheet rock and our foundation,” said Jason Hugh. “My home moved, and my home shook. My home moved, and I’m on cement,” said Debra Charlet. Officials don’t know yet whether the two are related. Boudreaux has taken samples of the bubbles and sent them off for testing. Those samples are expected back in the next couple of weeks. Officials are monitoring the bubbles twice a day. As for now, no evacuations have been issued and the waterways remain open. -WAFB
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Pestilence
Jun 29, 2012
Embarrassed by the "Radical Muslim Spring", The State Department eliminates all acknowledgement of Christian Persecution from their Annual Reports.
removed the section on religious persecution from the Country Reports on Human Rights that it released at the end of May 2012. The report, which this year highlighted the success of the “Arab Spring” – the assisted “revolutions” for a democratic society in several Middle Eastern nations such as Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, purged the sections which discuss the rampant abuse, persecution and loss of freedom for the Christians who live in these countries under their new “democratic regimes” in these predominately Muslim countries.
Christian Persecution Victims: The World Turns a Blind Eye
As Beginning and End has detailed, Egypt, one of the initial nations involved in the Arab Spring, has had some of the worst atrocities committed. Egypt ranks first among Arab Spring nations on Open Doors USA “World Watch List” for the rampant Christian persecution. Christians in Egypt are routinely subject to physical attacks, churches being burned down and discrimination in society. The worst of all the incidents was the October 2011 “Maspero Massacre” in which a group of peaceful Christian demonstrators were attacked by Muslim objectors and Egyptian military forces who soon opened gunfire, killing 28 and leaving over 200 wounded.
Nigeria – In the month of January 2012 alone, the Islamist group Boko Haram was responsible for 54 deaths in Nigeria – this following an attack that killed 42 at church on Christmas Day. In 2011, the group was responsible for the murder of more than 500 people and burned down or destroyed more than 350 churches in 10 northern states of Nigeria. (source)
Jesus Christ prophesied that Christians would be persecuted as the world approaches the end times:
In a major blow to persecuted Christians living in oppressive nations, the U.S. State Department for the first time For the first time ever, the State Department simply eliminated the section of religious freedom in its reports covering 2011 and instead referred the public to the 2010 International Religious Freedom Report – a full two years behind the times – or to the annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which was released last September and covers events in 2010 but not 2011.
Leonard Leo, who recently completed a term as chairman of the USCIRF, says that removing the sections on religious freedom from the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Roghts is a bad idea.
Since 1998, when Congress created USCIRF, the State Department has been required to issue a separate yearly report specifically on International Religious Freedom.
But a section reporting on religious freedom has also always been included in the State Department’s legally required annual country-by-country reports on human rights–that is, until now. And this is the first year the State Department would have needed to report on the effect the Arab Spring has had on religious freedom in the Middle East–had its reports, as always before, included a section on religious freedom.
“The commission that I served on has some real concerns about that bifurcation, because the human rights reports receive a lot of attention, and to have pulled religious freedom out of it means that fewer people will obtain information about what’s going on with that particular freedom or right. So you don’t have the whole picture because they split it up now,” Leo told CNSNews.com. (source)
Christian Persecution Victims: The World Turns a Blind Eye
As Beginning and End has detailed, Egypt, one of the initial nations involved in the Arab Spring, has had some of the worst atrocities committed. Egypt ranks first among Arab Spring nations on Open Doors USA “World Watch List” for the rampant Christian persecution. Christians in Egypt are routinely subject to physical attacks, churches being burned down and discrimination in society. The worst of all the incidents was the October 2011 “Maspero Massacre” in which a group of peaceful Christian demonstrators were attacked by Muslim objectors and Egyptian military forces who soon opened gunfire, killing 28 and leaving over 200 wounded.
Nigeria – In the month of January 2012 alone, the Islamist group Boko Haram was responsible for 54 deaths in Nigeria – this following an attack that killed 42 at church on Christmas Day. In 2011, the group was responsible for the murder of more than 500 people and burned down or destroyed more than 350 churches in 10 northern states of Nigeria. (source)
Jesus Christ prophesied that Christians would be persecuted as the world approaches the end times:
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.” — John 15:18-20.Jesus Himself was persecuted and executed because of the Words He Preached: the Gospel. He openly and freely taught God’s Holy Word and that He was the way to eternal life and forgiveness of sins. And many hated Him for it. And just as He prophesied, today many Christians are hated, attacked and killed just because they choose to believe in Jesus Christ. And persecution only continues as society as a whole moves farther away from God and Biblical values in favor of rebellion, New Age religion and subtle preparation for the false Messiah. And thus not only is there little being done about Christian persecution by the governments of the world, they do not even want it mentioned. President Obama, who has been very vocal in his support of the Arab Spring (which he has hailed as a great success), has been oddly silent on the Christian persecution that is taking place in these new regimes.
Former U.S. diplomat Thomas Farr says it’s possible that the move to totally separate religious freedom from the human rights reports could simply be a bureaucratic maneuver. But another possibility is much more likely.Pray against the efforts of terrorist groups like Boko Haram and others who brutalize and attack Christians in restricted nations all over the world just because they believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And pray for the Christians in these nations to maintain their faith in the midst of these attacks and continue to trust in The Lord to watch over them, guide them and protect them eternally through this struggle. Even if the world is turning a blind eye, God is watching.
“The other possibility is the Obama administration is downplaying international religious freedom,” Farr said.
