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QUESTION LIST; Page Number 46
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  1. The history of the King James version Bible in relation to other earlier attempts at an English translation

  2. What exactly is an "International Judaic"; who wrote the Protocols of...Zion; are "average everyday Jews" on-board with the Int. Judaic's generation-spanning global conspiracy to prepare this world for antichrist?

  3. Respecting church elders; the 8 kings of Rev 17; and faith that the Scriptures are pure

  4. Speaking the Truth = Hatred?  What Would You Do?

  5. Power and Authority from God in man

  6. The Sabbath Day: Saturday or Sunday or doesn't matter?

  7. "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel...." (Jer 31:33)

  8. Was Rahab (Joshua 2:1, etc.) really a prostitute?

  9. Pending

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Question #1

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The history of the King James version Bible in relation to other earlier attempts at an English translation

 

A Reader Writes:

What do you think of the Geneva Bible(s)? I always
thought that KJV was the first English language bible,
but apparently the Geneva Bibles predate KJV. You have
obviously put a lot of thought and research into these
things so I was wondering what you thought.

Thanks.


Answer: 

Hi.  The King James version was the first complete English language Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be widely distributed; but was not the first time the Scriptures had been translated into English.  There were several early attempts at bringing the Scriptures into the vulgar (common) tongue, many only constituting a few copies, and often consisting of the New Testament alone.  In addition to the Geneva Bible, Tyndale (1484-1536) also compiled a translation in 1525-26 (he was burned for it [literally] by the Catholic church).  We will speak more on William Tyndale shortly. 

    The King James version (actually it was not originally called [the much maligned name] "King James" Bible, but was so named that after the other newer translations came out, as a means to identify it apart from those other versions; the original 1611 "King James version Bible" was called simply "The Holy Bible," which name graced its simple cover) was the first time in the world that the average man could have the Scriptures in his own tongue, sitting on his own fireplace mantle.  Prior to that, the Scriptures were chained to the rectory podium in the Catholic church and could only be viewed by appointment ($$$). 

    The Catholic church was the greatest first enemy of the English Bible, as it proved so much of what that harlot church had been doing WRONG.  The Catholic church burned many at the stake for attempting to bring the words of God into the tongue of the common man.  God prevailed in the "King James Bible version" (called the "Authorized Version," or titled on its cover, simply: THE HOLY BIBLE). 

    King James had absolutely nothing to do with the "King James" Bible, save for allowing the Scholars and scribes to compile it.  And although it is called the Authorized Version (AV), the king never actually formally "authorized it" either. 

    I make that last point because many over the years, carrying on Rome's tradition of attacking the Holy Scriptures for exposing their own gross error and excesses (the selling of Indulgences [forgiveness for sins bought by $$$], saint and Marian worship, gross idolatry, the mythical place called Purgatory which one could pre-buy his way out of, or post-buy a loved ones way out of, etc.) have throw-up all kinds of absurd charges in an attempt to discredit the KJV Bible. 

     For instance, they have said that King James was a Gay man, and that because of this, the Bible version bearing his name is corrupt (but we see that in his lifetime, the Holy Bible never even bore his name, nor has it ever been established that the man was a Homosexual [and the Catholic church should talk about being Gay!]).  They also say that the king wanted to divorce his wife to marry another (odd desire for a supposedly Gay king) and that the Catholics wouldn't allow him toso because of that, they say, he "wrote a new Bible version."  These things are absurd, but are picked-up by Bible-doubters and spread as though the lies were the truth.  The ignorant take 'sound-bites' and form their entire opinion based upon themwithout ever checking into the validly of the bites upon which they have rested their shaky case.

     King James himself, referencing a Holy Scripture, wrote of his many enemies:

"They quarrel me (not for any evil or vice in me) but because I was a king, which they thought the highest evil, and because they were ashamed to profess this quarrel they were busy to look narrowly in all my actions, and I warrant you a moat in my eye, yes a false report was matter enough for them to work upon."  ― (king) James I, Basilicon Doron.

Luke 6:41
41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?  KJV

    King James had absolutely nothing to do with the work on the text, he was busy doing what kings dorule and amusing himself with women, wine, and song.  And while King James did speak fluent Greek, Latin, French, English, and Scots and was schooled in Italian and Spanish, he could not speak nor read Hebrew or Aramaic, the original languages of the Old Testament manuscripts.  He could no more translate a Hebrew lunch menu than he could an entire Hebrew & Aramaic Old Testament.  And calling it the "King James Version" (KJV) somehow cheapens it, I feel, as though this king decided to make his own Bible up with his own words in it.

On King James' hand in the English
Bible today bearing his name

[Excerpt:] "...Not only was King James the first monarch to unite Scotland, England and Ireland into Great Britain (as he liked to call it), but he commissioned what many consider to be the greatest piece of religious and literary work in the world--the Authorized King James Version of the Bible, aka the Authorized Version. King James gave his subjects the greatest gift he could--the Holy Bible so that they could be saved and fed from the Word of God.

In January of 1604, the King called the Hampton Court Conference in order to hear of things "pretended to be amiss" in the church. At this conference, Dr. John Reynolds, a Puritan, requested of the King a new translation of the Bible because those that were allowed during the reigns of Henry the VIII and Edward the VI were corrupt.

The King loved the idea and by July of 1604 the King had appointed 54 men to the translation committee. These men were not only the best linguists and scholars in the kingdom but in the world. Much of their work on the King James Bible formed the basis for our linguistic studies of today.

The translators were organized into six groups and met respectively at Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford. This group of great scholars had qualifications such as have not been rivaled before or after them. They spent most of their lifetimes in the pursuit of God and knowledge. One translator, Dr. Lancelot Andrews, mastered at least 15 languages and by the time he was 6 years old, he had read the entire Bible in Hebrew. Others on the translation committee were just as qualified. Some wrote foreign language dictionaries and lexicons, they commonly debated in Greek, they translated and edited great works and wrote their own. These are but a few of their fantastic accomplishments. They not only knew the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek biblical languages but also the related languages that shed light on them such as Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Syriac, Latin, Chaldee, Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch.

These men were not only world class scholars, they were Christians who lived holy lives as Deans and Presidents of major universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Some prayed 5 hours a day.

Their translation work did not go without opposition. According to the translator's notes in the preface of the King James Bible, the Catholic religion was dead set against translating the Bible into the common tongue. Popery proved to be the translator's chief enemy. The translators wrote of the Catholic religion:

"So much are they afraid of the light of the scripture, that they will not trust the people with it...Sure we are that not he that hath the good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touchstone, but he that hath the counterfeit."

Despite the opposition of the Catholic religion, the work continued and the end product was nothing short of miraculous. Many consider the commissioning of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible the crowning achievement of King James the VI and & I.

Upon its publication, the King James or Authorized Version eclipsed all previous and subsequent versions. It is the best-selling book of all time. Today there are a plethora of Bible versions available--yet for many Christians the King James Bible of 1611 is the absolute and final word of God. ..." ― "King James I BIOGRAPHY."  Jesus IS Lord ministries. Link: http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/kingbio.htm

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    As stated above, William Tyndale's body was burned at the stake (they strangled him first)  by the Catholic church for translating the Scriptures into the English tongue.  And on October 6, 1536, as he was being prepared for this fate, his last words before being executed by order of the priests were: "Lord, open the eyes of the King of England

    It was sixty-eight years later that God answered that prayer, and in the year of our Lord 1604, the King of England (King James I of England, formerly known as King James VI of Scotland) sanctioned (authorized) the translators to begin work on the project known to us today as the King James Bible translation.  The work completed and the first Bibles rolling of the printing press in 1611 A.D. (which is why it is also sometimes called the "1611 Version").

    And from that moment on, much to the chagrin of the Roman Catholic whore, no man needed to trust the corrupt clergy for the words of God any more, no man had to have His Lord's words filtered through a corrupt clergy class (priest-craft) who shaded them to cover their own excess and extortion; he could curl up before his own fireplace in his own abode and read with his own wife and children "What saith the Lord.

     And God Himself preserved the accurate transmission of the Holy Text.  Praise God for that!