Farr, who served in the State Department under both Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, was the first director of the Office of International Religious Freedom.
“I mean, it is important to note here that I do not know–I have no personal knowledge of the logic that went into removing religious freedom from the broader human rights report; but I also have observed during the three-and-a-half years of the Obama administration that the issue of religious freedom has been distinctly downplayed,” Farr said
(T)he ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, for example, who is the official charged by the law to lead U.S. religious freedom policy, did not even step foot into her office until two-and-a-half years were gone of a four-year administration,” he said.
“Whereas other human rights priorities of the administration, such as the ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, were in place within months. So that tells you something. t tells me that this has never been a priority for the Obama administration, and it’s not now,” he said. (source)
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. – 2 Peter 2:12-14
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Zombie Apocalypse — Rise of Demonic Possession
Rudy Eugene – The Miami Zombie
The macabre scene unfolded about 2 p.m. Saturday on the MacArthur Causeway’s off-ramp to Biscayne Boulevard. A Road Ranger spotted the men and shouted on his loudspeaker for the naked attacker to back away. A woman also saw what was happening and flagged down an officer.Rudy Eugene, whose attack and cannibalism sent shock waves through national media showed all the signs of someone who had gone insane. In the middle of the day, Eugene was naked, on a highway eating the flesh off of another man. However, from statements from his girlfriend and mother, he was a mild mannered man, who was attempting to get his life together. He often carried a Bible with him and watched Prosperity Gospel Apostate Preacher Creflo Dollar on TV. But what did Eugene do that could have led to this event? Drugs. He was known for smoking marijuana and new sites are alleging that he possibly used the new designer drug “bath salts” a hallucinogenic that has led to similar gruesome, animatistic behavior in other people.
One witness said he was riding his bicycle on the MacArthur when he saw a man tearing off pieces of the victim’s flesh with his mouth. After an officer approached, Larry Vega told WSVN-FOX7, “The guy just stood, his head up like that, with pieces of flesh in his mouth. And he growled.”
The officer fired, striking the attacker, but the man kept chewing, Vega said. The officer fired again, hitting him several more times, eventually killing him. (source)
Bath Salts – The Latest Drug Craze
“Bath Salts” is the slang term for drugs which combine the chemical synthetic stimulants mephedrone, Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), and methylone, along with other chemicals. They serve as a psychoactive, hallucinogenic drug that resembles powdered sugar. It can be smoked, snorted or injected. Because of the difficulty in identifying and regulating MDPV, Bath Salts are still not illegal in all states and cab be found in smoke shops, gas stations, sex shops and newsstands. The manufacturers constantly change the name and mix of the products in order to evade law enforcement. These drugs have a slew of side effects in addition to hallucinations, including nausea, psychotic delusions and suicidal thoughts:
In each instance drugs have been suspected in playing a major role, especially bath salts, an LSD-type designer drug that causes hallucinations. Following an incident in which a naked man was shot repetitively and killed for biting off the face of a homeless man on a Miami Highway, three more disturbing cases have appeared including that of Wayne Carter, of Hackensack, NJ.Carter’s case is a bit gorier as he was reported by the Examiner to stab himself over 50 times in the abdomen while simultaneously throwing pieces of his exposed flesh and intestines at police.
According to News One, police went through two cans of pepper spray before a SWAT team was called to subdue Carter. As if flesh-throwing cannibals weren’t enough to deal with, Jarrod Wyatt of California was discovered Tuesday naked, covered in blood, and surrounded by scattered body parts. The Examiner explained that Wyatt began hallucinating from a mushroom tea, and found himself, ripping out the heart, tongue, and face of his cage-fighting partner whom appeared as a possessed demon.
Later that day, Jarrod Kinyua of Baltimore called police to report finding a human head and hands in his basement sink. According to the Baltimore Sun, Jarrod’s brother Alexander Kinyua admitted to killing his roommate when police arrived. The 21-year-old Morgan State University student was reasoned to be high on bath salts when he killed 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Alexander confessed to killing Agyei-Kodie with a knife and eating pieces of his brain and entire heart in the process. (source)
Here is a video from 2011 of a man arrested by the police who was high on bath salts. The police took this video while the man was in the back of the squad car. When the police found the man he was blindfolded and swinging a butcher knife. The Bay County Police Sheriff released the video to show the damaging effects of bath salts.
(My addition here, these are classic symptoms of demonic possession that is easily accomplished once the will is broken down by drugs.)
While all this seems to be a case of dangerous drug abuse, the Bible points to the ultimate cause behind these types of events: demon possession. In fact the Bible describes a man who was very similar to the Miami murderer Rudy Eugene.
Demon Possession In the Bible
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. — Mark 5:1-9Take note of the behavior of the demon-possessed man from the Gardarenes. First and foremost, the demons recognized Jesus and worshiped Him. In their possession, they made the man they were in so wild and violent that he had to be chained and bound to keep him from hurting others. His strength was so great that he started breaking the chains that were holding him, so the people banished him to the graveyards where no one would be around him. He also seemed impervious to pain because he would cut himself, which is eerily similar to Wayne Carter, who also in the same 2-week span, who in front of police, stabbed himself, cut out his own intestines and threw them at the officers. The officers then pepper sprayed Carter, which they said “had no effect.”
In Luke’s account of this event, we are told that the man “wore no clothes.” Like Rudy Eugene, the demons in this man turned him into a naked, violent, raging, madman. The Book of Luke also details that the demons that possessed this man were not there all the time but would periodically, “catch him” and take over his mind to turn him into a monster.
The Bible shows many examples of people being possessed by “unclean spirits” or “demons”, evil spiritual beings who have the ability to inhabit the body of a human being and take them over. And they are our enemies. Scripture is clear that the true enemies of all people are from the spiritual realm:
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. – Ephesians 6:12Evil Angelic forces, demons, Satan and all of his minions are the enemies of humanity whose goal is to destroy us, turn us in rebellion from God and ultimately led us to hell. And operating out of sight from humanity, with thousands of years of experiencing living on Earth, they have a decided advantage over the average person who may not be a believer in Jesus Christ, has no knowledge of the dangers of the spiritual world and can thus be attacked by them. These beings are have powers that are supernatural, but they are not all-powerful. They still act under God’s authority and often times it takes the actions of the individual to do something that gives the demon permission and license to attack them. In the occult, this is called “opening a portal” – performing an act or ritual that will change the consciousness and invite demonic spiritual activity.
Contacting the Spirit World Through Drug Use
Most, but not all [shamans], contact their mystical beings while in an altered state of consciousness brought on by smoking, taking drugs, rhythmic drumming, chanting, or monotonous dancing. While in the trance, the shaman becomes a medium or spokesperson for one or more mystical beings, a feature of shamanism in non-Western societies which finds parallels in the activities of professional channelers in the United States and western Europe who also speak on behalf of mystical beings for their paid clients. (source)
From ancient times, hallucinogenic herbs, plants and drugs have been used as mean to contact the spirit world. Shamans, medicine men, “healers” and diviners (fortune tellers) were some of the most prominent people in their communities for their supernatural powers and abilities to interact with the spirit world. And all through the use of drugs. Aleister Crowley, one of the most infamous and influential Satanists of the 20th century, was in regular communication with the spirit world and advocated using drugs as a way to maximize spiritual contact and ritual. Even today, many rock and roll or hip hop artists will make songs that celebrate the mild-altering “creativity” they feel from smoking marijuana. However, this is a satanic deception. While people may think they are contacting dead relatives or friends, dead celebrities or helping a lost soul “find their way home” they are actually contacting demons.
This is why the Bible strictly prohibits any type of occult spiritual activity:
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. – Deuteronomy 18:9-12All these practices contact Satanic forces. The dead cannot communicate with the living. However, a “familiar spirit” who follows around a person while they are alive, can impersonate that person once dead if a family member or friend attempts to contact them via séance, ritual or other forms of witchcraft. This is an incredibly dangerous practice. And the use of drugs, even when one is not trying to contact a spirit, provides a state of “altered consciousness” which opens a door to allow demonic attack. This was well-known in ancient times. psychedelic mushrooms, which can give a drug-like high and alter one’s consciousness were called “food of the gods.” Pharmakeia, the term for sorcery in Greek, is where the English word ‘pharmacy’ originates from. In ancient times, the connection between drugs and the spirit world was well-known. And demonic activity can get people to do all sorts of depraved acts. Most recently a New York woman high on bath salts died of cardiac arrest after police discovered her beating and choking her 3-year old child and tasered her.
Demons are disembodied spirits who desperately seek to inhabit a creature. Look at how Jesus describes their ability to possess.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. – Matthew 12:43-45Notice that demons see human beings as homes and dwellings. And that even when they leave a person they can return with more power, evil demons and re-enter. Drug use, sexual perversion, dabbling in magic and the occult, drunkenness and incantations (i.e., chanting, singing songs that have dark, occult meanings, over and over again), can all invite possession. And it does not have to manifest in violence like the case of Rudy Eugene. Some demons can take over a person in a much more subtle way. An example is found in 1 Kings 22, when the prophet Michaiah details the vision and prophecy he received from God regarding the wicked King Ahab:
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. –1 Kings 22:19-22King Ahab ruled over Israel in age of high evil. He worshiped pagan gods, rejected God’s instruction and his wife, Jezebel, killed God’s prophets and installed her own pagan, Satanic priesthood. In the passage above, The Lord was prepared to punish Ahab for his rampant sin and spoke at an assembly of all of the angels and spirits or the “host of heaven.” There He sought a spirit being to “persuade” Ahab to fight a battle at Ramothgilead where he would die. Notice God did not specify how the persuasion would be done. A spirit being volunteers and explains that it would be a “lying spirit” in the mouths of Ahab’s pagan prophets, making them tell the King he would be victorious in battle when in actuality he would be defeated. God then gives the spirit permission to do this and be successful.
This passage provides an amazing insight into the workings of the spiritual world. As sinful rebellion against God increases in a nation or an individual person’s life, it opens the door for demonic spirits to enter and wreak havoc. The demon that possessed King Ahab’s 400 prophets did not make them act violent or insane. It just made them tell a lie about one specific issue. So a person can have a demon doing just one thing in their lives and have no inclination they are under its influence.
Cannibalism in the Bible
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. — Deuteronomy 28:53-55If the Bible verse above sounds disturbing to you, it should. God was pronouncing a prophecy to the ancient Israelites nation that would be the result if they continued in their rampant sin and their idolatry – the worship of fallen angels and demons. They would become so disconnected from God, so far gone into sin, that they would even resort to being cannibals. This is no different today. Romans 2 states: “For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;” What this means is that whether someone has read the Bible or not – heard of Jesus Christ or not, everyone knows God exists in their heart because God has given all people a conscience. The word conscience literally means “with knowledge” deriving its meaning in that when a person does something wrong, she knows it is evil naturally. However, when someone continues in sin, that conscience becomes “seared” and the person no longer cares about God knowing what they are doing and even revels in evil behavior. Such was the case with Luke Magnotta, another cannibal in the Zombie Apocalypse.