Psalms 12:5-8
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.  KJV

    I will close with a short excerpt that should answer your question more perfectly regarding the names and dates of other English-language translations that antedate (precede) the 1611 King James version, and roadmap the transmission of the Holy Text into English: 

The History of the English Bible
by "Friends of William Tyndale." Fire for the Ploughman.
Link: http://www.williamtyndale.com/0biblehistory.htm

John Wycliff's hand-written manuscripts were the first complete Bibles in the English language (1380's). Wycliff (or Wycliffe), an Oxford theologian translated out of the fourth century Latin Vulgate, as the Greek and Hebrew languages of the Old and New Testaments were inaccessible to him.  Curiously, he was also the inventor of bifocal eyeglasses. Wycliff spent many of his years writing and teaching against the practices and dogmas of the Roman Church which he believed to be contrary to the Holy Writ. Though he died a nonviolent death, the Pope was so infuriated by his teachings that 44 years after Wycliff had died, he ordered the bones to be dug-up, crushed, and scattered in the river!

Gutenburg invented the printing press in the 1450's, and the first book to ever be printed was the Bible (in Latin). With the onset of the Reformation in the early 1500's, the first printings of the Bible in the English language were produced illegally and at great personal risk of those involved.

William Tyndale was the Captain of the Army of English reformers, and in many ways their spiritual leader. His work of translating the Greek New Testament into the plain English of the ploughman was made possible through Erasmus' publication of his Greek/Latin New Testament printed in 1516. Erasmus and the printer and reformer John Froben published the first non-Latin Vulgate text of the Bible in a millennium. For centuries Latin was the language of scholarship and it was widely used amongst the literate. Erasmus' Latin was not the Vulgate translation of Jerome, but his own fresh rendering of the Greek New Testament text that he had collated from six or seven partial New Testament manuscripts into a complete Greek New Testament.

Erasmus' translation from the Greek revealed enormous discrepancies in the Vulgate's integrity amongst the rank and file scholars, many of whom were already convinced that the established church was doomed by virtue of its evil hierarchy. Pope Leo X's declaration that "the fable of Christ was very profitable to him" infuriated the people of God.

With Erasmus' 1516 translation, the die was cast. In 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses of Contention to the Wittenberg Door. Luther, who would be exiled in the months following the Diet of Worms Council in 1521 that was designed to martyr him, would translate the New Testament into German from Erasmus' Greek/Latin New Testament and publish it in September of 1522. William Tyndale would do the same into English. It could not, however, be done in England.

Laboring under Luther's shadow, in the relative safety of Cologne and Worms,  Tyndale worked to completed his New Testament in English. Tyndale was fluent in eight languages and is considered by many to be the primary architect of the modern English language. Already hunted because of the rumor spread abroad that such a project was underway, inquisitors and bounty hunters were on Tyndale's trail to abort the effort. God foiled their plans, and in 1525/6 Tyndale printed the first English New Testament. The Bishop of London sought to confiscate and burn them, but copies continued to be smuggled into England. The more the King and Bishop resisted its distribution, the more fascinated the public at large became. Bishop Tunstal declared that Tyndale's translation contained thousands of errors as they torched hundreds of New Testaments confiscated by the clergy. One risked death by burning if caught in mere possession of the forbidden books.

Like the Pharisees of old, the clergy realized that having God's Word available to the people in the language of common English, would mean disaster to the church. No longer could they control access to the scriptures. If people were able to read the Bible in their own tongue, the church's income and power would crumble. They could not continue the selling of indulgences (the forgiveness of sins) or bartering the release of loved ones from "Purgatory".  People would begin to challenge the church's authority if the practices of the church were exposed to the light of Scripture. The contradictions between God's Word  and what the priests taught, would open the "eyes of the blind" and the truth would set them free. Salvation by GRACE alone -- through faith  (not by works) would be revealed. The need for "priest craft" would give way to the priesthood of all believers. The veneration of canonized Saints and of the Virgin would be called into question. The availability of the scriptures in English was the greatest threat imaginable to the corrupted Romish church. The Church of Rome would never give up without a fight.

Tyndale New Testament was the first ever printed in the English language. Its first printing occurred in 1525/6, but only two complete copies of that first printing are known to have survived. Any Edition printed before 1570 is very rare and valuable, particularly pre-1540 editions and fragments. Tyndale's flight was an inspiration to freedom loving Englishmen who drew courage from the 11 years that he was hunted. Books and Bibles flowed into England in bales of cotton and sacks of wheat. In the end, Tyndale was caught: betrayed by an Englishman that he had befriended. Tyndale was incarcerated for 500 days before he was strangled and burned at the stake in 1536. His last words were, "Lord, open the eyes of the King of England". ... [end of excerpt]

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What exactly is an "International Judaic"; who wrote the Protocols of...Zion; are "average everyday Jews" on-board with the Int. Judaic's generation-spanning global conspiracy to prepare this world for antichrist/satan?

 

A (Judaic CHRISTIAN) Reader Writes:

Dear Nick,  Hello!  Remember me?  I'm sorry to have been out of touch for so long.  I have been doing a lot of studying, and trying to rely less on human opinion, and more on the direction in which the Lord is leading me.  But I have run into a snag, and believe that the Lord is now leading me to ask you the following:

Briefly, I recently obtained a copy of the Protocols [Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion], and have been reading it diligently.

WHOEVER wrote this book, it must be admitted that its "prophecies" have been in large measure fulfilled during the last 100 years.  But how do we know that the authors really WERE "learned elders of Zion"?  I can think of two other possibilities:

(1) Judaeophobes, such as the Jesuits or Russian Orthodox leaders, or perhaps even Muslims, may have written the Protocols to smear their enemies.

(2)  There may have been, for centuries, an uneasy alliance among conspirators, with both Jews and non-Jews jockeying for position.  The Protocols may have been the work of the non-Jews, in an attempt to get the Jews blamed, and attention diverted from  their own work.  Then, they would have a free hand to actualize the Protocols, with the blame going to the Jews, while the non-Jewish conspirators would achieve dominance.

I also admit that the Protocols may be exactly what you and Henry Ford [see Ford's (1920-1?)  E-book: THE INTERNATIONAL JEW, THE WORLD'S FOREMOST PROBLEM] and others claim, or have claimed--the work of a largely Jewish conspiracy.  If so, can you explain just how such an important document fell into the hands of the Jews' enemies?  The story about a Russian general's daughter hiring a Jew to deliver some documents, does not explain just how the Protocols passed from the possession of the "elders" into the hands of outsiders.

I suppose my doubts also come from the fact that, despite thousands of conversations with hundreds of Jews over almost 60 years, I have never, for one moment, heard anybody say anything even remotely connected with plans for world domination, etc.

If there IS a Jewish conspiracy, then there must be huge numbers of Jews who are totally in the dark about it, and who are honest in their denials.  My parents never taught me one word of the Talmud, and would have been extremely disapproving if I had ever started expressing "anti-Gentile" prejudice (something I never did).

I'll close with just one anecdote:  in the late 1930's, a communist sympathizer invited my father to a party meeting.  My father was doubtful from the beginning, and made a lifelong decision to oppose communism when the speaker stated that the defense of the Soviet Union had to take priority over the defense of the United States.  Some years later, after WW II had ended, my father's army unit was in charge of helping European soldiers return to their homelands.  To their surprise and shock, the Russian soldiers were the only ones who did NOT want to return home.  My father learned from them about the terrible conditions in the USSR, contrary to the propaganda that Americans had been receiving.  ...One of the first "history" lessons I can recall my father teaching me is that there was a struggle between the US and the USSR for the control of the world.  He was 100% on the side of America.  I can also recall my mother telling me that, while Germany had been America's enemy in WW II, "now, Russia is
the enemy."

I could go on, but I think you get the point.  If there is a Jewish conspiracy, it has managed to cleverly conceal itself from a great many people of Jewish ancestry.  ...

Nevertheless, I am open to the POSSIBILITY that the Protocols may be exactly what they seem to be.  I simply want to know the truth about this book.   

Can you help to clarify things?
Thank you.
Sincerely, in Christ, Xxxxxxxxx
 

Answer:

Hello again.  Thank you for the real-life experience that you shared in the above (I hope that it is alright if I leave it in your above E-mail, as it can't identify you in any way, I feel).  The biggest unknown fact regarding pre-WWII Russia (USSR) is that the International Judaics controlled her (and still do this day).  The stories about Russia being "AntiSemitic" are bogeys. 