We showed cops sick film of a live KITTEN fed to a snake and an email warning: “Once you kill and taste blood it’s impossible to stop.” Luka Magnotta, 29, fled after his male partner – a missing Chinese student – was chopped up and eaten in Canada. Last night the twisted gay porn star was being hunted across the world after a severed hand and a foot were mailed to the offices of two political parties in Canada. Last night the baby-faced weirdo was placed on the FBI and Interpol “Most Wanted” lists — as police discovered a grisly video thought to be live footage of the murder. The ten-minute film shows the victim being stabbed in a frenzy with an ICE-PICK, before being dismembered, sexually abused and his flesh EATEN with a knife and fork. We investigated bisexual Magnotta, 29, when he was in Britain last December after the vile kitten video was posted on the internet. (source).Magnotta, a homosexual porn star, was arrested during the “Cannibal Spree” for the gruesome crime above. The Bible also deals with the sin of cannibalism, which was prevalent among pagan religions. When Noah and his family emerged from the ark, notice the first thing The Lord says to them:
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. (Genesis 9:3-5)God allowed animals to be eaten for food but commands them not to eat the flesh of humans. People were made in the image of God and are above animals. God also stated that in His divine creation of humanity, he put “life in the blood.” Our blood carries life-giving power to our bodies and is very special in the eyes of God. Thus consuming blood or cannibalism was strongly prohibited. but why would this be the first thing God warns Noah and his sons about after destroying the rest of the world in the flood? Is it possible that cannibalism was happening before the flood? The Bible provides some indications that may have been the case.
Nephilim Giants — Were they cannibals?
The flood of Noah’s day was brought on because of fallen angels who had intimate relations with human women, leading to fallen angelic-human hybrids known as the Nephilim giants. These evil, super-human beings than took over the world in sinful rampage, dominating humanity and bringing so much sin the Bible states: “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:5-7). After the flood, giants re-emerged and were once again, enemies of God and His people. When the Israelites were set to enter the Promised Land after the exodus out of Egypt, they sent 12 spies to scout the land. 10 of the spies came back frightened of what they saw and offered this report:
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds… But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. (Numbers 13 17-19; 31-33).The Promised Land was full of satanic giants who were trying to thwart God’s plan of bringing the Israelites to inhabit it. And notice the spies says the land “eateth up the inhabitants thereof.” In Psalm 14, which is referencing the usurpers in the land of Canaan the Bible describes again the downward spiral of sinful rebellion that can lead to this behavior:
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.Once again we see that sin against God is process. The more someone sins with no repentance or acknowledgement of God, the less their conscience can protect them. Soon that person will deny the existence of God outright and do any sort of vile, evil act. And the people in Canaan, steeped in the occult and worship of demons (as still done in some pagan religions today), were eating people in the same manner they are bread. Rejection of God can lead people down dark roads and inviting demonic influence will only make it that much quicker. Fornication, which is any sexual relation outside of marriage (heterosexual, homosexual otherwise) is described as a unique sin:
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — 1 Corinthians 6:15-18Fornication is against one’s own body and invited evil spiritual influence. Satanist Aleister Crowley touted homosexual ritual as a key to maximizing satanic magical power. And to no surprise, society at large and the mass media seek to break down every sexual boundary possible, bombarding the public with sexual images, encouraging “sexual liberation” and a rejection of any biblical values or principles of intimacy. Do not be deceived.
Predictive Programming in Pop Culture
To no surprise, movies and videos have provided a great deal of imagery and stories that have predicted this behavior and potentially inspired it. American Psycho, a movie starring Christian Bale, appears to have influenced Luke Magnotta:
The music playing in the background of the horrific Montreal murder video — easily viewable online as recently as this week — is from the 2000 serial killer movie American Psycho. In the film, a wealthy New York banker, played by Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from co-workers and friends as he acts out gratuitous fantasies. They climax in a notorious scene in which Bale’s character uses an axe in the frenzied slaughter of a colleague, set to the Huey Lewis and the News song It’s Hip to be Square.
In the video, Magnotta appears to be filming himself on the night of May 24-25 killing Lin with an [ice pick], to a soundtrack of New Order’s True Faith, which plays over the opening credits of American Psycho. One of the videos of Magnotta which has surfaced since the slaying became public is entitled Luka Magnotta Official Theme Song, and is set the tune of True Faith. (source)
The novel American Psycho, which the movie was based on, was also at the center of the trial of Canadian serial killer Paul Bernardo, who was known as the “Scarborough Rapist” and the “Schoolgirl Killer.” Bernardo was alleged to have read American Psycho “as his Bible,” (Interestingly, Magnotta, then known as Eric Newman, was born in Scarborough, Ontario).
When Magnotta was on the run from authorities in Europe he used the false name “Trammel.” In the movie Basic Instinct, a highly erotic thriller, the lead character is a serial killer named Catherine Trammel, who kills her victims by stabbing them with an ice pick. For a person in sinful rebellion against God, dabbling in activities that invite demonic influence and control, these films can serve as a trigger in the subconscious for violent acts, so says Loren Cambpell, author of The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Pop Culture Trigger Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines.
Other movies have similarly featured people turning into cannibalistic zombies. I Am Legend, starred Will Smith, who played a military virologist who works to cure a virus that has killed 90% of humanity and left the survivors as zombie-like, cannibals.
The Silence of the Lambs was perhaps the first motion picture to turn a cannibal serial killer into a hero, as it introduced the character Hannibal Lechter, an incarcerated murderer who ate his victims. Lechter was portrayed as a highly intellectual, refined gentleman, who just happened to be a gruesome serial killer. The film, one of the highest grossing of all-time, won five Oscar awards in every major category. What violent movies can do is put a thought of evil into one’s head and then the sinful nature can take over.
Judas, the evil disciple who betrayed Judas, was ultimately possessed by Satan himself. However, before that possession, Satan merely sent the thought to Judas: “And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;” (John 13:2.)
Satan will use any means possible to broadcast sinful thoughts into the minds of humanity. And if a person is already engaging in sinful behavior, especially drugs, which alter the consciousness and let someone “lose control” it opens the door for the Devil to take control. Even marijuana, which many believe to not be a “real drug” at all or even beneficial, opens the same doorways.
Are You A Zombie?
Lord willing, it is now more clear how dangerous opening oneself to demonic influence can be. There are no limits to the depravity of human behavior when someone is disconnected from any Godly influence. While the idea of a Zombie Apocalypse seems farfetched, a better question is examining your own spiritual state. The Bible says:
And you, being dead in your sins..hath he quickened [given life] together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; (Colossians 2:13-14)Because of our sin, we are spiritually “the walking dead.” We have no relationship with God because we are guilty before Him. Thus our fate is sealed when we are judged – we will be guilty before God for our lifetime of choosing to sin and suffer eternity in Hell. But this is why, God in His love, sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross. Jesus took the punishment for all people so that those who believe in Him, could have eternal life and be declared innocent before God because our debt for our sin was paid by the blood of Christ. There is life in the blood. And in the blood that Jesus shed when He was beaten, tortured and killed, was a payment to provide atonement so that we can have eternal life in Him. Jesus said: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life..” (John 6:40). The first step to escaping death and gaining Godly influence is confessing sins to God.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9). Jesus Christ has power over all demons, fallen angels and Satan. They will all bow to Jesus Christ at His Second Coming. And when a person puts their faith in Jesus, He indwells them and protects a Christian’s spirit forever. The world wants to downplay the importance of salvation and eternal life even though they are at the same time promoting every evil spiritual thing possible. Do not be deceived. If you are a Christian, remove the sinful influences in your life. And if you are not, pray to God for forgiveness of sins, believe in Jesus Christ and receive eternal life.
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The Image of God: Exposure to God’s Light Will Be Heaven for Some and Hell for Others
By Douglas Hamp
God made Adam in his image and likeness but what is that image? God is an infinite being and has many communicable and non-communicable characteristics such as creativity, vision, passion, ability to love, mercy. Could the Image of God actually include what He looks like? The verses interpreted literally will surprise you!
THE IMAGE OF GOD
Douglas Hamp
Ezekiel’s Vision of GodAnd above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness [k'mareh כְּמַרְאֵ֥ה] with the appearance of a man [adam אָדָ֛ם] high above it.
- Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber [electricity] with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around …This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. (Ezekiel 1:26-28).
- I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple, (Isaiah 6:1).
- I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire, (Daniel 7:9).
One like the Son of Man
- One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool [like Daniel 7:9], as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. (Revelation 1:12-18).
- So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable… It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body, (I Corinthians 15:42-44).
- As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven, (I Corinthians 15:45-49).
- Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself, (Philippians 3:21).
- As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness [t’munah]. (Psalms 17:15)
- I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form [t’munah] of the LORD…” (Numbers12:8)
Partakers of the divine nature
- by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (2 Peter 1:4 ESV)
- “when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is,” (1 John 3:2).
- “He [Jesus] is the image [eicon εικον (icon)] of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,” (Colossians 1:15 NET).
- “and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image [eicon εικον] of the one who created it,” (Colossians 3:10 NET).
- “and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light [phos φως].” (Matt 17:2)
- Then the righteous will shine forth [eklampo ἐκλάμπω] as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Matthew 13:43)
- Those who are wise shall shine [LXX: eklampo ἐκλάμπω] Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)
- “it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright [λαμπρον] and pure – for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.” (Revelation 19:8 ESV)
- Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But let those who love Him be like the sun when it comes out in full strength (Judges 5:31).
- But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day (Proverbs 4:18).
- The light of the righteous rejoices, But the lamp of the wicked will be put out. (Proverbs 13:9)
- Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness. (Proverbs 20:20)
- For there will be no prospect for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out. (Proverbs 24:20)
Supported by Ancient Jewish Interpretation
- The Midrash Rabbah (Rabbinic literature from the first or second century AD) of Genesis 3:21 reads, “AND THE LORD GOD MADE FOR ADAM AND HIS WIFE GARMENTS OF SKIN [‘or עֹור], AND CLOTHED THEM (III, 21). In R. Meir’s Torah it was found written, ‘Garments of light (or)’ this refers to Adam’s garments, which were like a torch, broad at the bottom and narrow at the top.”