     Many feared the "liberating" Red Army of Russia at the close of WWII, not least of all the Jews.  Remember "Holocaust Survivor" Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust profiteer, liar, blasphemer of God, and fraud?  And how he left willingly with the Nazis at the close of the war so as to avoid falling into the hands of the Judaic-controlled Russian Red Army?  There is a reason for that.  But it is not within the scope of this current topic.  (The interested reader may do a search on what the Russian Red Army did when it entered Berlin, and what they did before and during the partitioning of Germany at the end of WWII.  Rape and murder are kind words to describe the bestial conduct of the Russian Red Army under their Judaic field Commanders.) 

     If the general mass of people in the modern day State of Germany ever fully discover the travesties visited upon their surrendered and prostrated relatives at the close of the war under the heel of the Judaic-controlled "liberating forces" (including the Americans and Brits, but to a lesser degree) they would invade the State of Israel today and decimate it, instead of fund it as they do today to the tune of some eighty-billion dollars and counting.  That is the reason why so-called AntiSemitism is so harshly suppressed in modern day Germany, even to the extent that World War Two is absent from children's school history books.

     May I excerpt a section of my up-coming but currently unfinished (due to lack of funds which buy the commodity of timenot for lack of interest or subject matter) book that describes in detail what I am trying to illustrate here?

Excerpt, chapter 13, The Coming Storm Called the Great Tribulation©:

 

The Sad Fate Of The German Peasant At The Close Of WW II

You never heard the sad fate of the German peasant after the war; did you?  Here, let me ask this: how many of you reading this today have ever heard of the below facts?  I know that not until well into my adult years I had never heard of this of the war.  Below, from the book, The Zionists, we read:

"...in November 1946, almost two years after the conclusion of the war [WWII], that Russia has 3,500,000 German prisoners, France 1,000,000, and the British 500,000.  These are slaves performing slave labor upon starvation rations.  It is improbable that this number is still alive [this was written in 1950], for it is the plan of the Communists [Jews] to either destroy the German people or convert them to Bolshevism [Judaic Communism―Marxism]; this is the Morgenthau plan [this Henry Morgenthau Jr. was a Jew].  It is in flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention and an offense against decency, humanity and civilization.  It is estimated, January 1, 1950, that the Bolsheviks [the Jewish party controlling Russia since the 1917 (Jewish) Bolshevik Revolution] have more than 1,000,000 Japanese prisoners [that’s five years after the war!]." The Zionists, chapter 10; "Zionist Victory and the Nuremburg Trial" by Geo W. Armstrong, 1950; pp. 111-112.  (no ISBN#).
 

Jewish Atrocities on Ger. Civilians.  Against Germans (Both military & Civilian) During  WWII

T

he true full story of the demonic torture, rape, and murder of helpless German civilians at the end of WWII will probably never be told.  It has been lost (suppressed) in the deluge of exaggerated and fabricated Holocaust fantasies.

     While all atrocity is bad, of course; and we do not condone any atrocity, naturally; it is made worse when history is rewritten to cover-up one atrocity and exaggerate another; especially when the suppressed victim is made the offender in the trumped-up charge.  We offer the below, to show you, the Christian reader, what the Judaics shall do to you during the Great Tribulation, showing you what the Talmudic-Jewish mind unhindered is capable of.  And also by showing you the blind hatred they have for you, which is even greater than the hatred that they have for the Arabs.

     The civilians of German descent were just as much a victim of the Nazi Party as many others were.  Do you blame yourself for the invasion of Iraq just because you are an American?  Why then blame the German citizen for the invasion of Poland (to start WWII)?  And how few people even know what was done to the German citizens by the Judaics after the war???  Even fewer care, though the majority of Anglo Americans have at least some German blood in their heritage―these were their distant relatives!  Forgotten distant relatives, it seems.  On the contrary, I will say one thing for the Judaics: they don’t forget; i.e., their (complete) saying: "Never Forgive, Never Forget," cleaned up for Goyim (non-Jewish) consumption to simply: "Never Forget."

     In the below articles and pages you should notice a common thread running through all of the events, they are Jewish hatred against Christian peoples.  The hate that killed our Messiah Jesus Christ lives today.  And it shall once again operate unhindered when the world is cast into the Tribulation.  No Law, Civil Right, or Police Officer shall save you, for at that time they shall control all law and enforcement.  Today they are ever making leaps and bounds in their control apparatus (as we illustrate starkly in the chapters of this book).  It is coming, and they are gaining momentum; they will again do the below to Christians and their families, especially the daughters, wives, and mothers.

Jewish controlled USSR Red Army commits
war atrocities on German civilians at close
of WWII “mop-up operations”

"…Russian Red Ilya Ehrenburg, [the Jewish] Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s.  Ehrenburg instigated the Soviet Red [Communist] Army rape and murder of German civilians.

     Referring to German women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, “that blonde hag is in for a bad time.”

     In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: “...the Germans are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses.”  (Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197).  Goldberg concedes that Ehrenburg, “...had always disliked the Germans...now that there was a war on he turned his old prejudice into an asset.”  (Ibid., p. 193).

     Another publication distributed to the Red Army, this time as the soldiers approached Danzig, was described by a historian: “Millions of leaflets were air-dropped on the troops with a message composed by the propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg and signed by Stalin (Stalin was also Jewish): ‘Soldiers of the Red Army!  Kill the Germans!  Kill all Germans!  Kill!  Kill!  Kill!”  (Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the Reich).

     The Soviet leadership acknowledged that Ehrenburg sought the extermination of the entire German people (cf. Pravda, April 14, 1945.  Pravda was also published in a Yiddish edition, Einikeyt).  Ehrenburg won the Order of Lenin [Lenin was also Jewish] and the Stalin [also Jewish] Prize.  He willed his papers to the Israeli Yad Vashem ‘Holocaust’ Museum."  ― Michael A. Hoffman II., Perpetrators of the holocaust against Christian Russia transform themselves into "survivors" of a holocaust.  “Judaic Communists; The Documentary Record”, Michael A. Hoffman II, Revisionist History.  2004. 

     You should recognize the above rhetoric where the Jewish Soviet Minister Ehrenburg wrote: ...the Germans are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses; for, you see the same references in the Jew’s holy book, the Talmud, made to Arabs, Christians, and all other non-Jews. ...

 The Coming Storm called the Great Tribulation© by Nick Goggin (incomplete
 manuscript, rough-draft ©). Chapter 13, ppg 112-113 (pagination tentative).

 [End of excerpt]

     The German people are a proud true-Israel people (descended from the Israel tribes who migrated in successive waves out of the Middle East in circa 10th through 6th century B.C., being removed by God to set up the prophesied promised land (England and then by proxy, the Americas [i.e., what is known as the "Christian Western Nations" of today]), and they are fierce force to be reckoned with, as the world saw in WWI & WWII

     There is a rise currently in Germany, France, and other European nations of what is being falsely labeled "AntiSemitism."  What is really happening is that patriots (defamed as "skinheads, racists, etc., and infiltrated to discredit them by fake Hitler and Nazi movements that do not exit save for in the Judaic-inspired facade) from those Christian nations are waking up to what really happened to them.  Naturally, TPTB (The Powers That Be [Judaic controlled through-and-through]) are meeting this rise with harsh measures.  Evidenced by the recent purge and prosecution world-wide of so-called "Holocaust Deniers."  This one move, the persecution of those who "minimize" the "Holocaust" has backfired on the International Judaics; so that, now, many an average person, who would have never dreamed of sympathizing with a so-called "Holocaust Denier," are now looking into the matter seeking documentation with intelligent questions.  The international Judaics are far too intelligent to have this back-fire occursave for that it was planned

Why would the International Judaics Purposely
Trigger a backlash against Jews in general
?

     In short, they need more Jewish, as they call them in the Protocols: "lesser brethren," to sacrifice for Zionism's political aspirations.  Mr. Everyday Jew, beware; this is exactly what your "greater brethren," the International Judaics, did to you in pre-WWII Germany.  "They" (International Jewry) declared economic war on Germany in 1933 (or 1934?) and crippler her (see headline at right).  Hitler's response was to arrest all Jews within the control of the Reich and attempt to deport them.  International Jewry once again raised its foot against the "lesser brethren" everyday Jews and refused any country (for they controlled at the top all nations of consequence) to accept the wave of Jewish refugees.  Hitler then placed these betrayed Jews into prison and work camps.  That is how you were set up then, and that is what is happening today to set you up for persecution #2.  True is the proverb for today's every-day average Jew:

"We have seen the enemy, and it is us" Pogo.