- DNA Emits light
confirmed independently of the previous finding by Italian nuclear physicists L. Colli, [et al] in 1955 who “by chance discovered a ‘bioluminescence’ of seedlings,”.[1]
School of Medicine at Kanazawa University, in Kanazawa, Japan:
“All organic life absorbs, emits, and processes light. Biophoton emission or spontaneous ultraweak light emission has been observed from almost all living organisms” intensities ranging from 10-19 to 10-16 W/cm2[2]
Moses’ Shining Face
Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai […] that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone [פָּנָ֖יו עֹ֥ור קָרַ֛ן] while he talked with Him. So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him… (Exodus 34:29-30, 33).
Destroyed From the Lord’s Presence
- the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from [by virtue of] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9)
- He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. (Revelation 14:10)
- For Tophet [was] established of old, Yes, for the king [c.f. Isa 14:5, Ezekiel 28:12] it is prepared. He has made [it] deep and large; Its pyre [is] fire with much wood; The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, Kindles it. (Isaiah 30:33)
- “And they have built the high places of Tophet, which [is] in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire…(Jeremiah 7:31)
- Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, (1 Corinthians 3:12) each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. (1 Corinthians 3:13) If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. (1 Corinthians 3:14) If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. (1 Corinthians 3:15)
[1] Fritz-Albert Popp Institut retrieved Feb 9, 2011 from: http://www.biophotonik.de/biophotonik_geschichte.php.
[2] T. Amano 1, M. Kobayashi 2, B. Devaraj 2, M. Usa 2 and H. Inaba 2, 3 (1) Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 920 Kanazawa, Japan. http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/the-secrets-of-light-cancer-and-the-sun.
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Jun 28, 2012
Hollywood Blasphemy: Film Portraying Jesus as Product of Rape Set for Production
I really like this website. Scripturally sound stuff, if you want to check it out. It's http://beginningandend.com/. Lots of good articles.
2012 By Beginning and End
Verhoeven, the director of 90′s blockbusters Robocop, Basic Instinct and Total Recall, bases his own beliefs from being a member of ‘The Jesus Seminar’ an offshoot of the Westar Institute, which describes itself as “a member-supported, non-profit research and educational institute founded in 1986 and dedicated to the advancement of religious literacy.” Westar’s twofold mission is: “to foster collaborative research in religious studies and to communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public.” (source)
The Jesus Seminar’s main purpose was to reevaluate the Bible and re-examine all of the words and actions of Jesus in the Gospels to determine which “are truly authentic.” What this amounts to is another attempt by a non-Christian organization to attack the credibility of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ. According to the Jesus Seminar, their own members get to vote on what they believe to be authentic, probably authentic or inauthentic aspects of the Bible and thus form a ‘consensus.’ In the case of Jesus’ life in the Gospels, they voted that 16% of it was true. As they state on their site: “For those who believe the Bible to be the word of God a 16% historical accuracy rate may seem ridiculously low.”
Verhoeven echoes these sentiments:
Beginning and End has detailed in many articles that Hollywood and pop culture in general, has sought to blaspheme God and attack the Bible at any chance it can get. This is a key part of Satan’s agenda. The Bible defines the Spirit of Antichrist:
Who Did Jesus Say He Was?
There are many people who want to cast Jesus as a good moral teacher, philosopher or spiritual guru. However, Jesus left no room for such ridiculous assertions. Jesus is the prophesied Messiah of the Bible and He affirmed that with His actions and words. This is why Jesus asked His disciples on several occasions, “who do you say I am?” The Gospel Book of John opens with:
Even when Jesus lived on the Earth, teaching from the Bible (Jesus quotes from almost all of the books of the Old Testaments in His recorded words in the New Testament), performing supernatural miracles and declaring the Gospel for forgiveness of sins, many people doubted or were confused about who He was. Was He the Messiah? Was He an excellent teacher? Was He just an imposter? But there were some who understood exactly who He was:
If Jesus was such a peace-loving, moral teacher, why did people want to kill Him? Was was He so despised, if His message was just “love each other. Do not judge. Everyone just get alone? Because that was not His message. And He was not a moral teacher. His mission and message was to save souls of humanity by His sacrifice on the cross. To be a payment for the sins that humanity has been committing for millenia. And that payment required a divine sacrifice. And Jesus made it clear He was divine:
Verhoeven, has taken over the modern-role of the Pharisees by misunderstanding the statements Jesus made as way to attack Him. In Verhoeven’s book Jesus of Nazareth, he states that Jesus made many “catchy phrases” such as “knock and it shall be opened to you”, “seek and you shall find,” and “ask and ye shall receive.” Verhoeven’s conclusion from this is “What a great idea! You can banish evil by praying, and something better will take its place. Your mind could actually control matter through prayer. Jesus himself said so.” (Jesus of Nazareth, ch. 1 p.1). Thus after 20 years of research, Verhoeven’s studies led him to the wildly incorrect conclusion that Jesus was trying to teach His disciples to have supernatural powers over matter. This is not what Jesus taught at all. Jesus taught His disciples to seek Heaven. To ask for eternal life and to knock on the door that leads to forgiveness for sins. This is why Jesus came to the world.
Verhoeven continues to show his utter ignorance of the Bible by saying: “..the Evangelists tell us that John the Baptist was sent to pave the way for Jesus, though they glossed right over the fact that Jesus tried to usurp his place.” (Jesus of Nazareth, preface, page 3.) John the Baptist, who was indeed sent to declare to the nation of Israel that the Messiah had arrived in advance of Jesus starting His ministry, said of Jesus: ” And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” — Mark 1:7-8.