     In other words, your enemy is your own "leaders," whom you neither appointed nor were allowed to elect, much less being asked approval on as YOUR spokesmen.  Yet, "they" direct your fear to outside agents (Nazi's, Skinheads, boogey-men, etc.) blinding you to the danger from within "your" own camp.  Pretty smart, aren't they?  That is why most often when there is an arrest for a Synagogue defacing or a Jewish cemetery desecrationit is a Jew who is arrested.  Didn't hear that on NBC or ABC or FOX, did you?  You won'tthey are all controlled by the international Judaics.  I have at my fingertips excerpts and news stories from abroad, should the reader doubt these Judaic false flag operations (the "AntiSemitic" defamation and desecrations, etc.).  It is advantageous to the international Judaics to keep their "lesser brethren" in a constant state of fear of persecution and holocaustings.  Terrified people will band together under a common leadership and do exactly what they are told to do, for fear of the outside threat, that in this case does not exist save that it is Judaic manufactured by the Int. Judaics. 

     Its the oldest control trick in the book: create a common enemy, a common danger, to unite your minions under you; that's how "they" got us into Iraq and Afghanistan (and soon to be Iran, Syria, etc.)remember the false-flag 911 attacks?  Only a Lemming*; okay, be nice; only an "extremely uniformed and willingly ignorant" individual does not realize that 911 was an inside job.

* The term "lemming" is often used in slang to denote those who
mindlessly follow the crowd, even if destruction is the result.

Moving on....

     And I also want to thank you for this fine opportunity to explain exactly what I mean when I write the term "International Judaic" in so many of these studies on the Website.  Often it is confused by the reader that I am speaking of all Jews in general, such as yourself who is a man of Jewish ancestry but who is a Christian follower of the Messiah Jesus Christ.  You could never be an International Judaic.  More on this later.  But first:

You wrote:

"Briefly, I recently obtained a copy of the Protocols [Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion], and have been reading it diligently.

WHOEVER wrote this book, it must be admitted that its "prophecies" have been in large measure fulfilled during the last 100 years.  But how do we know that the authors really WERE "learned elders of Zion"?"

   Okay, you agree that what is written in that book has come to pass, and is coming to pass as we speak.  That is good, that is correct.  That alone establishes that the book is not "a hoax," "fraud," "forgery," or some dream made up by anybody in the year 1897 A.D. (the accepted date of the original speech which the Protocols are the minutes thereof).  Having established that, we can agree that whoever wrote it, whoever devised the plans in it, had some knowledge of a global conspiracy, and an excellent (and I say dark-side supernatural) working knowledge of the mind and affairs of man.  For now, let's leave the Judaic authorship of this volume on the back burner and let's establish that this book, whoever penned its ideas on the paper, is in fact true to the letter.  We can prove its truthfulness by examining what was written aforehand in the volume, compared to what has transpired later on the ground.

     Let's take Russia for instance.  Not the Russia of today, nor the USSR of old, but the Russia of pre-1917 Bolshevik Revolution days.  This book (the Protocols) is the roadmap to the destruction of Tsarist Russia (Tsars were like kings).  There is no way that anyone, who both having a working knowledge of the overthrow of the once-Christian Russian nation, and a familiarity of the Protocols themselves, can say that this isn't so.  Nobody (that I know of) has even bothered to try to distance the overthrow of Russia from the Protocols manifesto.  You just can't do it.  It is beyond the scope of this short article to go into details regarding the aligning of the Protocols with the revolution in Russia and the following enslavement of the state into what became known as the godless atheistic union called the U.S.S.R.  If this becomes a stumbling point for a reader, then let them write in and ask for evidence.  As I said, there really isn't any need to beat that dead horse.

     And please, this is not a cop-out.  If I documented every point here these articles would be unreadable for the sheer volume of excerpts and quotations, etc.  I feel that I document far more often than most every other that I have read.  And I cannot promise that I am always right, or that I am infallible; but I can and do promise that I believe every word that I write here at WBSG.  If I am wrong, history and sharp Bible students shall correct me.  I seek to be honest and to bring as many facts to the table, regardless of their Political Correctness or not, to establish why I believe any certain thing here at WBSG, both secular and religious.  Then I trust the reader to do his own study and come to whatever conclusions that he/she is led to.  In matters Scriptural, by the Holy Spirit present when you study Bible; in matters secular, by the history and the information available to us presently.

The Location of the Delivery of the Protocols of...Zion, 1897

"Portraits of the members of the first Zionist congress in Basile-Switzerland. Called for by Thodor Herzl Whose portrait is in the center." ― Israeli Poster Center; 29 King George St. Jerusalem, Israel (From section C: Israel Independence and Politics).

     Therefore, if we can agree that the overthrow of pre-1917 Russia was pre-planned and outlined in the Protocols (which were written twenty years before that Revolution [a copy of the Protocols even having been entered into the British Museum on August 10, 1906, eleven years before said revolution, where it rests today]), then we can agree that whoever led that revolution was working from the Protocols model and manuscript.  (Note:  There was also a failed attempt at revolution in 1905, still eight years before the Protocols were given at the first Zionist Congress in Bastille Switzerland, 1897.)

     It has not escaped even Jewish historians that the entire leadership of the Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish men.  It also has been noticed that after the revolution, and when the new nation was being formed upon once-Christian Russia's ashes and blood, that all the high ranking leaders in the new government (which became known as the USSR) were Jewish men, or, with a few "Gentiles" mixed in who were married to Jewish women (a tactic used by the Int. Judaics to manage "Gentile" useful-idiots).  Below I will list just some evidences for my above statements.  Many more proofs exist, and I have seen many that I will not be hunting down to publish here today (mostly for time's sake).  The reader may do his own investigation if he/she feels that more evidence is needed.  If absolutely necessary, I can be queried further on the matter.  However, time is a commodity that I do not possess an abundance of at this point in my life.  So I shall try to avoid over-documenting the obvious and well known things, saving that time for documenting the things that many of you may not have seen or hitherto had access to.

Bolshevism is Jewish 

Out of 556 Bolshevik Revolutionary leaders in Russia, 457 were Jewish!

According to the data furnished by the Soviet press, out of 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik State. . . there were in 1918-1919, 17 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Letts, 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian, 10 Georgians, 3 Poles, 3 Finns, 1 Karaim, 457 Jews. The Last Days of the Romanovs, by Robert Wilton, T. Butterworth, London, 1920, George H. Doran Publishers, New York, 1920, Institute for Historical Review, Virginia Beach CA, 2nd Printing 1996, pp. 184-185.

...there is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself. In the fact that so many Jews are Bolsheviks. In the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism. The London Jewish Chronicle, April 4, 1935.

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. ― H.H. Beamish, N.Y. speech, 1937.

 
Below is another excerpt from my same (upcoming) book:
 

The Jewish domination in the Bolshevik revolutionary Russian Government

We must now lay to rest the Judaic propaganda lie regarding that post-revolution Russia (the USSR) was AntiSemitic, and that “Jews were persecuted” in the Soviet Union after the revolution.  This is just another lie fashioned to cover the atrocities committed by the Jewish revolutionary government of the Soviet Union against some twenty-million Christian citizens which were exterminated by the Judaic Secret Police.  Observe the below contemporary report (circa 1924) on the make-up of the revolutionary government in Russia immediately after the 1917 Jewish Bolshevik Revolution.  Is it rational to presume that a government run so completely by Judaics would allow persecutions of Jews?

"An apology must be made here for repeating well-known facts.  Yet, so many people are not even now aware [Ed. Note: this written in 1924, and I would add that not even now in 2005 are people generally aware] of the true meaning of Bolshevism, that at the risk of monotony, we shall cite a few of the salient facts.  The purpose, however, is not alone to explain Russia, but to throw a warning light on conditions in the United States [Ed. Note:  And we are heading in the same direction as pre-1917 Russia did, with total Jewish domination in our nation].

     The Bolshevik Government, as it stood late this summer when the latest report was smuggled through to certain authorities, shows up the Jewish domination of the whole affair.  It has changed very slightly since the beginning.  We give only a few items to indicate the proportion.  It must not be supposed that the non-Jewish members of the government are Russian [ED. Note:  One was even a Negro; unheard of in old Russia!].

     Very few Russians have anything to say about their own country these days.  The so-called “Dictatorship of the Proletariat[1],” in which the proletariat has nothing whatever to say, is Russian only in the sense that it is set up in Russia; it is not Russian in that it springs from or includes the Russian people.  It is the international program of the Protocols[2], which might be “put over” by a minority in any country, and which is being given a dress-rehearsal in Russia.  [See table below] 

Jewish Control of Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917

Positions:

Number of Members:

Number of Jewish Members:

Jewish Percentage:

The Council of the Commissaries of the People

22

17

77.2%

The Commissariat of War

43

33

76.7%

The Commissariat of Foreign Affairs

16

13

81.2%

The Commissariat of Finance

30

24

80.0%

The Commissariat of Justice

21

20

95.2%

The Commissariat of Public Instruction

53

42

79.2%

The Commissariat of Social Assistance

6

6

100.0%

The Commissariat of Work

8

7

87.5%

Delegates of the Bolshevik Red Cross to Berlin, Vienna, Varsovie, Bucharest, Copenhagen

8

8

100.0%

Commissaries of the Provinces

23

21

91.3%

Journalists

41

41

100.0%

      These are enlightening figures.  The reader will note that the Jewish percentage is high at all times, never lower than 76 per cent in any case.  (Curiously enough, the lowest percentage of Jews is found in the Commissariat of War.)  But in those committees which deal most closely with the mass of the people, as well as in the committees of defense and propaganda, Jews fill literally all the places.

     Remember what the Protocols say about Press control: remember what Baron Montefiore said about it, and then look at the Government Journalists.  That committee comprises 41 men, and the 41 are Jews.  Only Jewish pens are trusted with Bolshevist propaganda.

     And then the so-called “Red Cross delegates,” which are merely Red Revolutionary delegates to the cities named—of the 8, there are 8 Jews.

     The Commissariat of Social Assistance, upon whose word the life and privilege of tens of thousands hang—there are 6 members, and the 6 are Jews.  And so on through the list.

     Out of the 53 members of the Commissariat of Public Instruction, 11 are noted as non-Jews.  But what kind of non-Jews is not stated.  They may be “non-Jews like Lenin”[3] whose children speak the Yiddish as their native tongue.  Whatever they are, there is a sidelight upon their attitude in the fact that the Bolsheviki immediately took over all the Hebrew schools and continued them as they were and laid down a rule that the ancient Hebrew language should be taught in them.  The ancient Hebrew language is the vehicle of the deeper secrets of the World Program."[4]

Footnotes

[1] Definition: pro·le·tar·i·at  n. 1. a.  The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.  b.  The poorest class of working people.  2. The propertyless class of ancient Rome, constituting the lowest class of citizens.  ― The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

[2] The author is referring to the Jewish manifesto known as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

[3] Ed Note:  Since this article was written (1924) information has come to light solidly documenting that Lenin was also a Jew.  Documentation supplied below in this chapter.

[4] The International Jew—The World’s Foremost Problem, (circa 1920's) volume I, chapter 19 “The All-Jewish Mark on ‘Red Russia’ ” by Henry Ford , founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the editors of THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT.

 The Coming Storm called the Great Tribulation© by Nick Goggin (incomplete
 manuscript, rough-draft ©). Chapter 13, ppg 110-111 (pagination tentative).

[End of excerpt]

     What is my point?  My point is that since the organizers of the Russian Revolution, the leaders, those who funded it (Jacob Schiff, etc.), and the future leaders (Lenin, Stalin, etc.) of the revolution/new nation were Judaics; AND, since the Protocols were the blue print for said revolution/new nation; THEN, the Judaics were the authors of the Protocols.  Simple as that.  If one can find flaw in my simple logic, please share.

Moving on....

You wrote:

"I suppose my doubts also come from the fact that, despite thousands of conversations with hundreds of Jews over almost 60 years, I have never, for one moment, heard anybody say anything even remotely connected with plans for world domination, etc.

"If there IS a Jewish conspiracy, then there must be huge numbers of Jews who are totally in the dark about it, and who are honest in their denials . . . . I could go on, but I think you get the point.  If there is a Jewish conspiracy, it has managed to cleverly conceal itself from a great many people of Jewish ancestry.  ..."

Absolutely!  This brings us to our closing subject:

     I believe that in my above I have touched lightly on the fact that there is a difference between the "average everyday 'Jew'" and the "International Judaic," and that I have illustrated how they do not work in concert.  

What then is the difference?

     The 'everyday Jew" is just like anybody else living in a particular country, they have assimilated, and consider themselves a national of whatever nation it is that they live in.  And International Judaic however, never looses his "Jewishness," he is a Jew first, then a resident alien of whatever host nation he is raping. 

     International Judaics, at the top (a small core group that always intermarries within other Kenite families), are Kenites (sons of Cain), but everyday Jews are a mixture of all the nations that they have been dispersed throughout and ejected from.  More could be said on this, but that would be a different topic for a different day (the Kenite bloodline).

    When I say the term "International Judaic" in these studies, I am referring to the elite, the hidden hand.  This group are Satanists (Cabalists) at their core and have absolutely no concern nor pity for their, what they call "lesser brethren," the everyday so-called Jews.

     You asked why that in your 60 years of being a Jewish man, having spoken to thousands of Jewish people, you have never met one of these International Judaics, you have never met a "Jew" that was part of a conspiracy to enslave and dominate the world.  Fair question.

     Okay, when is the last time that you dined with a Rothschild?  Or played Cricket with a Rockefeller, or a Chase, or a Du Pont, etc...?  When is the last time that you studied un-censored Talmud or Kabbalah with a Rabbi Shem Baal (Master of the Name)?

    You haven't, nor shall you ever.  And if you did meet one of "them" and introduce yourself as a Jew, they would still not divulge any secrets to you.  "They" and you are totally different people, different bloodlines, different religions, different values, different Gods, different motives.  To them, you are not much better than a Goyim.

     The average person who calls himself a Jew today is not involved in this satanic conspiracy to prepare the world for antichrist/satan.  The Ma and Pa Jews who own the corner delicatessen don't know the first thing about setting up a nation's currency system to drain that nation.  The Average Jew working at Wall Mart hasn't the first clue as to what the Talmud, the Zohar (Kabbalah) says about Jesus Christ or even Christians in general.  That is the reason why you will never know of the inner workings of the conspiracyto "them," you are an outsider.

"Jews" don't know themselves

     I myself, being an Anglo-Saxon Christian of German and Irish decent, know more about Judaism, Talmudism, Kabbalah, and "Jews" in general, than does most average Jews.  This is part of the problem.  And what "Jews" do know of themselves, has been filtered through the International Judaics and the Talmudic rabbis, and therefore amounts to nothing less than lie and propaganda.  The average "Jew" really believes that he is the descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, when nothing could be further from the truth.  They believe that they are of the family bloodline that God made covenants to and willed the Promised Land tothis also is untrue.  90%-95% of so-called Jews today do not have more than a few drops of Abraham's, Isaac's and Jacob's blood running thru their veinsthey are not their biological descendants, they are not their people. 

     Today's Ashkenazi Jews (who constitute 90% to 95% of world Jewry today) are a Turko-Mongoloid people called the Khazars, from the Steppes of Russia, circa 9th century A.D., and that before adopting Judaism they were heathen and pagan sex-idol worshippers.  And many, many, Jewish writer's themselves know that "Jews" today are not related to the Hebrew Israelites of the Bible.  For two very informative articles by a Jew himself on this matter, see our E-books below:

Two Works By Benjamin H. Freedman, Jewish Defector (Jew convert to Christianity):

   A Jewish Defector Warns America by Benjamin H. Freedman

   Facts Are Facts by Benjamin H. Freedman

NOTE ON AUTHOR:     Benjamin H. Freedman was one of the most intriguing and amazing individuals of the 20th century. Mr. Freedman, born in 1890, was a successful Jewish businessman of New York City who was at one time the principal owner of the Woodbury Soap Company. He broke with organized Jewry after the Judeo-Communist victory of 1945, and spent the remainder of his life and the great preponderance of his considerable fortune, at least 2.5 million dollars, exposing the Jewish tyranny which has enveloped the United States.

     Mr. Freedman knew what he was talking about because he had been an insider at the highest levels of Jewish organizations and Jewish machinations to gain power over our nation. Mr. Freedman was personally acquainted with Bernard Baruch, Samuel Untermyer, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, and many more movers and shakers of our times.

     This speech was given before a patriotic audience in 1961 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Conde McGinley's patriotic newspaper of that time, Common Sense. Though in some minor ways this wide-ranging and extemporaneous speech has become dated, Mr. Freedman's essential message to us -- his warning to the West -- is more urgent than ever before.