John the Baptist not only saw Jesus as the Messiah, he did not even feel worthy to tie Jesus’ shoes. There was no competition between them. Even when John the Baptist’s own disciples told him that Jesus was gaining larger crowds, John replied: “I must decease, and He must increase.” This is the essence of Christianity. It is realizing that we are nothing but sinners who have violated God’s laws and our worthy of His wrath. But thanks to Jesus, God in the flesh, who lived as a perfect man, we can be forgiven based on His work and His sacrifice.
Jesus Declared Himself God
After Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey (something prophesied in the book of Zechariah centuries earlier), He was open as to who He was:
The Pharisees knew without a doubt that Jesus was proclaiming to be God. His statements made that abundantly clear. So for anyone reading the Bible it is your choice to believe if Jesus is the Son of God or not. But if you choose not to believe that, there is no room to say He was just a “good teacher.” A good moral teacher would not lie and repeatedly claim to be God knowing He was not. A ‘wise scholar’ would not tell His followers many times that He was going to die and be raised from the grave 3 days later. That would make him a liar and insane.
Movies like the Da Vinci Code, the “Lost Tomb of Jesus” hoax and other anti-Christ productions seek to change who the Bible says Jesus is in order to bring people farther from believing in Him. Since they cannot change the truth that Jesus existed, the next best step is to attack the book that explains who He is. Whether it’s saying “Jesus was married and had a child!” or “Jesus was buried and we found his tomb!” or now that “Jesus was not born of a virgin!” pop culture continues to try to distort what the Bible says. This is preaching “a different Jesus.”
As the opening verse showed, the Bible accurately predicted that this would happen and many people, shows, songs and even churches are preaching a different Jesus from the one of Scripture. If you are not a Christian, open your eyes to the fact that you are being purposely bombarded with big-budget messages specifically about Christianity and the Bible to lead you into doubt and rejection of it. The Bible says that Satan will use “any means” to deceive people into believing his version instead of the true Bible. Why? Because he wants all people to worship his “seed” and his false Messiah, the Antichrist, the prophesied false Messiah who the unsaved, God-hating people of the world will accept and believe in one day. Do not be deceived. Believe in the true Jesus of the Bible. He was no mere man. He is the Messiah and He offers eternal life and forgiveness of sins for those who know Him and believe. Jesus said: “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:35-36). As society moves farther from the true Jesus, turn back to Him and get closer. Your eternal destiny depends on it.
2012 By Beginning and End
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” — 2 Corinthians 11:3-4Hollywood is set once again to further blaspheme Christianity and the Lord Jesus Christ as director Paul Verhoeven is set to produce a film that portrays Jesus Christ not as the Son of God but as a moral politican who was the product of Mary being raped by a Roman soldier. The movie, titled “Jesus of Nazareth,” is based on Verhoeven’s own 2010 book of the same name, which presents a pseudo-historical account of Christ’s story that differs greatly from the accounts of Jesus presented in the Bible – and offers yet another attempt by pop culture to attack Christianity and further the spirit of Antichrist into society.
Verhoeven, the director of 90′s blockbusters Robocop, Basic Instinct and Total Recall, bases his own beliefs from being a member of ‘The Jesus Seminar’ an offshoot of the Westar Institute, which describes itself as “a member-supported, non-profit research and educational institute founded in 1986 and dedicated to the advancement of religious literacy.” Westar’s twofold mission is: “to foster collaborative research in religious studies and to communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public.” (source)
The Jesus Seminar’s main purpose was to reevaluate the Bible and re-examine all of the words and actions of Jesus in the Gospels to determine which “are truly authentic.” What this amounts to is another attempt by a non-Christian organization to attack the credibility of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ. According to the Jesus Seminar, their own members get to vote on what they believe to be authentic, probably authentic or inauthentic aspects of the Bible and thus form a ‘consensus.’ In the case of Jesus’ life in the Gospels, they voted that 16% of it was true. As they state on their site: “For those who believe the Bible to be the word of God a 16% historical accuracy rate may seem ridiculously low.”
Verhoeven echoes these sentiments:
“If you look at the man, it’s clear you have a person who was completely innovative in the field of ethics,” Verhoeven has said about his planned film. “My own passion for Jesus came when I started to realize that. It’s not about miracles, it’s about a new set of ethics, an openness towards the world, which was anathema in a Roman-dominated world. I believe he was crucified because they felt that politically, he was a dangerous person whose following was getting bigger and bigger. Jesus’ ideals are about the utopia of human behavior, about how we should treat each other, how we should step into the shoes of our enemy,” he added. (source)
Beginning and End has detailed in many articles that Hollywood and pop culture in general, has sought to blaspheme God and attack the Bible at any chance it can get. This is a key part of Satan’s agenda. The Bible defines the Spirit of Antichrist:
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. — 1 John 2:22-23.The Antichrist, the satanically-empowered False Messiah who will rule the world in the final years before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, will appear in the future but the “spirit of Antichrist” exists in the world today. And the way to identify this spirit is clear: by someone who specifically denies that Jesus is The Son of God and Messiah, which is precisely what Verhoeven is going out of his way to do in his film. Thus a movie based on an unscholarly group’s “voting process” will once again seek to disparage the name of Jesus Christ. Aside from the Talmud, a book goes out of its way to blaspheme Jesus (and is not in line with Biblical Judaism) there is no historical record of Mary, the mother of Jesus ever being raped. This is a completely baseless assertion from a director with a clear agenda.
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. – 2 John 1:7
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. — 1 John 4:2-4.
Who Did Jesus Say He Was?