See also the Judaic author, Arthur Koestler's, work below (E-book):
 

The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler 

This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry…

The Khazars’ sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain.

...but that does not alter the fact that the large majority of surviving Jews in the world is of Eastern European — and thus perhaps mainly of Khazar — origin. If so, this would mean that their ancestors came not from the Jordan but from the Volga, not from Canaan but from the Caucasus, once believed to be the cradle of the Aryan race; and that genetically they are more closely related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar tribes than to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

     Should this turn out to be the case, then the term “anti-Semitism” would become void of meaning, based on a misapprehension shared by both the killers and their victims. The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated. ― Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe; pg.17.

     Now, the readers here do not know that you and I have been corresponding for some time now; so I will state this fact out loudyou are a Jew who knows more about Jews than most every Jew whom I have conversed with.  (I tend to like to use the term "Judaic," as the word "Jew" has become stigmatized when uttered by a non-Jew).  And you are a Christian man by faith.  And I consider you a brother because of that.  But not so with many of "your people."  (Excuse the term, please.)

Peace to you in Christ Jesus.

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Respecting church elders; the 8 kings of Rev 17; and faith that the Scriptures are pure

 

A (female) Reader Writes:

Nick,

First I want to say that I am thrilled to find your website.  I feel it appropriate to introduce myself.  I have been a Christian for 10 years this April, and I have been a student of God's Word with the tutoring of Pastor Arnold Murray [http://www.shepherdschapel.com] for about 7 years now.  Father put it on my heart several years back to study every book of the Bible and gather my notes in tablets for a resource.  However, this past October Father again put it in my heart to put my studies of the Bible on Word.  This allowed me to put maps, charts etc. to accompany my studies.  In the process of this, Father has shown me seeing and hearing is dependent on the amount of appetite I have and how much time I feed upon His Word.  For me, Father has shown me that my studies are tentative based upon my appetite and amount of feeding time that I spend in His Word. .... 

...Moreover, I too, do not see PM [pastor Murray] views concerning Christians not being killed during the tribulation.  I have my studies with references that I find in the Bible to be contrary to this; and was somewhat relieved to later find that I was not the only one seeing this differently.  This has greatly bothered me, as I have not put in the amount of time studying as PM has and I work hard at rightly dividing the Word to best of my ability.  I differed with PM on this and until I saw your input [reference WBSG's: Scriptural Evidences That Christians Shall Die In The Great Tribulation]; I thought that I was the only one seeing it the way that I was ( I do think that Christians will die during the 1st tribulation).  Question:  How do you view the 2 witnesses?  If you already have this on your website just dismiss this question.  I am quite new yet to all of your studies, and I will find it if you have it listed.

Thanks you and may Father further endeavor you works,   Xxxx Xxxxxxx


Answer:

Hello Xxxx.  May I ask how you found our Website?

     I am impressed with the quality of the graphics that you have in your study [mention of which omitted in above E-mail].  Did you make them yourself?  I myself struggle to make nice graphics.  I feel that sometimes a picture truly can speak a thousand words, and is helpful in teaching. 

    Regarding pastor Murray: yes, I have some minor disagreements with him, but he is still the best out there.  He even says himself that no man is perfect, no teacher is perfect.  And it pains me to have to publicly disagree with him on some matters; nevertheless, the truth must always be held in the preeminent place, setting respect of persons aside (Lev 19:15, etc.).  As times goes on more information becomes available to the student of God's Word; and the old bulls sometimes have trouble changing with that new information; but younger bulls adapt quite readily.  This is natural, and it is okay.  Did not the angel of the Lord even tell Daniel that knowledge would increase as we neared the Tribulation?

Daniel 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.  KJV

    But along with God's servants increasing knowledge, so too is the other edge of the swordmany shall reject God's wisdom and come to a willing ignorance and overthrow brought about because of their own rejection of the Holy One and His written Word, the Bible:

Amos 8:11-12
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.  KJV

    So then, every good doctrine, proven by the Scriptures themselves, must be well considered by the Bible student; for, the prophecies come from God not man:

2 Peter 1:20-21
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  KJV

    Therefore, the final word on any matter scriptural, and of doctrine, and of tenants of the Christian faith, must necessarily be tempered and fashioned and founded upon the Scriptures of the holy Bible itself; for, God, by His own written Word, has declared that the Scriptures are trustworthy and acceptable:

2 Timothy 3:14-17
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.  KJV

    But I live in the same world that you live inI see them, I do; I see themI know that many (most) today do believe the Bible, nor believe that it is the Divine Word of God breathed from above to His prophets by He who has created everything and everyone.  What would I say to one who has been led to doubt the validity of God's written Word, the Bible?  I would pity them; for, they have been robbed of a great treasure, one that is able to lead men to God and make good men perfect in the Lord, through Christ Jesus resurrected forever and ever.  This is the glad report of every faithful Christian.  But as Isaiah said:  "Lord, who hath believed our report?" (Rom 10:16b [Isaiah 53:1-ff]).

Romans 10:13-17
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias [Grk. spelling of Isaiah] saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  KJV

    What report was it that Isaiah was speaking of which the people would not readily believe?  The report of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.  The above verse refers to the below Old Testament prophecy of Jesus Christ to come, written in circa 600 B.C.six-hundred years before He was born to the virgin Maryspeaking of things that were to come, as reported faithfully in the New Testament:

Isaiah 53:1-9 [written circa 600 B.C. of Jesus Christ to come]
53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.  KJV

Back to pastor Murray 

    But it was through his ministry (Shepherds Chapel) that I began my walk with the LordI shall never forget that, nor him.  It was about 15 or so years ago that the Lord led me to his ministry.  My respect for pastor Murray, my unwillingness to embarrass him for being human, and my refusal to allow anyone to berate or slander him is kind of like for me:

Acts 23:2-5
2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written [Ex 22:28], Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.  KJV

Exodus 22:28
28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.  KJV

In other words, respect the elders of the church:

1 Timothy 5:17
17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.  KJV

But always under the Lord:

1 Peter 5:4-6
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:  KJV

You asked:

"Question:  How do you view the 2 witnesses?"

    They will be two men (males!) who are most likely (most certainly?) alive today but who do not know who they are.  They will be gifted by the Holy Spirit and speak the words of God (the truest definition of a prophet is "one who speaks God's words," not necessarily "one who predicts the future," as many reckon; though a prophet does does foretell of the future by God's words).  These Two Witnesses shall die by the hand of satan (antichrist) himself in the second part of the Tribulation, and they shall die at Jerusalem; for, as our Lord has said, "for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." (Luke 13:33b). 

    They will rise on the third-and-a-half day, at midday, and ascend up to God alive.  Then comes the hardest times on the Earth for the wicked and unbelievers.  The Two Witnesses will not be Enoch, Elijah, nor Moses, as many suppose.  God is not short on servant souls, and He has always raised men of the era to speak His words.  It is unnatural for Him to operate unnaturally.  These witnesses must be of the people to be perfect.  Even when God Himself came to visit man, He was born into this world and raised naturally before He began His great work in the last three and half years of His (Jesus') life. 

    Know one knows who these Two Witnesses will be.  We must wait, and, when God sends them throughout the world, He will enable them with gifts and prove them by signs and wonders.  The Christian shall know who they are in their time, and they will listen and receive further instructions from them.  There is much that happens in the Tribulation that is not written; for instance, we have the Seven Thunders [Rev 10:2-4] which end-time messages Scripture is mute on (7 of them, in perfect harmony with the 7 Seals, 7 Trumps, and 7 Vials).  Etc.  In other words, we don't know it all today.  But we shall know before the end.

Revelation 10:2-4
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.  KJV

Finally; the answer to the eight kings is this:

Revelation 17:9-11
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth [the whole world - "7 continents"].
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen [5 world Empires from history], and one is  [Rome; for, Rome "was" in 94 A.D. when Rev. was written], and the other is not yet come [the NWO - 1st beast of Rev 13]; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space [42 months].
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth [antichrist/satan], and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition [satan's ultimate abode is the Lake of Fire].  KJV

Side Note:

Contrast satan:

"the beast that was, and is not, ... and goeth into perdition" (Rev 17:11a)

With Jesus Christ:

"him which is, and which was, and which is to come" (Rev1:4b)

     The meaning in verse 11 of: "and is of the seven" is that satan controlled all the world's Empires.  He (satan) even offered them all to Jesus if Jesus would just bow down and worship satan:

Luke 4:5-8
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.  KJV

Of course, Jesus rejected the offer.

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Speaking the Truth = Hatred?  What Would You Do?

 

A Reader Writes:

I am not Jewish, I am sorry you feel the way you about Jews. It does not matter if 30,000 or 6,000,000 Jewish died in Germany. There is nothing in GODS word that says I should condone what was done to the Jews. First of all they should have never been in the consentration camps. Just by Hilter invading the other nations, tells you what power hungry person he was.

A GOD fearing person would never talk hatered.


Answer:

Hello.  I agree that it is tragic if only one innocent person diedI have stated that myself; perhaps you missed that?

    And yes, it was wrong for Hitler to imprison people based upon their race, just as it was wrong for America to imprison Japanese people in America during WWII based upon their race. 

    And yes, leaders invade other countries, just as Bush invaded Iraq, and just as Biblical Israel of old invaded all those in Canaan and Palestine in the Old Testament, driving them out by the sword and with great slaughter. 

    Who are we to know what people have rightful deed to what land?  The land that Hitler fought Poland over had been taken back and forth between the two countries (and others) for hundreds of years, the borders never having been agreed upon (to this very day even). 

You say:

"A GOD fearing person would never talk hatered."

    I hope that you were referring to Hitler, and not me.  For, I do not speak hatred.  If you are accusing me of that, then please cite an excerpt of my work bearing an example of this hatred that you speak of.  I do, however, show some anger in some of my writings, but it is well justified when one starts learning of the suppressed and hidden facts and discovers the forged history that we were all weaned upon in the controlled schools & media.  We have all been set up to fall under antichrist and his world beast system that even now evil men are raising.

     It does not take an observant open-minded Christian very long in studying the events that are currently transpiring to see that the world is growing weary of us and our Christ Jesus.  And it is not that far off when the world will finally tire of us, and when the thought of persecuting Christians will not be as distasteful as it was even five years ago.  The persecutions are coming, and the world does hate us; did not our Lord Jesus Christ even warn us of such in the endtimes?

John 15:17-16:4 [Christ speaking]
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 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.
20 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.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law
[Psm 109:3], They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

John 16

16:1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.  KJV

    I do not hate the Jews, not even the International Judaics that shall destroy us all.  I really am not even sure that I possess the emotion of hate.  Anger, yes; "hate" of a thing or a principality?  Perhaps; but hate of another soul?, I don't know.  But I do know that the International Judaics (NOT all "Jews") are a necessary evil in the negative part of God's Wordsomeone had to kill Christ, someone had to usurp and destroy the Christian faith, someone has to deliver the world into antichrist's (satan's) hands; for, we see in the Bible that these things do come to pass.  And they are all done by the hand of man. 

    But we are to live, we are to try to survivethere is no sin in wanting to simply live.  And if knowing the truth, and if seeing what is coming, will better enable my Christian brethren (of all races, including of course converted Jews) to survive a little longer, live a little better, or even until the Second Adventthen I say that the alarm must be sounded.  If there is a truth out here, a truth that is politically incorrect, what is an honest Christian writer to do with that truth?  Does he write it, or does he, for self-preservation's sake, suppress it and hide it, as so many who do know, do today? 

    I am just a small gear in a big machine, and I write as I feel led.  I do not claim Divine inspiration, neither do I claim infallibility; but I do claim honesty.  Those who know me intimately will vouch that, for all my human imperfections and foibleswhich if honest and introspective, all of man possessesI do not lie. 

     And if the Lord disapproves of what I pen, then He is fully capable of shutting me down.  But no man, no demon from hell, no political correctness, no offended sensibilities, no trumped-up "Thought-Crime" law, shall make me to write as a liar by withholding the truth as I see it.  Lying by omission is still lyingperhaps the most sinister form of it.  Yes, I write of hard things, topics that many won't dare to touch.  There is a price to pay for that, I know.  I accept that in the Lord, and submit myself under His rod alone. 

    No one has to agree 100% with me; we can be friends in disagreement, we can agree to disagree honestly.  And they do not necessarily have to even like me, but what they will have to accept is that if I am asked a question, that I will do my best to answer it as I see the truth of the matter to be, regardless of where that leads, regardless of what feathers it ruffles, regardless of what pet-prejudices and cliques that it upsetsand to write it with documentation and evidences, whereby the reader may continue his/her own search on any matter and come to their own conscience-driven conclusions.  I write, people read, but what they believe I have no control over, nor would I want the responsibility of that. 

    I am sorry that you were offended (though I know not what for), but there are many out there, including Jews (many who read here and write-in to me) who do appreciate a moment of honest clarity in this corrupt lying world, no matter how much that truth stings.  I so hate the lying in this world, and by God I refuse to become one to win the admiration of man.  I am not alone in the hatred of every lie:

Proverbs 6:16-19
16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.  KJV

    Peace to you, and it is not clear whether you are a Christian or not (no offence), but if you aren't, may I encourage you to seek the Lord Jesus Christ?  The end does draw near, you know.

John 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  KJV

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Power and Authority from God in man

 

A (female) Reader Writes:

Hello Again...You helped me out before and I am thankful for your help.  In our leadership class now, we are studying power and authority...the differences and how and when they are given to us in our walk with the Lord.  I would very much appreciate any help you could send.  I have been reading the article [What was the Real sin in the garden of Eden?] on the Garden of Eden and the story of the so called forbidden fruit.  It is very thought provoking.  Thanks for the very interesting insight. God bless.  Someone who loves the Lord, Xxxxxx


Answer:

Hello Xxxxx.  You ask of "Power" and "Authority"? 

Authority

     All Christians have authority over evil spirits in Jesus Christ's name, though most don't know it.  All Christians can command an evil spirit to leave them IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST (and ONLY in the name of Jesus Christ).  To "play" with this, regarding casting demons and evil spirits out of others, when not called of God to this task, is to invite chaos.  As the vagabond Jews found out the hard way in the below:

Acts 19:13-16
13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them
[i.e., took it upon themselves" (without God's calling)] to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth [they themselves did not believe in Jesus, they were just trying to "copy the formula" used by Paul and the other faithful].
14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.  KJV

     But we Christians all may command any evil entity to leave us and to stay away from any situation of our's, in Christ's name.  But it must be done "in the name of Jesus Christ."  Parents may exercise this authority in the life of their children, and husbands may take charge in the lives of their wivesfor God has given them authority over these:

Numbers 30
30:1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
4 And her father hear her vow , and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
16 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.  KJV

     But it must always be done, and clearly stated: "in the name of Jesus Christ."  Otherwise you are "on your own" with a supernatural entity much more powerful than you.  Not good!

Luke 10:19-20 [Jesus speaking]
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.  KJV


Spiritual Gifts

     In the time after the Resurrection the spiritual gifs were plentiful, then they died down until today even.  I believe that in the end, in the Tribulation times specifically, that these gifts shall again increase among the faithful.  But nevertheless, the below gifts are still held by some even today.

1 Corinthians 12:4-12
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit ; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.  KJV


Power

     You ask of "power".  Do you mean power to perform miracles, etc.?  It is written that there shall come a time that chosen men of God shall indeed be imbued with power from On High:

Revelation 11:3-6
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.  KJV

Is that what you were referring to?

     God always ONLY gifts men with power to prove that they are from Him, to prove the prophet, to prove the words that they say, to give evidence that they in fact are of the Lord.

    Peter healed the sick and cleansed the possessed by simply passing by them [Acts 5:14-16], he cured the lame by simply speaking to them [Acts 3:6], Paul cast out demons with a word [Acts 16:18].  And more than that if we exhaust the Scriptures.  Why was this so, why did these things transpire?  Because God wanted to show all the people that these men were speaking for God directly, and that they should be trusted.  That is the only reason that God ever allows man to perform miracles, work signs, do wonders, predict future, prove past perfectly, and speak with the power of the Holy Spirit in them.

     "Peter" didn't heal anyone, "Paul" cast no evil spirits out of anyonebut it was the power of the Holy Spirit of God working through these chosen, blessed, and gifted servants of God which did the wonders.  God doesn't send a healer or a gifted man just because He wants that the lame are not lame or that the sick be healedhad He wanted that, He would not have allowed them to be lame or sick in the first place; or, He would just heal them Himself.  For, God has said Himself that He "will not give my glory unto another" (Isaiah 48:11b).  Therefore, God sends men gifted to prove them, and then once having proven them, placing His stamp of authority on their words which they speak by His Holy Spirit.  This is no light thing.