There are many people who want to cast Jesus as a good moral teacher, philosopher or spiritual guru. However, Jesus left no room for such ridiculous assertions. Jesus is the prophesied Messiah of the Bible and He affirmed that with His actions and words. This is why Jesus asked His disciples on several occasions, “who do you say I am?” The Gospel Book of John opens with:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made….And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” — John 1:1-3, 14.The Bible says The Word, a title for Jesus, was with God and “was God” since the beginning, which means before the creation of Heaven and Earth. It also says Jesus is the Creator of all things and became flesh, which took place 2,000 years ago when He took human form and was born into the world.
Even when Jesus lived on the Earth, teaching from the Bible (Jesus quotes from almost all of the books of the Old Testaments in His recorded words in the New Testament), performing supernatural miracles and declaring the Gospel for forgiveness of sins, many people doubted or were confused about who He was. Was He the Messiah? Was He an excellent teacher? Was He just an imposter? But there were some who understood exactly who He was:
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. — Mark 16:13-17.Notice that when the Disciple Peter answered correctly, Jesus did not hesitate to praise Him and tell Him that He was blessed by God the Father to know this.
If Jesus was such a peace-loving, moral teacher, why did people want to kill Him? Was was He so despised, if His message was just “love each other. Do not judge. Everyone just get alone? Because that was not His message. And He was not a moral teacher. His mission and message was to save souls of humanity by His sacrifice on the cross. To be a payment for the sins that humanity has been committing for millenia. And that payment required a divine sacrifice. And Jesus made it clear He was divine:
Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. — John 10:24:33.The reason why the enemies of Jesus wanted to kill Him was because He declared that He and God were on in the same.
Verhoeven, has taken over the modern-role of the Pharisees by misunderstanding the statements Jesus made as way to attack Him. In Verhoeven’s book Jesus of Nazareth, he states that Jesus made many “catchy phrases” such as “knock and it shall be opened to you”, “seek and you shall find,” and “ask and ye shall receive.” Verhoeven’s conclusion from this is “What a great idea! You can banish evil by praying, and something better will take its place. Your mind could actually control matter through prayer. Jesus himself said so.” (Jesus of Nazareth, ch. 1 p.1). Thus after 20 years of research, Verhoeven’s studies led him to the wildly incorrect conclusion that Jesus was trying to teach His disciples to have supernatural powers over matter. This is not what Jesus taught at all. Jesus taught His disciples to seek Heaven. To ask for eternal life and to knock on the door that leads to forgiveness for sins. This is why Jesus came to the world.
Verhoeven continues to show his utter ignorance of the Bible by saying: “..the Evangelists tell us that John the Baptist was sent to pave the way for Jesus, though they glossed right over the fact that Jesus tried to usurp his place.” (Jesus of Nazareth, preface, page 3.) John the Baptist, who was indeed sent to declare to the nation of Israel that the Messiah had arrived in advance of Jesus starting His ministry, said of Jesus: ” And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” — Mark 1:7-8.
John the Baptist not only saw Jesus as the Messiah, he did not even feel worthy to tie Jesus’ shoes. There was no competition between them. Even when John the Baptist’s own disciples told him that Jesus was gaining larger crowds, John replied: “I must decease, and He must increase.” This is the essence of Christianity. It is realizing that we are nothing but sinners who have violated God’s laws and our worthy of His wrath. But thanks to Jesus, God in the flesh, who lived as a perfect man, we can be forgiven based on His work and His sacrifice.
Jesus Declared Himself God
After Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey (something prophesied in the book of Zechariah centuries earlier), He was open as to who He was:
And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?” –Mark 14:60-63Who Do YOU say Jesus Is?
The Pharisees knew without a doubt that Jesus was proclaiming to be God. His statements made that abundantly clear. So for anyone reading the Bible it is your choice to believe if Jesus is the Son of God or not. But if you choose not to believe that, there is no room to say He was just a “good teacher.” A good moral teacher would not lie and repeatedly claim to be God knowing He was not. A ‘wise scholar’ would not tell His followers many times that He was going to die and be raised from the grave 3 days later. That would make him a liar and insane.
Movies like the Da Vinci Code, the “Lost Tomb of Jesus” hoax and other anti-Christ productions seek to change who the Bible says Jesus is in order to bring people farther from believing in Him. Since they cannot change the truth that Jesus existed, the next best step is to attack the book that explains who He is. Whether it’s saying “Jesus was married and had a child!” or “Jesus was buried and we found his tomb!” or now that “Jesus was not born of a virgin!” pop culture continues to try to distort what the Bible says. This is preaching “a different Jesus.”
As the opening verse showed, the Bible accurately predicted that this would happen and many people, shows, songs and even churches are preaching a different Jesus from the one of Scripture. If you are not a Christian, open your eyes to the fact that you are being purposely bombarded with big-budget messages specifically about Christianity and the Bible to lead you into doubt and rejection of it. The Bible says that Satan will use “any means” to deceive people into believing his version instead of the true Bible. Why? Because he wants all people to worship his “seed” and his false Messiah, the Antichrist, the prophesied false Messiah who the unsaved, God-hating people of the world will accept and believe in one day. Do not be deceived. Believe in the true Jesus of the Bible. He was no mere man. He is the Messiah and He offers eternal life and forgiveness of sins for those who know Him and believe. Jesus said: “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:35-36). As society moves farther from the true Jesus, turn back to Him and get closer. Your eternal destiny depends on it.
“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” — Matthew 10:32-33.
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