     (And know that the infirmities of this flesh pale in comparison to the glory of our eternal bodies waiting for us with our Heavenly Father; which through faith we shall attain.)

     And in the end, for a time, before and during the Great Tribulation, when once again God shall speak to man by man (for that is His way since Mt. Sinai [Exodus 20:18-19]), He will empower certain in order to prove their credentials, that they are from Him and do speak His words, and many of the people will believe them unto salvation and life everlasting.  Some to their own destruction shall not believe them nor God's words which they breath.

Luke 21:10-15
10 Then said he
[Jesus] unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.  KJV

Daniel 12:9-10
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.  KJV

Peace to you in Christ Jesus.

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The Sabbath Day: Saturday or Sunday or doesn't matter?

 

A Reader asks:

"Just out of curiosity, you do honour the sabbath day on the 7th day of the week, that being Saturday, don't you?"


Answer:

    Hi.  Actually, in my line of work (Law Enforcement) I work on a rotating schedule.  In other words, my days-off change every week and I am not off on the weekends.  But regarding the Sabbath Day, I feel that it is fulfilled in Christ, and that He is our Sabbath (rest) 7 days a week.  Paul speaks on the Sabbath Day:

Colossians 2:6-19
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened 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;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God  KJV

Jesus also speaks on it:

Mark 2:23-28
23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.  KJV

    There is an on-going debate as to "when" the Sabbath Day is (Saturday or Sunday), but I feel that we have no idea for sure when the Sabbath Day is on our modern weekly schedule.  So, why contend over it?  And I know that the names that we use for our days (Saturday and Sunday) are actually pagan in origin (Saturn day and Sun day) but that doesn't mean anything to uswe do not count them as paganthey are just names that we grew up with.

     The celebrating of the Sabbath Day is an individual's offering to God, if he/she is led to do that; but, as Jesus said, the Sabbath was made for our ease, not us made for it.  "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath" (Mark 2:27).  Also be aware that back in the Old Testament, men had slaves (servants), and they were not allowed to work them seven daysthey had to be given the seventh day off. 

     As we see in the below Scripture (in the last verses) that God looks into the heart of us, judging us by our intentions (the intents of our hearts).  Also contained in the below Scripture is the Holy Spirit's perfect explanation of what Sabbath is.  Observe:

Hebrews 4:1-13
4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest [sabbath], as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day [the Sabbath Day] on this wise, And God did rest [sabbath] the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest [sabbath].
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest [sabbath] to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest [Jesus Christ], lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. KJV

    There is nothing wrong with honoring the Lord on a certain day each week, neither is there anything wrong with honoring Him on all seven.  And there is nothing wrong with observing the Sabbath Day on Saturday, and there is nothing wrong with observing the Sabbath Day on Sunday.  Paul showed us that.  "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." (Colossians 2:16-17). 

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"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel...." (Jer 31:33)

 

A Reader Writes:

I looked through your site and was pretty impressed with the extension of knowledge and learning tools offered. A tremendous amount of work has gone on here.

I did note an obvious lack of information about Israel. I don't mean the Judean side either. I'm talking about the other side. The other house of Israel. The key verses pertaining to them I did not see in your study offerings or anywhere else were scripture with them in it posted. Like Heb8:8 / Jer 31:31.

What would be the reason? I mean I look at your "outing" of the one side of the house........and the hiding of the other. I realize they are hidden by ignorance by the churches of give me all dollars dumbgentilestoday but.......scripture mentions them. Whatsa going on here? What wisdom am I missing. Sincerely, and truthfully.

 

Answer:

Hello.  Sorry to take so long in answering you.  You asked: 

"I did note an obvious lack of information about Israel.   I don't mean the Judean side either.   I'm talking about the other side.    The other house of Israel."

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[NOTE: Moments after sending the above E-mail, I realized that I hadn't
answered the man's question.  So I sent off the below E-mail]:

Oops, I almost forgot; you asked about: 

"The key verses pertaining to them I did not see in your study offerings or anywhere else were scripture with them in it posted.    Like Heb8:8 / Jer 31:31."

Okay; regarding Jeremiah 31:31:

Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.  KJV

FULFILLED.

     And regarding Hebrews 8:8:

Hebrews 8:8
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:  KJV

    Sir, do you not understand what the Scripture says?  It is telling you that Jesus Christ was the answer to that Old Testament promise.  Jesus Christ is the New Covenant.  A "covenant" is a testament;

testament: Greek word #1242 diatheke (dee-ath-ay'-kay); from NT:1303; properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will):  KJV - covenant, testament.

The "New Testament" of our  Bible is what we call the New Covenant: 

Matthew 26:26-28
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament
[Grk.#1242 diatheke], which is shed for many for the remission of sins.  KJV

     In other words, FULFILLED!  Please read your whole chapter in context bearing that in mind:

Hebrews 8
8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.  KJV

    God, as always, has kept His Word.  But man did not accept that Covenant, they rather murdered Him.  So now we wait until the Second Advent when all things written shall be fully completed; "It is done" (Rev 21:6a).

Revelation 21:5-7
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.  KJV

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A Reader Writes:

Was Rahab a prostitute?  Or did the community just think so because buyers stayed with her when they came to buy her fine linen?  How can I document whether she was or not?


Answer:

Hello to you, and this answer isn't meant to be harsh to you personally, Ok?  This is just something that I have been minded to set strait for a long time now, and you just gave me the opportunity. 

You ask, "Was Rahab a prostitute?" 

    Of course she was.  How can you document it?  With your Bible, God's written Word, that's how.  And I know where you are getting this; there is a certain ministry in Arkansas that bends over (way too far) backwards trying to lift women's self-esteem.  But that does not give any pastor the right to alter what the Scriptures state. 

In the Old Testament we see that Rahab was a prostitute:

Joshua 2:1
2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.  KJV

Joshua 6:17
17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.  KJV
 

Joshua 6:25
25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.  KJV

    And in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit saw fit to give a double (and a triple!) witness as to this woman's profession:

Hebrews 11:31
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.  KJV
 

James 2:24-26
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.  KJV

    Regarding what "certain" pastors say, I would ask you, where in the Bible do you read that she was a "cloth merchant," or a "dyer of purple cloth"?  Or where do you read that she "was just a excellent business woman who made the finest cloth, and that the silly men just called her a harlot because they were jealous that they couldn't manage to make as good of cloth as her"?  You won't find that between the covers of the Bible, it isn't in my Bible, anyway. 

    And if Rahab wasn't harlot, and if God allowed error into His written Word (God forbid), five times calling this woman a prostitute when she wasn't; then also the below women are not harlots, but are rather "cloth makers" with a keen business savy.  You get the point.

Matthew 21:31
31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.  KJV

Matthew 21:32
32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.  KJV

Luke 15:30
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.  KJV

1 Corinthians 6:15-16
15 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.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.  KJV

Hebrews 11:31
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.  KJV

James 2:25
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?  KJV

    It is never right to contradict the Word of God, it is never right to add to the Scriptures, it is never right to say that what is in the Bible is a lieno matter how much you desire to tickle the ears of your female congregants.  Once you start chopping out what you personally find objectionable in the Bible, you then find yourself on a very slippery slope.  The Word is often hard, and we must take it as it is delivered:

Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  KJV

    We have no problem believing that Kind David committed adultery and arranged for the woman's husband to be killed in battle so that he could have her all to himself, why do we have such a big problem with Rahab selling her body for money.  And besides, it is a far greater sin to be an adulteress than it is to be a prostitute. 

    This is that old fashioned "women are good and can't do anything wrong" stuffthat we all know better than to believe.  Heck, starting at the first woman named in the Bible, they have been doing their fair share of bad things.  For every male adulterer there necessarily is a female counterpart adulteress.  "It takes two to tango." 

    Rahab was a prostitute.  The better message for the good pastor to be delivering in the story of Rahab, is that even when we are at our worst, God can still pick us up and use us for some good thing, perchance changing us in the process.

    My personal opinion, and it is only an opinion here, is that Rahab stopped being a prostitute after she saw the mighty work of God through His people, and after experiencing the great mercy.  My reason for saying that I do not feel that Rahab continued in that wicked lifestyle, is because in the New Testament she is actually praised and used as a good example somewhat (bear with me, I'm not saying that it is good to be a whore).  But I feel that this would not be so if she continued in her unrighteousness.  God knows.

Hebrews 11:31
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.  KJV

James 2:25
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?  KJV

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